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Margaret Rossiter Column: Walking on the Russian border

It was a pleasant road through a dense forest of mixed plantations of broadleaf and pine trees. It was a little wider, and somewhat better maintained, than our average Irish boreen. It was a pleasant place for a casual walk on a warm July day. But ...

10 Mar 2022 at 18:33

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Margaret Rossiter Column: The ‘New Normal’ and memories of ‘Gone with the Wind’

In a recent discussion on an RTE radio programme on the subject of old films, ‘Gone with the Wind’ was mentioned as a classic. It was based on Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel of the same title, written in the late 1930s, telling the story of a ...

27 Feb 2022 at 08:33

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Why is it that our children are not walking to school anymore?

We were a group of four friends, old in years, a bit crotchety, meeting each other for a chat over coffee. We had been released from isolation by the small concessions now allowed under the Covid lockdown legislation. All of us were ...

19 Feb 2022 at 09:33

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Margaret Rossiter: The role of the courts in the maintenance of law and order

Reports of the recent murder of a young woman on the banks of a canal in Tullamore have dominated the news and comment pages of our print media in the past weeks. It has also occupied much space on our radio and television channels....

28 Jan 2022 at 09:33

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Margaret Rossiter's Column: Walking the walls - a youthful impression that lasted a lifetime

Our five minute walk to primary school in Morton Street every morning was via the church path in Old St Mary’s. Our walk home every afternoon took much longer, from 45 minutes to an hour. We, a group of friends, walked slowly, ...

21 Jan 2022 at 08:33

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Margaret Rossiter: Where have all the wren-boys gone on St Stephen's Day

It is now many many decades since I last saw the wren boys on the streets of Clonmel on St Stephen’s Day, and at that stage the tradition was already in decline. The boys called themselves “wran boys” and were known locally ...

26 Dec 2022 at 08:33

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‘The Hilly Field’ in Clonmel - Residents want return of their right-of-way

Recently, members of the Glenconnor community walked to the entrance of “The Hilly Field” at the Heywood boundary of the estate. They were quietly, but firmly, asking for the re-opening of the right-of-way through the ...

27 Jul 2023 at 17:33

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Margaret Rossiter's Column - There's trouble in RTE

There is a theory that institutions should be seriously examined every few decades; they should be taken apart, shaken out of their comfort zone, to see how they are functioning. Are they doing what they have been ...

21 Jul 2023 at 11:33

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Margaret Rossiter Column: Disposal plans abandoned after the discovery of a beloved toy

The presence of a rubbish skip outside a home in any street is now a fairly common sight. It is usually associated with a change in ownership, frequently a vacancy caused by the death of the occupant, or a ...

24 Aug 2023 at 13:33

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Margaret Rossiter Column - Is hard cash a thing of the past?

It was a story told to Joe Duffy on his midday RTE’s ‘Liveline’ programme, the subsequent discussion on which I was unable to listen to, so this is just a brief recital of the subject of that story. It ...

06 Oct 2023 at 09:33

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Tipperary Historical Journal 2023 - we owe much to the publishers

The 2003 issue of “Tipperary Historical Journal” is now in circulation. Like all previous annual issues, it contributes to our knowledge of the stories of the lives of the people of the county, the ...

10 Sept 2023 at 17:33

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Margaret Rossiter Column: The rescuers and the restorers

It often takes terrible natural events or personal tragedies to make many of us immediately conscious of the vital work done by groups of our fellow citizens. This work, or more accurately urgent ...

30 Sept 2023 at 09:33

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