ABBEYFEALE has been named the overall winner of the Cadbury and Today FM Sound Town Award for 2021. Judges chose from seven entries across the country, each emb.
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Search By Live95 News Team Seven in ten Limerick people appreciate the community they live in according to Cadbury Ireland.
The 2021 Cadbury Community Survey sampled over 1,100 people across the country and Limerick’s sense of community spirit shone through the results.
73% of the Limerick public have volunteered with a charity, club or community group and 62% have recently checked in with a neighbour or family member.
Nationally, 98% of Irish people have helped others in some way over the past year – from calling to check on a family member or friend, or an elderly neighbour, to food shopping for someone cocooning.
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Weekend Breakfast are delighted to announce that we are once again going on the hunt for Ireland’s soundest town with our wonderful sponsors Cadbury.
It is such an amazing campaign that highlights the incredible spirit of towns up and down the country. We hear so many heartwarming inspiring stories.
We started the Cadbury Soundtown campaign in 2019 and our winning town was Fartown in Co. Galway.
Helen Power was the woman who entered her hometown of Kilmacthomas in Waterford into the Cadbury Soundtown 2020 Competition. She spoke to Aliso Curtis about how much it meant to them to win it last year. Alison also spoke to Tricia Burke from Cadbury Ireland about why this competition means so much to them:
From Teddy Ballgame to Yaz, heâs seen it all from his seat at Fenway Park
Even a pandemic canât dampen 84-year-old spirits on an Opening Day when hope springs eternal
By Thomas Farragher Globe Columnist,Updated April 1, 2021, 5:42 p.m.
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John Kilroy, 84, is ready to attend another Opening Day at Fenway Park.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
He walks slowly now, a revered father and grandfather, but days like this can transport him back to when he was a little kid â a 12-year-old from Jamaica Plain who sat in reverential silence each time Ted Williams approached the plate.