Irish doctor transforms George Floyd âtrial of the centuryâ with his evidence
An Irish expert doctor has become the unlikely key witness in the death of George Floyd, a killing that created massive protests in America and around the world.
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Kilkenny-born Doctor Martin Tobin, 69, an Irish physician who simply says his expertise is âbreathingâ, has come to dominate the Derek Chauvin trial which Newsweek called âamong the most consequential events of the 21st century. MSNBC simply called it âThe Trial of the Century.â
So effective was his testimony that African American leaders are calling for it to be included in all police training videos nationwide.
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Rotary Hosts Talk On St. Patrick’s Day Traditions
By LINDA HULL
Rotary Club of Los Alamos
“If I had a dollar for every time someone has told me they have always wanted to go to Ireland, I would be very wealthy by now,” mused Maire O’Neill, her Irish eyes smiling. A native of Dublin, O’Neill spoke March 9 to the members of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, via Zoom, about traditions and celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.
Maewyn Succat, the St. Patrick we know today, was born into nobility in the fifth century in the western part of present-day Britain, on the edge of the Roman Empire. He was only 16 when he was “taken into slavery and sold in Ireland” by Irish raiders. Six years later, after escaping and returning home, he had a vision instructing him to return to Ireland to spread Christianity. Upon becoming a priest, he returned to Ireland as a missionary. His image is depicted in the Book of Kells, circa 800 A.D., illuminated manuscripts of the fo
Locals battle to save 160-year-old Irish thatched cottage
Ill-health and inclement Irish weather has seen this old Irish thatched cottage fall into disrepair.
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A local group hopes that this Irish thatched cottage can be opened as a museum if it can be repaired and restored to its former glory.
The friends of the current owners of Phil Barron s House, in Clogh, County Kilkenny, have launched a GoFundMe campaign in an effort to save the old thatched cottage in the hopes of creating a museum in this historic building.
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She was dragging it out. I know that you probably would have seen a good bit of that material as well. Umm, I ve had the benefit, I suppose, of having seen the material unredacted.
What had she seen? Umm… Now, from what I have looked at so far, I haven t been… I haven t seen any evidence of wrongdoing.
How hard had she looked? Umm, but the question is, she said, where do we go from here?
The Department of Agriculture and Food said it expected to close its files on the €165,000 Cooley peninsula ewe premium fraud uncovered during the foot-and-mouth crisis by the end of the month. However, no prosecutions have been taken yet against about 20 farmers who had submitted false claims for 2,000 ewes which were found to be bogus when the peninsula s flocks had to be slaughtered in late March last year.