ARDMORE 16TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS DAY SWIM

AT ARDMORE BEACH 25TH DEC 2011 AT 12 NOON.

CHANGING FACILITIES AVAILABLE ON THE DAY

FOLLOWED WITH REFRESHMENTS AFTERWARDS.

SPONSORSHIP CARDS AVAILABLE FROM CATHERINE FITZGERALD (087-1218320)

This week, Thursday 8 December at Tallow Community Centre, Brideview Drama pushes on to stage their great hospital comedy for Christmas, ‘Nil by Mouth’, directed by John Roche (great to see him back in the director’s chair!).

Written by John Chapman, the play is a fun 4 nights’ entertainment. All about a bunch of useless patients trying desperately to survive what must be the worst run medical facility in Ireland, Nil by Mouth is a family-friendly evening of mistakes, farce, pratfalls and confusion.

As so often with Brideview Drama, there are many new faces on stage, and the show welcomes Louise O’Connor of Tallow (channelling her inner Ian Paisley as a grumpy Northern matron), Fiona Keane of Fermoy (as a fresh-faced and very fetching American nurse), Liam Roche of Kilwatermoy (bumbling about in the throes of a drug-induced confusion), and Gary Gill (as a totally zonked out patient).

Anne Tobin, Paddy Smith, Martin Sheehan, Donal Howard, Brian Livingston, Helen Aherne, Veronica Henley and Sarah Curley return to the company, driving the show forward through all the mayhem. Anne is a scary government inspector, Helen is the clueless main patient, Paddy is the tall handsome doctor, Donal plays a concussed patient sure he’s about to do a Roy Keane for Brideview United, Sarah is easily the nation’s best looking nurse, Martin rushes manically about as Joe the Porter, Brian keeps tripping over him as another Porter, while Veronica beautifully bosses everyone about as Matron Dowling.

Also new to Brideview Drama, up in the lighting box we welcome Shane Roche of Kilwatermoy, who’ll be spinning the sound while pushing the buttons, alongside the ever-capable Matthew Kavanagh. There are lots of really interesting props on stage, so the club would especially like to thank St Patrick’s Community Hospital of Fermoy and Goalpost Ireland Engineering of Tallow.

Suitable for all ages, Nil By Mouth starts at 8.15PM each night, with doors opening at 7.30pm. Tallow Community Centre is a very comfortable theatre, so all are welcome on Thursday and Friday, December 8 and 9; then Thursday and Saturday nights, 15 and 17 December.

As ever with Brideview Drama, the refreshments are free and include wine, nibbles and soft-drinks. There’s lots of seating, so come along and enjoy the show.

 

Cork Snooker – By Derek Kiely

THE Cork under 16 individual snooker championships were held last Sunday at Youghal CYMS and there was a very good entry with the Crucible, Douglas snooker club and the host club Youghal well represented in the magnificent surroundings of the Market House.

After some exciting snooker it was a bit of Youghal dominance throughout really in a club renowned for its strength at under age snooker came through with Youghal CYMS player Adam Fitzgerald beating fellow club man Noel Landers in the semi final.

Meanwhile the Crucibles Shane Hourihan met tournament favourite Aaron Tobin from Youghal CYMS in the other semi final. Tobin proved too good for Hourihan wining by two frames to nil.

In the final Tobin was just too good for Fitzgerald and went on to win the tournament without dropping a frame. Tobin a former National champion at under age level is truly a wonderful talent and hopefully soon he will be back in the green, white and orange of the Republic of Ireland team.

In regional snooker the West Section Intermediate snooker championships were held in the Crucible Snooker Club.

The final featured two players in terrific form at the moment, David Cassidy from the Crucible and Lloyd Myers from the AOH. Eventually Cassidy was victorious with a three frames to nil win. Sean Burns from the Crucible beat Derek Kiely from Youghal CYMS by three frames to two frames in the final of the plate.

Jimmy and James Hussey and his family must be complimented for the very warm welcome to everyone on the day and the hall itself was in fantastic shape. Hopefully with ranking tournaments finding their way back down south more and more Cork based players will come back to competitive snooker and even though Cork snooker is thriving at the moment the more that play the better, young and old alike.

Speaking of ranking events in Cork, Douglas snooker club will host the National Finals of the under 19’s and under and under 21’s and maybe more local cue-men will support further events. Also at Douglas snooker club ‘The Baby Lexie O’Riordan’ snooker tournament fund-raiser will be held in Douglas Snooker Club which will be held over the coming weeks.

The competition is organised by Karl and Martin Busteed and there is an appeal for support from anyone who wants to help by donating spot prizes. You can contact Douglas snooker club at 021-4891203 check it out on the Douglas Snooker Club Facebook page.

In the Cork Billiards and Snooker Association (CBSA) Cork league the Youghal CYMS ‘A’ side keep going with another win to keep their 100% record in tact with a win away at Douglas, meanwhile the Crucible also on a 100% perfect record of wins this year in the league had an away win at Youghal CYMS ‘B’ and these two sides look unbeatable at the moment, but something has to give tomorrow night when both sides meet in Youghal before the Christmas break.

