Event: Fashion Show in Aid of Down Syndrome Ireland (Cork Branch)

Venue: Midleton Park Hotel & Spa, Midleton, Co. Cork

Date: Thursday April 2nd, 2009

Time: Doors open at 7.15pm, & begins at 7.30pm sharp

Tickets: 12euro

Special Guests: Miss Cork ’08 Jean Kenny & of Lockdown Modeling Agency, Cork, Corks RedFM KC, Rose O’Neill formally of 96Fm & of ECR Media to compere, Lockdown Model Agency owner & Model Vivienne Kelly, Kiddies of Down Syndrome Ireland (Cork Branch).

Shops: Debenhams, Gasoline, Jack & Jones, Bershka, Dakota Midleton, The Arcade Midleton, Jeanius Midleton, Kayz Kidz Midleton & Funky Kidz Midleton.

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Tickets can be purchased from me by phoning 087 9506 291, email martina_prendergast@hotmail.com or on the night so please do not hesitate to contact me anytime on the Read more

The exercise will be held at the front strand Claycastle Car park this Saturday 14th March ’09 at 2pm- involving the Youghal RNLI, Youghal and Ardmore Coast Guard Units, The HSE Decontamination Unit and the Waterford based Irish Coast Guard Helicopter. Photo: John Hennessy and Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

The object of the exercise is to show each agencies working skills and equipment and to blend them together in the event of a major emergency. The exercise consists of a vessel in distress at sea and several casualties having to be recovered from the water and the vessel by the RNLI and the Irish Coast Guard Helicopter. They will be transferred to the shore where the Coast Guard Unit will then transported them to the HSE Decontamination Unit where they will be handed over for treatment Read more

High Spirits is a dance and drama group for young children in Youghal and the surrounding areas. It began in May 1998, the very first of it’s kind in Youghal, a club that has weekly classes and puts on a full production show every year. Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

To date High Spirits has 9 shows under its belt including popular pantomimes such as Sleeping Beauty and Snow White as well as very successful variety show’s.  This group is for boys and girls aged between 4 years and 16+.  It is great for helping the kids’ confidence, once you have performed in front of a crowd in the Youghal Community Centre, it’s a Read more

The PTA from Liosmor Mochuda National School are organising a fund evening being held in Lismore Castle on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st March.

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Youghal Greyhound Track is long established in the town, and each year an Awards Night is held to present prizes to winners of the various categories. This is always a very enjoyable and social night, and this year it took place in Youghal Golf Club. A most enjoyable night took place, with approximately one hundred people in attendance. Read more

Alice Taylor, famed author of ‘To School Through the Field’s’ was the principal guest at an invigorating literacy evening organized by the Gortroe Ladies Club. A packed Community Hall enjoyed a two-part program in which five authors delivered samples from their work. Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

An intimate ambience prevailed throughout and commenced with a talk on writing’s challenges, peaks and troughs from Mairead O’Driscoll. The Offaly-born public health nurse is the author of a much-acclaimed debut novel ‘Pebble Cove.’ There was an East Coast twang to the readings from Tess Maguire, whose family moved to New York when she was four. Now living in east Cork, she is best known for having penned ‘the Sunbeam Girls’ and ‘Good Sisters.’ Tess’s wry and often ribald text, laden with brisk and abundant humour, had her listeners both spellbound and smiling. Four-time novelist and poet Mary O’Sullivan from Crosshaven read from her considerable collection of work. Her tender observations on life’s fickle and flow as experienced by the recognisable perceptions of her characters easily struck a chord.  She spoke too of the torture and thrill of writing a novel: ‘You reach the end, only to start at the very beginning again and rewrite.”

