Duhallow News
Community Meeting Called In Dromtarriffe
A public meeting will be held in Dromtarriffe Parish Hall on Wednesday night 7th February 2024 @ 7.30pm This is a very important meeting regarding the security and safety of the people of Dromtarriffe and all the surrounding hinterlands. Everyone is most welcome to attend, from any area in Duhallow if you so wish. Loneliness and isolation, and many other topics concerning the welfare and comforts of the elderly and our most vulnerable family, friends, and neighbours will be a key part of the meeting Remember we are all in this together. Garda Kathryn Canty, our Liaison Officer, and other
remembers of An Garda Siochana will be in attendance. They will guide and encouraged us to be proactive, help us to get organized and up to speed with modern technical devices that are becoming more readily available
every week, send us regular text messages and advice on any criminal activities in this division, and all around the neighbouring parishes. They will advise us and make us aware of what is happening behind the scenes. Their aim is to have us forewarned of the major scams going on out there and hopefully before they hit our own area. This your chance to be a valid member of the community. Remember the young able-bodied man or woman of today is the old and most vulnerable person of tomorrow. Please attend if at all possible. Contact Charlie 086 8403914
Helena O’Connor of Boherbue Tidy Towns brought her skills to the fore for two weekends. Saturday 13th and 20th saw volunteers learning to harvest willow for use in projects. This Meitheal is a key exchange of community knowledge, and the days extended into learning how basketry willow is planted, how it grows, and how best to harvest it. The groups were free to take home cuttings or rods for community based projects.
Meitheal is the perfect word for such a day - while not often used anymore, it is the old Irish word for when neighbours come together to assist one another with crops and other such projects.
Willow basketry has picked up in popularity in recent years, and we hope to see more events such as this to promote language and tradition, as well as community learning.
Issue 106 January 26th, 2024
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Tidy Towns Collects Willow
