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Bord na Mona award Boora café contract to Offaly couple
Reporter:
11 May 2021
Orla Clancy with her son Kieran at Lough Boora where the Clancy family have begun operating the Organic Kitchen );
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AN Offaly couple have won the contract from Bord na Mona to run the café at Lough Boora Parklands.
As controversy raged over the company s decision to award the bike hire service to a Dublin-based company, Orla Clancy was busy at her newly established Organic Kitchen in Boora.
Orla Clancy and her husband Sean run Clanwood Organic Farm in Cloghan and set up the Organic Kitchen, using a custom-built trailer to bring their produce to events like the Tullamore Show and Electric Picnic.
Teresa and Timothy Mitchell - Died 11 April, 2020 and 6 May, 2020
Teresa Brophy and Timothy Mitchell met at a dinner dance in the Ormonde Hotel in Dublin. It was love at first sight according to their daughter Therese. Timothy would often miss his last bus home to Dún Laoghaire, walking Teresa back to Christchurch. The couple were married for 58 years and lived in Walkinstown. They had four children and five grandchildren.
Timothy worked for a battery manufacturer in Drimnagh, but as a trained tenor, singing was his passion. He often serenaded his wife Teresa with the song Sweet Sixteen . He was a talented pitch and putt player too, winning many trophies over the years.
Finding out where our ancestors came from and what they went through in their lives is an important rite of passage, particularly in the context of the pandemic as our ordinary lives have been thrown so far out of sync.
Enniscorthy TD James Browne has been busy researching his family tree. Describing this as something he has always wanted to do, he explained that he found himself with more time on his hands in the evenings during the various lockdowns, and was first encouraged to explore the Browne family connected to Askamore after local man David Donohoe got the ball rolling.
Finding out where our ancestors came from and what they went through in their lives is an important rite of passage, particularly in the context of the pandemic as our ordinary lives have been thrown so far out of sync.
Enniscorthy TD James Browne has been busy researching his family tree. Describing this as something he has always wanted to do, he explained that he found himself with more time on his hands in the evenings during the various lockdowns, and was first encouraged to explore the Browne family connected to Askamore after local man David Donohoe got the ball rolling.