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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update TOMB RAIDERS AND MORE SKULLS! Just back from what will certainly be our second-to-last digging trip to Huy. 1/20

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update After the scenes filmed in Paris at the end of August, further sequences for the documentary, directed by Maurice Sweeney and produced by Scratch Films for RTÉ, were shot in Limerick last week. 1/6

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you so much to Corpus Christi Primary School, Moyross (& in particular to Ms Duggan, Ms Clancy & Mr O’Neill) for welcoming me, @johncreedon.bsky.social and the Scratch Films crew this morning & giving me an opportunity to present the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project to their 6th-class pupils. 1/2

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was immensely honoured to be invited by the Embassy of Ireland in France to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and revive the Eternal Flame alongside Ambassador Milton during the annual ceremony beneath the Arc de Triomphe, dedicated to the Irish soldiers who fought for France. 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Some photos of the filming of a sequence of the RTÉ documentary on Patrick Sarsfield at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris this morning. Many thanks to Carole Jacquet & her team for the warm welcome & for allowing us to film in this landmark of Franco-Irish relations.

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update Delighted to be in Paris for three full days of filming for the RTÉ TV documentary on Patrick Sarsfield produced by Scratch Films and directed by Maurice Sweeney. 1/

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES WITH FURTHER METEOROLOGICAL DRAMA! Thanks to the support received through our Go Fund Me page from many of you over the past few weeks & from Cremona Heritage last week, part of the team was able to make another trip to Huy last week 1/

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update A huge thank you to Niall O’Connor of Cremona Heritage who made a new donation of €5,000 to the project! It is the third time Cremona Heritage has given such a generous amount to the project. 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🚨#SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News Part of the team have just completed another trip to Huy. 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update Some good news came today with the results of the radiocarbon dating of skeleton no 13 (SK13). 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If I had been told, six years ago, that I would one day co-author an article in a respected archaeological journal alongside two of the best experts in the fields of archaeology and forensic anthropology, I would certainly have deemed my interlocutor to be a deranged person! But here we are… 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update Just back from another trip to Huy during which we continued our excavation of the site… 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update One of my biggest fears, since we began the archaeological excavations nearly 2.5 years ago, has always been that Patrick Sarsfield’s grave could be one of those who were destroyed over time by the digging of more recent graves. 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Thank you to journalist jean-louis tasiaux of Belgian newspaper L’Avenir for this new article on the latest developments of the Sarsfield Homecoming Project announced last week. Can’t wait to resume the archaeological excavations on site in a few weeks time! www.lavenir.net/regions/huy-...

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L'ADN a parlé, le squelette n'est pas celui de Sarsfield: les fouilles pour retrouver les restes du héros irlandais inhumés à Huy vont se poursuivre

Les fouilles pour retrouver les ossements du héros irlandais, Patrick Sarsfield, vont se poursuivre à Huy. Jusqu'à présent, l'ADN des restes retrouvés ne...

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🚨Sarsfield Homecoming Project Update🚨 After three long months waiting for test results on our Autumn archaeological finds, we can finally give you some news! 1/

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Superb art work commissioned by Antone Meaney for The White House Bar Limerick and created by Tom Collins in support of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project. Those beautiful cards have been displayed on the pub’s tables lately.

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Great to see that the local Belgian press keeps following the progress of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project! Thank you to Jean-Louis Tasiaux for this new article in L’Avenir 🙏🏻

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project update We had another very productive week in Huy last week… 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

On our way back from another very productive trip to Huy, we just found out that the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project and general Clancy’s visit to the site last October are the subject of a great article by Lt Col Conor Gorey in the latest edition of “An Cosantóir”, the magazine of the Defence Forces!

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Delighted to be interviewed by Limerick Voice this week about the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project. Many thanks to Mark Cusack for managing to summarise over 5 years of work into a single article! limerickvoice.com/history/brin...

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Bringing Sarsfield Home: The quest to find a Limerick legend -

Dr Loïc Guyon, the French consul for Limerick, has been leading the Sarsfield Project seeking to bring the remains of a national hero home.

