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On A Clare Day Down Through History (Nov 22-28)

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A selection of events that occured in County Clare on this week down through history.

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On A Clare Day Down Through History (Oct 25-31)

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25 October, 2002 – Actor Richard Harris, loses his battle to cancer.
25 October, 1818 - Birth of opera singer Catherine Hayes in Limerick
26 October, 2009 – The Clare senior hurling squad register their opposition to Mike McNamara continuing as their manager
27 October, 1651 - Surrender of Limerick
27 October, 2000 - Severe storm batters Clare causing power cuts and interruptions in road, rail, air and sea transport services
28 October, 2008 - Clonlara end their 89-year wait for a County Senior Hurling title
29 October, 2002 - Continuous heavy rain brings flooding to many parts of the county
30 October, 1847 - Andrew Joseph Thynne, later to become a prominent Australian politician, is born in Clare
31 October, 1905 - Clare native Sir Bryan O'Loghlen (left), 3rd Baronet, Australian colonial politician and the 13th Premier of Victoria, dies in Australia

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On A Clare Day Down Through History - Oct 18-23

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18 October, 2000 – Hundreds of passengers are stranded at Shannon Airport as Aer Lingus grounds planes in the worst strike to hit the airline in 20 years

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On A Clare Day Down Through History - Oct 11-17

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11 October, 1999 - All the primary school principals in Co Clare strike as part of a State-wide campaign highlighting the increasing difficulties of principals who have full-time teaching duties...

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On A Clare Day Down Through History (Sept 20-26)

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20 Sept, 1847- GAA founder Michael Cusack is born in Carron
21 Sept, 2001 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announces that Ireland will put Shannon Airport at the disposal of the US in the battle against terrorism
22 Sept, 1920 - Mid-Clare Brigade, IRA, kill six policemen at Rineen, near Miltown Malbay
24 Sept, 2008 - The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney T.D., announces today that arising from the sad deaths of Ms. Anne Moriarty and Ms. Edel Kelly, she has asked HIQA to carry out an independent review of services at Ennis General Hospital
25 Sept, 1697 - Catholic clergy banished from Clare by Act of Parliament.
26 Sept, 1713 - Charles Lucas (pictured left), physician, MP and political radical, is born in Ballingaddy, Ennis
26 Sept, 1932 – Clare T.D. Eamon De Valera opens the 13th Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva