Orchard Court, ‘Incorrect and malicious’ Midleton: Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 - The East Cork Journal
works in pipeline
THE January meeting of Midleton Town Council saw Cllr. Niall O’Neill informed that remedial work on Orchard Court is imminent. The town council confirmed that the money had been made available but town engineer Michael Savage said the county council workers would be engaged in road repair work for the immediate future, prior to attending to Orchard Court. CP
East Cork snippets
Table quiz in aid of Glanmire’s Cheshire Home
A table quiz in aid of St. Laurence Cheshire Home, Glanmire, will take place on Thursday, January 28th at 8pm at the Silversprings Hotel. Tables of 4 cost €40. All welcome to attend. For more information, please call Eleanor Goggin 087 2803762.
Ballycotton Bridge Club results
JANUARY 14TH, 2010 1st Roseanne Fahey/Mary Cuthbert; 2nd Patricia Morrison/Mary O`Mahony; 3rd Rita Fitzpatrick/John Murray
Carrigtwohill course in Active Leadership
Interested in organising sport in your community? The Active Leadership Award is a joint initiative between the Irish Sports Council and the Sports Council for Northern Ireland. The purpose of the course is to provide trained, knowledgeable and enthusiastic community based leaders whose aim it is to encourage more people to become, and remain, involved in sport and physical activity.
Who should attend?Adult leaders who work, or wish to work, in a wide range of locations including local clubs, community groups, workplaces, community centres and sports clubs. Places are limited so book early! Cost: €25 per person. The course takes place on Saturday, January 23rd from 9am to 1pm and on Sunday, January 24th from 10am to 5pm at Carrigtwohill Community Centre.To apply for this course, please contact Claire at 021 4665083 or email churley@cclsp.com for registration form and return to Cork Sports Partnership, Yeats House, Barrack Square, Ballincollig, Cork before Wednesday 20th January along with the fee. The LSP will provide tea/coffee, but attendees will be required to bring a packed lunch. Please note that in order to run the course, a minimum of 12 participants is needed.
Fermoy whist drive
Results from Sunday, January 17th Best overall score: Peggy McCarthy Winning ladies: Catherine O’Flynn, Margaret Regan, Margaret Mulkeen, Mary Mason, Abina Murphy, Margaret Flynn and Margaret Forde. Winning gents: Frank Roche, Colm Hurley, I. O’Brien, Daniel O’Flynn, Anne Hurley, Gerard Donovan, K. Hawe and E. Fitzgerald. Raffle: Esther Lomasney, Joan McHugh and Kathleen Hawe. Whist drive every Sunday night at 8.30pm sharp in the CYMS hall. All welcome.
Michael Ahern TD replies to Deputy Sherlock’s article on the banking crisis Following last week’s statement from Deputy Sean Sherlock, below, Michael Ahern TD gives his response:
“It has been said that the first Casualty in War is the TRUTH. Deputy Sherlock must have declared war on me [said Michael Ahern T.D.] as his assertion that I claimed that there is no need for a banking inquiry is not only incorrect but is, I believe, malicious. I agreed with the call for an inquiry into the banking crisis and into the wider economic and societal behaviour in the boom years, as called for by the Governor of the Central Bank. At no time on radio, television, in written media or in private did I state that there should not be an inquiry.
I believe, and stated, that there was clearly a great deal of reckless lending which meant excessive lending, leading us to where we are today, and the reasons for such lending must be determined.
Over the past year the Government has been striving to ensure that we have a Working Banking System that will make money available to individuals, to small, medium and large businesses, for without credit the economy will grind to a halt. This can be seen at present from the lack of credit from the banks effecting purchase of cars, houses, spending on renovations etc. The Government initially made a decision to guarantee deposits in the Irish Financial Institutions. This meant that savings of all people were covered by the Government, and it meant that money stayed in Ireland.
The next step was the setting up of NAMA which will take the riskier loan classes away from the Banks and make them safer and more secure for depositors and investors. This is the best approach to ensure stability in our financial system and free up the banks to lend to businesses and households.
Midleton Scouts, Cobh’s Breaking the Silence and Youghal’s Tweenies up for AIB Better Ireland Programme
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AIB’S Better Ireland Programme has announced details of the three children’s projects short-listed by each branch for the current 2009/2010 programme. The short list of all the Cork projects can be found in the below notes to editors. Almost 1,300 applications were received by AIB branches from across the country.
546 projects - three per branch - will now be voted on by local communities to decide how the €10,000 funding available at each branch will be distributed. Text and online votes from the general public will rank the projects. The one that attracts the most votes will be awarded €5,000. Second place will receive €3,000 and third place €2,000.
Voting commences on Monday 15th February 2010 and continues until 15th March 2010. This year, votes can be cast via text or online. Further details on voting will be announced shortly. Applications were received from a wide variety of groups including homework clubs, teen clubs, autistic services, community crèches, schools and colleges as well as drug and alcohol related services for youth.
For AIB Midleton, the finalists are Midleton Youth Project, 23rd Midleton Scout Group and Aghada Parish Community Playgroup; AIB Cobh - Cobh Youth Services, Cobh Community College (Sailing) and Breaking the Silence; and for AIB Youghal Tweenies, Youghal Scout Group and Inch Foroige.
Help Haiti
In his reference to social welfare Deputy Sherlock ignored the significant increases in the Social Welfare Payments between 2003 and 2010 even after the changes in the 2010 budget, e.g. Scheme
2003 Rate € Contributory OAP 157.30 Job Seekers Benefit 124.80 Disabilty/Illness Benefit 124.80 Carer’s Benefit 139.70 Carer’s Allowance; under 66 129.60 Carer’s Allowance, over 66 147.80
2010 % Rate Difference € 230.30 +46% 196.00 +57% 196.00 +57% 213.00 +52% 212.00 +64% 238.00 +62%
In the same period the consumer price index increased by just 13%. Deputy Sherlock should do the decent thing - apologise and withdraw his erroneous accusations”- ,Michael Ahern TD.
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