Youghal man John McGrath who lived in the Clock Gate from 1939 to 1959 speaks about his memories of those day and other stories. The tower built in 1777 was part of the towns fortifications. It served the town as a gaol and a public gallows until 1837. It then became a family home until 1959 when the last family left, which was the McGrath family.

Having grown up in the Clock Gate, John left for Britain during the 1950’s as did many of his contemporaries. There he observed the post-war housing improvements in Britain, thus, on his return he urged his parents to seek more comfortable and conventional accommodation. They reluctantly left the clock gate in 1959. The McGrath home offers a glimpse into the social, political, and economic changes experienced during the twentieth century.

The Clock Gate is undergoing extensive renovations and near completion of this phase of the refurbishment & development works.

Click on the HD Video (45 mins) below to hear the extraordinary story of “The McGrath’s of the Clock Gate”.

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World renowned concert pianist Sam Rotman, talks to Declan Gibbons from Community Radio Youghal (CRY104fm) about his forthcoming concert which will take place on Thursday April 18th 2013 at 7.45pm in Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, Youghal. The concert is in aid of the Youghal Cancer Support Group And Centre.

Click on the HD video below to hear Sam talk about his life in music, his travels around the world and his deep faith and religious beliefs since his life was transformed back in 1971 when at the age of twenty his life changed forever.

Tickets: Cree’s Card shop, North Main Street, Youghal, at €10/€5 for students and Seniors/Jobseekers. For more information: Contact Mervyn Scott – 086-1732034.

The brand new hour long documentary will be aired on Sunday the 27th of January at 1pm on CRY104fm and repeated on Thursday the 31st at 4pm.

“It stands in the centre of our town, a magnificent building that has seen it all and survived World Wars, the famine, floods, storms, emigration, and several recessions; a building which is a landmark in Youghal. A building which was the lifeblood of our community and provided employment to many over 400 years, and was the social hub and focal point of a town and a community that has seen its fortunes fluctuate over the years.

Click on the HD Video below to see the launch of the new radio documentary

Merrick’s Department Store, once Youghal’s premier retail outlet, now lies empty,and is a stark reminder of the economic times that we live in. But the building also offers us a reminder of more prosperous times, when the town of Youghal had almost full employment with a thriving port and industries which were the envy of towns throughout Ireland and Merrick’s Department store was at the heart of this thriving community”

The launch took place on Monday the 21st of January at the Mall Arts Centre of “Merricks” a brand new hour long documentary celebrating the now defunct department store which served the people of Youghal for almost 500 years and pays tribute to the people who worked there and which will be aired on Sunday the 27th of January at 1pm on CRY104fm and repeated on Thursday the 31st at 4pm.

The programme captures key living memories of the building, the business and the life that was Merrick’s department store. The staff and management of CRY feel that this one hour documentary will will be a valuable archive of one of Youghal’s great institutions.

The programme also includes Vox Pops from former customers and also highlights the impact of the closure of Merrick’s has had on the town and the wider community. The huge old building that lies empty in the centre of the town is a bleak reminder every day of Youghal’s recent decline but also serves as a reminder of what a significant store Merrick’s was and might yet be again in the future.

 

 

Well known chef and author Rachel Allen launches the Cork RNLI Lifeboats Charity Reindeer Run

The RNLI, the charity that saves lives at sea, has joined forces with well known chef and author Rachel Allen to launch the RNLI Reindeer Run. Cork has seven RNLI lifeboat stations located at Ballycotton, Youghal, Crosshaven, Courtmachsherry Harbour, Kinsale, Baltimore and Castletownbere. Together, they launched 154 times last year and brought 153 people to safety.

The Cork RNLI Reindeer Run will take place at Fota House and Gardens outside Cobh on Sunday 25 November. All abilities and ages are catered for with participants choosing from a 5km or 10km walk/run or a shorter Santa Saunter. To get into the Christmas spirit all participants are given a pair of novelty antlers to wear and an RNLI Reindeer Run t-shirt. Rookie the Reindeer Run mascot will also be on hand throughout the day to join in the fun.

Rachel Allen has joined lifeboat volunteers to call on runners and walkers of all ages to join in the fun and sign up for the Reindeer Runs. Rachel is a long standing supporter of the RNLI and is familiar with the life-saving work of the charity, living close to Ballycotton lifeboat station.

Speaking at the launch for the RNLI Reindeer Run Rachel said, “I and my family watch as the volunteers launch their all-weather lifeboat on exercise every Wednesday evening. When we see it launch at any other time, we know the callout is for real. We are so lucky to have a service like the RNLI which relies completely on the generosity of the public and voluntary contributions. The Reindeer Runs are a great way for the whole family to have fun while helping the charity to save lives at sea’.

