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“Gigi’s The Sequel” – Fundraiser in aid of Cork Dog Action Welfare Group at the Youghal G.A.A.

Michael Hussey — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:57:09 +0000

Fundraiser in Aid of Cork Dog Action Welfare Group at the Youghal G.A.A.

I am organising a fundraiser in aid of Cork Dog Action Welfare Group Jan 21st Youghal G.A.A. Club “Gigi’s The Sequel”… and would be very obliged if you could put the ad on YoughalOnline.com. Cork DAWG is an organisation founded and run mostly by a network of volunteers concerned with the welfare of abandoned, abused and ill-treated dogs in Cork.
Through our collective experience we aim to improve the lives of Cork’s dogs and also endeavour to educate the public on dog welfare and dog ownership. To do this, we need your help….

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Music starts @ 10pm from local band the Void (Kings of Leon, Foo Fighters, Snow Patrol kind of music) and then DJ with DJ Mossie from 12 ’til late… (Original Gigi’s DJ)

Great spot prizes to be won on the night also….

Tickets on sale in Xtra Vision Youghal from Monday January 9th and are €10 per person. Over 18′s.

It is a great cause and I hope to raise a good bit of money for them as the group who have a shop in Midleton and a sanctuary in Ballinagree Macroom. They do endless work of re homing stray and lost dogs and re-uniting pets with owners and never turn an animal away.

Also if any local business would like to donate a spot prize please ask them to contact me in marietrihy21@yahoo.ie/

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SECAD COURSES Jan 2012

Michael Hussey — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:04:45 +0000

SECAD COURSES Jan 2012

Course: Time To Change

Starting Dates: SECAD will run at least 2 courses starting on 8th and 9th February

3 hours per week plus one to one support.

Duration of Course: 12 Weeks

Course Description

Time to Change is designed to help participants achieve their potential. The course is for anyone who wants to find employment, return to education or simply wants time do something different.
It is a practical course which will help participants realise their strengths, set and achieve goals and create new opportunities in their lives.
The training will be interesting, interactive and engaging. No previous education is required – just a sense of curiosity and an open mind.
It takes huge courage to come back to learning as a mature student. This course will provide a supportive and encouraging environment for adult learners.
Through encouragement and reflection, this programme will give participants the space to get back on track, so that they can continue to create the life they want.
Confidentiality is assured at all

How to Register: Drop in to our “Youghal Opportunities” morning at Cumann na Daoine on Wednesday 25th January 2012 at 10am-1PM.

Register on Registration Day Wednesday 1st February 2012 also at Cumann na Daoine. The trainer will be present from 10am-1pm to answer any queries you may have.

This course is FREE

Event: ‘Youghal Opportunities’ Morning

Purpose of Event:

Aimed at people who are unemployed, seeking work, training or education or anyone interested in developing themselves further.
Find out more about our exciting course “Time to Change” that will help you achieve what you want to achieve (see details above)
Hear inspirational stories from our former course participants and be inspired to do something different with your life.
Hear inspirational guest speakers talk about our capacity as human beings to change.
Meet representatives of FAS/SOLAS, VEC, Dept. of Social Protection, SECAD SECADmature studentand relevant training bodies.

Venue: Cumann Na Daoine, 4 Catherine Street, Youghal on:

Wednesday 25h January 10.00 am-1.00 pm

Admission is FREE

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Free Employment Supports in Youghal

SECAD continues to offer free, confidential one to one supports weekly at its offices in Cumann na Daoine in Youghal. Supports include:

Dealing with Change & Taking next steps Career Guidance & Redirection

Information on Benefits & Supports Return to Education/Training

CV Preparation & Interview Skills Self Employment Supports

For Further Information and to make an appointment contact Cumann na Daoine on 024 91900.

Other Upcoming SECAD courses

SECAD will run a course on Basic IT Skills and Online Access to Education and Work from February 2012. Details to be confirmed.

SECAD will also run a Start Your Own Business course from February 2012. Details to be confirmed.

New Opportunities Course – East Cork Further Education & Youthreach Centre, Youghal

Michael Hussey — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:34:46 +0000

County Cork VEC & Cumann na Daoine CDP

New Opportunities Course

A course designed specifically for lone parents will be held in the East Cork Further Education & Youthreach Centre, Golf Links Road, Youghal. Beginning January 2012 – 3 mornings per week for six weeks

Course contents include:

Beauty Therapy

Computers

Nutrition & Healthy Eating

Family Learning

Communications

Make your Experience Count

Limited number of places available.

For further information, contact Sharon Ormonde at 087 0903250

*You may be entitled to a contribution towards childcare costs.

