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BreakingNews.ie
a day ago
- BreakingNews.ie
Pedestrian (30s) in critical condition after collision with car in Cork
A man in his 30s is in critical condition following a serious road traffic incident in Macroom, Co Cork, involving a car and a pedestrian. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which occurred on the R582 at Gurteenroe, Macroom, Co Cork, on Sunday. Advertisement Shortly after 2am, gardaí and emergency services were alerted to an incident involving a car and a pedestrian. The pedestrian, a man aged in his 30s, was discovered with serious injuries at the scene. He received medical treatment and was conveyed to Cork University Hospital, where he remains in a critical condition. The occupants of the car did not require immediate medical attention. The scene was preserved for a technical examination. The road has since reopened. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which occurred on the R582 at Gurteenroe, Macroom, Co Cork, on Sunday. Road users with camera footage, including dash-cam recordings, who were travelling on the Millstreet Road in the Macroom area between 1am and 2:15am on Sunday are asked to share this material with gardaí. Anyone with information is asked to contact Macroom Garda Station at (026) 20590, the Garda Confidential Line at 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.
Irish Examiner
2 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Shannon Burke and Yvonne Courtney claim Munster titles in Castletroy
Shannon Burke (Ballinrobe) capped off a superb season with her third championship victory, firing a course record-equalling 69 (-5) to win the Munster Over-18 Women's Senior Amateur Open Championship at Castletroy Golf Club. Already crowned Leinster and Connacht Over 18 Senior Champion earlier this year, Burke arrived at the Limerick course in fine form and got off to a strong start with three birdies and a bogey on the front nine to make the turn at two under par. Another birdie followed at the 11th before a superb closing stretch saw her add birdies at 16 and 17 and she would go on to finish in style with an eagle on the par-five 18th. The five-under-par round left her clear of nearest challengers Paula Walsh (Doneraile) and Aine Martin (Kanturk). 'Had a super day out there. Hit it lovely so it was nice to finish well with an eagle on the last,' said Burke. 'The wind got up, and so at times it was quite difficult out there, but I hit my irons quite nicely in particular and then I knew coming in there's some chances there so I kind of just stuck in there and knew I'd have chances coming in. 'I've been playing well throughout the entire season, so it's been nice to have that when we go out and play in championships so absolutely thrilled.' The Junior Championship was settled in dramatic fashion after Yvonne Courtney (Macroom) and Roisin Quinlivan (Clonmel) could not be separated following their 18 holes of stroke play with both players carding rounds of 85. A sudden-death playoff would be needed to decide the championship, and it took until the 22nd hole before Courtney rolled in the decisive putt on the 4th green, celebrating with fellow Macroom member Eileen Healy. 'Absolutely blown away, delighted. Did not expect this coming up today,' said Courtney. 'I got up and down well on a couple of the holes and absolutely delighted. 'I was nearly heading off, I didn't realise it was going to a playoff I had just presumed it would be won on countback, but I was delighted to get another opportunity to go out. Any day I am out playing golf is a good day so delighted.'
BreakingNews.ie
29-07-2025
- BreakingNews.ie
Man (60s) dies in workplace accident in Co Cork
A man in his late 60s has died in a workplace accident in Macroom in Co Cork. The accident occurred at a family owned pallet company on Monday afternoon. Advertisement The emergency services were called to the scene and the employee was transferred to Cork University Hospital (CUH) where he was pronounced dead. The coroner has been notified and a postmortem examination will be completed at CUH. An inquest will take place at a later date. The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has confirmed that a death occurred at a business premises in Co Cork. 'The HSA is aware of the fatal incident and has launched an investigation. As such, no further information is available at this time.' Advertisement Cork North West Fianna Fáil TD, Aindrias Moynihan, said that it was sad to hear of such a tragic event at a local place of work. 'You go to work to do business and you expect to come home safe. It is very tough for his work colleagues, family and anyone who knows him.' The Garda Press Office confirmed that gardai and emergency services attended at the scene of a fatal workplace accident in Macroom on Monday. "A male aged in his 60s was taken from the scene to Cork University Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. "The Health and Safety Authority (HAS) has been notified and will conduct an examination.'
