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February 2001
sheltered housing ready for occupation at day care centre a new sheltered housing scheme for the elderly containing ten houses and an on-site caretaker is ready for occupation at the site of the old tech in carrick. kilcar's parish priest, fr john gallagher has been driving this project with enthusiasm for this past number of years and the fruits of his labours are now evident. the cost of the scheme was around £550,000 and among the funders were: the...
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Janurary 2001
snow in carrick the snow came and gave the kids a christmas holiday that they will remember for a long time. meanwhile, not a lot of travel was possible, even to the shop to get milk and bread, and not all the deliveries made it to the local shops either. major inconvenience was caused to many and one local incident was reported in the online edition of the irish independent. it may have been in the paper version of the newspaper also. theresa hegarty...
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November 2000
teasy opens shop in carrick mary byrne from straleel, or teasy as she is better known, has opened a new interior decor shop on the main street, carrick providing curtains, paint, wallpaper, duvet covers and an interior design and decorating service. the new shop is located at carolann/michael oliver's shop beside their house carrick lady is slimming champion. margaret doherty of carrick represented donegal in the western...
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October 2000
teelin man represents ireland once again, cathal macginley (as well as sonia o sullivan) made the athletics headlines in donegal, as he competed for ireland in the international combined events competition in waterford recently. in the senior men's decathlon, cathal had his first ever outing in the irish colours. he managed to finish second of the irish competitors, despite a slight hamstring injury, and helped ireland to an excellent second place in the...
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September 2000
world's largest fishing vessel in killybegs. it cost £50m. it measures 144.6 metres in length. it can store 7000 tonnes of frozen fish. it can process 350 tonnes of fish per day. it will have a crew of about 100 people. the "atlantic dawn" is no ordinary fishing boat. it is the biggest in the world and was on display to the public (huge queues) for a few days in killybegs before moving to far away fishing grounds. it is owned by kevin mchugh, the mayo...
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August 2000
cliff tragedy claims life of belfast man the funeral took place in belfast of the 41-year old man who died in a cliff tragedy off malinbeg recently. david atkinson from belfast fell almost 70 feet to his death from the cliffs at malinbeg. along with his 10-year old son and a group of friends, mr. atkinson had arrived in donegal and set up camp in the area. the party were sitting around the campfire at around 3 a.m. when mr. atkinson lost his balance and fell from the cliff...
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July 2000
helicopters at bunglas - a major stone lifting operation took place in early july where a helicopter spent two days lifting huge bags of large stones from croughlin up to the location for the new path beyond the car park at bunglas. the operation is part of the county council/údarás na gaeltachta project to improve the management of traffic and to prevent erosion at slieve league. the stones were first taken by lorry to the car park inside the gate above cassidys...
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June 2000
gary & finola in horror flight - you might have heard about the flight which was on it's way from dublin to the algarve recently which had to divert to gatwick because of technical problems. gary & finola breslin and daughter shona were on board the "near disaster" flight and lived to tell the tale. apparently it was the most horrific flight of all time - the pilot, having discovered that the cabin pressure was dropping, took fast corrective action to remedy a dangerous situation...
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May 2000
county development plan - public meeting in carrick - a massive crowd attended the meeting on monday 17th april 2000 organised by donegal county council to discuss the proposed amendments to the draft county development plan. most of the meeting was taken up discussing planning and in particular the difficulties facing local people who want to build in category 3 areas tv deflector licence - the local tv group are collecting £20 per household...
