Describe the farm? Ronald: We’re Lisavaird co-op milk suppliers with the milk going to Carbery. My father used to supply winter milk to Carbery on a Baileys Crème Liqueur contract in the late 70s and 80s and then when that finished we were supplying Milltown farm for a while. Around […]
“Maolra Seoighe was wrongly convicted of murder and was hanged for a crime that he did not commit…” – Michael D. Higgins On December 15, 1882, Maolra Seoighe was convicted of murder and hanged. One-hundred-and-thirty-six years later, in 2018 – after it was discovered he was innocent and had been […]
Commemoration can be a dangerous thing. Just ask President Higgins. The diplomatic corps in Ireland and Britain must have been working overtime, when the President turned down an invitation to “mark the centenaries of the partition of Ireland and the formation of Northern Ireland”. President Higgins is not just an […]