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Feb-Mar 2016 MAYFIELD MATTERS FREE YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER FREEFREE ISSUE 84 FEBRUARY / MARCH, 2016 Citizens Information provides access to accurate, comprehensive and clear information relating to all your rights and entitlements in a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Mayfield Matters would like to acknowledge the excellent work of the MAYFIELD CITIZENS INFORMATION CENTRE and encourages it’s readers to avail of this free and confidential service which is a vital resource for everyone within the community. Open Monday to Friday 10am - 1pm, Monday to Thursday 2pm - 4pm and Wednesday Evening from 7.30pm - 9pm www.citizensinformation.ie Phone Service: 0761 07 4000 IN THIS ISSUE: PLEASE NOTE: Happy Valentine’s Details of local courses and services, To guarantee inclusion of items in Day photos of yore, articles, stories, poems, the APRIL/MAY ISSUE of GAA news, gardening tips and more! MAYFIELD MATTERS, NOTE: Mayfield Matters is available please ensure they are submitted before the closing date, which is: on the Mayfield CDP website at: www.mayfieldcdp.ie FRIDAY, 11 MARCH, 2016 MAYFIELD MATTERS is a local community newsletter produced in the Mayfield CDP Community Resource Centre by volunteers with the support of the CDP staff; it is funded through the adverts placed in the newsletter, fundraising and grant allocations. FRANK O’CONNOR LIBRARY MURMONT, OLD YOUGHAL ROAD T: 021-4924935 E: [email protected] OPENING HOURS Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 10.00 - 1.00 & 2.00 - 5.30. Closed 1.00 – 2.00 FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR ALL From January 2016 membership of Cork City Libraries is free to everyone. You can now access our stock of over 500,000 books, journals, music CDs, DVDs, magazines, audiobooks, e-books, e-magazines and e-audiobooks free of charge. Free wi-fi is also available Mayfield Library and all Cork City Library branches. READ LEARN AND EXPLORE You can borrow up to ten items — whether books, CDs, DVDs at one time, for a period of three weeks. You can renew these items online, by phone or using the Cork City Libraries App which is now available to download for free. LIBRARY SERVICES: As well as free wi-fi there are public-access PCs BOOKS, CDS, EVENTS, with internet access; Self-service printing and photocopying; daily newspapers and popular LIFELONG LEARNING, PCS, magazines; clubs and groups, including monthly Book Club and Ciorcal Cainte; study spaces; weekly children’s colouring competition. WIFI FOR ALL AND IT'S FREE GARDENING WITH GREENFINGERS USE OF HEALING HERBS The use of healing herbs in ancient Ireland was widespread. In the Táin Bó Cúailgne, the story of the Brown Bull of Cooley, herbs and plants were used to heal the wounded. Cuchulainn’s wounds were bathed in a stream strewn with plants and herbs, dry wisps and pads of grass. Moss was placed against his wounds. As Ireland wasn’t invaded by the Romans, herbs were brought from the continent by Irish monks for healing and flavouring meals. The common Meadowsweet, much used as a medicine, was found by Chemists to be remarkably similar to Aspirin. Tansy was used to get rid of worms, greater Celandine as a cure for warts. Comfrey was used as a spinach-like vegetable and as a poultice to heal broken bones. In the Community Garden Polytunnel several beds will be allocated to culinary herbs such as Bay, Thyme, Parsley, Chives, Mint and Sage. Any garden without herbs is not a complete garden. Cities and townlands such as Mayfield are steadily becoming denuded of trees, which brutalises the urban and rural landscape, negatively impacts on wildlife and removes the health-improving and visual benefits that trees are now known to bestow. Cork city council should undertake to plant 20% more trees than their present allocation. This should be linked to tougher laws to prevent the felling of trees in private gardens unless a corresponding undertaking is in place (and enforced) to plant with a more suitable species. Concrete and a lack of greenery creates a more violent environment. Spring selections at Beech Hill include Dahlia, Gladeola, Bulbs, Begonias etc. Summer flowers, bedding plants, Primroses and Alpine are in stock. Herbs will be available mid-February. Pay a visit to this jewel of a garden. Opening hours, Monday to Saturday - 9.30 to 5.00pm, closed Sunday. Tel: 021 464 3254. The Garden Centre at Beech Hill (John Sheehan Photography) MAYFIELD COMMUNITY ADULT LEARNING PROJECT (CALP) c/o Mayfield CDP Community Resource Centre, 328 Old Youghal Road, Mayfield Tel: 4508562 Email: [email protected] Web: www.mayfieldcdp.ie New Year - New Learning Opportunities ALL OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES ARE DEPENDENT ON NUMBERS AND FUNDING. Foundation Programme (personal development): Starting Thursday, 11 February. 