6th June, 2001
Notice
Board
CORK
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - e-business
Maybe you don't
have an Internet website, but that doesn't mean that you can't
benefit from the Internet! Today information is the key to
successful business, and you can use the Internet as your
information tool in the following ways:
Market Research:
Check out what new products in your field are on the market, who
is supplying the market, are there Irish distributors or
partners? How much does the product cost in other countries, in
particular the euro-zone countries? Maybe you can source your
product or product materials at a better price, or maybe you need
to improve the cost efficiencies of your product by adding more
value. A useful starting point and trade directory is www.kompass.com
and www.kompass.ie (IRL only)
Save Money:
You will have heard already of the huge cost savings of email, as
opposed to faxing and postage. However, there are many other ways
to cut costs using the Internet. Most business magazines and
journals are available online, so you can save your business time
and money through online subscriptions to such publications.
Excellent sites are www.bizplus.ie (Business Plus Magazine) and
www.businessandfinance.ie (Business & Finance) and www.techcentral.ie
(PC Live & Computerscope), www.marketing.ie (Marketing
Magazine) and many more!
Conversion to the Euro:
There are many excellent sites developed to help your business
make the changeover to the euro. As of January 2002, the euro
will be the official currency in 12 European countries, so you
need to be aware of how the euro will affect your business. Cap
Gemini Ernst Young have developed a 10 point auction plan for the
changeover to the euro for Irish businesses and the website is
well worth a look www.ie.cgey.com. Other useful euro addresses
include www.euro.ie and http://euro.eu.int
The Internet must be the most important resource for business in
the new millennium. Make sure that your business is taking full
advantage of the opportunities and cost efficiencies presented by
the Internet. For more information on how the Chambers of
Commerce can help your business in this regard, contact Renate
Murphy renate@corkchamber.ie
SCOIL NIOCLÁIS WIN AT RINGASKIDDY
Scoil Niocláis won the O’Driscoll Boatbuilding Trophy at
the Ringaskiddy Talent Festival for their musical drama “The
Five Little Piggies”.
The talented group of five year olds entertained the large
audience - mostly of parents and grandparents - with a elongated
version of the 3 Little Pigs. Essentially, it is the age-old
story of ‘children’ of all ages not being able to do
without their mammy. Briefly, Mammy Muc is frustrated and annoyed
with the constant demands of her litter and “is not putting
up with it anymore”. So the Five Little Piggies move out
into their own house, only to discover that they are lost without
their mother.
The only distraction to the Oscar-winning performance was the
arrival of an unsuspecting butterfly who landed on the Piggies
newly constructed house. But the timely intervention of one
Robert Walsh, Wonka the Wolf, from the back row of the chorus
line, dissuaded the butterfly from taking any further part in the
proceedings. The butterfly hastily exited stage left, and much to
the relief of the director and stage manager, teacher Síle Bean
Uí Laoire, the show did go on.
The Cast:
Micky Muc - Ciaran Coakley
Martin Muc - Robbie O’Kane
Mortimore Muc - Boghan O’Brien
Mary and Matilda Muc - Aoife Downey and Ciara Susan McCarthy
Daddy Muc - Ciarán Hurley
Mammy Muc - Lorna Smith
Willy the Wolf - Jordan Smith
Wonka the Wolf - Robert Walsh
Woolly the Wolf - Chandler Hastings
Wally the Wolf - Evan O’Donovan
Winnie the Wolf - Grace Arrigan
Wilma the Wolf - Sarah O’Halloran
Wendy the Wolf - Georgina Dennehy
Bob the Builder - Stephen Williamson
Billy the Builder - Julien Telle
Barney the Builder - Daragh Thomhill O’Shaughnessy
Benny the Builder - Shane McCarthy
Benjy the Builder - James Butler
Bart the Builder - Joe Bowles
Narrators _ Ciara Marie McCarthy, Kevin Flahive; Amy
Kavanagh_McKeown; Ciaran Dineen; Abby Jeffers O’Brien; Evan
Shelly; Megan Geaney; Sean Noonan
Adjudicator, Mr. Frank Garvey praised all the children for their
performance which was full of life and energy and thanked their
teachers Micheál Ó Cochláin, Síle Bean Uí Laoire and Romina
Ciarrochi for their time and effort in producing such a wonderful
experience for the children. Festival Director, Mr. Donal O’Connor
congratulated Scoil Niocláis and expressed the wish that it
would be the first of many. Roll on next year!
