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Going green in Gulargambone for St Paddy’s Day

23/03/2022 by The Coonamble Times

• PHOTO: So many Irish connections: Dominic Spora, Brett Lummis and Tim Spora. (This is a 2020 news story)

The word circulated quickly ahead of a St Patrick's Day shindig at the Gulargambone Bowling Club on Tuesday 17 March.

"Peter (Chooky) O'Brien and Trish Phillips came up with the idea," said Gulargambone's leading Irish import Lorna Spora. "He spoke to James Best, who said we've got to get it happening, and away we went."

Mr O'Brien said, "There wasn't much happening, everyone . . .


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