This game should be a cracker with each clubs top players competing at the highest level in the national rankings, it is a very difficult match to call and it could go either way. Both Youghal CYMS and the Crucible are already qualified for the semi finals, the question now is, who will join them there?

Youghal CYMS ‘B’, the AOH and Douglas ‘A’ will now face into a real dogfight for those remaining two spots.

The news that the ‘Munster Snooker Club Championships’ in Killarney have been brought forward by one week has not gone down very well with everyone involved in the game here in Cork, because it now clashes with an under 21, 19 and Masters event scheduled for the same weekend. The tournament is to be played the weekend of Friday the 20th, Saturday the 21st and Sunday the 22nd of January. There will be an appeal to have this looked at and maybe RIBSA may solve the problem for Killarney by changing the date set for the ranking points events that are to be held that weekend.

CBSA Results Week 10

Week 10

Douglas ‘B’ 2 – 8 Youghal CYMS ‘A’

Ed. Finn 1 – 2 Aaron Tobin

Paul Forde 0 – 3 Derek Aherne

Ken Smyth 1 – 2 Ger Kelly

Evan O’Leary 0 – 1 Christopher Cooney

Youghal CYMS ‘B’ 2 – 8 The Crucible

William Kelly 0 – 3 Greg Casey

Trevor Flaherty 1 – 1 David Cassidy

Stephen Kelly 0 – 2 Ciaran Cronin

Kenny Wight 1 – 2 Ryan Cronin

Douglas ‘A’ 8 – 2 Youghal CYMS ‘C’

Gerry O’Sullivan 2 – 1 Ed Hickey

Karl Busteed 2 – 1 Lee Walsh

Tony Moore 3 – 0 Eric Hassan

Finbarr Wallace 1 – 0 Chris Hennessy

Fixtures for Week 11

Youghal CYMS ‘A’ v The Crucible Wednesday the 7th of December 8pm

The AOH v Douglas ‘A’ Thursday the 8th of December 8pm

Douglas ‘B’ v Youghal CYMS ‘C’ Thursday the 8th of December 8pm

CBSA League Table

Played Won Lost Points

Youghal CYMS ‘A’ 10 10 0 25

Crucible 7 7 0 17

Youghal CYMS ‘B’ 10 4 6 10

Douglas ‘A’ 8 4 4 10

AOH 8 3 5 7

Youghal CYMS ‘C’ 8 1 7 3

Douglas CYMS ‘B’ 7 0 7 0

Forthcoming Event Fixtures

January 8th 2012 U/19 Snooker Crucible S.C,

February 12th 2012 Cork Individual Billiards C/Ship. AOH

February 19th 2012 Cork Close Snooker Douglas S.C.

March 11th U/17 Snooker Teams C/Ship Youghal CYMS

March 31st/April 1st Orme Shield Youghal CYMS

Week-nights March. Cork Billiards Teams C/Ship Home or Away

SANTA visits boys and girls around the world in many different ways, but on Saturday 3rd December at 2.00pm this year in Youghal, Co. Cork, Father Christmas is set to arrive on water with the help of local sailing school; Aquatrek to the Quay-side.  Events are set to kick-start the seaside town’s annual Christmas festive season celebrations. Organised by Youghal Town Council’s Heritage Committee, a ‘free’ Santa visit for all the children in Youghal will follow from 2.15 – 4.30 pm in the Mall Arts Centre.

Santa’s horse, and his ‘one horse open sleigh’ will collect Santa following his arrival from Youghal Bay to Nealon’s Quay.  Accompanying Santa will be the lucky winner of the Youghal Primary School’s colouring competition to The Mall Arts Centre where an afternoon of free fun will ensue.  Kids of all ages will enjoy the festivities from with a ‘free Santa visit’, face-painting, and Barty’s disco will only add to the festive atmosphere!

At 4.30 pm Santa will lead Youghal’s very own Pipe Band on their march to Market Square for the official turning on of Youghal’s Christmas Lights which has been organised by Youghal Chamber of Tourism and Development.

David Stanton, Fine Gael TD for Cork East has welcomed the decision by Irish Distillers – Pernod Ricard to create a total of 280 jobs at Midleton Distillery.  These jobs will result from the decision to invest €100 million in expanding the production site in Midleton.

“I am very pleased that Midleton Distillery is going to benefit from such a large investment.  I understand that this will entail the creation of 30 new permanent jobs in the manufacturing plant in Midleton, and also another 30 at the bottling plant in Dublin.

“In addition to the 30 permanent posts, the planned expansion of the distillery will require 250 construction workers during the 18 month construction phase.  This amount of jobs will be a huge boost for Midleton and East Cork as a whole which, like most areas across the country, have seen a large increase in unemployment in the last couple of years.

“The success of the Jameson brand is a real good news story for Midleton where whiskey has been produced for over 185 years.  I understand that the investment is required to expand the plant as it is already operating at full capacity.  The expansion will allow Irish Distillers to continue to meet the ever increasing demand for Jameson worldwide.

