Memories from the Archives – September 2001
The front page of The Avondhu on 20th September, 2001 featured coverage of how the region showed its ‘solidarity with the American people’ following...
Memories from the Archives – November 1999
Gardai were hunting for thieves who broke into a number of cars in the town of Fermoy. The crimes took place in a spate...
Memories from the Archives – October 2000
A historic step was taken for Mitchelstown Credit Union, as the contracts for the building of the new premises at the site on Upper...
Looking back to December 1994 – Avondhu headlines
Certainly no Christmas spirit in Mitchelstown in December 1994, as some individual continued to be a ‘pane’ to authorities and members of the public,...
Memories from the Archives – September 1997
Pride of place locally following the release of results in the 1997 Tidy Towns competition went to Ballyporeen, who gained an impressive 13 points...
Memories from the Archives – March 1998
A dog with three legs and answering to the name ‘Ranger’ was causing ‘severe distress’ to factory workers in St Joseph’s Square, Fermoy. Workers...
Memories from the Archives – August 2001
One front page of The Avondhu in August 2001 told of how 25,000 made their way to Mitchelstown for the music festival, cementing its...
Memories From The Archives – June 1997
A ‘well organised and well attended rave party’, held in Glenseskin Woods, Kilworth was raided at 2am by local members of An Garda Siochana,...
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...
Memories from the Archives – October 2000
There was huge relief in Ballyporeen, as baby John Donal O’Brien, who had been kidnapped from Erinville Hospital in Cork less than 24 hours...
