Newry News and Irish Fun
John McCullagh 
It was the height of The Troubles and this particular family was well-known to the RUC for being Republican activists. One policeman – he must have been their Intelligence Officer – decided they might be best advised to take the youngest lad Joe, in for questioning.
Amazing, really!
Apart from the sheep, the lady and the boy shepherds – and of course the dirt road surface
It might have been yesterday when I learned – with a start – that my first child was ready to begin school. Selfishly, I thought only of how my own years were running away.
May I once again offer grateful thanks to the lovely Janine Masters who comes up trumps so often for me, in the way of old photos?
Another in the Hidden Newry series……
Although the photo that includes Naomi quite gives the game away.
Enjoy!
News, too, ain’t what it used to be! The following were extracted from the local papers of 100 years ago.
Mr Bernard McKernan served as Warrenpoint Town Clerk for all of thirty-two years up until the outbreak of the Great War.
Those who choose to trivialise our local history do a great disservice to present and future generations.
The long-defunct ‘Open Window Annual’ may, or may not, have been just that, but to the best of my knowledge the only extant editions are those for 1901-2 and 1902-3. It was a local magazine – not unlike today’s Newry Journal