Monthly Archives: February 2023

GREAT TO BE (ALMOST!) BACK…!

…Well – back in Dublin from our escapades in Galway (…more about that later!), but not back posting the blog just yet. As promised before our break, we’ll be back here on Wednesday, the 1st March 2023, with a seven-part … Continue reading

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A POLITICAL OPERATOR WEANED ON THE LUST FOR POWER.

ON THIS DATE (8TH FEBRUARY) 37 YEARS AGO : ONE EPISODE IN THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH… ‘A Jury in Abbeville, Louisiana, in the United States, yesterday (ie Friday, 7th February 1986) awarded one million dollars in damages … Continue reading

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A DECENT(ISH) ‘LANDLORD’ FAMILY IN BAD COMPANY.

ON THIS DATE (1ST FEBRUARY) 145 YEARS AGO : 1916 SIGNATORY BORN. On the 1st February 1878 – 145 years ago on this date – a child, Thomas, was born in Cloughjordan in Tipperary, into a household which would consist … Continue reading

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