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THE HOLY TRINITY CAPUCHIN CHURCH situated on Fr Mathew Quay in the heart of Cork City will provide a spectacular venue for the upcoming charity concert in aid of Hope Foundation. This exciting musical event will take place on Thursday November 17th at 8.15 pm. For many years now the Hope Foundation has been working with some of the most disadvantaged children in the world. Hope continues to rescue thousands of children from the streets and slums of Calcutta. Now more than ever before they need our help.
Some of East Corks top musical talent comes together on the night to present an uplifting program of music in the heavenly acoustics of Holy Trinity.
Cantemus, directed by Tomás Ó Tuama, is a chamber choir with a wide ranging repertoire from early Christian to contemporary. This choir has been successfully competing in The Cork Choral Festival since 2007. It was awarded National Choir of The Year and winner of The Sacred Music Competition at the Navan Choral Festival in 2011.
Ilse De Ziah will be performing a selection of pieces on solo cello. Ilse is a Baroque and folk musician, and composer. She is currently leader of the cellist section of Cork Symphony Orchestra.
The Kiltha Tones, a male voice choir directed by Ursula Muckley, will add to the eclectic nature of the evening with music from around the world.
Castlemartyr Choir, directed by Tómas Ó Tuama will open the concert. This choir is no stranger to Holy Trinity. It won The Sacred Music Competition here at Feis Maitiú in 2011.
This upcoming event gives us all a chance to enjoy a great evening of choral and baroque music in a beautiful, spiritual and acoustic venue while helping a really worthy cause.
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Patrick Cockburn: Greece and Ireland’s dreams of equality go as quickly as the money
I spent the past month in Greece and Ireland. In most of Europe, the financial crisis is only slowly beginning to deaden economic life, but in these two countries the calamity has already arrived. I grew up near a small town called Youghal on the Blackwater River in County Cork. In the 1960s, the town had a large carpet factory and several textiles factories, and workers had to be bussed in from far away. Today, after many ups and downs, Youghal has no factories and the largest employer is the local mental asylum. The careers officer at a local school told me: "There are no jobs for students anywhere. The best placed are those who come from small family farms they can go back to." - Pic: wwwyoughalonline.com
An American took his phlegmatic English friend to see the Niagara Falls. “Isn’t that amazing?” said the enthusiastic American. “Look at that vast mass of water dashing over that enormous cliff!”
“But what,” replied the unimpressed Englishman, after viewing the sight for some moments, “is to stop it?”
I owe the story to my father, Claud Cockburn, who used to tell it to convey the mood in New York on 24 October 1929, the first day of the Great Crash later known as Black Thursday. He had arrived in the city from Europe a few weeks earlier as junior correspondent for The Times of London just in time to have a ringside seat as the American financial system crumbled. He described the atmosphere on that day as not just edgy or demoralised, but as being like “the morning of a battle which people are beginning for the first time to realise may be lost”.
Perception of the crisis in Europe over the past month has been less concentrated in time and place compared with Black Thursday in New York, but in other ways the reaction is similar. What seemed unthinkable a month ago now appears unstoppable. Talk by European leaders of the break-up of the eurozone or the ejection of some countries is no longer taboo.
Illusions of a new European order are evaporating. Once countries such as Greece and Ireland, with histories of poverty, immigration and foreign domination, believed they had finally caught up with the British, French and Germans and would enjoy the same standard of living.
It isn’t going to happen, and collapse of these hopes makes the shock of the financial crisis all the greater in places where people believed that it would. The worst affected economies may eventually stabilise, but they will not wholly recover. “Greece would like to rebound to its old pre-crisis level,” Tassos Teloglou, one of Greece’s leading investigative journalists, told me. “But this is impossible because this was based on us having the same triple AAA credit rating as Germany and pretending we had a similar level of debt. You can’t go back to that because they [foreign countries and international banks] don’t trust us any more.”
I spent the past month in Greece and Ireland. In most of Europe, the financial crisis is only slowly beginning to deaden economic life, but in these two countries the calamity has already arrived. I grew up near a small town called Youghal on the Blackwater River in County Cork. In the 1960s, the town had a large carpet factory and several textiles factories, and workers had to be bussed in from far away. Today, after many ups and downs, Youghal has no factories and the largest employer is the local mental asylum. The careers officer at a local school told me: “There are no jobs for students anywhere. The best placed are those who come from small family farms they can go back to.”
