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SHANNON’S Social Diary has been part of community life for as long as most of its citizens can remember.
Now the diary is not just helping the people of Shannon plan their coming fortnight, it is also giving them an insight into their past as a 1970s copy of the popular newsletter has surfaced.
Discovered in the electricity box of a house that was being cleared out, the blast from the past now has pride of place in the Shannon Community Office.
The one page document typed on a manual typewriter all those years
ago by Ina Reddan, is a mini social record of Shannon in the seventies.
Headlining with tennis, ballroom dancing, and the cinema the inform- ative document gives an insight into the lifestyle of another generation.
Adult art classes at night cost just £2 for 20 lessons in Shannon Com- prehensive School.
On Friday October 30 a sale of work was held in Drumgeely Com- munity Hall by the local scouts. Ad- mission was a mere six pence and that included raffle tickets.
St Senan’s Parent and Teachers As- sociation and the ladies choir were also making use of the leaflet almost four decades ago.
The former lady mayor of Limer- ick, who was mayor when President John F Kennedy visited Ireland, Mrs Francis Clondel was also preparing to address the ICA according to the 1970 social diary.
The diary continues to be issued by the community office almost 40 years later, and the current staff are hoping to find an even older diary.
The community office which also houses Clarecare and the Citizen In- formation Office, is opposite Murphy Brown’s pub and 1s inviting people to drop in older “social diaries” if they Crim yam sinemeenee
The 1970 diary has already been laminated and the public are free to
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Funded and developed originally by Shannon Development the diary was then handed over to the commu- nity office. Today 3,700 diaries are delivered every second week to all the homes in Shannon and it is sup- ported by local advertising.
Rita Costello, who works with the CIC, told