Christmas Bazarr

Bring and Buy items (books, toys, home baking etc.) are required for a
Christmas Bazarr, to be held on December 12th in aid of Rathgormack
Community and Hiking Centre. Unwanted gifts would be greatly
appreciated for an auction to be held on the day. Santa will also
attend!! Items may be dropped onto the centre on:
•Friday 10th December 3-4pm or
•Saturday 12th December 11-12 am

Many thanks

Danzarama christmas show

The Danzarama Christmas show will be held on Tuesday evening 7th December at 7.30pm.

Halloween party

A SPOOKY HALLOWEEN PARTY
WILL TAKE PLACE AT RATHGORMACK COMMUNITY CENTRE •
ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 31st FROM 6.00 TO 8.30PM FOR ALL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN.

PARTY GAMES & DISCO Y D J: AIDAN MAC.
TREAT BAGS, SPOT PRIZES AND FUN GALORE,
€5 PER CHILD, FAMILY DISCOUNTS.

Tea/COFFEE MORNING

A Tea~Coffee morning will be held this Tuesday October 19th 2010 after 9.30am mass until 12.00 in Rathgormack Community Centre to fundraise for the Rathgormack/Clonea Toddler Time, Parent & Toddler group. Toddler Time meets every Tuesday during term time at the community centre between 9.30 and 11.00am, Your support for this event is greatly appreciated so come along have a cup and a slice of something nice

-- Made with Prizmo.

Regards Francis

Karate lessons

Karate lessons will commence in the Rathgormack Community Centre on Saturday mornings from 11am to 12md beginning on Saturday 2nd October 2010.
Fully qualified and local instructor Denis Hogan will accept girls and boys from age 6 upwards.
Classes are €5 euro weekly and places are limited.
For any further enquiries please contact Theresa on 087 ~ 6379476 after 6pm.

-- Made with Prizmo.

Regards Francis

Cards back tonight

CARDS BACK TO NIGHT AT 8.45 PM 

KARATE REG ON SAT FROM 11TO 12NOON 

Mulcahy Bible dance school

Mulcahy- Bible Dance School Dance classes for boys and glris will
re-open on Wednesday 8th of Sept at 6.30pm in the Community Centre
Rathgormack. Classes in Ballet, Tap ,Stage and Irish Dancing looking
forward to seeing you

Music lessons

C.C.E Craobh Crotaigh begins its music lessons on Sept 15th. Enrolment
for these will be on Sept 8th from 5pm to 6pm.
Lessons available are as follows:

•Tin Whistle / flute with our new teacher Colleen Fahey on Wednesdays.

•Accordian with Esme Crowley who is returning to us following her
maternity leave . These lessons are also on Wednesdays.

•Thursday evenings Violin lessons (Children & Adults )& Banjo (Adults) lessons are taught by Brendan Claney.

Cost- 65 euro (reduction avail for more than one child / instrument)

No. of weeks: 13 wks. 15 Sept to 15 Dec with a week off for Halloween
mid-term -Wed 27, Thurs 28 Oct.

N.B Existing members are asked to bring along their instruments
(rented from us or otherwise) to the enrolment on Wed 8.

We are hoping to organise a junior group with a variety of musical
instruments in the coming year also.

Further details at a later stage.
Further info: Marcella-646281, Patricia. 387787

Introduction to Heritage of the Comeraghs

Mothel Abbey (by Francis Quigley)

Introduction to Heritage of the Comeraghs ,
A foundation course on promoting visitor potential of the uplands in
County Waterford Rathgormack Hiking Centre Autumn 2010

Day :- Wednesdays
Time :- 7.00 - 10.00pm
Venue :- Rathgormack Hiking Centre
Duration:- 8 weeks
Beginning :- 22nd September 2010
For further information and an application form contact the Heritage
Officer with Waterford County Council 058 22000/086 8590341
bguest@waterfordcoco.ie
Details also available from Rathgormack Hiking Centre.

Heritage Course

Dear Francis,

Brid Aine suggested I contact you re- a news item in your newsletter. It concerns the Introduction to the Heritage of The Comeraghs Course  which will now commence on Wednesday 22nd of September rather than the originally advertised September 15th.