On the island of Naxos in the Aegean, at the other end of Europe, the prospects are equally gloomy. Katrina Sideri, in charge of vocational training in the mountain village of Chalki, says that highly qualified people speaking two foreign languages are retraining to take jobs in tourism, the only industry that still provides employment. “People are scared,” says Vasilis Krasas, the head of an association of farmers herding sheep and goats in a nearby village. “They are shut up in their homes and don’t come out. They are even having to send food parcels to their relatives in Athens.”
The lamentations of the Piigs (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) don’t elicit much sympathy in the rest of the European Union. The Greeks, in particular, are seen as tax-evading subsidy-guzzling freeloaders who are getting what they deserve. For the moment, they, along with others in the worst indebted countries, will take their medicine, however toxic its side-effects, in the hope of seeing light at the end of the tunnel. But even in Ireland, where the government has strained every nerve to meet the terms of the bailout, impatience is growing as people ask if being the EU’s “good little Piig” is doing them much good.
In Greece, the political approach of the EU never made much sense except as a form of exemplary punishment of Greeks to dissuade the Italians and Spanish from even partially defaulting on their debts. Foreign-imposed austerity measures so tough that they discredited the government implementing them were bound to erode support for long-term structural reforms. When Prime Minister George Papandreou sought to re-legitimise his government by proposing a referendum, he was forced to recant and then resign.
In Ireland last week, there was a similar if little-noticed demonstration of the degree to which the country’s elected government no longer exercises real power. A billion dollars was paid by the Irish state to the unsecured bondholders of the Anglo Irish Bank, the bank that contributed most to ruining the country. It is not that the Irish government wanted to do this but a gun was pressed menacingly to its head. “The threat came from the European Central Bank,” writes the commentator Fintan O’Toole in The Irish Times, “and it was as crude as it was brutal: give the spivs your taxpayers’ money or we’ll bring down your banking system.”
Such threats cannot be endlessly repeated unless those acceding to them see positive benefits down the road. Without such rewards a government obeying these diktats will rapidly discredit itself. Installation of coalitions led by supposedly squeaky-clean financial technocrats in Greece and Italy get a good press but have little legitimacy. Existing political parties may want to evade responsibility for making concessions to the European Central Bank (ECB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) or EU leaders, but they have no intention of retiring permanently to the sidelines.
The political turmoil in the Piigs can only grow. Governments will be forced to pay for their sins of failure to avoid catastrophe. Policies based on austerity alone will not fly. The erosion of national sovereignty will become ever more patent. The political incapacity of the EU to decide what to do next will also become more patent.
The political future of a country such as Greece becomes more incalculable because the financial hurricane has altered the weight of different players in its politics. For instance, the ship owners have historically been politically influential, exercising their power through their ownership of banks and the media, but banks are now tottering and some journalists are not being paid.
There are those Greeks who feel that their existing state system is so corrupt and dysfunctional that reform can come only from outside. The weakness of this argument is that the austerity regime being imposed by the Troika (EU, ECB and IMF) has provoked an economic collapse that discredits reform.
On Black Thursday in 1929, my father said he realised how bad the situation was only when another Times correspondent in New York murmured to him in a low voice: “Remember, when we’re writing this story, the word ‘panic’ is not to be used.” In the present crisis much has been made of the panic of the bondholders, but the real explosion will come when the panic building in the streets of Athens spreads elsewhere.
Sunday 13 November 2011
Youghal United soccer notes
Club main sponsor: Berties Bar – Report: Anthony Horgan PRO.
Youghal United secure a new club main sponsor! – Exciting times ahead for Youghal United after the club secured a new sponsor in Paul & Carmel Dempsey at Berties Bar. Youghal United and Berties partnership go back years with “old” Bertie being a sponsor and supporter of Youghal United for many a year. Everyone involved with the club is pleased to be back at Berties again.
Paul Dempsey from Berties Youghal Unites new sponsor presents a set of jerseys & polo shirts to the Youghal Senior team
Munster Senior Cup 2nd Round.
