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Dundalk native calling on the people of Louth to join Jadotville challenge for Defence Force veterans Reporter: [email protected] L to R Neil O Malley, Frank Larrigan, Ollie O Connor CEO of ONE and Pat Donnelly ); ); A Louth native has organised a charity event which hopes to raise awareness around one of the Irish Military’s most forgotten battles while in the process raising funds for Óglaigh Náisiúnta na hÉireann, the Organization of National Ex-Serviceman. The Jadotville Challenge will see hundreds of volunteers either cycle, walk or run a combined distance of 24,000km over five days from 29th June to the 3rd July 2021 in aid of homeless veterans of the Defence Forces. ....
Ambushes and attacks marked War of Independence in Kildare The 2021 prorgramme of talks and seminars to mark the centenary of 1921 events is likely to move online due to Covid-19 restrictions 24 Jan 2021 Men from the North Kildare (1st) Battalion at Rath Internment Camp 1921. Pic: Kildare Local Studies, Newbridge Library ); ); Since 2012 the Local Studies Department, Kildare County Library Service, and the County Kildare Decade of Commemorations Committee have been commemorating local people and events of the 1912-1923 period, as well as Kildare’s connections to national and international events. The programme of commemorations began with Kildare people on board the ill-fated Titanic, and has included events and publications on Great Lock-out, World War I, the Easter Rising and the War of Independence. ....