Only €3.00 We’ reCK! BA August 2013 Est December 1976 Vol. 36 No. 1 Kinsale & District by Frank Hurley NEWSLETTER twitter.com/kinsalenews www.kinsalenews.com [email protected] facebook.com/kinsalenews THE ASTRID AT DAWN Picture: Michael Prior Fireworks mark the end of the annual night time Kinsale Covestone Asset Management Sovereigns Cup 2013 St. Patricks Day Maritime Parade. Picture. John Allen David Branigan, Marine Photographer The tall ship Astrid on the rocks near Kinsale after running Kayakers enjoying the heatwave off the Old Head aground on the Sovereign Islands off Kinsale. All 30 crew Facebook/JenConroyPhotography members were rescued safely. Picture. John Allen 64A Main Street, Kinsale Phone/Fax: (021) 477 7898 Ladies, Gents & Children’s Footwear New Season Styles Now in Stock! Open 7 Days Gift Vouchers SUMMER SALE NOW ON UP TO 50% OFF Available 2 KINSALE & DISTRICT NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2013 3 New SuperValu and Primary Care RNLI lifeboats launch to sinking Centre for Kinsale town KINSALE LIONS CYCLE The announcement that Smith’s SuperValu is to open its new tall ship Astrid with 30 people on board store at the Glen, New Road, Kinsale, in 2014 which will include Four RNLI lifeboats were launched on the immediate aid of the sail training vessel were also on scene along with ambulances a Primary Health Care Centre has been warmly welcomed by Wednesday July 24th to a sinking 42 that had got into difficulties on the western and medical crews from Cork. Mayor Tony Cierans. metre Dutch training vessel Astrid, which entrance to Kinsale Harbour. There was a Speaking about the callout Courtmac- SuperValu is due to open the long awaited new 20,000 square had hit rocks inside the Sovereign Islands two metre swell and winds were Force five sherry RNLI Coxswain Sean O’Farrell said, feet store for Kinsale next spring. The 17,000 sq ft Primary at Ballymacus Point near Kinsale. All 30 to six. Ballycotton and Crosshaven RNLI “Everyone was very fortunate. I want to people onboard were brought to safety were also launched. Kinsale RNLI lifeboat praise the quick thinking of the skipper and Care Centre, will be run by independent and HSE healthcare when Kinsale lifeboat transferred all the was first on scene. the crew from the Astrid. They kept calm professionals who will operate as a team to deliver integrated casualties from the sinking ship onto The training vessel had lost power and did everything we asked them to do. We primary healthcare to the area. Courtmacsherry RNLI lifeboat and a local and was driven on to rocks by a strong were able to get them to safety quickly and Work on the site, which has already commenced, is being vessel, the Spirit of Oysterhaven. They were southerly wind. The grounded vessel was a major tragedy was averted. To be able to carried out by KPH and will sustain 100 construction and then taken to Kinsale. taking on water and a crewmember from recover thirty people safely was a great day engineering jobs over the course of the project. Both Kinsale and Courtmacsherry RNLI Kinsale RNLI was put onboard. Eighteen for everyone involved.” The new store will replace the existing SuperValu store in Long lifeboats were called out at 12 noon to go to of the casualties were taken off the Astrid Well done to all the emergency services Quay and enable store owner Michael Smith to significantly by Kinsale RNLI lifeboat and involved but we are particularly proud expand due to market demand, whilst also enabling him to offer On Saturday, April 20th, the Kinsale Lions Cycle Challenge transferred to Courtmacsherry of our own Kinsale lifeboat and the RNLI customers an even wider range of quality fresh food and great started from the Rugby Club and followed the beautiful lifeboat, before being brought volunteers who give so much of their time value. The existing SuperValu store at Long Quay will continue south coast route towards Clonakilty. Kinsale and Courtmacsherry lifeboats rescue to safety. and energy and risk their lives in all sorts to trade until the new store opens and will then be redeveloped In recent years, the run has attracted around 250 cyclists survivors from sinking Astrid Photo: RNLI. The remaining twelve were of weather to save the lives of others. into a Centra store. of all ages and abilities, who have thoroughly enjoyed the put onto a liferaft deployed by If you wish to show your appreciation Mayor Cierans, in paying tribute to Michael Smith and staff, experience and who have helped support the National the Astrid’s crew, which was for the work done by the RNLI, Kinsale said it was great news for Kinsale ‘I particularly welcome the fact Rehabilitation Centre and the Cork Hospitals’ Children’s towed to safety by the Kinsale Lifeboat