Corrib News March 2014

Corrib News Online Community Newsletter

ISSUE 02 MARCH 2014

10th Anniversary Oughterard St Patrick’s Day Parade

Shane and Aaron’s Jailbreak

GAA Social Night

Club Round Ups!

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Corrib News Monthly Community Newsletter ISSUE 02 March 24th 2014

Inside this issue:

March Wednesday 26th GAA training starting for Un-

derage teams

Friday 28th. Table Quiz in aid of Kilcummin

Church tree felling Breathnach's Bar 9.30 p.m.

Saturday 29th Corrib AC 8k Run like the Win

Saturday 29th— 30th Boxing Connacht Champi-

onships . Oughterard Community Centre com-

mencing @ 11:00 am

Sunday 30th Oughterard GAA registration day

12pm—2pm.

April Sunday 6th Oughterard Anglers and Boat-

men’s Association Present the Bartley

McGauley Cup Competition

10:30-6:00pm.

Monday April 7th. Deadline for submissions to

Corrib News Print edition.

April 10th AGM for The Oughterard Court-

house Conservation and Heritage Company

7:30pm Breathnach’s .

April 12th First Holy Communion

Saturday 19th— Ras Sportif Fahertys Bar from

8:30am cycle commencing at 10:00. Entry is

€25.

The Corrib News is published by a group of volunteers

as a service to the community. It is an open access

publication and will generally carry any material sub-

mitted to it as long as it is not potentially libellous or

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corrections once we become aware of them.

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS THE 7th

OF APRIL

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10th Annual Oughterard St. Patricks Day Parade 4

Cupla Focal 6

Oughterard is Happy 7

Oughterard St. Patricks Day Photos 8

Jailbreak 12

Pan Celtic National Song Contest 14

Oughterard Jumble Sale 15

Oughterard’ Community Games 16

Mental Health Traffic Lights 18

Stress—Part 1 24

Scoil Chuimín & Caitriona News 20

Nuacht ó Scoil Muire Doireglinne 21

Only Joking 22

Lets Get Cooking 23

An Emigrants Story - Newfy Life 24

Oughterard Heritage- Keoghs Travelling Shop 26

Anglers Report 28

Notices 29

Corribdale Park Update 30

Local Clubs Round up 31

GAA Social Awards 36

Connemara Breastfeeding Support Group 38

The Last Word 44

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Editorial Welcome back to the second edition of Corrib News E-zine.

St. Patrick’s Day on the streets of Oughterard was a fantastic spectacle to behold. Enthusiastic crowds

lined the streets to see what delights the parade committee had in store for them on this their 10th an-

niversary parade. And they were not disappointed, with submarines, gorillas on wrecking balls, I’m a

Local get me outta here, circus groups, Séan Nós, hip-hop and line dancers, there really was something

for everyone! And it was great to see the local school band back leading the parade again this year, well

done to all the pupils and staff who took part. Read our interview with Nuala Joyce from the parade

committee on page 4 and enjoy the wonderful pictures of the event sent in by our contributors, they

really captured the colour and spirit of the day.

There was a surprise for many in the shape of the “Oughterard is Happy” video—a great idea and one

that really saw the community get behind the initiative, we can’t wait to see the finished product. You

can read about the shooting of the video on page 7.

Congratulations to all involved on a truly wonderful family event it was great to see such a buzz in the

town on the day.

Of course our patron saint’s day is also a time to remember our family and friends abroad, with this in

mind we asked Nuala Casey to write us a paragraph or two about her new life in Canada. (See page 22)

Now that the revelry of St. Patrick’s Day is behind us for another year, we are looking forward to Easter

and the end of Lent. We are delighted to report that Easter will also bring with it the first paper edition

of Corrib News. We aim to have the first publication in the shops by April 18th in time for the Easter

break. So make sure to get your articles to us at [email protected] before April 4th which is the

deadline for submissions. Adverts can be placed and details of the pricing is available on page 34 as well

as on our website www.corribnews.webs.com.

We are delighted with the readership that the first online edition has enjoyed. Amazingly we had 741

readers from more that 20 countries worldwide on our first edition, from Porridgetown to Pakistan!

Here’s hoping the second edition reaches as wide an audience! We hope you enjoy it.

You can contact us on [email protected] to submit articles, photos and items for the ‘Social Diary’.

Corrib News Oughterard Parade Day collage Cover Photo by Jess Walsh, Oughterard

Square Panorama taken by Paul McGrath

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10th Annual Oughterard St. Patrick’s Day Parade Katy Conneely

The Oughterard 10th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade

was a huge success this year and possibly the biggest

and most ambitious parade held in the village to date.

The parade is organized by a four person committee :

Nuala Joyce, Rory Clancy, Regina O’Toole and Alison

O’Toole.

Shortly after the St. Patrick’s Day parade, our reporter

Katy Conneely met with committee member Nuala

Joyce to ask her a few questions.

How did you initially get involved with the

St. Patrick’s Day parade committee?

Accidentally! I was involved with the social club in the

factory at the time, when Aidan Murphy decided to

start the parade. He called all of the committees and

organisations in the town and invited them to come

to a meeting in the Corrib Hotel. They got a letter at

the factory, and the committee said to me, “Are you

doing anything on a Tuesday night? Would you go to

this meeting?”. So, that’s how I got involved. Rory

Clancy was on that first committee too.

That was ten years ago?

Yeah, the very first parade we had was in March

2005. This year was the tenth parade. It’s unbelieva-

ble that it’s gone on so long. The sad side is that when

we first started, we had a long list of businesses in the

village and that number has really decreased. But the

groups, organisations and sport clubs have gotten

bigger and better over the years, which is a great

thing. There is so much going on in Oughterard, and

the St Patrick’s Day parade is the one day when all

these groups can come out and show us what they’re

doing.

It’s also free publicity, because we don’t charge. In-

stead the committee fundraises for the parade. This

year we had to go back to the businesses and ask

them for funding, because there’s only a core group

of five of us. Four of us on the committee: Myself,

Rory Clancy, Regina O’Toole, and Alison O’Toole. But

there is also John McDonagh, who we really and truly

could not do without. The committee was always a

small group, but at the moment membership is at its

lowest. We are always looking out for new people

with new ideas. No matter how small an idea they

have. We don’t exclude anybody.

What are the pros and cons of being involved in the

committee?

Being out there on the day. Once the parade gets on

the move, once it starts coming down Main Street

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10th Annual Oughterard St. Patrick’s Day Parade Katy Conneely

and you see the Grand Marshal coming with the flag,

and all of the groups, it’s a great feeling. As long as

nobody gets injured, and that the traffic is moving

pretty smoothly.

I suppose the con is that you’re out there in the pub-

lic eye! There is a lot of stuff to be aware of, and to

think about. There is so much to do before the day of

the actual parade. It’s getting the truck together, and

the organising. But every year it’s getting easier and

easier because we’re now getting to the stage where

we’ve got all the contacts needed. You keep your

friends close but your contacts closer!

This year’s parade was a great success. There was a

great turn-out!

It was brilliant. There seems to be a lot of positive

feedback. We want to hear the criticisms too though.

If someone thinks we need to do something different,

if we don’t know we can’t do anything about it. We

want to hear the good stuff and the bad!

You also had the National Anthem as part of the

festivities this year. Why?

Rory (Clancy) had this idea. Down through the years

of the parade, we’ve never done the National An-

them. A few of our Grand Marshals have passed

away, and a couple of them had been on the com-

mittee, and because it was the tenth year of the

parade. It was a way of saying thank you and remem-

bering them. There have also been committee mem-

bers that have come and gone on to other things.

Without their input, this wouldn’t be what it is.

We also had Aidan (Murphy) as our Grand Marshal,

who came up with the idea of the parade all those

years ago. Denis (Geoghegan) and Gerry (Darcy), who

sang the anthem, had played at that very first parade

too, and Gerry was MC. So it was all a sort of reunion!

And for people who might want to get involved next

year?

We will be having our AGM in the next month or two.

There’ll be posters advertising that, and we have a

Facebook page too. We’ll make sure that the word is

out there.

And finally...

We just want to say a big thank you to everybody,

because without them there’d be no parade. There’s

no point in having a truck out there, all decorated,

judges organised and music, with the street cordoned

off and everything, if people don’t come.

From year one, the floats have been great. The pro-

gression, and the amount of work and effort and

money that people put in, to make our parade bigger

and better, it’s brilliant. And seeing the kids, coming

out, and being there and just to see how proud they

are, to walk in front of their community. That’s what

we want. We want our parade to be a day to cele-

brate what we have in Oughterard, and the surround-

ing areas.

Hopefully that will continue.

Thanks to Nuala for taking the time to answer my

questions.

Congratulations to all involved!

Make sure to like their page at www.facebook.com/

pages/Oughterard-St-Patricks-Day-

Parade/1377668475842309

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oughterard-St-Patricks-Day-Parade/1377668475842309



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Oughterard is “Happy” Tara Ní Argadáin.

I wanted to write a quick

note to say thank you to

everyone who helped us out

while making the 'Oughterard

is Happy' video. Thanks to

Sean Clancy and all at the

Boxing club, thank you to the

Rugby club, the Golf club and

to all the businesses that

took part. Ye were all great

sports!

