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A Piece of Irish History Reduced to Rubble: The Arson Attack on Downpatrick’s Former Convent of Mercy

It’s one thing when time or neglect takes an old building. It’s another when someone decides to speed that up with a match or whatever else they used. That’s exactly what happened on the evening of June 28, 2026, in Downpatrick, when the historic former Convent of Mercy went up in flames. Northern Ireland Fire […]