Conference on Elder Abuse at Cumann na Daoine, Youghal. Wednesday 11th May (2011)at 7pm.

Local councillor Michael Beecher will front the conference on Elder Abuse at Cumann na Daoine, Catherine Street, Youghal, on Wednesday 11th May at 7pm. The core subject is Elder Abuse and the senior Protection officer in the North Lee HSE area Ms Pauline Galvin, will speak for appox 45 minutes and during her presentation she will use a DVD and PowerPoint slides followed by questions and answers.The Gardai will have a speaker from their perspective.

Diarmuid Cronin talk about household benefits package and the entitlements that people sometimes fail to avail and how to obtain an application form and submit same.

A speaker From North Community Enterprise based in Cork city about the warmer home scheme and the value of insulation and how to avail of this almost free service, NEC provide this service in the East Cork area.

Protecting Older People from Abuse
Elder Abuse AdvertMost older people do not experience abuse. But, unfortunately, there are ways in which an older person can be harmed or abused by others. An older person may also experience more than one form of abuse at any given tim

What is Elder Abuse?

Most older people do not experience abuse. But, unfortunately, there are ways in which an older person can be harmed or abused by others. An older person may also experience more than one form of abuse at any given time.

Elder abuse is defined as -

”A single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress to an older person or violates their human and civil rights.” (Protecting our Future, Report of the Working Group on Elder Abuse, September 2002)

65 years of age is taken as the point beyond which abuse may be considered to be elder abuse.

What forms can Elder Abuse take?

There are several forms of abuse, any or all of which may be carried out as the result of deliberate intent, negligence or ignorance.

Physical abuse, including hitting, slapping, pushing, kicking, misuse of medication, restraint or inappropriate sanctions.
Sexual abuse, including rape and sexual assault, or sexual acts to which the older adult has not consented, or could not consent, or into which he or she was compelled to consent.
Psychological abuse, including emotional abuse, threats of harm or abandonment, deprivation of contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, coercion, harassment, verbal abuse, isolation or withdrawal from services or supportive networks.
Financial or material abuse, including theft, fraud, exploitation, pressure in connection with wills, property, inheritance or financial transactions, or the misuse or misappropriation of property, possessions or benefits.
Neglect and acts of omission, including ignoring medical or physical care needs, failure to provide access to appropriate health, social care or educational services, the withholding of the necessities of life such as medication, adequate nutrition and heating.
Discriminatory abuse, including ageism, racism, sexism, that based on a person’s disability, and other forms of harassment, slurs or similar treatment.

How to recognise if abuse is happening to you?

Psychological Abuse
Consider the possibility of psychological abuse if:

You are made feel afraid in your living accommodation
You are experiencing feelings of hopelessness or helplessness
You are made feel tearful and agitated
You experience loss of appetite and/or disrupted sleep

Neglect
Consider the possibility of neglect if:

You are not receiving adequate liquids to drink or food to eat
Your clothes are not being washed when required.
You are not being provided with appropriate clothing for the weather conditions
You are being denied the aids you needs, e.g. glasses, hearing aid, dentures etc.
You are being left alone for long periods when you cannot move about easily or prepare meals with out assistance
You are bed / chair bound and you are experiencing pressure sores that are not being attended to even when brought to someone’s attention

Financial Abuse
Consider the possibility of financial abuse if:

Someone else has access to your accounts without your full permission
You feel pressured to allow someone else access to your accounts
Someone else makes decisions about your money without speaking with you first
You feel you have lost all control over your money
Your money is being spent by someone else for things other than your bills, clothes, food, etc.
You feel pressured to give money to someone else

Physical Abuse
Consider the possibility of physical abuse if:

You have been treated roughly, enough to leave marks or bruises
You have been treated violently which caused broken bones, sprains, dislocations or other injuries
Someone has inflicted pain on you

Sexual Abuse
Consider the possibility of sexual abuse if:

Someone has forced you to be intimate with them without your consent

If you are experiencing any of the feelings or effects outlined below then you may need to speak with your GP, Public Health Nurse or Senior Case Worker or contact the HSE Information line on 1850 24 1850.

