Newry Journal

Community, History and Culture from Newry, Ireland

Dollar’s Demise

John McCullagh October 2, 2003

We’ve all got so much older and wiser in recent years that it has become difficult to impress us with new technology. Yet I have a tale to tell in this vein. As this story concerns two men who are sadly deceased, but one who is very much alive and who might take umbrage, I […]

Tall Tale Teller

John McCullagh October 2, 2003

He is everywhere, the teller of tall tales. Some are interesting for their inventiveness. Some merely boring as they relate their teller’s single-handed exploits. One Newry man who served in Korea – Joe by name, but I’ll not tell you his surname for he’d torture me – never tires of telling how he defeated that […]

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