Passage 0 – 2 Youghal United.
Youghal yet again had another good result away in the Munster Senior Cup 2nd round to Passage. The lads won 2-0 with two second half goals by Leigh Desmond. Best for were the centre half partnership of Seamus Landers and Anthony Kelly.
Alison from Youghal Pharmacy presents medial kits to Youghal United
Under 19
Youghal United 1 – 3 Greenwood.
This was a poor result and a poor performance by the Youghal lads. The 1st half had little to entertain the local supporters. Greenwood hit the crossbar but Bobby Donoughue had the best chance when 1 on 1 with the keeper. Colin Sheehan & Calum Gallogley had half chances, but nothing more. The 2nd half was a catalog of disasters for the home team. First the influential Ross Desmond came off injured, Greenwood took the lead when the keeper left the ball roll under his body & into the net. Youghal rallied and equalised through Jerome Glavin. However, soon after the game turned when Youghal had a player sent off in controversial circumstances. Greenwood regained the lead, when from a corner the centre forward stooped to head home. Calum Phelan was badly injured and Greenwood made it 3-1.Worse was to follow with another red card, this time no complaints. A Bad defeat – too many below par performances, gone was the fluent passing football of previous games and too much ill discipline. Hopefully lessons can be learned and the team can move on to better displays. Best for Youghal.Jason Galvin & Killian O`Callaghan in defence stood out and without them the defeat could have been alot worse. Team D.CASHMAN.K O`CALLAGHAN.D.McCARTHY. R.DESMOND. J.GALVIN.C.GALLOGLEY.C.PHELAN.B.DONOUGHUE.J.MEADE. J.GLAVIN.C.SHEEHAN. SUBS USED. A.O`CONNOR.D.DONOUGHUE. S.SHEEHAN.
Finbarr Walsh manager of the U17 team accepting a set of jersey's from Fintan at Crowley's service station
WW/EC division 1
Youghal United 5 – 0 Accrington.
Paul Hennessy capped off a great performance on Sunday scoring early in the second half to keep Youghal’s push for promotion on track. Youghal got off to a quick start when a fast corner to Stephen Ring was delivered to the back post and Spillane headed to the net. Soon after Mark O’ Connor was taken down at the edge of the area and Sammy Coakley blasted it to the bottom corner to make it 2-0. Accrington got into the game and Youghal had to depend on keeper Andrew Duggan to pull off two super saves just before the break. Youghal got their third when Stephen Barry was taken down in the area up stepped captain Chris Hennessy to cooly send the keeper the wrong way. Early in the second half man of the match Paul Hennessy sealed it for Youghal when he met Coakleys free kick to net that was Paul’s third goal of the season. Accrington never gave up and had another great chance but Duggan pushed a powerful shot over the bar. Late on Barry broke down the right before crossing to his captain Chris Hennessy who made no mistake making it 5 – 0. This was Stephen Rings last game of the season for Youghal as he goes on his travels , the club, all his team mates and management would like to wish him all the best in his venture down under he will be sadly missed.
Team: A.Duggan,S.Ring,D.Troy.S.Spillane,S.Coakley,M.Crowley,T.Carey,C.Hennessy,P.Hennessy,S.Barry,M O Connor. Subs J.Mason for T.Carey,D.Barron for S.Spillane,A.Yellop,G.Roche. Best for Youghal P.Hennessy,A.Duggan,S.Ring.
Under 15
Carrigaline United 0 – 6 Youghal United.
Having watched Youghal on a couple of occassions playing so well away
from home but returning empty handed it was nice to see the lads get
their just rewards today at Bealla Park. On a beautiful day for
football Youghal had control of this game from start to finish.
