August 26 1971

August 25 1921

August 24 1921

ACCORDING to the official report issued last night by the British Labour Party deputation [to investigate conditions in Ireland], the delegates discussed with a deputation of merchants from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce the situation in Ireland, particularly from a commercial point of view. 

The party called at Carragher’s public house and the police went in too. Upon coming out of the pub it was found that Constable Kearney’s bicycle had been punctured.

THE face to face debate between Miss Bernadette Devlin, MP and Mr W Stratton Mills, [Unionist] MP went off as scheduled in New York yesterday. 

THE Belfast Twelfth demonstration this year will be held at Ballymenoch, Holywood. 

The services of a carpenter were requisitioned and, in the presence of the police and friends, reverently removed the lid to find that the man lay exactly in the same position in which he had been placed in the coffin, quite dead.

By Unionist Ulster the counties of Down, Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh are meant. Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal have been abandoned to their fate

A SCUFFLE between police from Ballymena (County Antrim) and the adherents of two Gaelic football teams is reported as having taken place at Crossroads in the Glens district, near Ballymena, on Sunday afternoon.

Within the last few days there has been gossip in the press about the prospective bride for the young Prince of Wales

YESTERDAY in the Southern Police Court, Dublin before Mr Swifte, RM, Surgeon McArdle, 72 Merrion Square, was summoned ‘for causing petrol to be used for a purpose not authorised by the Petrol Order Regulations, by driving in his car at Ballitore to a cock-fight on 28th May 1918.

The then DUP leader pelted snowballs at Mr Lynch’s car on December 12 1967 during his first visit to meet prime minister of Northern Ireland Terence O’Neill at Stormont.