Scoil: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (uimhir rolla 15043)

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1. Local Heroes

   

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   A wide known boxer of a hundred years ago was Ned Downes, a native of Ballinafad, three miles north of Boyle. This man had a son in the British Army in Enniskillen. One of the members, an English man, continually beat and flogged the Irish members. Mr. Downes sent word to his father, of the torture and persecutions he had to endure. Ned Downes, at once, set out for Enniskillen, and challenged the Englishman. He, because of his strength scorned the challenge. The fight was settled for nine o'clock for the following morning. Downes knocked out his opponent, who fled to England after being dismissed from the Army.
   William Mul Ganly also of Ballinafad challenged John Beirne of Rinnabull, five miles north of Boyle, also a boxer. In the end both of them were "quits" and the side-wall

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   Béarla

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   Betty O' Reilly

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   Baineann

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   Mr B. Mc Hugh

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   Fireann

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   Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin