I FOUND this a little harder than the football equivalent because there were many more games to choose from.
THIS WEEK, we continue our feature on members of the Garda Síochána who died in the line of duty … men charged with protecting the public, who paid with their lives while doing just that.
THE confrontation of Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness by David Kelly, whose then 35-year-old soldier father was shot dead along with garda recruit Gary Sheehan during the rescue of Quinnsworth executive Don Tidey on 16 December 1983 (he had been kidnapped three weeks earlier in Dublin), encouraged me to have a look at the circumstances in which some gardaí died while on duty.
THIS week’s article about Irish peacekeeping troops is told by a former soldier.
THE hardest part about writing this article is distinguishing between Irish folk and traditional music.
THIS WEEK, I would like to reflect on an article I wrote for Carloviana in 2000, and I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be reflecting on it in 2011.
TIMES PAST
With Willie White
AMERICAN author Upton Sinclair, who died aged 90 in 1968, described Christmas as a mixture of bunkum and graft, where greed and waste have turned a day intended to honour the “lowly Jesus” into a binge of overeating and pointless spending.
PUTTING UP the crib is an important occasion.
TWO years after the Titanic went down, another shipping disaster to rival that tragedy took place when the Canadian Pacific Railways-owned liner RMS (Royal Mail Services) Empress of Ireland sank in the St Lawrence River.
THE Connaught Rangers, an Irish regiment of the British Army, was formed in 1881 by an amalgamation of the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) and the 94th Regiment of Foot.