Local historian SHANE MAC TOMAS, talks about his new book, ‘Dead Interesting: Stories from the Graveyards of Dublin’. A collection of 50 stories about people who are buried in graveyards around Dublin. Shane recalls the story of Richard Simpson, who ended up in Dublin from Belfast. Richard was a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force. He died unexpectedly…
Daily Archives: February 27, 2012
National Pajama Day 2012
IRENE GUNNING is the Chief Executive Officer of Early Childhood Ireland and has come on to NST to talk to Pat Meehan about National Pajama Day, which they are running on behalf of the Irish Hospice Foundation. The Children’s Hospice Foundation home-care programme offers support to families who are caring for terminally ill children. The…