19.3 C
Byron Shire
March 28, 2024

Vale Annie O’Halloran

Latest News

Saddle Road group home DA decision this week

Plans to build Byron Shire’s first permanent group home for women and children in housing stress are moving ahead, with the development application for the project coming before Council this week.

Other News

Community grants on offer

Ingrained Foundation is running its fifth annual grants program, with a funding pool of $150,000.

We just love him!

If you’re over 50 you might not be a fan of Tom Jones, but you can bet your mum is. If you’re under 40 you might not even know who he is, but your grandmother probably wet her pants at the mere mention of his name.

Mullum and Byron locals lock on at Ewingar State Forest

Byron Bay and Mullumbimby locals Emma Briggs and Bassi Brown locked onto machinery at Ewingar State Forest, in the Upper Clarence area, yesterday as they called for an end to native forest logging. 

Mullum pods

They look so uninviting and dismal. It would not cost a lot to change the name to ‘tiny homes’...

It’s a biggest little town festival! 

Supporters, performers, and volunteers gathered to launch the Mullum Laneways Festival 2024 last Friday. 

A seasoned bard

Guy Kachel had an idyllic entry to the world of music. Born in Tamworth, he was raised on the banks of the Peel River. The landscape was a fertile ground for his imagination. Seeing this rustic world change, as Tamworth developed into an inland city and friends grew to sometimes troubled adulthoods, provided insights for the artistry that later powered his career as a performer.

Annie O’Halloran.

Becky and Rory O’Halloran

If you lived in Byron in the nineties, the name Annie O’Halloran would have been familiar to you.

Annie was the driving force in creating a safe NYE community celebration leading up to the millennium 1999 NYE event. This model became best practice and was used throughout the country to help create positive community celebrations.

At the same time, Annie worked at Byron Hospital as a night-shift Emergency Room nurse. Many patients will remember her kind, professional way.

Annie was also instrumental in the creation of a ‘safe room’ at the hospital at the beginning of the ice epidemic and worked tirelessly behind the scenes for the new Byron Hospital and the detox unit at Lismore Base Hospital. She was a part of the Byron Town Centre Committee for many years and worked energetically for the betterment of the community.

On Tuesday May 21, Annie died peacefully at home with her loving family by her side


Support The Echo

Keeping the community together and the community voice loud and clear is what The Echo is about. More than ever we need your help to keep this voice alive and thriving in the community.

Like all businesses we are struggling to keep food on the table of all our local and hard working journalists, artists, sales, delivery and drudges who keep the news coming out to you both in the newspaper and online. If you can spare a few dollars a week – or maybe more – we would appreciate all the support you are able to give to keep the voice of independent, local journalism alive.

3 COMMENTS

  1. A true ‘community’ member … heart of gold with a sometimes iron fist !

    These are the people we are sadly missing in today’s Byron Shire.

    Travel well, Annie…

  2. I had the absolute pleasure of working with Annie at the beautiful old Byron Bay Hospital.
    Annie inspired us all , we were one big happy family in a beautiful community.

    Thank you Annie for your inspiration, and having our backs. ??? miss the good old days??

  3. Annie was a wonderful, committed and inspiring woman who genuinely cared about the Byron community and all folks that came her way.

    There was always a bright smile and an open heart that resonated from Annie. My love to her family she will be much missed as she truly represented everything that encapsulates the real meaning of “Community”.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

A health check as Medicare turns 40

If you’ll forgive the earnest tone, I’d like to propose a toast. To a friend who’s almost always there when you need them most. To a system that aims to treat people fairly and respectfully. 

Byron Council staff baulk at councillors’ promise of free parking for locals

Will Byron Council deliver on its pledge to make parking permits free for locals across the Shire when paid parking comes into force in Brunswick Heads?

Carrying and passing the torch

If I say the words ‘US Forces give the nod’, I can pretty much guarantee that you will hear the unmistakable voice of Peter Garrett ringing in your ears. Your head may even start to bob up and down a bit. 

Splendour 2024 cancelled

It's official, Splendour in the Grass 2024 has been cancelled.