Paul Cunningham
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Journalist, author Frank McDonald dies aged 76 (opens the original)
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The journalist, author and environmental campaigner, Frank McDonald, has died after a brief illness. He was 76. Mr McDonald was the Environment Editor of The Irish Times until 2015, where he had a particular focus on climate action, architecture, urban design and the planning process. His highly regarded book, The Destruction of Dublin, which was published in 1985, detailed how historic Georgian parts of the capital were torn down, rather than being protected, by developers and planners in the 1
The stormy maritime history of Baltimore's 'rocket car' (opens the original)
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Every St Patrick's Day in Baltimore, west Cork, a little piece of maritime history emerges from the darkness of the cove boathouse for a celebrated jaunt around the village. The four-wheeled carriage was the cornerstone of the Coast Life Saving Service for more than 100 years, a forerunner of the Irish Coast Guard, and was known colloquially as the "rocket car" or "rocket rescue". In times past, the largest number of shipwrecks occurred when vessels came into "unplanned contact with the shore",
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