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A man has been arrested as part of a major security operation along the border in Co Fermanagh. He was detained in the Rossiver area and is being questioned at Carrick-on-Shannon Garda Station. Shots were fired at police in the...
A 27-year-old man has been arrested in County Leitrim in connection with a ambush on police in the North. Shots were fired at the PSNI in the Fermanagh village of Garrison overnight. The officers returned fire and none were...
Irish Rail has said that bus services are operating again between Galway and Athlone on Galway/Dublin services due to flooding between Ballinasloe and Athlone. Bus transfers are also in use on the Longford to Carrick-on-Shannon...
By Colin Gleeson Saturday November 21 2009 A TOWN in the north east faces being cut off from the rest of the country if the severe flooding persists. Carrick-on-Shannon in Co Leitrim could be cut off if heavy rain continued to...
Iarnród Éireann has advised that the following services are currently disrupted: SLIGO LINE: Bus transfers Longford to Carrick-on-Shannon due to flooding LIMERICK TO ENNIS: bus transfers due to flooding ROSSLARE LINE: bus...
Floods cause havoc in parts of U.K. and Ireland 200 rescued in one hard-hit town in northern England, two bridges collapse Flooding caused a bridge to collapse in Workington, northern England. Military helicopters winched...
Flooding is 'the worst' in living memory Parts of Cork, Tipperary, Galway, Mayo and Clare were cut off by flood waters as drainage systems failed to cope with almost two-and-a-half inches of water falling in less than 24 hours....
By Anita Guidera Wednesday November 04 2009 A FAIRYTALE wedding venue with old world elegance and that all-important privacy is what celebrity couple Amy Huberman and Brian O'Driscoll can expect from a Co Leitrim castle next...
A bestseller at 91, she forged the modern memoir In the early 1980s, the publisher André Deutsch had an idea for a book I could write about the partition of India. I didn't take it up, which I regret now because I was wrong to...
Your account has been frozen. Published Date: 31 October 2009 by John McGahern Faber & Faber, 448pp, £20 JOHN McGahern, at the time of his death in 2006, was arguably Ireland's foremost writer. To catch a glimpse of him at...
