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Last Saturday afternoon the 31st of July, the Youghal Arts Network held their second Summerfest family fun day at Claycastle beach. Photo: Michael Hussey www.youghalonline.com
Junior Kite flyer prizewinners with parents and instructors at the Youghal Arts Network Summerfest event held at Youghal strand
Following on last years successful first outing it was decided to have the same again this year.
The sun shone brightly on the events and locals and holiday makers alike had a fabulous afternoons fun.
This years activities featured kite flying, kite surfing and wind surfing courtesy of Lawrence Boland and Barry Hannigan of Kiteskool.com. Both these gentlemen are qualified BKSA instructors and they spent the afternoon showing and demonstrating their skills to young and old alike on the beach. Read more
The Murray family is well known in the East Cork and West Waterford areas. Their history, however, was a little in the dark as several members of the family back in the 1800s, like many other Irish families, emigrated to the USA and the UK. Eddie Murray, along with his sister Terri, decided to try to locate the absent members of their family and invite them to a huge Family Reunion which was fixed for Sunday last, August 2nd. An amazing amount of research and work was carried out including advertising, internet explorations, family trees and follow ups to locate as many of the family as possible. Denise FitzGerald/ East Cork Journal Reports/ Photo: Michael Hussey www.youghalonline.com/ Video: David Farrell www.youghalonline.com
Eddie Murray and his mother Marie Tooher, Michael Murray and Terry Moore pictured with their American cousins at the Murray family reunion
It was with a great sense of excitement and trepidation that the fifty five or so Murrays arrived at the Red Store in Youghal to meet each other. Such was the hype that the meal, which was planned for much earlier, did not take place until 9pm as the Murrays kept arriving, chatting, introducing and finding out who was whom.
The evening eventually commenced and after the meal there was an introduction by Terri Moore (nee Murray) which was followed by Read more
