Moves Made by State to Return Bones Taken in Emergency Dig on Omey Island 30 Years Ago
24th May 2021
Omey island, Connemara
Relatives of Omey islanders have renewed their appeal for a return of bones taken by the State in an emergency excavation three decades ago.
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The Sunday Times reports, a professor of archaeology has been contacted about human remains removed from Omey off Claddaghduff in Connemara in 1992, which residents have campaigned for years to be returned.
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage said last week that it had approached Tadhg O’Keeffe, a University College Dublin professor, to discuss his excavation on the Co Galway tidal island and “the matter of the burials in the context of the local interest”.
Clifden RNLI rescue two walkers who got cut off by the tide yesterday evening Published: Monday, 12 April 2021 11:09
Clifden RNLI came to the aid of two walkers who got cut off by the tide yesterday evening.
The crew were requested to launch the lifeboat by the Irish Coast Guard just before 6pm following a report that two people were stranded on Omey Island.
The inshore Atlantic 85 class lifeboat helmed by Kenny Flaherty and with three crew members onboard, launched immediately and made its way to the scene.
Weather conditions at the time were good.
Once on scene, the lifeboat crew checked that the two people were safe and well before proceeding to transfer them on to the lifeboat and bring them back to shore at Claddaghduff.
Updated / Monday, 11 Jan 2021
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Will Goodbody: The memories of witnessing the deserted streets and boarded-up shops in Dublin city centre will never leave me
It was the week of March 8 that the penny properly dropped that things were about to really change and not in a good way,
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Will Goodbody, RTÉ Business Editor, recalling a momentous year
Over the previous weeks we d watched and began to report on how a strange new virus was starting to spread around the globe.
From my point of view, that reporting was focused on the growing impact it was beginning to have on world markets, on Irish and international supply chains and on the huge economy of China.