Newry News and Irish Fun
John McCullagh 
This photo of Sacred Heart Girls 1966 includes the donor Mary (Kane) Cuthbertson (or rather the second half – to follow – will!) and we are grateful for it. No one remembers all their old classmates’ names but Mary has done her best. The other half is to come and then I will reproduce a smaller version of the joined photos.
It is less than a kilometre from The Meadow to
It was almost two weeks after the murder, before McGladdery, who was continually being followed, cracked and led the police inadvertently to the scene of the septic tank just a few hundred yards from his home where he had secreted the blood-stained missing clothes and other items from the murder scene.
My thanks to old friend and Meadow man Mark Byrne (formerly of Ballinlare Gardens, now living with his wife (daughter of Peter and Phyllis McCann of Derrybeg Drive) and children in California, who sent me an encouraging email this week.
The pathologist gave detailed evidence about the injuries inflicted on the young girl Pearl Gamble during life – the description of which we will curtail for the sake of propriety.
Detective Sergeant Robert Knox testified that on January 28th (only hours after the murder) at 9.45 am he went to Pearl Gamble’s home with Head Constable O’Hara and other police.
It was the single most dreadful moment in Mrs Gamble’s life.
Perhaps it’s just that I got into trouble, no matter what job or assignment I was given!
Some years later still I was interned along with my brothers Jack and Eugene (RIP).
Woman Constable Elizabeth Ann McCance testified that she was on duty in plain clothes in