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

Features - On A Clare Day

Monday, 11 October 2010 08:25

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...

12 October, 1900 - Holland’s No. 6, designed by Liscannor inventor John P. Holland, is commissioned and becomes the first submarine of the American Navy

13 October, 1998 – Clare farmers, furious over the collapse in cattle prices, join their colleagues by staging an overnight sit-in protest at the Department of Agriculture and Food in Dublin and warn much tougher action will be taken
14 October, 1882 - Eamon de Valera, Clare T.D., Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, New York of a Spanish father and an Irish mother
15 October, 1998 - An Taisce and the Burren Action Group formally lodge appeals to An Bord Pleanala against Clare County Council's decision to reject planning permission for visitor facilities at Mullaghmore in the Burren National Park
16 October, 1961 – RTÉ news reports on the closure of the West Clare Railway
17 October, 1803 - Birth of Young Irelander, William Smith O'Brien in Dromoland
17 October, 1996 - A Crusheen Fianna Fail councillor denies he got £400,000 by fraud while he was a senior executive at Shannon Free Airport Development Company
17 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