Eileen Kearney, RNLI Community Fundraising Manager is encouraging entrants to register early as places are limited and likely to fill up fast. ‘This is the second RNLI Reindeer Run in Cork and the third one to take place in Dublin. They have become hugely popular and are now a major event on the charity’s Christmas calendar. Irish lifeboats are busy all year round but some of their most challenging callouts occur over the Winter months. While others will be enjoying the Christmas festivities with their loved ones, we know that somewhere RNLI lifeboats will be launched to help save lives at sea’.

Entrants for the Cork Run are asked to register online at rnli.org/reindeer. The closing date is Friday 23 November. The registration cost is €9 for the Santa Saunter, €20 for 5km and €22 for 10km. All children under the age of five are free. There will also be prizes for the best fancy dress.

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Clár fáisnéise ar an scannánaí cáiliúil John Huston (1906-1987), an thréimhse ar chónaigh sé i gCreachmhaoil agus a chuid laethannta saoire i gConamara. Bhi John Huston ar dhuine de na stiurthoiri scannan ab fhearr sa dara leath den chead seo. Feachann an clar seo ar a shaol in Eirinn agus ar an dtionchar a bhi aige ar mhuintir na haite. Documentary on film directors life and love of Ireland.

After the war and in the wake of McCarthyism, Huston became increasingly disenchanted with America and Hollywood and began to shift his filmmaking to Europe, using, when he could, American money to make films with European themes or shot in Europe. Thus, Moby Dick (1956) was filmed partially in Youghal with some Irish actors in minor roles, though not in Irish parts. The later Sinful Davey (1968) was also shot in Ireland and features a number of Irish actors, although, again, it is not in any way an Irish-themed film. In 1952 Huston settled in Galway and took Irish citizenship in 1964. During the 1960s, Huston became involved in the campaign to establish an Irish film industry and lent his name to the Huston Report of 1968. A scene of him speaking of his interest in local Irish filmmaking can be seen in Peter Lennon’s controversial documentary THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN. In 1973 Huston filmed and set some of his thriller THE MACKINTOSH MAN in Ireland. In later life, Huston suffered increasingly from emphysema but this did not prevent from filming his final adaptation, THE DEAD, from the short story by James Joyce with an Irish cast in California. Re-released in 2006, the film has increasingly become seen as not only Huston’ s crowning work but as the most successful adaptations of Joyce work. A documentary on the shooting of the film, JOHN HUSTON AND THE DUBLINERS: ON THE SET OF ‘THE DEAD’ (1987) contains interviews with Huston and other cast members.
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Want to do something for our town, your family, our young people. Join us to pray the novena to Blessed Dominic Collins. 9 Days of prayer which begins on Tuesday 23rd October and finishes Wednesday 31st October, Feast of Blessed Dominic Collins. Mass will be celebrated in Holy Family Church, Youghal, in his honour at 7.30pm, 31st October 2012. Bearing witness to faith. All Welcome. Click on the short video below to find out more about the life of Blessed Dominic Collins

“Taken to Youghal on 31st October 1602, he was marched by a troop of soldiers through the streets to the place of execution”

Blessed Dominic Collins (1566-1602) Irish martyr, Jesuit brother
When the Desmond Rebellion was put down in 1583, Dominic Collins of Youghal became a professional soldier in the Catholic armies of Europe. Ten years later he joined the Jesuits in Santiago de Compostela. Sent back to Ireland in 1601 as a companion to Fr James Archer SJ with the Spaniards going to Kinsale, he was eventually captured and put to death for his faith. Patrick Duffy tells his story.

Early life: a soldier of fortune
Dominic Collins was born into a leading Catholic family in Youghal, Co Cork in 1566. Both his father and his brother served as mayor in the town.and he may have attended the Jesuit school set up in the town in 1577.
The local people recognised Elizabeth as Queen, but did not want Anglicanism as the new religion. So when the Desmond Rebellion was crushed (1583), there was little else for a young Catholic man of ambition to do but to seek a career on the continent. Sailing to France, Dominic enlisted in the Catholic army of the Duke of Mercoeur and quickly became a military governor. He later transferred to the Spanish army and was in the garrison at La Coruña.

