Following a two year closure, Mary Street in Clonmel, County Tipperary reopens.
The town of Clonmel is the largest in County Tipperary. O'Connell Street, formerly Main Street, is the town's centre.
Fitzgerald's newsagents and O’Mahoney’s pub are located at the junction of O’Connell Street and Mary Street. Due to the dangerous state of both buildings Mary Street has been closed.
Following a two year closure the street reopens. In this footage cars travels along O'Connell Street. The Main Guard building, a seventeenth-century courthouse, can be seen in the background. A car passes O’Gorman’s Bakery, Condon’s grain and flower shop, O’Mahoney’s and Fitzgerald’s. It turns right into Mary Street and continues along the road.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 12 August 1968. The footage shown here is mute.
