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Just over a year ago Valentia was placed on Ireland’s World Heritage Tentative List, the first stage in the long journey towards UNESCO world heritage designation for the Kerry island that helped transform communication across the globe.
The former Debenhams store on O’Connell Street in Limerick is to be turned into an aparthotel
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OCTOBER 6 -- It’s reform time. On Sunday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob again called on Malaysians to unite as a family, setting aside religious, racial and political differences to undertake reforms as publicly disclosed in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on...
by David Hargreaves and Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe (Whitefox £100, 2,288 pp) We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying,’ wrote Private Pearson of the Leeds Pals, a World War I battalion recruited from the Yorkshire city. He was referring to the horrors of July 1, 1916, the first day on the Somme. ‘For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first,’ recalled Private Slater from another ‘Pals’ battalion, the 2nd Bradford. ‘We strolled along as though walking in a park. ‘Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw ...