Day: November 27, 2011

Aubane’s Annual Fancy Dress Occasion Realises €3,500.00 for Cope Foundation – Presentation Tonight at Wallis Arms Hotel, Millstreet

Martina Sheehan (on left) of Aubane Social Club presents a cheque of €3,500.00 to Caitríona Buckley of Dromtariffe Parents & Friends of Cope Foundation - the result of the recent Annual Halloween Fancy Dress Event held at the Wallis Arms Hotel, Millstreet. Special thanks was also expressed in relation to Billy, Ellen & Staff of the Wallis Arms Hotel for their supreme assistance, generosity and dedication to this annual highly praiseworthy event. Members of both voluntary organisations as well as Billy Sheahan of the Wallis Arms are included in our photograph. (S.R.)

First Millstreet Town Park Committee Honoured and Remembered

To honour and remember the first Millstreet Town Park Committee members (and also people who have contributed so much to the care of the Town Park over many years) a special plaque has recently been put in place at Millstreet Town Park. This gesture is so very appropriate in that those wonderfully community-spirited people in the Ireland of the 1950s were so supremely far-seeing and conscious of what a magnificent setting like our Town Park (within our town) would mean for future generations. And how right they were! What a truly exquisite amenity we have in our town. Very special credit is due not only to the early pioneers of this great project and who are recalled on the impressive plaque but also to the present-day Town Park Committee. We thank Jerry Lehane for alerting us to this most deserving of monuments which is now permanently in place at the Town Park. Long may future generations enjoy such a marvellous environmental gem. (S.R.)

Oh I Love Cloghoula Countryside

Oh I love Cloghoula countryside when wild flowers are in bloom
Just outside the Town of Millstreet on the way out towards Macroom
When the birds are singing gaily and new leaves are on the trees
And the brown bog larks are piping o’er the bogland of Gneeves.

Oh I love you sweet Kilmeedy at the back of Clara hill
I have always been in love with you and doubtless I always will
You are beautiful and peaceful and your fields are evergreen
And you wake to greet each dawning day like a rare beauty queen.
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Joanne Launches Millstreet’s Christmas Festive Lights

Joanne O'Riordan with Marley the dog at Millstreet's Christmas Tree official Lighting launch on 26/11/2011 bringing true festive magic to our town and parish. Having recently received a prestigious award and having just starred in Millstreet Community School Drama Presentation it was Joanne who was given the honour of turning on the magnificent lights on our Christmas Tree in the Square, Millstreet. We also recorded the cheerful occasion for LTV2 Millstreet. (S.R.)