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Jim Cronin with his four year old Percheron workhorses at home in Ballyknavin, Bridgetown. Eamon Ward

Tragedy

Members of Ennis Gardaí and Clare Civil Defence recover a body from the River Fergus in Ennis on Monday afternoon. Eamon Ward

Davy is story of the summer

Waterford’s Eoin Kelly embraces manager Davy Fitzgerald after his side’s victory over Tipperary in the All- Ireland Semi-Final in Croke Park on Sunday. SPORTSFILE

Taking it easy

John McCarthy with older brother Jim enjoying the student sessions in O’ Brien’s Bar as part of the Eigse Mrs. Crotty festival in Kilrush during the week Yvonne Vaughan

Say cheese

Cooraclare youngsters enjoying themselves at the Under 12 football camp at Cooraclare GAA pitch. Eamon Ward

Skeletons secret PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 19 August 2008 21:28
FOUL play has been ruled out in the case of two skeletons that were discovered buried in Quin last week.
Garda’ had initially feared one of the remains might be that of a Ballykilty woman who disappeared 21 years ago.  
An archaeological team alerted the Garda after they discovered two skeltons in a shallow grave while conducting a survey for the development of Quin community centre.
Further tests revealed the remains are more than a hundred years old and may even date back to  Medieval times.
The grim discovery was made behind the centre by the team working under archaeologist Edel Ruttle of TVAS (Ireland) Ltd, a Crusheen based archaeological consultancy company.
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