TV Guide Ireland: What s on? 15 things you need to watch this week on RTE, Netflix and more
From a new Netflix docuseries to a harrowing look at the dirty history of Ireland’s past adoption practices, here are the 15 best shows on the telly over the coming days
Bryan Cranston in his new TV drama Your Honour
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Flowers and figurines at the memorial to 222 children from the Bethany Mother and Child Home, at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold s Cross, Dublin (Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire)
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The recent report into the hellish Mother and Baby Homes was yet another reminder of a time when Ireland was a cruel and hostile place for women and children.
Strange But True: Team McNamara took Clinton s softball scene by storm
Terrance Ingano
By the mid-1930s, the sport of softball had taken Clinton by storm. Every neighborhood, every mill, every bar everybody seemed to have a team that competed on fields all around our community.
There was this one team that created quite a stir in Clinton and the surrounding towns a novelty team in a way. That team was composed entirely of the McNamara family Martin McNamara of Ash Street and his nine sons created a softball team in late July of 1936 and got a lot of press throughout Central Massachusetts and beyond.
White House eyes ways to speed up visas for foreign interpreters stranded in war zones February 9 A group of local Afghan villagers speak to an interpreter accompanying U.S. Army soldiers on a patrol in Kowlak valley, Nangahar province, in Afghanistan on Feb. 19, 2010. (Spc. Victor Egorov/Army) Since last summer, Daniel Elkins has seen a steady increase in the number of panicked messages from foreign translators working with U.S. forces deployed to overseas conflict zones. “They keep saying ‘we’re in danger,’” said Elkins, a founding member of the Special Operations Association of America who still maintains ties with interpreters he served alongside in Afghanistan in recent years.