‘Yew Wood Venues’- Youghals Premier Venues – The Mall Arts Centre & St. Mary’s Collegiate Church

‘Yew Wood Venues’ – the new name behind Youghal’s Premier Venues – The Mall Arts & St. Mary’s Collegiate Church contributed in excess of €280,000 to the local economy of Youghal in two years according to surveys undertaken in accordance with Failte Ireland’s Festivals and Cultural Events Research Template.  The venues are run by The Youghal Socio-Economic Development Group who currently lease the buildings from Youghal Town Council.
In building upon the success of the venues to date, the two venues are to be re-branded and will now fall under the title of ‘Yew Wood Venues’.  Yew Wood – the english translation of Eochaill – encapulates both unique venues of Youghal.  A new base and booking office will operate from ‘The Coach House’ of ‘Enterprise Youghal’ in Emmet Place.

The expansion plan of ‘Yew Wood Venues’ focuses on Youghal’s commercial and contemporary arts potential. Joyce Hosford, Events Manager of Yew Wood Venues commented “We are encouraging local artists to exhibit their works in the Mall Arts Centre and we are focusing on attracting and developing local and emerging talent. We are seeking to utilise the Mall Arts Centre to its full potential as well as seeking to explore contemporary arts events. In order to do so, we envisage a ‘bottom up’ approach to our developmental plan – that is, there is a hugely strong community arts base in Youghal and we aim to support and nurture such talent.  The vision is to ensure Youghal is a recognised centre of Arts excellence, built upon the strengths of the community”.

To date, the venues have delivered a range of productions across the arts spectrum, from visual to music, dance to drama.  This has made huge impact on the local economy – events which have been running in the Yew Wood Venues have contributed €280,000 over 2 years to the local economy.

Reffering to the economic spin-off to the local community, Manager of The Youghal Socio-Economic Development Group, Aileen Murray said: “The future plans of Yew Wood Venues also focuses on developing the local economy and boosting local businesses through ‘spin off’ revenue generated from events taking place. These venues share a common goal with many businesses and organisations within the Youghal community – to help increase the number of people visiting and investing in Youghal.  Failte Ireland identified that the average visitor attending an event in Youghal will spend on average between €30 and €55”, said Aileen.

The continued development of attendances at the venues will be crucial to the venues ongoing success. In order to achieve this, there will be several initiatives undertaken through marketing, education and outreach functions. For example, the well supported Sacred Roots events, which took place in St Marys Collegiate Church will recommence shortly. These events helped to promote the arts to the youths of Youghal as well as generating much support and recognition from the community and a far. Other such developmental programmes will encourage local artists to take residence in the Mall Arts Centre and exhibit their art on a monthly basis. Yew Wood Venues will also continue to support St. Raphaels and their future projects.

In aiming to develop new captive audiences within the community, Yew Wood Venues will commence a monthly film club hugely significant considering Youghal’s strong history of interest in film. This will be a low cost means of art and cultural activity and a means for those who wish to develop their interest in cinematic art.

David McSavage, the comedian of the infamous RTE production ‘Savage Eye’, will take to the stage of the Mall Arts Centre on Saturday 25th February at 8pm. Tickets are now available. 2012 will also see hilarity from the legendary Brendan Grace, a Shakesperean play, a Moby Dick production, the family favourite Lambert Puppet Theatre and the welcomed return of the Chamber Philharmonia Cologne to name a few.  Plans are also underway to host a number of large-scale contemporary cultural and arts events which at time of press are still under negotiation.

“It is imperative in such a close community with numerous venues, we target to our specific audience and market the event accordingly” states Joyce Hosford. “We are hugely enthusiastic about the year ahead. It is great to have a permanent base, an office where people can come and meet me, discuss future plans, propose ideas, highlight queries or book tickets” she added.

In the current climate, it is imperative that local resources are utlised to their maximum potential. Yew Wood Venues is starting 2012 with much enthuasism and positivity for the year ahead. With this rebranding, also brings a very strong and forward thinking developmental plan for the Mall Arts Centre and St Marys Collegiate Church to accompany this new title.

Yew Wood Venues office is in the Coach House of the Entreprise Centre, Emmet Place – just next to St. Marys Collegiate Church. The office will be open 5 days a week and contact number is 083-3606507 or 024-81823. Official office hours will be added shortly to the website www.themallartscentre.com

The article below is an excerpt from the Munster Snooker Special Preview in Next Friday’s ( 20th Jan 2012) Weekend Sports Magazine in Cork’s Evening Echo.

