Lots of pictures below, thanks to Jackie Kent
Drishane in Snow
Mark Ellis on Cork Senior Hurling Panel
The Cork Senior Hurling panel to play UCC on Sunday at 2pm in Páirc Uí Rinn in the Waterford Crystal Cup, has been published by the Cork GAA, and it includes our own Mark Ellis.
It looks like a development squad because none of the the main stars are included, but it is definitely a step in the right direction.
The full panel of players can be viewed on the Cork GAA Website, and the Examiner carries the team with a report also.
Update Monday 18th Jan: Unfortunately he didn’t get a run out on the day as a disappointing Cork side fell away totally in the second half to lose by 1-12 to 1-7.
The match report can be read on the Irish Examiner website
Video: Millstreet Pony Owners & Young Riders Charity Show 2006
Television Highlights of the 2006 Millstreet Pony Show from the Green Glens Arena
A look at Millstreet from late spring to early summer
2009 saw Millstreet maintain a positive image with numerous highlights. In the second of a four-part series, John Tarrant gives an appraisal of April, May and June
APRIL:
Large crowds attend Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies. The annual Easter Commemoration takes place at the monument situated in the Town Square, the 82nd anniversary of the commemoration attended by guest speaker Jack Roche. Aubane Community Council host Table Quiz. Millstreet Bridge Club hosts Ryan Cup, won by Macroom. Friends from Millstreet and Mallow behind a Benefit Dance for Richie Barney O’Connell in the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow.
Millstreet Community Council elect new team of Chairman Councillor Noel Buckley, Vice Chairman, Denis Cremin, Secretary, Catherine O’Shea/Marie Burke, Treasurers Sylvie Murphy/Ronan Galvin. PRO Amanda Wright.
Read more on The Corkman’s website http://www.corkman.ie/local-notes/a-look-at-millstreet-from-late-spring-to-early-summer-2013271.html
Winter scenery by Clement Carroll
Banteer pond on the 10th January 2010
Ross Castle, Killarney on the 10th January 2010
Pictures by Clement Carroll, Bolomore, Rathcoole.
2006 Census: Millstreet – sex, age, marital status
That’s a total of 1,401 people (744 male, and 657 female) just for Millstreet Town itself. Listed below also are the number of people in each of the Local Electoral Divisions that are in the Millstreet catchment area, which gives an idea of how many people live in our general area.
| Male | Female | |
| Coomlogane | 436 | 395 |
| Drishane | 853 | 809 |
| Keale | 161 | 156 |
| Cullen | 204 | 212 |
| Kilcorney | 152 | 163 |
| Crinnaloo | 108 | 92 |
| Rathcoole | 211 | 215 |
| Skagh | 225 | 208 |
| 2350 | 2250 |
See below for more details and some analysis of the census information for Millstreet:
[read more …] “2006 Census: Millstreet – sex, age, marital status”
Pommerit-le-Vicomte, our Breton Twin Town
Snow (some 20 cms!) pictures from Pommerit-le-Vicomte, our very special Breton Twin Town, very kindly emailed to us by Yannick Perrot whose picture from our Brittany visit of 2006 I also feature. We are truly uplifted to note that Yannick and many good Friends in our very beautiful Twin Town (with which we are twinned almost 25 years) are regular visitors to our website.
2007: Polish population in Millstreet
A report published in 2007 listed Millstreet as having the highest percentage of Polish nationals (14.17%) in the community in all of Ireland. Since the recession has visited us, I know that quite a few of the Poles have returned to their homeland, but then a lot of our own younger generation have left or are going to leave for distant shores in search of work also, so it’s hard to say what the percentage is nowadays. Anyway, the short article can be read below:
[read more …] “2007: Polish population in Millstreet”
Alternative transport to town from Dooneen!!
(pics Michelle O’Keeffe)
In a Neat Little Town called Millstreet
The following article appeared in Fortnight Magazine (No. 318, June 1993, p. 33). Click on the article to see a bigger more readable version.
Community School Reopening Thursday
A note from Millstreet Community School that it will be re-opening on Thursday, January 14th 2009, after being closed for a week due to dangerous conditions caused by the wintry weather.
Death Notice: Ellen (Nell) Hickey, Mill View
The death has occurred of Ellen (Nell) HICKEY, (née O’Sullivan) of Mill View, Millstreet.
At her daughter Noreen’s residence, Droumadeesirt, Kilcummin. Reposing at Manley’s Funeral Home, Millstreet. Removal this Tuesday evening at 8pm to St. Patrick’s Church, Millstreet. Requiem Mass at 12 noon tomorrow, Wednesday, January 13. Burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.
Date published: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Date of death: Sunday, January 10, 2010
Regional Report 995 12th January 2010
by
Eily Buckley
Dia is mhuire diobh go leir a Cairde and welcome to news report 995 from Millstreet.