Centra, Welbys, Faherty’s,

Breathnach’s and The Boat

Inn were fantastic and really

got into the spirit of the pro-

ject — there are some amaz-

ing dancers behind the tills of

this town!

Thank you to Mark Skuce for

his brilliant Séan Nós danc-

ing, he is a very talented 13

year old.

Thank you to Kamal, Carol,

Mark, and all at Supermacs

for organising the salsa danc-

ing, and of course thank you

to everyone for joining in at

the parade! It was wonderful

to see everyone, both young

and old out enjoying the

spectacle!

Not forgetting the parade

committee who were so co-

operative with the whole

idea, special thanks to Nuala

'the networker' Joyce for all

her help.

Last but not least a huge

thanks to those who made it

possible, Sinéad 'Oh I know

who to ask about that'

Grimes and to Oisin

'freelance' Mac Coille for all

the brilliant camera work.

Apologies to all those busi-

nesses that we didn't or

couldn't get around to—we

just didn't have the man

power.

Although rumour has it that

there is talk of a sequel!

“Oughterard is Ecstatic!”.

We had a lot of people asking

'What is it for?' along the

way. The simple answer real-

ly is just to help showcase

what Oughterard has to offer.

Even in a small way if this

video clip can help to get

Oughterard some publicity,

however small, it may help.

After all it's not what your

community can do for you

but what you can do for your

community.

Míle buíochas,

Tara & the Happy Crew!

Photos Tara Hargaden

The Happy Golfers!

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Oughterard 10th Annual Parade Photo Selection—Jess Walsh

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Oughterard 10th Annual Parade Photo Selection—Tara Hargaden

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Oughterard 10th Annual Parade Photo Selection—Sandra O’Farrell-Casey

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Oughterard 10th Annual Parade Photo Selection—Tom Broderick

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Aaron and Shane’s Jailbreak Katy Conneely

Last month, local NUIG stu-

dents, Aaron Molloy and

Shane Tierney, took part in

Jailbreak 2014. They raised

over €1000 for their selected

charities.

They recently answered some

questions about their experi-

ence.

What is Jailbreak?

“Jailbreak is a national student

charity weekend, where students

from Ireland’s Universities have 36 hours

to get as far away as possible from their

starting point in Kilmainham Gaol, without

using any of their own money on travel.

Teams were allowed to seek sponsorship

from companies and businesses before the

weekend began. Money was raised for the

charities before and after the adventure

started”.

And why did you decide to get in-

volved?

“We thought it was a great opportunity to

fundraise for charity and see the world at

the same time”.

Had you decided on a destination be-

fore the trip?

“No, we had no set plan, but we intended

on heading in the direction of Istanbul or

Dubai. We had a small amount of money

raised, which was donated by multiple

sponsors so we knew we would be able to

get out of Dublin. We decided to just check

how much flights would be to the States

last minute and to our surprise we found a

flight to New York within our budget. We

had 45 minutes to book our tickets, register

for the visas and make it to the check in.

We legged it, got to the gate with minutes

to spare and got on our way to the USA.

First stop was Heathrow, then Newark”.

Did you get a lot of support from peo-

ple, both in the community and further

abroad?

“The amount of support we got from the

local community, from the generous

strangers we encountered and from the

lovely staff of British Airways was unbeliev-

able. At Dublin airport itself people were so

generous. United Airlines staff gathered

together €50 between them and another

random woman donated the last €20. We

couldn’t believe it”.

“A coffee morning was also organised prior

to the trip and a huge amount of money

was raised for the charities. We are so

grateful to Dermot, Lin and staff in Breath-

nach’s Bar for hosting the coffee morning

and for their continued support on our

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Aaron and Shane’s Jailbreak Katy Conneely

adventure. We would also like to thank all

the people who came along and supported

the coffee morning. The charities were:

St Vincent de Paul, Amnesty International

and Draiocht. Also the support from our

friends both in Oughterard and in college

was phenomenal and we are very grateful”.

Was there any ‘standout’ moment from

the trip?

“It was an amazing experience, but the

highlight was probably the top of the Em-

pire State Building. We just about man-

aged to make it there for the deadline. We

were proud and delighted to have gotten

as far as we did. By then, Jailbreak was

over, and having come 2nd

place in NUIG,

we were delighted. We had some time to

explore New York and we certainly packed

a 5 day holiday into 36 hours!”.

Any advice for students thinking of get-

ting involved next year?

“If we were to give any advice to students

participating in Jailbreak next year, we’d

say, don’t think about it any further and just

do it. It was an unbelievable experience.

We would also advise that the participants

enjoy the whole experience and don't make

plans. Just go with it”.

For more on the boys’ adventures check

out their Facebook page on

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shane-

and-Aaron-jailbreak14/718729521479792

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T he Pan Celtic National Song Contest is an all-Ireland song contest

which is held annually to find Ire-land’s entry for the Pan Celtic International Song Contest. Mu-sic and lyrics must be newly composed with all entries ‘as Gaeilge’. Genres from tradition-al to pop and country to rock fea-ture. There were 48 songs en-tered in the competition this year and from this 19 finalists were invited to take part in the final in Carlow. The panel of judges included Aonghus McAnally, Mi-chael Sands of the famous Sands Family and Grainne Ni Fhinneachta from the RTE En-tertainment department. Ought-erard local, Patrick Conneely and Colette Nic Aodha won a prize and a trophy for their newly composed song, “Scáth ar Uisce”, which featured lyrics by Colette and music composed by Patrick. Patrick, who per-formed the song in the competi-tion, was awarded a prize for best young performer. Colette Nic Aodha was born in Shrule, Co. Mayo. She studied Irish and History in NUIG where she received a B.A. degree and an M.A. in Irish. She works as a secondary school teacher and is currently teaching in Coláiste Muire, Tourmakeady. She won a prize for her poetry at the Dun Laoghaire poetry festival in 1993. She edited two antholo-gies of her students’ poetry in 2006 and 2011. She had a film script shortlisted in a script writ-ing competition in 2009. Colette has published 11 collec-tions of her poetry in Irish and English, and is currently com-pleting work on her latest book

which will be published this year. She currently resides in Galway. Patrick is a secondary school student at St. Paul's Sec-ondary School , Oughterard. He has been singing and playing guitar since primary school. He performed at The Volvo Ocean Race in 2012. He is a member of the “Beatclub” a music youth initiative in Oughterard.

Pan Celtic National Song Contest

Patrick Conneely and Colette Nic Aodha pictured at the Pan Celtic National Song Contest which took place in Carlow on 8th March.

Oughterard Show Society

The Oughterard

Show Society

would like to

thank everyone

who attended the

Table Quiz on Fri-

day 7th March in

Breathnach’s Bar Oughterard

There was a good turnout on the night and it was

a great success. We would also like to thank eve-

ryone who bought tickets for the Hamper Draw

and the lucky winner was Betty Gibbons, Oughter-

ard.

Congrats Betty!

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Oughterard Jumble Sale Demelza Gibbons

S unday March 2nd saw the first Indoor Craft Fair and

Jumble Sale take place in Scoil Chuimín agus Caitriona . Many wonderful stalls and tables were on display,

Aloe Vera stalls, Funky Art stall, Candy Cart, Home-made baking from Margo DeLapp who also had her very own hat display. Margo can make head pieces to order so feel free

to shop local coming up to the Galway Races ladies!

The children had a great time with our special guests from

MnM Castles, Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Sponge Bob. MnM Castles, a new company set up in Leterrmore provide mascots and bouncing castles. It was great to see families

out with their children taking photos, browsing the stalls and enjoying some music courtesy of DJ Mike Gibbons. Kids were

laughing and dancing, having their pictures taken, getting their faces painted and eating some lovely biscuits and cakes made by Catherine McNamara, AnnMarie Gibbons and An-

nette Tierney who all kindly donated the funds towards the school. Sinead Grimes held a raffle on the day and profit also

went towards the school. Molly Watts took to centre stage

and showed us all her Irish Dancing skills.

Community sprit was at an all time high that day and it was great to see the event well supported by the community. People enjoyed the shopping as well as finding out information from our local businesses. The Boat Inn had a beautiful table set

up displaying menus for upcoming Communions and Confirmations, The Corrib Gym had a table supplying us with information on classes they hold, membership and healthy eating, Un-

islim and Tantrum and Oughterard Courthouse Project had tables giving people advice and information. Not forgetting all the stalls who had their

tables filled with bargains such as toys, clothes, shoes,

household items and paint-

ings.

It was a fantastic day overall

and I'd like to thank every-body involved and to all in

the community who came on the day. I hope you all en-joyed the day. I handed a

Cheque to the Principal of Oughterard National School

for €770.00 so I hope this helps in some way!

The next Indoor Craft Fair and Jumble Sale will be in June, date and venue to be confirmed by April, if anybody would

like to book a table please contact me on 087-6695713 or through Facebook at www.facebook.com/

ps/289029251249101/?fref=ts

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Oughterard Community Games Ann Watts

Oughterard Community Games is

up and running for the coming year

2014. There are a few changes

from the County Board this year,

so we will try to keep you in the

picture!

