Day: July 22, 2017

Parish Newsletter – 23rd July 2017

PARISH NEWSLETTER for BALLYDALY-CULLEN-MILLSTREET
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 23rd July, 2017
Canon John Fitzgerald P.P.
Tel Nos. Millstreet 029-70043/Mobile 087-7752948
Email: <email> www.dioceseofkerry.ie
PARISH OFFICE OPENING HOURS:
MONDAY-TUESDAY- WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY
10.00a.m.-1.00p.m. & 2.00p.m.-5.00p.m.

Your prayers are requested for the repose of the souls of the following and for those whose anniversaries occur around this time, and for those for whom masses will be offered during the week:

RECENT DEATHS: Michael Burke, London & Shanballymore; Margaret O’Connor, Rathmore.

Mass Intentions this Week-end:
Saturday 22nd July:
Millstreet Vigil 6.30 p.m. Kathleen Murphy, Murphy’s Terrace
Sunday 23rd July:
Ballydaly 9.00 a.m. Eugene & Margaret McCarthy, Coolinarne & Denis & Margaret McCarthy, Boherbue
Cullen 10.15 a.m. Mary & Jimmy Walsh, Knocknageeha
Millstreet 11.30 a.m. Seamus O’Sullivan, Rathduane

Anniversaries: Maura O’Sullivan, Main Street; Florence McAuliffe, Murphy’s Terrace; Sheila Casey, Clara; Gillian Hartnett, Clara Road; Peg Casey, Clara; Liam O’Driscoll, Lackabawn; Jackie Lane, Aubane; Jerh, Julia & Danny Healy, Keim; Joan Guerin, Ballydaly; Jeremiah O’Connor, Knockduff; Johnny “Mort” O’Sullivan, Lisnaboy; Paddy Dineen, Bristol & Carrigacooleen.  [read more …] “Parish Newsletter – 23rd July 2017”

Superb Book Review by Diarmuid Cronin on “Evening Echo”

Over the past few years quite a number of excellent Book Reviews by Students from Millstreet Community School have been published by Cork’s “Evening Echo”. On Friday, 21st July 2017 it was the splendid review of Diarmuid Cronin of Laught, Rathcoole which was published as one of two reviews. We congratulate Diarmuid. Click on the images to enlarge. (S.R.)

The Barbara Dex Award

The Barbara Dex Award is an annual unofficial award for the worst dressed act in the Eurovision Song Contest each year. The award is named after Barbara Dex who represented Belgium at Eurovision 1993 in Millstreet, and who infamously wore a rather ugly, semi-transparent, frumpy dress on the show that she made herself (“looking like a lampshade”).

First awarded in 1997, it has been awarded each year since, and is voted on by visitors of the website barbaradexaward.com after each Eurovision. More info is available on the Barbara Dex Award facebook page.

Thankfully, Dex herself takes it in good humour, stating in 2006 that there was “nothing wrong” with the Barbara Dex Award.

Barbara Dex at Eurovision 1993 in Millstreet

Here are all the winners up until 2018:

 

Barbara’s dress may not have been great, but the song was much better!

 

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Barbara has released ten albums since 1993. This is her singing in 2017: