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Offaly ExpressTuesday, 5 June 2012 By Lynda Kiernan Two Portarlington friends are embarking on a brave and possibly dangerous mission this Friday June 8. Alan Mitchell and Eoin O’Neill are planning to paddle 100 miles of the river Barrow from Port to New Ross in a two may kayak. The intrepid pair are hoping that

Northside People EastWednesday 20 June 2012 By AoibhinnTwomey This is courageous little Northside girl who survived on an artificial heart machine in a London children’s hospital before receiving a lifesaving transplant. Holly Keogh (3), who was suffering with end-stage heart failure, spent six months attached to a ‘Berlin Heart’ in Great Ormond Street Hospital before

Connacht SentinelTuesday 19 June 2012 Tag Rugby It wasn’t quite as bad as the previous week when the torrential rain stopped play before it began, but conditions last Friday evening were still about as poor as you can get for tag rugby. The change of day to accommodate Ireland vs Spain unfortunately coincided with the

Offaly ExpressTuesday, 5 June 2012 Sponsored Kayak Alan Mitchell and Eoin O’Neill will take to the River Barrow from Portarlington to Waterford on Friday June 8 to Sunday June 10.  This is in aid of a local Sudden Adult Death Syndrome Victims Family.