The Shannonbridge / Doon Lotto Jackpot survived this weeks punters.Only Bernie Duffy,Phil Spollen and P.Egan from Doon selected three of the four winning numbers which were 5, 20, 21 and 28.Over 300 people from the Shannonbridge area have season tickets paid for and their numbers are entered each week.
Rosie Curley Crevagh is Gus Claffeys Aunt and Gus was telling us that recently he enquired from this sprightly 88 year old on her recollection of Michael and Brigid Flannery that we wrote on recently.She told Gus that Michael Flannery was killed on May 17th 1918 when cutting a tree at Moystown and that his wife Brigid, who came from Bloomhill and had a material and thread shop in Shannonbridge died on April 10th 1948.