Jack
McKeown raised a family of six on that 30-acre farm in Sheetrim from the 1920s
to the 1940s.He was a blacksmith as
well as a farmer but had scarcely enough from both to keep his family from the
breadline.
Newry Chamber Music have been invited to hold
their Spring Concert in the Sandys Street Presbyterian Church on Thursday next
(i.e. tomorrow night!) 11 March at 8.00 pm.
Bus Éireann to cut more servicesBus Éireann tonight announced the latest stage of its massive cost-cutting drive with the axing of one service and the curtailment of 18 others.
Retrial ordered in assault caseThe jury in the trial of a Dublin accountant accused of assaulting a former Ericsson engineer leaving him blind in one eye has been discharged having failed to reach a verdict.
Man pleads guilty to raping daughterA Cork man in his 50s pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court today to raping and sexually assaulting his own daughter.
Man faces 10-year jail sentence after drugs haulA young man who turned to drugs following the suicide of three of his friends in a short period of time faces a possible ten year sentence after being caught transporting almost half a million euro of cocaine to repay a debt.
Murder trial in closing stagesThe jury in the trial of a 22-year-old man accused of murdering a man during a drugs “rip” will begin its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow.
Publicans negligent in serving drink-driver, court hearsTwo publicans who served alcoholic beverages to a man who was one of two people killed in a horrific road traffic accident shortly after he drove home from the pub acted in a negligent manner, it was claimed before the High Court today.
