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In his review of a biography of a County Galway fighter ace, military historian PADRAIG LENIHAN finds both local interest, and a welcome counterweight to the notion that aerial dog fights were anything but bloody and brutal

Both the longest and shortest urban sieges in Irish history were experienced in Galway, according to a new book, by military historian Dr Pádraig Lenihan.

All four Galway West TDs were in Dublin Castle on Tuesday night to celebrate their former constituency colleague’s elevation to the presidency, plus at least one county councillor who aspires to take her seat.

Military historian Dr Pádraig Lenihan will give a talk next week on the 1812 sack of Badajoz, when an Anglo-Portugese army, spearheaded by Galway’s Connaught Rangers, went on a three-day rampage in Spain.