Tag: 1976
WATCH: Brilliant Halls Pictorial Weekly footage as Portarlington goes centre stage...
There's nothing like a bit of old TV footage to bring nostalgia to the fore.
And that was certainly the case in Portarlington this week...
Tributes paid to the late Betty Peters who showed ‘great dignity’...
Tributes were paid to Betty Peters, who passed away recently, at the recent meeting of the Laois Joint Policing Committee (JPC).
Betty was the wife...
Sadness at passing of Tom Peters, one of the guards injured...
The death has occured of Tom Peters, one of the Gardai who suffered horrific injuries in the infamous IRA bombing in Garryhinch in 1976.
Garda...
‘All of us have carried the memories and scars of that...
One of the Gardai who received a Scott Medal for bravery in Templemore last Friday made a moving speech in the Killeshin Hotel in...
Moving speech from Minister Flanagan as local Garda receive bravery medals...
His late father Oliver J Flanagan was the intended target of an IRA bomb in Garryhinch in 1976 that killed a young member of...