“I’m on three acres of land with lots of maintenance: trees to trim and prune and so on. It’s too much for one lady on her own.” Robyn, who had been with her jeweller husband for 53 years, said he had always been interested in building things. “Just a couple of months after we moved into a house in 1968, he knocked the front wall out and built a staircase. A year or two after that, he built a huge jewellery workshop, a concrete block building. It was like a little house.”
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The vardo-style caravan has two solar panels.
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Some missed the direction and celebrated on April 1, leading them to be made fun of. However, this too is disputed, especially in Britain where the calendar was not introduced until 1752.
Others have linked it to the ancient Roman festival of Hilaria, where at the end of March, people would dress up and make fun of each other.
Whatever its origins, the day has given rise to some famous – and infamous – pranks in more modern times.
Shannon Airport to be renamed
In 2014, local radio station Clare FM ran a story that Shannon Airport was to be renamed in honour of All-Ireland winning manger Davy Fitzgerald.
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