Lifetime Achievement awarded to local Spraoi legend
A local Spraoi legend has been recognised for his contributions to Waterford.The Waterford Massed Bands "Lifetime Achievement"
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A local Spraoi legend has been recognised for his contributions to Waterford.The Waterford Massed Bands "Lifetime Achievement"
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
Former cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann Tras Honan, the first and, so far, the only woman to chair the upper house of the Oireachtas, has died at the age of 93. She was born Tras Barlow on January 4, 1930, in Dublin. She was educated at St Leo’s Convent in Carlow and the Mercy Convent in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. Her father, Matt Barlow, was a republican activist in the War of Independence and later set up a farm machinery company in his native Clonmel.
Known for her ‘old-school blunt and direct analysis of the state of the nation’, her love of people and as a role model for younger female politicians
Political representatives and public figures are paying tribute to the late Senator Tras Honan, who will be laid to rest tomorrow.