The official parade is up and away at 5pm from the Dairygold Co-Op store and continues with a formal review stand in the Town Square. A special prize will be presented for the best window display.

Millstreet Pipe Band again figure on leading the parade and it complete a hectic day after a St. Patrick’s Day recital in Ballydaly after 9.30am Mass and participating in the Killarney parade.

The above appears in the Millstreet Matters column on the Corkman. This week it also discusses the People of the Year awards, Millstreet Country Park, the Community School Lenten campaign, GAA and more

AN injury-time goal from Eoghan O’Connor allowed Kanturk pull the game of the fire with a last ditch equalising strike against Millstreet in the Ducon Cup played in Millstreet on Friday night (5th March 2010).

With no shortage of commitment in evidence, it allowed an equitable outcome emerged as a fair outcome. However Kanturk left it late, O’Connor rising up amongst a cluster of players to punch home the all important goal.

from the Corkman newspaper

Defences dominated the opening half and it left scores difficult to come by.

Millstreet availed of points from Tadgh Colllins and John Lehane to steer ahead. Seasonal debutants Kanturk improved under the guidance of John Healy, Eoghan O’Connor, Kryle Holland, William Murphy and good shooting from Donough Dwane who tied up the game at 0-4 apiece by the interval.

A competitive contest developed upon the restart, Millstreet gaining an upperhand with Barry O’Reilly, Mark Ellis, Collins and Lehane to the fore. Collins found the net from close range and the impetus appeared to lay with Millstreet on additional points to Ellis and Lehane,

Kanturk weren’t prepared to relent, Stephen McAulliffe and Dwane pointing before a well directed ball from Dwane fell into the danger zone and O’Connor met it to hit a stinging shot to the Millstreet net.

As well as thinking about Patrick on Sunday night we will also have our usual informal time of worship and prayer. Hope to see you there.

For further information please contact Rev. Laurence Graham at 064 6631613 or

Starting at 7pm, the evening is a celebration of the diversity of cultures that now exist within the school and in the local community, and comprises song, dance, music and poetry, along with the chance to sample cuisine prepared by people from many of the 20 nationalities now present in the locality. Admission is free.

The students have been very busy preparing for the event, and three different groups have taken on the tasks of planning and preparation for the event.

from the Corkman newspaper

Joining the celebrations will be Mr Wonder Mufunda who works for Trocaire in Zimbabwe. As programme manager for remergency appeals, Mr Mufunda is currently visiting schools around Ireland and was delighted to be invited to the World Wide Welcome.

” I can’t wait to get the chance to taste the food that people would be used to eating in their home country,” said Transition Year student Lisa O’Callaghan. I’m also looking to seeing the traditional clothes – they’re bound to be colourful.”

Lisa’s friend Muireann O’Keeffe added, ” It’ll be a bit of privilege to have all the people from different countries in our school because of an event we’ve organised. I can’t wait!”

This multicultural event is one of three significant events the Transition Years have taken part in since the beginning of March.

Already, they have held a ‘ sleep-out’ to raise awareness of Trocaire’s Lenten Campaign 2010 – Rural Poverty and Hunger, and they also all participated in the Trocaire 24 Hour Fast.

Education minister Batt O’Keeffe visited the sleep-out and both Michael Creed TD and Michael Moynihan TD have both indicated it is their intention to attend the World Wide Welcome evening.

The result is an astonishing archive of material – almost 30,000 photographs, over 2,500 audio tapes, 500 video tapes and thousands of…

from the Irish Times – Tue 09 Sep 1997

The first meeting of the Millstreet Golf Society took place in 1980 in

Edie Reardon’s Bar, present were Frankie Reen, Brendan Kiely, Michael

Feeley and Tom Collins. Brendan Kiely has been a member of the

committee without break since its foundation and was made an honorary

member of society at the AGM of November 2004 .  Michael Feeley was

the first Captain and Frank Reen Snr was the first President.

The first outing took place in Kanturk Golf Club.

Year          Captain                  President

1982         Michael Feeley        Frank Reen

1983         Johnny O’Keeffe       Brendan Kiely

1984         ColmanCulhane         Seamus Maxwell

1985         Frankie Reen          Bill O’Keeffe

1986         Declan Dennehy        Sonny Horgan

1987         John Casey            Jim Barrett

1988         Edmond Neville        Johnny O’Keeffe

1989         Padraig Looney        Colman Culhane

1990         Michael Dennehy       Tom Fox

1991         Barry Fraiser         Kevin Lucey

1992         Liam Gallagher        Sylvester Murphy

1993         Chris Twomey          Frank Reen

1994         Eamon McCaul          Martin Moran

1995         Joe O’Mahony          Dan Murphy

1996         John O’Sullivan       Tony Sheehan

1997         Sylvester Murphy      Michael Feeley

1998         Gordon O’Keeffe       Frankie Reen

1999         Denis Hickey          Andy Quirke

2000         Tommy Burke           Peter Lawlor

2001         John Twomey           John Randles

2002         John Cronin           Denis Murphy

2003         Padraig Sheehan       John Lawlor

2004         Colm O’Connor         Eamon McCaul

2005         Connie Cotter         Michael Dennehy

2006         Paddy Roche           Liam Burke

2007         Anthony Dennehy       John Cronin

2008         Brendan Hickey        Padraig Sheehan

2009         Tom Flahive           Tommy Burke

2010         Donogh McAuliffe      Chris Twomey

A nip and tuck affair developed from the outset though Knocknagree shaded matters to secure a 1-3 to 0-4 interval advantage.

Back came a dogged Millstreet upon the resumption with Desmond O’Sullivan, Brian Sheahan and Mark Ellis to the fore. Points to Michael Murphy, Michael Vaughan and John Lehane offered encouragement.

However Knocknagree held the facility to respond and despite Millstreet’s best intentions, the game was wrapped up in favour of the home side with a late goal.

Millstreet lined out as Denis Kiely, Kevin Hickey, Desmond O’Sullivan, Patrick Randles, Donal O’Sullivan, Brian Sheahan, Eamon O’Keeffe, Patrick Coleman, Mark Ellis, Michael Murphy, Tadgh Collins, Michael Vaughan, Darren Murphy, John Lehane, James Broxton. Subs. Timothy Kiely, Eoin Crowley, Conor Lane.

For the next stage of the treatment, they are heading back to Germany next Sunday so that Jacob can get larger implants into his eye sockets, as his current implants are quickly becoming too small.

Unfortunately, we can’t show you the videos clips directly, but here are the links where you can see the videos

• the video of the report on the TV3 News,
• the video of the interview on Ireland AM this morning (11 mins long)

there are also lots of stills from the videos at the bottom of this article

If you find that these videos are missing from the TV3 website and you would like to see them, then just contact the millstreet.ie administrator though our Contact Us page and we will make it available.