1. The road to Drogheda brought back no memories of his youth.

2. I'd keep him on 25)Drogheda and I will, if I have to crawl on my hands and knees through every graveyard on Crete.

3. He would have perished at Thermopylae with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with Cromwell.

4. The phone jangled its two longs, one short for Drogheda.

5. Carnegie Premier League teams Dungannon Swifts, Glentoran, Linfield and Portadown were joined by Eircom League sides St. Patricks Athletic, Derry City, Drogheda United and Cork City.

6. Aston furiously maintained that he was as good on one leg as any man on two, but when Cromwell's men sacked Drogheda he had his brains knocked out by a soldier wielding his own wooden leg.

7. I too have requested that I be buried on Drogheda.