CHARLIE FLANAGAN HAS welcomed the passing of a new law which allows the families of missing people to declare them as dead. The Civil Law (Presumption of Death) Bill, which was passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas on the 3rd July, provides for the establishment of a register of presumed deaths – meaning families will […]
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‘Hugely significant’ Finds of Rare French Artifacts Found During Excavations in Co Meath
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This Georgian Street was in the doldrums in 1979 until a preservation society was formed…..
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