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Heritage Malta is this weekend giving the public the opportunity to visit the Main Guard in Valletta, where restoration and conservation works are currently ong

Tipp FM Text 083 311 3311 Some crude language was spray painted onto the Main Guard in the town overnight. Tipperary County Council is now investigating The graffiti, which was a crude sentence sprayed in blue paint was clear to see on the Main Guard in recent days. Images of the damage appeared on social media and received widespread condemnation. Speaking on Tipp Today, Councillor Richie Molloy said its heart-breaking to see after the hard work done by many Tidy Towns volunteers. “They go out night after night taking litter off the bypass and doing their best to keep the town ...

Congress members protest fuel price hike Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Congress members on Saturday staged a road roko here in protest against the hike in prices of petrol, diesel and liquified petroleum gas and the three new Central farm laws. V. Jawahar, president, District Congress Committee, Tiruchi urban, presided over the protest. As a symbolic gesture, the protestors carried an empty cylinder from Arunachalam Mandram, the party office. Raising slogans against the Central and State government for the steep hike in prices, they blocked traffic near the Main Guard Gate. They said ...

Hundreds of small murals adorn the Main Guard building, which is currently undergoing conservation and restoration “For some must watch, while others sleep, so runs the world away.” Some soldier, on some long-forgotten day, wrote this line – quoted (not quite accurately) from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet – under a sizeable painting on one of the walls of the Main Guard, in Valletta. It is unlikely that we will ever know who he was but with that verse he undoubtedly summed up the essence of the watchful function of a building that has a thousand stories to tell through the paintings ...

Murals at the Main Guard I am delighted that the Main Guard is being restored. Between 1931 and 1972 it served as the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Bn The King’s Own Malta Regiment. May I add some observations to the otherwise very good article by Daniela Attard Bezzina (December 14). The last mural was indeed by Adrian Strickland in 1972. He was helped by the late Paul DeBono and myself. What was referred to in the article as “two sizeable flags” are in fact reproductions of the regimental colours of the King’s Own Malta Regiment. Adrian, Paul and I felt we had to paint the colours bef...