The local paper The Offaly Independent this week has a story of two swans having fatal accidents at the bridge in Athlone last week.Seems the swans flew into cables on the bridge. On Tuesday night a swan was on the middle of the street in Shannonbridge and Rose and Declan Ryan checked it out and found it to be all right.
The Midland Tribune the local paper based in Birr carries a notice this week that it is to be taken over by a group that have a number of local papers under their wing. Lets hope this is not a swan song for The Tribune.