JIM HYLAND was no ordinary man. Jim was honest, brave, loyal and steadfast. He was an especially kind and generous person, a fine intellect and mechanical genius, a lover and a protector of nature, a local historian of County Laois and a patriot. He was a man of many parts and few equals. Free article

THE month of May was a sad time in republican areas in South Tipperary when it was learned that the staunch republican Thomas Kavanagh had passed away after a short illness. It was a shock to many people. Free article

SINN FÉIN will launch a book on 100 years of the party in Laois on Tuesday 4 December at 8pm in the Parish Centre in Portlaoise. Free article

THE 87th Anniversary of the death of Seán O'Carroll and Patrick Tierney, two young IRA Volunteers killed by Black and Tans in 1920, was marked by a commemoration in Ardee, County Louth, on Sunday, 25 November. Free article

THE Dick Humes commemoration took place in Camolin, County Wexford, last Sunday. Organised by the fledgling Hume/Whitty Sinn Féin Cumann, proceedings were chaired by republican veteran Mick O'Leary. Free article