Playing on the fantastic astroturf surface allowed both teams play
Fast flowing football which always makes for a more enjoyable game to
watch. Youghal took the game to the opposition right from the kick off
and it was only a matter of time before the goals started to
come. Their first from a free kick from outside the box which Andi
Nelrexhepi placed nicely in the top left hand corner of the net with
the help of a slight deflection. Number two and three came from man of
the match Conor Dempsey having been put through on both occasions by
some great passing held his nerve and slotted the ball past the
stranded Carrigaline keeper. Goal number four was the pick of the
bunch as Darren O Conner picked up the ball in his own half, carried
it to the edge of the box and lashed an unstoppable drive to the top
corner. Goal number five again came from an Andi Nelrexhepi free kick,
this time from the edge of the box Andi opted for power and just drove
it straight through a crowded penalty area into the net. The final goal
came from some great work down the left flank by Zack Downey which
resulted in a fine cross by Padraig Delaney being guided into the net
by the hard working Kenneth Cantillon. Youghal never looked in trouble
in this game and the few excursions Carrig made into the Youghal half
were dealt with by a defensive unit well marshsled by captain on the
day James Skelly. Manager Gavin O Leary will be well pleased with this
performance. Well done guys Team C Sheehan, A Donoghue, A Nelrexhepi,J
Skelly,A Clohessey,B Colin,D O Conner,A Semple,K Cantillon,P Delaney
,C Dempsey Used Subs Z Downey
Under 12
Youghal United 11 – 2 Mallow.
Just look at this score line and it tells you all there is to know about this game. The home side were totally dominant throughout and cruised to what could be their easiest victory for the season against third position in the league table Mallow. Kieran Daly got one goal, Liam Moylan Ansbro scored a hat trick but the top scorer on the day with an unbelievable 7 goals was Jake O Brien. The lads are still top of the table and have made an excellent start to the season.
Club notes!
The club is pleased to announce that we have received much needed sponsorship from the generosity of Berties, Maggie Mays, Youghal Pharmacy & Crowley’s service station in the last number of weeks. More information to follow on future sponsorship deals. Next month we are hoping to hold a soccer marathon having the underage teams play during the day and finishing with a friendly/competitive game between a selection of players from Berties and Mackeys. We have a number of positions free for an advertising board around the field if you are interested then please contact Damien on the all weather pitch number below.
New Academy Kit
The club has organised a lovely new kit for all kids and is excellent value
at only €30. The kit includes jersey, socks and shorts. The kit can be tried on for size at Sports And Leisure and orders can be made there. Names and
numbers on the back of the jersey will cost extra.
All Weather Pitch
Youghal United’s all weather pitch is available to rent from 25 euro per
hour and there are some mid-week times available to any group or club
wishing to avail of the facility. The contact number is 083-3835844.
Note!
Two new caretakers have commenced work with the club in looking after our all-weather pitch. Mandatory €2 is required as a contribution towards the mortgage payments on the all weather pitch.
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Youghal U-16s Soccer
Springfield 1 – 1 Youghal Utd.
This was a game that will have Youghal cursing their luck for weeks to come and 2 points lost that could count against them at the end of the season. A depleted but confident side traveled to Cobh to face newcomers, Springfield. Youghal obliged the opposition with a change of date but struggled to field their strongest team as a consequence. With just enough players to take the field Youghal still put in an excellent performance, particularly in the second half.
The game started evenly and Youghal created some promising openings but were a little too careless in the final third. The breakthrough came midway through the first half when Sarah Roche showed great composure on the halfway line, carrying the ball into the Springfield half. Her through pass to the right evaded the outstretched leg of the left back. Holly Twomey, in deadly form of late, controlled the pass and from just inside the box, slotted home. Youghal may have felt that they had done enough but they allowed Springfield confidence to grow. Youghal were second to the ball on most ocassions and caught out of positions and paid dearly for it. With the Springfield midfielder allowed to collect the ball in Youghal’s half without any pressure, the number 8 danced her way through the area to level the score. Youghal were stung and continued to struggle until midway through the second half when Holly Twomey brought a smart save from the keeper. Holly continued to threaten with Rebecca Kearns also showing great promise on the right. Youghal seemed to realise they were in a match and looked the more likely to score until the Springfield centre-half made her influence known on the game. When Holly Twomey sailed pass two defenders she was almost certain to put Youghal ahead until a crunching tackle took the ball and her ankle inside the area. It was Holly’s last involvement in the game as she was carried off. With Youghal down to 9 players Springfield got hold of the game, hitting the post and having the ball cleared off the line with a great save by Orla Daly. However, Youghal’s outstanding character showed when the excellent Rachel Geary caught Springfield on the break with a fantastic solo run. Unfortunately, as Rachel was about to shoot she too fell foul of the same defender and after another hard tackle was carried off with a similar injury to her team-mate. This time Youghal were awarded the penalty that was 15 minutes overdue. With Youghal’s two probable kickers off the pitch Sarah Roche stepped up to take what turned out to be the last kick of the game. Sadly for Sarah her effort was saved. This was cruel on Sarah as she had been absolutely outstanding in the last 20 minutes when Youghal barely had enough players to finish the game. Certainly, her performance secured a brave and costly point. Youghal will be disappointed not to win the game but can be very proud of their performance in very trying circumstance. The return match with a full team will offer the opportunity to redress the balance on what was a day thay Youghal lost 2 players for a number of weeks but were also extraordinarily brave. Squad: Orla Day, Anne-Marie Geary, Sarah Roche, Katie Manning ©, Claire Keniry, Niamh Roche, Rebecca Kearns, Rachel Geary, Amy Benaim, Holly Twomey. Next Match at Ardrath Park V Riverstown Sun 13.
