28th June, 2001
Notice
Board
SUMMERFEST
AT CARRIGALINE POTTERY
Carrigaline are
celebrating the refurbishment of their “Pottery Barn”
with the launch this weekend of their new “Origins” and
“Ulyses” tableware ranges, while also marking their
last summer at the Pottery before relocating to their new purpose
built factory outside of town.
This Sunday, 1st of July, see the “Pottery Barn Summerfest”
and promises to be a fantastic day for all the family. To
celebrate this product launch there will be live music, clowns,
face painting, free refreshments and great prozes. You can even
try your hand at clay making while the 96FM Street Fleet will
also be in attendance.
PROGRESS ON DOUGLAS TRAFFIC STUDY
Following our recent Area Road Meeting the Engineer presented
implementation proposals as stages 1,2 and 3. The cost of
implementing the overall scheme excluding long term
recommendations is £3.55m. While some of these recommendations
can be installed immediately, others will need to wait for land
acquisition or other statutory processes. The Engineer
recommended the works be staged as follows...
Stage 1 (Implemented immediately)
No.3 West Douglas Street, No.4 Donnybrook Hill / Grange Road, No.9
Rochestown Road, No.10 Maryborough Hill, No.11 Church Road, No.12
Carrigaline Road / Town Centre access road junction.
These works consist of signalising the West Village, initially on
a cableless system (time clock). With the footpath improvement
programme for the West Village these signal controllers would be
linked by cables which would a more efficient on-line linking of
the signals.
Other works consist of traffic calming/speed reduction measures
in the general road area and consist of on-road works. Total cost
of these works, as estimated by the consultants is £370,000 and
could be implemented within a year.
Stage 2.
No.1 East Douglas Street, No.2 Church Street and East Douglas
Street Parking, No.6 Tesco Roundabout, No.7 Douglas Road/Well
Road Junction, No.8 Review Signage, No.13 Grange Road, No.14
Donnybrook Hill, Carrigaline Road and Maryborough Hill, No.15
Clarkes Hill and Maryborough Hill, No.16 Fingerpost Roundabout -
provide pedestrian warning signs, No.17 Monastery Road, No.19
Cycle Facilities.
These works are to follow on from stage 1. I have asked for a
meeting to be set up with the traders of Douglas East and indeed
I will be glad to listen and represent and views on the above
proposals. The copy of the full report is available at Douglas
Library. The cost of implementing Stage 2 is £828,000.
Stage 3.
Widen and upgrade Board of Works including new junctions. This
will require land acquisitions while the junctions may have to be
resigned to cater for the future design of the Sli Carrighdoun.
The cost of the this stage is £1m.
Medium Term Proposals.
The proposed Tesco Car Park link road is included in recent
planning application and will be subject to the planning process.
Other Works.
Due to increasing development to the South of the area, some of
the major roads are experiencing some traffic growth which at the
moment is greater than 10,000 vehicles per day, worse effected
being the Grange and Rochestown Roads. Some of the junctions on
these roads are experiencing great exiting difficulty with the
volume of traffic and therefore it is proposed to signalise
Perrier Drive / NewlynVale / /Rochestown Road. In addition, the
junctions of Parkgate, Clarks Hill and Garryduff roads, which are
due for improvement works over the next four years. These works
will also necessitate signalising Clarks Hill (Rochestown Road
junction) and the junction of the development at Mount Oval with
Clarks Hill.
Cost of signalisation of Rochestown Road….£35,000.
Development of Clarks Hill….£3m.
Grange Road (2) £35,000.
Maryborough Hill accomodation works ….approx. £1m.
The total amount of the above works excluding Clarks Hill is £2.3m.
The widening of Board of Works Road and associated junctions….£1m.
and in my opinion should be moved from 1003 to as early a date as
possible.
This report will be on the full councils agenda and I will be
pressing for implementation given the amount of money Douglas has
yielded to council over the last ten years. Readers are welcome
to contact me with their views.
Cllr. Deirdre Forde.
