Memories from the Archives – August 1999
The Mitchelstown Music Festival was hailed a great success in 1999, as 10,000 people came to the town to celebrate the bank holiday weekend. There...
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 – June 1999
Joan Sweeney, representing the Pipers Inn, was crowned Queen of the Galtees in 1999 following a competition that gripped the region. After a hard fought campaign, she...
Memories from the Archives – December 23 1999
A manhunt was launched for armed bank robbers who took an estimated £14,000 at the AIB Bank in Mitchelstown.
It was the second time that...
Memories from the Archives – August 1997
Management and staff at the state-owned Moorepark farm were counting the cost of a BSE outbreak among its prime dairy herd in August 1997....
Memories from the Archives – May 1999
The issue of priestly celibacy was the top story 21 years ago as a local councillor began the fight to remove the measure. Cllr Conor O’Callaghan...
Memories from the Archives – November 2000
This week 21 years ago it seems the battle was lost, as locals in Fermoy were faced with the fact that the government had "every...
Memories from the Archives – December 2001
In December 2001, The Avondhu carried the news that Post Offices in rural villages were suffering as An Post was refusing to provide them...
Memories from the Archives – November 2001
Buddy’s Toy, a seven-year-old mare owned by a Fermoy syndicate, brought riches to many locals when the 100/1 outsider came home in first place...
Memories from the Archives – October 1997
Presidential candidate Mary Banotti, ‘buoyed up by an early morning opinion poll’ conducted by MRBI, which placed her in second place behind Mary McAleese...