YOUGHAL’S COMMUNITY ALERT GROUP will hold a public information morning in the Nook bar, North Main Street on Wednesday Nov 16th. The meeting will be addressed by several speakers, including Eddie McBride, Drugs Project worker for the Southern Region Task Force, Dermot Cronin, Development Officer with the Community Alert Southern Garda Region, Peter Queally, Youghal Community Garda and Pat Carey of the Youghal Care and Repair group. The meeting, commences at 11 am, includes free tea/coffee and snacks. – Christy Parker
Thursday, November 10, 2011
JIMMY SAVILE “brought a little bit of magic and sparkle to everybody that he met”, mourners at his funeral service were told yesterday. Savile will be buried today following more public ceremonials in Scarborough, the North Yorkshire seaside town he loved and where he had a home. Savile, who presented the first episode of Top Of The Pops, was found dead at his flat in Roundhay, Leeds, just two days before his 85th birthday. He raised millions for charity and ran more than 200 marathons in support of good causes.
Sir Jimmy Savile 'Fixed It' for the Youghal Pipe Band
Jim’ll Fix It was a long-running British television show, broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1994. It was presented by Jimmy Savile.
The show debuted on 31 May 1975, and ran until July 1994, in the Saturday teatime slot. It was devised and hosted by the late Jimmy Savile, who would “fix it” for the wishes of several viewers (usually children) to come true each week.
The standard format was that the viewer’s letter, which described their wish, would be shown on the screen and read out aloud by the letter’s writer, although initially Savile himself read the letters. This would be followed with a quick chat between Jimmy and the letter writer, where they would discuss the wish.
The wish would then be enacted (either live in the studio or shown in a pre-recorded format, which usually consisted of a segment recorded on film), and finally the viewer would be presented with a medal which had the words “Jim fixed it for me” engraved on it.
Occasionally, other people featured in the ‘Fix It’ (actors from well known series, for example), might also give the viewer an extra gift somehow relating to the Fix. Savile himself played no part in the filming or recording of the ‘fix-its’, unless specifically requested as part of the letter writer’s wish.
Youghal Pipe Band's Michael McCarthy wrote the letter to Jim'll Fix It
Fr. Tom Paul Geary "My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass"
Youghal Pipe Band march at Green Park, Youghal, back in 1984
Back in 1984 the late Michael McCarthy from the Youghal Pipe Band wrote to the Jim’ll Fix It programme asking if Jim’ll Fix It so that the pipe band could be on the tv as a request from his father, Duis McCarthy. Jim indeed fixed it for the Youghal Pipe Band and the BBC team duly arrived in town to film the pipers in different location around Youghal and nearby Ardmore. Youghal priest Fr. Tom Paul Geary and Michael McCarthy went to the BBC studios where they received the famous Jim’ll Fix It medal on St. Patrick’s Day 1984.
