Banteer
COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS
Banteer Lyre and Districts Community Council Elections will take place during April. The Community Council is a locally elected body and is involved in items such as Public lighting improvements, Road improvements, Council plans, social alarms, Broadband, defibrillators and issues of local concern etc. Nomination forms are available now in Banteer PO, Banteer Church, Lyre Church and Lyre Hall from 13th Feb until 1st March -please nominate who you wish and please return the forms to the boxes at these locations before Fri 1st March.
Candidates will be elected from the Banteer /Lyre/Nadd area and townlands of Banteer West, Banteer Village, Gortmore, Derry, Gurrane, Knockbrack, Knocktouder, Fortgrady, Dromcommer, Clonmeen, Gouganes, Inchdaly, Shronebeha, Duinch, Fermoyle, Curraghrougher, Coolroebeg, Glen North and Kilavoy,Charlesfield, Curraigue, Kilmacrane, Muiygrogeen, Tooreen, Glensouth, Coolroemore, Nadd, Inchamay, Glentaneatnach, Knock, Lyre, Nadd Beg, Derrygowna, Monaveel, Esk, Glenaharee, Glenaknockane and Caheraveelane.
Nominators and nominees must be over 18 years of age.
The Community Council is an important community group within the area and elected members will be involved in various community improvement projects.
GAA CLUB MEMBERSHIP
Banteer & Lyre GAA Club membership is due now -Membership for Full Members is €50. Juvenile Members is €30 & Social Members is €30
TIDY TOWNS AGM
The Banteer Tidy Towns AGM is on Mon 18th Feb at 8pm at Banteer Community Centre
DUMPING
Some disgraceful dumping occurred near Banteer Community Sportsfield gate with 3 bags rubbish dumped there and rubbish all over the area
It has been reported to Cork County Council antilitter groupand the Litter warden has kindly visited the location and is investigating same.
Cork County Council welcome any info on same and are checking CCTV cameras and other info in the area-any info please report to any Officer or Cork County Council
THANK YOU
Deirdre Leahy would like to thank all those who despite snow and ice generously supported her recent Coffee Morning in Lyre in aid of the HOPE Foundation
BANTEER LYRE FOROIGE
Banteer Lyre Foroige would like to congratulate Kate Foley on being elected as a Cork North and West Representative on the Foroige Members National Panel and also congrats to Gerard Leahy on being elected to the Foroige National Council as a County Cork representative.
BANTEER MACRA
Sports night continues on Wednesday nights at 8pm in the Community Centre in Banteer, €2pp. New people are always welcome to come along, join in and find out what else the club gets up to.
MOUNT HILLARY AC
Registration fee is €30 for the year you can drop it at the Post office/shop in Banteer, put €30 in an envelope with your name on it, new members will also need date of birth and phone number.
BINGO
Banteer Bingo jackpot is now €2500 with bingo on Tues 8.30pm.
Kilbrin 45 DRIVE
45 drive continues every Wednesday night at 9pm. Please come along and enjoy the evening. Just turn up on the night and you we will make sure everyone is sorted with a playing partner.
BINGO
Bingo every Monday night from 8.30. Jackpot is EUR 1,950 on 49 calls. Bonus ball is EUR 80. Please come along and enjoy a night of Bingo in a great atmosphere.
POKER NIGHT
The social club host a poker night every Friday night at 9pm. A league table is also starting which adds another element. Very enjoyable evening to be had and the local bus is running so call Anthony Ahern if you are interested.
Coffee Morning in aid Burren Chernobyl Project
A coffee morning was be held in the community centre last Sunday 3rd February. Local girl Aoidhe Sheill, Siobhan O’Flynn, Katie O’Connor & Isabelle Taylor of the will be travelling to Belarus to volunteer with the Burren Chernobyl project where they will work in the orphanages. Some of the work done by this charity was on display on Sunday morning and it is safe to say it is incredible.
