Over 200 people attended an event last night to mark the 35th anniversary of the closure of the Arigna mines.
They were a major employer in north Roscommon for hundreds of years before they closed in 1990.-
Several miners recalled their careers at an event in Kilronan Castle in Ballyfarnon last night.
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Dermot Leyden, from Boyle, started working in the mines in 1980, and spoke to Eoghan Murphy about his time there:
