Word: ballyshannon
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...response to the arrests was a series of fierce riots of I.R.A. sympathizers in Bundoran and nearby Ballyshannon. The protesters in Bundoran threw up barricades blocking traffic and attempted to break into the courthouse after the hearing. Gangs of youths in Ballyshannon stoned the gardai (police), and more than 100 additional police had to be brought in to deal with at least 500 protesters. With more arrests expected, the I.R.A. Provisionals charged that Lynch "has acted under British pressure" and warned that they would put up "strong resistance" to any further "collaboration...
...placed unsavory divorces on their Irish forbidden list, along with ads or news stories on football pools, sex crimes, abortion and contraception. Venereal disease has not been mentioned in the Irish press in modern memory, and artificial insemination of barnyard animals is primly reduced to initials-A.I.-from Ballyshannon to Bantry...
...hoodwinked. Up & down the border they sent the rumor flying: "'tis the British want our cats. They'll eat them, and they're that hard up for a rag to put on their backs, they'll even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week. "Do you know," said another, "there are only ten cats left in Carrickmacross...
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