How to recognise if an Older Person is being abused?

Most older people do not experience abuse. But, there are many ways in which an older person can be harmed or abused. An older person may experience more than one form of abuse at any given time

If you suspect that an older person may be experiencing any of the feelings or effects outlined below then you may need to speak with a GP, Public Health Nurse or Senior Case Worker or contact the HSE Information line on 1850 24 1850.

Hurling legend Seán Óg Ó hAilpín lends his support to the Cork RNLI lifeboats for a night at the dogs

Cork hurling legend Séan Óg Ó hAilpín has joined forces with Cork’s volunteer lifeboat crews to launch a night at the Dogs at Curraheen Park Greyhound Stadium on Friday 27 May 2011 in aid of Cork RNLI lifeboat stations.

Tickets for the night have gone on sale and the charity hopes there will be great support for the event.  Eileen Kearney, RNLI Community Fundraising Manager for Munster says, “It is great to have an event that is benefitting a number of lifeboat stations together.  The RNLI lifeboat crew volunteers in Cork respond day and night in all weathers to every call for assistance.  Over the years they have saved countless lives and it is all due to the support and generosity of the public. We are planning a great night on the 27th May and I hope as many people as possible can join us.”

Séan Óg came down to Curraheen Park for the launch and met with lifeboat crew and organisers. Commenting on his reason for supporting the night Séan Óg said, “ Growing up and living in Cork I am very aware of the amazing work of the RNLI volunteer lifeboat crews in saving lives at sea.  As a charity the RNLI relies on the generosity of the public and I am delighted to support this great cause.”

The Cork lifeboat stations involved in the event are Kinsale, Youghal, Ballycotton, Castletownbere, Crosshaven and Courtmacsherry. Last year Cork lifeboat crews launched 179 times and brought 178 to safety.

The event promises to be a night of fun and entertainment and tickets are priced at €10 and are on sale now. For information on the night including tickets and sponsorship opportunities please contact Eileen Kearney on telephone 087 6236 322 or email eileen_kearney@rnli.org.uk

Youghal Choral Society are delighted to announce that they are to host a concert of music by the Army band of the Southern Brigade. This concert will be held in the magnificent setting of St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal at 7.30p.m. on Sunday, June 5th.

The Army No. 2 Band was formed in April 1925 at Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin. It was posted to Cork the following year, where it is currently stationed at Collins Barracks. The band later became known as The Band of 1 Southern Brigade after a  re-organisation of the Defence Forces in 1997.

In addition to its military commitments, the band plays a major part in the musical and cultural life of the southern region of the country. It regularly appears at important events such as the Cork International Choral Festival and its concert performances at venues such as City Hall, Cork, have won an enthusiastic following .The band’s Schools Concert programme is a much-appreciated part of the Defence Forces contribution to the community.

In recent years performances abroad have become a feature of the band’s schedule and it has performed to acclaim at events such as The International Festival of Military Music at Saumur, France, and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Toronto, Canada.

Youghal Choral Society are very excited to have secured the services of the band for what promises to be a wonderful, sell out performance.

Tickets will be available shortly in Cree’s Card Shop, Youghal and advance bookings can also be made by emailing youghalchoralsociety@eircom.net

Proceeds on the night will go to the Keith Phelan Fund, which is a very worthy case.

Youghal Chamber of Tourism and Development Spring members meeting at The Walter Raleigh Hotel, Youghal.  The meeting took place on Thursday evening 5th May 2011 at The Walter Raleigh Hotel, Youghal. New President of the Youghal Chamber of Tourism and Development is Mary O’Donnell and Vice-President is Sal Tivy

 

What is a Chamber?

A Chamber is an organisation made up of local business representatives who join together to promote the economic and social development of their community in order to make it a better place in which to live, work and do business.

Youghal Chamber

At Youghal Chamber, we are all about creating a better environment for business to succeed in Youghal.  Our membership spans most of the businesses in the area. Our members offer every kind of product and service.

