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Nominate your Longford Unsung Heroes and be in with a chance to win €5,000 Reporter:  ); Longford-based MACE stores have teamed up with Ireland out-half Johnny Sexton to offer people the opportunity to share in a prize-fund of €10,000 in a community initiative whereby customers and the public nominate their Unsung Hero. MACE is challenging the people of Longford to nominate that special someone who goes the extra mile to make a difference, but in many cases do not get the recognition they...

Article content The shotgun slung over the shoulder readily identified him as Lucknow‘s most erratic yet brilliant citizen. Dr. John Hutchison Garnier gained wide notoriety as the area’s most accomplished physician, naturalist, playwright, and eccentric. Garnier was born in Scotland probably in 1823. He claimed descent from a Scottish Catholic mother and a father descended from a distinguished French Huguenot military family that fled persecution in France. His bicultural upbringing made hi...

Article content The shotgun slung over the shoulder readily identified him as Lucknow‘s most erratic yet brilliant citizen. Dr. John Hutchison Garnier gained wide notoriety as the area’s most accomplished physician, naturalist, playwright, and eccentric. Garnier was born in Scotland probably in 1823. He claimed descent from a Scottish Catholic mother and a father descended from a distinguished French Huguenot military family that fled persecution in France. His bicultural upbringing made hi...

WHYY By State and local officials plant butterfly bushes at the groundbreaking for the Laurel Run Land Stewardship Center in Delran, N.J. (Emma Lee/WHYY) New Jersey Farmers Against Hunger will now have a centralized base of operations at Laurel Run Park in Delran, Burlington County. Officials broke ground on a 3-acre parcel of the park that will be used to grow produce and teach the community about agriculture. As part of an agreement with Burlington County, Farmers Against Hunger will have acc...

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New analysis shows the USA, Israel and Malta are top contenders for the holiday ‘green list’ 19 April 2021 • 1:57pm Malta is likely to be on the ‘green list’ for safe travel this summer Credit: Getty The USA, Malta, Israel, Iceland, Gibraltar and Ireland are likely to be on the ‘green list’ for safe travel this summer, according to new modelling. The analysis, carried out by Robert Boyle – former strategy chief of British Airways and its owner IAG – confirms that, according t...

Dublins most famous street names and the reasons behind them The city is known for its rich history, universities and museums of global distinction dotted around its famous streets. Scenes on Grafton Street as reopening of major retail stores from Monday. (Image: Stephen Collins/ Photos) Get the latest news from across Ireland straight to your inbox every single dayInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to s...

The seagull has landed An Irishman’s Diary on an unexpected guest VIEW NOW I began to notice them everywhere then. On the river wall, on Daniel O’Connell’s head, on the chimneys of houses. And always with that fixed, alert expression. Watching, watching, always watching. It was the one I spotted on the river wall that fairly gave me the heebie-jeebies. I turned right down the quays, mulling on the banal business of the day, and suddenly there it was, big as a well-fed cat, mo...

David McCullagh reviews The Partition by Charles Townshend Updated / Sunday, 11 Apr 2021 21:55 Irish people demonstrate in London in 1921 about the partition of Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. (Pic: AFP via Getty Images) Six One News co-anchor David McCullagh reviews Charles Townshends new history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence, published for the centenary of the Partition. "The fundamental attitudes which produced partition are still in play a century later...

Home » Arts & Culture » Tales of long ago and close to home Harriet Monsell of the OBrien family in Dromoland in 1811 went on to set up an order of nuns and is now considered a saint in the Anglican church. Her story is among those to feature in Long Ago in Newmarket-on-Fergus by Colm Liddy. Tales of long ago and close to home April 11, 2021 AN APPRECIATION of what is local is one of the (few) upsides of lockdown. Being restricted last year to a 2km, and later a 5km radius for exercise, cer...