Irish Times
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
Behind Enemy Lines - Frank McNally on a little piece of Cork that is forever Tipperary
In darkest Cork, about halfway between Mallow and Macroom, is a mysterious hamlet whose name suggests the locals may have divided loyalties in this weekend's All-Ireland Hurling final. New Tipperary, as it's known, is located 60 kilometres from the nearest border with Old Tipperary. And if it was it an attempted colonisation project bv exiles from the latter, it seems to have failed. A mere curiosity now, the name's origins appear lost to memory. Not even Logainm, the national placename database, seems to know how it derived My suspicion, however, is that it has something to do with one Arthur Smith Barry (1843 – 1925), a landlord and politician who died 100 years in February, after a strife-filled career that straddled both these Munster counties, of which he had inherited 22,000 acres. Born in England to an Irish father, Smith Barry also graduated to a political career, becoming MP for Cork in 1867. He was a Liberal in the party-political sense, and in many ways a progressive: supporting extension of the franchise, for example, and voting for disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. Then the Irish Land War broke out, unleashing his inner conservatism and the energies that provoked Archbishop Croke, of GAA fame, to call him an 'aggressive busybody'. READ MORE The fate of Charles Boycott, land agent for Lord Erne in Mayo, made a deep impression on Smith Barry. Ostracised by locals, Boycott had to import 50 Orangemen from Cavan and Monaghan to save his harvest in 1880, under the protection of 1,000 police officers and at the cost of £10,000 (or about 20 times the crops' value). A broken man, he quit Ireland soon afterwards, having given his name to the language. As the popularity of the boycotting tactic spread in subsequent years, Smith Barry was determined to defeat it with improved organisation, shrewder tactics, and the liberal use of lawyers. Hence the Cork Defence Union, which he set up in 1885. This involved forming what the Dictionary of Irish Biography calls 'flying columns': not of mobile gunmen as would feature in a Cork of later decades, but of labourers and machinery, a sort of mercenary meitheal to harvest the crops of those boycotted. Its work extended to guaranteeing sales outlets. This too proved surprisingly effective. In the winter of 1885-86, according to the DIB, the Cork Defence Union 'took on, and forced a draw with' the South of Ireland Cattle Dealers Association, a livestock branch of nationalism. A weekly meeting of the CDU in September 1886, as reported by The Irish Times, sounded a self-congratulatory note. At the recent Bantry Fair, it was noted, a union member had bought 27 cattle, 'some of which bore evidence of the inhuman conduct of the 'moonlighters" in the west of Ireland, being minus their tails', and successfully placed them on his farm. Reports were also received from several districts that, thanks to the effects of the mobile labour units, 'local men had returned to their work, and [were assisting] men of the union in saving crops'. That was the same year nationalists launched the Plan of Campaign, under which tenants would seek reduced rents after bad harvests, failing which they would withhold rent altogether, diverting the money into a central campaign fund. One of Smith Barry's other big battles of the late 1880s involved supporting a fellow Cork landlord, Charles Ponsonby, against this plan. First, he bankrolled his resistance. Then, when Ponsonby was ready to accept a deal that would have collapsed local land values, Smith Barry worked with the Irish chief secretary to thwart it, before leading a syndicate that bought the estate. But it so happened that Smith Barry also owned the town of Tipperary, or at least the land it was on. And at the height of the dispute in Cork, the Tipp tenants withheld their rents in sympathy. Led by politician and journalist William O'Brien, they then attempted to set up a rival town on the outskirts of the original, to be called New Tipperary. The project went as far as the opening, in April 1890, of a row of shops named William O'Brien Arcade, housing evicted traders. It didn't last. The Leeside landlord saw that off too, and for O'Brien and his supporters, it proved an expensive debacle. In the meantime, however, it must also have spawned a New Tipperary in Cork. If only nominal, this is surely a vestige of the 1890 dispute, reciprocating the cross-border support in a rare case of shared intimacy between the counties. Smith-Barry ended up on the wrong side of Irish history, of course. He also lived just long enough to witness the change. Fifty years after that, part of his main Cork property became the Fota Island Wildlife Park. Although a first-class cricketer in his prime, he was probably never much of a hurling fan. So he would have been indifferent to seeing one half of a traditional Tipperary prayer answered this weekend. ie: 'Cork bet'. On the other hand, he might have had at least a passing interest in second part: 'and the hay saved'.
