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Ferryport and the expansion of
Tivoli container terminal in the
city into a major European
port.
1999 The Chairperson of
the ISPCC, Mary Bennett, con-
firmed that the Garda Fraud
Bureau was carrying out an
investigation into the organisa-
tion.
22 January
1901 Queen Victoria died
in London. In Dublin, theatres
were closed and the blinds
were drawn at the GPO. The
death knell was tolled through-
out the night at St Patrick’s and
Christchurch cathedrals.
1923 Dr Eoin MacNeill,
Minister for Education, said
that Irish was to become a sub-
ject for competitive examina-
tion in the Civil Service, a deci- jobs would be in Limerick with
sion that would impact on all
schools, colleges and universi-
ties.
1937 The National
Council of Women of Ireland
was agitating to form a
women's police force. They
were making representations
to the Dail and the League of
Nations about the status of
women under the new consti-
tution.
1945 Dublin Corporation
approved CIE’s proposals for a
long-distance bus terminus at
Store Street, Dublin. It would
cost £13,000 and would be
ready in 12 months.
1954 Motor scooters were
being issued to some garda sta-
tions following the decision to
close some of the smaller bar-
racks in country areas. They
had little resemblance to the
motorcycles used by Dublin
garda!.
1960 Dublin’s City
Manager refused to renew the
license for the Dublin and
District Coursing Club that
allowed it to capture hares on
Bull Island for the purpose of
coursing.
1972 An Taoiseach, Jack
Lynch, and Minister for
Foreign Affairs, Patrick Hillery,
signed the Treaty of Accession
to the European Communities
at the Palais d’Egmont in
Brussels. Britain and Denmark
are also signatories.
1980 People took to the
streets in their thousands to
protest the plight of PAYE
workers. In Dublin, a letter
was handed in at Leinster
House.
1981 Sir Norman Stronge
and his son James were killed
by the Provisional IRA at their
home in Tynan Abbey, County
Armagh. The house was then
set alight.
1998 Recruitment was to
begin immediately for the
3,000 jobs announced by the
US computer firm Dell
Corporation. The bulk of the
400 in Bray, County Wicklow.
23 January
1906 A young women
died at Ringsend, Dublin,
when she fell through Victoria
Bridge, which had opened to
enable a steamer through to
Dixon’s Bridge in the Basin.
1924 The singing of “The
Red Flag” at Labor Party meet-
ing in the Albert Hall, London,
fixed the song in the official
party list. The author was Jim
Connell from County Meath.
1939
Kylemore
Abbey, County Galway, cele-
brates the Golden Jubilee of the
Lady Abbess of the Royal Irish
Benedictines, Dame Mary
Maura Ostyn. During World
War I, she led her congregation
from Ypres to Connemara.
1959 The government was
considering a recommendation
by the Commission on Income
Tax that a Pay As You Earn
system of collecting income tax
be adopted here.
1963 The Youghal Bridge,
linking counties Cork and
Waterford, was officially
opened by Donogh O’Malley,
the parliamentary secretary to
the Minister for Finance.
1972 An anti-internment
demonstration was held at
Magilligan Camp, County
Derry. Soldiers attacked pro-
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testors, who included John lanthropist and art collector, dering of slow airs on the uil- IRISH EXAMINER | January 18th, 2017
Hume MP, in an effort to dis- became the first honorary Irish
perse them. citizen as President Sean T Ó leann pipes.
Ceallaigh bestowed the token 1974 Four Provisional IRA
1980 PAYE protests con- of honor on him for his distin-
tinued in Waterford, Athlone, guished service to the nation. members, including Dr Rose
Letterkenny, Cavan, Bray,
Kilkenny, Tralee and many 1963 Minister for Justice Dugdale, hijacked a commer-
other parts of the country. Charles Haughey told the Dail
that the government had decid- cial helicopter in County
1987 There are great cele- ed to abolish the death penalty
brations in Waterford as one of though there would be some Donegal and unsuccessfully
her favorite sons received the exceptions, for example for
freedom of the city. Sean Kelly political murder. tried to bomb a police barracks
arrived, escorted by city
cyclists, and was greeted by the 1969 The Northern in County Tyrone.
Mayor, Councilor Brian Swift. Minister for Commerce, Brian 1986 Big Bertha, a cow
Faulkner, resigned from
1992, An independent Terence O’Neill’s cabinet, owned by Kerryman Jerome
inquiry into the death of Fergal emphasizing the divisions that
Carraher, who was shot dead existed within the Unionist O’Connor, was expecting her
by Royal Marines in Party.
Cullyhanna, County Armagh 39th calf. She was still produc-
in 1991, stated that the soldiers 1973 Willie Clancy, the
be charged. A report by the great Clare piper, died. Born in ing calves at 42.
lawyers, led by Michael Milltown Malbay, he was best 1991
Mansfield, said that Carraher’s known as a traditional musi- The new
death indicated a continuing cian and for his beautiful ren-
shoot-to-kill policy. Government Buildings in the
1998 Members of the renovated College of Science
McColgan family from County
Sligo, who were subjected to were officially opened by An
years of physical and sexual
abuse by their father, settled Taoiseach, Charles Haughey.
their High Court action against 1998 The Central Bank
the North Western Health
Board and their family doctor. was investigating the issues
24 January involved in the offshore invest-
1901 Edward VII was pro-
claimed King of Ireland at a full ment scheme operated by
state ceremony at Dublin
Castle. Dignitaries and infantry National Irish Bank, a story
assembled outside and a huge
crowd gathered on Cork Hill broken by RTE news. C
to watch the ceremony.
1920 Percy French, enter-
tainer and artist, died in
Liverpool. His songs included
“The Mountains of Mourne”
and “Are You Right There
Michael are You Right?” The
song, based on the west Clare
Railway, provoked a libel
action.
1941 Part of the old State
Chambers in Dublin Castle
were seriously damaged by
fire. Portraits of British
viceroys, as well as tax returns
for national teachers and other
civil servants, were lost.
1957 Sir Alfred Chester
Beatty, mining engineer, phi-