Memories From The Archives – January 1998
The AIB Bank in Mitchelstown was evacuated in January 1998 following a bomb alert. A call to 103FM County Sound in Mallow claimed a...
Memories From The Archives – January 1998
Several ‘irate callers’ to The Avondhu office expressed horror at the state of the roads in the Tallow/Conna area, which stemmed from subsidence of...
Memories From The Archives – December 1997
‘Fermoy failed to distinguish itself as a wheelchair friendly town’ following the visit of Minister of State, Mary Wallace ‘on a fact-finding mission during...
Memories From The Archives – December 1997
The best efforts of surgeons at Cork’s University Hospital, failed to save the hand of a young Fermoy soldier involved in an accident during...
Memories from the Archives – December 1997
Bonfires blazed in the baronies of Castlelyons and Ballyduff, as both villages saw their sides return home in triumph, having secured county titles in...
Memories from the Archives – November 1997
Torrential rain and high winds caused havoc locally, with the River Blackwater bursting its banks in November 1997, causing ‘extensive flooding’ in Fermoy. Shops...
Memories from the Archives – November 1997
‘Who did it?’ That was the question in November 1997 following the discovery by a member of the public of a ‘hoard’ of Adi...
Memories from the Archives – November 1997
It was a case of ‘a childhood revisited’ for Minister for Education, Micheal Martin when he took time out from his busy schedule to...
Memories from the Archives – November 1997
Despite being close on 3 hours late in arriving to Mitchelstown to press the flesh, presidential hopeful Dana Rosemary Scallon was warmly greeted by...
Memories from the Archives – October 1997
Strange what some thieves find attractive – it was reported in October 1997 that a Casio calculator (value £50), digital clock radio and, wait...
