INSPIRING SUBSTITUTE SCORES FOR LIVERPOOL FANS
By Christy Parker
Strange things have abounded this year and the trend proved consistent in Youghal recently when photos began appearing of local Liverpool fans posing with what appeared to be the Premier League trophy in someone’s backyard.
The impressive looking trophy was actually a replica of the coveted original and its arrival in Youghal for a day belongs like the best acquisitions in the ‘man who knew a man who had a friend that knew someone’ category.
The connection with Youghal threads a link through Teds fan Ted Lee, an unnamed friend of his, the Liverpool FC Dublin Supporters Club and Crumlin hospital. Between them they managed to get hold of the replica for a day.
Scoring for charity
The initial idea was to display the trophy in Hennessy’s Bar on South Main Street as a two-pronged fundraising initiative for the hospital and for its ICAN (Irish Children’s Arthritis Network) unit.
“Our daughter Mia, who has juvenile arthritis, has received excellent treatment at ICAN and my wife Angela, our sons Jamie and Darragh and I wanted to repay them in some small way”, says Ted, who has supported Liverpool for 45 of his 52 years.
Plans to manage the display within Covid-19 restriction guidelines were on second thought jettisoned after people started posting messages about it on Facebook alongside photos of the original ‘relic’ as Liverpudlians would regard it.
It was decided to defer the display until such time as the virus was eradicated, or at least less of a threat -similar to what happened to Manchester United, Liverpool fans might suggest.
Lions man
The lookalike replicates the original down to the minutest detail. It stands 3’ 5” (104 cm), 2ft (61 cm) wide and weighs a considerable 4st (25.4 kg). The details include the base on which the names of the champions are engraved which weighs 2.5st (15.9kg). (It is necessary to use the old standard measurements as it was 30 years since the scousers last held it!).
According to website Premierleague.com, the original is made from solid sterling silver with the crowns cast from 24-carat silver gilt. The bases comprise malacite, “a semi-precious stone found in Africa” and the green on the base, derived from semi-precious African opaque stone, represents the playing field.
The design is based on the theme of the ‘three lions of English football". Two of the lions are featured above the handles and the captain of the winning side becomes the ‘third lion’ when he “raises the trophy and its gold crown above his head”. The replica by contrast is made from resin and silver electroplating but that’s between ourselves.
The replica was set to remain in the Lee household, secure in its leather case, which was probably blessed by sweat from Steven Gerard and anointed with shampoo that had dripped from the head of Jürgen Klopp.
News of its whereabouts eked out however, prompting several of Ted’s fellow Liverpool fans to invite themselves round to his house in The Rise. “We kept the numbers low and made sure Covid-19 restrictions were observed”, recalls Ted as he reflects on his sudden surge in popularity. “And everyone who posed for a photo left a donation for the hospital for which we are very grateful”.
Miracle comebacks
Unconfirmed reports indicate several wheelchairs and a barrow load of crutches formerly associated with Liverpool fans became instantly redundant after their owners made physical contact with the silver icon. Three others had their sight restored and one man found his hair re-growing after twelve years of baldness.
On the downside unprecedented traffic congestion was reported in upper Cork Hill due to a sudden mass exodus of Manchester United fans from the area.
Ted Lee is threatening to bring the Champions League trophy to town also when his fundraising initiative eventually proceeds. Civil unrest cannot be discounted.
Photo: Eight year old Mikey Healy and his aunt Mia Lee with the 2019-’20 season Premier League trophy (almost).
Story courtesy of Dungarvan Observer
Great story
Maria Stephens
Sunset near Youghal last night on a developing section of the Midleton Youghal Greenway, a glimpse of what’s to come. 📷 Kieran McCarthy (YoughalOnline.com)
Great news Sean – – and best wishes to your son Ollie – – who fished for crabs and shrimps with us at the ferryslip in the summer of 2019.
