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- ↑ In search of Tsardom Irish Times, October 7, 1998.
- ↑ 'Russian Spies made Collon court a home from home' by Hubert Murphy, Mid Louth Independent, July 23, 2014.
- ↑ A tiny corner of Cambridge, and Lichfield, and Russia, in Collon, Co Louth by Patrick Comerford, August 31, 2011.