Former Fine Gael TD Patrick ‘PJ’ Sheehan dies aged 87
Tributes paid to long-serving politician whose wife Frances died last week
Double marriage proposals for newly-commissioned army officers in Dublin Castle
From Malta with love: two former cadets hatched a plan while training in Ireland
A soldier’s song (of sixpence) the real man behind the ballad of Patrick Sheehan
Frank McNally: ‘As printed a week later, the song fitted Sheehan with a classic Irish backstory of eviction, parents dying in the workhouse, and a life of deprivation that forced him to enlist, and regret it’
A loaded gun and a deadly row over wandering cattle
James Flynn never held a revolver before, but on a summer night in 1926, he had a dispute to settle
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