Fondest greetings dear listeners and I hope that you are bearing up well to all the trials and tribulations caused by the inclement weather.
Again this week I have no lotto results because like so many other things it too fell victim to the bad weather on Sunday night. We can only hope that it will go ahead on next Sunday night when it will be held at the Clara Inn with a Jackpot on €2 200.
These times we really must take our hats off to our local radio station. Every one of the crew left no stone unturned to keep the public informed in minute detail of all the happenings or lack of happenings around the County. Its is at times like these that we see the value of having our own local station. Please support well at all times.
Andreas Zenker’s Mushera snow pics
Taken last week, before the heavier snowfalls of the weekend
Play TV – Millstreet Winner
Well done to Darragh Reardon on winning a few bob on the late night TV3 Game show Play TV.
WINNERS: 07.10.2009
Rige Barbara, Ballyfermot,dublin10 € 900
Reardon Darregh, Co.Cork, Liscahane Millstreet € 50
Fenton Elisabeth, Fermoy, Co.cork € 100
It’s notoriously difficult to win on Play TV because there are so many different correct answers: you need a lot of luck! For anyone interested in it, there is a good discussion on boards.ie about PlayTV and their solutions.
Winter wonderland
(160 pictures in total – click on the arrow on the picture to view all the pictures)
It was on the afternoon of Sunday, 10th January 2010 that Millstreet was transformed into a winter wonderland when a heavy blanket of snow very quickly covered the entire area. We invite you to a tour of the town and environs as this transformation progressed. We begin with Monsignor Manning at Millstreet Presbytery, onwards then to West End, The Bridge, Main Street, The Square where we meet Billy Sheahan of Wallis Arms Hotel, then to Church Street, down to Minor Row where Joe Fitzgerald of Supervalu is still smiling (on a poster!) despite the freezing weather! We continue down to Coleman’s Garage & Supermarket. During our tour you will recognise many a local face. And so on to the Fair Field where I suddenly found myself on the ground…just like a Charlie Chaplin scene….embarrassed but thankfully unhurt (though aching!!). By the time I got back to The Bridge, Humphrey Hickey (of The Bush Bar) very kindly offered to drive me to the Boeing where sheets of ice were flowing on the River Blackwater (already so beautifully captured by Hannelie and displayed on the website). Because we arrived following really heavy snow we were fortunate to see the “ice fish”! In fact it’s a rock by the riverbank covered in snow but (as noted by Margaret Kelleher, Mount Leader) truly resembles a gigantic fish emerging from the Blackwater! And finally back to my home in Mount Leader for some truly magical night snow scenes having met Noel Collins and Patsy McAuliffe on Clara Road. Do keep warm in this frrrrrrreeeeeeezzzing weather!
(Seán Radley for www.millstreet.ie )
River Blackwater frozen
Scenery of the river Blackwater Sunday 10th January 2009. When was the last time the river froze?
(Click on picture to view in full)
Far North Even By The Short Route
I was born and raised in Claraghatlea near Millstreet Town
Though that hardly would rate as a claim to renown
Far north even by the short route as the birds choose to fly
From where I live now thousands of miles of sky
Where the Cails from Kippagh to the Finnow does flow
By ditches and through old fields where rank rushes grow
In that old countryside mine was a known face
But now I might be a stranger in the old Homeplace
A countryside that inspired the long dead bards to rhyme
Years before I was born that is going back in time
Through green Ballydaly by night and by day
The Cails from Kippagh ever babbles it’s way
Through Feirm, Annagloor, Shannaknock, Liscreagh and Clarghatlea where Finnow it does meet
In the old rushy fields near the Town of Millstreet.
Having fun in the snow
Grace and Shauna O’Connor showing off the icicles they found in the snow
Winter scenery at the Boeing Crossing
Spectacular pictures of the river Blackwater at the Boeing Crossing, Dooneen.
(pics. Michelle O’Keeffe)
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Bus Éireann unable to serve Millstreet on Route 40
Route 40 Cork-Tralee is unable to serve Millstreet.
“Given the snow forecast for today throughout the country, Bus Éireann will continue to monitor this situation closely and we would advise customers to contact their local travel office for information on individual services or visit www.buseireann.ie,” said a statement.
“Bus Éireann would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused.”
Video: The Ballad of High Mill Lane
A little-known Rebel Song from Co. Cork. It is sung here by the great singer and bouzouki player Tim Browne
(Tadhg de Brun) from Kanturk, Co. Cork.
The song tells of events that occurred in Millstreet, Co. Cork, probably in November of 1920, when the Black and Tans were attacked in the town centre by the Irish Republican Army.
