Job applicants?

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Our client, a leading multi-national company has commissioned the services of our esteemed firm of solicitors, Bea Hartless, Sue Daly & Robin Fleezia ……….

The Cruellest Snip

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I confess to scepticism over the need for these Assertiveness Courses.

 

[I assume you heard of the two nuns leaving the college? One turned to the other and remarked, ‘Mother Superior, aren’t these Self Assertion Classes just f***ing  great?’]. 

 

 

Sharing with the Neighbours

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The most heart-warming aspect of life then was the willingness to share. Without a second thought those who suddenly found themselves with a little roughness would send it around neighbours’ doors for sharing out.

Bagenal Dynasty II

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It was in the reign of Henry VIII, the most famous of English Kings that Nicholas Bagenal fled to Ireland. He served with The Great O’Neill for three years ….

Ullans

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                             Ulster-Scots is now known as Ullans.  How can you tell the difference…

Steel Erecting

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‘So, after the War and your stint in the Army, what did you work at?’ I asked Dickie Rodgers.

‘I became a steel-erector.

Remember Bigus Dickus?

 

Father Foster was compiling a modern Latin Dictionary. 

 

‘It may be defunct as a spoken language, but it’s still the official language of the Catholic Church,’ the good cleric asserted.

 

‘There are hundreds of modern terms that have no equivalent in Latin so I have compiled the ‘Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis’. 

 

 

Ballinlare Gardens

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Luminary of the Arts in Newry, the Music & Orchestral Society and Newpoint Players in particular, Sean Murtagh is one of the earliest residents of Ballinlare Gardens and, with his wife Marie, is thankfully still living there. He afforded us the benefit of his early recollections.

Gypsy, gypsy,living in a tent

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I’ll bet you can put a tune to each of those skipping and street rhymes! I know I can. Many had multiple variations; my memory’s not so good that I can recall them all. 

Vote Wyatt, She won’t be quiet!

A topical issue right now, elections, and there are many lessons for our legislators, administrators and indeed candidates from the story of Dorothy Wyatt, Councillor in St John’s, Newfoundland.

Halls of Narrow Water

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As already recounted here, the original Castle at Narrow Water was probably a small item, built by the first Norman knight to make it into these parts c. 1212, one Hugh de Lacey.

Father Luke Donnellan

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In the early part of the last century there was a prominent priest in South Armagh who gained a reputation in many fields besides religion. He served in a number of parishes in the district but longest in Dromantee where he was known as Father Luke, or alternatively as Red Father Donnellan.