by
Eily Buckley
Dia is mhuire diobh go leir a cairde and welcome News Report 1101 from Millstreet. Fondest greetings dear listeners and I wish you all the very best on this nice spring morning with the first daffodils starting to come out.
Community Council Meeting will be held to-morrow Wednesday night at the Wallis Arms Hotel at 9. Please note the change of night.
Tidy Towns meeting also to-morrow Wednesday night at 8.30.
Please let me remind you of the fundraising dance which is being held at Hourigans Bar in Newmarket this Friday night February, 10th in aid of Suicide Awareness. A special CD compiled by local artists will launched on the night for the cause. Music by the ever popular Southern Pride.
I was asked to warn people to unplug their PCs when not in use, one was found to catch fire recently.
The first Church Gate collection ever held by LTV2 will be held this Weekend February 11/12th ,in Millstreet, Ballydaly and Cullen . Please support it well.
The Newly formed Menshed is going remarkably well, and as things stand it looks like the open hours will be extended far beyond the present two sessions on a Tuesday morning. Organisers meetings are being held to put the venture on official footing. All men of all ages are welcome. Contact Bertie Buckley for the latest details.
Our Singing Club is also enjoying great support. It is held on Thursday nights from 7.30 pm in the comfort of the Pastoral Centre .and it is free of charge. Both men and women welcome.
And our knitting Club is on every Tuesday night at the Adult Learning Centre in the Main St. All types of Crafts welcome. Please take note that the morning knitting sessions at the Library have been discontinued for the moment.
The first of two Creative Writing Workshops for Adults with renowned Author Vincent O Donnell will be held at our Library on to-morrow Wednesday from 10.30 to 11.30, and will be held again on Wednesday of next week Feb.15th at the same time. All welcome.
Two of our 5th year girls of the Community School, Orla Kiely and Laura Dennehy, are going to Lourdes at Easter to work as volunteers among the sick and disabled. To help raise funds to cover their expences a monster Cake Sale will be held at the Pastoral Centre on This Saturday February 11th after the 6.30 Mass.
Our Camogie Club would like to thank all those who supported their recent Church Gate Collection.
Young Padraig Moynihan competed in the All Ireland Cross Country Championships which were held in Roscommon, didn’t will any medal but benefitted from the experience just the same.
Sadly our roadsides are getting very shabby again from the amount of rubbish that is being thrown out of passing vehicles. And plastic bags and plastic packaging is becoming a common sight on roadside trees and bushes, where they still wave in the wind months after landing.
Road users are asked to please refrain from this revolting practice.
We know only too well that there is little money to pay for clean-up so residents both in town and country areas are asked to do their utmost to keep their own immediate areas litter free.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in our Church every Wednesday from 10.30 am to 10.30 pm.
Confessions in Millstreet Church every Saturday from 12.30 to 1.
The Lovely Glen Theatre continues to turn out great shows. This weekend, they have a hilarious comedy entitled The Wife’s Family. With Joan Duggan as the wife. It’s on Saturday and Sunday 11/12th and the following weekend on February 18/19th. Also on February 26th.
Further to that on Saturday February 25th a great night is assured with Domnic Kirwin and Louise Morrissy in concert. Their contact number 029-56239.
80 people weigh-in in Cullen last night and 155 pounds weight lost. More of the same next Monday night.
February 22nd is Ash Wednesday and for the duration of Lent, weekly talks for adults, on Compassion will be given, on Monday nights at the Community school, more about that next week.
Program 201 of LTV2 is on its way to your screens on Thursday night at ten and repeated on Sunday night at 8. And please note that our programs can now be viewed worldwide on the Millstreet Website. With people from Australia and many other far away places letting us know that they can get them loud and clear.
On Sunday next, Millstreet host will the semi final of Duhallow Scór na bPaisti commencing at 2pm.
Later on Sunday night, Millstreet and St. John’s teams represent Duhallow in the Co. Senior Scór semi finals in Coachford with a full programme underway at 7.30pm.
GAA
Millstreet drew with Castlemagner in the opening tie to the Ducon Cup in Millstreet.
Here are the results of this weeks parish lotto draw which was held at the Bush Bar on Sunday night. Numbers drawn were 1, 5, 19, 20 and the Jackpot was not won.€100 went to Marie O Mahony, Cloghoula, the seller was Pat Joe Creedon and he got €50 sellers prize, €50 went to David Linehan, Buttevent, €20 each to Sheila Corkery, Adrivale, Noreen O Sullivan, Kilcummin, Brendan Lehane, Ballincollig, Vincent O Connor, Coolikerane. Sinead Corkery, Shanaknuck, Vera & Breda FitzGerald, Minor Row, and Siobhan Buckley, Carriginma. Jackpot for next week €5,000 the draw at Corkery’s Bar on Sunday night.
Agus sinn a bfuil a cairde, slan is beannacht De libh go leir.