This year, the closing date for en-

tries to all competitions is May

12th; this includes art, swimming,

athletics, team sports etc. All

county competitions must take

place between May 12th and June

24th.

There is no date for the Art yet,

but the venue will be Holy Rosary

College, Mountbellew, as usual,

sometime after May 12th, it is al-

ways a Saturday morning.

Our area competition in art took

place in February. Well done to all

who entered,. You can see the won-

derful pictures overleaf. We will

be in touch before the county

competition in May to see who

would like to go forward and rep-

resent Oughterard!

Swimming will be June 15th in Tu-

am Swimming Pool. Swimming con-

sists of a competitor having the

choice of freestyle, backstroke or

breaststroke, and the distance is

2 lengths of a 25m pool. The age

categories are under 8, under 10,

under 12, under 14 and under 16.

We do not run a competition for

this, as we no longer have a pool in

Oughterard, but anyone interested

in entering, let us know before

May 12th.

Our Athletics Day Competition will

be Sunday April 27th, at the GAA

grounds in Corribdale. Many

thanks to the GAA for their sup-

port and the use of the pitch. The

county finals for athletics will be

the June bank holiday weekend in

Ballindereen, Sunday and Monday.

Team competitions for Gaelic, Bas-

ketball, and Hurling will run in a

blitz form between areas compet-

ing. The Gaelic and Hurling final

will be June 8th in Ball-

indereen. All finals in Team com-

petitions will be completed by June

24th.

All children resident in the parish

are eligible to enter one team

event and one individual event. I

will not post entries until all our

competitions are over, so that chil-

dren can choose if they want to

enter art or athletics or swimming

etc., if they have qualified for

more than one.

Children must be underage on July

31st of 2014. In individual events,

we can send two children per age

group to compete at county level.

Should the same child win a num-

ber of events, they will be given

the choice of which one they would

like to enter; then the second

place winner will also go forward.

It is often the case that the third

place winner can go forward too, if

the first and second choose dif-

ferent events. We will keep you

informed.

Finally, Catherine Faherty and I

are planning to retire from Com-

munity Games at the end of this

year. We are putting the call out

now to anyone who would like to

take over. In years gone by there

was a large committee involved in

community games in Oughterard

and it has always been a great and

enjoyable tradition for the chil-

dren in our parish. However, when

the old committee retired, no one

was willing to take over, and a re-

sult there was no community games

in Oughterard for three to four

years. Catherine and I started up

again in 2009, as a committee of

two! We had great help and sup-

port from the previous committee

who showed us the ropes, and we

would like to do the same now for

someone else. There really is not

too much to do, and if a committee

of two can keep it going, we feel

sure it will go from strength to

strength. There are now so many

young families in our community

with children interested in taking

part.

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There is something for everyone in Community Games, it is not all sport;

there is art, chess, table quizzes etc. as well as lots of sporting events. It

only takes a couple of people to keep it going and we are willing to guide

you through the first year with as much support as you need.

So PLEASE somebody contact us if you are interested!

Oughterard Community Games has a Facebook page, please like and share it and it will keep you up to date

with what is happening. Many thanks to everyone for your support.

Anne Watts

Oughterard Community Games Ann Watts

Kathryn O’Connor 1st place under 10 Eanna Maloney 1st place under 8

Jasmine Fleming 1st place under 14 Eimear McNamara 1st place under 12

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Mental Health Traffic Lights Fiona Kennedy

We all have mental health, so equally we can all have mental ill health. From time to time, we may struggle more than we’d like, and so need to look for help to see us through. The problem is, it often isn’t clear at what point we need to speak up and look for that help. So, here’s where the traffic lights come in. Initially this idea came to me from a reader of my blog, something she had come up with as a means of judging how she was doing and whether or not intervention was needed. I adapted it for myself, and have found myself more than once needing to refer back to it. While I recognise that green is my ideal, I’m often yellow. When I’m yellow, I need to be more mindful of what I’m doing to look after myself, and the direc-tion my thought processes are taking. For me, the things that really work are peace and quiet, walking with my dogs, running, yoga, or hooking up with a friend for a chat. I should also point out that while I know

these things help, the more yellow I get, the harder they become, which is why I really need to be aware of how I’m doing all the time. If I head into orange, or worse, red, then that’s when I need to ask for help, because I can’t manage the situation on my own any more. Once I get to orange I'm in very dangerous territory and unless I manage myself really carefully (or more to the point at this stage, Hub-by, friends, Therapist help me manage) I cross over into red. Red is bad, very, very bad. For me, this has been an extremely useful tool, because it allows me to see very quickly when things are getting out of hand, something I have tended not to notice until it’s too late in the past. While these examples are specific to me, they could be easily adapted for any-one who is struggling with their mental health. So there you have it. Feel free to make it your own! Fiona blogs at http://sunnyspellsandscatteredshowers.blogspot.ie/. She is also an Ambassador for See Change, the national partnership for stigma reduction, and is on facebook and twitter (@sunnyscattered)

GREEN

Calm, mindful, con-trolled - at peace with myself

Able to focus

Able to multitask with-out feeling pressured or frantic

Happy, lots of energy (assuming kids co-operate and let me sleep)

Clear head

Feeling optimistic about the future, trusting my-self to make decisions

Motivated, both at work and at home

Want to look after my-self - eat well, exercise. Cooking isn't a chore

Looking forward to fami-ly time instead of panick-ing about how I'll fill the weekend

More open

Softer - Hubby finds me easy to be around, I han-dle the kids much better

Want to see friends

Know that I need medi-cation and counselling, that neither is causing a problem

YELLOW

Less energy

Mind races

Decisions need to be made now, this very mi-nute!!

More easily frustrated if the house is messy, kids act up

Easily distracted

Anxious

Waspy, irritable

Want more time alone

Start to withdraw from friends

Sleep is less restful

Less inclined to eat well or exercise

Cooking becomes a chore

Start to feel under pres-sure for time

My inner critic puts in the odd appearance

Feel guilty for all of the above

ORANGE

Things are starting to get out of

control

There's not enough time for everything so I get stuck and can't do anything

Overwhelmed easily

Anxious

I'm f.i.n.e.

Find it hard to sit still

Concentration shot to bits

Need to have order around me

Irritated by noise - kids, tv, dogs barking, washing ma-chine—all too much (particularly if these are all happening at the same time)

Very busy head. Generally difficult to pick out what my thoughts are, just lots at the same time.

Very forgetful

Tired

Very irritable and snappy, on a short fuse

At some level I'm aware I need

to slow down and try and turn this around, but it's getting increasingly hard to do it

Motivation for anything very low

Losing perspective

Work is a struggle

Hard to sleep

Inner critic is very loud

Meds aren't working

Over-reliant on Therapist

RED

Inner critic is the only thing I can hear

Overwhelmed by everyday tasks

I want to run away, I feel trapped

Impatient. Everything needs to happen now, right now, this very minute!

Mood can be anything from numb to blind rage to ex-tremely low

Crying, shouting, angry, picking fights

Perspective is gone

Motivation is gone

I blame Hubby for per-ceived problems

Black and white thinking - I'm always like this, it's never going to go away, we're always fighting.

Urges to self harm, suicidal thoughts

Completely withdrawn from everyone - Hubby, kids, family, friends. I just want to be left alone.

If left alone, I'll sit and stare at nothing for hours

Want to stop seeing Thera-pist while at the same time desperately want to talk to her

Want to stop taking meds

Hospital

http://sunnyspellsandscatteredshowers.blogspot.ie/

http://www.facebook.com/SunnySpellsAndScatteredShowers

http://sunnyspellsandscatteredshowers.blogspot.ie/2013/07/im-fine.html

http://sunnyspellsandscatteredshowers.blogspot.ie/search/label/transference

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Stress—Part 1 Helena Martin

I come across a lot of people suffering from stress

related illnesses, varying from muscle tension to

more serious debilitating conditions. Most of the time

people are aware of what it causing their stress but

just don’t know how to avoid it or manage it and

sometimes people are reluctant to admit that they

are suffering from the effects of stress.

Stress is something that is often talked about,

whether in the course of private conversation or in

the media and the word itself has different meanings

for different people. What one person finds stressful

the next person might see as an exciting challenge.

There are several definitions of stress but the two

that I find the most useful are the UK’s Health &

Safety Executive’s definition that stress is “the adverse reaction a person has to excessive pres-

sure or other types of demands placed on them” and the second is “stress occurs when pressure

exceeds your perceived ability to cope”.

We all need a certain degree of pressure to function and we function at our optimum when we

experience the right amount of pressure. This is what makes us more creative, stimulated, deci-

sive and alert. We begin to feel stressed when we are under what we perceive as too much pres-

sure.

When we find ourselves under excessive pressure our brains react by triggering the stress re-

sponse which is often referred to as the “fight or flight” response. This is an automatic physiologi-

cal reaction in which we subconsciously put our bodies into the optimum state to fight or run

when under threat. During an episode of acute stress our digestion slows down as the blood gets

routed to the muscles, our breathing speeds up, our blood pressure increases, our muscles tense

up to get us ready to fight or run and sugar and fats pour into the bloodstream to provide us with

the energy required. Once the perceived threat has vanished, our brain sends the signal that it’s

safe to return to a state of equilibrium. The fight or flight response worked well for our caveman/

cavewoman ancestors as once they had killed or fled from their attacker, the stress was over and

they could return to normal. Today however, although stress still triggers the same physiological

response that our ancestors experienced, the stressors are very different. The problem today is

that many people perceive every day as stressful and so the stress response is kept active.

