MARIOS MOTOR FACTORS ^ZJif^ ///w MARY ST., DUNGARVAN HORNIBROOKS Phone 058/42417 LISMORE • CAR PARTS Dungarvan Deader • TRACTOR PARTS • TRUCK PARTS mtr and SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT FOR NUMBER PLATES—15 mins. OIL FROM £6 GAL. Circulating throughout the County and City of Waterford, South Tipperary and South-East Cork REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL TOYOTA Vol, 49. No. 2531. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1987. POST OFFICE AS A NEWSPAPER PRICE 25p (inc. VAT) Ballyduff Remembers " The The Golden Jubilee celebra- one of the highlights should be tions being organised by Bally- the donkey driven butter churn. duff Community Council will If you want a leisurely and commence on Sunday next, Thirties entertaining afternoon for all October 4th ini the local Com- the family. Ballyduff on Sunday munity Field. prepared old-time kitchen next, October 4th, Is your venue. This is the day when locals where all will be able to sample PHOTOGRAPHIC DISPLAY MORE TURBULENCE involved where insurance cases and visitors will be given an some of thp traditional recipes. As a follow up to this day ol opportunity to take a look back AHEAD are concerned. The matter was A blacksmith will be on hand entertainment a photographic at the lifestyle of rural Ireland to demonstrate the skills of display and a video show ot recently raised by Minister in the 1930's. The stress and strain under making horseshoes the highlights from past hap- which those of us still in Seamus Brennan when he called The day will begin with a These along with all the penings of note in the parish parade t0 thP field, in which other crafts and demonstra- business or with jobs have had on the Bar Council to urge their will be held on a date yet to be members to end the thiree the participants will be dressed tions should provide for a very confirmed. (See advert, for de- to live for the last several years in the style of that era. and entertaining afternoon in which counsel rule (two seniors and a tails). shows no signs of abating in prizes will be awarded to the the forseeable future. As a junior) in insurance cases. most suitably dressed lady and The Minister in the course of gent, on the occasion. matter of fact all the indica- In the field the organisers tions are that there is still more a radio interview said that this will have a demonstration of turbulence and many storms matter had been under public the various tasks associated ahead of us and not loo far debate for the past 17 years and with gathering In the harvest— WEDDING BELLS that it was time to "cut out from binding a sheaf of corn away either. right up to the threshing of the this nonsense." We agree that grain. The recent announcement by it is more than time. As the harvesting operation Environment Minister Padraig This three counsel rule adds can be a thirsty one for all con- Flynn that the Rate Support thousands to the costs and cerned, what with all the dust Grant for next year is to be cut benefits no one but ohe legal and sweat, akeg or two of por- ter should be more than useful by a further £50 mil-lion will profession. Very obviously the for the occasion, compliments present one of the most im- rule was initiated in tihe first of the brewery. This will result mediate problems to be faced by instance for the benefit of the in a demonstration of that our local councils. There can be wig-wearers and has been likeable skill widely known as "tapping; the-keg." little doubt but that jobs will be operated for their benefit ever Many crafts and skills will be lost among the 35,000 local since. demonstrated throughout the authority workers employed by afternoon. John Roche and Pad the 27 Co. Councils, 4 Borough The Minister has-now asked James Bennett, Chairman Ballysaggart GAA Club presenting a cheque for £10,000 to Mr. Duggan will introduce those Councils and 4 Co. Boroughs t'he Bar Council to voluntarily Michael Quann, Mayfield, Lismore, recent winner of the Piltown GAA Co-op draw. Also in- present to the craft of thatch- discontinue this practice. He cluded are Mrs. Noreen Quann, Emmet and Noelle Quann, Willie Roche (winning ticket ing. Mrs. Ahern will take her throughout the country as the audience through to a specially money required to fund t.he seeks co-operation from them seller), and Breeda Clancy, Draw Organiser, Ballysaggart GAA Club. various services runs out. not confrontation with Dhem. Legal fees charged by barris- In fact this new £50 million ters are usually stratospheric cutback will have all kinds of and this was brougiht home to ic percussions and Minister NATIONAL QUALITY Challenge