Day: May 14, 2015

Excellent Arthritis Ireland Workshop Nears Conclusion in Millstreet

Some of the many participants who have been attending a truly excellent Arthritis Workshop at Millstreet Community School for the past five Thursdays. The superb coordinators (seated third and fourth from left) Marie and Josephine from the Kingdom of Kerry have shared hugely helpful hints, suggestions, action plans and provided such an optimistic approach to the management of Arthritis. The overall Workshop - one of many which occur throughout Ireland is under the auspices of Arthritis Ireland Foundation. Very special word of thanks to Marie and Josephine and also to Margaret Crean of Millstreet who has motivated the establishment of the most useful Workshop in Millstreet. The Workshop concludes this coming Thursday. Click on the image to enlarge. (S.R.)
Some of the many enthusiastic participants who have been attending a truly excellent Arthritis Workshop at Millstreet Community School for the past five Thursdays. The superb coordinators (seated third and fourth from left) Marie and Josephine from the Kingdom of Kerry have shared hugely helpful hints, suggestions, action plans and provided such an optimistic approach to the management of Arthritis. The overall Workshop – one of many which occur throughout Ireland – is under the auspices of Arthritis Ireland Foundation. Very special word of thanks to Marie and Josephine and also to Margaret Crean of Millstreet who has motivated the establishment of this most useful Workshop in Millstreet. The Workshop concludes this evening (Thursday). Click on the image to enlarge. (S.R.)

Shutterbug Finalists

2015-05 Jack O' Riordan Adam Keane - through to the finals of ShutterbugsCongratulations to two local boys, Jack O’ Riordan aged 6 from Boherbue NS and Adam Keane aged 9 from Lismire NS, who are through to the finals on RTE’s bug-finding series Shutterbugs!

Jack and Adam produced a video reel for the final over the weekend at Duarriglewoods, Brookpark Kilcorney and Millstreet Country Park. Earthworms, Ants and Red Deers was their challenge which they completed and recorded findings at Millstreet Country Park’s lab with Philip Cremin their tour guide on the day.

Producer from RTE Ciara Baker congratulated the boys on their fantastic production.

The  Shutterbugs page with videos is located at rte.ie/rtejr/shutterbugs

Community School hosts Language and Culture Night

2015-05-11 Language and Culture Night - MCS - rret language
Some of those who took part in the Language and Culture Night in Millstreet Community School last Thursday May 7th. There lots of more photos below.

A sign of the changing nature of Irish society became evident in Millstreet Community School, the Transition Year students hosted a Language and Culture Night from diverse nationalties. The event brought together young people and their families in a celebration of the different languages and cultures, including Irish, which now exist in the Millstreet area. People from over ten countries were involved in some way in the enjoyable evening. Including personel from Poland, Chechnya, Côte d’Ivoire, Germany, Nigeria, Malawi, Pakistan and South Africa.

Proceedings opened in the School Library involved young people being given the opportunity to [read more …] “Community School hosts Language and Culture Night”

Dr. Barry Cotter – First Doctor in Melbourne

Hello to the Millstreet community,

I wanted to let you know that I have finished researching and writing the biography of Dr Barry Cotter, first doctor in Melbourne, Australia, who was born in Millstreet in 1807. The biography is available here, drbarrycotter.com.  I received news this week that The National Library of Australia is going to archive the website into its online collection, so I’m pretty excited about that. Thanks again to the Aubane Historical Society, especially Jack Lane and Alan Brick who were so generous in supplying information.

I look forward to any comments from members of the Millstreet community about the website. cheers, from Moira McAlister <email>