The most important thing we need to remember about stress is that no matter what is causing it,

the physiological effects of stress are very real and if sustained over a prolonged period it can

lead to health problems including lowered immune system, raised blood pressure, digestive

problems and sleep disturbances to name but a few.

We will all face stressful situations from time to time and although in some cases we can remove

ourselves from the stressor, there are times when it is just not possible. This is why it is vitally

important to be aware of how stress affects us and to learn how to manage the stress in our

lives.

Next time I will look at tips on managing stress as well as identifying signs and symptoms of

stress in ourselves and others.

Helena Martin www.galwayrelaxation.com 091 550620, 086 8764931

[email protected]

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Scoil Chuimín agus Caitriona’s News

We have been very busy in Scoil Chuimín agus Caitriona since the last edition of Corrib

News!

On Valentine’s Day we had a wonderful Intergenerational

day in Rang 1. It was a very special occasion with grandpar-ents and friends of similar vin-

tage travelling from near and far to join the children in shar-

ing their experience in school. There were some great stories told, jigs danced, poems recit-

ed and songs sung. The teas and coffees afterwards were

especially welcomed—thanks to all the parents for organising this for everyone.

The Book Fair took place the

following week, from Feb 24th to 28th. The children loved looking at all the books and en-

joyed a visit from local author Pete Mullineaux who had a cre-

ative workshop in the senior classes. The aim of the book fair week is to promote reading

and books and in this the week was a great success. Parents

generously supported the event and as a result the school add-ed books to the value of over

€1,000 to the school library! Thank you to all the parents

who also ran the Book

Fair. Hopefully there is a lot of paired reading go-

ing on at home now.

The start of March

brought with it a Spring Jumble Sale that was or-

ganized by Demelza Gib-bons and held in the new school hall. It is great to

see the new school facili-ties being used by the

community. The Jumble sale itself was a huge suc-cess and Demelza, Sinéad

Grimes and Catherine McNamara presented the

school with a cheque for €770 from the proceeds

of their stalls on the day. Thank you to everyone who organized and at-

tended the event, we are very grateful for the funds

which will go towards buying IT equipment for the school.

Rang 2 made their First

Confessions on Thursday 6th March. Fr. Alan noted that they were all “little

angels without the wings”. Congratulations to

you all and we are now busily working on prepar-ing for the Communion on

April 12th.

Congratulations to the 28 pupils in Rang 6 who were confirmed on Friday,

March 21st. The occasion was a memorable one

with the arrival of the Ho-ly Spirit and Canon Martin Moran presiding.

Scoil Chuimín agus

Caitríona School Band was honoured to lead the

Oughterard St Patrick’s Day parade on March 17th They looked magnificent

in their uniforms and sashes and did their

school and their families proud. Well done every-one!

Even with all the activity

that has been going on we still had time to stop and admire the fruits of

our gardening which are providing us with a beau-

tiful display at the mo-ment in each of the class

gardens. Daffodils, cro-cuses and snow drops have finally appeared and

it is wonderful to see the pride and sense of

achievement the children in have in their own hand-iwork. A school vegetable

planting day is planned for March 25th.

Seachtain na Gaeilge will be celebrated in the

school from March 24th to the 28th. Beidh duaisean-

na dona páistí a dhéa-nann an iarracht is fearr Gaeilge a labhairt agus

amhráín Gaeilge á chasadh. Beidh ceol ghae-

lach agus Céilí mór againn ar an Aoine 24ú.

Slán agus beannacht.

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Nuacht ó Scoil Muire Doireglinne

It's been a busy few weeks in Scoil Muire

Doireglinne, but as the Múinteoirí would

say, when is it not!

Cailim and Caoimhe made their Chéad

Fhaoistin and are getting ready for their

Chéad Chaoimeanach.

The whole school participates in this

Mass so we're all busy practicing our ceol

and prayers!

Fionn, Aonghus, Aoife and Aideen made

their Cóineartú with the other Rang 6

classes in the parish, comhghairdeas

guys!!

Múinteoir Saidbh has been busy teaching

the feadóg to the páistí from Rang 1 up

to Rang 6.

This year, the teachers organised a

"seisiún ceoil" for our parents. Some lo-

cal musicians came with their instru-

ments and we played a few tunes with

them!. It was cool playing with other

musicians and we got to hear loads of

different instruments.

As part of PE, we've been learning Irish

dancing and we performed these dances

while the musicians played the music. Up

until then we had always danced to mu-

sic from a cd, so it was class to dance

with a real live band playing the music!!

Some of us weren't too happy though, as

we had to do Ionsaí na hInse with the

múinteoirí. We'd rather dance with our

friends, but don't tell them we said

that!!!

World Book Day was in March and we all

dressed up as a character from a book.

We then had to present our character to

the school and talk a little about our

book. It's great fun to find out what kind

of books people like to read. Some of us

like to read

Superhero comics, so this was the theme

for the Ardranganna marble party.

We all had to make up a Superhero or

Villain and dress up as them. We also

had to talk about our Superhero/Villain

and talk about how they became that

way and what powers they had! It was

great craic!

While the Ardranganna were playing Su-

perheroes, the Bunranganna had a pizza

day! They made pizza dough and then

made pizza with their favourite toppings.

The smell was amazing agus bhí na

píotsa an-bhlasta ar fad!!

Anyhow, it's back to choir practice for us

as we prepare for our Chéad Chaoimea-

nach!

We’ll tell you all about it in the next

edition of CorribNews!

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Only Joking!

Q: Why do some football

players never sweat?

A: Because of all their

fans!

Q: How

do yo

u mak

e

seve

n an

eve

n nu

mbe

r?

A: T

ake

the

‘s’ o

ut!

Q: Why was the maths book sad?

A: Because it had too

many problems!

Q: What kind of

animal should you

never play cards

with? A: A cheetah!

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Lets Get Cooking!

Domestic Dunce!

Sometimes we need to face up to our limi-

tations—mine is baking. Let’s face it, all I have in common with Ni-

gella is the fuller figure! So yeah, I’m no Domestic Goddess—but even I can make up these delicious no fuss

cookies. It is such a tasty, easy, simple rec-ipe with great results.

There is no weighing out, so it is a great one for the kids to help with. What more could you want?

So aprons on—the Domestic Dunces are taking over the kitchen!

Peanut Butter Cookies Makes 8—(don’t be greedy!)

Ingredients 8 tbsp plain flour

2 tbsp caster sugar

2 tbsp crunchy peanut butter—(although I do admit sometimes I live

dangerously and substitute soft peanut butter… crazy I know!) 1 egg yolk

50g/1¾oz butter, softened

icing sugar, for dusting

Preparation Method 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.

2. Place the flour, sugar, peanut butter, egg yolk and butter into a large bowl and mix together until combined to a smooth dough.

3. With lightly floured hands, break off evenly sized pieces of the dough and roll into 8 similarly sized balls.

4. Place the dough balls onto a baking sheet lined with silicon paper or baking parchment and gently press each ball with the back of a fork to

flatten slightly. 5. Place in the oven and bake for ten minutes, or until just turning

golden-brown. 6. Transfer the cookies to a wire rack and allow to cool for ten minutes.

7. To serve, place on a serving plate and dust with icing sugar.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/caster_sugar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/peanut_butter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/egg_yolk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/butter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/icing_sugar

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“An Emigrants Story: Newfy Life”

Nuala Casey

My name is Nuala Casey and along with my husband, Ken and our two small kids, Saidbh and Johnny we left our lives, family and friends behind us in Ireland just a little over a year ago and moved across the Atlantic to Newfoundland. We lived in Oughterard for over two years and as little towns go it was the nicest place we ever lived in. We arrived in Newfoundland after a 2 day stress filled journey, which consisted of missing connecting flights due to unheard of high winds at Heathrow into a small airport in a tiny place called Deerlake at 2am in the morning and BANG!, that is when the shock set in and the realisation hit me that it would be a long time before I would see green fields again. I am not just talking about the green fields at home but any bit of grass you would expect to see was covered in at least 4 feet of snow! The question in my mind now was "What are we after doing"? The decision to leave was the toughest choice that we ever had to make but we were hoping that it would work out to be the best one. Life here is very, very different from home.

Newfoundland is an Island that only joined Canada in 1949 and the population of an Island that is almost 4 times the size of Ireland is roughly 750 thousand people. The town we live in is an eight hour drive from St. Johns which is the Capital and is on the East coast whereas we live on the West coast. It was settled mostly by the French and English. I can’t just hop in my car as I did most days and pop in to town which I loved doing

and always took for granted when we lived in Oughterard. I was born and raised in Carna so the trip of an hour and fifteen minutes was a killer. Now eight hours is just what you have to do if you want to go to town. In the year that we’ve been here I have done the trip twice. Both times I felt like Father Ted driving his blue Cortina asleep at the wheel and when he woke exclaimed "Dougal I almost nodded off there!" Winter is very cold here, but it’s a dry cold and it starts to snow in Nov/Dec. This winter has been one of the harshest and coldest ever recorded in Newfoundland, but we got a taste of it last Feb. and March so we were prepared… a little, well... maybe not as much as we should have been! We both wanted to keep the Irish language going with the kids so I still speak Gaeilge to Saidbh and Johnny whereas Ken speaks English. We adapted the one parent one language approach, for Kens sake mostly, but he is picking up "cupla focal" too.

