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Prince Michael Neale is Eire's No. 1 manufacturer of cattle dip. As a County Wexford farmer's son, he used to lie on a cliff top in the long grass and gaze south across St. George's Channel to the tiny, haze-blue Saltee Islands. Since his first name was legally Prince, it was easy for a farm boy to daydream: "Some day I'll own those islands and become a real prince." He took to calling the Saltees "Paradise...
...Dublin last week tough, handsome Sean McCaughey, 28, who described himself as the Adjutant General of the Irish Republican Army, listened with a faint smile while a military tribunal charged him with kidnapping and assaulting robust Stephen Hayes, onetime I.R.A. officer and County Wexford fooballer. To the hellion I.R.A., the Eire Government is illegal, and so proud Defendant McCaughey refused to plead either innocent or guilty...
Last autumn an unidentified bomber roared over County Wexford in neutral Eire, suddenly dumped its bombs, killed three young girls. Later Germany admitted that part of its Luftwaffe might have lost its way. Since then the drone of unidentified planes has frequently troubled...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet the Earl David Beatty, Viscount Borodale of Wexford and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brocksby, 65, commander of the British battle cruiser squadron at the controversial Battle of Jutland; of a severe cold aggravated by marching in a drizzle at King George V's funeral; in London...
David Beatty, 59, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render...