Arigna

Poi la gara Fisi, senior e master ed infine il raduno, l'essenza, la storia di questa manifestazione che riprende il vecchio rallye della val d'Arigna. Un percorso duro, molto tecnico che ha visto primeggiare il campione europeo Michele Boscacci (2 ...

Utter devastation met Cllr Michael McCarthy of Fianna Fail when he visited the Dillon farm at Cooleshall, Freshford in the aftermath of the floods. For generations the Dillon family have farmed on the outskirts of Freshford where the Nuenna and Arigna ...

Special presentation at Strabaggan NS. 30 Sept 2015. 0. The youngest and oldest pupils at Strabraggan NS are pictured with the School Prinicpal and members. The Irish Army made a visit to Strabraggan National School, Arigna last Wednesday to present ...

What's history, he said. I'll tell you what it is. History is the other man's story. The man who owned the pit. Not the story of the likes of us. Who worked in it. I wrote that poem years after the Arigna coal mines closed in July 1990, not long after ...

Arigna's Bridie Beirne bids a tearful farewell to her team and colleagues at Carrick-on-Shannon's The Landmark Hotel. House Keeping Supervisor Bridie Beirne is pictured here with The Landmark's owners, brothers Ciaran & John Kelly. Arigna's Bridie ...

The first essay, by regular contributor Brian Leyden (who grew up in Arigna), opened with Leyden explaining how hard he still finds “giving directions to the Arigna Mining Experience” (a visitor centre built on the site of the defunct mine). When ...