For T.D.'s And us forcibly last year when ,in the Flynn was obviously speaking course of a Dail Question as to with tongue in cheek when he the total expenditure by the made the announcement and State on the famous "Kerry AWARDS FOR LOCAL claimed that essential services Babies Tribunal," the then yould nonetheless be main- Senators On Closure Of Minister for justice, Mr. Allan tained. Dukes replied tih'ait the total SUPERMARKETS Local Councils have already cost was estimated at £1.645 A challenge has been Issued been down to financial rock million. Of the total the fees Two local supermarkets—one to the four T.D.'s and two Sena- tors In the Waterford Consti- bottom this year and are still paid to the barristers and soli- from Dungarvan and one from Cappoquin — were among the tuency to vote against the Gov- C.&.C Infirmary casting around for any areas citors involved came to 52 Super Valu supermarkets ernment's next budget, unless where more cash might be £993.910! from 16 counties which took the Minister for Health. Dr. O'Hanlon. reverses a decision 40 surgical beds to cater for I cutting measures already ap- saved or realised. At the major national awards at a 110,000 people in the Waterford | opted by the South Eastern presentation in Dublin last taken last, week to withdraw catchment area." monthly meeting of Waterford ANNUAL REPORT ON wpeik. all future funding from the 72- ! Health Board, a large number Co. Council a couple of weeks ' PRISONS bod County- City-JnJirrfUuw, Senator Bulbulia went on to , of medical beds have been The 1987 Super Valu Hygiene pbi:Vr oitt that th? acceptable taken out of the service and 307 nfto. the Co. Manager Mr. Dun Award went to Mr. Jim Nu- In Waterford ' national average was 3.7 be<is workers have lost their jobs. Hurley made no bones about The Annual Report on Pri- gent's Super Valu in Dungar- The challenge camp from a per 1,0-00 people and- even if the Earliei this year the financial lhe effect which the further pro- sons and Places of Detention van as well as to Mr. Maurice special meeting of Waterford Infirmary remained open, Wa- allocation to the County & City KeL'eher s Super Valu in Cap- Corporation held last Monday terford wculd be well below Infirmary was cut by 24"„ and posed reduction in the Rate for 1985 published by the poquin Married recently at Affane Church were Miss Antoinette Mc- Stationery Office. Dublin, price night at which a motion call- that average. "The Minister's as a result 30 beds were taken Support Grant for the coming ing on the six members of the decision ito withdraw funding) out of service. Crrthy. O'Conneil" Street, Dungarvan and Mr. John Coffey, year would have in Co. Water- £3.70. wias released this week. Oireachtas to makp their bud- is callous, mindless and un- Springmount, Dungarvan. (PhOto: John Tynun) ford. Council staff numbers will The report deals with the get support, conditional on ade- intelligent," she added. be still further cut: some ser- various prison centres through- quate funding being mad^ out the country and the various available for the hospital was UNABLE TO COPE Dungarvan Sea Angling Club Notes vices will be curtailed, even passed unanimously. rehabilitation services such as eliminated altogether; the num- Senator Katharine Bulbulia Because of the acute short- ber of sanitary sdhemes under- education, work projects etc., said that the withdrawal of age of surgical beds in Water- taken will be minimal and not that are available for prisoners funding for the hospital am- ford members also expressed ounted to "a savage under- fear that, if a major accident a single house will be built in while in detention. In all the Ben O'Neill-Panasonic Open mining of the healthcare needs occurred, the city's only other 1988. "That," said Mr. Hurley, report covers a total! of 11 hospital would be unable to of the people of Waterford." confirm or demy this but we ail kinds of goodies. Thanks "is the reality of the situation." prisons and places of detention She added that "when th hos- cope. As the mionkey said when he P caught his tail in the door— "fear the worst." again Ben and a full and speedy for adults and juveniles includ- pital closes, there will be only As a result of stringent cost Apart from the curtailment H "that's the end of that," and Another major tactical error total recovery from DSA.C. ing 3 open" places adminis- last Sunday's competition was on Sunday, fellows out there Our chairman John iMolloy in or even total elimination of the tered by the Department of the last in the calendar for catching fish on my mackerel his prize (giving address thanked services which we have come to Justice.