SEVEN years ago I wrote an Eye on Patrick Moran, the County Roscommon man who worked in Athy some nine or ten years before he was hanged in Mountjoy Jail on 14 March 1921.
LAST week’s controversial goal in the Leinster final match between Meath and Louth which gave an undeserved victory to the Meath team brought back memories of a match played 71 years ago involving our own county team.
LAST Saturday representing Athy I joined representatives of local history societies from around the country in welcoming visitors of the Ulster Federation of History Societies to our county town of Naas.
SIXTEEN years ago I was approached by Eddie Matthews of the Eastern Health Board and asked if I would write a history of the local hospital, St Vincent’s.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the imminent erection of the ’98 Memorial commissioned over 12 years ago by Athy Urban District Council, as it was then known, is very welcome news.
I AM told it weighs 20 kilogrammes. It is claimed that each and every page of the 5,000 pages of the 10-volume report provide the most detailed insight ever into any military operation in world history.
THE link between Athy ICA and Robert Owen, the father of the cooperative movement, or co-partner-ship in industry might seem at first to be somewhat tenuous.
I WAS in Hay-on-Wye in the upper Wye Valley on the borders of England and Wales when news reached me of the death of Kevin Maher.
‘And we moor, we don’t park’. The information came as canal boat 4B glided to a halt at the Ardreigh mooring following a short trip up the canal, as well as the Barrow, to mark the latest fitting out of the 98 year old former by-traders boat.
LAST week, our community was attacked in a most mindless and vicious way when attempts were made to burn down St Michael’s Parish Church.