Here’s a tricky question. Which 19th century politician had the most lasting effect on the county of Wicklow in particular? Easy, you may say. It surely had to be Parnell, Charles Stewart of that ilk – that’s the obvious answer. Parnell, after all, led a party in parliament. He had close ties to Arklow, of course. And the family seat was in Rathdrum.
A 67-YEAR-OLD man accused of raping a woman while she was asleep has been found not guilty.After two and half hours of deliberation, a Royal Court jury of five men and seven women unanimously acquitted Thomas Quinn of a single charge of rape.There we.
A WOMAN wept as she told a Royal Court jury that she was raped while asleep by a man she had met that night in a St Helier pub.The alleged victim told a jury that 67-year-old Thomas Quinn had ‘turned my life upside down’.The woman was giving evid.