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Amanda O'Donoughue said "I worked with gorillas as a zookeeper at the Knoxville Zoo from January 2006 until August of 2008; after that I volunteered
A frisky mutt stole a pickup truck – and led a cop on a quarter-mile chase before being apprehended! "This had to be the weirdest thing
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland Over 45,000 entries Go to http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199677764.001.0001/acref-9780199677764 This huge new dictionary is the ultimate reference work
ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk – the official government / National Records of Scotland genealogy index/images portal – has relaunched. A major change is that it is now free
The UK GRO indexes can now be searched at https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp for births and deaths up to 1957. The search facility has the
IT’S A PROUD day for rugby in Waterford, and particularly for Waterpark RFC. Homegrown hero Jack O’Donoghue made his debut for Joe Schmidt’s Ireland this
Teachers and gardaí are set to go on strike in coming weeks http://www.newstalk.com/We-dont-want-public-transporttype-strikes-by-teachers-and-garda–Donohoe
Parish priests visited the sick and dying during The Famine (1845-49), and caught the terrible fever that was raging at that time. One such was Father
The Garda Commissioner has defended the progress of the investigation into the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe, who was shot dead during an armed
As gardaí plan to take unprecedented strike action for four days, the Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe has told Ministers he is unwilling to