Archive for 'Bandon'
Rosmini Community Event Needs Your Help
Posted on March 14, 2010, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Entertainment, Family, Ireland.
I’ll keep it short and sweet. If you know of any family-friendly comedians or mind-trick guys who would be able to perform on March 26th in Bandon, can you get in touch with me and I’ll pass it on to the Rosmini Centre people? They do have some budget for it, so pro or semi-pro is fine.
Also the dog owned by one of the kids who was going to perform has gone missing. Please keep an eye out for a sheepdog in the Crossbarry area. If the same happens to you, I encourage you to post it on LostandFound.ie.
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Community Variety Show on March 26th in Bandon
Posted on March 6, 2010, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Entertainment, Ireland.
Every year the great people who run the Rosmini centre for adults with an intellectual disability organise a fun and interesting event to promote community integration and inclusion for everyone. This year they are organising a community variety show.
It’s on Friday the 26th of March in the GAA Hall in Bandon. Doors opening at 7.15, show starts at 8 sharp. It is not a fund raising event so tickets will be at the very affordable cost of €5 each.
The show will include:
- A DJ
- Singing & Music
- Magic and Tricks (both kids and adults)
- Bingo
- Dance & Comedy
- Raffle
- Street Dancers
There will be spot prizes between performances.
Sounds like a great fun night for all the family. You should start seeing signs for it around the town soon.
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As You Wish
Posted on December 15, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Entertainment.
Well Bandon Film Society has gone and done it again with this brilliant idea.
In association with Partnership for Change they are organising a Special Christmas Charity Screening for Bandon Flood Appeal on Wednesday 30th December 2009 in St Peters Church, Bandon at 8pm
The movie is one of my top 5 of all time, The Princess Bride, starring the angelic Robin Wright.
If you don’t live in Bandon, get into your car and drive here for this. If you don’t live in Ireland, fly here. The recent showing of the original Phantom of The Opera in St Peter’s was a tour-de-force.
Not only will you enjoy a genius movie but you’ll be helping by contributing to the Irish Red Cross and St Vincent De Paul.
Further Information Contact:
Declan Waugh Tel: 023-8841933 M: 086-3853363
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Flood Updates on Bandon.ie
Posted on November 22, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Ireland.
Trevor Collins is doing a phenomenal job over on the Bandon.ie blog with updates on the floods and plenty of guidance/links. If you live locally or travel through here, you need to be following it. If you are on Twitter, I auto-post links to all his posts over on twitter.com/bandon.
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The Floods
Posted on November 21, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork.
Our thoughts are with all those families and businesses damaged by the horrendous floods in West Cork this week.
We were lucky. Apart from the inconvenience of no phoneline and some bad leaks in a bay window, we managed to escape pretty unscathed.
If you have any detour tips for those trying to get in and out of West Cork, please leave them in the comments. This route was still working at 2pm yesterday so hopefully it’ll work for you. (Click on it for larger size):
Bandon had been doing a large marketing push for November. Now more than ever, we should shop locally and help those businesses get back on their feet.
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In a choir? Available to sing in Bandon on Jan 29th?
Posted on November 17, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Entertainment, Family, Ireland.
I’ve just been contacted by a someone organising a lovely local event. They are looking for a folk choir or an upbeat church choir to get involved.
It’s on 29th Jan 2010 in Bandon.
They also need an audio system if you know of anyone willing to loan for the night.
Mail me on conor@loudervoice.com if you want to help out and I’ll pass on your details.
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Bandon Farmer’s Market now has a web-site
Posted on October 25, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, BandonFarmersMarket, Cork, Ireland.
I’m always happy to see local initiatives get an online presence to extend their reach. My attempt to create a blog for Bandon Farmer’s Market three years ago fell flat due to my lack of consultation with the standholders to ensure buy-in. So it is great to see the new site launch with all the details you need. Check it out here and don’t forget it is on every Saturday morning.
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Bandon.ie revamp
Posted on October 16, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Blogging, Cork, Ireland.
Trevor and crew have done a big revamp of the bandon.ie. Tons of useful information about the town and area and the beginnings of a local business directory. You should definitely be subscribed to the blog if you want the latest news. I push all their blog updates to Twitter here too.
