William Dargan Sitric Doug Beattie (Ulster Unionist Party

Doug Beattie (Ulster Unionist Party

The core principle of prize-fighting – striking and defence – demands enormous courage each time the boxer steps forward

so long in the public eye

driving - Robert O'Byrne gives witty and urbane advice on how best to behave with style in the twenty-first century in Mind Your Manners

and building his own house at Toombeola

William Dargan Sitric Doug Beattie (Ulster Unionist PartyThis is the first full length biography of one of Irelands greatest railway engineers, William Dargan (17991867). The son of a Carlow farmer, he changed the face of nineteenth century Ireland. William Dargans career began in Wales on the Holyhead Road, working under the famous Scottish engineer, Thomas Telford. He went on to build roads, railways, canals and reservoirs, developed hotels and the resort towns of Bray and Portrush, laid out Belfast