Joins the Jesuits
Here in 1598 he met the Jesuit priest, Father Thomas White from Clonmel, who had earlier founded the Irish College at Salamanca and had come to La Coruña to hear the confessions of Irish soldiers during Lent. Dominic confided in Fr White his intention of joining the Jesuits. Fr White explained the difficulties of studies for the priesthood. Dominic said was happy to be a Jesuit brother.
The Jesuits were reluctant to accept him, feeling that a battle-hardened soldier would not settle into religious life, but Dominic persevered and was admitted to the novitiate in Santiago de Compostela. Here he proved his mettle when the Jesuit College was struck by a plague. Dominic tended the victims, nursing some of them back to health and comforting the others in their last hours.
A report sent to Rome at this time describes him as a man of sound judgment and great physical strength, mature, prudent and sociable, though inclined to be hot-tempered and obstinate.
Battle of Kinsale
At this time Ireland was in turmoil. O’Neill and O’Donnell had revolted in Ulster and in 1601 King Philip III of Spain decided to send an army to help them. An Irish Jesuit, Father James Archer, who was acting as O’Neill’s envoy with Rome and Spain, asked that Dominic, who knew the needs of soldiers, be sent with him to Ireland.
Siege of Dunboy Castle
After the shock defeat of the Irish and the Spanish at the Battle of Kinsale, Fr Archer went back to Spain. Dominic went with O’Sullivan Beare’s men to the Beara peninsula and was along with a group of 143 soldiers under the command of Richard McGeoghegan, who took refuge inside Dunboy Castle. This was a small square fortress on the mainland overlooking Beare Island. Here Lord Carew, the president of Munster and an army of 4,000 soldiers besieged them for several months.
During the siege, Dominic, though a veteran of many battles, could not as a religious take part in the fighting, but he could and did give bodily and spiritual assistance to the wounded and the dying. Knowing too how keen Carew would be to capture a Jesuit, he thought that by handing himself over as a hostage he could negotiate an honourable cease-fire. But Carew refused any negotiations and the besieged surrendered. Carew ordered Dominic and two others to be kept prisoners while the rest were hanged in the market-place, fifty-eight on that day, and the remaining twelve four days later. A plaque on the ruins of Dunboy Castle today commemorates their brave struggle.
Interrogation and torture
The three surviving prisoners were brought to Cork for interrogation. As the other two had little to reveal, they were soon executed. But Carew interrogated Collins, hoping he could persuade him to become a Protestant and thus gain a propaganda victory. He alternately tortured Dominic and made him primises of preferment to high ecclesiastical office. Some of Dominic’s own family visited him, urging him to save his life by pretending a conversion which he could afterwards repudiate. But Dominic would have none of it, and clearly made a choice of a martyr’s death.

Martyrdom
Taken to Youghal on 31st October 1602, he was marched by a troop of soldiers through the streets to the place of execution – the first time he had seen his home town in fifteen years. He wore his black Jesuit gown and addressed the crowd in Spanish, Irish and English, cheerfully telling them that he had come to Ireland to defend the faith of the Holy Roman Church, the one true path to salvation. So moved were the crowd that the hangman fled and a passing fisherman was forced to do the job.
Influence
Left hanging on the gallows, the rope eventually broke and Dominic’s body fell to the ground. Under cover of darkness, local Catholics took his body away and buried him with respect in a secret place. From that day he was venerated as a martyr in Youghal and his fame quickly spread throughout Ireland and Europe. In the Irish Colleges of Douai and Salamanca the Jesuits showed his portrait and many favours and cures were attributed to his intercession.
Although used to the rough life of the army camp, Dominic always kept a strange innocence and gentleness. He is one of the most attractive of all the Irish martyrs.

‘Harbour View’ — The new radio drama on Youghal local radio CRY 104FM

Behind the scenes video footage of the new radio drama on Youghal local radio CRY 104FM – Recorded at Claycastle Recording Studios, Youghal, October 2012.

Click on the film below to see the making of the new radio drama ‘Harbour View’

The launch of the new radio drama ‘Harbour View’ took place on Friday night (19th Oct 2012) at the Mall Arts Centre, Youghal. Mayor of County Cork Barbara Murray and Deputy Mayor of Youghal Cllr Eoin Flanagan officially launched the show which will air on CRY 104FM at 1:00pm every Sunday (beginning 21st Oct 2012)

Written and directed by Sean O Neill the drama series features a large number of local actors from Youghal and the surrounding areas including from Dungarvan, Aglish , Ballymacoda , and Killeagh and is a first for us here on Community Radio Youghal.
Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Harbour View is a fictional 10 part Radio Drama series which is based in the seaside town of Youghal and which airs on CRY104fm on Sunday 21st of October at 1pm. In the series Writer and Director Sean O Neill explores themes of personal triumph, tragedy and loss and how people in the community can put personal differences and prejudices to one side in times of crises, in a story which is laced with humour.
Each episode revolves around the trials and tribulations of the fictional McCarthy household and the difficulties of surviving and raising a family in this uncertain economic climate. They reside at 23 Harbour View in Mac’s family home which he inherited.

