Welcome to the Coachford News Website
Hello, Welcome to the Coachford News website. Apologies for the lack of information over the last two weeks but well deserved holidays were taken and we disappeared from Ireland for 10 days. We are now trying to update the site as quickly as possible and are looking at expanding it during the next few months.
The Macroom Stage School will open in the Briery Gap Theatre in Macroom in September 2010. This fully comprehensive performing arts school will feature classes in Drama, Dance and Singing and will cater for students aged 5 - 18 years. The school will be held in the Briery Gap Theatre and the Town Hall every Saturday from 10am to 3.30pm and will run throughout 2010/2011 for two 14 week terms.
The schools artistic director, Angela Murray, hails from Coachford. She has taught drama in stage schools since graduating from the Dublin Institute of Technology with a higher Diploma in Drama Education Studies in 2002. She has worked with youth theatre in Cork and Edinburgh,
The stage school will hold classes for primary aged students from 10am to 12.30pm and for secondary school aged students from 1pm to 3.30pm each Saturday. Classes will be divided up depending on age groups. Each class will be 45 minutes approx in each subject with a 10 min break in between. The first term will run from September 11th to December 18th 2010 and the second term will run from January 8th to April 23rd 2011.
The cost per term is 245 euro per child with a discount for two or more students from the one family. Places will be available on a first come, first served basis from the open day onward with a deposit of 100 euro required to hold the place and the balance to be paid on the first day of term, Sept 11th.
For more information contact macroomstageschool@gmail.com or telephone (086)0693630.
Congratulations to the Broomhill Vintage CLub on the wonderful sucess of the first Coachford Autumn Festival. It was a brilliant weekend and well done to all involved. The village of Coachford has benn crying out for something like this for years.
The Festival Queen competition was excellent entertainment and all 13 contestants were in great form and seemed to enjoy themselves on stage. Well done to the the MC, Peter Dineen and the backstage team in putting this show together. We are looking forward to next years show already.
The High nelly run was a fantastic event and the sight of over 25 bikes heading up through the village was a sight to behold!!!
Aghabullogue Under 14 Football captainSean Dineen receives the Mid Cork winners cup from Sean Murphy Muskerry Juvenile Board
The victorious Aghabullogue U14 Football team who defeated Gleann na
Laoi in the Mid Cork Final in Ovens
See below current Parish Newsletter (kind permission of Fr. Peadar Murphy)
Coachford AFC Lotto Results
30/8/2010,Jackpot:€1,600,Numbers Drawn: 3 - 4 - 12,No Winner,€20 Winners:Mairead Delaney,Derry Buckley,Helen Barrett,Nick Martin,Tom Looney Next draw Monday night at around 9.00pm. Tickets available from all pubs and shops in the village and on CoachfordAFClotto.ie
Another World medalist for Coachford!!
Congratulations to Shannon Murphy from Coachford who won a bronze medal in the world Tae kwon do Championships in Korea. This is an absolutely outstanding achievment by Shannon who seems to be going from strength to strength. Shannon also took gold in the Korean Festival of Tae kwon do prior to the championships.
Well done from all your supporters in the Coachford Club.
Click here for the latest GAA fixtures
COACHFORD ACTIVE RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION
. If you are retired or semi-retired and would like to participate in activities such as short-mat bowling, dancing, arts and crafts, discussions and much more, then this is for you. Everybody is welcome. Active Retirement Ireland (ARI) is a national network of local active retirement associations whose purpose is to enable retired people to enjoy a full and active life and to advocate for them. ARI believes that older people have the right to be full and participative members of our society.
Are you thinking of heading to Australia for work or a holiday? If you find yourself in the beautiful city of Melbourne then make sure you visit the Corkman Irish Bar. The bar, owned by Coachford man Kieran O' Connell, is a fabulous pub with loads of craic and music and a useful place to make contact with other irish people in the area. Click here to see the pubs website .
Congratulations to Shannon Murphy
Shannon Murphy from the Coachford Tae Kwon Do club receiving her Golden Four Award from Master Don Dalton .
This award is given to students who win a Gold in each of the four major championships in Ireland in a single year . Shannon won an amazing seven out of eight golds last year , Shannon also won a Gold and a Bronze in this years Munster Championships.Congratulations to Shannon from everyone at the Coachford Club.
Aghabullogue GAA under 8 Gaelic Football Training for boys.
Training in Coachford on Wednesdays from 6.30pm to 7.30pm
How old do you think Coachford village is? 100 years, 200 years, 300 years or even older?
Credit Union Opening Hours: Thursday evenings 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Keepingyourhome.ie is provided by the Citizens Information Board and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS). Keepingyourhome.ie aims to provide comprehensive information on the services and entitlements available if you are having difficulties paying your rent or making your mortgage repayments.
The Crisis Pregnancy Agency has developed the b4udecide.ie campaign to help encourage young people to delay having sex for the first time until they are older. The Agency is developing this campaign because evidence strongly suggests that young people who have sex at an early age are more likely to have crisis pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections in their lifetime.