The best way you can help the site is to make sure you let them know about everything that is happening in the town. It’s a resource by the community for the community.
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Chambers Organic Pork from West Cork
Posted on October 15, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Food, Ireland.
I haven’t tried their meat yet but the thought of locally-reared organic pork has me salivating. They sell directly to the consumer and are based in Teadies near Enniskean. The pigs are a mix of Old Spots Gloucester & Saddleback. Give Liam a call on 086 604 1208 if you want to order. More details on their web-site.
Rough location here:
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Vids and Pics of Engage Arts
Posted on September 27, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Entertainment.
I put up some vids and pics of Friday night on the Engage Posterous Blog. If you have similar from all the other events on Friday/Saturday, would you email them to me and I’ll post them there too (with full attribution of course)? conor AT loudervoice DOT com
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Engage Arts Festival this weekend
Posted on September 21, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Entertainment.
The second year of the Engage Arts festival is fast approaching and it looks fantastic. Something for everyone, no matter what their interests or age.
I’ve put together a simple mini-blog for the event over here on Posterous. The aim is that people can upload information, pictures, videos etc very easily over the weekend.It has the full line-up for the two days and contact details too.
It’d be fantastic if you’d take part in this exercise. It’s as simple as emailing me on cwjoneill AT gmail DOT com. I then add you as an author on the blog and all you have to do is email text, pictures, videos, links etc to post@posterous.com and they will automatically appear! Yup, that easy. You can even do it from many phones.
So c’mon, Engage is about engaging with the arts and what better way to do that than to submit your experiences of the weekend and all the events by sending a wee email. If even that freaks you out as a technophobe, then just send the stuff to me and I’ll upload it for you.
Any questions, just leave em in the comments.
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BEST….MOVIE….IDEA….EVER And in Bandon!
Posted on September 12, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Entertainment, Family, Ireland.
Catherine FitzMaurice from Kilbrogan House just contacted me about an awesome night that is happening as part of the Engage Arts festival over the weekend of Sep 25th.
They are showing the 1925 version of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA with, and this is the genius bit, live organ accompaniment by Dr Eric Sweeney who is head of Music at Waterford School of Technology. Not only that, but they are showing it in a church. The atmosphere should be amazing!
It’s on in St Peter’s Church, Bandon on Friday, 25th September at 9pm. The film runs for 90mins. Tickets are only €10 and I think they are going to sell out well before time. Call the office on 087-1205022 or Film Society on 086-3689939.
Check it:
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C103 loses the plot
Posted on April 14, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Entertainment.
You don’t need to be an economist to know that media companies are suffering hugely in this recession. Their reliance on advertising makes them incredibly sensitive to downturns.
When you have a radio show that addresses a focused engaged specific audience, you would think that it would be a gift both for the broadcaster and those advertising to that audience. Thus C103’s decision to axe David Young’s “West Cork Today” programme frankly boggles the mind.
Radio broadcast licences have been a goldmine for companies like UTV over the past few years. But at the first sign of a downturn, it looks like they take the short term view and run for the hills? With those licences come legally binding terms and conditions. Perhaps the BCI would like to use this case as an example to Comreg on how a regulator should actually conduct itself.
Having said all of that, the idea of one company having the sole rights to broadcast to a particular niche or geography belongs in the 20th century. The internet makes a mockery of this partitioning. If C103 is unwilling to meet its customers’ needs then the customer needs to take back control.
I’ll be honest, I rarely listen to “live” radio any more. I download podcasts and music in which I am interested and then listen whilst driving with them playing back to my Lidl car stereo. Everything from food to technology to politics. Many of them are actually radio shows, mainly BBC Radio 4 and 5. I’d happily pay for a daily or weekly roundup of local West Cork information that I could listen to when it suited me, not the broadcaster.
How many of David Young’s listeners would be willing to pay maybe €3 a month to subscribe to an internet version of his show (and other West Cork programming)? Both live-streamed and available for download to iPods, mobile phones or PCs? Of course traditional broadcast is the most efficient way to get to the maximum number of people but needs must when the devil vomits into your kettle (to quote Edmund Blackadder).
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Launch of ‘Bandon – Working Together’ group
Posted on April 4, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Ireland.
