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Accident leaves young man in a coma in Spain

Friends of a young man who is fighting for his life in Spain this week are leaving messages of love and support for him on his facebook page this week.

Meeting The Grippe Girls with Electric Bridget

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ELECTRIC BRIDGET make a welcome return to the Galway Arts Festival with the premiere of Eileen Gibbons’ new play, The Grippe Girls.

A Saunders still lives in Woodford area

Following a recent series of Diary entries about the Woodford evictions in August 1886, and in particular the siege of ‘Saunder’s Fort’ I believed there was no descendant of the brave Saunders’ family living in the Woodford area today. I was very pleased to receive the following e-mail from Tom Page:

The Maamtrasna Murders, August 17 1882

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Early on Friday August 18 1882, John Collins, a tenant farmer, having heard disturbances during the night coming from his neighbours’ house, the Joyces, went to check if all was well. He must have feared the worst because he brought with him two neighbours, Mary and Margaret O’Brien. They discovered an appalling sight. Even today, when our senses have been hardened by so many atrocities, it was a scene of savage murder that cried to heaven. No mercy was shown to this unfortunate family.

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