Youghal Railway Station – Goods train to Youghal film 1974

Michael Hussey — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:30:21 +0000

Youghal railway station served the town of Youghal in County Cork, Ireland. The station opened on 21 May 1860. Regular services were withdrawn on 2 February 1963, although the station remained open privately, with occasional heritage excursion trains. Although a train has not travelled to Youghal since 1988, the station is legally still open.

The line came out of passenger service in 1963, but CIÉ continued to use the line for twice daily goods trains till 1978 and the sugar beet trains in season till 1982. CIE also ran summer seaside excursions to Youghal for passengers, however this apparently was never utilised to its full potential.[clarification needed]

In 1981/1982 the final beet crop in East Cork was realised and CIÉ then refused to maintain the line any longer or use it for summer excursions.

The line has never been legally closed in order for CIÉ to circumvent a European railway law,[which?] which states that all railways that are closed down have to be fully maintained for a further 10 years.[citation needed] The only maintenance the line received after 1982 was to cut down vegetation to allow infrequent private passenger trains to traverse the line at slow speeds. The last train to depart from the seaside station was in 1987 by the Irish Railway Record Society. The following year IÉ laid on two passenger trains for the GAA in Dublin from Midleton. The line was then abandoned and deliberately on the instructions of IÉ allowed to decay. Since 1988 IÉ showed little or no interest in the line only when they wanted to cannibalise it for parts for other lines, most notably 1992 when seven miles of track between Midleton and Youghal were removed for reuse in Sligo. IÉ has demolished old crossing keepers’ houses and just left the rubble lying in untidy heaps, has replaced the crossing gates at Mogeely but just dumped the old ones on the tracks along with the lever frame as well, making the stations looking very untidy for local residents. IÉ has consistently refused to tidy up the areas by the old stations (Mogeely, Killeagh and Youghal) and in recent times only re-roofed Youghal station due to a court order. IÉ refuses however to entertain or even consider allowing any form of private use for the disused railway corridor.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Youghal Gaa Club Christmas Outing At Youghal Golf Club – By Derek Kiely

Michael Hussey — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:21:51 +0000

YOUGHAL GAA Club Golf Society celebrated their Christmas Society outing on Friday the 30th of December at Youghal Golf Club and 36 players played in softish conditions, even though the course looked excellent and the greens were in superb shape for this time of year.

Derek Kiely reports

The format for the day was for all 36 players to compete at singles stable-ford and on returning the cards, three categories 0-15, 16- 18 and 19 upwards were put together in a blind draw of cards for the winning combinations.

Outside of the team event there was an overall prize for the best score over the 14 holes in play and that went to Michael Coleman who had 30pts.

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Overall Winner Michael Coleman with Chairman of Youghal GAA Club Ger Motherway and Youghal GAA Club Golf Society Captain Eoin O'Siochru

Winners of the Youghal GAA Club Golf Society Christmas Outing Michael Coleman, Colman Walsh and Martin Hennessy with Ger Motherway and Eoin O Siochru

Runners up Pat Cheasy and Philip Monaghan (Not pictured Fergal Keenaghan)

Representing third place is Cillian Coleman (Not pictured Cillians team mates Brendan O'Leary and Damien Ring)

The results of the teams card draw.

1st Michael Coleman, Coleman Walsh and Martin Hennessy 86pts.

2nd Philip Monaghan, Fergal Keenaghan and Pat Cheasty 80pts.

3rd Brendan O’ Leary, Cillian Coleman and Damien Ring 74pts (Back 9).

4th Sean Ring, Dave Daly and John Cronin 74pts.

5th Brendan Coleman, Joe Kirk and Tommy O’Connell 72pts.

6th Derek Kiely, Miheal O Laochdha and Eileen Cronin 71pts.

7th Tadgh O’Mahony, Gerry Russell and Aine Martin 70pts.

8th Liam Sloane, Alan Geary and Ger Motherway 67pts.

9th Kevin Curtin, John Cahill and Cormac Galvin 65pts (Back 9).

10th Eoin O Siochru, Brett Moloney and Billy Forrest 65pts.

11th Barry Curtin, Tommy Bulman and Colm Corcoran 63pts.

12th Daniel Mulcahy, Rodney Simpson and Brendan Ring 54pts.

Youghal GAA Golf Society Captain Eoin O Siochru thanked all that played and said that it looks like early March or possibly late February for the next outing. Eoin also thanked Youghal Golf Clubs Captain Mr Dermot Dromgoold who was present and all the officers and staff at Youghal Golf Club for their warm welcome and help on the day.

