Article: NOT CROM-WELCOME; Town fury over display of tyrant's death mask.(News)

THE town put to the sword by Oliver Cromwell took to the streets at the weekend in protest at his re- appearance.

Pickets have now been placed at Drogheda's heritage centre where the death mask of the English tyrant is on display.

A group led by Deputy Mayor Frank Godfrey is demanding that the cast of Cromwell's face be dumped in the nearby River Boyne.

They claim that bringing it to Drogheda is an insult to the people of the town whose ancestors were massacred by Cromwell's English army in the ...

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