Offaly people share their favourite memories of the county
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In response to an Offaly Express call-out last week, you have responded in your hundreds with your favourite Offaly memories.
Most of you remembered summer success on the GAA front with greatest fondness, while others went for the Ploughing Championships or simply the first reopening of the pubs after lockdown last year.
Read some of people s favourite memories below:. You can use the #OffalyMemories hashtag to add your memories to the collection on social media.
Susan Owens
Padraig Tooher
Showing my age here now, watching Offaly beat Kerry in the 1972 football All-Ireland in the Hop Egan s pub in Boora with my father. First time I saw a colour TV. Great atmosphere and great memories. Legends like McTague, Cooney, Bryan, and McCormack.
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Drinkers in South Africa may cheer the government s decision to lift the latest bar on alcohol sales, but the wine sector fears the move has come too late to save thousands of jobs.
The key industry has been badly hit by a string of booze bans, imposed to ease the number of trauma cases in hospitals burdened by coronavirus patients.
The third such restriction, imposed on December 28 as South Africa struggled with a second Covid wave, was lifted on Monday.
But the announcement will do little to raise morale.
Wine businesses have not been able to earn any income from local wine sales for a total of 20 weeks since March 2020, said Rico Basson, head of Vin Pro, representing 2,500 producers and other stakeholders in the wine industry.
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The South African wine industry has been hit hard by bans of alcohol sales during various Covid-19 lockdowns, resulting in many producers going out of business. afp
South Africa’s wine industry reeling from alcohol bans
Tue, 9 February 2021
Drinkers in South Africa may cheer the government’s decision to lift the latest bar on alcohol sales, but the wine sector fears the move has come too late to save thousands of jobs.
The key industry has been badly hit by a string of booze bans, imposed to ease the number of trauma cases in hospitals burdened by coronavirus patients.