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| Born | Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland |
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| Sport | Race walking |
Deirdre Gallagher (born 13 July 1974 in Ballina, County Mayo) is a retired female race walker from Ireland. She represented Ireland in the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta.
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Ireland | |||||
| 1992 | World Junior Championships | Seoul, South Korea | 25th | 5000m | 24:59.45 |
| 1994 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 25th | 10 km | 48:50 |
| 1995 | World Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 33rd | 10 km | 46:00 |
| 1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 23rd | 10 km | 45:47 |
Deirdre is a tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She is also known by the epithet "Deirdre of the Sorrows".
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William Rory Gallagher was an Irish musician and songwriter. He is known for his virtuosic style of guitar playing, and is often referred to as "the greatest guitarist you've never heard of". A number of guitarists, including Alex Lifeson of Rush, Brian May of Queen, and Eric Clapton, have cited Gallagher as an influence. He was voted as guitarist of the year by Melody Maker magazine in 1972, and listed as the 57th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2015.
LÉ Deirdre (P20) was a ship in the Irish Naval Service. She was named after Deirdre, a tragic heroine from Irish mythology who committed suicide after her lover's murder.
The Gallagher family of County Donegal, formerly one of the leading clans of Cenél Conaill, and therefore of all Ulster, originated in the 10th century as a derivative of their progenitor Gallchobhar mac Rorcain, senior-most descendant of Conall Gulban, son of Niall Mór Noigíallach. The O'Gallaghers held the High Kingship of Ireland during the early medieval period. They also held the rank of hereditary Marshal of the Kingdom of Tyrconnell, ruled by their kinsmen the O'Donnells, from the 14th until the early 17th century.
Leabharcham was charged by the Ulster king Conchobar mac Nessa with nursing Deirdre in seclusion until the girl was old enough to be his bride, after it was prophesied at Deirdre's birth: "The infant shall be fairest among the women of Ireland and shall wed a king but because of her shall death and ruin come upon the province of Ulster."
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An Fál Carrach, sometimes called Na Crois Bhealaí, is a small Gaeltacht town and townland in the north-west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. The settlement is in the district and old parish of Cloughaneely.
Carraig Airt is a small Gaeltacht village in the barony of Kilmacrennan to the north of County Donegal, Ireland. The village is on the R245 route between Letterkenny and Creeslough. Situated as it is at the base of the Rosguill peninsula, in one of the more remote but most scenic parts of the country, the village provides services for a large hinterland, with a supermarket with banking facilities, a post office, a doctor's surgery and a barracks staffed part-time by the Garda Síochána. Carrigart has a public park that borders the shoreline behind the houses on the main street. Designed by Angela Gallagher, it is maintained by the Tidy Towns Committee and has won several awards. The village and its environs remain largely agricultural, relying on passing trade and tourism during the summer months. In common with the rest of this part of Donegal, Carrigart has many second homes, owned especially by Northern Irish holiday makers.
Deirdre Madden is a novelist from Northern Ireland.
Bridget Rose Dugdale was an English debutante who rebelled against her wealthy upbringing, becoming a volunteer in the militant Irish republican organisation, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). As an IRA member, she took part in the theft of paintings worth IR£8 million, a bomb attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station using a hijacked helicopter, and developed a rocket launcher and an explosive.
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The 2014 European Parliament election in Ireland was the Irish component of the 2014 European Parliament election and was held on Friday, 23 May 2014, on the same day as the 2014 local elections and two by-elections. The election was conducted under the single transferable vote. Counting of the votes began on Sunday, 25 May and continued until Tuesday, 27 May.
Seána Kerslake is an Irish actress. She is known for portraying the role of Aisling O'Dowd in RTÉ2 comedy-drama Can't Cope, Won't Cope (2016–2018). In 2017, she was named one of sixteen young actors by Screen International as a Star of Tomorrow. In 2020, she was ranked at number 50 in The Irish Times list of the greatest Irish film actors.
Deirdre Hargey is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast South since 2020. She previously served as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2018 to 2019, and as a Belfast City Councillor for the Botanic DEA from 2011 to 2020. Hargey was Minister for Communities from 2020 to 2022 and briefly served as interim Minister for the Economy in May 2024.
Charlie Byrne's is a bookshop located in the Cornstore Mall on Middle Street in Galway, close to Shop Street and the Augustinian Church. As of 2019, it reportedly contained more than 100,000 new and used books. Writers often launch their books here. An article on RTÉ.ie described it as a "cultural reference point in the city", and The Irish Times has described it as "the destination bookshop in Galway city".
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RTÉ Investigates: Inside Ireland's Covid Battle is a two-part Irish COVID-19 documentary series, which featured the behind the scenes of the healthcare staff at St. James's Hospital fighting to keep COVID-19 patients alive in ICU. First aired on 29 June 2020 on RTÉ One, it reached an audience of over 755,000 after Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the programme was a "stark reminder" of COVID-19 as the country began to reopen after the lockdown. The second and final episode aired on 30 June 2020.
Deirdre is a feminine given name of Celtic origin and of unknown meaning. Deirdre is the name of a tragic heroine of Irish mythology. More attention was drawn to the name during the early 20th Century in Ireland and throughout the Anglosphere after W. B. Yeats published his poem Deirdre in 1907 and playwright J.M. Synge published his play Deirdre of the Sorrows in 1910. There are a number of spelling variants and pronunciations of the name in use.
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