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Thousands of fallen soldiers have been honoured at a cross-border commemoration service in County Louth.

Ex-service groups from both sides of the border paid tribute to the war dead at the only all-Ireland remembrance event on the island.

The Irish Ex-Service Men's Association and Whiteabbey British Legion branch laid wreaths bearing the Royal Crest and Tricolour in Drogheda.

The joint memorial service has been held for the past nine years.

Drogheda Mayor Frank Maher and Newtownabbey Mayor Victor Robinson represented their respective areas.

Ceremony

The event also included an inter-denominational religious ceremony recalling the service and sacrifice of thousands who joined the British forces to fight in the First World War.

Brian McCalden, spokesman for Whiteabbey Royal British Legion, said it had grown in size and importance over the past decade.

"It started off as a handful of people, but has attracted up to 200 in recent years," said Mr McCalden, who was one of organisers.

"Last year the Irish Ex-Service Men's Association had 12 people at it, and we expect the same this year.

"They remember their soldiers who were killed in all conflicts."

Where do Tipp play their home football games?

I would presume Thurles.

Seems I am wrong, apparently its Ardfinnan.

01.02.2009 (Sun)
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Round 1
2.30pm    Tiobraid Árann    v    An Dún

14.02.2009 (Sat)
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Round 2
7.30pm    An Dún      v    An Lú

07.03.2009 (Sat)
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Round 3
7.30pm   An Dún       v    An Cabhán

15.03.2009 (Sun)
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Round 4
2.30pm   Longfort       v    An Dún

22.03.2009 (Sun)
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Round 5
2.30pm   Luimneach       v    An Dún

28.03.2009 (Sat)
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Round 6
7.30pm   An Dún       v    Uíbh Fhailí

12.04.2009 (Sun)
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Round 7
2.30pm   Ros Comáin      v    An Dún

3 home games under lights on Saturday evenings and 4 away games in Tipperary, Longford, Limerick and Roscommon.

I smiled a little. Never did that before and haven't done it since. Wright was bad news.

I think that is how most people felt Ziggy. Wright got no more than he deserved, in fact he should have got it sooner but the Provo`s weren`t up to the job.
I am not going to comment on what Christopher McWilliams originally went to Jail for, there has been enough said on that already, both here on the GAA Board and in the community as a whole. What I am going to say is that Crip achieved something that the IRA couldn`t do. He murdered the so called King Rat, who had murdered so many innocent Catholics and Nationalists. Wright never took on anyone who would fight back, any lunatic with a gun can go out and kill teenagers standing at a mobile shop or innocent people courting in a country carpark. Wright had to go, and fair play to McWilliams for doing it, better men than Crip tried to get Wright and failed. Idiots like Donagh can say it was internal house keeping by the Brits, but thats a bit rich coming from a mouth piece for an organisation that are being paid handsomely to implement British rule in the Six Counties. If the British had wanted one of their agents to get Wright, they could have sent Freddie Scappaticci along to do it, after all he had killed plenty of people with the full consent of his British paymasters before. Then again Scap only killed Catholics, a bit like Wright I suppose.
If Crip McWilliams had been a member of the Provisional IRA the Wolfe Tones would have written a ballad about him and there would be street named after him in West Belfast. Adams and McGuinness would have carried his coffin (maybe as representatives of the British Goverment) at his funeral and he would be a hero instead being remembered for killing a doorman.
Now lets get back to the issue at hand here. Wether or not a West Belfast GAA Club should have held a function for the late Christopher McWilliams. I as a GAA man wouldnt want to see the GAA associated with anything that would bring that organistaion into disrepute. Too many people, usually Unionist politicians look for a political stick to beat the GAA with and this was a great chance for all and sundry to jump on the anti GAA bandwagon again. Wasnt Wrights gang responsible for the death of Sean Brown in Bellaghy? Where were those same politicans when these murders were taking place? I think it can safely be said that the vast majority of us here on the GAA Board like to keep sport and politics seperate.
So why then has the GAA Board been used to promote an event at a GAA club in South Armagh IRA man who was killed in a car crash in Newry.  An event which took place at Dromintee GAA club on Saturday the 18th of October. 1 week ago and not one word of condemnation from any politican or indeed the self righteous on the GAA Board.

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Now I`ll give those of you who dont know a bit of background to this. Gerald Fearon, was killed in a road car accident on the Dublin Road in Newry 2 years ago. He was killed by a young tear-away in a £50 car. He had no insurance, no licence nothing. In fact I think he was only 15 or 16 years old at the time off the accident. He subsequently received a prison sentence which was far far too lenient.
Shortly after this tragic death, the IRA announced that Gerald Fearon was one of their volunteers. Dont take my word for it though, if you google Gerald Fearon IRA Dromintee you will get the official Sinn Fein version from An Phoblacht. The IRA then used this tragic accident as an excuse to go on the offensive against young tear aways in Newry and South Armagh, but they didnt do anything against the little sc**bag who killed two innocent people on the Dublin Rd. Why? Well that little sc**bag was a member of a prominent Republican family from Camlough, in fact his uncle was the Sinn Fein Mayor of Newry & Mourne District Council.

So while Edwin Poots and the rest of the Unionist Parties are getting a dig in at the GAA for even thinking about holding an event for Crip McWilliams, Sinn Fein/IRA are happily using a GAA club to raise money for a dead IRA man who was killed by a teenage republican joyrider.  This would be fecking hilarious if it wasnt true. Now I am not saying anything about Gerald Fearon or his family, I don`t know them, but he was a young man when he died. So young in fact that he would probably have been studying for his 11 plus when the IRA called its ceasfire in 1994. So he was
an IRA volunteer, who never seen active service and not one of the members of this board saw fit to condemn Dromintee GAA club for allowing such an event on its premises. Yet the ususal mouth pieces on this very same board were very quick to condemn Crip McWilliams and an a West Belfast Club who considered holding an event for him. In fact one idiot called for the board of that club to resign.
You couldn`t make this sh*t up.