List of winners of the Heritage Week Treasure Hunt:
Cian O'Sullivan, Ovens
Daire Murray, Waterford
Stella McKane, Carmarthen, Wales
Rohan Neat, Cambridge, UK
Yasemin Yikilmaz, Ballincollig
Michael Collins, Woodfield
Caolan O'Driscoll, Dunmanway
Nuria Gomez Cardoso, Midleton
Annie McCarthy, Clonakilty
Niamh O'Gorman, Kinsale
Louis Barrett-Slater, UK
With thanks to all our sponsors:
Geraldine Cullinane, Clonakilty Bookshop
Trish Kerr, Kerr's Bookshop
Laurence Coughlan, Coughlan's Bookshop
West Cork Model Railway Village
Michael Collins House
Good positive feedback from many participators, with both children and accompanying adults enjoying the opportunity to discover the history of Clonakilty.
Emerging from the Shadow of Tom Crean
Lecture by Aileen Crean O’Brien & Bill Sheppard
The Parish Centre, Clonakilty
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Thursday September 28th 8.30 pm
In May 1916, Kerry man Tom Crean, along with Ernest Shackleton and four other crew members, landed the James Caird lifeboat on the rocky isle of South Georgia. The navigation of that small boat, across 1500 km through icy winds and towering seas, is regarded as the greatest-ever feat of navigation. They then trekked across the forbidding and inhospitable mountains and glaciers of South Georgia to seek help for the rest of their crew, who were left behind on Elephant Island after their ship, the Endurance, was crushed by the Antarctic ice.
One hundred years later, Crean’s grandaughter, Aileen Crean O’Brien, set off with her sons and partner to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps. Join Aileen and Bill to hear of their adventures (and misadventures) on the Southern Ocean and the island of South Georgia.
John Loughnan installed as new Clon Mayor
PHOTO: New Clonakilty Mayor John Loughnan, (centre), with his Mayoral Council colleagues, Anthony McDermott, Colette Twomey, Gretta O’ Donovan, (Deputy Mayor) and Cionnaith Ó Súilleabháin at Asna Square last Thursday after the Mayoral Changeover ceremony. (Photo: Édaín Ní Dhomhnaill).
The flag of the Borough of Clonakilty fluttered at Asna Square last Thursday as John Loughnan was installed as Clonakilty's new voluntary, non-political, community Mayor at a pleasant ceremony witnessed by a large crowd, which included Jim Daly, TD, Michael Collins, TD; local County Councillors Paul Hayes and John O’ Sullivan; Mons. Aidan O’ Driscoll, PP and Rev. Kingsley Sutton. Earlier, the five members of the Mayoral Council, led by outgoing Mayor Anthony McDermott, met at O’ Donovan’s Hotel and marched from there to Asna Square for the 8pm Changeover Ceremony.