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The Kolossi Courier

The Kolossi Courier

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R.I.P. Owen Sweeney

Owen Sweeney

Owen Online

Here are the main times Owen appeared in articles or broadcasts:

  • BBC The Living World: Herons (March 2003) saved version of web page
    • Click here for full 22 mins audio of Owen’s programme
  • The Guardian - Nightingales v 5,000 new homes… (Sep 2014)
    • (Saved version in case web version disappears)
  • BBC News - Rochester by-election: Rice, birds and immigration (Nov 2014)
    • (Saved version in case web version disappears)
  • BBC Open Country: The Hoo Peninsula (April 2015)
    • (Saved version in case web version disappears)
    • Click here for full 25 mins audio of the programme, Owen’s section starts at 04:21
    • Click here for Owen’s 5 minute section
  • KOS Bio

Memorial Services

Here are items from the Funeral and Burial:

  • Order Of Service
  • Eulogy
  • Edited highlights of Lodge Hill Nightingales
    • with very kind permission of Jonathan Brind
  • Nightingales
  • Burial Poems

Tributes

Here are some tributes on the web:

  • Kent Messenger Announcement
  • Dundee Courier Announcement
  • Blairgowrie Advertiser Announcement
  • KOS Announcement
  • Three ….
  • … different ….
  • … sets of Twitter comments
  • Facebook Tribute page
  • A “Word Cloud” of various tributes received in emails and cards
  • RSPB Northwood Hill blog
    • (Saved version in case web version disappears)

Photos

Here are some of the photos off the board at the wake:

Artwork

Here is some of the artwork shown at the wake:

Owen Sweeney.    A good good man.    Rest in peace.

 

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