10am - 12.30pm (8 sessions) Beginners Computers (morning & evening sessions): Tuesday, 16 February. 10.00am - 12.30pm (4 sessions) Advanced Internet Skills Applying for a Job Online Mindfulness – An Introduction to Mindfulness Techniques Basic First Aid: Tuesday, 1st; Wednesday, 2nd; and Wednesday, 9th March, 9.30am - 1.30pm (3 sessions) ECDL Modules: Word Processing & Presentation: (for those unemployed or on a social welfare payment) Occupational First Aid Level 5 (QQI) (need to be unemployed or on a social welfare payment) Word Processing Level 3 (QQI) (need to be unemployed or on a social welfare payment) Computer Applications Level 4 (QQI) (need to unemployed or on a social welfare payment) Craft for Easter Basic Gardening Ipad/Tablet Made Easy Occupational First Aid Refresher Course: Starting Wednesday, 6 April (You are only eligible for this course if you have completed an Occupational First Aid level 5 QQI course within 2 years and 90 days of completion.) Courses are funded by part-time tutor hours from the Cork ETB and Cork City Partnership Ltd. If you are interested in any of the above courses, please ring Mayfield CALP at 4508562 and we will take your name and when the exact course details are finalised we will get back to you. Date for your Diary The 13th CORK LIFELONG LEARNING FESTIVAL Monday, 11th April, 2016 to Sunday, 17th April, 2016. Mayfield Community Education Network will host its local event during this week, so keep your eye out for further information on posters, fliers, Mayfield page in The Echo and Church newsletters. Fancy losing weight while eating all your favourite foods - why not join Slimming World Mayfield and find out how. Group takes place every Thursday in the Mayfield GAA Sports Complex, Riverview Fitness & Leisure Centre, Lotabeg. Group times are as follows:- 9.30am, 3.30pm, 5.30pm and 7.30pm. Just choose a time that best suits you and come along. To find out more why not contact me, Fiona O'Hagan, on 086 8606355 and I can answer any queries or questions you may have. Love food, love Slimming World!! WINNIE’S DRESSMAKING AND ALTERATIONS IONA ROAD, MAYFIELD OLD YOUGHAL ROAD MAYFIELD (Alongside All Round Beauty) (Opposite The Cow Bar) Phone: 2390019 PRICE LIST We alter: Father and Son only €15 School Uniforms Gents only €9 Curtains School Students only €8 Kids under 7 years only €7 Jeans Hot Towel Shave only €12 Zips Hot Towel Shave and Dry Cut only €18 Jackets Buttons GIFT VOUCHERS AVAILABLE LET’S SAVE MONEY OPENING HOURS Tues- Fri: 9.30 am - 5.30 pm Contact Winnie on: Sat: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm 085 7804008 or 087 6552405 QUOTE OF THE MONTH “Rise like lions after slumber NEWS FROM NOWHERE In unvanquishable NUMBER! Shake your chains to earth, like dew Michael 0’Donnell Which in sleep had fall’n on you: YE ARE MANY - THEY ARE FEW.” P.B. Shelley Every five years we get to elect our Rulers. Voting is the one day we are all equal. So take advantage of this hard won right. ”VOTE” ! Between now and Election Day millions will be spent by established parties telling us that there was no alternative to austerity: that we had to suffer the pain to get the country back on its feet. You might question, “Whose country is it anyway?” Mayfield was not immune to cuts, housing crisis, hospital waiting lists, water charges, property tax and immigration. How is it that the people who had no hand or part in the Bankers and Bondholders gambling debts were left with the bill? The greatest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in history: eight billion a year we are paying in interest for a debt that is not ours. When they come looking for a vote- irrespective of Party- ask them why? The slogan, “There is no alternative,” (TINA) was coined by Margaret Thatcher. But there’s always an alternative. The press which is owned by those who run the country will not offer an alternative, its not in their financial interests. RTÉ will dish out the Government’s point of view but in a very subtle way. People who are seekers after the truth will depend on Community Newsletters, such as “Mayfield Matters,” for the truth in the news. Media monopolies are a threat to freedom of speech but the greatest threat comes from the tabloids like the Sun and Mirror. These trivial tittle-tattlers echo the soap operas such as Fair City, East Enders and Coronation Street, dish out escapist fantasies and portray working class people as only worthy of gossip. They trivialise what is really going on. Association Football (soccer) have taken over peoples lives. While the game of soccer can be enjoyable it should not domi- nate all conversation. After all its only eleven overpaid men kicking a piece of leather around an arena. Give me a game of Hurling any day. Watch the coverage of the election by these fun papers.
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