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We wish to express our gratitude to Limerick-based company Adhesives Research Ireland, a global leader in high-performance custom adhesive tapes for industrial applications, for the €500 donation they have just made to the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project. 1/2

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today I had the pleasure of meeting with Garry Jackson at Cathedral Place to have a look at the great work done by the Limerick City & County Council around the pedestal of the statue of Patrick Sarsfield. 1/6

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project News Last April, as some of you may remember, the Sarsfield Homecoming Project found itself at a turning point… 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update Following the discovery of a coin which seemed to represent shamrocks on the site in Huy last month, I sent pictures of the find to two Belgian numismatic experts and to the museum of the national bank of Belgium… 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Update Here is a full report in two parts of our work in Huy last week (19-24 October)… PART 1 - PRESERVING THE PAST & MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES Our first day of work was all about preserving the site for future generations of researchers and protecting our recent finds. 1/

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

More coverage of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project in the Belgian press. Full report about our latest finds here soon…

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The #SarsfieldHomecoming Project is in the national news again! Many thanks to Harry Manning for this article. We are all very honoured by the support shown to the project by the Irish Defence Forces and by the Chair of the European Union Military Committee 🙏🏻

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Update Here is the final part of the report on our trip to Huy last month. Part 3: Visits by Key Supporters Of all the people who have supported the project, the Fitzgerald family have without a doubt been the most committed… 1/8

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update Part 2: Bones... A Strong Contender! The second part of the report on last week’s archaeological excavations has now been posted as an update on the project's Go Fund Me page, read it all by clicking on the following link: lnkd.in/eveGmEWC

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

🔴 #Sarsfield Homecoming Project Update Back from a week during which we resumed the archaeological excavations on the now accessible part of the site which was located beneath the back garden of the house… and we made some exciting discoveries! 1/2

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My team and I were greatly honoured to be invited to the European Parliament in Brussels this week by Irish MEP Kathleen Funchion to make a detailed presentation of the Sarsfield Homecoming Project and of its latest developments... 1/3

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Really honoured to be invited to present the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project to Members of the European Parliament next week in Brussels! Many thanks to Irish MEP Kathleen Funchion for her kind invitation. 1/2

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🚨 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News! 🚨 Just back from a trip to Huy to supervise the beginning of the removal of the 200t. of soil from the part of the site remaining to be explored and I am glad to say that ATECS, the company we contracted to do the work, have done a fantastic job! 1/2

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It was great to get to meet Irish Ambassador to France Niall Burgess this morning to brief him on the progress and next steps of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project… 1/2

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🚨 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News! 🚨 Massive preparatory works begin in Huy to enable the archaeological excavations to resume on the still unexplored part of the site where we believe Patrick Sarsfield to be buried! Read the latest update just posted here👇 gofund.me/3c2ae673

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

After the restoration of the gate last year (made by Derek Hannon with the support of Shortts Steel and Donkey Ford’s), further improvements to the Patrick Sarsfield monument at the initiative of the Sarsfield Statue Committee were unveiled yesterday morning during an official ceremony… 1/7

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Listen back to the podcast here www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... The adventure continues! ✊

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thank you so much to the Patrick Sarsfield Branch of Óglaigh Náisiúnta na hÉireann ONE for making yet another generous donation to the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project! Fantastic to see the veterans mobilising themselves to help rapatriate one of their own. Your support honours the whole project’s team

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Fifth portrait in the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project’s team members series with Maarten Larmuseau and Noah Gaens, both from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). 1/7

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Once again, under the supervision of Garry Jackson and the Garryowen residents, local children stepped up and cleaned the area surrounding the pedestal of the Patrick Sarsfield statue ahead of this year’s Limerick Wild Geese Festival. A heartwarming display of community spirit! Well done all! 1/2

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We need your help to keep the project going… 🙏🏻 www.gofundme.com/f/the-sarsfi...

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Sarsfield Homecoming Project @sarsfieldhome.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚨 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project MAJOR UPDATE 🚨 DNA RESULTS & WHAT’S NEXT… As the explanation would be too long for a social media post, please read the latest update published yesterday on the project’s Go Fund Me page by clicking on the below link 🙏🏻 gofund.me/e5c87d2e

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Donate to Help us bring back Patrick Sarsfield to Ireland!, organised by Loic Guyon

Help us bring Patrick Sarsfield back to Ireland! In 1691, after hav… Loic Guyon needs your support for Help us bring back Patrick Sarsfield to Ireland!

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