LMFM By Simon Doyle
Over €165,000 has been granted for five local Heritage projects.
€3 million has been announced for 85 projects nationwide in the
Historic Structures Fund 2021.
County Louth will receive over €145,000 for its County Archives (€30,000) and St Malachy s Church (€17,400) in Dundalk, as well as Redeemed Christian Church of God in Drogheda (€28,000)
While County Meath will receive €20,000 for Duleek House.
BBC News
By Peter Crutchley
Boxing promoters are generally thought of as being fast-talking alpha males, but in Belfast in the 1930s one celebrated promoter couldn t have been further removed from this stereotype.
Long before there was Don King, Barney Eastwood and Eddie Hearn, Clara Copley - affectionately known as Ma - was a pioneer in the fight business, giving many young boxers their start and providing them with much needed income during a period of financial hardship.
For her granddaughter, Doreen Devenney, Ma Copley s achievements in a male-dominated field remains a source of great pride. People still talk about my grandmother. I grew up living in the caravan beside her and have many happy memories of being with her and watching the boxing.
Jimmy McKinney pictured on his 92nd birthday last September 27 February, 2021 01:00
Jimmy McKinney with Irish News chairman Jim Fitzpatrick and former production manager Peter O Reilly
IN the days when newspapers were forged with hot metal and heated debate in cacophonous print rooms, Jimmy McKinney was an oasis of calm.
Throughout almost 40 years with The Irish News he was universally liked for his gentle and cheerful manner, his kindness and ability to get on with everyone.
He first joined the production floor on Donegall Street in the mid-1950s, taking his seat at the hulking rows of linotype machines which cast lines of lead type from 90-character keyboards.
Tributes paid to popular Co Tyrone social worker following Covid death Social worker Nuala McLaughlin 24 December, 2020 01:00
TRIBUTES have been paid to a Co Tyrone social worker and mother-of-two who lost her life to coronavirus.
The Western Health Trust said no task was too big or small for principal social worker Nuala McLaughlin, who died on Tuesday at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen.
A sister of Fr Peter McAnenly of St Patrick s Cathedral Parish in Armagh, Mrs McLaughlin had been a social worker for more than 20 years.
In a statement posted online, the trust said: Everyone within the Western Trust are deeply saddened by the untimely passing of our dear friend and colleague.
Tributes have been paid tribute to a “passionate, dedicated and committed” social worker in the Western Trust who died after contracting coronavirus.
Nuala McLaughlin died peacefully on Tuesday at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, after working for almost 20 years within the Western Trust’s Family and Childcare Directorate.
A family notice said her death was “deeply regretted” by her wider family, including her two children.
Colleagues passed on their condolences with a moving tribute posted on the Western Trust’s Facebook page.
“Everyone within the Western Trust are deeply saddened by the untimely passing of our dear friend and colleague, Nuala McLaughlin,” the message read.