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How Crookhaven had the scoop on Lincoln’s assassination

January 31, 2026 by

WHEN an attempt was made on Donald Trump’s life in 2024, the news travelled around the world in seconds.

It is hard now to grasp that in 1865 the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln took almost twelve days to reach the first place in Europe to hear it: tiny Crookhaven in far west Cork.

Why Crookhaven?

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