Cookstown
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Search complete. 16 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Cookstown".
Sep 10, 2026
Ireland’s Deadliest Cinema Fire & The 1976 Internee Scandal
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32:30Tim McGarryHOST
all cases, no charges were ever brought against the men who denied connections with any illegal organisation.
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32:35Tim McGarryHOST
After an investigation, charges were brought against a soldier and a policeman who allegedly assaulted Mr McKenna in Cookstown, but they were eventually acquitted.
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32:42Tim McGarryHOST
It is understood the complaints made by Beechmount men are being investigated today.
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32:47Tim McGarryHOST
The association, that's the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, said it's convinced of the futility of expecting any redress in Northern Ireland courts for instances of police brutality.
Dep for Infrastructure say flags celebrating LVF leader Billy Wright are to intimidate – but PSNI say they aren’t illegal
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36:00speaker_1ADVERTISER
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36:06Stephen NolanHOST
Thomas in Cookstown.
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36:07Stephen NolanHOST
Morning, Thomas.
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36:08ThomasAUDIENCE
Hello, Stephen.
TwoMacs Podcast Ep 74 Na Fianna GFC Club Development
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53:12Gerry GalvinGUEST
We got a bit of funding from Mid Ulster Council for it a few years back and um, we also doing transport stepped in and took a five-year sponsorship deal with it.
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53:22Gerry GalvinGUEST
Um, so we put, we used FSL in Cookstown, um, it was Marty Dornan from, from Tralee, uh, come up and we sized it up and every time we had a committee meeting the scoreboard was getting bigger.
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53:33Gerry GalvinGUEST
So it got to the point, at one, at one point we probably had the second largest scoreboard on a Gaelic pitch outside of Croke Park.
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53:40Gerry GalvinGUEST
I think Navan had the, had, had a larger one.
Success Is Never Accidental EP 81 : Rodney McAree
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7:57Rodney McAreeGUEST
I probably get too caught up on different aspects and maybe the partying side of things I was too fond of whenever I was getting to 17, 18 years of age rather than concentrating on actually being a footballer.
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8:09Rodney McAreeGUEST
I have a good friend at the moment, a young lad from Cookstown who I work with in Terry Devlin and he plays for Portsmouth at this moment in time and What I would tell myself was be like Terry Devlin because his attitude is unbelievable and whatever he does in football, he's going to do it because he has put his heart and soul into trying to be the best version that he possibly can be.
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8:33Lynne PatonHOST
Tell us a little bit more about what kind of attitude it takes to be really successful as a footballer, but in any kind of sport or indeed in any career.
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8:44Rodney McAreeGUEST
Yeah well sport can be a very short career in terms of like football you're talking about if you got to 35, 36 years of age you've done extremely well if you're still playing at a high level but you've only got really that one opportunity.
Behind the Machine: Alan Witherow on Product Development at Finlay
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44:49Alan WitherowGUEST
... supply, supply.
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44:50Alan WitherowGUEST
You know, Cookstown, Ballymoney, Kamsin all supplying as well.
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44:53Alan WitherowGUEST
So again, it's, it's tying all that together so it's not just the team in Omagh and you only look about Omagh.
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44:59Alan WitherowGUEST
It's, you have to think about the wider, wider picture and like the 1175 updates we've done there recently.
THE LOI POD: Vinny's love for the Saints | A defining week in Louth | Bohs still in the title race? | OFF THE BALL
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1:55Ben SymesCORRESPONDENT
[crowd cheering] And it's in the back of the net.
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1:57Ben SymesCORRESPONDENT
[whistle blows] The 6'6" man from Cookstown, Ireland, has another goal for Bohemians.
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2:03Ben SymesCORRESPONDENT
His sixth of the season, and two minutes into this second half, Bohemians are level.
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2:08Ben SymesCORRESPONDENT
20 yards back from the Derry City box and a chance for them to get the ball in the box again.
Stories of Distinction: Ita O'Brien, Globally Renowned Intimacy Practitioner for Film & TV
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17:32Ita O'BrienGUEST
So being Irish, obviously, has got a huge impact on my life.
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17:37Ita O'BrienGUEST
My mum's from Cookstown County, Tyrone in Northern Ireland.
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17:40Ita O'BrienGUEST
My dad is from Clonmel in Tipperary in the south.
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17:43Ita O'BrienGUEST
But that core of being an Irish person.
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17:46Ita O'BrienGUEST
So I'm absolutely a second generation immigrant.
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17:48Ita O'BrienGUEST
And when I try to do my ancestry, I'm just an Irish peasant from the land through and through.
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17:54Ita O'BrienGUEST
My mum was from the Spurran Mountains, out the back hills of Cookstown.
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17:59Ita O'BrienGUEST
My dad's dad was a horse trainer, you know, sort of in the O'Brien clan background.
Stories of Distinction: Ita O'Brien, Globally Renowned Intimacy Practitioner for Film & TV
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17:32Ita O'BrienGUEST
So being Irish obviously has got a huge impact on my life.
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17:37Ita O'BrienGUEST
My mom's from Cookstown, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland.
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17:40Ita O'BrienGUEST
My dad is from Clonmel and Tipperary in the south.
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17:43Ita O'BrienGUEST
But that core of being an Irish person, so I'm absolutely a second-generation immigrant.
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17:48Ita O'BrienGUEST
And when I've tried to do my ancestry, I'm just a Irish peasant from the land through and through.
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17:54Ita O'BrienGUEST
My mom's mom was from the Sperrin Mountains out the back hills of Cookstown.
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17:59Ita O'BrienGUEST
My dad's dad was a horse trainer, you know, sort of in, in the O'Brien clan.
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18:04Ita O'BrienGUEST
So yeah, just that connection with Ireland and the, and the land is very much part of who I am.
Mary Mallon & Typhoid Revisited
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3:40Tracy V. WilsonHOST
She was originally the subject of a 13-minute episode of our show back in 2009.
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3:46Holly FreyHOST
Mary Mallon was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland on September 23rd, 1869.
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3:53Holly FreyHOST
She immigrated to the United States in 1883 or 1884, where she probably started out living with an aunt and uncle.
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4:03Holly FreyHOST
She would've been in her mid-teens at that point, and as far as we know, she came to the United States alone.
Priest, Footballer, Missionary, Father – the extraordinary lives of Frank Diamond
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10:13Frank DiamondGUEST
But RE, and for two reasons.
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10:14Frank DiamondGUEST
The first reason, I had a really cool teacher, a guy called Gerry Mains from Cookstown, Throne.
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10:19Frank DiamondGUEST
And he was just that teacher I had a connection with.
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10:22Frank DiamondGUEST
And everybody can think of such a teacher.