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Click on NEXT> each time to go through the story 2: Ground-breaking cancer treatment It's a little known fact that John Joly, the renowned physicist, was from Bracknagh. Joly is famed in the medical profession for his development of radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer in the early 1900s. Although there is no cure for cancer, radiotherapy is important in treatment terms as it can control and kill malignant cells in the body. Joly came up with the 'Dublin Method,' a move that made the previously expensive radium treatments in cancer realistic. He later received awards from the Royal Dublin Society and the Royal Society of London. It is truly amazing that a young scientist from Offaly was so instrumental in developing such treatments.
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Click on NEXT> each time to go through the story 3: Tullamore D.E.W. Tullamore D.E.W. is the second largest selling brand of Irish Whiskey in the world. From 1829 to 1954, it was produced in Tullamore but the brand left the town for 60 years before returning in 2014.
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Click on NEXT> each time to go through the story 4: Shane Lowry's celebrations after winning The Open Shane Lowry's Open Championship victory was one of the greatest sporting moments in the history of Offaly and Ireland but it was almost surpassed by his incredible celebrations. The videos of him singing in Dublin with The Claret Jug and the craic in Clara for his homecoming would not be repeated anywhere else in the world. And Shane's granny Emily Scanlon also deserves a mention as part of the celebrations. She was interviewed on RTE on Monday after the final round at The Open as Shane celebrated in Dublin and it was TV gold. Like her grandson, she became an instant legend.
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Click on NEXT> each time to go through the story 5: The Offaly jersey The Offaly jersey in all its various forms has shown up in the most amazing places. It has been front and centre, among other places, at the World Snooker Championships, Wimbeldon, a Netflix documentary about African oil, the World Cup and perhaps most amazingly of all, a Snoog Dogg and Pharrell video. Other counties are just raging they don't have our jersey.