Patrick Mcgarty News Today

Minister Simon Harris has said that before “asking the people to invest in RTÉ” we need to be certain the organisation is being run properly (Morning Ireland, February 1).

On New Year’s Day 1934, more than 3,000 people from south Leitrim and surrounding counties marched through the town of Mohill protesting against the growing influence of jazz music and dancing in 1930s Ireland.

For a small island nation, Ireland has an impressive history in the film industry, and has produced far more internationally celebrated actors, filmmakers, directors, cinematographers and costume designers than a country of our size could ever have expected.

In the fading light of the afternoon of December 16, 1983, a combined force of soldiers and gardaí were searching Derrada Wood, five miles from the town of Ballinamore in Co Leitrim, for kidnapped businessman Don Tidey.

The conflict in Gaza shows no signs of abating. Sadly, it is only increasing in scale and intensity.

On the afternoon of September 19, 1880, thousands of Irish tenant farmers flocked into the town of Ennis, Co Clare to hear Irish Parliamentary Party leader Charles Stewart Parnell MP address a rally organised by the Irish National Land League.

The 2022 issue of the Leitrim Guardian is in the shops now, and what an amazing array it is of prose, poetry and photographs from virtually every part of the co...

Just before daybreak on March 11, 1921, an IRA flying column of the South Leitrim Brigade, led by Commandant Sean Connolly, arrived at the home of local national school teacher Charlie Flynn in the townland of Selton.