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Last Poll and Chorus – Frank McNally on the end of 400 years of Trinity College elections
Probably the most influential MP for Trinity, however ... Hit (and miss) parade – Frank McNally on the mixed fortunes of a who’s who list from 40 years agoOpens in new window ] That was ...
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Poison Pen – Frank McNally on the late-blooming Violet Needham, children’s novelist extraordinaire
Unfortunately, suggests the Violet Needham Society, the author instead inherited her appearance from a grandfather who was MP for Armagh in the 1820s and who once described his own features as ...
Assisted dying: Why Scottish MPs are split on 'rushed' Bill, and similar legislation in Holyrood
The final Westminster vote on the assisted dying legislation is later this year - and the Bill’s passing remains up in the ...
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Public invited to attend NHS Lanarkshire’s Ministerial Annual Review next month
READ MORE: Coatbridge MP Frank McNally calls for more Scottish Ambulance Service investment following visit to town's ambulance station To book a place, and submit a question in advance ...
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Signifying Nothing - Frank McNally on a new linguistic plague
There seems to have been a welcome decline of late in the frequency of public figures prefacing comments with the words “I want to be very clear about this”. For a while there, no political ...
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Comic Stripped - Frank McNally on the cancellation of P.G. Wodehouse
The work of P.G. Wodehouse, who died 50 years ago on St Valentine’s Day 1975, may have dated somewhat in the decades since. But the great English humorist achieved at least one distinction that ...
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The Real McCabe - Frank McNally on a great (and much-married) American newspaper columnist
The American newspaper columnist Charles McCabe (1915-1983) was addicted to marriage and alcohol, and made regular attempts to give up both, never with complete success. At age 67 when, after a ...
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Digging Up History – Frank McNally on the McMahon, and other once-famous spades
In the Republic of Ireland, by tradition, Protestants were said to dig with “the left foot”. In Northern Ireland, by contrast, it was Catholics who did that. The point is, there was no ...
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Hardebeck Edition – Frank McNally on an Anglo-German musician who became the “blind bard of Belfast”
In the Walkinstown area of Dublin, there is a small but unusually shaped public park, perhaps unique in the city. I would formerly have called the shape “boat-like” or said it resembled the ...
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Anti-social climber – Frank McNally on the pioneering cat burglar Robert Augustus Delaney
He is thought to have born somewhere in 1890s Ireland, emigrated to South Africa with his parents as a child, and later settled in England after fighting in the first World War. But Robert ...
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'I found him gasping for breath' - NI woman on moment her husband's heart stopped during cardiac arrest
Frank McNally, a seasoned runner and gym-goer, had returned from a 5k run on a Sunday morning in March 2021 and was relaxing at home when his wife Maura, who was in the kitchen, suddenly heard him ...