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Record numbers attended this year’s ninth annual Scariff Harbour Festival, which saw people literally dropping from the sky to attend.  The festival has gone from strength to strength and this year was no exception with crowds coming out in force for each of the events organised. Among the highlights were free concerts in the town square with Mundy and Paddy Casey, a special church concert with the Three Tenors, a dramatic sky-diving display, family fun day, a reading by poet and writer Dermot Bolger and the annual Waterways Ireland Cross Border Young Anglers’ Competition. In addition, there was street theatre with Jim and Dr Nick, who performed on stilts, horse and wagon tours, boating tours and crafts fair. A presentation was made to retiring Scariff parish priest Fr Pat Sexton, while tributes were paid to Scariff TD Michael McNamara and Mayor Pat Hayes. At the official opening, festival chairman Mike Rodgers said, “Like many other places, we here in Scariff …

ON a regular basis but particularly around elections, some radio programmes are flooded with callers demanding that children of politicians should not be allowed run for the Dáil. This is akin to saying that children of doctors cannot study medicine, children of teachers cannot become teachers themselves or any other profession you care to think of.Admittedly, being the child of a politician is no guarantee that the next generation will be competent but there have been many families down through the years, which have produced gifted politicians in different generations. With over 125 years of continuous public involvement, the Dillon family of Ballaghadereen were one such.John Blake Dillon was a member of O’Connell’s Repeal Association and with Charles Gavan Duffy and Thomas Davis, set up The Nation newspaper. Joining the Young Irelanders, he took part in the 1848 rebellion, leading in the battle at Killenaule, County Tipperary. He emigrated to America but returned to found the national association and was …

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RTÉ will broadcast live from Quin’s Craggaunowen this Sunday in celebration of the ancient festival of Lúghnasa. The live broadcast kicks off at 9.30pm on RTÉ One and will be followed by a screening of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa.The show will be a combination of chat, music and food where well-known celebrities will celebrate the ancient festival of Lúghnasa and reconnect the audience with what was traditionally one of the most important dates in the Irish calendar.The live show will be broadcast from a very evocative location, Craggaunowen, an Iron Age fort, in front of an audience of 200. The award-winning pre-historic park is owned and operated by Shannon Heritage and is situated on 50 acres of wooded grounds in Quin. Gráinne Seioge will be speaking with guests John Creedon, Mary McEvoy, Sinéad Kennedy, Colm Hayes and Paul Flynn and will explore different aspects of Lúghnasa folklore. Chef Paul Flynn will give a cooking demonstration of food from that …

A will is a legal document specifying how your property should be distributed after your death. A will does not take effect until your death, so you are free to do what you want with your property until then. A common misconception is that people believe that if they leave property to a person in a will they cannot dispose of it in their own lifetime.Understandably the idea of making a will is uncomfortable for many but, as we all know, two things are certain in life, death and taxes. Unfortunately it is often only when people are seriously ill that they consider making a will. However, far more wills are challenged when made in hospital at a time of serious illness than when made in a solicitor’s office. The law relating to wills in Ireland is governed mainly by the Succession Act 1965 which came into operation and effect on January 1, 1967. A person who dies having made …

AT this time of the year, there is one huge event on the cards for a lot of young men and women. It is of course the single most important event of the school calendar. The debs’ season is fast approaching and the excitement is building. Some girls have already purchased the dress or at least have seen the dress they want, while others are still shopping around. It’s the first red carpet event of your life, so I have put together some styling tips for you as a guide to help you prepare your overall look for the big night. The single most important thing on the list is that you want to feel fabulous in your dress so get the fit right. Make sure the dress emphasises the positives and plays down the negatives. If you have a curvy figure, the best styles are dresses that will have structure on the waist and skim over the hips, also …

Many professions were closed to women in the past and it is only in later years that women are gaining some form of parity with their male counterparts. Surprisingly medicine was one such profession where women were unwelcome. Nurses were tolerated but becoming a doctor was out of the question. Italy was the exception but, throughout the rest of the world, women only gained the right to study to become doctors at the end of the 1800s A medical college for women opened in Pennsylvania in 1850, Harvard Medical School only admitted its first female students in 1945 and the first medical school to train women in the UK – the London School of Medicine for Women – was founded in 1874. In the 1840s, Elizabeth Blackwell succeeded in gaining admission to the Geneva College of Medicine in New York. She had been refused everywhere. To show his open mindedness, the dean of the college decided to admit her if …

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