On this evening, 7th May 2015 at 8pm in the Pearse Memorial Hall, Boherbue, Michael Cronin will present his music choices at the Music Room. We thank Maura for this notice. (S.R.)
Recent Visitors to Millstreet Museum from Kanturk & Australia
Jobs: Dairy Farm Worker wanted
A dairy farm close to Millstreet is looking for an employee to do the day to day work on farm – milking cows, feeding calves, cleaning, repairing, tractor work, fencing, observing animals etc.
Experience with cows necessary.
Contact: 086-3644208 or <email>
9th May:the position has been filled
Mass for Junior Cert students and families – Fri. 8th May, Millstreet Community School
A celebration of Mass for the Junior Certificate students of Millstreet Community School will take place on Friday 8th May 2015, 3.20-4.00pm in the school library. Parents/guardians and grandparents of the students are warmly invited to attend.
For Sale: Jack Russell Pups
Comhaltas Set Dancers
World Fiddle Day in Scartaglin
Less than two days to go until the Language and Culture Night at Millstreet Community School
The Transition Year students of Millstreet Community School would like to invite you to take part in the
‘Language and Culture Night’
Thursday 7th May 2015
7pm sharp in Millstreet Community School library
We are holding this event to celebrate all the different languages students in the school can speak (including Irish), and the different countries that they and their families come from.
Afterwards everyone will be invited to the canteen for refreshments from different countries. You might like to bring along a traditional dish to share.
There will be stories, songs and dancing to enjoy so bring your family and friends! The event will be a great celebration of diversity in the Millstreet area. Admission free.
For more details contact the school on (029) 70087
Galaxy Fashion Show 2015 at MCS including Superb Bridesmaids’ Style
Let’s now observe some more of the marvellous fashion from the wonderfully well [read more …] “Galaxy Fashion Show 2015 at MCS including Superb Bridesmaids’ Style”
Intermediate Football Championship Starts Tonight
Intermediate Football Championship
Millstreet 0-11 Glenville 0-14 (result 🙁 )
in Coachford at 7pm tonight, Monday 4th May
0-5 to 0-8 at half time. We now play the loosers of Kanturk & Ballydesmond in the “back door”. They play next Wednesday evening.
[read more …] “Intermediate Football Championship Starts Tonight”
Millstreet in the News – 3rd May 2015
Motors & Me: Dan and Anne Barry – the Millstreet couple are profiled with their VW Beetle … (Irish Examiner – May 2nd)
An Fáinne Óir – students from T.Y. got the Silver Fáinne, and one achieved the Gold Fáinne … (MillstreetCommunitySchool.ie – Apr 30th)
Energy Efficiency and Electric Cars – to celebrate the fact that St. Brendan’s has been awarded a second green flag for Energy, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Aidan Mahony with an electric car! … (St.Brendan’s NS – 30th April)
Delightful atmosphere at school TY fashion show – Spring and summer fashions arrived for the Millstreet Community School Transition Year Fashion Show last weekend, with … (Corkman – Apr 30th)
Showtime at the Glen Theatre – young actors from Millstreet, Rathcoole, Lyre, Banteer … recently gathered together to showcase their talent and their craft under the skilful direction of Elle Lynam of DRAMA! … (Corkman – Apr 30th)
Parish Newsletter – 3rd May, 2015
PARISH NEWSLETTER for BALLYDALY-CULLEN-MILLSTREET
Fifth Sunday of Easter – 3rd May, 2015
Canon John Fitzgerald P.P. Tel Nos. Millstreet 029-70043/Mobile 087-7752948
Email: <email> http://www.dioceseofkerry.ie
PARISH OFFICE OPENING HOURS: MONDAY-TUESDAY- WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY
10.00a.m.-1.00p.m. & 2.00p.m.-5.00p.m.
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the souls of the following and for those whose anniversaries occur around this time, and for those for whom masses will be offered during the week:
RECENT DEATHS: James McLoughlin, Killarney & London
[read more …] “Parish Newsletter – 3rd May, 2015”
Kids Brick Club – new term
Wellness Day at Millstreet Country Park on 24th May from 12 noon
LTV2 Millstreet Programme 256 Now Online
LTV2 Millstreet Programme 256 Now Online
On this weeks Programme we feature The Jamie Wall Fundraiser Event held out in Cullen on Easter Monday, we take a look at the big wide load which was a Transformer that went through Carriganima recently to connect Windmills to the National Grid network, this Giant Transformer was being transported to the Substation located in Cahirdowney for to be fitted, also we go to the Wallis Arms Hotel in Millstreet to catch up with Paddy O`Brien and his Band.
