Banteer

Banteer Social Adult Badminton

Badminton every Monday in the Community Center in Banteer from 8.30pm to 10pm. All are welcome to join up and there will be games for all levels from beginners up to experienced players. Season will run to mid March 2023.

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Banteer Bingo

Tuesday nights. Banteer Community Centre at 8:30 Playing for jackpot Looking forward to seeing everyone.

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Sportsfield draw winners in December 2022

Winners

€1500 - Carol Stack

€500 - Dan Sullivan Shrone

€100 each - Orla Sweetnam, Gerard Collins, Banteer Macra, Shauna Crowley, Mary Bowles Kanturk.

Hamper - Lily Buckley Dara Mchugh. - Aine Collins Micky Mcauliffe Lyre

Whiskey - Dermot Scanlon

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Cork GAA Draw Rebels’ Bounty 2023.

The first draw will take place at the end of February 2023 (January & February Draws).

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Banteer Community Sportsfield Official Opening

The official opening of the new €2.2m complex at Banteer Community Sportsfield is planned for Sat 14th Jan 2023 with Minister Heather Humphries attending. Juvenile sports activities and blitzes will take place up to 11.45am.

At 12 noon, the new facilities will be blessed, followed by Pipe Band Juvenile Parade. The project is now complete and it provides the Banteer, Lyre, Nadd, and Duhallow areas with a top class facility that will serve many generations going forward. The facility includes state of the art regulation sized astro pitch for all sports and a new community building with new changing rooms, toilets, disabled facilities, spectator stand area, museum, digital hub and café facility.

With IRD Duhallow as the lead applicant, a major grant of €1.3M was approved in Feb 2019 towards the development project from the Governments Rural Regeneration and Development fund, Project Ireland 2040 under the Department of Community and Rural Development. A Sports capital grant was also approved along with LEADER grants for the inclusion of a renewable energy system, carpark and digital hub in the new building along with a grant also from Cork County Council.

The demand for the asto pitch facility is such that the facility has been is use 7 days a week with for example 18-20 games/week being played there in Nov /Dec last. The inclusion of a digital hub at the facility adds another much-needed service to the area allowing people to work from their home area.

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What’s On In The Glen Theatre

All shows start at 8pm.

Sat. 14 Jan 2023 - Sean Keane

Sun. 22 Jan 2023 - Declan Nearney and full band in concert.

Mon. 6 Feb 2023 - Special Concensus Bluegrass Band

Sat. 11 Feb 2023 -Phelin Drew, Songs and Stories of the Dubliners

Sat. 11 Mar 2023 - Jack Rourke

Sat. 25 Mar 2023 - Ann Gildea: How To Get To Menopause And Enjoy It

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Dillon returns to France for 2023

Dillon Corkery is going into his second season with French DN1 team CC Etupes, one of the strongest elite teams in France. He enjoyed a very strong 2022 season with this team – 5th at Paris-Troyes and a top 10 overall at the Tour du Pays du Montbeliard (2.2) while also finishing 2nd overall in the five-day Tour de la Manche, just two seconds behind new World Tour pro Ewen Costiou. Under the watchful eye of Cycling Ireland head coach Neill Delahaye, Dillon says he will leave no stone unturned in his bid to step up a level or two in 2023.

Best wishes to Dillon and Eddie Dunbar also for 2023 as Eddie takes up his role within his new team Bike Exchange –we look forward to many successes for both Banteer men

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Ballymaquirke Junction Works To Begin In New Year

A contractor has now been appointed to undertake a programme of safety works at Ballymaquirke road junction and work is to start early in the new year.

Following a public meeting hosted by the local Banteer Lyre and Districts Community Council at the Glen Theatre in March 2018, where safety issues were highlighted, Chairman Rory O Driscoll, Secretary Rose Cronin, and PRO Denis Withers welcomed the news and paid thanks to all involved.

The project will entail the construction of a roundabout at the junction on the busy N72 Mallow to Killarney road bisecting Banteer and Kanturk, which has been the scene of numerous serious and fatal accidents over the years. Established in 1977, Sorensen is one of the country’s leading civil engineering companies, with an impressive track record of complex infrastructural projects under its belt.