Community website for Millstreet, Co. Cork, Ireland
Our Annual Church Gate Collection takes place this coming weekend (4th/5th August 2018). Sincere thanks to those people who have already contributed generously to both Projects. Here we share three images from our Archives recalling Eurovision 1993 in Millstreet. Click on the pictures to enlarge. (S.R.)
[read more …] “Museum & Website Church Gate Collection this Weekend in Millstreet”
Millstreet Fire Brigade featured in an article on the German Daily Newspaper Saarbrücker-Zeitung recently, when German firefighters who were on holidays here spotted a fire in a hay field and aided our fire brigade in putting it out ! Below is a translation of the article:
“What happened to four holidaymakers from Landsweiler recently on their trip through Ireland has nothing to do with recreation. It started on Thursday a week ago: Bernhard and Christine Schäfer were going with their daughter and buddy Markus Schorr happily through the area around the Irish town of Millstreet, when they discovered an “incredibly large smoke column”. As all four were members of the fire department in Landsweiler, they know immediately what to do: “We have circled the pillar of smoke and saw that a large mountain of hay was burning in a field,” says Bernhard Schäfer. Clear case: The fire department must be alerted… [read more …] “German Tourists and Millstreet Fire Brigade combine to put out fire in a Hay Field”
Childminder available from child minders own home.
Level 5 childcare, also have a child friendly area outside 8 years experience. Boherbue & surrounding areas.
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Munster U16 Piping Champion Muireann Mulvihill, Cullen Pipe Band, who recently brought home the silver from the Munster solos held in Newcastlewest.
John G Tarrant, who is the proprietor of Tarrant’s Livestock in Rathcoole, is set to become a celebrity all over Europe in the coming weeks.
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of DAF Trucks, the parent company in Holland recently undertook a continent wide campaign to find the oldest working DAF truck, and through a Youtube clip discovered John, who has been delivering cattle to marts in his 1984 DAF 2100 for the past 34 years.
Kanturk Mart resembled a Hollywood movie set on Monday when a film crew from Eindhoven in the Netherlands, along with key personnel from DAF in Cork and Dublin, accompanied John from his home in Rathcoole with a load of cattle destined for the mart… [Read the full article from the Irish Independent]
Update (20 Aug ’18): John’s feature in the documentary is here:
The results of tonight’s Discount Stores Shield at Millstreet Pitch & Putt are:
The Discount Stores Shield
1st Danny O’Riordan
2nd Ian Brophy
3rd Evan O’Mahony
Beginners Category
1st Daniel Heeney
2nd Jack O’Brien
3rd Lucas DeFritas
