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Month: November 2022

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REMBERANCE SUNDAY 2022

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PHOTOS FROM NEWRY’S REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY PARADE, WHICH FELL ON SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2022. REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY IS A NATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO REMEMBER THE SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF ALL THOSE IN THE ARMED FORCES OR EMERGENCY FORCES THAT HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES AS A RESULT OF CONFLICT OR TERRORISM. REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL SERVICES AND ORGANISATIONS WHERE IN ATTENDANCE TO LAY WRETAHS TO HONOR THE FALLEN. A WREATH WAS ALSO LAID BY Dr ROBERT LOGAN DL ON BEHALF OF HIS MAGESTY KING CHARLES III. PHOTOS: SEAN DONEGAN

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CASTLEPOLLARD MOTHER & BABIES HOME / NEWRY MAN LOST

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St Peter’s Mother & Baby Home”The Baby Snatchers” is the title of the book written by Mary Creighton recounting her horrific experiences as a young mother trying to keep her baby and escape the Sacred Heart Nuns at St Peter’s Mother and baby Home Castlepollard. The Sacred Heart Nuns arrived in Ireland in 1922 not long after the formation of the Irish Free State on request by the newly formed Irish government to deal with what they called “the problem of women having babies out of wedlock.”The building of St…

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