The Family unit consists of father (Patrick) better known as Mac who is in his early forties, mother Sheila in her late thirties, son Pat 17, daughter Sheila 15 and baby Siobhan 9.
In what is a first for the station, Management and Staff of Community Radio Youghal are delighted to be working with writer and director Sean O Neill on this project and it is hoped that the drama series will bring a whole new audience to the station which continues to build new relationships in the Community and work with an increasing number of groups in the Community.

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Rosarii Griffin of Killeagh (Presenter on Youghal Local Radio CRY104FM) is running the NY Marathon on November 4th 2012 in aid of ‘Action Lesotho’, an Irish NGO based in Lesotho.

The funds raised will go towards Lesotho’s orphaned and vulnerable children whose parents have died as a result of HIV and AIDS. These children have nobody to fend for them, and are relying on groups such as Action Lesotho for assistance. This assistance comes in the form of a feeding, health and education programme provided by Action Lesotho, ensuring vulnerable children get at least one nutritious meal a day. Many children seeking assistance come from ‘child-headed’ households, where the eldest often 12 year old siblings is responsible for the care and welfare of the entire family – his or her younger siblings.

All donations, great and small, very gratefully received and will go a long way. For instance, €5 (the price of a cup of coffee and scone) will feed a family for a week, or a child for a month.
To assist, donations can be made directly to www.actionlesotho.ie or sponsorship can be made out to ‘action lesotho’ and sent to Rosarii at 25 Cork Road, Killeagh, Co. Cork.

Rosarii would like to thank all her family, friends, work and radio colleagues and AC club members for their ongoing support and encouragement.”

The launch of the new radio drama ‘Harbour View’ took place on Friday night (19th Oct 2012) at the Mall Arts Centre, Youghal. Mayor of County Cork Barbara Murray and Deputy Mayor of Youghal Cllr Eoin Flanagan officially launched the show which will air on CRY 104FM at 1:00pm every Sunday (beginning 21st Oct 2012)

Written and directed by Sean O Neill the drama series features a large number of local actors from Youghal and the surrounding areas including from Dungarvan, Aglish , Ballymacoda , and Killeagh and is a first for us here on Community Radio Youghal.

Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Harbour View is a fictional 10 part Radio Drama series which is based in the seaside town of Youghal and which airs on CRY104fm on Sunday 21st of October at 1pm. In the series Writer and Director Sean O Neill explores themes of personal triumph, tragedy and loss and how people in the community can put personal differences and prejudices to one side in times of crises, in a story which is laced with humour.

Each episode revolves around the trials and tribulations of the fictional McCarthy household and the difficulties of surviving and raising a family in this uncertain economic climate. They reside at 23 Harbour View in Mac’s family home which he inherited.

The Family unit consists of father (Patrick) better known as Mac who is in his early forties, mother Sheila in her late thirties, son Pat 17, daughter Sheila 15 and baby Siobhan 9.

In what is a first for the station, Management and Staff of Community Radio Youghal are delighted to be working with writer and director Sean O Neill on this project and it is hoped that the drama series will bring a whole new audience to the station which continues to build new relationships in the Community and work with an increasing number of groups in the Community.

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‘Culture Night 2012′ in Youghal, where arts and cultural organisations open their doors until late with a series of free events, talks, musical performances and tours for all the family to enjoy.

St. Raphael’s Art & Drama group performed a pirate musical called ‘The Pirates of the Howling Wolf’ at the Red Store during ‘Culture Night 2012′ held in the town on Friday 21st September 2012. The colourful cast of characters in fancy dress costumes sang and danced in this Youghal Seafaring Adventure, produced by the award winning St. Raphael’s Art & Drama group.

The performance began with the Swashbuckling Pirates waving their swords at the fearful audience shouting “Pirates are coming” and everyone run to the beach where a fight took place. Fortunately a band of ‘Nuns of Run’ shouting “Thar she blows!” were on hand to fight back and defeat the Pirates. One of the pirates shouts “Ahoy” and discovers a hidden box of Brandy where upon everyone drinks and sings to the traditional Irish song “Óró, Sé do Bheatha ‘Bhaile” ( English translation – “Oh-ro You’re welcome home” ) . The performance was outstanding and the happy actors received a well deserved standing ovation.