R101 would revolutionise travel and link far-flung reaches of the Empire, a glorious advert for Great Britain s technological prowess. But, as a brilliant new account shows, the maiden voyage of the world s largest dirigible was doomed to disaster.
ON August 22, St Mary Education Trust (SMET), a registered charity for the furtherance of education of the island's youth, provided $3 million in scholarships to 10 students at the tertiary level,.
On Tuesday the St Mary Education Trust (SMET), a registered charity for the furtherance of education of the island’s youth, provided $3 million in scholarships to 10 students at the tertiary level, to aid in unlocking the potential of the next.
A FERMANAGH South Tyrone MLA has paid tribute to an IRA volunteer who is accused by First Minister Arlene Foster of trying to kill her father. Sinn Fein MLA Sean Lynch was one of the contributors to the recent ‘Celebration of the life of Vol. Seamus McElwaine’ video, in which Mr. Lynch is seen laying a wreath at the spot where McElwaine was killed in an SAS ambush on the Fermanagh and Monaghan Border at Rosslea on April 26, 1986. McElwaine is believed by Mrs. Foster to be the man who attempted to kill her father, John Kelly, a part-time police officer who was shot in the head by two IRA gunmen at the family home near Rosslea n 1979, when she was eight years old at the time.