The ‘Bandon – Working Together’ group seeks to promote the strengths of the town through communication and activities. Their first activity is the creation of a ‘What’s on in Bandon’ newsletter. If you want to get a mention in it, head on over to the Bandon.ie blog for all the details.
I’m shooting them a quick email now about doing a blog and email list.
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Some videos of today’s St Patrick’s Day Parade in Bandon
Posted on March 17, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Cork, Ireland.
Fantastic day for it. Hopefully some more music/bands next year?
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Help with Blog Research
Posted on January 26, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon.
Sinéad Cochrane of Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology is doing a survey of bloggers and those who read blogs. It would help her a lot if you took part. It’s very short and you could win a prize! Start here
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Return of the Porki
Posted on January 8, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon, Food.
The Empire may have done its best to kill the pork industry in Ireland but the producers are fighting back. Barrie Tyner from Slow Food Ireland just let me know that the West Cork and Cork City Conviviums are coming together to bring us ‘The Pig Extravaganza’.
I was disappointed to find that this did not include dancing pigs but it’s the next best thing 
To celebrate National Pork Weekend, an evening of eating and great chat is planned down west on Sunday, the 18th of January.
Speakers include award winning butcher Martin Carey. Willie and Avril Allshire of Caherbeg Free Range Pork Farm and Rosscarbery Recipes, Frank Krawcykz, salami maker and artisan, Anthony Creswell of Ummera Smoked Bacon plus guest chefs.
Over the years I’ve driven past many signs for the Ballyjamesduff Pork Festival. I hope we could have something like that down here every year too. Imagaine a giant cook-out with BBQs and Smokers going all day? Yummmmm!
I’ll post an update it when the venue (probably in Bandon) is confirmed. If you love anything made from pork and you want to show your support for fantastic local producers, then I hope to see you there.
UPDATE: The details of the day have been finalised:
Time: 12.00 Noon, Sunday January 19th. Location: Heron Court, Market Quay, Bandon. A 3 course lunch will be served with talks and demonstrations from artisan food producers including award winning Bandon butcher, Martin Carey, Willie and Avril Allshire of Caherbeg, Frank Krawcykz of West Cork Salamis, and Anthony Creswell of Ummera Smoked Products. €30.00 for Slow Food Members, €35.00 for Non-Members. Booking essential as numbers limited. slowfoodwestcork AT gmail DOT com or 086 067 6249.
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TeenCamp Ireland
Posted on December 30, 2008, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon.
Bloody teenagers. All they do is sit around, playing video games, smoking, drinking cider and coming up with fantastic ideas like TeenCamp.
TeenCamp Ireland is a gathering of the techies/bloggers/fanboys age 13+ in Ireland to give talks, meet others, share ideas and have a laugh. TeenCamps are organised/planned/run by teens for other teens.
They are holding it in Filmbase in Dublin on Jan 17th.
If you know anyone in this age group who fits the bill, let them know about it. I’d have cut my arm off with a rusty saw aged 15 in 1983 to attend something like this and swap ZX Spectrum programming tips.
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Frost Stops Play
Posted on December 28, 2008, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon.
Whilst growing up from age 6-18 in Kilkenny, one group of people I never got on with were the park-keepers (“parkies”) in the Castle Park. They always seemed to be fun-killers.
It looks like nothing has changed in over 20 years. I watched at least 50 people walk away gutted from the park yesterday with bawling children due to this:
One person claimed it was because a child had slipped and hurt themselves on the previous day. A child. Hurt. In a playground. Shock! Horror! How could this happen? Quick! Sue someone!
We just went and climbed some 100 ft tall trees and let the children fall into the unfenced pond instead since that was much safer.
And don’t get me started on the “We close at 4pm but actually lock all but one of the gates at 3.30pm so we can be in the pub at 4.01pm”.
Office of Public Works eh?
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Great site about Annaghmore
Posted on December 13, 2008, by Conor O'Neill, under Bandon.
If, like 99% of the local population, you think Annaghmore is the best idea we’ve had in Ireland since feeding PCBs to pigs, check out this excellent site with information about it.
Any politician who votes in favour of Annaghmore is basically admitting to being a shill and will be out on their ear in the next election.
