This week marks the anniversary of the first naval battle of Narvik, when Irish-born seamen were captured, together with their British shipmates. One of those was a man from Skibbereen, who was kept prisoner for five years for insisting he was British, and refused an Irish passport.
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Concerns have been raised over the proposal to rename a bridge over the Royal Canal as ‘Bloody Sunday Bridge’ in memory of 14 people killed by British soldiers in Croke Park in 1920.
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