Youghal has a growing business community attracted by our population growth, increasing tourist visitor numbers, availability of skilled workers and great travel and telecommunications links with Ireland and the rest of the world.  Not forgetting the fact that this is a great place to work and live, with stunning views and fresh air to stir the soul and raise your spirits.

Please contact us, to discuss with a Chamber Director, how we can help your business flourish in Youghal.

 

 

Chamber Board of Directors

Diarmuid Keogh Conn Keogh & Cons Auctioneers Secretary

Mary Birmingham AIB Treasurer

Michael Farrell Summerfield Bar Director

Martin Finn Smart Tactics Director

Mary Bernard Le Gourmet Director

Mr Seamus Curran The Quays Bar & Nightclub Director

Tracy Kenneally Aura Leisure Centre Director

Eddie Irwin Irwin’s Electronics Director

John Flavin Flavins Sports & Shoes Director

Sal Tivy Director

Cllr Barbara Murray Director

Michael McGrath Genesis Director

Mary O Donnell Clear View Auctioneers Director

John Griffin Aquatrek Director

Patrick Morrissey Director

Networking Opportunities
Youghal Chamber offers support and assistance to help local businesses grow and provide the best service possible to their members. It operates the chamber quality accreditation process. It also negotiates commercial agreements and develops national public relations and marketing campaigns on behalf of the member’s network

Supporting SMEs
Youghal Chamber develops and packages services that can be delivered to SMEs these include information and training programmes to support growth and competitiveness
Lobbying We represent the views of our members at local, county, regional and national level.
Lobbying is one of the key services offered by Youghal chamber to its members.

As part of Chambers Ireland one the largest business representative organisation across 60 locations in Ireland, Youghal chamber is well positioned to lobby locally, regionally and nationally on the key issues that effect business.

The chamber engages in professional research, policy and communications activities at each of these levels to deliver a better trading environment for its business members.

As required the chamber can lobby local, regional and national government as well as other large public and private sector bodies.
This is done with an objective approach and is plat formed on evidence based research.

Training
The Chamber Business School is a dynamic training organisation with a passionate commitment to increasing business productivity, profitability and competitiveness by developing the critical skills required to cope with the ever increasing demands of work.
Managed directly by Chambers Ireland and grant aided by FÁS, the Chamber Business School expects to train over 3,000 employees in 2006 making it one of the largest private training providers in Ireland.
In response to industry demands, the Chamber Business School has dramatically increased access to training for local businesses by providing relevant tailor made training, locally and at competitive rates.
RELEVANT TRAINING
Focusing on the critical skills required to impact positively on business performance the Chamber Business School has developed almost 30 programmes under the following headings:
• Business Performance Management
• Capacity Building
• General Management
• Health and Safety
• Human Resource Management
• International Trade .

Chamber HR
If your business needs advice on HR and/or Health and Safety, the chamber can assist you with our ChamberHR service
Chamber HR is a tailor-made solution to suit individual client’s needs in the increasingly difficult business area of human resources management (HRM).

In partnership with Peninsula Business Services, Chamber HR’s primary objective is the prevention of problems in the HRM area, including breaking down and explaining the often difficult-to-understand world of employment legislation and business protection.

Translation Services If you need to translate from one language to another, Chamber Translation Services can turn around a competitive quote within 24 hours

 

Click here to visit http://www.youghalchamber.ie/index.aspx?id=0

On the evening of May 5th local tourist driven business gathered in Green Barn, Garden, Lifestyle & Bistro as guests of the Browne Family. Green Barn Bistro has been given a major facelift in 2011 and they have also been joined recently by Irish Aggregates who have opened up a new Paving Display Area to compliment the already well accomplished 4 **** Garden Centre at Green Barn. Speaker Michael Browne encouraged all present “to use and promote each others business this summer by encouraging guests/visitors/tours etc to visit other business/attractions in the East Cork area”. The evening also featured an exhibition by Ardmore artist Brenda Harris, the exhibition is open 9am – 7pm daily and runs until the end of June.