TRADITIONAL IRISH NIGHTS
The summer season of Traditional Irish nights organised by the
Owenabue Valley Traditional Group commence in the Carrigaline GAA
Pavilion on Thursday June 21st. The season runs every Thursday
night from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight. A great variety of
entertainment is in store every night with the best of Irish
music, dancing and singing. The Keily Walsh dancers will give a
special performance every night. Everyone is welcome to take to
the floor for ceili, old time or set dancing. The nights are
specially organised as a tourist attraction.
SUMMER CEILI MOR
The Owenabue Valley Traditional group are proud to present the
exciting Four Provinces Ceili Band fo their June Ceili Mor in the
Carrigaline GAA Pavilion on Saturday June 9th next. Dancing from
9:30 pm to 1:30 am with a break for tea. Admission only £5. Cead
mile failte roimh cach.
Church
of Ireland,
Bishop of Cork Highlights
The European Movement as
a Peace Movement
The Right Reverend Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork (and
for 7 years member of the Central Committee of the Conference of
European Churches), writing in the June issue of the Cork
Diocesan Magazine and referring to the referendum on the Nice
Treaty, called for people to remember the origins of the European
Movement as a Peace movement.
Concerning the run up to the Nice Treaty Referendum Bishop Paul
Colton wrote: "The debate appears complex to any as the
issues, surrounding for example the future of the enlarged
European Union, the composition of the European Institutions and
the knock-on effects for us here in Ireland, are thrashed out.
I can't help but feeling, however that many have of us has come
to think of the European movement towards integration and co-operation
solely in economic terms. Economic gain and advantage is an
undeniably powerful motivation. It is understandable that from
time to time our Euro-community life can cause us to narrow our
focus on particular issues, which are having far-reaching and
disturbing consequences in human and national terms. Our
awareness of and practical preparation for the advent of the Euro
compounds this.
I wonder are we in danger, however, of losing sight of the fact
that the European ideal, although it was outwardly economic at
first, was and is, in essence, a peace movement - a movement to
reconcile, to create friendship, to engender goodwill, to break
down barriers of culture, language arid detrimental self-interest
and to build a peace - a peace that would last.
There can be no doubt that this was what, in the main, energised
and inspired the parents of the European Movement - Jean Monnet,
Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schumann, and others (some of them at
least driven by their Christian faith),"
CORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NEWS
Chamber Golf Classic
The Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Classic takes place at
Harbour Point Golf Club on Friday, 7th September. Over 150
members and guests (ladies and gents welcome) are expected to tee
off with the whole day booked for a fun day out and prizes for
everyone.
Mark the day in your diary and watch Chamber correspondence and
the website for further details during the summer www.corkchamber.ie.
Lord Mayor's Luncheon
It is Chamber practice to honour the Lord Mayor as he nears the
end of his term of office with a special lunch and affording him
the opportunity of reflecting on his year in office. On Tuesday
12th June at Maryborough House Hotel, the Right Honourable, The
Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr P.J. Hourican, will be special guest at
a luncheon where the business community of Cork will acknowledge
the contribution he has made on behalf of our city since his
election to Cork Corporation in 1991.
Tickets are available from Helen, tel 4509044 / Helen@corkchamber.ie.
MOTORING MOMENTS
The first car owner in Waterford was Sir William Davis Goff. He
had three cars and three chauffeurs who were heard to lament that
Sir William had not four cars as a fourth driver would be able to
make up a table for poker. When they went on holiday to Killarney
the drivers would work all night changing the sprockets so that
the cars could tackle the Kerry Hills.
