Sunday Press 24 March 1985, page 1   The Cork-born commander of the United Nations Force in the Lebanon, UNIFIL, General William Callaghan, yesterday paid tribute to the work of the Irish troops in this volatile region and said people at home should realise that this was not a civilian’s but a soldier’s mission. General…
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                (1) ALLINGHAM 18 July 2014          The Irish Times An unsigned article on Ireland in the July 1866 edition of Fraser’s Magazine was remarkable for its time, and boldness.  It could well have been penned by William Allingham, the Donegal bank clerk who left…
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Colman Cassidy hit the Soviet Union in spots on a whistle-stop tour, a few weeks after the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, for the Sunday Press.  From Moscow to Alma Ata everything appeared ‘normal’, from rock concerts to Parsi temples… “Excuse me, please, I must talk to you about something that is to me, very important.”…
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By Colman Cassidy, Hibernia, 7 June 1979 Cavan County Surgeon, Mr. Boulos Hanna, cleared of culpable negligence in the care and treatment of his patients by a three-man team of eminent doctors, has as yet been given no firm indication of when he can return to work.   Egyptian-born Hanna, now an Irish citizen, has…
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By Colman Cassidy, Sunday Telegraph, 14 November 1982 The closure of the Sunday Tribune, the Republic of Ireland’s quality Sunday, just one week before its second birthday, is a salutary lesson in bad management.  It has been brought down through the losses incurred by its sensationalist tabloid sister paper, the Daily News, which has shut…
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