Happy Viewing
Motors and Me 1971 VW Beetle
Irish Examiner Motors and Me 1971 VW Beetle: Dan and Anne Barry from Millstreet, Co Cork with their 1971 VW Beetle. (Video: Dan Linehan Irish Examiner). The full article in the Irish Examiner is here.
Photos from the Vintage Run las Sunday can be seen on the Millstreet Vintage Club page.
On Shaky Ground
The large earthquake in Nepal this last week has been terrible for the people there, but most of us don’t know that in Millstreet, we actually live on a major fault line that was once as active as the any in the world. Referred to as the Killarney-Mallow Fault (KMF), it stretches from the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry to the other side of Mallow and is the point where two continents were colliding. It is a reverse and thrust fault, and it resulted in folding of the rocks that created all the mountains of south of here.
This all happened 270 million years ago, so thankfully we get no serious earthquakes these days. The mountains were once almost three times as large, but they have since been weathered and scoured by glaciers during the ice ages, down to their current shapes, while the valleys have been filled in with debris.
Below are detailed maps and explanations and links to further detail: [read more …] “On Shaky Ground”
Mark Ellis Officially Opens Magnificent New Outdoor Gym at Town Park
Millstreet Community School students attend SVP Youth for Justice Exhibition
Eleven Transition Years from Millstreet Community School attended the SVP Youth for Justice Exhibition in Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork on 30th April. Youth for Justice is an initiative to encourage students to get more involved in their school and local community. Our students organised three very successful events during the year:
1. Bake Sale in aid of the Marie Keating Foundation in October 2014 which raised €687.22
2. An Intergenerational Christmas Table Quiz in December 2015
3. Cluichi agus Ceol! An afternoon of games and music involving adults and the TY students in March 2015
Over four hundred students attended from schools all over Cork. Each set up a display and gave a presentation to everyone present about what was achieved during the year.
Tubrid Holy Well
Today is the start of 
May, the month known as the month of Mary. As is traditional, many people from near and far join in with their families and friends to come to Tubrid Well to pray the Rosary.
This morning (May 1st) there will be a Rosary and May Day Celebration hosted by our Active Retired Group. The Holy Rosary will be recited there every evening at 8pm this month, and all are welcome.
If you can’t make it to Tubrid, you could visit the new Tubrid Holy Well page. There are lots of nice photos, but it’s always better if you can go to the well and pray there in the tranquil surroundings.
The Rounds: In the month of May each year people [read more …] “Tubrid Holy Well”
New Tidy Towns website
The new Millstreet Tidy Town Association website is now available. Our sincerest thanks to budgetwebsites.ie without whom this would not have been possible. Especially to Niamh and her team. So we are well and truly up and running. Our facebook page over the last 2 weeks has proved a huge success. Our website is millstreettidytown.ie will hopefully be the same. Also our Twitter account went live this evening @millstreettidyt. And lastly our email address is millstreettidytown @ gmail.com
We look forward to hearing your feedback on these accounts and contact us please, especially with photos of your goings and your street is doing for the Tidy Town Competition this year.
Official Opening of the Outdoor Fitness Equipment
The new Outdoor Fitness Equipment will be
official opened by Mark Ellis on
Friday May 1st at 8:00 pm
in The Town Park.
Everybody welcome.
Tonight: Farming’s Future Meeting
Meet Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney TD in Millstreet
Friends,
This year has seen some major developments for farmers, farm families and farming communities. The ending of Milk Quotas and the opening of the USA market for beef has the potential to offer real gains for rural Ireland.
I’d like to invite you, your family, friends and neighbours to meet our Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney in The Wallis Arms Hotel. Come along, have your say and hear his thoughts on the future of the family farm and the agriculture sector. I hope you can take the time and join us on the night.
What: Public Meeting on Farming’s Future
Where: Wallis Arms Hotel, Millstreet
When: 8pm Thursday 30th April 2015
Who: Minister Simon Coveney TD & Áine Collins TD
I look forward to seeing you!
