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Fears grow for safety of missing Mary
GARDAÍ ARE APPEALING to the public for help in the search for a missing Carlow woman who hasn't been seen by family or friends in a week. 42-year-old Mary Ryder was last seen in Carlow town at 2.30 p. m last Tuesday, March 2. Gardaí this week said they are growing increasingly concerned about her well-being.
'Granny' misses out on Oscar
CARLOW HOPEFUL Kathleen O'Rourke didn't manage to get her hands an Oscar at the glitzy ceremony on Sunday. The Ballyhide woman was beaten to the podium for best animated short film by 'Logorama' by Nicolas Schmerkin a little comedy about a world that was taken over by logos and is centred around a world taken over by corporations.
Guide price €150... sold for €110,000!
A CARLOW FAMILY had a bonanza straight out of an episode of 'Only Fools and Horses' last week when an antique Chinese vase that was auctioned with a guide price of just €150 ended up selling for a whopping €110,000.
St Patrick's day plans across the county
CARLOW: CARLOW TOWN is rapidly turning green as shops, pubs and other businesses get decked out ahead of Wednesday's St. Patrick's Day parade next week.
Dragons dig deep to invest in bin trasher
A CARLOW INVENTOR met with success when he stepped in to The Dragons Den and saw an investor put her hand in her pocket for the first time in the history of the show.
400 apply for just one job
MORE THAN 400 people sent CVs to Carlow County Council when it advertised a general operatives job. The council was inundated with application forms for the post that includes general maintenance and manual work on sewers, water mains and roads.
Con artist pretending to be a plumber
GARDAI ARE warning people to be wary of a con artist who is operating in the Carlow area. A man, who passed himself off as a plumber, called to a house in St Mary's Park on Friday evening and told the occupant that he wanted to check for a leak upstairs as he was working on the house next door.
Aware of costs, more motorists are going for diesel vehicles
MORE AND more motorists are choosing diesel over petrol as people are becoming more financially aware of the day to day running costs of a vehicle. Sales manager at Dooley Motors in Carlow Michael Denieff says he has seen a huge increase in the demand for diesel vehicles.
Deflating defeat in Garden County
SUNDAY'S NFL game in Aughrim was a deflating experience for Carlow in light of previous good results against the Garden County of late, but failure must consider the absence of front-line forwards JJ Smith and Daniel St. Leger (suspended) Simon Rea (injured) and the prolonged absence of team captain Brian Murphy who attended on crutches after a cruciate operation.
BAGENALSTOWN BEAT: Happy Birthday 1st Bagenalstown Scouts Troop
ON SUNDAY afternoon the 1st Bagenalstown Baden-Powell Scouts Troop celebrated their first birthday. The Scout Troop may be youthful, in many senses, but the afternoons party activities, particularly the premiere showing of thirty minute long DVD, chronicling the years wealth of activities and events, belie the fact that this marks an triumphant end to only the inaugural year.
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