Before we all could afford Mediterranean holidays in the sun, we were content, and indeed privileged to spent a week or a fortnight in Warrenpoint!
John McCullagh
Building your Buggy
What was called for was an appropriately long bolt of precisely the correct diameter to fit through both burned-out holes – that in the front axle and directly above in the buggy board – and with sufficient numbers and sizes of nuts and washers to do the job-in-hand.
The Coasters
These ships of which we have recently written were all coasters.
The Coasters of John Hewitt are of a different ilk!
Jem Murphy
Jem Murphy, local historian, was one of the men responsible for the discovery of the O’Neill Vault. Jem was born in Carnally in 1916.
Pope Benedict & Bishop John
As I read about Bishop John’s meeting with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, I was thinking of when our local pastor visited my own home a few weeks ago.
Not like his beloved Ireland
I remembered Hughie as a mischevious, adorable curly-haired boy of six or so, in summer dressed in baggy overalls that were four inches too short and in well-worn, laceless, hand-me-down mud-spattered shoes.
O’Doirnin/MacMurphy
Peader O’ Doirnin was for a time a schoolteacher in the Lough Ross area of
Mozart in Cathedral
When last I extensively advertised a coming event in the Cathedral – Newpoint’s performance of T S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral – I found on the night that everyone had arrived before me, though I was there a full half-hour before commencement. I had to stand at the back,
Ball-bearing Races
All our contests and competitions were centred on the use of the ball-bearing buggy.
We had no interest in tortoise v hare events – especially since we were the tortoises!