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The complaint made against Dr Connolly, the medical officer of the Moycullen dispensary district in October 1876, for neglect of duty, drunkenness and using improper language on the evening that Patrick Barrett’s wife was gravely ill in child-labour, was taken very seriously by the Local Government Board. At a disastrous first meeting between the Board’s inspector, Dr T Brodie, with the members of the Dispensary Committee, and Connolly, Connolly completely lost his rag. He insulted the committee, claiming they were ganging up against him, and had pushed himself against the committe...

On October 2 1876 Patrick Barrett of Ballynahalia, wrote a long letter to Dr T Brodie, the Local Government Board inspector, bitterly complaining about Doctor James Connolly, who failed, ‘through drunkenness’, to promptly attend his heavily pregnant wife. Barrett demanded a sworn inquiry into the whole sorry business, causing a row that fiercely divided the community of Moycullen, where old loyalties silenced witnesses from giving evidence, leading to a stunning finale of bribery and corruption that would turn the one street county Galway village into a Ken Bruen landscape. Barrett...

The U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies continued searching Friday for 10 people missing after a vessel with Cuban national migrants capsized Wednesday evening 16 miles south of Key West.

A major water rescue took place Thursday 16 miles south of Key West, well beyond Florida’s Coral Reef, according to U.S. Coast Guard.

A major water rescue took place Thursday 16 miles south of Key West, well beyond Florida’s Coral Reef, according to U.S. Coast Guard. Later in the day, the Coast Guard was searching for a reported 10 people in the water after eight others were rescued. Two people were recovered deceased, the Coast Guard said. U.S. Coast Guard cutter Resolute, with its home port in St. Petersburg, rescued the eight, while a 45-foot response boat from the Key West Station recovered the bodies of the deceased and brought them to shore. A Navy Marlin aircraft, MH-60 helicopter from the air station in Clearwa...