Martin Mccarthy

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Thomas McDonagh, one of 41 IRA men who died during the War of Independence in Roscommon, remembered on a memorial outside Elphin. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy
IRA headquarters refused request to defend Ballaghaderreen

County: Roscommon Incident: Rathra ambush Date: September 2nd, 1920 Fatalities: 3 A request to defend Ballaghaderreen from the Black and Tans was ref(...)

Former Ireland rugby player Paul Wallace was in The Dun Laoghaire Yacht Club to announce Davy’s sponsorship of the National Yacht Club.
Paul Wallace back making a splash in sailing

When this weekend’s Davy National Yacht Club regatta gets underway on Dublin Bay, the inevitable clash with the third test for Ireland against the Wal(...)

Anne Tunney: a fine sportswoman
Anne Tunney – An Appreciation
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  • February 12, 2018, 00:01

Anne Tunney, née Bacon, who died on January 10th, was the living demonstration of the power of positivity regardless of what trails, tribulation and c(...)

Katelyn and Thomas McCarthy who live at the Spring Lane halting site in Cork city. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/ Provision
Conditions at Cork Travellers halting site breach safety rules

Michael McCarthy, his wife Sue-Ellen and their eight children are among the more fortunate families on Spring Lane halting site in Cork city. On one(...)

The Riverside Museum of Transport in Glasgow. Photographs: Hufton + Crow
Architecture: ‘Every city should have a plan’

‘We’re not asking for approval on aesthetics,” says Jim Heverin, Dublin-born director at Zaha Hadid architects in London, right at the start of our co(...)

Assistant State Pathologist, Dr Margaret Bolster said that both Mr McCarthy, who was found to have a blood alcohol concentration of 204mgs per 100ml, and Clarissa had died from acute cardio respiratory failure due to drowning. File photograph: Collins
Inquest hears of West Cork drowning tragedy

A 50-year-old farmer chose to end his own life and drowned his 3-year-old daughter in the sea near their family farm outside Ballydehob in West(...)