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A new colourful eye catching piece of artwork on the side wall of Liam O’Rian’s Pub in Ballina featuring local images, has generated a lot of interest from locals and tourists. The mural depicts local landmarks such as Brian Boru’s Fort, St Flannan’s Cathedral, Killaloe Bridge, the Lakeside Hotel, Killaloe train station and Ardnacrusha Hydroelectric Power Station, which resulted in a lot of changes in the river landscape after the construction of the Shannon Scheme. Ms Acheson enjoyed creating an interesting water spiral shape with buildings around it and a constant flow from the sky to the hills, lake and river. “I did all the buildings in black and white and nature in crazy colours to ensure nature wouldn’t get lost in the overall image. This also provides a bit of a contrast,” she said. The centre image in the mural shows a turbine under construction during the building of Ardnacrusha Hydro Electric Power Station in the late 1920s. A …
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