Irish Independent
04-07-2025
- Irish Independent
Three siblings abandoned as babies long to hear more of their Kerry connections
David McBride, Helen Ward and John Dowling were all abandoned as new-born babies in the 1960s and have rediscovered each other despite all the odds and have now also made significant discoveries about their parents – including their mother Marcella Somers. Their mother was a Catholic woman from north Kerry, while their father was a protestant shop-keeper from Dublin, Billy Watson. He was a married man with 14 children, who was in a secret relationship with their mother, an affair spanning more than 40 years. They were seen together in Dublin in 1993 before he died at the age of 82. Their mother passed away in 2017, aged 90 and is buried in north Kerry. Their love affair in 1960s Ireland led to the what the siblings believe was a difficult and heart-breaking decision to abandon all three of them to give them new homes. They are known as foundlings, given all three were left in locations they would be immediately found in. All three grew up in happy homes and just in recent years, through appeals and DNA, discovered each other's existence. But they too discovered more details about their biological parents, including their Kerry mother who lived in Dublin for much of her life. Their amazing story was recounted in The Phone Box Babies, a new documentary on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player this week. Helen Ward, born in 1968, was discovered by Macroom lorry driver Donal Boyle on the floor of a phone box on the Dublin Road in Dundalk and was adopted, aged 13 months, by the Ward family in Dublin, where she had a happy childhood. David McBride, who was left in a car belonging to a doctor's wife in a Belfast driveway in 1962 and ultimately adopted by William and Emma McBride, grew up in Lisburn. He now lives in Birmingham. Another brother John Dowling was just a few days old when he was found in May 1965 by Drogheda journalist Paul Murphy and his friend Pat Bailey, also in phone box, and was given up for his adoption. Helen called Joe Duffy's Liveline to share her story in the hope of finding out more about her background, when she was 44, setting of a train of events that saw her reunited with David on on a special edition of ITV documentary Long Lost Family in 2020. They were also reunited with John after his daughter saw the programme. The three siblings also believe there may be a fourth child and they would love to meet them. It was a funny moment sitting in the chair where she sat and I could reflect on life through her eyes The new documentary traces the lives of the babies who were adopted by families in different parts of the country and later discovered that they were in fact full siblings. It follows them as the reconnect with extended family and learn about their parents. For all three siblings a visit to Kilcara nursing home in Duagh where their mother spent the last years of her life helped them learn about the woman who was forced to abandon them, as staff their recalled her love of music and singing. They recalled a special doll that belonged to her which was always with her and maybe have been a symbol of the children she had to give up. Helen said the moment when she sits in her mother's chair in the nursing home resonated with her. "It was a funny moment sitting in the chair where she sat and I could reflect on life through her eyes. I was sitting somewhere she very much spend her last years,' she said. She said life must have been difficult for their mother and it was not an easy decision to give her three children but none of born ill will towards her or their father. "It can't have been easy but understanding of that time in the '60s," said Helen. And now they have visited Kerry, they would love to hear more stories and learn of more connections. I would love people that knew her to reach out with stories and give us further insight into her. There are things we don't know Speaking to The Kerryman, Helen said she understands that this is a difficult journey for everyone involved and many may not want to speak out and may need time to process the situation they would always love to hear about their mother if people are comfortable. "For me personally I think I would love people that knew her to reach out with stories and give us further insight into her. There are things we don't know.' "She died in 2017 but maybe stories have been passed down through generations.' She said they have been 'very lucky' so many have shared stories, including snooker legend Ken Doherty whose mother was good friends with Marcella and said she was always full of fun. This too was recounted by their cousin Elizabeth, who stayed in contact with their mother and shared her stories of the Kerry woman and her love of life and music.
