• Tidy Towns Competition 2013 • East Clare Walking Festival €2 • New Community Development • Scariff 10K • Scariff Harbour Festival 2013 • Scariff Show 2013 Scariff Community Council Issue 178 September-October 2013 SCARIFF NEWS www.scariff.ie Contacts Table of Contents Editorial Harry O’Meara 3 Editorial ([email protected]) Christina Grisewood 4 ICA - Irish Countrywomen´s Martin Hartigan Association5 Community Council Advertising Joan Crotty Subscriptions 2013 ([email protected]) 5 Halloween Party Layout Sandra Design & Print Printing Sandra Design & Print 6 Childrens´ Corner 7 Scariff Harbour Festival 2013 Contributions welcome 9 Sariff Show 2013 Contributions to Scariff News are encour- 11 Scariff 10K aged. Comments, opinions, readers’ letters, 13 New Community Development articles on any aspect of community life, lo- for Scariff cal events, poems, stories, photos, drawings, publicity, buy & sell... 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The 18 Library bookclubs deadline for contributions is strictly the third 19 Six Nations Tournament rd Friday of the first month e.g. Sept-Oct, 3 21 East Clare Walking Festival Friday of September. 22 Scariff National School Fundraiser Views expressed in articles in Scariff News are those of the authors and do not 23 Tidy Towns Competition 2013 necessarily reflect those of the editorial team or 29 Photo Album of Scariff Community Council 37 All Ireland 7’s 38 All-Ireland Success for Derg Advertising rates Camogie Team If you would like to advertise in Scariff News, 39 Answers to Childrens´ Corner contact Joan Crotty or any other member of the editorial team. 40 Derg U 11 Boys Community Games Small ad. € 5 All-Ireland Semi-final 1 Double small ad. € 10 41 Derg U10 /2 hurling team Colour box ad. € 25 41 All Ireland Football Final 1962 Full page colour ad. € 50 Double page business feature € 90 42 Services 47 Useful Info Community Council collection procedures The Community Council is a representative body which works to improve many aspects of the par- ish for everyone. To do this, it relies on voluntary Scariff News is available contributions from households in the parish. The recommended contribution is €5 per household as a PDF file on the Scariff per month or €60 per household per year. If you are website: www.scariff.ie 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: Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan with participants of the cross-border youth exchange that took pace as part of this year’s Scariff Harbour Festival pictured in Scariff Harbour. Photo by Marie O’Leary EDITORIAL So another summer season is almost passed and it certainly has been one of the bet- ter ones in recent years. There were several reasons to be positive this year and Scariff has enjoyed some of those moments. The good weather this year has obviously been a major contributing factor to that positivity and after a few years of truly awful sum- mers it was great to see people enjoying a couple of glorious weeks of sunshine in July. It is amazing how the weather has such a profound effect on our wellbeing and those positive effects were in full flow this summer. The good weather also encour- ages more people to holiday at home and it seemed there were more tourists about this year, with huge crowds thronging Mountshannon and Two Mile Gate and a big increase in the number of boats using the Harbour in Scariff. After another very cold and wet spring, the warm weather provided much needed respite for the farming community and Scariff was a hub of activity this summer with mowers, wrappers and balers whizzing through the town late into the long summer evenings making the most of the sunshine and dry conditions. It certainly brought home to a lot of people how integral a part of life in Scariff farming still is. Hopefully fodder supplies for the upcoming winter are well replenished and farmers are well stocked to cover any extended inclement weather conditions. The summer gone has been a great one for sport and hopefully it isn’t over just yet! Af- ter the great spectacle that was the London Olympics all attention has turned to hurl- ing, both at local and county level. There have been some great local successes in both camogie and hurling, especially in the underage divisions, but it is the roller coaster of Clare’s championship campaign that has thrilled and delighted us all. Scariff has been awash with the Banner colours for the last few weeks in the build up to the All Ireland and, as we go to print, the final replay against Cork is nearly upon us. Regardless of the outcome of that encounter, we