Minister Éamon Ó Cuiv visits Currane


On Monday 21st October, Minister Éamon Ó Cuiv visited Currane to officially open the Enterprise Centre, Casadh an Taoille. He also launched the brochure produced by Comhlacht Forbartha Áitiúil Acla (Achill Local Development Company) and met with several community groups.
Minister Ó Cuiv was presented with a watercolour – “Daybreak in Currane” – by a local artist, in recognition of his visit.
After the formal part of the visit, Minister Ó Cuiv met with Muintir a’Chorráin (Currane Development Company) who raised several issues including telecommunications, FÁS Schemes, roads, piers, planning permission and development of changing facilities at the community pitch, Griffin Park.
A successful evening was rounded off with a plentiful supply of refreshments provided by the Ladies Club.

Ann Sweeney – 21st October 2002

From: Ann Sweeney 21st October 2002
Hi Everyone, Greetings from Melbourne!

Hope you’re all well and happy.
Wasn’t that terrible about the Bali bombing? Just to think we were there in that bar 2 months ago and in the Irish bar Paddies across the road.  Well, 2 friends of ours are so lucky they are still alive. They were the 2 girls we met in Vietnam, both from Melbourne. They were actually in Kuta and planning to go to that nite club on Saturday nite but Lou’s ankle was hurting her or they would have been there. They came home to Melbourne yesterday so we’re meeting them at the weekend, they’re very lucky girls!!

On Sunday we hired out 2 cars. I hadn’t driven in 6 months and driving an automatic was pretty different. God, you’d get so lazy driving them!! We decided to get out of the city for the day, we had a great time. We went the Dandenong Mountains, wow, the view was lovely! The city looked tiny from miles away. From there, we went to Healesville Sanctuary and finally got to see some Kangeroos, Koalas and flying fox!!! The foxes were scary looking, hanging upside down. They stared you out of it just like bats!!! From there we drove to Williamstown, very much like St Kilda, the main interest was to cross over a massive bridge called the West Gate Bridge. Seeing it every day at the Rialto buildings I was dying to cross over it. On the way back it was dark and the city looked amazing at nite from the bridge!! It really was a great day, 6 Irish (of course we’d have the larger gang!!!, 1 English and 1 Scottish girl on the road great fun!!,

Still working away but we moved office, really missing the Rialto and view but this place is actually nice as well!!, the offices are way bigger. This job we’re working on has a deadline of Friday week, so we’re all working both Saturday and Sunday over the weekend.

The weather today is beautiful, its 29 degrees and would you believe I’m wearig a pair of shorts for the first time in Melbourne so lets hope it keeps up!!!

Well I hope ye all have a great weekend!!, its nearly there for ye all, hang in there!!

well that’s all for the news for now

take care
Ann

The Ruddy Report – 11/10/02


This Week….

Well Sports fans!

This week I will talk about Achill’s Promotion Crushed!

At Davitt Park last Saturday evening, Achill took on local rivals Islandeady in a very important League clash. For Islandeady nothing was at stake only pride, but for Achill a win would mean a huge step towards Promotion to Division 2.

However, for the second week running, the Mayo GAA failed to send down a Referee to the game and with Achill becoming very impatient a deal was struck between Islandeady and Achill to play the game that night with a referee from Islandeady. This was cleared with the County board and the game went ahead.

Achill started very slow with Islandeady getting the first number of scores, Achill battled back into the game and were just a few points behind but then in a matter of 5 minutes, Islandeady struck twice with to very well worked goals which just cut straight through the Achill defence.

Achill were stunned and a number of rushed substitutions were made immediately. Although the substitutions did settle the team Achill were still failing to get a grip on things. The game proved as in years gone by to be a very physical and dirty game with one Achill player in particular coming out worse in a malicous challenge.

At Half time there were 6 points between the teams and Achills’ hope was fading slightly but there was still optimism there and Achill went out in the second half with hearts full of fire.

Islandeady cooled that fire down almost immediately with the first score of the second half. After swapping points Achill started to pull themselves closer to Islandeady and at one stage were just 2 points behind, until a bit of an incident happened in the middle of the park resulting in the dismissal of an Achill Player.

Achill seemed to be finished but deep runs from Darren Lavelle and Ray McNamara from the middle of the field, almost resulting in goals kept Achill’s hopes alive. Shane Gallagher and Barry Dever swapped points with the visitors before a goal mouth scramble in the Islandeady box saw Achill robbed of a Penalty.

After that it was all down hill. Islandeady ran up the field and scored a goal which was the killer blow for Achill and shortly afterwards the whistle blew. So close but yet so far. Achill play their final game of the campaign this weekend but the game will serve only as a challenge as Ardnaree are already 4 pts ahead of Achill going into the game.

In other news the County Football Intermediate Final takes place this Sunday in Garrymore between Shrule/Glencorrib and close neighbours Balinrobe which will prove to be a very close match.

The Ruddy Report – 5/10/02


This Week….

Well there Readers! This week I have a range of interesting Sport topics for you ranging from Local to National Sport.

Achill Rovers are Premier Division Champions. Yes Achill Rovers won comfortably on Sunday last to elevate them back into the Mayo Super League. Rovers who won 3-0, haven’t settled down since winning the League a few years ago are now back where they belong but I am sure they will have a tough time next season, but hopefully they will manage to make an impression.

Achill GAA were supposed to play a League game on Saturday evening against Islandeady, but the Referee failed to show. The game went ahead however but only as a challenge match. I watched parts of the game and Achill looked very good at times. Coming forward, they were very good at moving the ball at speed but in front of goal and from long disatnce they failed to impress. Achill play again this weekend in another League match, against Ardnaree I think!

This Sunday, Knockmore and Crossmolina will meet in Ballina to contest the Corrib Oil Mayo Senior Football Championship Final. John Maughan’s Crossmolina are favourites going in to the Final and have been hotly tipped all year, but Knockmore have had a very good run in the League this season and undoubtly have a say in the destination of the Moclair Cup.

And if you were not watching TG4 on Sunday afternoon, Mayo defeated Monaghan by 1 point to win the Ladies All Ireland Senior Football Championship. It was a hotly contested game with little between the teams, but Mayo proved to have that extra edge when it was needed and won their 4th All Ireland in 5 Years. In the Junior Final, Galway completed the Double for Connaght by defeating Donegal by 10 points. On the way home both teams walked both Cups over the Shannon where they were greeted by a sea of Green and Red and Maroon and White.