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Burning of Cork by British forces in 1920 remembered
- Irish News
- December 11, 2020, 23:00
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has urged Irish people to view the events of the past through “the measured eye of the discipline of history” as a means towa(...)

Role played by Bertie Ahern’s father in IRA a century ago revealed in military files
- Irish News
- November 10, 2020, 15:24
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s father was turned down for a military pension despite claiming to have risked his life on a nightly basis to carry des(...)

Gardaí must be 'more assertive' at large funerals – Traveller advocate
- Social Affairs
- May 13, 2020, 01:00
Gardaí must be “more assertive at dispersing people” when large numbers of mourners attend funerals, a leading Traveller advocate has warned. Martin (...)

Baby Eliza escaped Famine Ireland to a life of beatings, prostitution and prison
- Abroad
- March 2, 2020, 06:10
Two and a half years ago Australian artist Jane Theau asked me to write a voiceover for an art exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary since th(...)

Fianna Fáil will block RIC commemoration event, says Ó Cuív
- Irish News
- January 10, 2020, 02:35
The proposed commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) will not go ahead as planned if Fianna Fáil(...)

Travellers feel they have been 'left to die' on rat-infested site
- Social Affairs
- February 11, 2019, 01:00
A group of 13 Traveller families, including over 40 children, say they feel like they have been “left to die” at a rat-infested site just outside Galw(...)

The son of Skibbereen who sang his way around the world
- Abroad
- September 27, 2017, 14:51
In September 1898, the Skibbereen Eagle newspaper ran a famous editorial that declared: “We will still keep our eye on the Emperor of Russia and on al(...)

Bertie Ahern: he hasn’t gone away but where has he come from?
- Politics
- November 30, 2016, 15:08
June 1977 Bertie Ahern, a 25- year-old accounts clerk at the Mater hospital in Dublin, stands for Fianna Fáil in the three-seat constituency of Dub(...)