Bring back the railway reduce the congestion in Castlemartyr and the Dunkettle Roundabout !
Congratulations to Youghal native, Sean Doyle, who has been appointed the new CEO of British Airways. Sean is the son of Brid and the late Willie Doyle (An Garda Síochána) and brother to Niamh and Fionnuala.
Sean grew up in the front strand, Youghal and earned his bachelor’s degree from University College Cork.
He joined British Airways in 1998, and joined the executive management committee in 2016 as director of network, fleet and alliances. He became CEO of Aer Lingus (also part of the IAG airline group) in January 2019. In October 2020, it was announced that Sean would succeed Álex Cruz as CEO of British Airways.
Congratulations Sean and to all your proud family from all in Youghal.
Such a wonderful achievement sean your dad is look down on you so proud and bet mam is fairly chuffed too. Congratulations and best wishes to you
Congratulations! What an amazing achievement.
Many congratulations Sean, wishing you success in your role as CEO👍
Congratulations, Sean, and the best of luck in your new position. ☘️
Well done Sean we are very proud of your success.
Good for him, wishing him every success in these challenging times. 🥰
Wow, that's some achievement Sean! Congratulations and warmest wishes on your new appointment.🍸
Congratulations Sean! Youghal is proud of you. Best of luck for the future👍👏✈✈🥇
Congrats Sean a great Youghal man who comes from a family that have given great service to the people of this town. I am so glad to see the delight of the community in this great achievement.
Great news! Congrats Sean!
WELL DONE SEAN YOUR WHOLE FAMILY ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU AS ARE THE PEOPLE OF YOUGHAL
Congrats sean your dad would have been so proud
Congrats Sean Doyle
Congratulations Sean well done
Congrats Sean from ur home town
Congratulations Sean.
Congratulations . Sean
Congratulations well done
Oh! We're on the map now! I predict an international airport being built behind Raphael's by 2030 🙂
What a great achievement
Good luck
Good man Sean Og , and good luck with job 👏👏
Congradulations great achievement
Wish he would push the voucher refund button before he departs Aer Lingus 🙄 still waiting on one since June…best wishes at BA 👏🏻
Well done Sean the best of luck to you paddy Coleman
Ireland 22 Cobh Youghal Ardmore Round Tower Ballyquin Beach
☘️. Ah lovely Spent alot of time in Ardmore. Never been to the Round Tower.
Happy 96th Birthday to Mary Anne Smyth from Sarsfield Terrace, Youghal who celebrated her birthday on Thursday 8th October 2020.
Mary Anne is pictured holding her treasured photo of her father Paddy O’Sullivan and family at the place known as ‘The Rope Walk’ which was located beside the Youghal Town Walls taken back in the circa 1930s. Her father was known as Paddy O’Sullivan ‘The Rope Maker’ as he made the ropes on this strip of land which ran parallel to Raheen Road and near the old Fever Hospital, now long gone.
The Smyth’s are one of the most well known families in Youghal and Mary Anne is fondly called “The Queen of Sars”. Mary Anne had a lovely day with loads of birthday cards, presents and calls from well wishers on the phone.
Mary Anne likes nothing better than sitting beside the open fire in her home and taking to her family and friends. She says “Light the fire for a bit of company” She loves to sing her father’s favourite song “If Those lips could only speak” which he used to sing to her mother. She said “You can’t bury a memory”.
Happy Birthday Mary Anne from your huge amount of friends from near and far. Hope you had a wonderful day with your family and many more birthday’s to come.
Pictured Mary Anne Smyth at her home.
Glad u enjoyed ur birthday lovely lady💞💞x
Happy birthday sweet heart xx
Ah Happy Birthday Mary ANNE
Happy birthday Mrs Smyth,as you have always been known to me and the Hickey family from Sarsfield Terrace.your a wonderful lady with a wonderful family,hope you had a great day and wishing you many more happy years as the Queen of Sars.Stay safe.💞💞
Happy birthday Mrs Smyth. I lived in number 40 down the Tce. And I remember you and your family very well. Hope you have a very special day.