ANNIVERSARY MASS
There will be an Anniversary Mass
On Monday 2nd of July @ 7.30 in
St. Columbas Hall for Tony O'Flynn
and deceased members of St. Columbas Hall.
Ursuline
Girls Excel at Young
Enterprise International
Examination Young
Enterprise Junior Achievement is the worlds leading business
organisation. Active in over one hundred countries worldwide,
Young Enterprise brings together business models with young
people through a range of tried and tested programmes.
The Young Enterprise International Examination gives students an
opportunity to demonstrate their entrepreneurial skills gained
during the Transition Year Programme. This Examination is
endorsed by the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford
and by the School of Arts. Fifty thousand students sat this
examination right across Europe and five hundred of these
students were Irish.
Eleven Fifth-Year students from the Ursuline Convent Secondary
School, Blackrock, Cork, sat this examination and they achieved
outstanding results. Each student was awarded distinction, which
is the top grade. Two of the students received special awards
for their performances. Emer Lehane won the National Overall
Award being the candidate who achieved first place in Ireland.
Aisling Kiely achieved the highest result in Ireland in the
Marketing section. The Awards Ceremony was held as part of the
BUPA Ireland National Finals of the Company of the Year
Competition in the Croke Park Conference Centre in Dublin. The
ceremony was attended by the Minister for Education and Science,
Dr. Michael Woods. Congratulations to both girls and to their
teachers, Mr. Carroll, Mrs. Spillane and Miss. Winters, on this
tremendous achievement. This is following on from a very proud
tradition as the Ursulines have represented Ireland twice in
Europe in the finals of the Young Enterprise Company of the Year
competition.
This has been a very special year for Emer and Aisling as they
have just been appointed Head Girl and Vice Head Girl
respectively.
THE HISTORY OF DOUGLAS
by Con Foley
... continued from last week.
GRANGE HOUSE
"James Ronayne Conrin, J.P., The Grange, Douglas; an estate
of 140 acres, which has belonged to his family, one of the oldest
in the country and related to the famous Sir Christopher Hatton,
after whom Hatton Garden was named, for nearly four hundred
years; son of the late Hatton Ronayne Conron, J.P., a well known
sportsman and breeder of horses, who formerly owned and hunted a
private pack of hounds. Justice of the Peace for County Cork,
formerly interested in the breeding of horses, and many raised in
his stable were steeplechasers of no mean order. Recreation:
hunting. Was formerly a member of the United, Duhallow South
Union and the Muskerry Hunts. Married January 1895, Bridie,
daughter of Surgeon&olonel Moriarty of St. Patrick's Hill,
Cork, and has issue three sons, Hatton Edward, Edmund and Thomas,
and one daughter Marguerite. Club: County.
'The seat of Hatton RonayneConronj.P., the demesne bounding over
two townlands. The Mansion, which is of large dimensions, with a
spacious hall was erected in 1760-. In the mansion is deposited
an interesting document, signed by George I, in the seventh year
of his reign, setting forth the appointment of the present great-great-great-great
grandfather Christopher, who married Anne, daughter of Viscount
Hatton of Hatton Gardens, London. They are descended from Sir
Christopher Hatton, who was Lord Chandellor in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth 1587 and were connected with the highest peerage of
England.".
MOTORING MOMENTS
On a warm September afternoon in 1879 a boy on
his bicycle careered down Chistlehurst Hill (Kent) with his hands
in his pockets. He hurled under the railway bridge scaring the
life out of two old ladies who were about to cross the road. a
constable appeared and the offender was charged with "Furious
Riding". In court a crusty old magistrate glared and said;"
Fined ten shillings and let this be a lesson to you , not to go
so fast in future Malcomn Campbell"
Dan Dempsey's 24 hour rescue & Recovery, Kinsale 086-8217777
DOUGLAS LIBRARY
Forthcoming Event at Douglas library on Thurs. June 28th @ 5pm
and 6.30pm
Cork Radio Club Presents A Film Series:
'Amateur Radio - the Hobby of the Space Age'
and 'How to become Radio Amateur'
The Cork Radio Club meet every Monday evening at 8.30pm At Wilton
Park House, Wilton.
