Mary Whelan was working on the trading floor for Deutsche Bank when the two planes hit the towers on 9/11. The bank’s building was severely damaged after it was blasted by the debris, dust and smoke that spread from the World Trade Center. Whelan witnessed the immediate devastation that day wrought and in the aftermath,
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Town of Books Festival in Graiguenamanagh, which sees buildings in the the town transformed into book shops over three days.
A young man punched and kicked his half-sister and then assaulted her 81-year-old grandmother who tried to stop him, after a family funeral in Conamara. The attack by Gearóid Wallace of An Tuairín, Béal an Daingin, Co na Gaillimhe was described by Judge Mary Fahy as “absolutely shocking and horrific”. It was among a plethora […]