St Bridget’s Cross
Faughart today is best known for its shrine to Saint Bridget. The original ‘Calvary’ built there in the Marian Year became a place of pilgrimage for Catholics from all parts of
Yelverton Marriage Case
Like me, in browsing Newry’s history you may have read or heard some reference to the famous ‘Yelverton Marriage case’ and wondered what it was all about.
When women ‘had their place’
Carmel found the following article and submitted it for our approval or otherwise!
Sonnet LXXIII
Perhaps it’s Seasonal Affective Disorder: it might be due to recent sad losses: I might just be growing old; but something, this time of year, brings me back to my favourite Shakespeare sonnets. Just thought you might like to share one or two with me.
Windsor Hill: Final Slice
The final slice of the 1957 Windsor Hill schoolchildren features (Middle, right) Hilary Frazer who went on in adulthood to marry David Cunnungham, principal of Kilkeel High School.
GM v Microsoft
I love it when the super-rich who control our destinies get really stuck into one another. Our Administrator despises Microsoft and empathises with the following – though he’d like to replace the general references to computers (actually Gates’s Microsoft in this context); he uses the rival and better Linex system.
Newry Film Club: 4 June
Newry Arts Centre Film Club (NACFC) has been formed in 2007 by a group of volunteer film enthusiasts to bring a range of films not usually shown by commercial cinemas to the residents of Newry and the surrounding area.
Handloom Weaver
New Years Honour?
Dear Agnes,
I’m a blunt man and I’ll come straight to the point! You, it’s said, have a finger in every pie and you know how to grease the wheels of government! Can you put some suitable award in my direction? I mean, surely I deserve to be decorated for my community and charitable efforts?
Bishop O’Doherty
It was about that time that the Bishop of Dromore, the Rev Edmund Mulhern went to his eternal rest. Our new bishop, a