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Newry Court Today 24/4/2024 - busy | Destination Newry

Wee Yarn .. for those who will undoubtedly end up “AS DRUNK AS A (NEWRY) PIPER” A peculiar slur, you might think, aimed at men whose only crime was providing the soundtrack to other men’s sins. But the origin isn’t just melody — it’s mortality, & a timeline we often get wrong — especially here, where we lay history down like cobblestones, uneven & often cracked. London, 1665. The plague’s in the air, & the dead are piling up faster than promises after payday, almost 30,000 in the early months .