Deiric O Cadhla
Bord Corcaigh Thoir OCP

Derek Kiely
East Cork Board PRO
089-4191901

pro.imokilly.cork@gaa.ie

www.eastcorkgaa.com

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Thursday Dec 15th – Claud Cockburn died, 1981

Michael Hussey — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:08:40 +0000

For 35 years, from 1946 until his death in 1981, Youghal’s most colourful character was the writer Claud Cockburn. Born in China in 1904 of Scottish parents, at the age of four he –together with his Chinese nanny – was sent back to Scotland to be reared by his grandparents. At boarding-school in England he became a great friend of the future novelist Graham Greene, with whom he shared a love of mischief-making and adventure stories. At Oxford they both joined the Communist Party as a joke, but whereas Greene’s future lay as a convert to the Catholic Church Cockburn became more and more attracted to Marxism.

Youghal’s most colourful character was the writer Claud Cockburn

In 1929 he joined the staff of The Times, which became the setting for some of his best stories, such as a competition to see who could write the most boring headline. (Cockburn won with the entry: “Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.”) While working as the Times correspondent in New York he was given the excellent advice:

I think it well to remember that when writing for the newspapers we are writing for an elderly lady in Hastings who has two cats of whom she is passionately fond. Unless our stuff can successfully compete for her interest with those cats, it is no good.

Returning to England, he gave up work for The Times and founded the Communist news-sheet The Week. It was run off on a gestetner machine and he wrote it all himself, making up half the stories. (He wouldn’t even have needed to hack anyone’s phones!) So brilliant was his work that The Week proved a great success.

In the 1930s he reported on the Spanish Civil War for The Daily Worker, but in 1939 the government suppressed both the Worker and The Week, and by the time the ban had lifted he had become disillusioned with communism.

In 1940 he married the dynamic Youghal lady Patricia Arbuthnot, and in 1946 they came to live permanently in Youghal. Here he continued to write till the end of his days. His widow then moved to Ardmore, where she became one of an indomitable and perpetually feuding set of formidable old ladies.

A lifelong atheist and a master of irony, Claud Cockburn would have appreciated his full-blown Requiem Mass concelebrated by five priests.

He died thirty years ago – on this day.

Thursday Dec 15th – Claud Cockburn died, 1981

Researched by Julian Walton

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Claud Cockburn's grave, St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal.

Cllr Hennessy Reacts with Anger

Michael Hussey — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:49:01 +0000

Speaking in response to the statement by Sean Sherlock yesterday asking for the postponing of the withdrawal of ambulance services in Youghal and elsewhere Cllr Michelle Hennessy has reacted with anger.

She responds “The position on the retention of our ambulance services in Youghal is not up for postponement. We in Youghal want the services kept as they are. The idea that some people are working away in the background needs to be brought out into the open. The people making the decision need to be in no doubt that the retention of the services is what the public want.

Sean Sherlock has on a number of occasions since he was elected not used his position in the cabinet to further the fight for ambulance services and the front line health services. He has sheepishly voted against motions under the protection of the whip system which directly were in favour of keeping our ambulance service. This type of politics is what people are sick of. What we want from our elected reps is a clear and consistent position on what they support. You can’t be appalled on one day and then vote with the government and HSE who are directly implementing the cuts the next.

I would also like to call on the Cllrs who are members of the government parties to put it up to their masters. This issue is only the beginning of what this government are planning to cut in the future and the grass root members need to make this a red line issue and stand up for their communities. The protest this Saturday is another way of showing that Youghal and its hinterland is very serious about the retention of its existing services and I am calling on everybody to turn up and support the event”

Cork County and Youghal Town Councillor Michelle Hennessy (SF)

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Sherlock insists ‘premature’ ambulance changes be postponed

Michael Hussey — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:23:26 +0000

THE Minister of State for research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock, has said the HSE’s imminent ambulance changes for Cork and Kerry must be postponed.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner, after senior health service officials revealed controversial plans to drastically alter how care is delivered by next month, the Labour TD said the move was dangerous to the public.

Save Youghal Ambulance Protest This Saturday 17th December

Michael Hussey — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:06:32 +0000

A major protest is planned for Saturday next at Youghal Community Hospital. The protest is against the HSE’s proposed “reconfiguration” of the East Cork Ambulance Service. Beginning at midday on Saturday at the Community Hospital, continuing until 2 pm, the protest will feature demonstrations of real life accident scenes and it will show how CPR can be administered, showing how long a patient might last . Members of the public will have an opportunity to voice their concerns about the proposed changes at this protest. Banners and placards are encouraged at the demonstration at Youghal Community Hospital this Saturday from midday.

HSE defends plans for ambulance service

Michael Hussey — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:03:52 +0000

THE HEALTH Service Executive yesterday moved to reassure people that proposed changes in ambulance arrangements in Cork and Kerry will lead to a better service for the public. This came amid fears reorganisation will lead to a downgrading in some areas.Robert Morton, director of the HSE National Ambulance Service, said the move from the system of on-duty and on-call to a system where staff will be rostered solely on an on-duty basis will result in an improved service.

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