Happy birthday Mrs Smyth. Hope you had a great day. A true Lady and a great neighbour from sarsfield tce.
Happy birthday x
Happy birthday Mary Anne a true. Legend of the terrace and Youghal.If carlsberg was a women I'm sure it would be called after you.
Congratulations Mary Anne. Your wonderful for your age. Happy Birthday
Happy birthday Mrs Smith your a legend and I agree with Bernard Kenefick God Bless enjoy the rest of the weekend X
Happy Birthday, Mary Anne! Best wishes and lots of love xx
Happy birthday Mary Ann hope you had a lovely day love from all the kenneallys xxx
Happy birthday Mary Ann.Hope you had a great day.XxMary and Richard Hickey and Family 🤭🤭A great lady indeed.🎂🍰
Happy Birthday Mary Anne hope you had a wonderful day. Lots of Love to a great neighbor.
Happy birthday Mary Ann.. a true hero of the terrace.. who kept us all laughing true many a dark day… Godbless you…xxx
Belated happy birthday wishes Maryann you are a true lady
Happy birthday mary anne a true lady.from mary Torpey
All Best Birthday Wishes to you today 🎂🍾🎈🎶💞
Happy birthday Mary Ann from all the Bush and Cullinane family 🎂
Happy birthday Mary Ann god bless
Happy birthday Mrs Smith 🎂
Happy Birthday from 46 SARS, USA now
Happy birthday Mrs Smyth
Happy 95th Birthday Mary Anne, looking fantastic xxxx
Happiest of birthdays Mrs Smyth
Promotional trailer for the film "RECOLLECTIONS" – A Cinematic Trip Down Memory Lane.
Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley, Mayor Of The County Of Cork, launched ‘Recollections’, a nostalgic glimpse into Youghal’s past, at the Regal Cinema in her hometown of Youghal on Culture Night, Friday the 18th of September 2020.
The historical film produced by local historian Michael Hussey is a film compilation of old film and photos that shows Youghal’s rich and colourful history including its people, community and famous topics such as The Strand in the summer, The Corpus Christi Procession, and of course the filming of John Huston’s classic adaption of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick filmed on the quays of Youghal.
The films curation, development and screening has been promoted by Youghal Business Alliance with the assistance of the Cork County Council Arts Grants Scheme 2020 and supported by Youghal Credit Union and The Regal Cinema, Youghal.
The historic Regal Cinema first opened its doors in 1936. In recent years it has undergone extensive restoration and refurbishment to bring it back to its original Art Deco splendour.
There are 3 free of charge scheduled screenings for the public to avail of on the following dates: Wednesday 23rd September @ 4pm, Tuesday 29th September @ 7pm and Wednesday October 7th @ 4pm.
Bookings can be made via www.regalcinema.ie, on the phone; (024) 91624 or the public can turn up on any of the dates.
Any idea when it might be screened again?
Brilliant! Went to see it recently, loved every minute. Thank you to all who shared their old footage and photos. Hopefully people will get a chance to see it again when the wonderful Regal Cinema can open again.
Wonderful memories. Thanks.
Would love to see this !
Brilliant, Michael ☘️
Mighty well done mick
A wonderful film❤️❤️
Wonderful!
That's brilliant. Thank you 💯👏👏
Joe Murray. Don Murray
Beautiful
Unfortunately it is with heavy hearts we must close our doors again tomorrow for 3 weeks.
We will operate today as normal and don’t forget it’s half price Tuesday!
Today we have
Cats & Dogs 3 @ 4PM
Paddington @ 4:15PM
Street Leagues @ 6:15PM
Shaun Of The Dead @ 6:30PM
Get Out @ 8:30PM
Rialto @ 8:45PM
If you have anything booked with us over the next three weeks we will be in contact don’t worry!
