Memories from the Archives – March 2000
Rows and disputes at Fermoy Urban District Council (UDC) meetings were a regular occurrence, but this time 21 years ago it was between the...
Memories from the Archives – March 9 2000
Vandalism in a Mitchelstown laneway was leading the news in the year 2000, as businesses in New Square said they were ‘sick’ of the...
Memories from the Archives – March 2000
Before the days of the M8 motorway, Mitchelstown’s roads were a quagmire of blocked streets. Such was the problem, that the town set up...
Memories from the Archives – March 2000
Fermoy Urban District Council always provided drama back in the early 2000s, with walk-outs and rows between councillors a regular occurrence. Such was the case...
Memories from the Archives – March 2000
As noted last week, there was always drama associated with Fermoy Urban District Council (UDC) and its members either side of the turn of...
Memories from the Archives – April 2000
There were tributes to popular radio presenter Robert Walshe, as he moved from 103FM to take up a role in Dublin. The new job would...
Memories from the Archives – April 2000
There were reports of fun and frolics at Mac’s Bar in Fermoy as a competition was held to find the town’s Karaoke Queen. The...
Memories from the Archives – April 2000
Tensions were high in Clogheen as a lengthy and heated debate took place in St Paul’s Community Hall, following a revelation that up to...
Memories from the Archives – May 2000
A ‘rather folically challenged’ Bartlemy farmer decided to do ‘the ultimate in self adoration’, when getting his eyebrow pierced for Telethon People In Need....
Memories from the Archives – May 2000
It was a narrow escape for 73 year old Catherine Sheehan of Corrin, Fermoy, after a forty-foot articulated lorry ploughed into the front garden...