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FREE March 2013 ENMARE 087 2513126 • 087 2330398 VolEWS 10, Issue 2 KThank you to the N 11,476 people we reached last week via our Facebook page SeanadóirSenator Marcus Mark O’Dalaigh Daly SherryAUCTIONEERS FitzGerald & VALUERS T: 064-6641213 Daly Kenmare PROPERTY TAX Are you confused? Ambulance Do you wish to get some answers? Service under Sherry Fitzgerald Daly Will be giving presentation on the Mob: 086 803 2612 threat New Property Tax • All Welcome th Date: Monday the 25 of March Clinics held in the Michael Atlantic Bar and all Venue: Brooklane surrounding Time: 7.30pm Healy-Rae parishes on a T.D. regular basis. Sean Daly & Co Ltd Insurance Brokers EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT IN KILGARVAN: Before you Renew your Insurance (Household, Motor or Commercial) HEALY-RAE’S MACE - 9PM – 10PM HEALY-RAE’S BAR - 10PM – 11PM Talk to us FIRST - 064-6641213 We Give Excellent Quotations. 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Take care. Quote for the month: In youth we learn, in age we understand. Marie von Ebner Eschenbach. (1830 -1916) Marie Fitzgerald, Eileen McGillycuddy, Kathleen Griffin and Nora Mahony enjoying the tea dance organised by Blackwater Women's Group at the Kenmare Bay Hotel last month. Sinead O'Sullivan, Shelia Morris, Sean Farrell, Mary McCarthy and Marie Farrell who attended the Blackwater Women's Tea Dance. pics Harry Masterson Harry Masterson's photograph shows two very proud Kenmare mothers, Myra O'Leary and Anne Durcan as they waited for the The weekend of Kenmare’s first Irish Music Festival ‘Féile Neidín’ team, including their sons Alan and Sean O'Leary and Shane is fast approaching, and to give the local community a taster of Durcan, to come home. The Square was closed to facilitate the what to expect that weekend there is a Festival Launch night taking massive crowd that turned out to welcome our wonderful place in P.F. Mc Carthy’s bar on Sunday March 24th. footballers home. The evening will start at 7pm with a set by local group Amergin whom we all know and love from the P.F’s sessions and it will be Lost cat in Greenlane area of great to see the whole band performing there again with their Kenmare. unmistakeable sound. Afterwards there will be an open trad session On February 10th 2013 our and if even half of the musicians who have been invited turn up it tortoise shell cat (brown black will be some night of music altogether. During the night there will and tan) strayed from our home be a raffle in support of the festival weekend with some nice prizes three miles from Kenmare in the which you might get to take home with you! greenlane area. Reward of 500 Please come out and enjoy the music and help launch Kenmare’s offered. Call Mary at 087 first Irish Music Festival! www.kenmareirishmusicfestival.com 6979038 any time. 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Kerry. 23 hr. service Ph. 064 6641491 Proprietors: Declan & Nora Finnegan Mobile: 087 2480800 Fax.: 064 6642636 Tried and trusted Email.: [email protected] since 1940 Lauren Tanner from Senator Mark Daly, Emer Finnegan, Nora Finnegan, Siobhan Scoil Thullacha, Bonane Thoma, Sinéad Thoma Hennessy and Clare Bunbury at the opening of the fabulous Kenmare Lace Festival which is on at the Carnegie enjoyed a magical Arts Centre for the month of March. World Book Day this year as winner THE KENMARE AFTER SCHOOL CLUB of a presentation The Kenmare After School Club crafts - using their minds & imaginations. It's not often that you can bring your children to somewhere set of Harry Potter celebrated our first anniversary in where they are not just put in front of the telly.” books from the January. We’ve had a great year – (Maria Tagney) Children learn while playing and thanks to the wonderful children that enjoying themselves. Mobile Library attend the club. We asked some parents “Emily loves the camps the Kenmare After South & East to help us with our editorial. Here’s School Club hosts at Easter, Summer and what they had to say …… Halloween. There is a very low child to adult ratio, Kerry. “Shane goes to the After School Club 3 days a ensuring lots of individual attention. The cost of the week, he's been going since it started and it's given camps are great value for money.” (Lorraine Gavin) JK Rowling’s books continue A reduction is made at the camps for siblings. to be some of the most popular me the flexiblity to go to work. I know he's going to be collected and then go and have fun. They do “My children don't go to school in town so I amongst young library users in drop them off at the Club at a time that suits me, the county so to celebrate different activities throughout the week. Shane's homework is finished when I collect him freeing up they don't have to be there at the start of a session. World Book Day, 7th March You can pay by the hour. I often have to work so 2013, Kerry Library set out to time when we get home. All I have to do then is check his reading, I don't finish until late so it's very they regularly attend the After School Club and look find the county’s biggest Harry handy. " (Yvonne O'Sullivan) All written work is forward to going there. If they are in there for more Potter fan. Throughout the supervised and reading work is done at home. than ten hours a week, I get a discount! It’s good to month of February school “I’ve used the Kenmare After School Club when know they are having fun learning new things and children around the county got I’ve had doctor’s appointments and college courses making new friends.” (Jenny Gadsden) You can the chance to test their to attend. My child is in Junior Infants and comes come in at short notice register your child once and knowledge of Harry and his out at 2 o’clock. All I had to do was phone the use the club as it suits you. magical adventures with a school and let them know that the After School challenging quiz. Club would be collecting on my behalf. They’re The After School Club is open from 2-6pm Lauren, who returned her entry great!” (Fiona O'Sullivan). All parents have to do is weekdays during term time. We can accept form to the Mobile Library let the school know the children are being collected children availing of the CETS scheme’s free South & East Kerry was one of beforehand. after school care. This scheme is designed to ten runners up who won a “The Kenmare After School Club has allowed support the childcare needs of parents in complete presentation set of me to do a college course. The course I’m on is in training and educational courses run by Harry Potter books. Scoil Cork and I don’t get back to Kenmare until around FAS & VEC. Simply ask your FAS/VEC Thullacha, Bonane also quarter past six. The Club is open until then so it's received a special Kerry very handy for me." (Cathal McAndrews). After supervisor if you are eligible for this. Library prize pack as they had school care can be obtained free for parents These reviews and comments make us very proud to returned the most correct attending training and educational courses run by FAS & VEC. provide this service for the parents and children of quizzes to the Mobile Library. Kenmare and the surrounding area. The Mobile Library South & "Gerald has been going to the After School Club for a while now, I have to say it's helped him. He's We look forward to seeing your child at the East Kerry visits the Kenmare Kenmare After School Club soon :) area every second Wednesday.