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A LARGE STASH of artefacts from the Spanish Armada has been discovered off the coast of Sligo.
The find, which has happened just off the coast of Streedagh, has turned up a number of bronze cannons, a gun carriage wheel, a ship’s cauldron and a number of other smaller items.
These have come from the wreck of La Juliana which was discovered on the seabed over the course of the winter. The site was considered vulnerable to the weather and illegal interference.
The wreck dates to 1570 and was initially a trading vessel which was later used as a warship during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588. The ship would have carried around 325 soldiers and around 70 mariners.
Out of the 130 ships involved in the Armada, 26 have been lost off the coast of Ireland.
Work has been taking place at the site since last month, when two large guns were recovered engraved with depictions of San Iovane and San Matrona.
Speaking about today’s find, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, said that she wished to extend her thanks to the local community in Steedagh, Grange and Mullaghmore for continuing to support the project.
She went on to say that she would not see any problem with the work being brought back to be displayed locally once conservation work had been carried out on the artefacts.
It was estimated that due to the conservation work needed it could be two years before any of the items were ready to go on display.
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Yes the party is back, the party that gave us mass migration are the saviours of mass migration. More landlords, more vulture funds, less home ownership, NOW.
@9QRixo8H: Don’t forget the false promises. @ D peader..
@9QRixo8H: And yet, Limerick voters chose to elect as Mayor, a man who is a landlord in the City, comes from a banking background,
worked as head of the dept of finance after the banking crisis and was a close ally of Michael Noonan and was centre stage when vast amounts of housing was sold at knockdown prices to vulture funds.
And he’s also Gay of course.
A ringing endorsement by Limerick voters, if I ever saw one of government policy that has deliberately inflated house prices to fix the banking sector and make housing unaffordable for a vast number of young people.
Take a bow, Limerick.
@Thomas Sheridan: And who would you have voted for?? Moran is highly qualified to manage a 1.4 billon “company” that is Limerick City & County. The other candidates were not! Nice bit of homophobia also, I fail to see what his sexuality has to do with running the city and county.
@9QRixo8H: At least people know what FF and FG stand for and vote accordingly. Voters in general will not vote for a party for change if change is populism to change policy depending on the way the wind is blowing.
@Vincent Alexander: How do people “at least know what FF & FG stand for????”
In 2020 just prior to the General Election Micky Martin lambasted Fine Gael saying they had fuelled homelessness and the Housing Crisis through failed policy and failed the people of Ireland.
Is that what they stand for because things are getting worse not better. 250,000 shortage of houses, the National Children’s Hospital which is God knows how much over budget now has still not been completed, over 500,000 people on Hospital Appointment waiting lists etc etc.
Who pays you to stick up for these wastrels?
@Exhausted Jim: Oh, thanks Jim for taking the time to set up an account just to tell us all that nobody cares what you think. Nice one fella.
@Mr Inbetween: There is a problem with the overrun on the children’s hospital. Problem is probably more with civil servants advising the government than with politicians. There were enough candidates between FF, FG and Greens to form a government. SF couldn’t get enough to form a government. That’s democracy. I’ve lived through the “Troubles” and I’d never vote SF.
The truth of the matter is they lost seats and so did fg and the greens ff have been losing votes for years nothing to crow about
@John Reynolds: oh John that was one of Bertie’s best catchphrases… ‘de de de truth of de mater’. He has some brass neck that Man.
@Donna Fallon: But no bank, account Donna. Mad stuff ted indeed..
@Paul Gorry: oh Paul my blood pressure!! I’m just trying to sleep after losing my shirt on the ould horses!!
@Donna Fallon: mocking a stammer, classy
@John D Doe: that’s me!! Mocking the entire Country… that’s our Bertie dis dat dese and dose
@John D Doe: oh and BTW he doesn’t have a stammer issue when in Fagans it’s only when he’s lying through his teeth.
@Paul Gorry: I think you will find his account in the cayman islands
@Donna Fallon: I never thought he had a speech impediment, a gangster yes.
@Mr Inbetween: true true too true!!
@Mr Inbetween: he has an impediment from telling the truth anyway!
Hopefully NOT! They are from the Past. That includes FG and Labour
@DJ D: Well with 23% each in the locals expect both to be part of the next Government.
@Paul O’Mahoney: Do you think FFG after all these years together as one will have learned from their policy mistakes and start building houses again because their failure to date in this sector (since 2011) would suggest they areup to the challenge especially when you consider we have a shortfall of 1/4 million homes.
@Mr Inbetween: “aren’t up to the challenge”
The enemy within
@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: The Irish fear change more than most.
@Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: I don’t know whether FG would be amenable to this suggestion but if I were a FFer I’d seriously consider either replacing Micky or asking Fine Gael can they merge with them or both. Merger with FG would really suit FF and they already have a moniker, “FFG”, that has caught on really well. I think otherwise FF will implode.
The general election will shock them all. Local is not always the best indicator of what people will do in the general election
One explanation I have for the results of the local elections are, the people that voted for the government parties FFG are what I call ” The I’m OK people im doing OK people ” The angry people voted for independents and some SF but because over 50% of the people didn’t vote at all tells me FFG are in big trouble come the General Election, That disillusioned 50% will come out and vote for change and I predict a government of independents and small parties.
@N D K: The turn out was like 2019
@Paul O’Mahoney: And I should have added the GE turnouts are between 60 and 70% so I can’t see much change in a few months.
