A retired federal agent has uncovered records which show that the first female cop in the U.S. was Irish born Marie Owen. She started in office in 1890 and was pictured in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1904 as the “only woman police sergeant in the world.”
Mervyn Kirkhead, 65, from Lisburn, Co. Antrim, has crossed the Irish Sea in a bathtub that was equipped with a motor. He is the first person to accomplish this feat in this manner.