In July 1920 Col. Gerald Bryce Ferguson Smyth addressed the Black and Tans in Listowel, Co. Kerry instructing them to shoot suspects on sight and not to mind the consequences should innocent people be killed, as he assured them no Black and Tan or RIC man would be charged or named. This prompted a change in IRA policy meaning that from then on Black and Tans would be shot on sight without warning or call to surrender. As for Col. Smyth, he was shot dead by an IRA unit lead by Dan O’Donovan in a prestigious Private Club in Cork City late in 1920. O’Donovan said to him: “Smyth, you gave the orders to shoot on sight. Well, you are in our sight now, so prepare to die!”
Millstreet Country Park Venison
The Today with Pat Kenny show on RTE Radio 1 resident chef Rozanne Stevens gave a glowing review to the venison produced at Millstreet Country Park recently describing it as an alternative for Christmas dinner:
I get Irish venison from Millstreet CountryPark in Cork. To describe the taste and texture, it is like the most tender, most flavoursome piece of steak you’ve ever had.
The full article is given below:
Parish Newsletter 10th January, 2010
PARISH NEWSLETTER
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
10th January, 2010
Fr. Declan O’Connor P.P. Fr. David Gunn C.C. & Fr. Micheál Manning A.P.
Tel Nos. Millstreet 029-70043 / Cullen 029-79028 / Mobile 087-7752948
Email: <email> www.dioceseofkerry.ie
PARISH OFFICE OPENING HOURS:
MONDAY-TUESDAY-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:
Schools Closed until Thursday 14th January
Schools Closed until Thursday 14th January
The Minister for Education and Science, Batt O’Keeffe TD, has told all primary and post-primary schools to close on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week due to the bad weather.
Minister O’Keeffe took the decision in the interest of the welfare of school children.
The Minister took the decision following a meeting today [Friday] of the Government’s emergency planning group and in the context of the poor weather outlook for the coming days.
Minister O’Keeffe said: ‘I took the decision to close all schools based on my concern for the health and safety of school children in these very challenging weather conditions.
‘I considered, in particular, the forecast for snowfall on Sunday and Monday which will cause further disruption.
Millstreet Matters – 7 Jan 2010
Ignoring the sub-zero freezing conditions, swimmers and supporters made their way to the famous Boeing for the second annual New Year’s day swim.
Those participating defied the arctic weather to support the beneficiaries from the staging, the worthy Irish Cancer Society Night Nurses and LTV2.
This is part of the Millstreet Matters column on the Corkman, which also talks about Scór, Ballydaly Christmas Party, and Adult education
Millstreet Relief Road
Extract from a Cork County Council Meeting Minutes in 2009, there were some discussions on the Millstreet Relief Road. (New relief road from Drishane View, to Gerry Collins Tyre Centre, and coming out at the Hospital Cross on the Killarney Road. It was planned maybe twenty years ago, and they are still talking about it, an in the current economic environment, it is unlikely to be completed in the near future, although some ancillary works have been done in the last year.
REPORT UNDER ARTICLE 179 OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT, 2000:
8/1-2
Proposed by Councillor Noel BuckleySeconded by Councillor Patrick Buckley
RESOLVED:
“Noting that in accordance with Article 179 of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 2000, notice of the proposed development was published, that no submissions were received in respect of the proposal, approval pursuant to Article 179 of the said Act is given for the following:-Construction of approximately 610 metres of new road including footpaths, cycle lanes and ancillary works at Millstreet Relief Road in the townlands of Coomlogane and Liscahane
Also noted was the need of the council to sell one of their social housing units at 15 Fairfield Rise, Minor Row
15 Fairfield Rise, Minor Row, Millstreet, Co. Cork.
We Sound Unsure
We Sound Unsure are a Millstreet band and in their own words: “We hail from the tiny hamlet of Millstreet and we’re like the best band there. Seriously.”
They released an EP some time ago entitled “Awkward Times, Awkward Measures”. You can listen to five of their tunes on their myspace page, as well as their bebo page. The music itself is actually quite interesting, sounding at times quite like Cathal Coughlan (from his Fatima Mansions days).
Millstreet Recycling Centre news
Notice from Cork Co. Council in Mallow:
Millstreet Recycling Centre will remain closed up to and including Monday, 11th Jan., 2010 due to weather conditions.
A year of highs and lows for our Footballers
THE first part of the Millstreet GAA review focuses on Millstreet GAA clubs Football season 2009
Millstreet GAA hosts its AGM in Millstreet GAA Community Hall on this Friday night commencing at 8pm. Looking at a football review this week, the JAFC campaign began on a 0-11 to a 0-7 defeat to defending holders Cullen. There was no disputing that Cullen were worthy winners yet Millstreet paraded six minor players over the hour and delivered a creditable showing.
Subsequently, Millstreet cantered clear of Newmarket 4-16 to 0-9 in the second round. Once Millstreet got into their stride upon the resumption, they possessed far too many aces in the pack for a second string Newmarket combination.
Read the full review of Millstreet GAA Football 2009 on the Corkman website
[read more …] “A year of highs and lows for our Footballers”
