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Red Hugh O’Donnell Association hail Lifford-Simancas twinning as important step in recognition of chieftain
The proposed twinning was passed by a full plenary meeting of Donegal County Council last month in Lifford. Red Hugh was born in Lifford in 1572 and died in Simancas, not far from Valladolid in Castile and León in 1602. This local born chieftain and national hero gave his whole life to the cause of Irish freedom from English rule in Ireland, Mr. Crawford noted. Speaking after the council’s approval Mr Crawford said this was the final stage in the Irish part of the twinning process and another...