A well-attended meeting at the Charleville Park Hotel on last Monday night, organised by Cllr Ian Doyle, heard Senator Mary Fitzpatrick - Fianna Fáil spokesperson for Housing, Local Government and Heritage - outline the many different grants available for first time buyers.
THE Banteer Drama Group are looking forward to their Spring production with an adaption of the hilarious comedy ‘Separate Beds’ in the Glen Theatre commencing on Easter Sunday night.
Dublin City Council and partners are pleased to announce the digital launch of the artist’s reconstruction of St John’s Priory, Kilmainham by Stephen Conlin, as part of the Dublin Festival of History 2022.
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”.