Feel free to contact us on 024 91624 from 1:30PM
Via Macflymedia – Nothing nicer than sitting watching and listening to the waves on Youghal Beach.
just so love living near the sea and local beaches to visit in area – esp. when need to just stop and chill 💞
I agree nothing better I was out the front strand on Monday afternoon awesome
Beautiful video
Meet Teresa Watkins from Youghal, County Cork. Teresa uses her electric bicycle for her every business, shopping and meeting friends. But she really loves touring the surrounding area, cycling the same routes her great-grandparents did.
“I can just take off and know I’m not going to be exhausted. It’s transformed my life.”Teresa Watkins, Youghal
In the three and a half years I’ve had my electric bicycle, I’ve travelled 3,500 miles in and around Youghal. I don’t feel the hills. The inclines and the valleys are no trouble. I can cycle for over six hours continuously on my electric bicycle. It’s just the best.
In recent years, my concern for the environment lead me to look into alternative modes of transport. I didn’t want to buy a car. I wanted to be able to get some fresh air and exercise – but transport my shopping to the hilltop in Youghal, where I live.
I haven’t missed owning a car. I can cover distances that I could never cycle on a push bike. I can meander and enjoy life at my leisure without the worry that it’s going to be a tough cycle home. I can just take off and know I’m not going to be exhausted. It’s transformed my life.
My electric bicycle compliments my ethics and my lifestyle perfectly. Travelling by electric bicycle helps me to orientate myself on the landscape and really connect with it. I’m not damaging the environment. I’m not making noise and disturbing nature.
There is also the sheer joy of being able to cycle pretty much anywhere. I’m able to take any little side-road or boreen and find it no trouble climbing hills.
My favourite place to cycle is the Blackwater river valley. It’s a beautiful historic landscape that hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. I’m especially drawn here because my great grandparents cycled here often, even on their honeymoon! I’m cycling where they did, looking at the same views they looked at. I love that connection to them.
My ancestors, the Horgan Brothers, were known to cycle from town to town showing magic lantern shows, evolving as pioneers in photography and film, often featuring the beautiful locations where they cycled.
Today, I cycle these same roads under the same trees and take photographs and film just as they did. My electric bicycle enables me to do this with ease. Loaded with a flask of tea and sandwiches, my little stool, camera and tripod, I’m gone for the day … bliss!
Via: we-bike.ie/our-ambassadors/teresa-watkins/
Beautiful Theresa x
Teresa fabulous ; very well done great promotion for the product and the town
Very good Teresa. Very well done
Well done theresa. U are an inspiration
John Hinde postcard (circa 1960’s) reads: Youghal is one of the foremost seaside resorts of Co. Cork, and is finely situated at the mouth or the Blackwater river, with a fine strand and every holiday amenity. Youghal was occupied by the Danes, and then by the Normans, receiving its first charter from King John, who was supplied by the town with three fighting ships. Youghal was fortified with walls and towers, most of which remain. Of these the renovated Clock Gate, which spans the main street, is the most picturesque. #youghal
This Wexford woman loves Youghal .lighthouse holidays for years with the family .
Doesn’t it look so colourful…💕
We called him "Freddy Fly" one of my sisters asked my wee brother Tommy to run up to Freddy Fly's for some tags. He came back a while later and said he was closed. My sister asked if he went to the right shop and Tommy replied yes he did and it had F. Fly over the door.
Love my beautiful town… Youghal you are amazingly, with all nice people's 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞❤️
Freddie Fox sweet shop next to the clock gate best selection of sweets in town but could hardly ever afford to go in many children noses stuck to the window….
Clock Tavern looking well.
My most favouritist place in the whole wide world.
