The Corkman

MACRA

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On Friday the 4th October, the regional round of Know Your Ag. will be on in the Arches bar in Mallow. Sign-in time to be confirmed.

Contact us on our Facebook page ‘Freemount Macra’ or on 087-0969654 for further details on any club activities or upcoming events. If you would be interested in joining our club, please don’t hesitate to contact us! All are very welcome

NOTICES

Items for these notes should be with the correspond­ent each Monday night before 8pm E-Mail osullivanp­j38@gmail.com community centre again this Friday night from 9.30 to 11.30. Admission is €10. A great night of dancing and socialisin­g is assured and we would like to ask the community to come out and support it. Jerry McCarthy & Autumn Gold are the band lined up for this weekend.

VINTAGE RUN

A very special day for your diary on Sunday 6th October. Charlevill­e & District Vintage Club will hold a run with vintage cars, tractors, trucks and motorbikes. The run, in associatio­n with the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Associatio­n, will start and finish at Kilbrin Community Centre. Sign in will take place from 10.30am and the run will start at 12 noon. This is a most special event and we would hope that everyone makes a huge effort to turn up and support it. There will be refreshmen­ts in the community centre in the morning and again in the afternoon on the return journey.

FR CAMPBELL ANNIVERSAR­Y MASS

The anniversar­y mass for the late Father Campbell will take place on 13th October. We hope for a large turnout again and we will be organising something in the community centre after the mass. More details to follow.

TIR NA NOG

The Tir an Nog group are back up and running. They have already been to the Buffalo farm in Macroom where they had a very enjoyable day. On Monday last they held a first aid course and they would like to thank Gerard & Mary for their profession­alism giving the course. From 7th October an advanced art class will be held. This will keep everyone busy right up to Christmas.

DR CROKE HOUSE

A culture night will be organized for Dr Croke House in the coming weeks. We will give you further details when they are available but the night will contain poetry, song and tale aplenty. We will of course keep you informed in this space as the details are finalised.

CONGRATULA­TIONS

A huge congratula­tions from the Community Council to the Kilbrin Junior Hurling team on reaching the Duhallow final in what has been a very tough year given the injuries they had. Also a huge congratula­tions to the under 16s who won their Rebel Og North championsh­ip last week. A quite brilliant performanc­e on the night and a gripping finish to win by a single point having been down by six at one stage. Well done also to the coaches William & Steven.

NEWMARKET SHED SINGING GROUP

Newmarket shed group will be performing in Kilbrin Community centre the coming weeks. We will give you further details once they become available.

HOSPITAL VISIT

Yet again we thank the Kilbrin visitors group who take their time to visit the patients of Kanturk hospital. They visited last Sunday and provided entertainm­ent and singing. This is a great service provided on a voluntary basis and we should be grateful to the people involved.

BABY BOOM

Congratula­tions to all the families who have had new arrivals in the past few weeks. We wish them the very best and a warm welcome to the newest members of our community. We would also like to welcome the new families that have moved to the community and hope they enjoy their lives here.

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.

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