Youghal Foroige Youth Centre, including youth café, Nagle House Youth Club and Garda Diversion Project, undertook their third beach clean of the year last Saturday (October 23rd 2010).

Sixteen members filled a similar amount of bags with the detritus from Green Hole and the Mall beaches across two hours from 10 a.m. Cork County Council provided the bags and picking equipment and transported the rubbish to the Youghal landfill. The centre has previously cleared rubbish from the Front Strand and Claycastle-Redbarn.

Previous excursions have produced a plethora of beer cans, bottles, butter boxes and -at the Rifle Range- discarded tents and sleeping bags! This time plastic straw and plastic drink container tops which usually accommodate them were much in evidence, as were one shopping trolley -looking like it left Pasley’s in 1978- and other segments of rusted metal. There were also a large number of white syringes collected, thankfully without needles and possibly used for insulin injections or for veterinary purposes. It is to be hoped so anyway. The group wish to thank Youghal Lifeboat station for the very welcome tea and refreshments thereafter.

Open Coffee Morning at the Hot Spot Youth Cafe for parents and adults

The Hot Spot Adult Volunteer Committee are organising a FREE open coffee morning at the Hot Spot Youth Cafe on Thursday 26th of November from 9:30am-12pm.

The Coffee morning is open to any adult or parent in town who would like to come and see the youth cafe, find out what facilities it has to offer the young people of Youghal and how to get involved as an adult volunteer.

The youth worker and volunteers involved in managing the cafe will be available throughout the morning to answer any questions you may have about how to get your son/daughter involved. The Hot Spot Youth cafe is funded through dormant accounts and aims to provide young people with a safe recreational place to socialise, engage in activities and access appropriate information when the need arises.

For further info about the Youth Cafe and Open Coffee morning please contact Nicola on 086 1702347.

The Hot Spot Youth Music Group is searching for fun, energetic, music passionate adults who would like to volunteer with their Youth Music Night.              Email news@youghalonline.com

The Music Night is run every Thursday evening from 7pm-9:30pm at the Hot Spot Youth Cafe, Nagle House, South Abbey. The Music Night which is organised by Bobby Lee and Steven Whelan encourages young people to learn different forms of music, compose their own songs and get involved in public performances.

If you are an adult musician who would be interested in getting involved in this hugely worthwhile project then please contact Nicola on 086 1702347 or call down to the music night have experience the buzz for yourself. Rock On!!