Pig chokes on fishbone, dog saves man and hailstones as big as a pullet's egg: Culled from archives of The Irish Times.
PIKE KILLS PIG
The biggest enemy of pike in Lough Erne is Butlersbridge farmer, Jim P Reilley. He nets pike for pig-feeding. Pigs thrive on the diet, though recently a two-months-old Bonham swallowed a bone and died.
October 11th, 1952
TRAGEDY STRIKES TWICE
Mr Erskine Ebbin was knocked down and killed in Hamilton, Bermuda - and it was the same taxi with the same driver, carrying the same passenger, that killed his brother Neville in July last year, and both brothers were riding the same moped and died, aged 17, on the same street, police said.
July 22nd, 1975
PRINCESS AS BURGLAR
Princess Olga Koslovski, daughter of the late Tsarist General Koslovski has been arrested here for theft and burglary.
The princess, who, with her mother, emigrated to Denmark after her father had been killed by the Bolsheviks, and whose Russian property was confiscated by the Soviets, has been living in the most exclusive hotels in the city. She was prominent in Danish society, and frequently was a guest at Danish mansions. In a confession, made to the authorities, the princess admits the theft of jewellery belonging to her hostess at the last home she visited.
In addition, the police suspect her of several big hotel burglaries. According to the princess's own statement, she has been able to live on the result of the thefts for the past year.
January 4th, 1924
HAILSTONES CAME DOWN LIKE SHRAPNEL
Extraordinary conditions during a recent thunderstorm are reported from the Solohead district, on the Limerick-Tipperary border. Hailstones, described by witnesses as having been as large as hen eggs, tore holes through slated roofs, leaving them as if they had been under machine-gun fire or struck by shrapnel.
Some roofs were so badly damaged that the entire roofing had to be removed. Cattle in fields were wounded and bleeding, and some had to receive veterinary attention. Some fields were so thickly strewn with fragments of ice and frozen snow that farmers had to procure fodder for their cattle. Many chickens were killed.
Mr Roger Nolan, postmaster and building contractor, Monard, said in an interview yesterday: "The great failure of the storm was the terrific fall of the hailstones, which were as big as a pullet's egg, and were in some cases even bigger. Cabbages, turnips, mangolds and rhubarb were beaten flat and torn to pieces." Glass in the windows of many houses was smashed.
August 29th, 1949
DOG SAVES MAN'S LIFE
A dog owned by a neighbour probably saved Mr James Elbury, from Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, who lives alone, from being burned to death today. Mr Elbury was aroused from sleep by a frantic pummelling of paws and a series of agitated yelps. He found the house on fire and the only way out nearly cut off by flames. The dog, noticing the fire, had pushed open the door of the house, and then going upstairs found Mr Elbury and wakened him.
January 13th, 1931