His descendant Sir Earnest Goff lived on the High Road, Kinsale
and still carried the Reg. W1-1
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THE HISTORY OF DOUGLAS
by Con FoleyPart 43 - continued from last week
... of Corke a part of which is set to Dean Davies." He
graduated in 1671 with an A.B., 1681 A.M. and 1706 LL.D. He was
ordained on the 9th April, 1671 and in 1674 at Newmarket, married
Eliza, daughter of Captain Robert Stannard. On the 2nd of May
1675 he was presented to the rectory of St.John of Jerusalem and
on 17th of February 1709, he was appointed Dean and Rector of
Carrigaline. He had a large family; some of his sons died at an
early age but three of them followed him into religion, his
eldest son was vicar of Durrus, Boyle was prebendary of Lisclery
and Michael, Archdeacon of Cloyne. Boyle, the second son was born
uat Blarney Castle, 29th daie of December l683,at four minutes
past eleven o'clock, afternoon." A member of the Colthurst
family acted as a godmother. Dean Davies died at the age of
seventy two. It is on record that the Rev. Boyle Davies was in
residence in Donnybrook House in 1761.
There is an old oak tree near the roadside as one passes up the
hill, just past the entrance to Donnybrook House. It is still
known as "the Dean's Oak" and the comparatively new
house built by the Crichtons, just beyond, is called "Deansoak."
Mr. Kenneth Crichton, the present owner, says that the house
originally had four storeys (now two). He is of the opinion that
the house dates back to the time of the Cromwellian Wars, that
the land was an outfarm of the McCarthys of Blarney Castle and
that after theMcCarthys lost Blarney Castle that it was occupied
by a member of that family. He will point to the cherub like
heads over the window on each side of the door, to the large
stone urn that stands at one side of the main door (the urn on
the other side was accidentally broken) and inform you they came
from Blarney Castle. A small cannon was found there some years
ago. The little lake that once filled the hollow opposite the
front house, is now dry, but in former years it acted as a
catchment for the millrace that, twenty feet below, drove the
millwheel for the Besnard factory. This millwheel stoed in the
southwestern corner of the present Morroghs' Mills' yard. A rent
is still paid to Mrs. Atwool, Dublin a descendant of Dean Davies.
Crofton Croker, in his list of the new Cromwellian families
introduced into Cork, mentions the Davies family, originally of
Boryhinton, Herefordshire, England. Dean Davies was himself a
chaplain in King William's Irish Army, His journals were edited
for the Camden Society by Richard Caulfield. In 1683 he presented
a bell for the Cloyne Round Tower. But his privileged position as
a chaplain did not deter the soldiers from stealing the Dean's
footwear! However, in a despatch of a subsequent date, Colonel
Churchill wrote of the English garrison then at Cork: "They
are fit to conquer, for they must do that or starve, which they
are nigh doing, and consequently are desperate. They can draw out
500 men and not one hundred pair of shoes among them, which are
not to be got there for money if they had it."
The sale book of forfeited estates preserved in the library of
the Dublin Society contains the following entry of the sale of
the castle, castle grounds and village of Blarney: "Oct. 1,1702,
set up by cant at Chichester House - Blarney with the village,
castle, mills, fairs, customs and all lands, and the park thereto
belonging containing 14~ acres. Real value £370. 4s yearly rent
£295. This lies within four miles of Cork; it has a castle and
mansion house, formerly the residence of the Earl of Muskerry, a
chapel, two mills and several small houses and cabins; the land
is arable and good pasture and within the park is a fine oak wood.
Value of the wood about £1,000. Tenant's name Rowland Davies,
Purchaser Sir Richard Pyne, Lord Chief Justice for £3.000 - Nov.17,
1702."
Bryan A. Cody gives a frank account of Rowland Davies; "The
Dean was a jovial, yet bellicose Churchman, equally ready to (ira
in a bottle as wield a sword or point a cannon. He also loved to
prescribe for the ailments of old ladies; and so strong were his
prescriptions, it seems marvellous how any of his patients could
have ever recovered from their effects. The most amusing feature
in his journal (edited by Caulfield) is the minuteness with which
he notes down the price of everything he buys as well as what he
spends in the inns he was so fond of visiting, where his expenses
seldom exceeded sixpence. As illustrative of the relative value
of money, then and now, we may mention that for this sum, the
Dean got a good dinner and a couple of bottles of ale."
Caulfield also recalls that Dean Davies was admitted a freeman of
Cork at the Mayor's pleasure on 24th January 1694. 'The Dean's
Journal covered the period March 8, 1689, to September 29, 1690.
