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What was in the news 100 years ago today? Richard Forrest reports in our Echoes of the Past column
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What was in the news 100 years ago today? Richard Forrest reports in our Echoes of the Past column
The last time I met Mick Flannery was in 2015. As befitted a semi-legendary troubadour whose songs were full of extraordinary stories and images, he told some great stories that day in Dublin – chief among them being . . .
Andrew Strong was 16 years old and on his summer holidays from the Patrician Brothers National School in Newbridge, Co Kildare, in 1990 when he got a call about singing in The Commitments. He never went back to school again.
The Dublin-born beauty who is dating Jeremy Clarkson, once had a glam career in the entertainment industry and was married to multi-millionaire Baron Steven Bentinck.
Google Maps says I am outside Leo Moran’s house in Tuam, Co Galway. If I am, I can’t see it. I park nearby and ask a man would he know where the guitarist in The Saw Doctors lives. He says it is just down the road and I can’t miss it. That may be true, but I’ve missed it, I tell him.