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“An Emigrants Story: Newfy Life”

Nuala Casey

The kids love it here and the summer we had in 2013 was amazing. I was out running the prom here one day and this thing breached out of the ocean, I was amazed to see it was a whale! It did that the whole time as I was running, it was like having Gerry Geoghegan beside me on our runs spitting and puffing! The wildlife is amazing here. We have watched eagles fly, seen black foxes, beavers, Moose— animals that the kids have only read about or seen on TV before. We have settled in well overall and there are some Irish descendants here that we have made friends with. There are Foleys from Fogo Island off the coast of Newfoundland where the Irish settled and all along the East coast these people are more Irish than ourselves. Everyone here wants to visit Ireland they have an accent that if you closed your eyes you would think you were in Wexford and every sen-tence ends with "Yes boy" I wonder what county that came from?

Ireland is the place we want to end up coming home to eventually but with the way the economy is we are far better of here at the moment. We felt that the honesty had been torn apart at home by our politicians and bankers and greed during the Celtic tiger was what destroyed so many people lives so much so that it became a struggle to live week to week for many people in the present day. We take a huge amount for granted in our everyday lives when we are at home with family friends and loved ones. We miss all our family so much, our friends at home, our fab neighbours all sides that we were so lucky to meet and call over the fence to or across the green for the odd beverage of choice, ye all know who ye are: Sinead, Leah, Fiona, Sadhbh & Niamh... too many to mention. Overall, we are happy here and really looking forward to the summer. We are very fortunate, we are skiing most evenings out on snow mobiles and snow shoeing. But, we miss the ‘Irishness’ and the craic, we miss walking to the Boat Inn for a beautiful lunch or just a quick run to Carna or in to town. I will always say it — there is no place like home—rain or no rain.

Ken and Nuala are enjoying their new lives, but are missing home

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Keoghs Travelling Shop. Mary Kyne

William Keogh, a native of Athenry and a ganger with the Land Commission came to Oughterard and purchased Hon-ri O Toole’s Pub and Hardware shop as well as the adjoining buildings from Edward Sullivan. He married Mary (Mayno) Pow-er from across the street. They carried on the business until his death in 1967 and Mayno’s death in 1983. Currently the shop is run by their grandson Justin Keogh son of Mick and Teresa Keogh. Their main business was carried on in the Square Oughterard but they also served the people of the wider region of Conne-mara with their Travelling Shop.. In the early days Mayno went with the Travelling Shop and sold groceries and drapery. Later on Tim Molloy and Mixie Mc Gauley drove the van and John Healy acted as a helper. The shop featured in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade and was driven by Mixie, (see photo) which was truly wonderful to see.

The van was cleaned and stocked on a Monday. All goods were tightly packed on shelves inside the van. It always seemed to have un-limited capacity and carried enough stock to cater for the needs of the villages. If a housewife need-ed some item not

available in the van a note was made and it would be supplied the following week. Unusual items were often requested – bicycle tubes, hayforks, hay rakes, shovels, handles for spades, yard brushes, welling-tons and even glass for win-dows. People would request stamps especially airmail stamps and postal orders. All again supplied with a smile and at no extra cost to the custom-er. Everything was done to serve the customer. Tuesday the van travelled to Leam, Maam Cross, Camus, Gleann Trasna, Muicineach idir Dhá Sháile up to Darby’s, Letter-more, Béal a Daingean and back through Seana Féistin. Wednes-day it went to Glann, Thursday to Seana Féistin, Rosaveal and Baile na hAbhann, Friday to Rusheeney, Maghera and Coo-lighy and finally Saturday it went to Esker, Tullykyne and Collinamuck. There were few family cars in the area in the 50’s. Bicycles, pony and trap or horse and cart were the most common means

of transport. The women sel-dom came into town. They came only when essential com-modities were required. They relied on the weekly call of the Travelling Shop. The women in Connemara de-rived an income from knitting and weaving for Millar’s in Clif-den and Keogh’s Oughterard and from selling eggs, butter and tomatoes to the Travelling Shop. The Government at the time gave a grant to the Gael-tacht people to erect glass-houses thus earning a modest income from the produce of the green houses. Housewives sold their eggs, butter and tomatoes in ex-change for paraffin oil which was needed for the oil lamps and tilly lamps (as rural electrifi-cation hadn’t come to the re-gion until the 50’s), flour, tea, sugar, bread soda - already weighed in various quantities, jam, plug tobacco, Rinso for washing, Nugget shoe polish, sausages and a special treat was the purchase of a loaf of bread. Women rarely bought butter as they churned their own butter and baked their own bread. The odd bottle of whiskey and bottles of porter made their way into some households. Flour was bought in 10 stone bags and was used to bake brown bread, currant cakes, griddle scones, treacle bread, potato cakes and pancakes. The empty bags were washed and bleached and made into sheets, pillowcases, tea towels, simple

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Keoghs Travelling Shop. Mary Kyne

T Shirts and even football togs. As John Healy said, ‘we often went to school with ‘Odlums Cream Flour’ or ‘Ranks Friend-ship Flour’ written across our backs! Christmas was a special time for the traveling Shop. There was great excitement and anticipa-tion when the Travelling Shop made its Christmas visit. Extra supplies were bought for the festive season – the makings of the traditional Christmas cake and pudding – raisins, sultanas, currants, brown sugar, caster and icing sugar, green and red cherries, candid peel, bottles of stout and bottles of whisky, red cordial and raspberry wine: not forgetting the various spices – nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves both ground and whole. Large red candles that were placed in the windows of every house were a must. Keoghs like every other shop at the time offered ‘The Christmas Box” which consisted of a large iced cake, large red candle, bis-cuits, bottles of orange and sweets which were given to the Bean a’ Tí in appreciation of her continued custom over the pre-vious year. The drivers and helpers on the van brought news of births, deaths and marriages and the local gossip from village to vil-lage. Often they were the only outsiders the housewives inter-acted with during the course of the week. John Healy told me they had to be able to speak

Irish to the women of Conne-mara. Michael Mc Evilly remembers the travelling shop fondly, he reminisces: ‘In the 50’s Keoghs traveling shop was a welcome sight com-ing in the road to our house in Killannin. People bought flour, sugar, tea, raisins and house-hold hardware from the shop. Mrs. Keogh herself would go with the travelling van. She gave 1p (penny) for a 2lb jam jar and 1/2p for 1lb jam jar. They were re-cycling back in the 40’s and 50’s in Oughterard! People sold eggs and butter and were credited the cost of these items against their grocery bill. Sulli-van’s had a travelling shop too.” Ann Lambert remembers the large sides of bacon that hung from hooks in the van. “Mayno would slice a chunk off and it was boiled with cabbage. There was no talk then of items being out of date or was it refrigerat-ed!” A lot of the shops were paid on the spot for goods received but often they kept a little book for

each customer and the items purchased were noted in ‘the book’. Payment was made at a future date when dollars arrived from America or pounds from England, the sale of livestock or on receiving the pension or chil-dren’s allowance. Relations coming from abroad often called into the shops and asked to see their family book. If it was in arrears they would ‘wipe the slate clean’ before going away. In the 40’s and 50’s butter and eggs were used as freely as money is used at the present time. The eggs were packed in hay and then packed in timber boxes and later sold to egg buy-ers for export. In the 60’s eggs were about 2shillings to a half crown per dozen. How simple and personal were trading transactions then before the arrival of mini-markets and su-permarkets? We won’t say things were

better then, more self-sufficient

maybe, but what we will say is

don’t try paying Justin with eggs

today – he’d be

sure to tell you

to scramble!

Photos: Tom

Broderick

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Lough Corrib Angling Report By Kevin Crowley at http://www.castlebar.ie/Angling_News/index.shtml

Lough Corrib has seen a

slow start to the early sea-son, with high water levels

and stormy weather in the first couple of weeks keep-ing most anglers off the

lake. Since the end of Feb-ruary, conditions have im-

proved, and fishing has been reasonably good for those anglers venturing

out.

Opening day was quitter than normal, due to the

inclement weather leading up to the season start, but

fishing on the day proved very productive. The Lan-gan Cup, held by the Colli-

namuck Anglers, produced some great catches, par-

ticularly for John and Frank Butler who took top honours with 8 trout for

12.84kgs. The team of Bernard Halloran, Brian

Noonan and Ger Regan fin-ished in second, with 5 trout for 7.40kgs. Overall

17 anglers landed 18 trout for 28.25kgs, with the

heaviest fish caught by Ger Reilly, a trout of

2.12kgs.

Elsewhere, opening day fished well for anglers trolling in the Oughterard

area, with Gerry Molloy, Kevin Molloy and Emmet

McGloin landing 9 trout for 13.5lbs. Rory and Mark McGauley had 4 trout for

8lbs, including a fine fish of 4lbs, while Tommy Tuck

and Kenneth Ferguson re-

ported 4 good trout to

their boat.

