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A large crowd turned out on Friday night last for the Lyra McKee Writing Awards held in the Holywell Diverse City Building in Derry when the winners in the four. ....
ENNISKILLEN care home Meadow View Senior Living has been officially taken over by a new company to enhance standards of care delivered . On Monday (April 26), Kathryn Homes took over sole responsibility for the operations of a portfolio of 12 care homes, including Meadow View, previously managed by Runwood Homes in Northern Ireland. In a press release, it was stated that a local board has been appointed to oversee the portfolio with the aim of enhancing the standards of care delivered . This announcement comes following a report by The Impartial Reporter in February of this year where it was understood that Runwood Homes was rebranding to Kathryn Homes. ....
Joanne Mathers: ‘Sentenced to death for collecting census papers’ Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of Joanne Mathers who was shot dead by the IRA in Derry Mother of one Joanne Mathers was murdered on April 7, 1981. Reporter: ); ); Forty years on from one of the most ‘heinous’ IRA murders of the Troubles, the PSNI says the investigation remains open. On April 7, 1981, mother-of-one Joanne Mathers was shot dead by an IRA gunman as she helped a resident to fill in a census form at a house in Anderson Crescent. The honours graduate had given up her work in town planning to raise her son who was two-years-old at the time. ....
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In 1825, Daniel O’Connell was invited by the House of Lords Select Committee to give a first-hand account of the living conditions in Ireland, which he did in graphic detail. The UK government was alarmed so it set up a royal commission chaired by the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Richard Whately, who was also an economist. The commission sat for three years and produced a report in 1836 which has a number of voluminous appendices which contain a vast amount of information of great historical value. (They are available at UCD Library Cultural Heritage Collections.) The difficulty was that in Ireland, unlike Britain, there was no work available. Legislation in 1834 abolished outdoor relief and admission to the poorhouse was mandatory for those claiming relief. ....