“Now Then” - Click on the video below to see the Jim’ll Fix It show and bring back memories of Youghal back in 1984
Joe Frazier, boxing champion, died Monday (7th Nov. 2011) following a brief battle with liver cancer. The man who clashed with Muhammad Ali three thrilling times — winning once — had only just begun his fight with the disease a month ago, but his manager says the boxer’s condition deteriorated quickly and he had to be admitted to hospice care last week. He was 67. Like many athletes that followed, “Smokin’ Joe” enjoyed tinkering in the music business, and over the years released several soul-funk records under the Joe Frazier and the Knockouts banner.
Joe Frazier won the undisputed heavyweight title with a 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in March 1971, in an extravaganza known as the Fight of the Century
His musical exploits typically featured a straightforward vocal from the boxer, and often his endearingly clunky delivery made it obvious what the singer did for a living. Songs also had titles or lyrics that touched on boxing — including “Knock on Wood” and “The Bigger They Come.”
Youghal man Sean Murphy - "It was a big thing at the time to see the former world champion in Youghal"
Smokin’ Joe Frazier – complete with his band The Knockouts played for one night in the famous Redbarn Dancehall in Youghal.
Youghal man Sean Murphy remembers going to see the World Champion boxer at Redbarn back in the early ’70′s. “It was a big thing at the time to see the world champion coming to your home town” He said, “As a teenager back then it was a great opportunity to get to see Joe Frazier. I was a big fan of Muhammad Ali myself but i appreciated the opportunity to see a legend like Joe Frazier, former Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World singing in my local dancehall”.
“Redbarn switched over from the showband style to the more cabaret look of the seventies and Smokin’ Joe Frazier and the Knockouts were one of the first of this new style of entertainment to play there, It brings back fond memories of a different time”.
Fundraising Night in aid of Park National School in the Halfway Bar on the 19th November at 8 p.m.
Music by Patsy and Eileen – Light Refreshments will be served on the night
Raffle on the night with great spot prizes – Tickets: E10
For more information please contact 02497282
PARK NATIONAL SCHOOL, Park, Youghal, Co. Cork
Tel: 02497282
Email: parkschool.ias@eircom.net
The Bus Stops Here! – US VISITORS TO YOUGHAL are set to dramatically increase in 2012 and 2013 following negotiations undertaken by Youghal Chamber of Tourism & Development, The Youghal Socio-Economic Development Group (YSEDG) with CIE Tours International.
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A guided tour of Youghal’s Heritage Trail is set to form part of the company’s group tour itineraries in 2012 and a selection of tour series in 2013, using the Kerry to Waterford routes and vice versa. CIE Tours International is the largest tour operator in the US driving vacation business to Ireland. Last year they handled 35,000 visitors to the island of Ireland.
Two Youghal businesswomen Vice-President Sal Tivy and Mary O’ Donnell, President of Youghal Chamber of Tourism and Development delighted with the welcome boost to our local economy: - President of Youghal Chamber of Tourism and Development, Mary O’ Donnell said: “This is a great opportunity for Youghal and I am delighted with the positive outcome to last Thursdays meeting with Conor Wall and Senior representatives of CIE bus tours in Dublin. We will work hard on completing the requirements requested to become a CIE Tour destination. Mary went on to thank Sal Tivy-Vice President ( Pictured on the left) for researching contacts for the meeting with CIE Tours and also Eileen Quill - Chamber Director and Aileen Murray- YSEDG for attending the Dublin meeting and presenting our wonderful town and all it has to offer as a very attractive stop over and tourist destination. Pic: www.youghalonline.com
In mid October, Senior Vice President of CIE Tours International, Dennis Savage, who is based in Morristown New Jersey paid a visit to Youghal on a US staff education trip and expressed a major interest in including ‘Youghal’s Heritage Trail’ on a number of routes to the region. This was the culmination of a number of years of work undertaken by Youghal Chamber at various coach and tourism workshops selling Youghal’s tourism product offering. Speaking about his visit and the prospect of including Youghal on their itineraries, Mr. Savage commented: “Youghal is a very photogenic town and adding a walking tour would ensure our coach tours routing from Kerry to Waterford would be compelled to slow-down, with a diversion from the local motorway and learn firsthand the local history. I believe that walking tours enhance the coach tour experience and are an important ingredient in our continued market share growth. I have noticed that too often historic towns are being bypassed by coach crews and in doing so an integral part of the real Ireland experience is being lost. For the Killarney/Cork/Waterford route, Youghal is the perfect mid morning or afternoon comfort or photo-stop.” Said Mr. Savage.