Over the following week, strong winds prevented

many anglers from fishing, with the only activity in

the Oughterard area, Mark and Eamon O Brien landing 5 trout for 10lbs on fly.

James Kelly and Cillian Tierney, also fly fishing,

landed 4 trout for 6lbs. Raymond Lee landed 3 trout for 5.5lbs while

trolling for a day. Donal Connolly reported that he

school mid-term break was put to good use by Paul & Shane Joyce, Liam Butler

and Cillian Tierney, with some lovely fish being

caught over 2 days. They ended up with over 12 fish - best was a nice 3lbs fish

but several more in the 2 to 2.5 lb bracket were also

caught, nice fishing!

Over the turn of the month the high water levels pre-vailed, preventing many

anglers from even launch-ing their boats, however

some anglers enjoyed good fishing, again mainly

around Oughterard, Patrick Molloy landing 8 trout for two days trolling. Harold

O'Toole 2 trout for 4lbs on the fly, while Kenny

O'Toole and a friend land-ed 5 trout for 8lbs while trolling for one day. Der-

mot Fitzpatrick from Ball-inrobe also landed and re-

turned a cracking trout of

7.5lbs while spinning in

Ashford Bay, Cong.

As March came in, the

good fishing has continued

in spite of the conditions.

Mike Shanks from Corna-

mona fished for 1 day and

had a nice trout on fly.

Patrick and Kevin Molloy

from Oughterard, had 6

trout for 10lbs trolling for

one day. Aidan Kelly, also

Oughterard, had 2 trout

for 3lbs to the fly. Joe Trill,

fly fishing the lower lake,

reported that the fishing

was very good and for 5

days he landed 20 trout up

to 3lbs. The T.A.F.I. Con-

naught Youth Fly Tying

qualifier was held on Sun-

day the 3rd March in

Headford. 1st was Caran

Reilly, Loughrea. 2nd was

Oisin Reilly, Glencorrib.

Joint 3rd was Blaine and

Matthew Barry, Clifden.

Katie Eberly from Michigan, USA, with a nice early season trout from

Lough Corrib, caught while fishing with guide Donal Connolly

mailto:

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Oughterard Courthouse Restoration

The Annual General Meeting of The Oughterard

Courthouse Conservation and Heritage Company

will be held in Breathnachs, Oughterard on

Thursday 10th April 2014 at 7.30 p.m.

A copy of the audited accounts for the year end-

ed 31st December 2013 will be made available as

soon as we receive same from the auditor.

As this is the first AGM for the OCCHC there are no previous minutes.

In accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association we shall be nomi-

nating and electing officers and directors for the coming year.

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 10th April together with any friends or

acquaintances who might wish to become involved in the restoration and conser-

vation of Oughterard Courthouse.

Brian Buckley, Company Secretary

Corr na Móna News Congratulations to the pupils

from Coláiste Naomh Feichín,

Corr na Móna who have won the MS Readathon for the 4th year in a row!

The pupils raised €1,750 for the worthy charity, the most

per capita in the country. They received a very impressive trophy as well as lots of other priz-es. They are confident they can make it 5 in a row next year! Good luck guys!

Kilcummin Parish Church News

Tree surgeons will have to be employed to deal with problems associ-

ated with a number of trees in the Killcummin Churchyard on Main

Street because of their proximity to the Main thoroughfare.

It is estimated that the costs will be in the region of €3000 to €4000

Dermot Walsh of Breathnach's Bar has kindly agreed to host a table

Quiz on Friday 28th. March at 9.30 p.m. Tables of four are €40

Your help in organising a table of four or in the provision of a prize for a raffle (bottles of

wine, sprits, chocolates etc.) will be greatly appreciated.

If we can muster of 14 tables we have the possibility of raising a third of the estimated cost.

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Corribdale Park Update.

By Sinéad Grimes

After three years of work, with countless ups and downs

along the way, we are very pleased to report that the

plans for the Corribdale Park Project have finally been

lodged with the Galway County Council. It will be early

May before we expect to have a decision back from the

Council.

We have reviewed the plans and broken the project

down into more manageable sections as follows:

Phase 1: First section of shared use trails and fitness

loop. This section refers to the grounds closest to the

playground and also the section between the council car

park and the GAA Pitch. This phase includes a wheel-

chair friendly loop aimed at walkers / joggers and the

family cycling group. The trails would have a number of

outdoor fitness equipment pieces installed at various

points along the way.

Phase 2: Teen Zone— an activity area aimed at the

12—15 year old just outside the existing playground.

Phase 3: Trails in the wooded area

Phase 4 : Bicycle Pump track

Phase 5: Remainder of shared use trails on the rest of

the grounds.

We have applied for funding under the 2014 Sports Cap-

ital Programme grants to part fund Phase 1. The Sports

Capital Programme (SCP) is operated by the Depart-

ment of Transport, Tourism and Sport and provides

grants to assist in the development of sports facilities.

We are hoping for a positive outcome on this applica-

tion.

We will continue to fundraise for the project with the

Mayfly 10k Challenge coming up on Sunday May 25th

and we hope to have a further positive update in the

next issue of Corrib News.

Sparrow

Hey sparrow!

You are everywhere!

Where living is easy!

Scrounger, scavenger, survivor!

Socialiser, banqueting together,

sharing the pickings.

Bathing, splashing each other,

dusting, shaking off all cares.

No fancy colours,

no painted beak,

no red breast,

no memorable song!

Blending in with your garden

environment

in winter and summer

leaving sunny climes to others.

I hope you will visit my grave,

for I will feed you!

Jack McCann

10. 3. 2014

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Rás Chonamara

By Sean Clancy

The 10th Rás Chonamara returns again this year over the Easter Bank holiday week-

end with cycling for all levels. On Saturday the 19th of April the Sportif will commence

in Oughterard, sign on is at Faherty’s Bar from 8:30am to 10:00am with the cycle

commencing at 10:00. Entry is €25.

With a 50km and 100km cycle there is options to test all levels. All money raised will

be shared between Galway Autism Partnership and the RAS , so please come out and

support this local charity, refreshments will be served along the route and afterwards

Due to the lack of sponsorship over the years the Rás has had to curtail the racing

from 3 days back to1 on Easter Sunday the 20th of April. Each year the village bene-

fitted greatly with the influx of cyclists staying over the weekend and many cyclists

choosing to bring their families with them. Now that it is back to one day the oppor-

tunity has been lost for much needed revenue in the village.

The race is also open to A4's for the first time ever with the usual classification of A2's

and A3's also. Oughterard Village is the starting point for this years race where cy-

clists will compete for the Gerry Clancy memorial cup. The route will see cyclists turn-

ing right at Maam Cross, right at Maam and turning left over the bridge in Cornamona

Village heading out over Finny

and back to Oughterard. Over

the years the Rás has attracted

up and coming talent with many

cyclists using the three days to

prepare themselves for the An

Post Rás (formerly the FBD

Rás). We have had Olympians

participate also. You often heard

the words "blink and you'll miss

it" well we can guarantee this

with the Rás Chonamara with

many close and exciting finishes

on the Main Street of Oughter-

ard. For further details check

our web page which is currently

being up dated

www.raschonamara.ie or con-

tact Sean Clancy 0876321167.

Hope to see you over the Easter

weekend whatever your level is.

http://www.raschonamara.ie/

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Derroura Mountain

Bike Trail

Derroura Mountain bike trail was devel-oped and built in partnership with Coillte and Bord Failte. It is a trail of approx. 17km in length and suits most abilities. It is approx. 7 km west of Oughterard village and some of the scenery from the trail is breath taking. Although make sure to stop cycling in order to take in the views, it is a much safer than cycling and taking in the views in at the same time! Mountain Biking, like all forms of cy-cling, is becoming increasingly popular and if you’re interested there is a club in the area, Connemara MTB, and they often carry out beginner training days check out their website www.connemaramtb or talk to Gary in Moycullen MTB for further details. Most mountain bikers look for exten-sive trails when they travel in order to make it worth their while and the more trails or longer trails that are in an area the more likely they are to stay in the area. Ballyhoura in Limerick gets roughly about 8,000 visitors a month, creating about 3 million euro in revenue for the local economy. Derroura gets about 6,500 a year. How do we know this? Coillte have counters on the trails. Lo-cal cyclists are now travelling to Limer-ick and Northern Ireland to cycle due

to the high standard of their trails. Fund-ing of €500,000 has just been approved for further development of Ballyhoura and there is a World Biking event coming there next year. Connemara has its own unique appeal and is famous the world over for its un-spoilt scenery. Offer people the chance to cycle across this beautiful landscape in a fun and testing environment and tourism will flourish. In short we are lucky enough to have a resource on our door step that has the potential to bring much needed revenue to the locality. Creating jobs and boosting existing businesses all year round as mountain bikers don't mind the rain. Oughterard has been clever enough to ensure the development of the fishing in-dustry and uses the lake to the advantage of the town. This however is not happening with Der-roura. Some voluntary clubs and local groups have been appealing to Coillte to develop the trail further over the years but to no avail. The message seems to be unless local businesses show some con-cern/interest they don't want to know. So, this is the time, we need to mobilise and organise ourselves in order to show Coillte that Oughterard is serious about this opportunity. This initiative needs to be led by the businesses in the town. Imagine how the village would benefit from a financial injection of 3 million euro a year?

