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Although she had no involvement with spirits that we know of, St Brigid was known to have turned bathwater into beer and is one of the patron saints of brewers. With that in mind, the Powerscourt Distillery is set to honour Ireland's patroness of brewing, healing, poetry, and fire with an immersive St Brigid's Day event on Sunday, February 4, their third annual celebration of the feast.
This week, more memories of learning Irish at school, plus former pupils of the Model School reminisce, and JO KERRIGAN hears of a 1948 sport photo
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After starting her career on a children’s show in Halifax, Cassidy went on to earn an ACTRA nomination for her work on the soap opera High Hopes, and appeared in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film The Brood
Journalist, champion of the Irish language and lover of the arts, the late Pádraig O Fearaíl, who died at the age of 89 on Thursday, June 29, was involved in setting up the first Gaelscoil in Bray as well as the town’s first Credit Union.