Memories from the Archives – January 1998
What was established as being the body of a young seal was located by a farmer spreading fertiliser ‘in the middle of a large...
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 – June 1998
The production line was officially started in June 1998 on a £1m contract secured by ‘dessert manufacturer’, Silver Pail Dairy, to supply Tesco Ireland...
Memories from the Archives – May 2001
Front page news 21 years ago included a report that 300 people made their way to a public meeting at Kilcoran Lodge to protest against...
Memories from the Archives – April 1998
Workmen laying sewer pipes on the Demesne in Mitchelstown came across a tomb containing human bones in April 1998. The find occurred on land...
Memories from the Archives – March 1999
A Mitchelstown father of seven was appealing for help to the council to fix his ‘falling down house’. 21 years ago the property at...
Memories From The Archives – February 1996
It’s like a joke you’d hear told, ‘Did you hear the one about the fox that walked into a pub and …’; well, rewind...
Memories from the Archives – December 2000
The Christmas edition of The Avondhu 21 years ago led with the headline that there was an average of two arrests per week locally...
Memories from the Archives – April 1999
Little changes in news down through the years, the same issues keep cropping up. Sometimes in the same communities as today.
Water treatment problems were...
Memories from the Archives – December 1998
The chairman of Mitchelstown Heritage Society, Bill Power, hit out at those who claimed insufficient consultation took place prior to demolishing the public toilets...