Sean Clancy.

http://www.connemaramtb/

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Boxing Club Update

The weekend of March the14th

was indeed a very busy one for

Oughterard Boxing Club. On

Friday evening at our gym we

had the last nights training for

our 8-10 year olds and hosted a

mini-tournament for them. But

before all that happened the

evening got off to a real buzz

with all our kids being filmed for

the Happy video that was been

recorded around the village

over the bank holiday weekend.

Moms, dads, grandpar-

ents ,aunties and uncles all

came along to see our future

boxers display their skills. Box-

ers from Chonamara Boxing

Club and Galway Boxing Club

were also invited to box in the

club. A great evenings enter-

tainment was had with all kids

receiving a medal and goodie

bag after completing their

bouts. Thanks to all those that

help organise and run the event

and the club would like to wish

all our boxers the very best for

the summer months.

On Saturday the 15th of March

the club hosted our annual

Tournament in the Oughterard

Community Centre. Before pro-

ceedings got under way news

had already come through that

Oughterard Boxer Gearoid Clan-

cy had won his bout in Sydney.

Also boxing that evening was

Kieran Molloy whom was com-

peting in Holland against the

Dutch Champion. Kieran won

his bout convincingly and was

only one of three Irish boxers

out of a total of fifteen to win

his bout. This will set him in

good form for the upcoming All

Ireland title.

In all Oughterard BC had 11

bouts with the evening getting

started with two exhibition

bouts. First up were Thomas

Kinnevey and Tom Savage @

44kg. Both boxers gave a great

exhibition of their skills. Thom-

as Kinnevey won the Gerry

Clancy Shield for best club per-

son of the year.

Next up was Nicole Lydon Mur-

phy of O’ard BC V Mary Baily of

C’mara. Nicole will be hoping to

go all the way to Dublin this

year, her first year of competi-

tive boxing. Kevin Fahy of O’ard

BC V Padraig Folan of C’mara

BC @ boy 1 31kg. These two

boxers had a great battle previ-

ously in the Counties and again

on the night both showed great

hunger. Padraig Folan was to

come out the victor with the

Trophies kindly sponsored by

Keogh’s Bar.

Next up was Eanna Davoren

O’ard v Thomas McDonagh of

Olympic. This was Eannas first

home tournament bout for his

club and he showed great com-

posure against a very capable

McDonagh. Eanna came out on

top winning the bout sponsored

by Rosskid Engineering. Lizzy

Lydon Murphy v Aishling Ryan

of Corrib BC was the next bout

and Lizzy boxed impressively

throughout. Lizzy has two All

Ireland titles to her name and

won the bout on the evening .

Lizzy also won the Johnny

O’Connor Cup for best home

boxer. This bout was sponsored

by Councillor Thomas Welby.

Next up was Ben McKenna of

O’ard BC V Patrick Maughan of

L’rea BC @ Junior 2 63kg. Ben

boxed well through out and won

Pictured: Gearoid Clancy winning his bout in Australia

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Boxing Club Update

the bout. Trophies were spon-

sored by The Mayfly Inn. Next

up for O’ard BC was Daragh

Kennedy v Jonathan Ward of

Olympic @ boy 1 48 kg. Daragh

winning his bout and trophies

were sponsored by Keoghs Cen-

tra. Next up was an exhibition

bout between two Oughterard

boxers Shauna Prunty v Serena

Cabry. This was the two girls

first time boxing at a home

Tournament and put on a great

display of their skills. Trophies

were sponsored by RF

Transport. Sean Seoige beat

Laurence Ward of Loughrea in

the boy 2 54 kg bout, trophies

sponsored by The Boat Inn. Cil-

lian Tierney had a good test v

Padraig McDonagh of C’mara BC

but his high work rate over the

three rounds being the deciding

factor. Trophies were sponsored

by An Siopa Troscan of Moycul-

len. Last bout of the evening

was Dylan Murphy v Sean Folan

of C’mara @ the Junior 1 66 kg.

Sean Folan winning this contest

trophies sponsored by Ryan

Hanley. Shay Molloy was also to

have a bout in the Tournament

but his opponent pulled out and

the club were unable to find a

replacement at such short no-

tice. The club would like to

thank all those that attended

the tournament and especially

our sponsors. Thanks to the

parents that helped with the

ring and providing the shop and

managing the door whom with-

out their support we wouldn’t

be able to run this

event.

On Sunday the 16th

the club had a 5k

fun run/walk and

thanks to all those

that supported the

event and Keoghs

Bar for providing

the refreshments

after.

The next couple of weeks are a

very busy time for the club with

the boy1/2/3 Connacht Champi-

onships taking place. The club

will have 6 boxers participating

and would be hoping that our

boxers will make it to the semi

-final and final stages as the

club are hosting them again this

year. They take place on the

29th & 30th of March in Oughter-

ard Community Centre com-

mencing @ 11:00 am both

days. The club would ask for

your support as if these are

badly attended the club will lose

the opportunity to host them

again.

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Oughterard GAA Club News

St. Patricks Day Parade

Thanks to everyone that got involved and

marched in the Parade this year, you did the

club proud!

Oughterard Minors

The Oughterard GAA minor started their sea-

son with a great win against Clonbur in a

challenge game. Oughterard won by 5 points

with the final score being 2-14 to 3-6.

Oughterard GAA showed great heart turning

around a 7 point deficit with 10 mins to go.

Goal scorers for Oughterard were Brian Lam-

bert, Eoin Whittaker and Eric Lee. The team

for Oughterard was Jordan Fogarty, Oisin

Smith, Rory O'Connor, Ciaran Hanley, Darren

Cormican, Jason Coyne, Paul Walsh, Jack Ge-

oghegan, Eric Lee, Sean Kelly, Liam Butler,

Eoin Whitaker, Luke McQuinn, Brian Lambert

and Paul Joyce. Subs for Oughterard were

Tommy Finnerty and Killian Noone.

Club Gear

Oughterard GAA is launching our new range

of club gear for 2014. Below are a list of

available items at https://sites.google.com/

a/gaa.ie/oughterard-gaa-galway/home/club-

gear and if you want to order items contact

Jennie at 087 2827541.

Registration Day

Oughterard GAA is holding our annual club

registration day on Sunday the 30th of March

at 12 to 2pm. We are asking all club mem-

bers, players and parents to have

registered by or on this date.

Monthly Newsletter

Oughterard GAA has put together a club

newsletter. We will be putting together an

issue each month and we hope to keep eve-

ryone updated about what is going on with

the club. You can download the newest edi-

tion below.

http://issuu.com/johnoughterard/docs/

march_monthly_newsletter

Juvenile Training Times

Wednesday 26th at 6:15pm for

U12,U10,U8,U6

Wednesday 19th at 7:30pm for U14

Wednesday 12th at 7:30pm for U16

Thursday 20th at 7:30pm for U18

Keep in touch with us on Facebook here:

www.facebook.com/pages/Oughterard-

GAA/222815511077033

https://sites.google.com/a/gaa.ie/oughterard-gaa-galway/home/club-gear



http://issuu.com/johnoughterard/docs/march_monthly_newsletter

http://issuu.com/johnoughterard/docs/march_monthly_newsletter

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Paddy Geoghegan presenting the

Minor player of the year to Phillip

Gibbons

The winning junior team of 1973/74 being

honoured at the annual GAA social!

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The junior champions of 2013 who won a total

of 3 cups throughout their 2013 campaign!

Bob Naessens—intermediate player of the

year 2013

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Oughterard GAA Social Photos

Club President Paddy Geoghegan presenting club

persons of the year to:

Niall Walsh, Liam Tierney, & Matt Healy

Connemara Breastfeeding Support Group The first gathering of the

Connemara Breastfeeding

Support Group is next

Wednesday 26th at

10:30am -1pm in the

Clann Resource Centre

Oughterard and fortnightly thereafter. Kids of all ages are welcome. There will be

toys and room for older kids to run around while the mums have coffee and chat.

Anyone pregnant, thinking of becoming pregnant, currently nursing or that has

breastfed and feels they can offer support and advice is very welcome. This support

is from Mum to Mum, no better advice really! Please contact Bronwen O’Malley on

087 9026588 if you need any further information.

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Oughterard Soccer Club

OAFC News

We are de-

lighted to re-

port that our

boys U14

Team won the First Division Title of the

Galway and District League 2014. A fan-

tastic achievement as they won all 7

games in the competition to be clear vic-

tors of this very tough league.

The Girls leagues are now all started so

we will have reports next month of our

U10s. Girls training times are Fri-

day 6.15 to 7.30 for U10 and U12

Girls and Wednesday 5 to 6 for

our U4 girls.

Our ladies team, who will start

again once the long evenings are

back, is a great way to enjoy

some outdoor activity. The ladies

train once per week and do not

play games the emphasis is on exercise

with a football and a social outlet.

The Club is running a Race Night on Sat-

urday May 3rd in The Boat Inn and we

are hoping all in our communities can

join us for a great night out. Horses.