Radio electronic theory and morse code classes are held leading
to the Government Amateur Radio Licence.
For further information contact Liam Lyons @ 021-4831775.
CAMP DOUGLAS 2001
Camp Douglas is a Sports Camp for children of 7 to 12 years. It
is based in Douglas Community School and is organised by Ted
Coakley, a physical education teacher at the school. The
objectives of the Camp are to introduce the children to a wide
variety of sports in a structured and supervised environment, to
develop their social skills through mixing with other children
and to enjoy their participation on the camp.
Activities at the camp will include gymnastics, basketball,
badminton, hurling, football, soccer, netball, rounders,
trampolining, rugby and minor games.
The Camp runs from Monday July 2nd until Friday July 13th at
Douglas Community School.
For further information call…..021-4841019.
SAIT THERESE OF LISIEUX
Generations of Catholics have admired this young saint, called
her the "Little flower" and found in her short life
more inspiration for own lives than in volumes by theologians.
Yet Therese died at the young age of 24, after having lived as a
cloistered Carmelite for less than ten years. She never went on
missions, never founded a religious order, never performed great
works. The only book of hers, published after her death, was a
brief edited version of her journal called "Story of a Soul."
(Collections of her letters and restored versions of her journals
have been published recently.) But within 28 years of her death,
the public demand was so great that she was canonised.
Therese was born in France in 1873, the pampered daughter of a
mother who wanted to be a saint and a father who had wanted to be
a monk, they had had nine children in all, the five that survived
were all daughters who were close all their lives. Therese lost
her mother to breast cancer when she was just four and a half
years old and just a few months later became seriously ill
herself. While ill, Therese saw her sisters praying to a statue
of Mary in her room. Therese also prayed to the statue, she saw
Mary smile and was cured.
By the time she was eleven, Therese had developed the habit of
mental prayer. At fourteen Therese was refused to Carmelite
convent by the superior because she was too young, so the
formerly shy little girl went to the Bishop and when he refused
she went over his head also. Her father and sister took her on a
pilgrimage to Rome, while there they went for an audience with
the Pope and were forbidden to speak to him but as soon as
Therese got close enough she begged that he allow her enter the
Carmelite convent. She had to be carried out by two of the guards!
But the Vicar General who had seen her courage was impressed and
soon Therese was admitted to the Carmelite convent that her
sisters Pauline and Marie had already joined. Later, the youngest
sister, Celine also joined the convent bringing the four sisters
back together again.
In 1896 she coughed up blood, but carried on working without
telling anyone until she became so ill a year later that everyone
knew it. Pauline had her writing down her memoirs and wanted her
to continue so that they would have something to circulate after
her death. Her one dream was the work she would do after her
death, helping those on earth. "I will return," she
said. "My heaven will be spent on earth." She died on
September 30th 1897 at the age of 24 years old. After she died
everything at the convent went back to normal. Pauline put
together Therese's writings (though heavily edited them) and sent
2000 copies to other convents. But Thereses "little way"
of trusting in Jesus to make her holy and relying on small daily
sacrifices, instead of those great deeds appealed to the
thousands of Catholics and others who were seeking holiness in
ordinary lives. Within two years the Martin family had to move
because her notoriety was so great and by 1925 she had been
canonised.
She once said…."We live in an age of inventions. We no
longer climb laboriously up flights of stairs in well to do
houses, there are lifts. And I was determined to find a lift to
carry me to Jesus, for I was far too small to climb the steep
stairs of perfection."
SAVINGS
by Joe Harris.
There are many reasons people start saving. To
accumulate money for a rainy day or a deposit for a house. Some
save for their wedding or a holiday, people also save for their
retirement still others for their childrens education, the list
goes on!
One thing is clear that whatever your reason it is important to
make a start. It is one thing to earn money, it can be a lot more
difficult to hold onto it. That's where your choice of savings or
investment is important.
It is vital to make use of the years when things are going well
for you to put something aside. You could put your savings into
buying a property or a long-term savings plan or invest in the
Government sponsored scheme. The main thing is to have a plan and
a goal.
