Cormac Moore

2 days ago | msn.com | Cormac Moore

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2 days ago | irishnews.com | Cormac Moore

June 26 1975CAPITAL punishment should be brought back in Northern Ireland to stamp out the increasing wave of murders, it was claimed yesterday. Mr Thomas Passmore, Grand Master of the Orange Order in Belfast, said of Tuesday’s murder of 25-year-old Protestant Alan Ralph as he sat in his car: “The inhuman monster which murdered Mr Ralph must be dealt with by the law. No amount of talk will have any influence on such a person”.

3 days ago | msn.com | Cormac Moore

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3 days ago | irishnews.com | Cormac Moore

In a series of articles in January and February 1925, the Manchester Guardian reported on major distress in the west of Ireland due to food and fuel shortages. In its February 6 edition, it included an image of a starving family from Gorumna Island off the coast of Galway. While the photograph was not a contemporary one, taken in 1898 instead, otherwise the newspaper reported accurately on the conditions many people were facing in Ireland in 1925, particularly all along the west coast.

4 days ago | irishnews.com | Cormac Moore

June 24 1975DERRY has been poorer since Derry City FC went out of competitive football, although for understandable reasons at the time. However, he was sure that everyone hoped that the day was not long postponed until Derry City returned again to the active football scene. This was stated by Most Rev Dr [Edward] Daly, Bishop of Derry, when he spoke at a function in Derry and District Football Association and the annual presentations of the Association’s trophies.