Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Liam Clancy died on Friday 4th December 2009 aged 74 years.
Liam was the remaining member of the ballad group that were known as
"The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.He was laid to rest on Monday
in Ring County Waterford. May he rest in peace.

A Kilbeggan-15-year-old Irish Whiskey was crowned 'World-wide Whiskey
of the Year at the 2009 International Wine and Spirit Competition
Awards Banquet held in London recently.
See offaly Independent Dec 5th page 6 at their website
www.offalyindependent.ie

Tommy and Jimmy Swarbrigg were featured in 'A Little Bit of Showband'
on RTE1 shown on Sunday 6th December.
This was the 4th part in a series.

The Connacht Tribune December 4th has lots of pictures and stories
of the recent floods.
See www.galwaynews.ie

On Tuesday 8th a Chrismas Card arrived from Sydney Australia.
This card has a photograph of Martin Pat Coleman with the famous
Opera House in the background.

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