Regards,

B. Guest

Bernadette Guest
Heritage Officer,
Waterford Co. Council,
Dungarvan Civic Offices
Dungarvan,
Co. Waterford

Office phone: 058 20839 /051 395532
Mobile phone: 086 8590341
bguest@waterfordcoco.ie
www.waterfordcoco.ie

150th Anniversary and resent renovation

Bishop William Lee celebrates mass at St Cuan and St Brogan church in Clonea -Power to mark its 150th anniversary and resent renovation
To view all the photos follow the link below.

http://web.me.com/mauricehennebry/Site/Clonea-Power_Church.html

Photos were taken by

Maurice Hennebry
9 Bracken Grove
Old Tramore Road
Waterford City

email : mauricehennebry@yahoo.com hennebry.m@gmail.com

Mob : 0879377051

all photos taken by Maurice Hennebry

Community Games 2010

Clonea/Rathgormack Community Games will take place Saturday May 22nd at 11am at Clonea GAA Pitch. There are a number of events to take part in from age Under 8 upto Under 16. Also some novelty events : potato + spoon race, Sack race, Three-legged race, Mom and Dad’s race.
All the family are welcome for a fun morning out!
All children must know their date of birth.

The day was a great success

Committee members have a copy of a cd with photos of the day
Contact
Joan Curran    086 0583301

Clonea Vintage Tractor Run 2010 in aid of Church Renovation

These are a selection of photos from members of the Carrick Camera Club www.CarrickCameraClub.com and other people who took photos of the event.


(CLick arrow to start - to view photo's full screen click the box in the bottom right with the four arrows point outward)

For more sets of photos follow the links below
Francis Quigley
Joe Cashin
Martin Tobin


Over 110 vechicles took part in the event which was in aid of the newly renovated church in Clonea. It raised close to €4000.


Rathgormack was also the host of the All-Ireland model helicopter comeption over the weekend, the 3DX Ireland event was hosted by Waterford Model Flying Club at their base in Ross. Some photos of it can be seen at the link below
Waterford Flying Club host 3DX Compeition

Celie night

The next celie night is the 18th June 2010.

Rathgormack Drama Group

Adults who might be interested in taking part in a new Drama Group in Rathgormack are asked to forward their name to the hall committee, just email your details to the address below.

chairman@rathgormackhostel.com
or
info@rathgormackhostel.com

American Tea Party

An American Tea party night will be held in the hall on the 19th June 2010. People are invited to book tables of 10 people, the cost is €20/head.

chairman@rathgormackhostel.com
or
info@rathgormackhostel.com

Summer Solstice Walk

The Summer Solstice Walk, takes place on June 27th 2010. The Gap walk, takes place from the Nire to Rathgormack. Transport is provided from Rathgormack Hiking Centre to the Nire.
Registration will take place at 1.30pm and bus leaves at 2pm.
There will be refreshments afterwards in the hall.
Registration Fee
€10 individual, or
€20 family
Duration is 3-4hrs.

The photo right was taken on last years walk just as we came out over the gap and had the first view of Rathgormack.

Tractor Run in Aid of Clonea Church

Next Sunday 16th May 2010, there is a tractor run being held in aid of the newly renovated church in Clonea Power.
Anyone can enter a tractor for a entry fee of €20, (It does not have to be a vintage tractor)

The tractors will meet up at 12.00 next to the hurling field in Clonea for sign in. At around 1.15 the tractors will leave Clonea
head to Kellys Gates, then up to Creahan, then into Carrig Beg, out the Coolnamuck Road, and back to Rathgormack via Milvale, There is a tea break in Rathgormack at around 3.30pm until 4.30pm when they head off again down by Ross bridge back to Coolnahorna, and then back to Clonea by the Castle.
a map of the full route is below.
Any enquires to Margret Kirwan 051 387320

If you take photos of this event you might upload them to flickr and add the tag "clonea_tractor_run_2010" to your photo so they can easily be found.

or if you don't have a flickr account simply email photos to
francisquigley.tractorrun2010@picasaweb.com - put your own name in the subject line of the email
Also if anyone has photos taken of the great volunteer work that was done by people on the church such as the cleaning and moving the seats etc they can email the photos to the address above also, It was great to see so many people getting involved and it would be nice to have a record of it.


View Sponsored Tractor Drive in a larger map

Danzarama at the Parade in Dungarvan

There was a great turn out for the parade in Dungarvan yesterday, and Rathgormack/Clonea was well represented with the large tunrout for the Danzarama group who took time out of their last minute preperations for the upcoming show which takes place in the Hiking Centre this Friday and Satuday night. (pictured above).

Rathgormack Community Center Calender

Ceile

The next Ceile will be held on 12 Feb 2010, starting at 9pm.

Table Quiz in aid of Haiti

There will be a table quiz in aid of Haiti, held in the community centre on 6 Feb 2010. The cost is €20/table of 4. and it starts at 8pm, all are welcome.