holds its annual Open Day on it is a relocation by SuperValu within the town to a place where Club. lifeboat and picked up by a local Sunday August 4th at the Lifeboat station. there is ample parking because at Long Quay it was difficult for Organised and marshalled by Kinsale Lions, the event vessel. The people on board Everyone is welcome to go along, admission has gained a reputation for efficiency, friendliness and the liferaft were then taken to is free but donations are most welcome. It many shoppers due to limited space and parking to get trolleys pleasure. First proceeding towards the Old Head and then Kinsale harbour and assessed by is donations from the public that allow the across what is the main road (R600) at the town’s entrance’. Garrettstown, the route followed the coast by Coolmain medical teams. RNLI to carry out their incredible work, The new Primary Care Centre was another positive Bay and on to Timoleague. Less experienced cyclists were Irish Coast Guard helicopters saving lives at sea. development and he looked forward to additional jobs being able to decide to venture to Clonakilty by a direct, shorter from Waterford and Shannon created in both facilities as well in construction and believed it route, whilst those ready for the challenge veered towards would also boost business development in the Glen area generally. Courtmacsherry and the Seven Heads to enter Clonakilty SuperValu store owner, Michael Smith said: ‘I am delighted alongside the Bay. END OF AN ERA AS KINSALE SCHOOLS AMALGAMATE to have the opportunity to expand and to continue to provide Lunch was provided at Clonakilty G.A.A. before a shorter The end of the 2012/2013 school year marked the end of an era in The final year pupils were: Kriska Pentek, Polly O’Brien, the Kinsale community with top class shopping facilities and a return run via Ballinspittle, finishing in Kinsale. Kinsale with the closing of St. John’s N.S. and St. Joseph’s N.S and Aoibheann Gray, Ella Finucane, Grace Ackerlind, Shauna Linehan, quality shopping experience with an increased range at the best The longer version was just over 100km. Safety is the amalgamation of the two to form a new school, Scoil Naomh Jennifer O’Connell, Jennifer O’Shea, Kellie O’Connell, Kayleigh possible value. This expansion demonstrates our confidence in paramount with regular marshals, Garda supervision and a Eltin. Kelleher, Nur Adlina Mohammed Ali, Donna Thorpe, Sarah the economy and is a real demonstration of our longstanding medical staff available all the way for anything unforeseen. One hundred and sixty-eight years of dedicated service to O’Donovan, Siobhan McCallum, Sonia Lech and Sophia Wiggington. commitment to the local community of Kinsale. A website is available for anyone wishing to donate education in Kinsale by the Sisters of Mercy came to an end with At St. John’s N.S. an emotional gathering of past and present Mass at St. Joseph’s to mark the official closure and graduation of its pupils, teachers, staff and members of the board of management ‘The new store will result in additional employment in the area or obtain sponsorship for the Sick Children of Cork City 6th class. Fr. Robert Young, along with other speakers, paid tribute and parents’ association celebrated Mass. Events began with a when the store opens next April and the local economy will also Hospitals and the National Rehabilitation Centre who cared for Kinsale Lions Past President, Séamus Keating. to past and present teachers, staffs, boards, parents association, most interesting slide show by local historian and former principal get a significant boost from the 100 construction workers who clergy and pupils but especially the Sisters of Mercy for their hard Dermot Ryan. Kinsale’s long history and tradition of education, he will be on site throughout the development. This is another sign work, dedication and commitment. Thanks and best wishes behalf said, dated back to the opening of the first national school by the that SuperValu invests more in the local economy than other of the Sisters of Mercy were expressed by Sr Mary McAuliffe who Half Wall (Ramparts) for boys only in 1840. The original St John’s retail brands, whether it’s hiring local builders or purchasing was principal when the school opened in 1978. NS was run by the Presentation Brothers, known locally as ‘The from local suppliers.’ The Kinsale & District It was back in 1844, that a widow from Macroom, Mary Ann Monks’, from 1895 to 1970 (with infants taught in the convent) and Supervalu, which has 197 stores nationwide, is committed Burke, who joined the Mercy Order in Limerick, was persuaded by the current school, which was officially opened in 1978, was of a to local employment and supporting local suppliers.