The last Cork side to lift the coveted ‘Munster Cup’ were Youghal CYMS back in the year 2000 when the East Cork side created a real piece of history for the club, beating the red hot favourites Cork Victoria in the final, where Paul Butler famously finished off the match with some incredible pots sending the fanatical Youghal supporters into a frenzy which started a celebration that lasted quite a few days.

This year is another historic one for the Youghal CYMS who are making their 25th consecutive appearance in the event which is a fantastic achievement in itself for the club who have only four tables, but are impressively entering no fewer that three teams and could have entered a fourth side, such is the strength of the Youghal Society.

Youghal CYMS President William Kelly a player in Youghal’s ‘B’ side in Killarney said “We love going to Killarney and we get incredible support down there, it seems that everyone who is involved in snooker in the town in one form or another travels down for the weekend of the ‘Munsters’ and we appreciate that. We are going down a quarter of a century this year which is a hell of a thing for us, it would be great to win it again it really would”.

All the latest news and updates, high breaks and results will be posted on Facebook checking out Munster Snooker Club Championships, plus they will be here on www.youghalonline.com and on www.ribsa.ie

Munster Snooker Club Championships 2012

Venue 1 = INEC Lobby  Venue 2 = tables 1-5 in ballroom Venue 3 = tables 6-12 in ballroom

Tournament format = 5 groups of 5 teams, with 3 teams qualifying from each group.

(Thats 10 matches per group, and 50 group matches total.)

Winners of group A go straight into the quarter final stage at 10.00am on Sunday .

The remaining 14 qualified teams will play a knockout match to reach quarte final (best of 3)

The winners of groups 2, 3, 4, and 5 will be drawn against  4 of the 3rd place finishers.

The 5 group runners-up will join the remaining 3rd place finisher in the final 3 last 16 games.

All group matches and top 16 matches are best of 3 frames on each table

The quarter finals and the semi finals are best of 5 frames on each table.

Friday—(Group games)

3 Matches, in venues 1, 2 and 3 at 10am, 11am, 12noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm  = 21 Matches(7×3)

2 Matches in venues 2 and 3  at 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm and 9pm = 10Matches        (5×2)

Saturday

Group games

3 Matches in venues 1, 2 and 3  at 10am, 11am, 12am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm  = 21 Matches

Playoffs at 5pm

Last 16 at 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm  (7 Matches – 2 matches per session)

Sunday

2 Quarter Finals at 10am   (INEC and Ballroom)

2 Quarter Finals at 11.30am (INEC and Ballroom)

2 x Semi-finals  at 1.30pm   (INEC and Ballroom)

Final at 4 pm in the INEC.

ABLETON LIVE COURSE Friday 17th & Saturday 18th of FEB 2012

Claycastle Studios are happy to announce that we will be running an Ableton Live advanced course alongside our now well-established beginners course.

The students can be split between Barry Dempseys main course and a secondary room with a separate Ableton tutor for those that wish to advance in a specific areas. Students can move freely between rooms as we now understand that some may be advanced in one area and not in another and visa versa. This opens up the opportunity to learn new skills as well as touch up on what you already know.

The next course is on Friday 17th & Saturday 18th of Feb 2012

Total Cost of the course is €250 (with 10% discount available to repeat students)

€100 deposit required no less than 1 week in advance of the course

To apply please email ableton@claycastlerecording.ie or call 0871622964 (John Burke Course Coordinator) or 024/90885

Course will cover some of the following areas;

System Configuration:
Setting up mac/PC for use with Live and audiocard settings for MIDI &
audio applications .
MIDI Programming:
Creating drumloops, Baselines, Hooks and synth-leads in Live.
Audio Editing/Programming:
Warping, cut’n paste, top’n tailing & sequencing audio loops.
FX / Processing:
Using Ableton plug-in FX to bring colour and life to tracks.
Tips & Tricks: For more effective mixing results.
Audio Mixdowns & Rendering:
2 – track mix creation for playing out.

DJing in Live:
Warping / MIDI Controllers / Audiocards / Live Looping / Live performance.
Sound Creation:
Creating your very own patches using Ableton Live; including leads,
percussion and the all-important ‘hook’.

Rendered 2-track mixes get the final works before burning to CD!

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Date: 17th &18th Feb 2012

Time: 10am to 6pm ( lunch hour from 1pm to 2pm each day).

Total cost €250

to book a place call 024/90885 or email ableton@claycastlrecording.ie
Barry Dempsey Ableton Live certified trainer  http://www.ableton.com/education/certified-training/ireland/barry-dempsey-dublin

A range of Ableton Live merchandise is also available to students who take part in the course at Claycastle Studios with Barry

To enroll on the next course just get in touch via our website http://www.claycastlerecording.ie/

Youghalonline.com would like to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year. A Big Thank You to everyone who contributed to the site during 2011 and please keep doing so during 2012.