“I imagine that the increase in production capacity and employment at the Midleton plant should also have a knock on effect in generating employment for other local business. Farmers, hauliers and other ancillary businesses should benefit as well as local tourism as the Jameson brand becomes known to an ever wider international market.

THE YOUGHAL RNLI was launched for the second time in a week on Thursday 1st December at 13:47. It went to the aid a 20ft fishing vessel with 3 persons on board that had broken down with engine failure 2 miles south of Black Ball Head. Weather conditions were calm at the time.

The Youghal Lifeboat The Patricia Jennings with its volunteer crew Patsy O’ Mahony, Thomas Cliffe and helmsman John Griffin Jnr arrived on scene and established a tow.  The fishing vessel along with the 3 casualties were towed safely to the Shipping Quay in Youghal where the Lifeboat handed over to the Youghal Coast Guard. Pic: John Hennessy | website: www.jhennessy.net

 

Related Video: Youghal Emergency Services Demonstration 2009

Youghal Emergency services in action in Youghal, An exercise involving the RNLI, Coast Guard, Ambulance Services, Civil Defence and Air Rescue, This exercise was carried out near Claycastle Beach, where there was a command post set up, including a decontamination area.

Sinn Féin TD for Cork East, Sandra McLellan, has claimed the ambulance service in the HSE South area is at breaking point and that the planned reconfiguration of the service will drive it over the edge.

Speaking in response to leaked HSE memos Deputy McLellan said:

“Internal HSE memos revealed by the Corkman this week confirm that there were several instances when areas in Cork were left without adequate ambulance cover due to new work directives. The HSEs answer to this appears to be to ask ambulance crew to routinely cover on-call after already working a 16 hour day. This is completely outrageous and in direct contradiction to earlier instruction issued in May.”

“It beggars belief that the HSE would expect ambulance staff to be in any fit state to deliver appropriate care after such a long day. The role paramedics play in the pre-emergency care of patients is vital. I have said from the outset that the HSEs plan to reconfigure ambulance services is seriously flawed. I have called on the Government and the HSE to invest in the ambulance fleet and in ambulance personnel. The recruitment embargo continues to have a devastating effect on the service.”

“This series of internal communications highlights the fact that the service is at breaking point, with insufficient staff and an inappropriate skills mix to deliver the service in the new dispensation. That the HSE would even contemplate reconfiguring the service without addressing these deficiencies is life threatening.”

Related Video: Save Youghal Ambulance – Protest Walk 29 July 2011

The Y Factor 2012 auditions are coming up , if you can put the poster and entry form online Id appreciate it thanks.

12 acts for one night only at The Walter Raleigh Hotel Youghal.The Y Factor talent show held for the last few years is a fun and exciting platform for young performers to let their voices resound and their gifts shine through.The whole show is modeled on the ever so popular X Factor only without all the drama.

Last year seen an audience of 300 or more come to encourage and support the Youth from the community and around.
A DVD of the show along with a cd was released and is testament to the exceptional talent abounding within the youth and the success of this project

Sacred Roots Productions is a non profit voluntary run project ‘Where music speaks louder than words’.

Entry forms can be got at Tom Scotts , The Hot Spot Youth Center South Abbey Youghal  & Youghal Library
Forms are to be returned to Tom Scotts or The Hot Spot before the 13th of December

Tickets for the show in The Walter Raleigh will be on sale at Scotts 137 North Main Street Youghal

The Youghal RNLI Lifeboat has a lovely range of Christmas Cards for sale this year. They are available from Muckley’s Jewellers, Crowley’s Petrol Station and Youghal Lifeboat Souvenir Shop.  Please help us save lives at sea by buying our Christmas cards.

Harmony – A Christmas Special! Directed by Finbar Hannon
At the Methodist Church hall, Friar Street, Youghal.
Mon 5th, Wed 7th, & Thur 8th December 2011

Show-stoppers, Sea Shanties, Gospel Singing, Christmas Songs and Comedy – all at the Methodist Church hall, Friar Street, Youghal on Mon 5th, Wed 7th, & Thur 8th December 2011!

Harmony’s Christmas Special, directed by Finbar Hannon, will be a terrific night’s entertainment for all, and features the excellent and wide-ranging talent of this group.

‘Harmony’ is an entirely voluntary and open group and new members are always very welcome.  It doesn’t ask for financial assistance from the already hard-pressed local community – it is self-supporting. ‘Harmony’s’ shows are always to a very high standard and thoroughly enjoyable.  Among it’s many successes are ‘Many Young Men of Twenty’, ‘Some Enchanted Evening’, ‘From Here to Broadway’, ‘A tribute to John B & Showtime’ and ‘Guys and Dolls’, along with various recitals, concerts and Christmas Shows.

Harmony specialises in doing a great job for pocket-friendly ticket prices. €10 for a great night and a complementary tea or coffee!

Youghal theatrical troupe “Harmony” will perform a Christmas special