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Eamonn Corbett came from Kileeneenbeg near Clarinbridge. He was associated with the Volunteer movement in County Galway from 1914 onwards. After the Redmondite split he gave valuable assistance in organising the Volunteers throughout the county, and in 1915 he was assisting Liam Mellows while training the various companies in the Brigade area.

In his interesting biography of Eamon de Valera*, Diarmaid Ferriter reports that in December 2000 gardaí seized 24 love letters from de Valera to his young wife Sinéad, which were being advertised for auction by Mealy’s of Castlecomer. It was believed that the letters were stolen in the mid 1970s from the de Valera family home. The owners, who had bought them in England some years previously in an effort to ensure their return to Ireland, were unaware that they had been stolen.

The news pages and airwaves have been giving blanket coverage to the news that Larry Murphy was released yesterday from Arbour Hill prison.

As the search intensifies for missing woman Fiona Pender in the Slieve Bloom Mountains, Gardaí are reportedly intensifying their investigation on a carpenter from Baltinglass who had been linked to the disappearance of the 25-year old Offaly woman 12 year’s ago.

A Roscommon man, with psychological difficulties, received a suspended sentence at Galway District Court this week for failing to pay a taxi driver €350 after hiring him to go to Cork and back.