Mike Doherty was reading a book about fish behaviour and noted that a pike can know that there is another fish in distress within a two mile radius. Hence his concern for the illegal fishing using live fish as bait.No doubt you would send out a distress message if you had a great big ugly treble hook stuck into you like the live fish bait.

''Never ask a fox to mind the hens'' says a Maguire and Patterson matchbox.

Looking back at the early years of Local News on www.shannonbridge.com
the death of Bob Monkhouse was noted. 'They all laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now.

Turraun a townland near Ferbane is a condensed word for 'tabhair dom aran' or 'give me bread'

www.discoverireland.ie/offaly has lots of local information.
www.loughbooraparklands.ie is a place to visit when you next stay in Shannonbridge. Have a look at their website now.

Shannonbridge and Clonmacnois Mid Summer Festival takes place from
Thursday 24 -- Sunday 27th June 2010.
Various indoor and outdoor events in both Clonmacnois and Shannonbridge.

Good dash of rain fell this evening and I noticed that the daffodils
planted on the approach fingers to the Cloghan Roundabout have stretched in the last week and many are now in full bloom.

At the Tidy Town table-quiz on Wednesday Bridie Carry and Kathleen Price
formed a team and won the first prize. And better still they won two of the three prizes
that were set up for the raffle. Not bad going and not a Madge or a Michael in sight.
What will happen next week when Madge and Michael link up with them again.?