FROMTHE ARCHIVES
BANTEER BANTEER LYRE GAA
Tickets available for Cork GAA €500k draw – Note the Cork GAA draw for 2021 is now being collected with the first draw in March prizes of €500,000 with monthly first prizes of between €20,000 and €25,000 each month and a December first prize of €100,000 please support as this is an important fundraiser for the Banteer Lyre club. Contact any officer.
Club membership for 2021 is €50 for Adult Members, €30 for Social Members and €30 for Juvenile Players and this can now be paid to any of our Club Officers.
Many thanks and best wishes to you, your families and our GAA Clubs for 2021.
GARDAÍ SERVICE
Kanturk Gardaí service any person who has no means of contacting family members/ friends living away from home or abroad and would like to make video contact with them is welcome to contact Kanturk Garda station and they will arrange to call to your house and organise a video call for you via a garda Ipad.
BANTEER MASSES NOW LIVESTREAMED.
Mass is now being livestreamed from Banteer Church at the following days/times Mon to Sat each day at 10 a.m., Sundays and Holy Days 11.30 a.m., bank holidays 11 a.m. Link as follows churchservices.tv/banteer.
All three parish churches remain open private prayer. The Trócaire boxes and the Lenten Station envelopes are available in all churches.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Hannie O’Connor and Nora Breen, who died recently. May they rest in peace.
Special thanks to all those who continue to support parish finances anyone wishing to make weekly contributions to the parish please continue to do so as all usual expenses must be still paid.
Contact for Fr winter PP 029 56010, 087 6768852 Email banteerparish@gmail.com.
ASSISTANCE AVAILABBLE
Banteer Lyre and Districts Community Council and other community members are available to assist the elderly or vulnerable people during these Covid lockdown times. This help is in the form of picking up shopping, picking up prescriptions etc. Also all neighbors in most areas are willing to help out when asked.
Contact numbers for volunteers are as follows-note other volunteers needed also in all areas and from other local community groups Rory O’Driscoll 086 2557280 Rosie Healy/...Cronin 087 2227841 Denis Withers 087 2820001 Billy Murphy 087 9624858 Garda Katryn Canty/O Connor 087 4140531 Jack Cremin Duinch 087 4141058 Sheila O’Donoghue Knockatuder 086 6837249 John Buckley 087 3204882.
BANTEER TIDY TOWNS
Members spent a lot of their own voluntary time picking litter on all the approach roads over
the last week’s and road users are asked to please not throw your litter out of your car. A number of recent littering offences have been reported.
BANTEER SPORTSFIELD DRAW 2020.
We thank all companies, draw supporters and grant support bodies without whom this project would not have been possible. Next draw will start in April.
TEXT ALERT SYSTEM
Payments of €10 now due to cover service for next couple years-to ensure you continue to receive the service all payments must be made asap to Denis Withers John Buckley or Mary Cahill.
RAILWAY CROSSING WORKS
Well done to Iarnrod Eireann on the upgrade works completed last week at Banteer station railway crossing lead by Teddy Collins and his team.
KILBRIN KILBRIN G.A.A.
Rebel’s Bounty Draw entry date has been extended so sign up now to support Kilbrin G.A.A. and be in with a chance of winning €500,000 worth of prizes over 12 monthly draws with 360 chances to win a prize.
This is also an important fundraiser for the club, and funds raised will be reinvested in the club for the benefit of players and members.
Tickets costing €100 (or €10 per month for 10 months) can be purchased online at (https:// rebelsbounty.ergogroup.ie/prod/ rebelsbounty/join-draw) naming Kilbrin as your club orcontact Tom O’Reilly on 087 2392442 to purchase through the club.
KILBRIN NATIONAL SCHOOL
Enrolment for the 21/22 School year are now being taken. Enrolment forms are available to download on our website..www. kilbrinns.ie or by emailing the school on office@kilbrinns.org.
HELP IS AT HAND IF YOU NEED IT
Anyone suffering from Depression, Bereavement, Self Harm, or any other problem, help is at hand for those who need it. We can put you in contact with a councillor, who will be there to listen and help you. Please contact , Mary on 063 89564 or 087 3162257.
COMMUNITY CENTRE
As you are aware, given the new guidelines in place, Kilbrin Social Club is now closed again for all activities. This could last quite a while and we will of course be observing all of the government guidelines.
USED CLOTHES COLLECTION
Kilbrin National School Parents Association are having a used clothes collection to raise funds.
The funds raised will be used to help fund school activities & facilities throughout the year. So why not have your spring clean out and bag up all those unwanted items and drop them to the Community Centre.
Kilbrin Community Council are supporting this by providing storage facilities for the clothes. You can drop them any time to the outside toilet for the moment which is on the school side of the centre. They will be moved regularly to the storage area in the Centre. Don’t forget to pass the word around to family/friends/ neighbours.
