#OnThisDay 1921 An FBI & police raid on a ship called “East Side” with an all Irish crew, in Hoboken, New Jersey discovered 495 Thompson submachine-guns which were destined for the IRA. This raid was authorised by future Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. #Ireland#History
#Otd-15 June 1919: British aviators John Alcock & Arthur Brown made 1st non-stop transatlantic flight! Flew modified WW1 Vickers Vimy bomber from St John's, Newfoundland to Derrygilmlagh Bog nr Cliften, Co Galway! Small amount mail carried so 1st transatlantic airmail flight too!
13 June 1865. William Butler (“WB”) Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was 1st Irish person to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He’s commemorated in Sligo town by a statue created in 1989 by the sculptor Rowan Gillespie.
BREAKING: The man killed in a car crash in Limerick this week was a hired assassin on his way to carry out a hit.
Understand the hitman held a Swedish passport, loaded gun found in car & his driver who fled on foot left his phone behind.
More: https://t.co/i3sZJinSuu
@DubCityCouncil & @TasteDublin
You are aware this is, National Memorial to Members of the Defence Forces who died in the Service of the State?
First image is how it should be, & second image today
Corporate VIP suite!
Ticket Sales!
Refuse collection!
Lack of #Respect ☘️🇮🇪☘️
10 June 1944. 642 men, women and children were murdered by the German Waffen SS in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The village was never rebuilt and featured at the opening episode of the classic ITV documentary series World at War.
Former Irish rugby international Brendan Mullin has been charged with stealing perfume from Brown Thomas on Grafton Street.
Mullin who won 55 Irish caps between 1984 and 1995 before he went into financial services, appeared at Dublin District Court today https://t.co/AciT9HBVKN
It’s 30 years ago since @gardainfo D/Garda Jerry McCabe was horrifically murdered on duty by an IRA gang in Adare,Limerick..May we always remember those brave Gardai gone before us and who died in the service of this State …thinking of the McCabe family & may he Rest in Peace
5 June 1968. Robert F Kennedy (aged 42) was shot 3 times, once in the head, while walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, USA at 12:15 AM. He was rushed to hospital, but died at 1:44 AM on 6 June 1968 without ever regaining consciousness.
4 June 1942. Leading SS official Reinhard Heydrich (aged 38), a key planner of the Holocaust, died in hospital in Prague. Metal fragments and fibres from his bombed car caused septic wounds and blood poisoning which proved fatal in the days before antibiotics were available.
Chelsea Football Club has very sadly lost one of our most legendary players with the passing of Bobby Tambling at the age of 84.
We send our deepest condolences to Bobby’s family and friends at this difficult time.