IT has now emerged that almost 30 years before the State could have acquired Lissadell House, a somewhat similar situation arose in relation to Classiebawn Castle, which the late Lord Louis ...
Mountbatten's residence: The late Earl Mountbatten offered his Irish residence, Classiebawn Castle in Co Sligo, to the Irish nation four years before he was killed by a Provisional IRA bomb. State ...
When he passes through Sligo on Wednesday, it won't be "bare Ben Bulben's head" that will catch the imagination of the Prince of Wales, but the long, icy shadow cast by Classiebawn Castle and the ...