Any questions please contact Parents Association Chairperson, Una Cremin on 087-9286180. If anyone is unsure where to drop please contact Ben on
087 2801908, or Paulina on 086 4097267.
STAY AT HOME AND SAFE
We would urge everyone in the community to stay at home and stay safe. Kilbrin GAA along with members of the Community Council are available to help any vulnerable community members during this current Covid crisis.
Should you need shopping, prescription, fuel or other items collected please do not hesitate to call. If you have issues going out in bad weather for firing be sure to call us. We have volunteers who are more than willing to help you.
Please call Margaret on 087 2741624 or Ben on 087 2801908 and we will get someone to help you at any time. Please do not do without because of the restrictions. Stay home and stay safe.
SCOIL EOIN BAISTE
Many thanks and congratulations to the national school in Kilbrin for their initiatives keeping the children involved.
For those not in the know, the online classes and home schooling are going very well. Children are becoming very computer literate which will stand to them in later years. It is the interaction though that makes the difference. They are getting a chance to speak with their teachers and their classmates and this is something that they really look forward to.
While home schooling is tough on any family it is made a whole lot easier when you know the teachers are helping as much as is possible.
Feedback on the work submitted is always prompt and the children’s reaction to it is instant, and very gratifying to see. It is the small things that matter at times like these so congratulations again to all the staff and hopefully the kids will be back in person in
the very near future.
Of course the school and staff have done far more than arranging the home schooling. Every week there is something new to look forward to. Each child received a personalised valentines card and they have been asked to send in pictures and videos every week. These are put together and posted for everyone to see.
The children get a big uplift from seeing all of these and none more so than the Jerusalema Dance from last week. This was put together as a very fitting tribute to the late dancing Mary Niall O’Sullivan, and what a brilliant tribute. There is no doubt that she is smiling down at this and she would be so proud of the effort everyone put in and the joy it brought.
At time of writing, this dance tribute had around six thousand views which is incredible. Again great work to all involved and on behalf of the whole community a huge thank you to the staff, teachers, students and parents.
REMOTE WORKING/ STUDYING
A grant has been approved from IRD for a remote working/ studying office in the Community Centre with two work-spaces and a commercial printer. Once restrictions are eased we plan to work on it and have it up and running by late Summer. We hope this will be of great benefit to the community when it is up and running and will keep you informed of the progress.
If you are interested in using the facility please contact Ben on 087 2801908 or Paulina on 086 4097267.
WALKING
As the weather improves there are more and more people walking and the Kilbrin area offers beautiful walking. As someone who walks every day there are two things I have noticed. The first is in relation to drivers. We have, in the past asked for people to slow down, especially near the school etc.
In my recent experience I have noticed that the vast majority of drivers have slowed down a lot and are generally driving carefully. For this, thank you, the roads are much safer to walk on. We would ask that as the spring progresses and restrictions are still in place that you continue to show respect for all the people out walking.
The numbers will increase even more as the weather improves and as this is many peoples only journey outside of their homes on a daily basis, we would ask that we all make an effort to ensure it is safe for them.
LITTER
The second thing I noticed unfortunately is not a positive item. There is still a huge amount of litter being thrown out on the side of the road. It is only when you walk that you get to see the quantity of it. We would plead with people to stop this practice. It is a habit that you will not be able to justify to your children in years to come, and certainly not to their children.
The Community Council & Village Renewal group have in the past arranged for collection days where bags and gloves are provided and any litter picked up will be disposed of. We hope to start this again in the coming weeks and will let you know when dates are arranged.
CONDOLENCES
Kilbrin Community would like to offer our sincere condolences to the family of Kathleen O’Keeffe (née Conran), Gurteenard, Kanturk. May she rest in peace.
CONTACT
The community council can be contacted at kilbrincc@gmail. com for any queries. Also the PRO can be contacted directly at Bennymick1968@gmail.com or on 087 2801908 if you have anything of interest for this column. Whether you are at home or abroad we would be delighted to hear from you if you have anything that you would like to share with the wider community.
KILCORNEYDROMTARIFFE CLONBANIN AMBUSH– COMMEMORATION BOOK ON SALE
A new book published by the Clonbanin Ambush Commemoration Committee, tells the story of the Clonbanin Ambush during the War of Independence.
On Saturday the 5th of march 1921, one hundred years ago, columns of I.R.A. men from Millstreet, Newmarket, Charleville and Kerry ambushed a convoy of British military and tans on the road between the Forge Cross and Clonbanin.
The book goes into great detail on the ambush and also gives an account of the Clonbanin Ambush reenactment held on the 31st of may 1970. Copies of the book can be purchased at local retail outlets. It retails at €10.