This is the week of the Summer Horse Show in the Green Glens.
From the Irish Independent: “The Horse Show begins next Wednesday, with 5,000 entries and over 800 horses stabled on the site. A huge audience is expected at the Co Cork venue.”
With this there will be an influx of horse lovers to the Millstreet area over the next week, with the first lorries having already arrived this morning. For all information on the show, see millstreethorseshow.ie continue reading…
Congratulations to Mrs Margaret Reen, Main Street who reaches 100 years today. There was a huge crowd in the Green Glens last night with family and friends from all over coming together to celebrate her great achievement, and hopefully she have many more happy years in front of her.
The Stone Circle used as the photo for Millstreet on MSN
It’s that time of year again, and with the Eurovision on tonight at 8pm from Dusseldorf, Millstreet is getting a mention on the internet as one of the past hosts of the Song Contest. It’s even called a city in a few spots 
MSN Entertainment have a nice presentation of former cities, and it’s then Millsteet is mentioned in the same breath as other major European cities:
… Madrid, Malmo, Millstreet, Moscow, Munich …
it makes you think. continue reading…
The Vintage Day in the Green Glens held last Easter Sunday will be featured in The Irish Vintage Scene magazine this month. In a preview of the article on their website they say:
In only its second year, the Millstreet Vintage Show succeeded in building on the popularity of its inaugural running last year…….. making this a great Easter day out; for more from this event, watch out for the June issue of Irish Vintage Scene, which will be in the shops from the 20th of May.
Thanks to Dan Linehan of the Irish Examiner has let us know about a slideshow of photos he took at the Vintage Day in the Green Glens last week (above). He has other nice slideshows on the Irish Examiner website, as well as his own channel on youTube.
Jim McSweeney has added another collection taken at the Vintage Day last Sunday. This time it’s an album of very interesting miscellaneous photos, of which a few are shown above but the full album can can be viewed on Facebook
Dedicated Volunteers at Millstreet's very successful Vintage Day at Green Glens. From left: Kathleen Healy, Sheila Murphy and her son, Kevin. Kevin was the official Health & Safety Officer at the huge event. We are presently preparing a full feature on the superbly enjoyable and most impressive occasion.
Jim McSweeney has published another eighty odd photos of the cars at the Vintage and Family Fun Day in the Green Glens on Facebook. This is on top of his album of tractors and farm machinery which we detailed yesterday. (again you’ll have to be logged into FB to see them)
More photo albums have been posted on photoBucket by Colm who had his own Escort on display
The above photos are from a set of 55, taken at today’s Vintage and Family Fun Day at the Green Glens has appeared already on flickr.com
… while Jim McSweeney has also published a set of photos on the tractors today on Facebook (you only need to be logged in), with a couple of his photos shown above.
There will surely be lots of more photos and commentary to follow in the next few days.
Some of the wonderfully dedicated Volunteers preparing for tomorrow's major Vintage Day at Green Glens.
Tomorrow, Easter Sunday is scheduled to be a truly marvellous Family Day at Green Glens where the very best of vintage will be on display, superb musical performances, lots of exciting activities for young people and, hopefully, splendid weather conditions. This and lots more to make it a day to continue reading…
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.’ ~Mother Teresa
It was my privilege to be part of a community celebration on Saturday night in Green Glens, Millstreet. The celebration marked many years of contribution by Sean Radley to his local community and beyond. He is a man who has done endless small things with great love and will continue to do so for many more years. Sean’s contribution to his local community is beyond measure. No money could buy his contribution to education, local television, local radio and his unique ability to make every person feel special. We so often take many people for granted in our lives but on Saturday night over 600 people gathered to say thanks and well done. Such was the enthusiasm continue reading…
Coleman’s Tractors had a had a large stand at the Farm Machinery Show this week. Thanks to Jim McSweeney who sent us a number of photos of the stand. See them below: continue reading…
Three gentlemen discuss the very impressive display stands at the hugely successful Farm Machinery Show at Green Glens which continues today, Thursday, 20th Jan. 2011 from 1.00 to 10.00 p.m..
Green Glens, Millstreet is such a perfect setting for the Annual Farm Machinery Show. Here we share images of the superbly impressive Show recorded when we visited the wonderfully popular event last night. We would very much encourage a visit to the venue where not only does one receive lots of very useful information and hints on the most recent farm related innovations but also where the most modern farm machinery is on view and where there is quite an amazing continue reading…
The death has taken place in Dublin of Joe Lynam. Joe was 73 and worked for RTÉ as a showjumping reporter in the early 1980s.
He frequently covered events in Millstreet (especially in the 1980s) and the RDS for Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio One with Jimmy Magee.
He knew many figures in the showjumping community and was very close to RTÉ’s Darragh and Eddie Mackin.
We thank Jerry Kelleher for sharing the RTÉ link with us : http://www.rte.ie/sport/equestrian/2010/1222/lynamj.html
The 45 Drive in aid of the Millstreet Community Hospital at the Green Glens on Wednesday evening the 8th December 2010 has been cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions. The event will be rescheduled to a later date.
Undoubtedly, you will recognise the wonderful Concertino who brought such superb colour, joy, humour and happiness to Millstreet during the very memorable European Juggling Convention 2006 (EJC2006) during that Summer of magnificent weather. Now, European television has made a truly excellent half-hour documentary on this most inspiring gentleman whose attitude to life he expressed on the card he is holding in his hand at Green Glens in 2006 – “Follow your heart and live your dreams!” . You can now, for the next 25 days (only), view this most uplifting documentary and hear again that wonderfully happy laugh on http://arenan.yle.fi/video/1417950 – Happy viewing! (Seán)
Superb planning and hard work again proved fruitful when enormous crowds attended the three-day Self Build Exhibition at Green Glens. Clive Corry, his son Brian and their very dedicated Team are to be congratulated for the great success of this year’s event regarded as being one of the very best of its kind in Ireland. And what a perfect setting Green Glens is for continue reading…
Celebrity Bainisteoir Personality, Breffny Morgan with GAA Star, Colm Concannon (Centre Half-back with Kilconly) at their www.jfc.ie exhibition stand in the Self Build Centre at Green Glens on Friday, 5th Nov. 2010. (Seán)
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