Sunday 19 May 2013
AFTER battling valiantly since last July following a horrific crash while on holiday in the UK which claimed the lives of his son Oisín and unborn daughter Elber Marie, Connie Twomey sadly passed away last Friday.
A man who drove through a checkpoint before leading gardai on a high speed chase through the Mid Cork countryside is facing community service.
CORK sports broadcaster, Bill O'Herlihy has been chosen to give this year's address at the annual Michael Collins commemoration at Beal na mBlath in Mid-Cork in August.
A CORK East TD has called on the Catholic Church to clarify its position on excommunicating politicians over abortion legislation, amidst claims that pro-life campaigners have distributed leaflets branding him a 'baby killer'.
FUNDING has been approved for the first phase of an ambitious €6.1 million programme to upgrade the sewage collection network in Mallow.
FIVE World Rally Championships cars have already been confirmed for participation for a North Cork-based rally to take place this August.
Volunteer rescuers must pay the state for helping out at tragedies
DESPITE the harrowing events in Boston on Monday, there was some good news for Cork people in America this week as an immigration reform bill was brought before the US Senate that could offer illegal immigrants legal status to remain in the States.
PRO-Life protestors this week picketed the offices of Cork North West TDs.
A FARMER who has been convicted of drink driving has had his disqualification postponed to allow him to finish his summer's work.
Drove without insurance
AUTHORITIES have carried out a technical examination of the scene of Monday's fatal house fire as the community of Kilvoultra, outside Macroom, comes to term with the tragic blaze.
AN Bord Pleanála has overturned Cork County Council's refusal of planning for a wind farm in the Muskerry Gaeltacht area, and has decided by a majority of three to two of its members to grant permission for 11 turbines, 126 metres high.
MALLOW Town Council has vowed to get tough on what has been described as the "serial dumping" of rubbish at blackspots in the town.
THE poignant sight of the two women who were closest to Connie Twomey in life, his wife Elber and Mother Julia, as they sat beside his coffin along with their families and friends, profoundly moved the large crowd attending Connie's funeral Mass in St Joseph's Church in his native Meelin on Tuesday.
THE death has taken place in Cork of former Taste bass player Eric Kitteringham who, along with drummer Norman Damery, was in the first incarnation of the band synonmous with Rory Gallagher.
WHEN a pet lamb ran to its owner at Milltown Mart, in Co Kerry, he caught sight of the rest of flock of sheep that had been stolen from just a day after they went missing from a field in Clonkeen.
A MAN who lost his two children in a horrific holiday crash in the UK 10 months ago finally succombed to his own injuries on Friday last.
CORK sports broadcaster, Bill O'Herlihy has been chosen to give this year's address at the annual Michael Collins commemoration at Beal na mBlath in Mid-Cork in August.
THE poignant sight of the two women who were closest to Connie Twomey in life, his wife Elber and Mother Julia, as they sat beside his coffin along with their families and friends, profoundly moved the large crowd attending Connie's funeral Mass in St Joseph's Church in his native Meelin on Tuesday.
THE death has taken place in Cork of former Taste bass player Eric Kitteringham who, along with drummer Norman Damery, was in the first incarnation of the band synonmous with Rory Gallagher.
MALLOW Town Council has vowed to get tough on what has been described as the "serial dumping" of rubbish at blackspots in the town.
AN Bord Pleanála has overturned Cork County Council's refusal of planning for a wind farm in the Muskerry Gaeltacht area, and has decided by a majority of three to two of its members to grant permission for 11 turbines, 126 metres high.
WHEN a pet lamb ran to its owner at Milltown Mart, in Co Kerry, he caught sight of the rest of flock of sheep that had been stolen from just a day after they went missing from a field in Clonkeen.
A FARMER who has been convicted of drink driving has had his disqualification postponed to allow him to finish his summer's work.
PATIENCE and honest graft won out for Na Martra on wearing down Kildorrery in a highly entertaining County Intermediate Football Championship opening round at Kilbrin on last Saturday evening.
ALL STAR PERFORMANCE by athletes at county championships.