Youghalonline.com is a website for the people of Youghal at home and abroad and all feedback both good and bad is welcome.

If you have something to contribute, be it news, a match report, your business got an award/press release, or a family achievement, what ever it is, let us know at Youghalonline.com and we will include it here on the site.

Youghalonline.com is trying to preserve the towns past and promote its future, but we need your help, if you would like to contribute to the site please email news@youghalonline.com

CLAYCASTLE PITCH & PUTT CLUB are delighted to announce that the Club has been named as the course of the month on the FIPPA website for the month of December 2011. FIPPA is the governing body of pitch and putt in the world and was created in March 2006.

Every month FIPPA bring you photos and details of one of the many beautiful and challenging Pitch and Putt courses from around the world. We,as a Club,are honored by the announcement that Claycastle is the course of the month for December and will now join a list of clubs worldwide who have previously achieved this, such as courses in the USA, Australia and courses all across Europe.

Claycastle course is considered to be one of the finest but toughest in Ireland. Not only do we hope that the club will benefit from this award, we hope that the town as a whole will also benefit through tourism from hosting major pitch and putt events in the future. Claycastle will host the 2012 National Matchplay Championships and we hope that this will help both the club and also business within the town of Youghal over the coming June weekend.

We thank everyone who has helped and continues to help in any way to keep the standard of the course at a high level, and we are honoured to receive this award. We are delighted that the continuous work that has been put into the course over the last twenty five years has not gone unnoticed and has all paid off and we look forward to another twenty five years of the course being in top condition.

We have recently created a Club website which we hope can bring information to any beginners thinking of taking up the great game of pitch and putt or players returning to play the game. The website will also be used in preperation for the upcoming National Matchplay Championships in June 2012.

The website can be found at  http://claycastlepitchandputtclub.weebly.com/

The article can be found by clicking the link below.
http://www.fippa.net/courses_ireland_claycastle.shtml

 

THE Traditional St. Stephens Day Puc Fada was a huge success for Youghal Camogie Club as 25 teams of three contested the Annual event.

The Puc Fada started at the pump house and finished on the Quarry Road near the turn off for Copperalley.

Conditions were fairly good and the standard rose significantly this year from a winning score of 37 shots over a two mile stretch of road, as compared to the last Puc Fada victory which took three shots more.

The winning trio were Bill Cooper, Ivan Coyne and David Coyne who were almost foot perfect throughout the course.

Siobhan Downing was the MC at Club Aras later on in the afternoon last St Stephens Day, where the new chairman of Youghal GAA Club, Ger Motherway made the presentation of prizes.

Full Result:

1st Bill Cooper, Ivan and David Coyne 37 shots.

2nd Tom O’Connell, Christopher Morrison and Darragh O’Connell 39 shots.

3rd Con, Connor and Shane Spillane with 40 shots.

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Deiric O Cadhla
Bord Corcaigh Thoir OCP

Derek Kiely
East Cork Board PRO
089-4191901

pro.imokilly.cork@gaa.ie

www.eastcorkgaa.com

THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS PILGRIMAGE BELL  was welcomed into the Parish of Youghal on Monday last, December 26th and remained in the Parish until Tuesday  December 27th.  All those living in the Parish of Youghal, Killeagh and Ballymacoda and surrounding areas joined in one or more of the following scheduled events, which were all well attended and very successful.

On Monday, December 26th a Reception for the Bell was held at 12.30pm in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, The Strand, followed immediately by Mass for St Stephen’s Day.   That evening at 5.30pm Evening Prayer and Carols was held.   At 8.30pm prayers with the Icons and Night Prayer saw the first day come to a close.

Tuesday, December 27th commenced at 9.30am with a recitation of the Rosary in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, followed at 10am by the celebration of Mass.   After Mass the congregation walked with the Bell and Icons into the town and arrived at St Mary’s Parish Church before noon, where prayers were said and carols sung.

The Bell and Icons were handed over to the Dioceses of Waterford and Lismore at the Stone Bridge in Youghal.  Despite the cold, a very large group of people from the Parish of Youghal came out to  escort them on the journey from the Parish Church and into the welcoming hands of Fr.  Paul Waldron, Diocese of Waterford and Lismore,  Fr. Gerard O’Connor, PP, Aglish and Fr. Michael Cullinan, PP, Lismore.

