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Would like to take this opportunity to thank all its members, friends and general public for your support during 2011 and wish you all a Happy Christmas and a safe and pleasant New Year.

BLARNEY & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Photo Journal No 4 titled 'Old Blarney in Snapshots' is now available in the following local shops:

B.F.S ---- The Corner Shop ----- Gifts of the Blarney ---- John O'Leary's Store, Cloghroe ---- Whitechurch Service Station

It is also available at the monthly lectures in Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal or from any of the following committee members:

Brian Gabriel, Richard Bolster, Maureen Ahern, Anne Byrne, Paddy Murphy. Chris…

The good news is that unemployed people in Blarney are going to get support right here in the heart of the community.

The go ahead has been given for a job club to operate out of the local Community Centre at the Mills (the Gulley) in Blarney.

The purpose of the job club will be to provide job seekers with real job hunting skills. It will cover every aspect of job hunting from knowing exactly what you can offer and putting together a top class CV, to targeting…

I'm delighted to see that Blarney Toastmasters Club have had an excellent start to their season. They began the season with an open night, especially geared towards guests, and the turnout was really good. Now three meetings in - their room at the Woollen Mills Hotel has been full to capacity each night, and the meetings have been alive with excitement. It's great to see a local club thriving in these tough times. Of course guests are always welcome to all meeting of the club, and entry to…

2011 was a reasonabley good year for Blarney in terms of the both the Tidy Towns and Anti-Litter competitions. The challenge will be to press on from here. The following report is from the Tidy Towns, and I would welcome your thoughts and suggestions as to how we can do better next year.

                                                  Tidy Towns Competition 2011

                                                      Adjudication…

Avondhu Blackwater Partnership – eWorker Course  

Avondhu Blackwater Partnership is seeking participants to take part in an eWorker Course this November. This course should be of interest to people who would like to become self-employed or those who wish to create more flexible working opportunities enabled through the use of Information & Communication Technologies.

eWorking is defined as any business function that is conducted away from the office…

To register, contact: BTEI, Adult Education Centre,

Lower Quartertown, Mallow

The Annual General Meeting of the Blarney & District Historical Society takes place on

Thursday September 8th 2011 at 8.00 p.m. at the Scoil Mhuir gan Smal (Blarney Secondary School)

You can download the information brochure and application form here.

Blarney Adult Education Classes Form

Classes commence on September 27. Our enrollment evening is September 13.

Blarney Tidy Towns

Cork County Council launched the Anti-Litter Challenge competition 2011, which  took place in the County Hall on the 23rd May at 10.00am.The objectives for the competition are to reduce litter pollution in the county as a whole and to encourage community involvement in the solutions to litter pollution. Similar to last year; the competition will be run over a 6 week period. Last year we did not do so well, but after the 1^st. round of judging, we…

Blarney Chamber of Commerce announce their new online member directory.

'The Musicians' by Patrick Marber 

In The Church of Ireland  , Blarney. 

Sat 14 at 6:30pm (special PreEurovision Show!)

PLEASE COME ALONG AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL YOUTH THEATRE - TICKETS AT THE DOOR!

About the play.........

"In just over two hours time the Blarney Youth Orchestra will give the most important concert of their life, playing Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony to an invited audience of…

A driver with Avondhu Blackwater Partnerships’ Rural Transport Scheme was involved in a life saving situation that resulted in a man being rushed to hospital and receiving emergency aid. Mr. Larry Horgan who has been a driver for the Scheme for several years was due to collect an elderly passenger from his home in the Tower area but when he did not show Mr. Horgan became concerned and decided to make sure nothing was wrong.

Mr. Horgan takes up the…

Presents a public illustrated lecture titled:

'An Eventful Era in Cork's History 1900-1922'

On Thursday 5th May 2011 at 8.00 pm at Scoil Mhuire gan Smal (Blarney Secondary School).

The Speaker is Mr. Tim O'Brien of the Muskerry Local History Society.

Everybody Welcome.

PLEASE NOTE: The Field Trip to the North Cathedral which was scheduled for this date had to be unavoidably deferred.

If you’re a fan of the foxtrot, a sultan of swing, a whiz at a waltz or a member of a ballroom dancing club then you’ll be interested in the resurgence of social dancing which is due to take place at Mallow GAA Club on Easter Sunday (April 24th) from 3 to 6pm.

Adults of all ages are invited to enjoy The Brídhaven Tea Dance. PJ Coogan…

Tá sraith úrnua á léiriú ag TG4 agus Adare Productions ina mbeidh pobail nach pobail Ghaeltachta iad in ann dul in iomaíocht lena chéile le bheith ina mBuaiteoirí G-Team 2011 agus duais €40,000 ó Fhoras na Gaeilge a bhuachan le húsáid chun a gceantar áitiúil a chur chun cinn. Beidh an clár nua agus nuálach seo…

TG4 and Adare Productions are a brand new series where

non-Gaeltacht community’s can compete against each other for the opportunity to call themselves The G-Team winners 2011 and win a €40,000 Foras na Gaeilge prize to use in promoting their local area.

‘The G-Team’ is a new 10 part series…