CLAN WAR GARDA WINS PROMOTION.THE Garda chief who brokered a peace agreement between two warring traveller families is to be honoured with promotion. Superintendent Bill Fennell, who was the chief negotiator between the rowing Ward and McDonagh families in August, will be one of eight new Chief Superintendents Chief Superintendent is a senior rank in police forces organised on the British model. United Kingdom In the British police, a Chief Superintendent (Ch Supt; or colloquially "Chief Super") is senior to a Superintendent and junior to an Assistant Chief Constable (or a . Supt Fennell stepped in as 400 travellers gathered in Tuam, Co Galway. The families were ready to do battle with sticks, swords and knives knives n. Plural of knife. knives Noun the plural of knife knives knife as part of a 15-year feud feud, formalized private warfare, especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta) is characteristic of those societies in which central government either has not arisen or has decayed. . Supt Fennell chaired a meeting between the leaders of both clans at his station. The leaders finally agreed to order their followers followers see dairy herd. to go home. Supt Fennell will be posted to his new station next year, having served in Tuam for five years. District Court judge John Garavan said the timing was appropriate. "It is fitting that when John Home and David Trimble are recognised for their role in bringing about peace in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. that a man who has brought peace in the west should be recognised." |
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