Kerry's season commences at Killarney Racecourse this Sunday, with the staging of the three-day May meeting. Sunday's all national hunt card commences at 2.10pm, featuring the €50,000 Ladbroke handicap hurdle over 2ml 1f, with the supporting card reading: 4-y-o 2ml1f maiden hurdle, 2ml1f older maiden hurdle, and 2ml 1f mares maiden hurdle. Following the feature at 3.40pm, the card continues with two 2ml4f chases, and the concluding bumper at 5.10pm over 2ml1f.
Ballygiblin hurlers had two wins over the week end in the Div 1 and Div 3 leagues. On Sunday the Div 1 side travelled to Midleton where they faced the home side. This was a high scoring game Ballygiblin led 3-6 to 1-5 at half time.
Kanturk Intermediate footballers hit the championship trail on Saturday, May 11 when they travel to Fermoy to face the seasiders from Youghal in the first round of this year's championship.
OVER 250 golfers competed in the Mallow Print Works Open Singles Stableford competition in Mallow Golf Club last Saturday and Sunday with the major honours going the way of John Foley.
The Duhallow Angling Centre of Excellence was set up in 2012 by the Kanturk and District Trout Anglers to promote angling in the Duhallow area.
Banteer Community Sportsfield request that all community members and users of the facility please support the annual supporters/users fundraising draw costing €100 p.a. This can be paid in €25, €50 or €100 installments in cash, cheque or by direct debit whichever suits. All contributors will be entered into a draw for cash prizes with a total prize fund of €5,000 per annum.
MEELIN GAA CLUB MEETING An important meeting of Meelin GAA Club takes place in Meelin Hall on Thursday May 9th at 8.30pm. All members are requested to attend.
SR Joan Corkery, Congregational Leader of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, visited Rusheen N.S. last week.
The Little Company of Mary the Order so that was so well known in Fermoy as the Blue Nuns, are celebrating the life and work of their founder Venerable Mary Potter with a family fun day out in the Corrin Event Centre just outside Fermoy on Saturday May 18th from 10am to 4pm.
ON May 1, over 100 students from McEgan College undertook a six mile sponsored walk around Macroom and the surrounding area.
SHE may not be the Voice of Ireland, but teenager Kelly Mongan McDonagh still had a smile as wide as the River Blackwater after giving birth to a baby boy last Friday.
THE publication of 'The Flame Lives On', a volume of poems penned by the late Donal Ó Siodhacháin, from Doon, Kiskeam, is set to fulfil the second of his final wishes prior to his passing last October - his first was granted when he got to spend his final months in Ballydesmond at the heart of his beloved Sliabh Luachra, following his marriage to his long term partner Dr. Patricia Herron a few months before his death.
FREE gardening demonstration at The Secret Garden, Newmarket on 'Successful Summer Containers' this Sunday, May 12 at 3pm.
ALL roads lead to the Green Glens Millstreet for the All Ireland and International Sheep Shearing and Wool Handling Championships on Saturday and Sunday 25th and 26th May 2013.
Noel McCarthy chairman of Fermoy Tidy towns Committee was happy to record yet another year of progress in the working of his group towards helping to make Fermoy litter-free and beautiful as he addressed the AGM of that body recently.
THE finishing touches are being put in place for this weekend's County Fleadh Cheoil - the first to be held in the Cork Gaeltacht.
THIS day 21 years ago (May 9), Linda Martin won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with her offering 'Why Me'. Before she'd completed her encore on the Malmo stage, Noel C Duggan's far seeing vision had already set out his stall for one extraordinary coup as he sketched his initial draft plan on the back of an envelope to bring the 1993 Eurovision to Millstreet.
CASTLEMAGNER Sinsir Club are celebrating The Bealtaine Festival with the Dawn Chorus walk on the morning of Saturday May 18th.
BALLYHASS National School will hold its traditional May Fayre at its grounds in Cecilstown this coming Sunday from 2-5pm.
A LARGE crowd of admirers, friends and family attended the hugely succesful Gerard O'Callagan book launch at Mallow Library last Friday afternoon.
THE dulcet tones of some of Ireland's best music acts will once again reverberate around the unique subterranean settings of Mitchelstown Caves following the announcement that three special shows are to be hosted there this summer.
BORN into poverty in a house that used to be an alleyway, John Michael Cahill's book 'Two Walls and a Roof' charts the history of a family and their town from the 1950's onwards.
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