Shannonbridge turbines to turn for final time
Midlands Correspondent The turbines at the West Offaly Power Station in Shannonbridge will turn for the final time today as the ESB prepares to shut down production. Workers arrived for the final shift before 9am and last night Bord na Móna staff brought in the last trailer of peat from the Blackwater Bog nearby to be burned. Former employee Michael Mannion, who was the first man to haul into Shannonbridge in 1965, was present to see worker Adrian Murray of the present transport group become the last man to tip peat from the trailers into the production at West Offaly Power.