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Scariff GAA Scariff Communitycommunity Councicouncill • The Best Place in Ireland to Live €2 • The Eagles Have Landed • Memory Lane: The Dock Road • Tidy Towns Initiative • Scariff GAA Scariff CommunityCommunity CouncilCouncil Issue 170 May-JuneMJ 2012 20 SCARIFF NEWS www.scariff.ie Contacts Table of Contents Editorial Harry O’Meara ([email protected]) 3 Scariff – The Best Place in Christina Grisewood Ireland to Live Martin Hartigan 5 The Eagles Have Landed Advertising Joan Crotty 8 Presidential Visit to East Clare ([email protected]) Layout Sandra Design & Print 10 Waterways Ireland Scariff Printing Sandra Design & Print Harbour Festival Table Quiz 13 Handball Nash Reaches Contributions welcome All-Ireland Last Four Contributions to Scariff News are encour- 14 Iniscealtra Festival of Arts aged. Comments, opinions, readers’ letters, articles on any aspect of community life, lo- 15 Waterways Ireland Scariff cal events, poems, stories, photos, drawings, Harbour Festival 2012 publicity, buy & sell... If you want to share it 16 Community Council Report or shout about it, this is the place for you. The 19 Children´s Corner deadline for contributions is strictly the third Friday of the fi rst month e.g. Sept-Oct, 3rd 20 Meeting of Scariff Businesses Friday of September. 23 Scariff GAA – Hurling/Camogie Views expressed in articles in Scariff 25 “The track we have wouldn´t News are those of the authors and do not walk a cow” necessarily refl ect those of the editorial team or 27 Potato Puffer Recipe of Scariff Community Council 28 Scariff Bridge Results Advertising rates 30 Tidy Towns Initiative If you would like to advertise in Scariff News, 32 Winner of the FAI ticket contact Joan Crotty or any other member of the 33 Soccer News editorial team. 34 Services Small ad. € 5 39 Useful Info Double small ad. € 10 Colour box ad. € 25 Full page colour ad. € 50 Double page business feature € 90 Community Council collection procedures The Community Council is a representative body which works to improve many aspects of the parish for everyone. To do this, it relies on voluntary contributions from households in the parish. The Scariff News is available recommended contribution is €5 per household as a PDF fi le on the Scariff per month or €60 per household per year. If you website: www.scariff.ie are not already contributing and would like to start, contact any member of the Community Council, and they will assist you in getting set up. Cover photo: Volunteers take part in the fi rst Tidy Towns clean up day held on 12th May 2012 Photo by Harry O’Meara. Photo, p. 3: Lough Derg, taken by Steve Ford Elliot. EDITORIAL Scariff – The Best Place in people who get up and do it them- Ireland to Live selves. Energetic dreamers who see I moved to Scariff a few years ago positives not negatives and work in and fi nd the town and surrounding education, health, tourism, sport and countryside spectacularly beautiful. agriculture. These people don’t believe The green hills of Clare fl ow grace- in the word no and will lead the way for fully down to Lough Derg and the dark others to follow. There have been and life-fi lled Shannon. I always fi nd peace still are many great business people when I am out on the lough on a boat, who have come from Scariff and the silently praying that a wild brown trout surrounding area. They are the future will take my fl y and provide me with and they are making it happen. some sport. When I look back up the There are many people in Scariff lough I can see the factory chimney in who are volunteers. They do so much Scariff, standing sentinel like and mark- for their community, both here and ing the town as it folds into the hills abroad. Volunteerism is evident in all and is cocooned by the land. the events that happen and sports Scariff, like so many towns, is being clubs that are prospering. We have sev- affected by the recession, but there is eral people that go every year to Cape an entrepreneurial spirit in so many Town and Haiti and fundraise to pay for SCARIFF NEWS 3 EDITORIAL these trips. The festivals, club and char- player, or Martin Hayes, Cliodhna Don- ity events are impossible without the nellan and Denise Glass the fi ddle play- constant source of willing volunteers. It is ers. Irish, Set and Sean Nós dancing are when a family might have illness though still very popular and you can dance that you see the legion of bakers and in at least one of the pubs every week. cake-makers come out and help. Cake Tourism