SUPER PIC 2 WAY TRAFFIC WOW
Great times
Julie Watson Lovely memories
Brid Goggin Sexton
Freddy Barretts fantastic shop ,(near the Clock Tavern now closed)
Never a dull moment in Youghal: Construction of the new Youghal Beach Boardwalk is well underway linking the Redbarn Blue Flag Beach and the Claycastle Blue Flag Beach. When complete it will be the longest ocean front wooden boardwalk in the country.
This picture show the wooden boards ready to be installed on the steel and concrete frame on September 20th 2020. There has been much talk and admiration from locals and visitors as to how fast the phase 2 construction of the eco-boardwalk is progressing and well done to all involved.
You can only imagine the view from this vantage point when the Ironman swimmers take to the water in next years much anticipated event.
I don't get it either… but I'm not a big boardwalk person. It does create access to those with difficulty travelling over the sand, that is a positive.
Could we have some up to date photos, please.
Can’t wait I’ve never been out passed claycastle car park looking forward to making it out to the hotel
Brilliant work can't believe it's going so fast it will be just fantastic for all keep up the good work. 👏
It will be a great addition to the area
And it's not for a short distance.. all the way down to redbarn. Can't believe the locals allowed this or had a part in it's decision..the boardwalk is so far out there is very little nice sand left to lay on and no protection from the wind..now where is the privacy.. surely I am not the only person who feels this way??
The Quality hotel is a blot on the landscape and has horrendous light pollution in the evenings it put us off even walking down there in the evening. Would it be possible for people to ask them to make their hotel nicer and more sympathetic to the beautiful surroundings.
Beautiful a great asset for Youghal well done to all
They have destroyed the nicest part of the beach for me. No longer can we sit in the grasses to avoid the wind ..and no longer can we enjoy the quiet part of the beach.. it is the worst decision ..and to me made by people who obviously don't go to that part of the beach or at all. Why not build it behind the grasses where the walk always was. Now there will be no privacy anywhere . Stupid stupid decision and a big mistake .. I will no longer be coming to youghal.. beach . Seriously saddened as it has been my favorite spot for years.
People LIKE to walk on the beach . This is just a ridiculous waste of money and you have destroyed the most beautiful part of youghal beach and for what ???
It is NOT an asset for youghal! It's destruction of a beautiful natural area. Sad sad sad
Let’s hope bit doesn’t get blown away like the last one a couple of years ago.
Amazing can't wait to visit !!
Someone please explain to me why this was needed???
The longest doesn't make it the best !
Great news 💯👍💯
Great work 👍
Margo Mullins they linked us together next year ye might come down be great xx
I feel sorry for the ones who have to clean the rubbish
Excellent news 👏👏😎
Good news 😂💚☘️
Ivan Lomasney
Beautiful. ..
Avryl O'Hara
RECOLLECTIONS – a cinematic trip down memory lane Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley, Mayor Of The county Of Cork, launched ‘Recollections’, a nostalgic glimpse into Youghal’s past, at the Regal Cinema in her hometown of Youghal on Culture Night, Friday the 18th of September.
The historical film produced by local historian Michael Hussey is a film compilation of old film and photos that shows Youghal’s rich and colourful history including its people, community and famous topics such as The Strand in the summer, its Lace Making industry and of course the filming of John Huston’s classic adaption of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick filmed on the quays of Youghal.
The films curation, development and screening has been promoted by Youghal Business Alliance with the assistance of the Cork County Council Arts Grants Scheme 2020 and supported by Youghal Credit Union and The Regal Cinema, Youghal.
The historic Regal Cinema first opened its doors in 1936. In recent years it has undergone extensive restoration and refurbishment to bring it back to its original Art Deco splendour.
There are 3 free of charge scheduled screenings for the public to avail of on the following dates: Wednesday 23rd September @ 4pm, Tuesday 29th September @ 7pm and Wednesday October 7th @ 4pm.
Bookings can be made via www.regalcinema.ie, on the phone; (024) 91624 or the public can turn up on any of the dates.
That would be just wonderful. to see. Sounds like a great project.
Wish I was there to see this!!