Take education funding for example; if you predict that you will
require £20,000 in todays terms, in 10 years time for college
expenses then it makes sense to start now.
I list below the different reasons for saving and my preferred
choice of plan to match that need. Many will overlap. As the
fella said 'whatever you do, do something'. If you do nothing
that's exactly what you will have to show in 10 years time
NOTHING!
REASON TIME SPAN METHOD
Deposit for house 2-5 years Government savings plan or deposit
ccount-through either banks, credit unions or post office
Retirement 15-30years Pension Plan through one of the insurance
companies or
property investment
Childrens Education 7-10 years Government savings plan or
education savings plan through insurance company
One other factor is important in relation to savings and that is
access to your funds. Too easy access to your money can undo most
of your good work. The best rule of thumb in savings is out of
sight out of mind. It is no harm to enter into a plan that
commits you to putting away a certain amount every week or month
that cannot be taken out on a whim.
Don't put yourself under pressure in relation to the amount you
can save. Only put away what you can comfortably budget for. That
way you are more likely to keep your savings going long term.
Remember; in relation to saving getting started is the hard part!
Joe Harris is a member of the Insurance Institute of Ireland.
CHIMEA’RA GYMNASTICS
The talent dedication and hard work of the gymnasts, coaches and
indeed the parents from the club was acknowledged at the Southern
Region Gymnastics Awards which were held recently. There to
present the awards was the President of Irish Gvmnastics, Mr Pat
O'Brien, who referred to the region as 'being the flagship region
within Irish Gymnastics".
The following club members were recipients of awards on the night.
"We see this as quite an achievement for such a young club",
said Mary Coakley, one of the directors.
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Junior- Suzanne O'Halloran
Suzanne was one of the first Rhythmic gymnasts at Chimea'ra and
has worked steadily and consistently throughout her training,
Suzanne is a quiet girl who tries her very best 100% of the time.
Although she is naturally very stiff and her feet seem to have a
mind of their own, she works hard to overcome this and is her
persistence is paying off. We think Suzanne deserves this award
in order to show that her hard work does not go unnoticed.
Senior- Daniela Riecke
Daniela has been doing gymnastics for less than a year and in
that time has evolved from a lanky, stiff inelegant, awkward
child into a graceful, beautiful gymnast! Daniel a has worked
extremely hard in order to catch up with her team-mates who have
been training considerably longer than her. Since our trip to
Hillingdon school of Gvmnasties during the Easter holidays her
personality has started to bloom, as has her gymnastics skill. In
fact, the change has been so remarkable that it is a standing
joke in our club that we brought away a "Dani" to
London, and we came back with a Daniela! We think Daniela
deserves this award for her hard work and dedication.
Trampolining
Sonya Coaldey-Hanan- 23 year old Sonya is a veteran of gymnastics.
She was an artistic gymnast from the age 7-14. she trained at
Douglas Gym before moving to England for training, she took up
trampolining at the age of 15 and despite fracturing her back
trampolining she still competes to this day and is currently
training for the World
Age Group Games in Denmark this July. Sonya is also a coach of
men's/women's artistic gymnastic trampolining, Pre-school and
llllivthmie Gvrnnastics, is Vice President of Rhythmic gymnastics
in this country, and in her "spare' time (!) she is studying
to be a sports irjut~' therapist. We think Sonya deserves this
award for her dedication to the sport over the years and for
being brave enough to wear a leotard at the age of 23!
Yvonne Dowling- At the age of 8, Yvonne is one of the youngest
members of regional squad. She has been Trampolining less than a
year and is showing amazing talent. She is a naturally gifted
trampolinist and has incredible form for some one her age. She is
a quiet and unassuming child who is a delight to teach. This girl
is name to look out for in the future. We feel that Yvonne
deserves this award as a reward for the hard work she puts in to
her training. We hope that it will give her the confidence she
needs to believe in herself and to realise just how good she is.
