It Says In The Bridge: February 2011
As in indicator of how fast things moved on the Kerdiffstown/KTK waste story last week, the lead story headlined ‘KTK site may take Naas waste’ is, for now, redundant, writes Brian Byrne. But the story does detail how the matter literally ‘erupted’ in the week of the Bridge’s publication.
A much more positive item also makes the front page, with the news that Katherine Weir was recently selected to represent Ireland in the Schools U/16 Shot Putt at the Celtic Games in Cardiff. Then, too, a notice for something which everyone hopes will turn out positive, Wednesday night’s public meeting to discuss the provision of Community Childcare facilities.
That matter is also the focus of a long letter published inside, from the directors of the Community Centre, who believe they have not been fairly represented in the story as it has developed. In the letter they say that legal delays in the negotiations with the Cross & Passion Sisters’ solicitors were part of the reason some €600,000 in grant funding was lost. The letter also suggests that the promoters of the Childcare Centre project weren’t ‘forceful’ enough in the situation.
In other news, the detailed sketches for the planned lowering of the Convent wall are shown on the Environment page. And the limelight shone on the new Ciorcail Gaeilge by the Kairos religious affairs Media group is another move forward.
There are reports from the early activities of 2011 from a number of community groups, including the Carer & Toddler organisation which is planning a workshop on ‘Living with Toddlers’. The Lions are organising a second suicide prevention workshop with the help of ASIST, and a picture of the presentation of a cheque from the same Lions to the SVDP, the proceeds of their Christmas Collection, is a reminder of that organisation’s work with many more people in hard times.
Photo coverage this month includes extensive picture sets from Martha Kelly’s surprise 50th birthday celebrations in the Stray Inn, and the somewhat sadder night when Billy Dowling closed The Spout for the last time. Several pics from the Community Games Talent Competition are also on view.
There’s reporting on Anne O’Mahony’s retirement from Scoil Bhride after some three decades there, and also about the rehearsals of ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ which have been started by Kilcullen Drama Group.
In features, Noel Clare profiles local woman Tracey O’Dwyer in his ‘All in a Day’s Work’ series; Tracey works at Barretstown, a ‘beacon of light in an often troubled world’. He also reports on the participation of the McGlinchey family in the John Murray Show challenge to do without digital gadgetry for a week. Aptly, they were ‘Disconnected in Gilltown’. Noel also has a ‘Kilcullen Abroad’ piece on Noel Brady and his family, who live near Boston in the USA.
Business Bridge looks at Niamh Litton and Veronica Scanlon’s new venture at Hillcrest, the Runway fashion boutique, where a ‘bum lift or tummy tuck’ are all part of the service.
Other articles come under the umbrella of ‘the usual suspects’. Bernard Berney asks ‘Where did God go?’ and wonders if the ‘week of directed prayer’ might help locate Him; Billy Redmond has a suggestion to stop the draughts in the church, praises the work done in The Valley, and muses on a Celtic Tiger age wedding on a yacht formerly owned by Jackie Onassis, which apparently is largely owned now by the Irish taxpayer.
Sean Landers details the promotion in his Taiwan workplace of a film made by the daughter of his boss, and the tightrope he subsequently had to walk. Paul Aspell in his ‘View from the Bridge’ suggests we dump politicians and just put the country under the control of an ‘administration that knows what it is talking about’. He’s also only getting use to country life, and a torch that talks.
Pitch & Putt, Community Games, Badminton, Bowls, Canoeing, Soccer and GAA ... they’re all there too. A really busy Bridge this month. No wonder it has stuck around for four decades.
A much more positive item also makes the front page, with the news that Katherine Weir was recently selected to represent Ireland in the Schools U/16 Shot Putt at the Celtic Games in Cardiff. Then, too, a notice for something which everyone hopes will turn out positive, Wednesday night’s public meeting to discuss the provision of Community Childcare facilities.
That matter is also the focus of a long letter published inside, from the directors of the Community Centre, who believe they have not been fairly represented in the story as it has developed. In the letter they say that legal delays in the negotiations with the Cross & Passion Sisters’ solicitors were part of the reason some €600,000 in grant funding was lost. The letter also suggests that the promoters of the Childcare Centre project weren’t ‘forceful’ enough in the situation.
In other news, the detailed sketches for the planned lowering of the Convent wall are shown on the Environment page. And the limelight shone on the new Ciorcail Gaeilge by the Kairos religious affairs Media group is another move forward.
There are reports from the early activities of 2011 from a number of community groups, including the Carer & Toddler organisation which is planning a workshop on ‘Living with Toddlers’. The Lions are organising a second suicide prevention workshop with the help of ASIST, and a picture of the presentation of a cheque from the same Lions to the SVDP, the proceeds of their Christmas Collection, is a reminder of that organisation’s work with many more people in hard times.
Photo coverage this month includes extensive picture sets from Martha Kelly’s surprise 50th birthday celebrations in the Stray Inn, and the somewhat sadder night when Billy Dowling closed The Spout for the last time. Several pics from the Community Games Talent Competition are also on view.
There’s reporting on Anne O’Mahony’s retirement from Scoil Bhride after some three decades there, and also about the rehearsals of ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ which have been started by Kilcullen Drama Group.
In features, Noel Clare profiles local woman Tracey O’Dwyer in his ‘All in a Day’s Work’ series; Tracey works at Barretstown, a ‘beacon of light in an often troubled world’. He also reports on the participation of the McGlinchey family in the John Murray Show challenge to do without digital gadgetry for a week. Aptly, they were ‘Disconnected in Gilltown’. Noel also has a ‘Kilcullen Abroad’ piece on Noel Brady and his family, who live near Boston in the USA.
Business Bridge looks at Niamh Litton and Veronica Scanlon’s new venture at Hillcrest, the Runway fashion boutique, where a ‘bum lift or tummy tuck’ are all part of the service.
Other articles come under the umbrella of ‘the usual suspects’. Bernard Berney asks ‘Where did God go?’ and wonders if the ‘week of directed prayer’ might help locate Him; Billy Redmond has a suggestion to stop the draughts in the church, praises the work done in The Valley, and muses on a Celtic Tiger age wedding on a yacht formerly owned by Jackie Onassis, which apparently is largely owned now by the Irish taxpayer.
Sean Landers details the promotion in his Taiwan workplace of a film made by the daughter of his boss, and the tightrope he subsequently had to walk. Paul Aspell in his ‘View from the Bridge’ suggests we dump politicians and just put the country under the control of an ‘administration that knows what it is talking about’. He’s also only getting use to country life, and a torch that talks.
Pitch & Putt, Community Games, Badminton, Bowls, Canoeing, Soccer and GAA ... they’re all there too. A really busy Bridge this month. No wonder it has stuck around for four decades.
