Maynooth Post Primary 10k Challenge Maynooth formally twins with A Great Success Canet-en-Roussillon on June 18 th The culmination of over two years work to establish a formal twinning between our two towns will be completed this month. Following formal recognition of the proposal, Mayor Brendan Weld and a delegation from Kildare County Council and Maynooth Community Council will travel to France to sign the first part of the Charter between our two towns. More information will be available in the July Newsletter. Maynooth Tidy Towns seeks your support for 2011 competition (Female Winner) Karen O’Hanlon (Male Winner) Jason Miley Judging for the National Tidy Towns competition can take place at anytime between A spokes person for the organizing committee Maynooth Post Primary PTA told the st st Maynooth Newsletter that the event was a great success, attracting five hundred June 1 and August 31 next. Maynooth has entered the competition again this year participants and raising twenty thousand euro’s for the development of our playing and the marks achieved are a reflection of the judge’s opinion on the entire town on fields and running track. He said the day would not have been possible without the the day that we are assessed. Maynooth Tidy Towns urges us all to be conscious of support of our seventy sponsors from the Maynooth business community, our one litter in particular during these three months and help to ensure that we will all be hundred volunteers from the Parent Teacher Association’s, Maynooth GAA, proud of the result that the town gets in the 2011 competition. individual members of the public, who all gave their time so willingly, the advice and assistance of An Garda Siochana and the cooperation of the people of Maynooth. Many thanks also to Brenden Weld, the Mayor of Kildare for awarding the prizes. He also expressed the committees thanks to St. Patrick’s College and Carton House Intel Employees support Maynooth Community with Hotel and Leisure Centre for the use of their grounds, the route which commenced in time and dollars St. Patrick’s College and passed through Carton House Estate and finished in Carton Avenue proved very popular with the participants. Maynooth Community Council and some of our sub-committees have been regularly supported in their endeavours by INTEL volunteers who live in our community and get involved in our work. In addition the INTEL Corporation also provides US$10 for every hour volunteered so we get a “double whammy” which is very welcome. The grants for 2010 were presented on May 18 th last at a ceremony at the INTEL plant where Minister for the Environment and Community, Deputy Phil Hogan T.D. was presenting the hands. On the day a total of US$ 438,000 was distributed to sporting, community and voluntary groups throughout the country where INTEL employees had volunteered. Many of the groups were from County Kildare and as well as the Community Council funding also went to Maynooth Soccer Club from the town. Maynooth Community Council was represented by Paul Croghan and Brian Curtis and we received US$2,200. On behalf of Maynooth a big thank you to the INTEL volunteers and a special mention for one INTEL staff member, Patrick Ennis from Celbridge for his voluntary work in our office. New Student Canteen in NUIM suitably called The Phoenix Will be open for next semester in September Maynooth Community Council, Unit 5, Maynooth Shopping Centre, Phone & Fax 01.6285922, Email [email protected] No. 392 2 Coyne’s Family Butcher & Delicatessen A s a small independent business, Coyne Family Butchers has a strong hands-on approach to customer service. 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An bhanríon Maynooth Community Council Meeting 9 May 2011 requirement of Kildare County Council, but he did not Eilís a dó agus uachtarán na Stáit Aontaithe ag teacht ar expect any additional costs to be involved. There chúairt ag an oileáinín seo. Beidh daoine ag breathnú siar Among the issues raised and discussed at the meeting would be another meeting with the County Council ar seo ar feadh tamall fada le teacht – má bhíonn. were the following: soon. He said that the Manor Mills space was in a What a historic month this has been and is there good central location, and that keys would be made anything in June that can compete? Well, the footbridge available to community groups in Maynooth, including will come down on the Kilcock Road shortly, the huge Geraldine Festival Andrew McMullon (Treasurer and Festival Sub- the Youth Café Committee. Councillor John McGinley roundabout in the centre of the road will be fully active and (Labour) said that this was the first time this kind of the new traffic lights will be added to the myriad of lights committee) said that progress was being made with the facility was being made available by Kildare County that exist in the town already. The full effect of these Festival programme. Gabriel Martin (Leinster Park changes to the traffic flow in the town will not be felt until Residents Association) confirmed that Nuada Players Council, and that a requirement was that the space the autumn when all the schools meet the returning would perform at the Castle. Hilda Dunne (History would be multi-use, and used during the daytime as growing student population. The narrowing of the road and Group) said that her group would also organise cultural well as in the evening. It was important to make good the intrusive bus stops will only add to the impending events for the Castle. Peter Garrad (Scouts) said that the use of the space, as how it was used now would impact chaos. Scouts would not be organising a family day this year. on the provision of the proposed community facility at Bridges are not just physical buildings; they are the Tesco site. regarded as liminal places, symbols - between areas like Tidy Towns Committee steps up activities bogs, mountains or rivers. When the footbridge, the link Mattie Callaghan (Tidy Towns Committee) said that the Proposal for new school site causes concerns between the North and South Campus, will be severed and committee had stepped up its activities in advance of the Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin (Secretary) told the meeting the fragile connection will disappear despite the impressive judging for the Tidy Town Competition, which takes that the Community Council executive had met with plans for the new Library and the roundabout are. place during the summer. He said that the group would be parents representatives from Maynooth Boys National Returning to the historic month and the tackling graffiti in the town over the next few weeks. School and Maynooth Educate Together School to distinguished visitors that raised many questions. Before They would also be lifting and redoing the hanging discuss the proposed new multi-function school the arrival of the queen, there was a great deal of baskets. Volunteers from the Teen Space group would campus at Moyglare Hall, where the VEC has acquired scepticism and cynicism. The threat from terrorism finish off the remaining work on the Carton Avenue a 40-acre site. It is understood that the VEC plans to increased and a bomb was found on a bus in our own town, clean-up. Paul Croghan (PDO and Tidy Towns build a 1,500-pupil school building at this location, every manhole on the route were welded shut, the streets into which an enlarged Maynooth Post Primary School were cleared of people and hardly anyone in Dublin was Committee) said that other groups volunteering to help would move, and apparently the Boys National School allowed anywhere near her. But as soon as she set foot in would be very welcome. He said that if residents might also move to this site. She said that the parents the Garden of Remembrance and bowed her head, the associations are undertaking any Tidy Towns projects country became royalist over night.