They would like to thank the community for turning up and supporting this worthy cause. The girls and their families had a great spread laid out and it was a very enjoyable morning. We in the community council would like to wish the girls every success in the remainder of their fundraising efforts and indeed the trip itself.
CROKE ROVERS AGM
The AGM of Croke Rovers GAA Club was held last Friday night in front of a large attendance. Both secretary and treasury reports were given in detail. A very good year was had and a silver benchmarking status was achieved for 2018. A special thanks to John Hourigan for his efforts in obtaining this status. We look forward to another successful year in 2019. Election of officers for 2019 are as follows. Chairman, Shane O Riordan. Secretary, Denise Jones. Treasurer, Michael O’Riordan.
DANCING
Julie Nolan’s school of dancing travelled to the South Court hotel in Limerick last weekend. Well done to all that competed and they brought home numerous honours. They are travelling again next weekend and we wish them the very best of luck.
O60S SINGING COMPETITION
Kilbrin has been nominated to host the heats of the over 60s singing competition for all of north cork. Anyone interested in competing please contact Claire Buttimer. See photo. More details to follow on this column.
ATHLETICS
Congratulations to Anna O’Sullivan, Corbally, daughter of Mairead & Morty who competed in the Irish Life Health All Ireland U-11 Cross Country Athletics Championships in Dundalk IT on Sunday last 3rd February. Anna came 16th out of a field of 112 girls and secured two gold medals, one for coming first with her club North Cork A.C. and one for being part of the successful county result. Anna has only been running since last September and this is a great achievement considering the short time she had been involved. We wish Anna and the North Cork A.C. continued success for the remainder of the season and will keep you updated in this column.
TIR NA NOG
The Tir na nog group has completed their art course and it has been a great success. They are moving on to other projects that have been in the pipeline. They are meeting again next Monday at 10.30. Anyone interested please contact the secretary, chairperson or indeed any member for further details.
GRAVEYARD
Spring is upon us and we are looking to clean up our graveyard and keep it up to the standard that we would all like. Some members of the normal team have retired in the last year. As a result we are looking for volunteers to join the team for 2019. If anyone is interested in taking part please contact John Corkery at 087 2550340 or any other member of the committee.
TRAFFIC CALMING
In the coming weeks work will commence on the traffic calming measures through the village. We would ask that everyone show due care and patience while this work is ongoing. This will be of great benefit to the village once complete and make it much safer for residents and especially the school children.
CONFIRMATION
Confirmation will be held in Kilbrin Wednesday 27th February. We would like to have the village looking its best and we would ask everyone to make an effort to clean up their own area. Of course we should not have to ask anyone to clean up someone else’s rubbish but we find ourselves doing so because of the thoughtless behaviour of a few. In that regard we would plead with whoever is throwing rubbish out of their cars to stop and think. Someone has to come along and pick this stuff up. This is 2019, and it is in no way acceptable to throw rubbish on our ground or any other ground.
PLAYGROUND
Thanks to everyone that contributed to the playground fundraising. This project will begin very shortly and will be of great benefit for the whole community.
GROTTO CROSS
As you may have noticed the wall has been erected and we are looking to put features on it. As usual we are looking to the public for ideas so if anyone has ideas for features please contact the Kilbrin Community Council PRO on the below details.
CONDOLENCES
The Kilbrin Community Council would like to offer our sincere condolences to the O’Leary family and the Buckley family on the recent death of Maureen Cullinane. We would also like to offer our sincere condolences to the family of Nellie Barrett Kanturk. We would also like to offer our sincere condolences to the family of Andy Walsh Nadd. We would also like to offer our sincere condolences to the family of Con O’Donovan Churchtown. May they rest in peace.
CONTACT DETAILS
The community council can be contacted at kilbrincc@gmail. com if you have any queries.
Also the PRO can be contacted directly at Bennymick1968@ gmail.com 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 community at large. Thanks to everyone that has contributed to date.