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Ellen McWilliams on the Dunmanway massacre of April 1922, and the silent suffering and unimaginable forgiveness of her Protestant neighbours that followed in its wake

My Country Living: creating magical moments with Easter hunt boxes 2022-04-06

HERE are two photographs. One is of a school. Totally destroyed. Levelled. Classrooms reduced to rubble. The work of students scattered across the ground. The other is of a hospital. Mickey and Minnie Mouse and other favourite Disney characters look down over floors strewn with the flotsam of war. Life-saving equipment destroyed. Walls and floors shattered by shrapnel. Both buildings were the target of rockets indiscriminately fired at civilian targets. Had these images been taken in Ukraine an...

A WOMAN whose brother was sent to a institution just a few years after her father was killed in the 1971 Ballymurphy shootings has said she will "never accept" an apology from the De La Salle order.

THE big story of the moment is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Like many of you I have been watching the round the clock news reports emerging from what is now a war zone. The television images and photographs are distressing. Burning buildings, the skeletal shell of others already destroyed. Russian tanks and armed soldiers. And terrified citizens and families, many with young children, desperate to escape. There have been images also of ordinary citizens determined to resist and fight the in...

The big story of the moment is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Like many of you I have been watching the round the clock news reports emerging fro...

Some politicians rarely, if ever, see the irony in the words they use. Take Boris Johnson. He is currently using the dispute between the Ukraine an...

The Ancient Order of Hibernians has welcomed an upcoming hearing by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States Congress. The heari...

Taoiseach told British government there can be no amnesty ‘for anybody’

By Elizabeth Lee Carlow County Council have just brought a derelict house in Ballymurphy which sits on a dangerous junction on the Wexford road.