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Great War soldier remembered in Graignamanagh as new gravestone is dedicated

As the sun was going down over a rural graveyard in South Kilkenny a special ceremony was held to remember a local man who died of his wounds in World War 1. Martin Geoghegan was from Graignamanagh and, recently, three generations of his descendants ...

20 Aug 2022 at 14:33

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Severe pressure on cemetery space in County Kildare

There is severe pressure on cemetery space in County Kildare. That's according to Newbridge councillor Noel Heavey, who called for a pilot project to encourage the sale of single plots rather than double/family plots in cemeteries and graveyards ...

29 Jul 2022 at 18:33

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Severe pressure on cemetery space in County Kildare

29 Jul 2022 at 18:33

Scotland

People encouraged to listen to ‘heartbreaking’ stories in War Graves Week

Scottish people will soon have the chance to hear “heartbreaking” stories of those who died in the two world wars as War Graves Week gets under way. Ex-SAS and motivational speaker Colin Maclachlan is encouraging people to learn ...

20 May 2022 at 01:01

Ireland

First World War soldiers’ graves rededicated more than 100 years after deaths

The graves of two soldiers who were killed on the Western Front during the First World War while serving with Irish regiments have been rededicated in Belgium more than 100 years after they died. Captain Hugh Mortimer Travers ...

19 May 2022 at 19:24

Sport

Colin Graves vows to back Yorkshire reforms at EGM and says club must ‘move on’

Former Yorkshire chairman Colin Graves has said he will vote to support reforms proposed following the club’s racism crisis at their delayed extraordinary general meeting on March 31. The England and Wales Cricket Board ...

23 Mar 2022 at 16:55

Sport

DCMS committee says Yorkshire EGM ‘first step’ in cricket’s fight against racism

Key reforms to be voted on at Yorkshire next week should be seen as “the first step” in cricket putting its house in order on racism in the game, according to the chair of a parliamentary committee. Yorkshire will hold ...

24 Mar 2022 at 13:55

Local News

Dates confirmed for Derry Cemetery Sunday

The dates have been confirmed for the Services of Intercession for the Dead (Blessing of the Graves) in Derry. Blessing of the Graves will take place in cemeteries in Derry’s Waterside on Sunday, 19 June. Services of ...

24 May 2022 at 17:33

Sport

Yorkshire could learn next week if international hosting rights will be restored

Yorkshire could discover next week if their right to stage international matches at Headingley will be restored. The county had lucrative matches scheduled for this summer removed from them by the England and Wales ...

25 Jan 2022 at 18:25

World

Some bodies in mass burial site in Ukraine show torture signs, says prosecutor

Some of the bodies unearthed from a mass burial site in a forest in Ukraine recaptured from Russian forces show signs of torture, with their hands tied behinds their back and ropes around their necks, a Ukrainian ...

16 Sept 2022 at 15:51

World

Mass burial site includes torture victims, says Ukraine’s president

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that bodies unearthed at a new mass burial site in Ukraine included people who were tortured, some with broken limbs and ropes around their necks. The burial site in an area ...

16 Sept 2022 at 19:03

World

Russia leaves death everywhere, says Zelensky, as Ukraine combs mass burial site

Ukrainian authorities have begun unearthing bodies from a mass burial site in a forest recaptured from Russian forces, a find that President Volodymyr Zelensky said would help show the world “what the Russian ...

16 Sept 2022 at 14:58

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