Carols were sung by the Clashmore Choir, and people got the opportunity to personally ring the Congress  Bell.   Gardaí from the Parish of Youghal and West Waterford were on hand to ensure the safety of the ‘pilgrims’ and keep the traffic flowing freely.

The organisation and arrangements made by the people of the Parish of Youghal, and in particular the enormous amount of work put in by Fr. Patrick Winkle, are to be lauded.   The Congress Bell and Icons paid just a quick visit to Youghal, but their presence was felt by all who came along during the two days to view and ring the Bell which, in June 2012, will be a VIP at the International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin.

The Bell, handed over at the Stone Bridge in Youghal, will remain in the Diocese of Waterford, visiting twenty two Parishes,  until January 8th next when it will leave Waterford by yet another bridge, the Edmond Rice Bridge, and will travel into the Diocese of Ossery.

 

The theme of the next International Eucharistic Congress is “The Eucharist: Communion with Christ and with one another.” The Congress will be held in Dublin from 10 June – 17 June 2012. Further details available at www.iec2012.ie

50th International Eucharistic Congress invites deaf community to Dublin in 2012

 

Archive Material from 1932 Eucharistic Congress
a video produced by Province 5 TV for the Diocesan Eucharistic Congress “Come and See” which includes a video interview with Joan Coughlan from Summerhill. She shares her childhood memories of listening to the radio broadcast for the week of celebrations.
Pathé news footage also features some of the Church and Civil celebrations;
A video of Navan’s Corpus Christi Procession is also included

For further information click on this link: www.youghalcatholicparish.com

Click on image below to see the Eucharistic Congress Bell handing over at the old Youghal Stone Bridge – Photos: YoughalOnline.com

The Crib at St. Raphael’s will be open to the public from Christmas Day onwards between 10am and 5pm. Please come along and say a prayer. Fr. Joe McGuane, Chaplain St. Raphael’s Centre will celebrate The Christmas Day Mass at 10am and Christmas Carols will be sung by The St. Raphael’s Staff Choir.

The St. Raphael’s Chapel Christmas Crib animation pictured below made by Youghalonline two years ago has become one of the most searched and popular on Google Images. It appears on the front pages ahead of thousands of similar images when searched for animated Christmas Crib.

The Crib in St. Raphael’s Church, Youghal, has always been a place to visit for the people of the town and surrounding areas and much work has gone in to the building of this magnificent structure by the staff of St. Raphael’s Centre, who have dedicated many hours on the decorating of The Nativity scene for the adoration of the birth of Jesus for the people of the town.
Youghal people in times past fondly remember praying at the crib and taken a strand of straw from the Manger as a memento of this most Holiest occasion on the birth of Jesus. Many churches leave the manger empty (without the baby Jesus) until Christmas Day to reflect that Jesus has not yet been born before then.

www.youghalcatholicparish.com

Christmas Liturgical Ceremonies

 MASSES

CHRISTMAS VIGIL  SATURDAY 24th

7.30p.m.           Our Lady of Lourdes Church

7.30p.m.           Holy Family Church

7.30p.m.           St. Mary’s Church

Night Mass

11.30p.m.         St. Mary’s Church

CHRISTMAS DAY      SUNDAY 25th

9.00am             St. Mary’s Church

9.30a.m.           St. Ita’s Church

10.00am           Our Lady of Lourdes Church

11.00am.          Holy Family Church

12 noon St. Mary’s Church

Daily Mass from  19th to 23rd December

8a.m. St. Mary’s Church

10a.m. Our Lady of Lourdes

7.30pm Holy Family  Wednesday 21st

Mass on the 26th December

12.30pm Our Lady of Lourdes Church

Daily Mass from 27th to 30th December

10am Our Lady of Lourdes     Tuesday to Friday

31st December 10am   St. Mary’s Church

Please note no 8am or 7.30pm Mass this week.

SACRAMENT OF PENANCE / Confession

Saturday 17th:       10.30am -11.30am         St. Mary’s Church

Saturday 17th:      After 6.30pm Mass         Our Lady of Lourdes

Saturday 17th:      After 7.30pm Mass         Holy Family Church

Thursday 22nd:    10.30—11.00am.            Our Lady of Lourdes

Friday 23rd:  10.30—11.30am                    Our Lady of Lourdes

Saturday 24th: 10.30am – 1.00pm              St. Mary’s Church

PENITENTIAL SERVICE

Thursday 22nd  December

7.30p.m.—8.30p.m. Holy Family

Carol Services

Sunday 18th  – St. Mary’s Church at 4pm

Led by St. Mary’s Parish Choir

Tuesday 20th December at 7.30pm in Holy Family Hall led by Holy Family Choir

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.

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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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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