A FORMER Defence Minister has claimed Cathal Brugha army barracks in Dublin must be saved as it is a strategic location needed in the event of a terrorist attack on the Capital. Earlier this week, the ...

SOLDIERS have blasted Green Party leader Eamon Ryan for jumping the gun and predicting that Cathal Brugha barracks will be scrapped to make way for a major housing project. On Wednesday evening, the ...

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Dublin, 9 July 1923 - Up to four hundred members of Cumann na mBan and the Women’s Defence League were involved in events organised to mark the first anniversary of the death of Cathal Brugha, who ...

A century after he died in the Mater Hospital from a single bullet wound, Cathal Brugha was remembered in Glasnevin Cemetery. Brugha became the first high-profile fatality of the Civil War during the ...

The Taoiseach said during his political career Mr Brugha “immersed himself in the very noble task of fostering reconciliation and promoting greater North-South understanding”. Born in 1918, Mr Brugha ...

Sir, - The recent controversy surrounding the identity of Ireland's first Head of State has thrown up the name of a largely forgotten historical figure. Many biographies of Michael Collins have been ...