Millstreet in the News – 30th April 2015
Cork Mourns Late Historian Jim Cronin – Cork GAA is mourning the death of the long time administrator and historian from Millstreet … (the Corkman Apr 30th)
John Deere 6920 stolen from Aubane – reward for info on its whereabouts … (donedeal.ie – 27th April)
Meeting to discuss the “Future of Farming” – This is a really crucial time for Irish farming. The dairy sector, so crucial to the Cork agriculture sector, is on the cusp of major expansion … (ainecollins.ie – 24th April)
Tromso and the Northern Lights – For as long as I have known of their existence I have wanted to see the Aurora, or Northern Lights. I think I became aware of them in about 1955 when … (New Irish Writing – Ann Lane – 24th April)
Fabulous fashions in MCS Show! – The Millstreet Community School fashion show was held on the 23rd of April 2015. We had 12 shops from around our … (MillstreetCommunitySchool.ie – 24th April)
First World Problems! – So as my journey comes close to finishing, I decided to treat myself and take a few flights recently rather than … (Maoriki – 23rd April)
Millstreet Active Retired Table Quiz
The Untimely Death of Patrick Broderick
A native of Clara Rd, son of Pat and Breeda, Patrick Broderick left Millstreet for London at 18 where he worked in the hospitality industry, and soon after later the recruitment industry where he flourished and travelled the world.
In 2013 he was in Switzerland working as Business Development Director with international headhunting firm SpenglerFox, when he unfortunately died of of a single stab wound to the neck, in what would appeared to be an accident, but the Swiss police didn’t have an answer.
Spengler Fox announce death of Business Development Director – September 5th 2013
Swiss police investigate stabbing of Corkman – Irish Examiner – September 25, 2013
Swiss police must wait on autopsy of stabbing victim – the Corkman
Family demand answers over mystery death of businessman in Switzerland – Irish Independent – 17th August 2014
Derinagree School are awarded 2nd Green Flag on Energy Conservation
Derinagree NS have received yet another invitation by An Taisce, for May 27th to attend an Awards’ Ceremony for presentation of their 2nd Green Flag for Energy Conservation. Thanks to all the parents & community for their support. More later about our Flag Raising Ceremony in June.
There are more photos below: [read more …] “Derinagree School are awarded 2nd Green Flag on Energy Conservation”
Tickets for the Irish Drift Championship Event
Round 2 of The Irish Drift Championship will take place at Green Glens Arena in Millstreet, Co. Cork on June 6th/7th.
Due to seating, space and safety reasons only 1800 tickets will be available for this event. Tickets will go on sale this Friday morning April 30th at 9:00am on the IDC website : www.irishdriftchampionship.com
There are [read more …] “Tickets for the Irish Drift Championship Event”
Regional Report 1263 – 28th April 2015
by
Eily Buckley
Dia is mhuire diobh go leir a cairde and welcome to News Report 1263 from Millstreet. Fondest Greetings dear listeners and I wish you all the best on this very changable Tuesday morning.
At all Masses at the weekend our Canon John read out a request from the head of the Unions of Ireland asking that today Tuesday April 28th be deemed as a day of Prayer for all those who were killed in the course of their work. He said it was the first time that this request was ever made.
The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred on 80 children of Millstreet Parish on tomorrow Wednesday, Ceremony starting at 3.30 and all are welcome to attend.
Times of Eucharistic adoration for Wednesday have been slightly altered as a result. It will be held from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm and again from6.30 to 10.30pm.
Confessions every Saturday from 12,30 to 1pm.
The weather is really living up to what we called Garabheen na g’Uuach( Cuchoo) when we were young. It referred to the last weeks of April and the first two weeks of May when the climate went willy nilly and unpredictable. It used to fill those who had hens down hatching with dread in case the heavy hailstones pelting off the galvenised roofs would kill the birds in their shells. But that was fado fado.
The sudden slump in temperatures last week sent us all scurrying for the warm clothes once again.
Even family pets were seen to be distressed by the sudden cold snap. And should get special attention at this time.
But cold did not deter all those who took part in the MonsterMac which was centred at our Country Park on Saturday. Look up our website for the results.
Irish Water – Essential Maintenance Works
Essential maintenance works may cause supply disruptions to Hegarty Street, Murphy Terrace, Old Coach Drive, Old Coach Avenue, Liscahane and surrounding areas in Millstreet, Co. Cork.
Works are scheduled to be carried out between 10am until 4pm on 29/04/2015.
– from water.ie