Youghal's world famous beach
Following on from Mr. Savage’s familiarisation trip, a delegation from Youghal Chamber of Tourism & Development (Eileen Quill) and The Youghal Socio-Economic Development Group (Aileen Murray) met with senior representatives from CIE Tours in Dublin to discuss the details of various package options.
Aileen Murray (YSEDG) pointed to the fact that Youghal was finally starting to be recognised for its efforts and investment in Heritage by some of the main tour operators. “The fact that the major decision makers of CIE Tours are now including Youghal on their routes is testament to the years of investment through Youghal’s Heritage-Led Regeneration Strategy by Youghal Town Council – in the Town Walls, St.Mary’s Collegiate Church and heritage signage for example; together with the marketing efforts of The Youghal Chamber of Tourism & Development in attracting coach tour business over the years. Once CIE Tours as the market leaders come on board, it is only a matter of time before other operators begin to take notice of Youghal too.” said Aileen.
Scenic view of Youghal's famous quays - A favourite for artists and photographers
Commenting on the opportunity, President of Youghal Chamber of Tourism and Development, Mary O’ Donnell said: “This is a great opportunity for Youghal and I am delighted with the positive outcome to last Thursdays meeting with Conor Wall and Senior representatives of CIE bus tours in Dublin. We will work hard on completing the requirements requested to become a CIE Tour destination.
Mary went on to thank Sal Tivy-Vice President for researching contacts for the meeting with CIE Tours and also Eileen Quill – Chamber Director and Aileen Murray- YSEDG for attending the Dublin meeting and presenting our wonderful town and all it has to offer as a very attractive stop over and tourist destination.
“I welcome all prospects for potential tourism generation for our town and locality”, said Mary. “We are delighted to secure CIE tour excursions to Youghal for 2012 and being placed on a full programme for CIE tours for the 2013 season. This will increase business and employment and bring a very welcome boost to our local economy.”
View of Youghal's inner harbour
CIE Escorted Tours operate from March each year on a weekly basis through to November. The Company is also considering various packages which the Chamber of Tourism & Development has compiled, including a number of tour and lunch options.
"Youghal is a very photogenic town"
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Issued by: Youghal Chamber of Tourism & Development &
Youghal Socio-Economic Development Group (YSEDG)
Contact:
Ø Mary O’Donnell: (Pres. Youghal Chamber): T: 024-20200 E: mary@clearviewproperties.ie
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Ø Aileen Murray (YSEDG): T: 024-81814 E: tourism@youghal.ie
Aileen Murray,
Manager, Youghal Socio-Economic Development Group,
7-10 Enterprise Youghal,
Emmet Place,
Youghal,
Co. Cork.
Tel: 00 353 24 81814
E: tourism@youghal.ie
MYSTERY surrounds the outbreak of a fire in the disused Seafield Fabrics factory in the Youghal strand area yesterday (November 8th 2011). The alarm was raised at about noon when dense smoke was seen emanating from the rear of the plant. Report: Christy Parker | Photos: Warren Tivy
Youghal and Ardmore firefighters attend the factory fire. Pic: Warren Tivy
Two units of Youghal fire brigade under Chief Station Officer Ger Gleeson assisted by one unit from Ardmore under Chief Station Officer Pat Hennessy attended the scene and soon brought the situation under control.
Fire fighters had to force an entry to treat the fire, which caused damage to the asbestos roof. The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) are to be informed amidst expectations that the roof will now have to be dismantled and removed.
A fire service spokesman said there is no danger to public health. The site is currently the subject of a planning application from Aldi supermarket chain. (CLICK HERE for more on that story)
Firefighters bring the fire under control. Pic: Warren Tivy
[Related video] Click on video below to see the Youghal Firefighters chip pan fire safety demonstration.
[Related video] Click on video below to see the Youghal Emergency Service’s demonstration in action
Pic: Warren Tivy
Pic: Warren Tivy
