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The remnants of Hurricane Nicole on Friday night forced Thomas Jefferson to go back to what it has done successfully under Bill Cherpak’s reign as coach: old-school football.
Cast members of the hit musical, 'Hamilton' are joining locals in Balbriggan to celebrate the visit to the North Dublin town of Frederick Douglass, a famous American abolitionist. African-American Douglass was born into slavery before he escaped and became a national leader of the abolitionist and social reform movement. He became famous for his oratory and anti-slavery writings, visiting Ireland for four months in 1845, during which time he travelled the country giving lectures. The visit, which coincided with the onset of the Famine, was said to have inspired him in his campaign for socia...
A plumber who was thrown out of a bar after a funeral drunkenly told gardaí they had no right to tell him to go home, a court heard. Aidan Whelan (25) thought he was "sticking up for himself" when he told officers he would be returning to the pub. Judge Dermot Dempsey ordered Whelan to donate €300 to charity and pay €150 compensation to gardaí and struck out the charges, leaving him without a conviction. The defendant, of Castlegrange Avenue, Swords, admitted public drunkenness, threatening and abusive behaviour and failing to follow garda directions last January 31. Garda Philip Walsh ...