Louth to feature on TV chef Neven Maguire s hit show tonight
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This week, Neven’s Irish Seafood Trails leads him north east along the County Louth coastline to the historic town of Carlingford, where oysters have been farmed for centuries. He calls in at the Carlingford Oyster Company situated beside Carlingford Lough, and as the oyster beds are 1km from the shore, Neven takes a trip out to the bay to meet owner Kian Louet –Feisser.
Neven learns how Kian’s father Peter sailed into Carlingford in the 1960s in a wooden yacht he built himself, and established the farm which specialises in Pacific oysters. Kian explains how the oysters take three years to grow and have a distinctive ‘tear-drop’ shape and a flavour unique to their Carlingford Lough environment, and Neven enjoys an oyster tasting.
Limerick s Niamh De Brun on life in lockdown, keeping fit and postponing her wedding to Kilkenny hurler TJ Reid
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Niamh de Brún is getting the county moving with her January lockdown boot camp and it’s exactly what we need after the extra indulgence from the extended Christmas break.
Originally from Limerick, Niamh moved to Kilkenny in 2016 after she met her now fiancé Kilkenny hurling star TJ Reid. The couple live in the countryside of Ballyhale on a farm with their adorable husky Casper.
Niamh was crowned ‘Miss Kilkenny’ in 2017, where she went on to represent the Marble City in Miss Ireland. She studied Business in the University of Limerick and has worked for many years in the corporate world of Human Relations.
OBITUARY: Literary Limerick mourns Mark Whelan
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LITERARY Limerick will mourn the death of Poet Mark Whelan of Vizes Court, off St. Joseph’s Street, and formerly of Colbert Park, Janesboro who passed away (peacefully) at University Hospital, Limerick on Tuesday January 19 2021.
Mark was born in Limerick in 1960 and, with Paul Sweeney, was instrumental both in the establishment of Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival, of which he was a committee member, and in the revival of The Stony Thursday Book literary journal, for which he was editor of four editions.
His collections of poetry are Scarecrow Dyptich (Anam, Press, 2003), Pushing The Pull Door (Revival Press, 2008, with illustrations by Limerick artist John Shinnors), and The Seer of Wounds (Doghouse, 2012).
Top: Carlingford, Co. Louth, the main town on the Cooley Peninsula, with Slieve Foy in the background.
Bottom: Deirble s Twist, Fallmore, Mullet Peninsula, Co. Mayo. Images: Tourism Ireland.
By Darina Molloy
Mayo on the west coast and Louth on the east, boast some of the most historic sites in Ireland, and now locals living in the area of the Cooley Peninsula and Ballina can expect many the curious traveler on the trail of President Joe Biden’s Irish ancestors.
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Wee Louth and Mighty Mayo – what do they have in common? Well, certainly not their size nor their location in Ireland, but as it happens, they share one very important son: President Joseph Biden. With his mother’s Blewitt ancestors hailing from Ballina, County Mayo, and her Finnegan family traced back to the Cooley Peninsula, Co. Louth, the 46