@Paul O’Mahoney: Agree, FFG ever so slightly down on 2019 but look what happened in the subsequent general election in 2020, SF’s vote rose to historic levels while FF got their worst ever number of votes so I wouldn’t take anything for granted. They say a week is long in politics , anything surprising could happen between now and the election especially with FF’s knack of getting caught out in some kind of corruption. Time will tell.
If you look at the data and the data doesn’t lie. In 2024 FF got 248 seats 31 fewer than 2019. Fg got 245 10 fewer than 2019. Sf got 102 which is an increase of 21 on 2019. There was an increase in independents. Hardly a win for both of the biggest parties when then have less than 2019.
@Washpenrebel: But all 3 parties ran over 340 candidates with SF only getting 30% elected.
@Washpenrebel: you failed to mention the number of seats the Shinners had in 2014, and the fact in 2024 they are still for less than 2014
SOS…HELP….. give me a break…..Dublin can never be fixed, build to rent (vultures, cuckoo’s) welcomed with open arms, and still they come…..nothing but bu11 Shii…
@ron don: and coming to a County near you soon..
NO.
Voters have short memory and deserve everything they get. Bertie bankrupted our economy in buying the public sector vote, while accepting corrupt payments, destroyed countless businesses, lives and marriages.
I’m sorry but has an infectious virus become rampant throughout the Country?? The main symptom of which is complete loss of memory?? I despair. Let me grab my mask… that filthy piece of cloth will defo protect my family and others!!
@Donna Fallon: The Greens lost out badly a decade or more ago.
Then the came back with enough to help form the current government.
And look at Labour. After a long time in the wilderness, and rightly so, they won an EU parliament seat, when they should have been wiped out if we had any national memory.
The reason might be the youth voter.
Every election we have 5 years of voters having come of age. Voters who weren’t aware of the misdeeds of these parties, of the suffering they caused, voters whose only experience is the soundbites of these parties.
Which means we might never be rid of The Greens, or Labour, or Fianna Fail, or Fine Gael.
(Although we managed to put the PDs down.)
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: great point I completely agree… I studied politics for a period when I was young and optimistic- was obsessed with current affairs ha!- I now realise that for the majority running for any election be it local, European, general or presidential, it’s like the candidates think they’re on an episode of the Apprentice. No real intention to effect positive change, just get elected for a term, keep your head down and come back out in 4/5 years to do it all over again.
I really don’t understand how people vote for these corrupted useless gombeens
@Dominic Leleu: People can’t believe that people vote for SF.
I can’t believe that people disrespect others because they don’t vote for those who they vote for.
@Paul O’Mahoney: That’s a bit cryptic and nonsense, what are you trying to articulate?
It’s wonderful to the shinners demise. Karma is a beautiful thing :)
@John D Doe: the shinners actually INCREASED their number of councillors and vote percentage over last local election. So where is the demise
@North Phone Bowe: Yes but it’s marginally up. In 2019 SFs vote was down almost 6% on 2014, this Election saw a gain of 2% . SF haven’t improved since in Local Elections since 2014 in fact they are down 4% despite a good 2020 GE….this is might have been a blip in support, but we’ll see in the coming months.
Irish politics. The equivalent of running on a hamster wheel. All the will in the world yet f all gets achieved and your going nowhere fast. I’m certainly not a big fan of FF or FG or those Green wasters but I will accept the public vote all day long and if that what is wanted, we end up with another five years of them all in bed together it’ll be time to just get your own nest in order and start looking after your own family. I won’t entertain any mouthing from any young person and will be the first to tell them to keep their mouths shut. I certainly won’t be paying thousands a month in rent when I’m 70 and be any tennant nor will my son. It’s certainly nothing FF/FG did to help me achieve any of it.
@Dan The Man: Excellent post. Politics, particularly western type, isn’t designed to help the electorate, why people think it does baffles me.
The only way of getting what you want in life is by doing it yourself, if able.
@Paul O’Mahoney: Are you suggesting that our democracy is an illusion?
Is there any breakdown of the age profile of voters in the local and E.P. elections available? Apologies if I’m asking for something that has already been reported about. Did young people turn out to vote in any significant numbers?
@Numinous20111: There was no exit poll in this election so we really don’t know.
Whatever about FF being back it simple to say that they have a core vote of 20 -23% as does FG and those will return them to Government in some form.
SF would have a core vote of 16 -18% the local elections turn out was just short of 50% and was just over 50% in 2019
Yes FF and FG lost seats and SF gained.
The amount of candidates elected for FF as a % of those who stood was 67.7% ( 366 stood 248 elected) FG 72.3% and SF 30.4% those are stark numbers for SF .
Yes in a GE the independent vote won’t be high, but I can’t see anything that suggests a change of Government, SF didn’t run enough candidates in the last GE ran 335 in local which essentially split their vote.
Another gang that hasn’t gone away.
How quickly people forget! I lost my house in 2012-13 due to their failed economic management. It’s like people have no memory.
Ff lost seats and have been for a number of years now so nothing to shout about
Sinn Fein fell away not because of anything magnificent that FG or FF did. In fact the housing crisis which is what propelled SF to where they were (they didn’t really do much either to rise in the polls) is worse than ever. Other factors such as the riots in Dublin which made many SF supporters realise that they were in fact a pro immigration party as many had no clue up until then made their support drop. Simon Harris and whoever else coming out to gloat is just a dumb move as they are not exactly on secure ground themselves. This is also only European and local elections.
May have won the highest but also lost 31 seats too!!
The health of the economy is based on Foreign companies and foreign workers.
That means – emigrations of our own. Australia wants white immigrants and we are supplying them.
Can’t wait
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