Competition winners from Fireside 2023
The largest publication to date of The Avondhu’s Fireside Christmas magazine also saw the largest number of prize giveaways, with something to catch the attention of all ages.
Firstly, our children’s colouring competition attracted a good entry and well done to all school children for taking the time to complete their own coloured recreation of Gerard Harris’ front cover. Winner of the €20 goes to 2nd class pupil from Glenahulla NS, Sarah Dunne - well done!
Margaret Roche from Moher Crescent in Mitchelstown will be planning plenty of outings with a canine friend, having been drawn as winner of the versatile DogDry Travel Bed. The onesize-fits-all solution is a useful utility for any dog owner, the travel bed helping to keep cars clean when returning from winter walks, etc.
Four Courts Press were kind enough to once again team up with TheAvondhu, in offering a quality hardback publication for a reader book giveaway. ‘Michael Healy, 1873-1941 An Túr Gloine’s stained glass pioneer’ by David Caron should prove an interesting read for our three winners: Sheila Mullins, Mitchelscourt, Mitchelstown; Margaret Dunlea, Knockananig, Fermoy and Eileen Noonan, Johnstown, Fermoy.
We certainly have a knowledgeable lot reading the Fireside Christmas magazine, judging by the high standard of entries to the annual 100 question quiz, set by quizmaster Jim Lysaght. Topping the charts in 2023 was an Araglin man, congratulations going to Vincent Cahill from Lyreen.
Again, thanks are expressed to sponsor Toss Bryan, Fermoy – Vincent’s house should be spick and span with his Dyson Omni-glide Vacuum! Answers as follows:
Answers Round A (General Knowledge) - 1. The Carpathia; 2. Delilah; 3. WB Yeats; 4. The robin; 5. Sally Field;
6. Barry Fitzgerald;
7. He was the Bard of Armagh; 8. The Beach Boys; 9. Killarney; 10. Thrush.
Answers Round B (First Letters of Answers in Alphabetical Order) - 1. Apricot;
2. Beeton; 3. Caesar; 4. Drone; 5. Eastman; 6. Finisterre; 7. Galileo; 8. Hereward; 9. Iraq; 10. Jungfrau.
Answers Round C (A Mixed Lot) - 1. The Thomas Crown Affair;
2. Crystal Palace; 3. William Goldman; 4. The African Queen; 5. Edwin Landseer; 6. Prince;
7. France; 8. West Side Story; 9. Thomas More; 10. Saint Brigid.
Answers Round D (All Kinds Of Everything) - 1. Lightening; 2. Fox; 3. Blue or sometimes black;
4. Kerry; 5. Wheat; 6. Iona; 7. The Little Mermaid; 8. Frozen food; 9.
Two; 10. Advance Australia Fair.
Answers Round E (An 'Easish' round!) - 1. Cocaine; 2. Thomas Hood; 3. A whale; 4. The camel; 5. Machu Picchu;
6. Natalie Portman; 7. Ecuador; 8. The Haka; 9. The New Year; 10. Gauchos.
Answers Round F (The Great Outdoors) - 1. Madra Uisce; 2. Sycamore; 3. Red; 4. The Lakes of Killarney; 5 Bamboo; 6. Spark; 7. Yes; 8. Snapdragons; 9. Talon; 10. The Coyote.
Answers Round G (Famous Books and writers) - 1. David Copperfield; 2. Alive in Wonderland; 3. The Joad family; 4. Thomas Hardy; 5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; 6. Jumble; 7. War and Peace; 8. To Kill a Mockingbird; 9. Meg, Beth, Amy and Jo; 10.Enid Blyton.
Answers Round H (Pot Luck) - 1. Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar; 2. Turkey; 3. Jacob Marley;
4. St Stephen; 5. Norway; 6. Pauline Fowler’s body; 7. Advent; 8. 1914;
9. Epiphany; 10. Raymond Briggs.
Answers Round I – (Entertainment) - 1. Taylor Swift; 2. Elton John; 3. Celebration;
4. The Woman in Me;
5. Greta Gerwig; 6. Michelle Yeoh; 7. Netflix; 8. A Man called Otto; 9. Creed III; 10. Air.
Round J (Head Melters) - 1. The fish; 2. The Crusades; 3. Japanese (empty orchestra); 4. Zither; 5. 1858; 6. 19; 7. Mayo; 8. Ring; 9. The Pogues; 10 New Jersey.