Weekly news from around the 32 counties of Ireland

 

DERRY

Derry City Council has abandoned ambitious plans to raise a World War Two U-boat from the seabed off the coast of Donegal in order to display it in the city. At a meeting of the Council's Development Committee last week, councilors discussed plans to travel to Liverpool to visit a maritime museum. A council report says the steering group set up to examine the U-Boat project has "agreed upon an alternative approach to telling the U-Boat story." The report states that, because of "financial implications", they should consider telling the story of Derry's involvement in the Battle of the Atlantic through an interactive exhibit in a maritime museum.

(Source: The Derry Journal)

 

DONEGAL

Fascinating new evidence discovered at an ancient grave in Ballyshannon has revealed that brain surgery was carried out on members of the population here back in the eighth/ninth century. Scientists who have been working on the remains of some 900 skeletons found at the burial site at Ballyhanna say there is also evidence of TB and cancer. They may have found evidence of cystic fibrosis in the Irish population of some 1,000 years ago.

(Source: Donegal Democrat)

 

DOWN

A fresh attempt to find the body of a man abducted and murdered by the IRA began in south Armagh last Monday. Gerry Evans from Crossmaglen was last seen hitchhiking in Co Monaghan in March 1979. Earlier this year investigators looking for his remains drained a stretch of bogland in Co Louth. A spokesman for the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains said this latest search in south Armagh was merely the "continuation of a long process". SDLP councilor Geraldine Donnelly appealed for anyone with information to come forward.

(Source: The Down Democrat)

 

DUBLIN

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