Miscellaneous Memories: 1

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‘.. there was no central heating in houses. In our house there was a big range .. like a modern Aga .. that heated the kitchen. There was no heat in our bedrooms at all .. so we had to have hot water bottles in bed. You looked after your bottle. There weren’t many then, like there is today.

Son of Ballinliss

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I’m thinking it must be word-and-idea association that drives me! Anna Belle spoke of Ballinliss and that brought to mind another past-pupil of that tiny school.

John McNally of Ballinliss, Killeavy spent twenty years gold-mining and prospecting in Alaska!

Miss Munroe: First School

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The only school in the district was a one-room Protestant school two miles away. Our parents were reluctant to send us but keeping up with our ‘larnin” was more important than religious persuasion so off we went, Sally and I!

Burglars!

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‘On Tuesday morning last when the premises of the Frontier Mineral Water Company in Queen Street were opened, it was found that they had been burglariously entered  ….

Easy Quiz Answers

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Yesterday’s questions were really, really easy, weren’t they?

Well.  Let’s see how you scored.  Just one right from eleven and you pass!


Tony Rushforth at Drama Festival

We had a lively and entertaining start to the Newry Drama Festival last evening. Your editor ended the evening in the pleasant company of Barry and Donna Crawford [in The Bridge] and reminisced of Mark Burns, Donna’s brother in faraway San Francisco. Greetings Mark!


Sonny McCullagh

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This morning I tended the grave of Sonny McCullagh. It is the forty-fifth anniversary of his death. Tonight we will celebrate mass for the repose of his soul.

A Close Shave 1

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Sometime around midnight on 13 July 1972, I was making my way down Lindsay Hill after having just seen my girlfriend Margaret home to her house in High Street.

Mitochondria

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Though we are happily not aware of it most of the time, we are all familiar with parasites living in our bodies – especially, as now, in winter, when it seems we are constantly assaulted with a host of viruses and bacteria living off us.