Painting the Community Centre, Changes at Bank of Ireland and Olive Stack's mural

Morning in Listowel Pitch and Putt course

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Molly is still enjoying her trip to Listowel

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Painting work continues at Lisatowel Community centre

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I Met the Hannons in The Square

Danny, Eileen and Maurice out for a stroll in the July sunshine

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Aspects of The Listowel Arms Hotel

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Changes at Bank of Ireland

They're changing the interior layout of the bank. I'll keep you posted.

Olive Stack's mural is still intact.

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The First of the Beal Spuds

Photo: Ita Hannon

Do you remember when the first of the new potatoes would come into the grocery shop and the grocer would boil a muller of them and plonk them outside the door?

 There was no better advertisement.

Ita Hannon's photo took me back to those days and I just know that there is many an emigrant mouth watering at the sight.

Casette Tapes, Fishing in Béal, Cinderella and some festive shop windows

What a shot!    photo by Thomas Healy

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Today's Blast from the Part

photo; Irish Abroad

Do you know the relationship?

You used the pencil to rewind the tape when it got pulled out or snaggled in the cassette tape player. These were great recorders. You could mix your own music and record messages for friends. There was a little stopper that you could pull out and your recording would last forever…or until technology overtook it and there was no longer any machine to play it on.

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That was Then: This is Now

Both these photographs were taken by Ita Hannon of Beal. The first shows Michael Hannon fishing in Beal, using a naomhóg and a small net. He was carrying on a fishing tradition that has been in his family for generations.

The second photo was taken by Ita recently. It shows two trawlers with big nets fishing the same waters.

The irony is that the small fisherman was stopped from fishing here some years back, allegedly out of fears for the depletion of fish stock.

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Panto Time

The lines are learned, the costume making is complete, now it's time to book your tickets. They are on sale now from the charities listed in the poster below.

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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas