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I hope that you can accept our offer, ethel and that we can be friends. Because we both wish you well, dont we, dear . I dont wish you ill ill say that. I cant accept your offer. And we wont be friends. Mrs. Bryant what . Not even for charlies sake . I think you love my son, mr. Bryant. I dont think youre a nice man or a kind one, but i believe you love my boy. So youll be pleased by what ive come here to say. Any news while i was out . No. Perhaps the home secretary wont see him. Papall pull some strings until he does. Aha, youve started on the augean task. How are you getting on . Not badly....

Land reform, home rule, Edward Carson, John Redmond, the GAA, Eamonn de Valera and the Eucharistic Congress make a welcome appearance

We sent a questionnaire to all 10 candidates running in the Edenderry Electoral Area in the forthcoming Offaly County Council election. The responses were published in print in the Offaly Independent last Friday.

Author Dermot McEvoy outlines the key facts, most important historical figures, and events surrounding the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland.

Darach Ó Séaghdha looks at what was in the news and in the ether in Irish society at the time of The Rising.