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Tributes have been paid to one of Roscommon GAA’s most well-liked personalities, Bill Corcoran, who passed away on Saturday last. Aged 95…

Below is an excerpt from an interview Sean O Murchu conducted with Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in June 1990, just one month prior to Justice Brennan retiring from the Supreme Court. Justice Brennan was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1956 by President Dwight Eisenhower and served 33 years as an influential member of the highest court in the nation. As we await the nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away on September 18, 2020 we look back on the contributions of Justice Brennan.

Justice William Brennan, Jr. On April 25, 1990 William Joseph Brennan, Jr was 84 years old. An associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States for the past 33 years, he is considered – ruefully, by his many conservative detractors – to be one of the most influential shapers of public policy in the country. A native of Newark, New Jersey, the son of Irish immigrants, Brennan was appointed to the the court by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956; having served seven years on the New Jersey Superior and Supreme Court. Reportedly, Eisenhower, a Republican, subsequently regretted th...

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in Worktown Studies at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history Bolton is a multi-cultural town and has been for centuries, going back to the Flemish weavers who arrived in the 1300s. By far the largest wave of immigration in the 19th century came from Ireland and this was explored in a previous Looking Back feature. Those first Irish immigrants were fleeing dire poverty and starvation. They settled in Bolton and created their own institutions – cultural, r...