Johnny Collins- 12 Year old Johnny started trampolining in
September 1999 and progressed at a steady rate until he began to
learn the dreaded back somersault! This move caused major
problems for him and major headaches for his coaches'. He took a
break from the sport for a few months and what a difference a few
months makes. Johnnv is now back in the gym with a renewed
enthusiasm and a much more mature attitude and is training
extremely hard. He has even overcome his fear of back somi's and
it is hoped that he will soon trial for Regional and National
squads. We think Johnny deserves this award for his new and
improved attitude and for conquering his fear when it would have
been easier to give up.
Jamie O'Toole- 15 year old Jamie, was alwavs known as "Colm's
little brother", this is about to change! Jamie was an
artistic gymnast for years with Canigaline Gym Club, and since
taking up trampolining less than a year ago Jamie has really come
into his own. The strength and power as well as the acrobatic
skill that he gained as a gymnast are proving to be of huge
benefit as he is picking up new skills with incredible ease.
Jamie has been tipped for the top visiting coaches from abroad
and if he keeps progressing at the rate he is, he will be
competing at international level before long. We think Jamie
deserves this award for stepping out of his brother's shadow and
bouncing to new heights.
Aideen McCarthy- 14-Year-old Aideen is one of a new breed of
gymnasts in that she competes at two disciplines of the sport. An
artistic gymnast at Douglas Gym for years, and now a trampolinist
for Chimea'ra Gymnastics. Her gymnastics background has been a
great help to her trampolining, and she is one of the most
promising young members of National Squad. Aideen is always
bright and cheerful and is a pleasure to coach. She works hard
training and is a much-valued member of both regional and
national squad as well as both her clubs. We think Aideen
deserves this award in view of both her achievements in her
trampolining and her hard work and dedication. We would like to
apologise to Aideen for omitting her name from our last article
regarding National Championship results. Aideen, in fact, took
first place in the Under 15 Girls Advanced. Congratulations are
to be extended to the regional committee on the success of the
evening.
THE MOUSE HAS BECOME MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN
A lot of people view the legal system as archaic, out of touch,
old-fashioned and resistant to change. Ireland is now the leading
producer of software and technology in the world and the legal
system has now fully embraced the world of technology and
computerisation.
THE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ACT 2000
The Electronic Commerce Act 2000 came into effect in September
2000 and electronic communications and information are now
recognised legally. Previously, only original paper documents
were considered legal and had to be presented in Court as proof
of their existence and originality.
Section 9 of the Act states that information shall not be denied
legal effect, validity or enforceability, solely on the grounds
that it is wholly or partly in electronic form. The Act also
recognises electronic signatures in certain circumstances,
however there are exceptions, the most important being a Will
which must always be in its original form.
If somebody buys on the Internet, the Electronic Commerce Act
2000 considers this to be a formal contract where previously this
would have been in doubt. There are, however, difficulties
concerning on-line contracts, the most obvious being a problem of
jurisdiction. If you order goods from the US on-line, where was
the contract made? If you have problems with what you bought and
have to sue, you will most likely need an American lawyer to
fight your case in the US.
THE LAND REGISTRY
The Title to most people’s houses is registered in the Land
Registry. For the Cork region the Land Registry is situated in
Waterford City. For each Land Registry Title a Folio Number is
attributed to the Registered Owner and all details of the owners
property, for example what Mortgages affect the property and the
size and acreage of the property is registered under this Folio
Number. Within the last few months the Land Registry in Cork has
gone on-line. This obviously involved a huge amount of work as
every Folio had to be entered and as every property is bought or
sold each Folio is updated. All this information can now be
accessed on-line.
STATUTES
Up to approximately one year ago if you wished to obtain any
Statute or Act of the Oireachtas you firstly had to know the year
in which it was passed, find and obtain the book in which it was
published and if you wished to know whether or not any Acts were
passed on a particular subject, it was not possible to do this.
Now every Act of the Oireachtas passed since 1922 is available on
one CD. Not only is this extremely convenient, but the search
facility allows you to find if an Act on a certain topic was
passed or not. You simply key in the appropriate words and the
information is presented to you.
It certainly is the case that the mouse has become mightier than
the pen.