Margaret Carey who organised this year’s event would like to thank all those that came and supported the Alzheimer’s Tea Day 2011. This is the 6th year of the fundraiser and great credit to all who made the lovely cakes and to  Jo Power the sacristan and Youghal Local Radio CRY 104fm. for their help.

Alzheimer’s Tea Day (‘a day to Remember’?) is an opportunity for people to come together and raise funds by hosting a tea party in their home, office or school. Their guests are invited to come along for a cup of tea and a biscuit and are then asked to make a small contribution to The Alzheimer Society of Ireland. Participation is easy and funds raised are allocated to the closest service/branch of The Society. All money raised locally, stays locally.
Every year on Alzheimer’s Tea Day, thousands of good people all over Ireland come together to share a cup of tea, remember the lives of loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and raise much needed funds for The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.

Tea Day is critical to people who care for loved ones with Alzheimer’s – because it funds real, tangible, hands-on services that make an enormous difference to their everyday lives.

This year, Alzheimer’s Tea Day is on Thursday 5th of May 2011. For more information call the Fundraising Department on 01 2073800, email teaday@alzheimer.ie or submit your registration form online at www.teaday.ie.

Brendan Cooney, President of the Youghal C.Y.M.S. presents the Youghal CYMS Jack Trihy Memorial Billiards Cup 2011 to winner Adrian Landers with runner-up Gerard Kelly at the society’s premises in Market Sq. Youghal. The final was played on Thursday evening 5th May 2011at the society’s premises in Market Sq. in front of a large audience. Landers beat Kelly in a final score of 200 points to 196 in a close fought battle of excellent billiards.

Well known Ardmore artist Brenda Harris has been invited to exhibit her paintings at The Green Barn, Killeagh,Youghal in the newly renovated ‘Inchiquin Room’ this summer. The exhibition is open Monday – Sunday 9am-7pm and runs until June 30th.

Brenda is both an artist and interior designer and has a background in textile and design. A full time artist for the last twenty years, she paints in oil and watercolour – her work is instantly recognisable by the rich opulence of her colour palette and the almost palpable sensation of light that illuminates each canvas. Her landscapes  are especially influenced by the local environments in which she finds herself, absorbing all the sensations of the landscapes, light and culture.
Her paintings have featured on numerous television programs in Ireland and the UK and she regularly exhibits in both solo and group shows.  Her work hangs in private and corporate collections in Ireland, US, UK, Germany, France and the Middle East. She regularly holds classes and workshops both in Ireland and France. www.BrendaHarris.ie

Green Barn, Garden, Lifestyle & Bistro
Inchiquin, Killeagh, Co. Cork
store 024 90166  bistro 024 91373
www.greenbarn.ie

Klueners v Taylor tonight FRIDAY MAY 6th at the Walter Raleigh Hotel

Further news of the tournament will appear on the hotel’s website www.walterraleighhotel.com and on its Facebook pages whilst hotel booking can be made of course through the website or by phoning Telephone: 024-92011 or Fax: 024-93560.

As revealed on SportsNewsIreland, efforts were being made to find another opponent for World Champion Katie Taylor to fight in front of Irish fans before she heads off to defend her European titles, and such an opponent has now been found in Maike Klueners from Neuss, in Germany, like Taylor 24, but with a completely different background in the sport. Maike , trained by Pasquale Ferrano at the Dusseldorf BoxRing club is a former Muay Thai German and European champion,and a bronze medallist at the 2006 World Muay Thai tournament.

She is better known in the boxing ring for her performances in the 57kg class rather than at 60 kg. Like so many fighters striving for success in London 2012, Maike now finds it necessary to move to the 60 kg category.She is currently ranked no 10 in Boxing’s latest world rankings at 57kg. She has in fact fought at 57kg in the 2010 World boxing championships in Barbados where she got a bronze, losing only to Tunisia’s Rim Jouini in the semi-final.

