FOR more than 90 years, the story of Zorro, or El Zorro - which translates from Spanish into “The Fox” - has been written, told, retold, and been made into movies and TV series over and over again.
IT WAS back in the ’50s at the now defunct Central Cinema in Bunclody; it was a war film entitled The Fighting Sullivans although the war element was less than ten minutes, the rest was devoted to the closeness of the Sullivan family which, in the end, made it so poignant.
AT THE beginning of World War II, the then taoiseach Eamon de Valera declared this nation’s neutrality, calling it an emergency.
I KEEP asking myself if I am turning grumpy, or have I lost the ability to catch the funny side of today’s Irish comedy?
BECAUSE of the vast numbers involved, this is one Irish famine story I have more or less put to one side.
THIS WEEK we are going to take a look at how the Carlow electoral area has changed through the ages.
FOLLOWING his transfer from Nottingham Forest at the end of the 1992-93 season, Roy Keane would start from scratch as a Manchester United player.
IT COULD be said that there are many sports people with a passion for success: those who will go the extra mile to achieve it.
WE ARE all aware of those who invented what we use every day, such as Eddison with the electric light bulb; Bell with the telephone - although if he was around today, would he be capable of using the modern versions?; John Boyd Dunlop, the pneumatic tyre; Karl Benz, which may surprise some, is credited with the first motor car, when he invented the Velo Model in 1894, as Henry Ford’s first effort was in 1898.
THE history of Munster prior to the first Desmond rebellion in 1569, will give us a close insight into the causes.