Part 2 opened with Youghal journalist and sometimes poet Christy Parker. The writer’s comic verse from his collection, ‘Don’t Step in the Poems,’ brought rollicking laughter as he proved nostalgic for public toilets ‘murdered’ by Youghal Council and the desperate dilemma of two dogs whose street copulation goes terribly wrong! Read more

Youghal Library hosts an Open Day of Community Celebration on Thursday the 12th March. ’09. Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

An action planned programme of events will take place throughout the day including an official welcome by the County Librarian, Ruth Flanagan.  Among the items on the programme will be information tables on community information provided by Youghal Citizens Information Group, Cumann na Daoine,SECAD, Heritage,etc.  There will be a DVD presentation on Fairtrade, music and song,school visits, representatives of clubs will drop in etc etc. The highlight of the day will be a chance to meet and talk with our own celebrity author John Stack.  Our aim is to showcase the Library as a focal point in the local community and to advertise the wide range of services and resources provided by the public library to a wider audience. Read more

Youghal’s and Districts’ inaugural Community Alert Scheme will be officially launched on Thursday night (March 5th). The public are invited to attend the Walter Raleigh Hotel at 8pm, where the new association’s committee and officers will be formally introduced. Report Christy Parker

The evening will feature two guest speakers -Diarmuid Cronin, Cork-based Community Alert Development Officer and Denis Kelly, development officer with Muintir na Tire. The Community Alert initiative has emerged in the wake of increasing and abysmal social disorder in the town. A nadir was reached last Halloween when property and individuals were attacked in a night now notorious in the public conscious. Several exploratory meetings, with Garda contribution, were held prior to an official committee being formed.
Local councillor Michael Beecher is the group treasurer. He affords credit for the group’s establishment to Chairman Moss Lynch who, “initiated the idea and pursued it determinedly.” Vice Chairman is Johnny Dempsey and Secretary is Pa Forrest. Read more

Two regions reflecting county Waterford’s scenic splendour is brought to canvas and camera in a new exhibition just installed at the Old Market House Dungarvan. The Comeragh Mountains and Bonmahon provide the focus for ‘Explorations -from the Mountain to the Sea,’ a collaborative work by Abbeyside-born painter Sinead Ni Chionaola and Waterford city’s painter and photographer Carmel Kickers (nee Cleary). Report Christy Parker

The works went on display on February 24th, earning highly appreciative responses prior to the official opening on Friday afternoon next (March 6th) when Arts Minister Martin Cullen will join the artists in delivering an address. The exhibition is an extension of their women’s initial ‘Exploration’ theme, which was launched on a national touring platform in 1995. Exploration II travelled to Adelaide, Australia in 1996 and a year later Gothenburg, Sweden hosted a further instalment. Both artists have established international credentials. Sinead, who now lives in Killeagh, says the pictures and photographs “follow the water’s natural progression as it cascades from the mountains to the sea.” Both artists retain a ‘fascination with nature” and while travelling extensively in pursuit of its inspiration, are inevitably attracted to their roots. “It may be something to do with childhood,” muses Sinead. “Climbing Mahon falls and appreciating the wonder that lies there is timeless. I would hope our work would inspire others to do likewise.” Read more

Carers, assistants and those personally struggling with bereavement and sorrow, may find ‘Helping Hurting People’ a seminar being held at the Walter Raleigh Hotel in Youghal on Thursday March 5th at 8pm. By Christy Parker

The evening, organised by Youghal Baptist Church, features Canadian Minister John Stephenson, who lost his wife and only daughter in a car accident in 1993. He subsequently wrote Through Tears to Triumph a book that has been widely acclaimed as providing solace and support through the bereavement process as well as other types of loss. Born on a farm in Toronto, John initially worked for Kodak but felt a void in his life. On reading the New Testament, along with a friend’s guidance, he choose to become baptised into the Baptist Church. He soon attended Bible College in London (Ontario) from where he graduated in 1962. He is also a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology graduate from Canadian universities. John was a pastor in Ontario for 29 years before, in 1991, joining the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) prior to serving as a church planter in Cape Town. While there, his wife and daughter were killed, two years later. John remained in South Africa until 1996, after which, as part of his healing process, he began writing Through Tears to Triumph. Read more