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The Fáilte Abhaile Festival photo and video exhibit opened today. Click the link to view pictures. |
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The Fáilte Abhaile Festival opened last night. Click the link to view pictures. |
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The Fáilte Abhaile Commitee have released the final Programme of Events for the Festival. |
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Fáilte Abhaile Festival - Three weeks and counting! Hi all, I'm dropping a note to remind everyone that the Fáilte Abhaile Festival 2007 is just about three weeks away now and the clock is certainly ticking. Most of the main events have been organised at this stage and the final programme will be completed and circulated within the next week. As you probably know, events include golf, yawl racing, family sports day, family barbecue and trad session, photo exhibition, ceili and a special mass to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the church. The closing buffet will take place on Monday night 6th August in Ostán Oileáin Acla (Alice's to you and me!) and tickets are now on sale at ?20 per person. There is a limited number of tickets available for this night and you can arrange to book tickets now with Helen Gallagher (086-4063675). Some tickets will be for sale over the Festival weekend but none on the door on the night. You can also now buy or place orders for the souvenir polo shirts which have a special 2007 logo designed by the kids in Currane National School and the Ógras group. Shirts are ?25 and you can contact Michéal Ruddy at (086-4077666) for yours. Kids shirts are available too for ?5. Finally and most importantly, we really, really need volunteers to help out with events throughout the weekend. We have kids art workshops on Friday, a teen disco on Friday night, family treasure hunt on Saturday, barby on Saturday afternoon and football on Sunday. There's also a clean up of the village the weekend before the Festival, not to mention traffic management and stewarding for the sport events in particular. If you are willing to help out with any of these events please let any of the Committee know or reply by email. We also have a meeting scheduled after mass on every Sunday between now and the Festival so please come along. If everyone helps out a little bit, even for an hour or two over the whole weekend, we can make sure that the Festival is a great success and a great weekend for everyone. Looking forward to seeing you all in Currane in a few weeks. Please feel free to anyone with Currane connections or affections. Sinéad. |
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John Hoban has been in touch with us. As many of you know, this renowned musician has a great connection with Currane. He has sent me the words to his song "The Icing on the Cake- The Curraun Song". You can read his message and look at the lyrics by clicking the link on the right. To find out more about John Hoban, buy his latest album or view the TV programme of his performance in The George, take a look at http://www.johnhoban.net |
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John Carrington has sent us some pictures of Dennis Patten in New Zealand. |
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Jemma daughter of David and Maureen Witham (Melmoe) was married to Mark Goulds on December 23rd 2007 in London. Maureen has sent us some pictures of the happy event. |
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The 2006 Old Folks Christmas Party took place on December 8th at Glór na dTonn. All photos courtesy of John Psaila. |
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Mary Madden (Kilbane) celebrated her 90th birthday in style at Glór na dTonn on Saturday January 6th, surrounded by her family, friends and neighbours. Click link on the right for the pictures. All photos courtesy of Ian Boyle. |
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Mark Ruddy has sent us some pictures that were taken in Manchester over Christmas and the New Year, including a picture of his sister Patricia and her new husband Matthew taken at their wedding on December 29th. |
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Talented local photographer Ian Boyle now has his own web site which includes his portfolio of work. The address is www.ianboylephotography.com. |
Click here to access Ian's site. |
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The is a new addition to our accommodation section. Don't forget you can advertise your property free of charge by emailing us the details. |
Click here to view accommodation. |
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You will notice that many old news stories have been removed from this page. They are all still available though. Visit our News Archive section by clicking the News Archive button above. |
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