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Clarks Factory workers reunite Page 8
Irish debaters make progress Page 8
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Wednesday, 19th October, 2016. Vol. 9, Issue 42 • 63 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth Tel: 042 9320888. Fax: 042 9329676. Email: editorial@dundalkleader.com; advertising@dundalkleader.com
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pointment was so great she died on the spot. For me it seems cruel to leave her lying up there in the mountains that caused her so much heartache and pain. I have made it my business to go about exhuming her and bring her down to Carlingford where I have a grave waiting for her where the views are spectacular. “This is one of the great injustices of this area and I want to rectify it. "Obviously I intend on doing this the right way and going through the proper channels but if officials have any heart they will allow me to bring the Long Woman to a better place. Kevin’s proposal has been met with a lot of negativity with people messaging him online calling him a publicity seeker and opportunist.
THE Long Woman’s Grave has long been associated with the Cooley Mountains but that is all set to change if Kevin Woods aka the Leprechaun Whisperer gets his way. However, he faces opposition to his plans from locals who want the princess to be allowed rest in peace. Kevin is on a mission to exhume the seven foot tall Spanish princess who he says should be saved from the place which has caused her so much grief and pain. “Everybody knows that Cauthleen (The Long Woman) was cruelly tricked by Lorcan O’Hanlon when he brought her up to the Cooley mountains to show her all the land he had promised her which turned out to be just a hollow. Her disap- Continued on Page 11
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Sisters get in on the act at the Junior Eurovision Three local sisters are making a big impression on the music world having made it through to the televised stages of a national competition. Sisters Fionnghuala and Bláthnaid Drumgoole are no strangers to the world of music. Both girls have trophies to their name for violin, which they have been learning for many years with Catherine Dooley in St Louis Secondary School in Dundalk. However this year they ventured down a different path when they entered the TG4 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, with their younger sister Éadaoin who is a sixth class student in Scoil Naoimh Éanna in Killanny. Fionnghuala and Bláthnaid Drumgoole who are competing in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest on TG4 Continued on Page 11
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