can all be proud of the manner in which Davy Fitzger- ald and his charges have represented Clare over the last few months. Summer 2013 saw another slew of successful events in Scariff such as the Scariff Har- bour Festival in early August. This year’s festival was regarded by many as the best one yet and the number of visitors to Scariff over that weekend was truly amazing. The festival certainly has grown into a very significant show case for East Clare over the last couple of years. See further on in this edition for a report and some photos from the Festival. The Scariff Show had a hugely enjoyable day on August 31st and the Com- munity Council Scariff 10K the following day attracted another very good turnout. A lot of voluntary time and commitment goes into the organising and running of these events and it is great that they are so well supported by the local community. Now the kids are back to school and the evenings are starting to close in that bit earlier. As autumn sets in things seem to quieten down a little but we still have many events to look forward to at this time of year. The East Clare Walking festival takes place this October and the Scariff senior hurlers are back in action in the championship also SCARIFF NEWS 3 EDITORIAL / NEWS IN BRIEF in early October. Scariff Rugby club cel- ebrates it’s 50th birthday this year with a tournament and family entertainment planned for Saturday 19th October at Scariff ICA guild held our monthly Cravens and rehearsals have started for meeting on Sept 16th last. We had a this year’s East Clare Musical Society’s fantastic turn out of members on the event in December. night and welcomed six new members. Dr Jenny McGuire was our guest Finally, let’s hope that the good weath- speaker on Womens Health. Jenny er of late continues for as long more as spoke about the food Pyramid/ diet/ possible: it makes everyday seem that exercise and disease.It was a fascinat- little bit better! ing topic lasting an hour and a half, and we still wanted to hear more. Hopefully Harry O’Meara Jenny will return to us in the new year Scariff Community Council to a healthier bunch of ICA ladies. We are looking for donations of books on Gardening/Cooking and crafts, thank you to Bernie Cunning- ham for holding any of these books do- nated in her shop for our guild. We hope anyone travelling to the ploughing championship this week Sandra have a great day out and make sure to visit the the ICA tent and the Husqvar- Design na of course!. Print This month is mens health month so make sure your husband/ partner or son gets his yearly check with his local GP. Next Meeting 21st of October. Follow us on Facebook or www.ica.ie Sandra Schwitalla Derrylisane Menlough Ballinasloe Co. Galway · Ireland [email protected] Fon +353-061/74 80 33 Mobil 086/41 00 00 8 4 SCARIFF NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF Scariff Community Council will host its annual Halloween Party in the GAA Hall on Thursday 31st October from 6p.m. to 7.30p.m. There will be fun and games and some spooky sto- ries for the kids to enjoy, so get work- ing on those Halloween costumes and be prepared to be very scared! Admission is free but all children must be accopmanied by an adult. We look forward to seeing you there. SCARIFF NEWS 5 Answers on page 39 6 SCARIFF NEWS NEWS Scariff Harbour Festival by Minister Jimmy Deenihan on Friday 2013 evening in the Harbour got the week- end proper off to a cracking start. Fri- The August bank holiday weekend saw day night was saw Ryan Sheridan give Scariff enjoy the 11th Waterways Ire- a spirited performance to a large crowd land Scariff Harbour Festival and the and Damien Dempsey really lived up organising committee are delighted to his headline billing on the Saturday to report that the weekend was a ter- night. Well done also to the local bands rific success. From the opening vocal who supported the main acts, it was strains of Frances Black in the church a great opportunity for them to per- on Thursday night to the final few sets form before a big audience and they all danced on the Green on Sunday night, grabbed it with enthusiasm. The River- Scariff was buzzing with activity and side Activities in the Riverside Park on lots of fun. It seems that two things are Sunday again proved to be extremely certain in Scariff every August holiday popular this year and they highlighted weekend: a festival and some rain! For- what a wonderful riverside amenity we tunately the rain, which was short and have in Scariff that can be enjoyed by heavy and accompanied by some spec- the local community and visitors alike.