Fota announces the last two births of the decade at the...
Fota Wildlife Park announced the birth of two Lion-tailed macaque babies born to mothers Kelly and Lizzy and to father Mauzer. Nine-year-old Kelly gave birth...
Memories from the Archives – December 1998
On Friday, December 11, 1998 the LEADER group presented a second employment grant to local man Dominic O’Brien who had set up Hillside Recycling...
The unusual story of a fishing rod
By Jerry Keating
Some years ago while fishing the lakes of Killarney, I asked my fishing companion John ‘Chippy’ Condon if we could switch fishing...
Down memory lane
By Margaret O'Hanlon
Recently I took a trip down memory lane to my childhood in MacCurtain Street in the 1940s and 1950s. Life in...
Doing the Wren – 1980s style
An interesting insight into 'doing the Wren' almost 40 years ago comes courtesy of The Avondhu archives dating from January 1981.
'Going with two...
A Winter wonderland in India
By Annie Quinn
We had travelled from Kildorrery early in December, to do voluntary work, teaching English to the Tibetan people in Northern India and had...
Row row row your boat on a shoe string budget
By Michael O'Brien
On returning home one weekend quite recently I could see from the bridge in Fermoy the clear bank of the river right up...
Cottage restoration ‘overwhelming’ for American family
“It would require a language beyond my mind to express the gratitude and love that I feel toward all of you for the collective...
Tim Nagle – Cork hurler & Killavullen native
By Christy Roche
On November 6th, 1928 the Cork Examiner carried an account of the unveiling of a monument in Killavullen Catholic Church grounds on...
Araglen RIC Barracks raid – The first to be captured in...
By Neil Donovan
While a number of IRA companies/battalions around the country claim the distinction of being the first to attack and capture an RIC...
