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1. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Bernadette McAliskey

   'The Fleadh is 75 years old and has been growing bigger and stronger every year' (opens the original)

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   That’s the Fleadh done and dusted for another year. The estimated number of attendees reads a bit like two-thirds of the population of the North were there. It might be wise to point out, before Carla and the DUP lose the plot entirely, that not all those attending came from here. People flock to the Fleadh every year from all corners of this island, the other island, and the rest of the world. They come for the ceol, the craic and the living bilingual Irish traditional music culture, which in

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2. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Bernadette McAliskey

   Bernadette McAliskey: Moygashel 'publicly disgraced' by bonfire committee (opens the original)

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   Moygashel, little more than a few streets now effectively a tiny suburb, of a rapidly expanding Dungannon town, has once again been publicly disgraced by the actions of what would appear to be ‘person or persons unknown’ not all of whom, I hear, even live there! Complaints to the police about the behaviour of this secretive group go back much further than media or police interest over the last few years. Their increasingly dangerous and deliberate intention to annually intimidate others began so

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