IT would be good to tell the story of a man who died 100 years ago this July. A few years ago, I visited the grave of Private Carolan of the Machine Gun Corps at Kandahar Farm cemetery near Ieper in Belgium. Like the rest, it’s well kept and is the final resting place of a brave Monasterboice man, the son of Andrew and Mary Anne Carolan, of Coolfore. He was just 21 when he died on July 12, 1917. Right: The grave of Private Carolan.
A few years ago, I think it was Oliver Tully who suggested that a path be constructed from Drogheda to Baltray as part of a tourist trail. Last week, I came across two such tourists walking the stretch and I could see them stepping into the ditch to...
We can be good at commenting on road and footpath repairs when they are not up to scratch so time to say well done to one crew. Work was taking place on Scholes Lane recently and it needed the brickwork to be taken up. I was hoping a large lump of tar...