 

She is though improving all the time, even if her record is nothing sensational with some 12 defeats in 33 fights since moving to boxing. Her clash with Taylor is scheduled for May 6th at the Walter Raleigh Hotel in Youghal, Co. Cork in a tournament organised by the St John’s Boxing Club in Fermoy. Taylor has always been very popular in Cork – indeed she performed the opening ceremony for new St John’s Boxing Club in its home town in October 2009 when one of the club’s founders, Pa Flynn described Katie Taylor as ‘ one of the greatest sportswomen this country ever produced’.

“I was the Irish team manager in 2005 when Katie won her first gold medal at the European Amateur Championships in Norway. She was only 17 at the time,” Mr Flynn said.

“It will take a very good girl to beat Katie for a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics,” he added.

Certainly it is great for boxing in Ireland that fans around the country can see Taylor in action,outside of the National Stadium.There is a huge new interest in womens boxing in Ireland due in no small measure to the successes of Taylor in recent years and to the great work of the IABA Women’s Development Manager, Anja Norman.

In recent months Taylor has also fought in New Ross (Co Wexford) and in Dungarvan (Co.Waterford), on both occasions defeating World No 2, China’s Cheng Dong convincingly.

In 2011, the Bray fighter , is due to defend her European Union title in Katowice, Poland in late May and her European Championship crown in Rotterdam in late October so the Youghal event well be one of the last opportunities that Irish fans have to see her in action before she leaves for foreign lands.

Fans travelling a long distance and worried about getting out of Youghal late on a Friday night need have no fears. Walter Raleigh Hotel’s General Manager, Michael Davitt tells me that Single rooms are available for the night at 59 Euros B+B or a Twin/Double at 79 Euros inc B+B.

Further news of the tournament will appear on the hotel’s website www.walterraleighhotel.com and on its Facebook pages whilst hotel booking can be made of course through the website or by phoning Telephone: 024-92011 or Fax: 024-93560.

Historic Youghal, Europe’s 2nd oldest Port, has lots to enjoy for visitors to the area inc lovely sandy beaches nearby so what a great weekend in store for those who want to combine seeing our World Champion in action on Friday 6th May with the delights of East Cork .

Finally, a reminder that Katie Taylor is in action in Bray on Good Friday 22nd April, when she takes on the Spanish titleholder, Jennifer Miranda Maqueda at the Royal Hotel & Merrill Leisure Centre in her home town of Bray – an occasion when Ms Miranda will be seeking revenge for her loss to Taylor in their last 16 bout at the European Union Championships in Keszthely, Hungary, last August. Having enjoyed so much media coverage in recent weeks from her Lucozade ads, I’m sure Katie will be too much energetic for her European opponents in the coming weeks.

 

 

Info: Klueners v Taylor set for Youghal by Michael O’Neill courtesy www.sportsnewsireland.com

The Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation provides direct funding to families of children with brain damage who suffer severe intellectual and physical developmental delay, and funding is always needed.

For most of us, the words Jack and Jill bring to mind the old nursery rhyme ‘Jack and Jill went up the hill’ but 19 year old Danielle Keniry of Youghal brings this to another level, as she intends going much higher than a hill to undertake a tandem Skydive in aid of the Jack and Jill Foundation. Daughter of Annmarie and Martin Keniry, Danielle is also a 6th year student in Pobalscoil na Tríonóide.

 

Asked why Danielle decided on such a dare devil fundraising event, she smiled as she told The East Cork Journal that she ‘loves the adrenalin rush, and wanted to do something that she would always remember’ for a deserving charity. Danielle chose the Jack and Jill Foundation because she worked with a family during last summer whose child suffered severe brain damage. The praise, thanks and admiration which that family showed for the wonderful help they received from the Jack and Jill Foundation impressed Danielle tremendously and she wanted to help in any way she could.

Not one to let the grass grow under her feet, Danielle sourced various activities and eventually decided on the Tandem Skydive. The nearest centre to Youghal is in Kilkenny, and she immediately made contact with them and set the entire fundraiser in motion.
Somebody once said that ‘only Skydivers know why the birds sing’. Last Saturday morning (April 30th 2011) Danielle Keniry traveled with her parents to Kilkenny where, at 9.30am, she made that leap of faith, where she surely hear the birds sing for Jack and Jill.