is one of Ireland’s profi table sales and coffee mornings are when you export industries and Scariff is the gate- see the women of Scariff pulling togeth- way to East Clare and Lough Derg. The er for a neighbour in trouble. lough is a huge expanse of water sur- Sports and the Arts are huge parts of rounded by walks and viewing points people’s lives in Scariff. You hear tales of galore. It is totally unspoiled and well the famous hurling victories of 95 and worth visiting. We even have a new tour- 97. Famous handball victories of the ist attraction. Two resident White Tail Sea Kirby brothers. The pride in the tell- Eagles who can be seen taking fi sh from ing. The provincial, county and parish the lough not far from the shore. rivalries and the sometimes hilarious Scariff is OUR home so come and say stories of blood and passion, and the hello. “Come on Scariff” banter when you are sipping a pint. There is music too and Clare is the Eoin O’Hagan wrote this piece for a competition spiritual home of traditional music. in The Irish Times. It is called “The best place in Ireland to live”. You can see the original on the Many famous musicians come from the Irishtimes.com website. area like Seamus Bugler the accordion 4 SCARIFF NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF The Eagles Have Landed The two eagles were brought to Kerry The exciting news broke last week originally from an island in Norway Monday 30th April that two White Tail called Froya and were then released Sea Eagles had not only taken up resi- into the wild. They then migrated up dence on Lough Derg but were also a to the Lough and have fi nally settled breeding pair. These are the fi rst pair on Bushy Island, off Mountshannon to breed in Ireland in over 100 years Harbour where they have built a nest. Dr. Allan Mee checking up on his charges and the fi rst time on Lough Derg in The reintroduction programme has put over 200 years. These two giant birds satellite tags on each bird and is easily are part of a reintroduction programme able to follow their progress as they by the Golden Eagle Trust and the proj- travel. ect manager is Dr. Allan Mee who has During an information meeting in been overseeing his two charges on Mountshannon last Monday night, Dr. the Lough since last year. Mee explained to a packed hall, that SCARIFF NEWS 5 NEWS IN BRIEF this is a huge and exciting event both catch a glimpse of the Eagles. There are for the reintroduction programme volunteers on the pier working along- and also for the Lough Derg area as a side Allan who are constantly monitor- whole. He is very excited that the birds ing the nest with telescopes that are have settled on the Lough and that trained on it. If any members of the they seem very comfortable where public wish to see the Eagles they are they have built their nest. He warned able to view them with the telescopes that the Female Eagle is young (at the as well and if they then have any ques- age of 3) to breed and that the young- tions about the new residents Allan is est successful age previously was 5, but more than willing to answer them. as this was the fi rst breeding pair in Ire- The Eagles have a lifespan of 25-30 land, they will write their own rules. years and they are already becoming Dr Mee continued by saying that it celebrities as tourists are coming to was most important that the eagles re- see them. If they hatch a chick or two main undisturbed in their chosen nest- successfully many thousands of people ing location, and, that the Golden Eagle will travel to see them from all over the Trust have a 24 hour watch on the nest. world. There was a successful reintro- Waterways Ireland were very quick on duction on The Isle of Mull in Scotland Monday afternoon to issue a directive and it is worth over €4 million euro to putting a 250metre exclusion zone for the local economy. The local schoolboy all watercraft around Bushy Island and soccer team even has shirts sponsored ask all masters of boats to obey this. by “The White Tail Sea Eagles”. It is unknown at this time how Mountshannon has become “Bird- many eggs are in the nest as the Trust watch Central” and the primary school themselves do not wish to disturb the children in the town will soon be en- eagles. The normal timescale for a nest- tering a competition to name the Ea- ing Sea Eagle is approximately 28-32 gles. This holds the possibility for our days so we may see a hatch by 24th -26th younger generation to garner a sense April.
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