By Michael Twomey | Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

Morrissey At The Marquee Cork City

Love him or loathe him once you accept Morrissey into your heart you can always forgive him, and there is always something to forgive. Such is the treasure of his back catalogue you don’t know which gem you want to choose. All Morrissey gigs are tinged with regret and this performance at the Marquee on Thursday evening was no exception, only because he can’t possibly play all your favourites.

Morrissey On Stage At The Marquee- Cork City 2008

A people pleasing dynamo he is not, that’s Bruce’s job. How many gigs have you gone to where the performer can hold the crowd in his hand singing ‘life is a pigsty’? Morrissey’s ambivalent love affair with himself and his audience was captured in essence when he called us ’sophisticated’ and then asked ‘what, what did I do now? I’m just trying to sing a song.’ It was all taken in good dark humour. For those with Read more

By Michael Hussey | Photo Michael Hussey ( YoughalOnline.com)

Bonfire Night ‘The Plot’ Sarsfield Tce. Youghal (1983)

Bonfire Night is an annual celebration held on the 23rd June (St. John’s Eve). The celebrations take place in towns and villages across the country and centered around the summer solstice. The custom dates back to pagan times. Bonfire Night was always celebrated in Youghal with bonfires in different parts of the town but these customs and traditions are largely ignored nowadays. The embers of this long tradition have become a burning or more accurately a non-burning issue. The photograph shows Read more

By Christy Parker | Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

Youghal Comhaltas Concert at Bru Na Si

Youghal Comhaltas is striving to nurture good neighbourly relations with local residents in a praiseworthy initiative currently underway. Bru na Si, the Comhaltas group’s headquarters, is situated on a council-leased site on Magniers Hill and accessible from Cork Hill via nearby Blackwater Heights estate. The site holds strong historical and scenic value, being situated near the archaeological remains of an old barracks overlooking the Blackwater.

Bru Na Si

Since Bru na Si was constructed in 2004, the immediate area has assumed a growing social, educational and tourism profile, with various groups utilising the premises. “We endeavour to benefit the wider community by facilitating other interest groups when possible,” says Youghal Comhaltas Chairman Michael de Buitleir. “Presently, we have dance, music, theatre and religious groups, a youth club, a pre school and the Irish Red Cross availing of Bru na Si.” Read more

By Christy Parker

Parents will be pleased to know that repair work on the Millennium Park playground is likely to begin shortly. The facility has been closed since early in the year, as the Council seeks €50,000 funding to undertake the work. ‘We hope the money likely to come on stream imminently and the work can begin,’ says Town Clerk Liam Ryan. ‘It should be open before summer ends.’

As well as repairs to the playground structures (decapitated horses and half-eaten swings -kids tsk!) the chief outlay focuses on a new surface. The present tattered tiling system is to be replaced by a different system of Read more

BY Christy Parker

James Tobin, Chairman Munster Football Association, congratulating Paddy Pollard on his election as Vice-Chairman of Munster FAI.

Youghal’s soccer community will note with satisfaction that a familiar face has assumed the Vice Chairmanship of the Munster Football Association. Lismore’s Paddy Pollard was elected to the post at the association’s AGM in Rochestown last week. Paddy spent his professional life as a carpet maker here, while dedicating his free time to Read more

East Cork Home Care Ltd is a new locally owned and managed company providing qualified Nurses, experienced Carers and Home Helps to help care for persons in their own home. East Cork Home Care is owned and managed by nurses Andrea Holland and Denise McArdle and Read more

By Christy Parker | Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

Young Artist Rory with dad Wayne and grandmother Denise Fitzgerald

Younger artists in the Youghal area gave notice of their prowess and potential when they recently participated in an art competition organised by Youghal Visual Arts Festival. The annual event is co-ordinated through primary schools and this year attracted Read more

By Oona Colin | Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

Youghal Fisherman Barry Clohessy

Local fisherman Barry Clohessy is outraged with the Department of Marine for ignoring the seal damage to his livelihood. Seals are a protected species in this country but the damage they are doing to nets and the living of the local fishermen is shocking.

Since 2007 Salmon fishing has been banned in these parts because stocks were down. Now the seals that used to feed on the salmon in the nets are now moving inshore and attacking the monkfish caught in the nets.

“The seals are ruining inshore fishing,” says Barry “they are feeding on monkfish, pollack and any kind of whitefish because of the ban on salmon fishing. The seals used to feed on the salmon in the nets but Read more

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Midleton girl Charley Moore is the envy of Cork having won the McDonald’s Player Escort Competition which will see the 9 year old walk out with the players at the UEFA Euro 2008 Semi-Final in Vienna on 26th of June pictured with dad Charlie Moore and Mam Denise McArdle, McDonald’s Owner Midleton Mark O’ Halloran and Jess Cotter, Manageress with members of the Midleton U-14 Football Team Maria Fazio, Atlanta Cotter and Charlene Griffin

East Cork girl Charley Moore from Midleton is the envy of her friends having won the McDonald’s Player Escort Competition which will see the 9 year old walk out with the players at the UEFA Euro 2008. Charley has been chosen as a McDonald’s Player Escort for the Semi-Final in Vienna on 26th of June.
McDonald’s is one of the official sponsors of Euro 2008 which is underway in Switzerland and Austria and Charley, a keen football supporter and football player, has been chosen as one of the lucky player escorts who will accompany the teams onto the pitch for a key game at one of football’s great occasions.

Charley Moore with her dad Charlie and Mark O’Halloran, McDonald’s Midleton

Charley Moore, captain of the Under 9’s Midleton School girl soccer team commented that she couldn’t wait to enter the competition which ran in McDonald’s restaurants throughout Ireland, “I’m really excited to be going to EURO 2008 with my dad. I’m really looking forward to meeting world-class players and to Read more

GEORGE ALAGIAH DELIVERS ENDEARING, ENTRANCING PERFORMANCE IN LISMORE
Christy Parker was in the audience for the BBC journalist’s IMMRAMA appearance.
Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

George Alagiah speaking at The Blackwater Community School during the
Lismore Immrama Festival 2008

BBC newsreader and journalist George Alagiah attracted an audience of over 300 to the Blackwater Community School for his contribution to Lismore’s 2008 IMMRAMA Festival. They were richly awarded as the Sri-Lankan-born, African-raised, British citizen delivered a truly wonderful commentary on his experiences, impressions, hopes and fears garnered over ten years as a war correspondent, subsequent black immigrant and ongoing role as the a BBC news correspondent.

Anne O’Dwyer, Pat Whyte, Eason Dungarvan, Matt Houlihan, Mary Houlihan, PRO Immrama, George Alagiah, Reg O’Dwyer and Jan Rotte, Deputy Mayor Lismore

Mr. Alagiah was considerably nervous prior to going onstage and would subsequently cite the daunting difference between addressing a camera lens and a hall full of expectant faces. He cannot have realised how consummate a communicator he is. His strength is to merge a natural friendliness, a passion for his subject and an innate ability to Read more