Jockeys, owners and trainers can be pur-

chased in advance at a cost of €20 for a

great prize. There will also be a raffle on

the night and an auction! Anyone who

would like to help us out with the event

would be more than welcome.

Monies raised will be put towards putting

in simple facilities in New Village.

If you are in a position to help us make

the event great we would be delighted to

have you on board, talk to any of our

coaches.

A big Well Done! to everyone for the St. Pat-

rick's Float.

A big Thank You! to all the players and

coaches who took part in the parade.

A special mention for the U8 COMETS

who did great “marching”.

Many Thanks to all involved.

By Paul Sike

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Oughterard Rugby Club

News

JUNIOR RUGBY

The ORFC juniors played their

final Connacht JLD2 league

match of the season with a

disappointing 0-19 home de-

feat to Tuam RFC. After an

impressive start, the second

half of the season “fizzled”

out with two defeats in the

last three games, leaving

Oughterard outside the top

four playoff positions. The

squad is now concentrating

and training for the prestig-

ious Ard naCregg cup. The

draw for the cup has given

ORFC a home tie with the

team who beat them in the

final last year, Buccaneers of

Athlone.

TAG RUGBY

Spring must be just around

the corner as TAG rugby is

back. The girls and lads of

the successful ORFC TAG

team are about to start train-

ing again to prepare for the

Spring league. The team lost

out on a “golden try” final

last season in attempting to

retain their Summer league

title, so they will be looking

to win it back this year. If

you`re aged between 18-80,

fancy giving TAG a go or

want to keep fit and also en-

joy the craic, please give

Sinead a call or go to

www.orfc.ie for training times

and details.

MINI & LEP RUGBY

After a slow start to the sec-

ond half of season, the mini

and Leprechaun sections are

going to be a very busy over

the next few weeks. The U9

and U10s had a great blitz

out in Clifden with Connema-

ra and Ballinrobe recently,

with Connacht mini blitzes

coming soon. The U11/12s

are off to Corinthians, while

the U9’s head to Westport

and the U10’s to Ballina for

their age grade provincial

games. The girls of the LEPs

are also heading to a regional

blitz.

The ORFC U11 squad played

at HT in the Sports ground at

the recent Rabo Pro 12 match

between Connacht and Trevi-

so. In front of more than

3500 fans, the team played

out a very quick match with a

team from Sligo RFC.

U14 YOUTH RUGBY.

The ORFC youth U14 section

have been training and play-

ing hard over last few weeks.

With wins against Corrib RFC

and Corinthians the team has

been playing some fantastic

and fast rugby. A home de-

feat against a hugely experi-

enced Buccaneers team

brought the cup run to an

end but there is still a lot to

play for before the end of the

season.

The youths are heading to

the UK on tour in the next

few weeks and are holding a

pre match cheese and wine

tasting party before the 6 na-

tions Ireland v Italy this Sat-

urday (8th March) in the Boat

Inn to raise funds. To book a

place, call Paul on

0866489427.

For further information about

the club or training times visit

www.orfc.ie , find us on face

book or email

[email protected]

http://www.orfc.ie

http://www.orfc.ie


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15th Galway Oughterard Scout Group

The local scout group have been

busy over the last few weeks despite

the weather!

The Beavers (aged 6-9) have had a

few outdoor activities. They were

geocaching on the Hill of Doon. For

those of you who don’t know what

geocaching is, it is a high tech meth-

od of hide and seek! They also

attended a county event in Coole

Park. This was attended by other

groups from around county Galway.

They learned new backwoods skills

e.g. tracking, rope work/lashings.

The Beavers group worked with Ki-

lannin group to prepare for the St

Patrick’s day parade where they

made snakes from recycled materi-

als! The group will be visit Inverin

airport in the coming weeks with the

Cub scouts. The beavers have also

had a paper plane building competi-

tion and built parachutes all working

within the “air” theme. Later on this

month the group will be learning

more about weather and air pres-

sure. They will also have a talk about

alternative communication methods

e.g. Morse code

The Cub group have

had lots of activi-

ties. In October

they went camping

overnight in the

beautiful Bridget’s

Garden. In this age

group, they are giv-

en more responsi-

bility and are ex-

pected to pitch the

tents and become much more in-

volved in setting up and maintaining

the camp. The cooking is supervised

very closely by leaders (as they all

want to eat a decent dinner!) they

definitely have to wash dishes and

clean up after! Manual dishwashing

and drying only! They all returned

home happy and exhausted after the

late night! The Cubs also attended a

county event in Barna woods. They

were orienteering and despite the

wet weather they got around the

course quickly. In January the group

headed down towards Glann where

they were given tasks of setting up

shelters using wood. They also

learned to cook eggs without a pan

or saucepan by using a hollowed out

orange! The weather was very wet

that day but it certainly did not

dampen their spirits. In February, the

Cubs attended a large gathering of

Cubs from county Galway (over 250)

in Kilannin. This event was set up in

co operation with other groups. The

Cubs were given tasks to test their

backwoods skills and first aid skills

and hopefully they will all have

earned badges from this event!

The Scout group comprise of older

people (aged 12-15). They are much

more self directed requiring only

supervision and guidance by the

leaders. They organised and partici-

pated in an event in the Maumturk

Mountains in early January. This was

attended by 70 scouts from around

the county. The weather was not at

it’s best and there was snow at the

top of the mountain. However, the

group used their skills of map read-

ing and compass and made it back

safely! The group are hoping to have

much more outdoor activities espe-

cially with the evenings getting long-

er. They are preparing to go camping

in early April and the group will par-

ticipate in their first county camp

over the May bank holiday weekend.

If you would like to join the Beavers,

Cubs or Scouts please contact us on

[email protected] or

find us on Facebook 15th Galway

Oughterard Scouts.


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Oughterard Anglers and Boatmen’s

Association

Oughterard Anglers and Boatmen’s Association are pleased to pre-

sent The Bartley McGauley Cup Competition which will be held on

Sunday 6th April from 10:30-6:00pm. Entry is €20 Adults/€10

Juniors. Weigh-in will be at Baurisheen at 6pm SHARP! Followed

by a presentation of prizes in Faherty’s Bar from 6:30pm.

Entries to Tucks Tackle Shop Oughterard.

Well done and thanks to the committee members for getting the Boat/Float ready and for

participating in the parade. It was great to see some of our junior members getting in-

volved too.

THE CONNAUGHT CUP is being hosted by Oughterard Anglers' & Boatmen's Association on

April 19th (Easter Saturday). Forms available from www.oughterardanglers.com- inci-

dentally, the interprovincial

competition will be hosted by

Connaught later this year

(venue not finalized yet).

The Oughterard club have

reduced the entry cost this

year with the hope that all

affiliated clubs can afford to

enter a team.

If you have any questions or

can’t download the entry

form from the website, you

can contact Brian Ferguson

by email fergbri-

[email protected] and he will

forward the form directly.

Finally, the Oughterard An-

glers and Boatmens Associa-

tion would like to send our

sincere sympathies to the

family of Paddy Clancy,

Portacarron. Paddy was a

long-time member of the

club and is fondly remem-

bered as a great angler and

a lovely man. A great char-

acter, Paddy was always

great to meet out, whether

on the lake or on the shore,

and he had a kind word for

everyone.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam

dílis.

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Brighten up your day!

Have a communion or celebration coming up?

You can call into the store and book your rolls or

brown bread for the day, take the hassle out of

baking. just call in a week before the day and book your

amount and time you want them with Michelle or

our deli assistant.

For all our up to date offers and events follow us

on our

Facebook page,

Keoghs Centra

https://www.facebook.com/keoghs.centra

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The Last word..

“Like the sun, we are

attracted to people who

shine with warmth and

brightness.”

Anthony Douglas Williams

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“Strive not to be a

success, but rather to be

of value”. –

Albert Einstein

Thanks for all the wonderful feedback you have given us following the first online edition of Corrib News.

We are delighted with the success of the online magazine and also with the popularity of the Corrib News Facebook page.

With 590 likes and a very active fan-base we are delighted to be able to spread the word about local club news and events

and facilitate people in getting the word out to everyone in the locality and beyond.

Just as importantly, if there is something you don’t like, or don’t see covered be sure to get in touch and tell us what you’d

like to see in the next issue. Sincere thanks to all our contributors, without you there could be no newsletter. Also, we need

to thank all of you who submitted photos for the St. Patrick’s day issue, they really added some colour and fun to the edi-

tion.

We will be revealing the winner of the front cover competition for the April publication on our Facebook page. It is not too

late to enter so get your shots into us at [email protected]

Finally if you would like to place an advert in the next edition please email [email protected]. Refer to page 34 in

this edition for a price list .

Please send us in your club events and news, your points of interest, poems, stories and musings—we’d love to hear from

you.. The deadline for submissions is Monday April 7th.

From the Team at Corrib News.

A printed edition of Corrib News!

The planned greenway from Galway to Clifden is being heavily

marketed at the moment—but what will it really mean for us?

Irish Greenways—what will it mean for us?

Kieran has had a fantastic year and we catch up with him

to ask him some questions about his training, his wins and

his hopes for the future.

An Interview with Kieran Molloy

In the Next Edition...

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