Steve and Liz Nell are a well known couple in the area having come on holiday for many years and then buying a cottage beside The Suck river at Creggane.Since they have a holiday home they often come over for visits from Steve's workplace in Sheffield. They are just about to finish their present visit and tell us that they will have more time to visit when they sell their business back in Sheffield in the next few weeks.
Steve loves to coarse fish and was very pleased with his catches on the jetties at Ballinasloe and Shannonbridge catching roach and hyrid and pike which are returned alive. On Saturday he mentioned that he always sees a kingfisher bird when he is out fishing and reckons there must be a lot of them around. The bird is featured on the Irish ten cent stamp and has a range of reds and blues coating with a fairly long beak.
The wife Liz is a dog lover and offers a safe home to abondoned dogs that are dropped off usually a few weeks after Christmas. At one time she had four dogs which were dropped off in Shannonbridge over a period. So the dropped off dogs group will be glad to hear that Steve and Liz will be over here more often in the future.