Muintir Bháire Community Council Newsletter

Issue 28 - www. muintirbhairecc.com - May 2012

 

 

WANTED! NOMINATIONS FOR MAYOR OF MUINTIR BHAIRE PARISH

Muintir Bhaire Foroige Club are seeking nominations for MAYOR of Muintir Bhaire Parish.
We want to honour achievement and celebrate success so that others may be Inspired to follow.

We want to promote one of Muintir Bhaire's greatest assets- our people.

You can nominate anyone whose contribution has singled them out as deserving of recognition or people can nominate a friend who goes far beyond the call of duty in helping and supporting others or the community.

How to submit a nomination:
'Nominees must Jive in the Muintir Bhaire Parish and be aged 18 years or older
Nomination forms can be found in local businesses in the Muintir Bhair Parish or alternatively you can submit the name of your nominee together with their contact details and the reason why they should named Mayor of Muintir Bhaire Parish via email to mbforoigeclub(@)gmail.com

Closing date for nominations — Friday, 27th July 2012

The results will be announced on Sunday, 5th August at the Ahakista Regatta.

 

SAVE THE DATE

Scoraiocht at the Black Gate on Sunday, June 3rd from 7:30pm. Enjoy an evening of interesting storytelling, music and songs by members of the community.

Try your luck in the raffle with spot prizes. Entry fee of €5 includes refreshments. This event
is a fundraiser for the Muintir Bhaire Community Council.

See you there!

 

 

Sheep's Head Easter Run a great success!

THE inaugural Sheep's Head Run took place in ideal weather conditions on Easter Saturday. A total of 331 people took part in this new 10k road race.

An unusual feature was that roughly 54 per cent of those who took part were women, well up on the usual 35 per cent seen in most races.

The winner of the men's race was Don Keohane of Eagle AC in a time of 36:02, while Maura Regan of the same club was the winner in the women's section.

Congratulations are extended to local participants Michael Harrington and Sean Levis who finished seventh and eleventh, respectively.

Full details of the runners and results are available on the 'running in Cork' blog at corkrunning.blogspot.com

The Ahakista Rowing Club wishes to extend its sincere thanks to all the people of the locality who worked so hard to make the event such a resounding success. The club also wishes to thank its sponsors and the participants who came from far and near.

The proceeds of the event will go towards the day-to -day running of the club. Photographs can be seen on the Sheep's Head Easter Run Facebook page.

 

Muintir Bhaire Foroige Club update

MEMBERS of the youth club have been very busy over the past number of months.

Garda Brendan O'Dwyer and Garda Damien White gave a talk at one of our club nights.

Some of our members took part in the Sheep's Head Easter Run and others volunteered to help out with the refreshments.

Our club members helped out at the Easter Egg Hunt and took part in the National Spring Clean beach clean­up in April.

We had a pizza and movie night and we went to Foroige Club discos in Skibbereen and in Clonakilty.

We would like to say a big thank you to the Cork Orienteering Club who kindly offered to show our club what is involved in orienteering and we would also like to say thank you to beautician Catriona McCarthy, beautician, for providing a skincare talk and make­up demonstration for our club members recently.

We are taking a break from our weekly Friday night club nights from the end of April until the beginning of September, but we have a few activities planned for the coming months and these include:

A fundraising, guided walk on the Sheep's Head Way at the end of May (only open to members of Foroige Clubs in West Cork).

Helping out with the Tidy Towns initiatives in our area this year.

Launching the search for the Mayor of Muintir Bhaire Parish in May to honour achievement and celebrate Muintir Bhaire's greatest asset our people! See above for more details.

Plans to build some rafts for the Ahakista Regatta Raft Race. Work will commence on this project in July.

A registration night for members (existing and new) to join the club for 2012/2013 will take place in early September and the weekly club nights will recommence mid-September.

Foroige is the leading youth organisation in Ireland working with some 57,000 young people aged 10—18 years of age through volunteer-led clubs and staff-led projects.

 

Sheep's Head Producers' Market is back!

THE Sheep's Head Producers Market is now in its second year!

The success of the first season was very encouraging and after a winter break there was plenty of renewed enthusiasm to get us going again.

The 2012 season kicked off on Easter Sunday. With the weather staying fine, a good crowd of local residents and tourists enjoyed their browsing and shopping. There was a great range of produce with nine regular stallholders from last year and two new stalls making their debut.

The variety of local produce and crafts is continuing to expand. Currently, we have fresh bread, cakes and home baking (including gluten-free options), jams, sauces and preserves, fresh eggs, veggies, potatoes, potted plants as well as paintings, cards, pottery, and other home-made crafts. A new addition is traditional home-made carrageen milk pudding!

All our stallholders are residents, making or growing their produce on the Peninsula.

The market was originally set up specifically to provide an outlet for locally-produced food or crafts and to encourage small-scale, local enterprise as a source of income.

Last summer's regular events attracted visitors into the area from around West Cork and the market has already enabled a couple of'cottage industry' style ventures to be launched.

As the variety of produce continues to increase, we expect the market to become a popular place to shop every Sunday morning. We're always interested to know what other items people might want to buy. As yet, we don't have any local meat or wide selection of dairy products, so there's definitely the opportunity for someone with initiative to fill the niche.

Contact us through the website www.sheepsheadco -operative.org or phone 0766154941.

The next market will be on the May Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday, May 6th, 11 am-1pm, and then each Sunday through to the autumn.

Find us outside Eileen's Bar in Kilcrohane Village.

 

 

"DIRECTORY*

We are developing a page on the Muintir Bhaire Community Council website
www.muintirbhairecc.com as a directory of local businesses, accommodation and services
on the Peninsula.

If you wish to be included on the website, please send your information to bccnewsletter@gmail.com

Sheep's Head Way — research highlights opportunities for local businesses

 

A RECENT study into walking in West Cork identified a need for more targeted accommodation in the Sheep's Head area for walkers such as B&B and self-catering facilities designed for the needs of such active tourists.

Grants are available from West Cork Development Partnership to help in this provision.

The research indicates there are other opportunities also, for example food premises or accommodation providers offering walker-friendly meal deals and extra-large sandwiches or retailers specialising in outdoor and hiking gear and apparel like gaiters.

See the West Cork Development Partnership website www.wcdp.ie/walking-study/ to view the full research report or contact Jean O'Sullivan at 023 8834035 for more info.

Like the Sheep's Head Way facebook page; the authentic page is THE SHEEPS HEAD WAY.