Memories from the Archives – June 2000
Following calls from the public, the 1996-1999 accounts of the Mitchelstown Leisure Centre Committee were published in June 2000. One of the biggest fundraisers was...
Memories from the Archives – June 2000
A sign of the changing times was heralded as the price of The Avondhu was 85p (or €1.08). Pay parking was proving to be...
Memories from the Archives – June 2000
The Festival of the Galtees was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2000. The five-day event would see the selection of a new queen and...
Memories from the Archives – May 2000
A community was left shaken following a horrific robbery in Ballindangan in May 2000. Gardai were investigating the horrific two-hour ordeal in which three elderly...
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 – 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 – 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 – 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
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 – 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...
