... 1986 two people, one a Gas Company employee, seriously injured. 3 GRATTAN BRIDGE: A massive hole blown in the bridge in April, 1986 by gas explosion 14. TALBOT STREET: Explosion at Talbot Arms pub in June, 1986. Building was totally destroyed but Gas Company ...

... Napoleon's architect, and not John Sweetman as is sometimes suggested. The high altar was the work of Belfast-horn Peter Turnerelli (1774-1878), whose other works included busts of George 111, Wellington, Pitt, Grattan, etc. and the memorial in Dumfries ...

... referred queries about his financial affairs to his bank manager. When asked if he could throw some light for historians on the arms crisis, he replied that he would make his own history. (Shades of de Valera who in Aras an Uachtarain, on being asked about ...