Saturday, May 19 2012

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Sadness as West Kerry girl dies in Sydney

THE West Kerry community is in shock following the death of a popular young Ventry woman at an apartment in Sydney this week, only three months after she moved to Australia.

Flat out: Listowel Tidy Towns secretary, Mary Hanlon conducting the make-over at the old ball handball alley in the background on Friday afternoon. Included are: Mary Cogan, Louise Lyons, Bridget Curtin, Cllr. Jimmy Moloney, Pádraig Logue, David Behan,... Credit: Photo by John Reidy

Young artists to have a ball in the alley for Writers' Week project

WRITERS' Week is to leave a particularly colourful legacy this year as a group of up to 40 young artists prepare to transform the ball-alley into a vast canvass of Listowel-inspired art.

In Pictures

  • High Street, Antrim
  • Market Street, Armagh
  • Courthouse, Carlow

Historic postcards Over 6,000 photographs, political prints and portraits from days gone by form part of a project launched at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. To view collection and buy the images, visit www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/postcards.