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Mon 04 Apr 2010Russia honours Irish war veteran
AN IRISH veteran of the Arctic convoys which helped supply the Soviet Union during the second World War was yesterday honoured by the Russian people when he was presented with the 65th Anniversary Medal of the Great Patriotic War.
John Hallahan from Mercier Park in Cork city joined the Royal Navy at a recruiting office at Haulbowline in 1939, months before the war began, and he spent the next six years on the heavy cruiser, HMS Devonshire.
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