A few dozen people, mostly academics in the USA involved in the development of the project, have had a smart chip the size of a rice grain inserted subcutaneously.
Chips with everything!
John McCullagh
2012 Newry Drama Festival Opens
The Diamond Jubilee Newry Drama Festival kicks off tonight at 8 pm in Newry Town Hall with a witty farce, Stella by Starlight, performed by Bart Players from Belfast. Bart are perennial favourites in Newry.
All the action takes place in a single night in the home of contemporary Irish couple, Dermot, a down-sized corporation employee and his wife Stella, a former bank teller. They have a teenage daughter Tara. They have recently left the big city for a new life in the remote countryside.
There is some light entertainment afterwards in the Arts Centre – which we must miss, as our presence is required at the birthday party of a recent contributer, Peter McGrath Jnr.
What it’s like to be in demand!
Go. Enjoy. It should be a good night!
Grief of a Mother
Hughie’s coffin would not fit through the porch door. The window of the little bedroom – his bedroom – had to be removed.
Estates Tributes in Stone
This is a growing trend and varies from the tasteful, through pretentious to outright sepulchral! It’s all a matter of taste. Your opinion is as good as any other!
Sinclair St demolished!
Robert McCullough looks on as his former home disappears! ‘Great memories … great,’ he mumbles sadly. Behind on the convent steps Geraldine (Spencer) Burns and son Ronan watch too. They were there all the morning!
Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary 1837
By way of contrast with Dr Pococke’s jaundiced, personal account of Irish towns (see previous entry on Carlingford) – and indeed those of other English travellers in Ireland in the 17th-19th centuries – Samuel Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary (1837) was a disciplined, informative account from a publisher who also produced similar works on England, Wales and Scotland.
Newry Chamber Young Musicians..
Wednesday evening the 15 September in the Arts Centre at 8.00pm sees the return of the ever-popular Young Musicians Concert hosted by Joanne Quigley.
Bridgit: Goddess?
It was not unknown historically, for Christian authorities to vest in their holy people many of the characteristics of the more ancient gods and goddesses beloved of the people.
Dodgem Cops
The police arrived promptly in response to a father’s call that his son had sustained an injury as a result of a collision. Cars had been left abandoned and strewn across the scene. Some had been deliberately rammed into each other, reports suggesting that some drivers were even laughing as they ploughed into their victims, sending them into a spin.