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The Crossbarry ambush restored IRA morale in March 1921, but could so easily have been a disaster. The Parish of Clogagh had never seen a funeral like it. No parish in Ireland would ever see its like again.  In the pre-dawn darkness, down the rain-slicked road from the church to the cemetery, the cortege came. The coffin was borne by six men, and behind the coffin, six mourners walked.   Six mourners. At an Irish country funeral.  It was as many as they dared bring.  Carried on the wind: th...

Carlow woman’s Easter egg hunt box going down a treat Tuesday, March 09, 2021 Charlotte Coady help her mum Ana test out the Easter Egg Hunt boxes that are available from Dainty Sweetheart Designs A NOVEL idea by a creative Carlow resident aims to ensure there will be no hunting around to keep the children entertained this Easter. Ana Coady of Dainty Sweetheart Designs has crafted an Easter egg hunt box filled with all you need to entertain kids and a fun game for the whole family. “It’s a...

By John Teggard, Contributor Relatives of 11 people killed in Belfast by the British Army in 1971 met with Taoiseach Enda Kenny in January to ask him to lobby the British Government to set up an independent panel inquiry into the deaths of their family members. It was an emotional moment for the families when the Taoiseach gave them his support. A family member interviewed on RTÉ said, “It was the first light at the end of the tunnel.” The Ballymurphy Massacre Families delegation also met ...

Ballymurphy and the Irish War by De Baroid, Ciaran at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0937702129 - ISBN 13:  9780937702123 - Irish Books & Media - 1990 - Softcover

Children escape injury in west Belfast gun attack Shots have been fired at a house in Ballymurphy, west Belfast Maeve Connolly 24 February, 2021 10:42 A woman, man and three children have escaped injury in a gun attack on a house in Ballymurphy, west Belfast. It happened shortly before 8.50pm in St Bernadettes Avenue and a number of shots were fired at the house in a "reckless attack", police said. A man, aged in his thirties, a woman in her twe...

Family left heartbroken over loss of mother-of-two following cancer battle Gemma Cunningham (38), who passed away at the Northern Ireland Hospice on January 22, pictured with her husband, Norman and their sons, Ryan and Jay Marie Louise McConville 29 January, 2021 01:00 West Belfast hairdresser Gemma Cunningham (38) passed away at the Northern Ireland Hospice on January 22 THE heartbroken husband of a west Belfast woman who died after twice battlin...

The latest in the hugely popular Rebel Matters series of podcasts, featuring musician and self-confessed "weirdo" Ian Lynch, is now available for download. Many people will know Lynch as the singer and uilleann piper with acclaimed folk group Lankum and more recently through his own monthly podcast Fire Draw Near, which delves into Irish trad music and song and all of its myriad forms. In the podcast Lynch opens up to presenter Ainle Ó Cairealláin about an unseen aspect of being in a regularl...

Gerry Adams has been forced to apologise for using a racist word in a reference to a Quentin Tarantino film about black slavery in America.

A former republican prisoner has recalled how he and poet Seamus Heaney reconciled with a handshake and a hug - after he previously requested he should write more about those imprisoned during the Troubles. The reflection by Danny Morrison - previously the communications director for Sinn Fein - comes in response to Irish writer Susan McKay criticising his interpretation of Heaneys 1984 collection of poems entitled Station Island - a series of works exploring the poets relationship with the Tro...