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Stunning photography exhibition mixes War of Independence veterans with Syrian refugees Seamus Murphy decided to combine his images of Irish people who lived through traumatic times with recent photographs of refugees who've fled their homeland Part of the Seamus Murphy exhibition in Thurles, L-R: Dan Bally Keating and John Ryan. Tue, 05 Jan, 2021 - 20:00 Marjorie Brennan Seamus Murphy is no stranger to the unexpected, having worked in war zones from Gaza to Syria and covered assignments such as the drug wars in Mexico and the Ebola outbreak in Uganda. The Irish photographer, however, wasn�...

The late John Joseph McNeill OAM was an old-fashioned romantic, dedicated grandfather and a champion of the Habana community. He passed away on November 14, aged 74, from jaundice and gall stones which had developed in his kidney and liver. His surviving wife Joyce McNeill said she met the Mackay local during his three-year posting to England in 1971 after he had served in the Vietnam War. "He was an instructor with RAEME (Royal Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)," Mrs McNeill said. "I worked as a customs officer at an airport and I did some spare work for a friend ...