News from Ireland - news from around the 32 counties

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"I went into the Brandon Hotel for a meal and I was just finishing up when a musician I knew, Dermot Flynn, told me that Neil Armstrong would be coming into the hotel in about five minutes' time.

"Sure enough, he came in shortly afterwards with a big entourage of security people. I thought I wouldn't be able to get near him but I was actually able to go up and shake his hand.
[Source: Westmeath Independent]

WEXFORD

The daughter of the north Wexford man who was found dead in his front garden having died of asphyxiation has said the family is in limbo and will not know for months whether or not the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is going to bring a case against a woman charged in relation to his death.

Mr. Plunkett was found in the grounds of his home at Ballyedmond, just off the main Wexford to Gorey road, following a 999 call to the Gardaí (police) on Sunday afternoon, August 19.
[Source: Wexford Echo]

WICKLOW

An Irish-born red kite has nested and bred chicks in Ireland for the first time in nearly 200 years.

The male bird, which was born in 2010 to donor stocks of red kites brought in from Wales, was recorded breeding at a nest on a farm near Redcross, Co. Wicklow, earlier this summer. The event marks a major milestone for Co. Wicklow’s red kite reintroduction program which aims to restore Ireland’s native population of kites to their traditional haunts.
[Source: Irish Times]
 

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