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Author: Jamie O'Keeffe
Haughey’s congrats on station’s maiden morning
Frances was first of station's flagship anchors Frances Shanahan from Hilltop, Kilotteran, became the newly-licensed…
Parnell’s Westminster ally Biggar and Butlerstown Castle
Butlerstown Castle and key Parnell ally who could bore for Ireland AMONG the many owners…
Classic capture of Kelly, LeMond and ‘Memory Man’
The late Jimmy Magee interviewing one of his all-time sporting heroes, Seán Kelly, during the…
Backstrand bike racing at turn of 20th century
An announcement about Tramore's new local cycling & athletic club's inaugural sports was made in…
Sparianco spirit of playwright and author
Maurice Connolly’s writing revealed real rural life The late Maurice Connolly — a native of…
Tommy’s threshing days ended with Troubles
Dunhill icon O'Brien killed in Pickardstown Ambush "Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."—…
‘Pirate’ broadcasting beginnings in Killotteran
A 1980 photograph of Des Whelan, 23-year-old station manager and programme controller of the then-"pirate"…
Bog standard life of Lane-Fox tenants
Locals and landlords For the most part, the Lane-Foxes were absentee landlords in Ireland, having…
The Gamble Cure went back generations
A wedding group pictured following the marriage of George Gamble, Cullinagh, Kilmeaden, and Ruth Power,…