Day: June 8, 2012

Competition Authority finds in favour of Millstreet Horse Show

from MillstreetHorseShow.ie: The Competition Authority has recently finalised its investigation into alleged anti-competitive behaviour by Show Jumping Ireland (SJI). They have found in favour of the consumers right to free choice thus vindicating our position held firmly over the past three years.

Subject to two laid conditions being met by the host show, SJI members cannot be penalised in any way – to do so would be unlawful. Millstreet International Horse Show has no difficulty in satisfying these two conditions.

The Millstreet International Horse Show is on from Tuesday 7th to Sunday 12th of August 2012.

Looking for an Irish Speaker

RTÉ researcher Frances Mulraney is looking for an Irish speaker in the Millstreet area for an upcoming episode of the series ‘Abhainn’, which will concentrate on the Blackwater. If you know of such a person, contact Frances using the details below:

A chairde,
I’m emailing from Irish Language Programmes in RTÉ and am currently carrying out research for a series called Abhainn which takes a journey down Ireland’s rivers. This year we are concentrating on the Munster Blackwater. I was looking for some Irish language speakers in the Millstreet area and was wondering if you would know of any?
Mise le meas, Frances <email>

Coming Home to get Married in September

From Today’s Irish Times: Donagh O’Sullivan, from Cullen, near Millstreet, has worked for more than 20 years in Britain – but he is coming home in September to get married.
The September 8th nuptials mark a homecoming of sorts, too, for his bride-to-be, Francesca Fenaroli, even though she had never heard of Millstreet until she met the Cork man in London three years ago.
“We had been dating for about a year when she showed me her family tree in her mother’s house. Her mother’s maiden name was O’Connor,” he says. A quick examination revealed the Millstreet connection.
Fenaroli’s great-great grandfather, John O’Connor, had married in 1872 in the same church in Millstreet that will be used by O’Sullivan and Fenaroli.

“They had known he [O’Connor] was from Cork, but not that he was from Millstreet. This story is more interesting than [read more …] “Coming Home to get Married in September”