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Michael Doyle loved Thanksgiving Day and all the food, family and fun that came with it each year.

EXCLUSIVE: The actor, who was best known for playing Alan Humphries in the childrens TV drama, passed away on July 11 last year after a long battle with leukemia.

Eight Wexford lifeboat volunteers were awarded the RNLI Long Service Medal last weekend after each reaching 20 years of service. The volunteers were Nick Bowie, Sinead Casey, Lorraine Galvin, Simon Gulliver, David Maguire, John Michael Murphy, Peter Scallan and David Sherwood.

A joint plan to pressure Uisce Eireann into providing main drainage connections to around 30 businesses and some residences on the Waterford road outside New Ross is being advanced over the coming weeks.

“The judgment of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson; that calamity must not be too much mitigated.” So said Charles Trevelyan, the chief British government official during An Gorta Mór, our Great Famine, in the 19th century.

Following the contradictory statements made by a witness about former President Thaçi, the Kosovo trials are caught between two duties: witness protection and a public trial.

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Over the weekend Taoiseach Leo Varadkar left a wreath of poppies, at the, by now, regular Dublin government visit to Enniskillen, to remember those killed in the 1987 Remembrance Day bombing. That’s his choice. What’s not his choice is the selectivity of it. So I wonder will Mr Varadkar now visit Derry in January to lay a wreath on the Bloody Sunday site where 26 unarmed people were murdered by British troops?

Waterford Sinn Féin Director of Elections Michael Doyle has said the party is putting forward its largest-ever team of candidates for

“She doesn’t want to be messed with, but if you spoil her with carrots and love, she shows a soft side and it’s incredibly rewarding.