Shannonbridge helped change socio-economic landscape
Midlands Correspondent The building of the original Shannonbridge Power Station in Co Offaly in the early 1960s was the third major development undertaken in the midlands as part of the then government's vision for not only creating employment in the region but dealing with an international oil crisis. Authors Owen Denneny and John P Larkin, in their book 'A Path Through the Bog', published in 1995, said the late taoiseach Sean Lemass saw a solution that would resolve both the fuel and the job crisis. It was with this in mind that he had appointed a Board of Directors with Todd Andrews as...
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