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McCarthy’s History in Action, 9 June 2013, 2-5pm

Arts, Cork City Events, Cork History, Improve Your Life, Kieran's Council Work, S.E. Ward Local History, Uncategorized, Ward Events

McCarthy’s History in Action in association with Ballinlough’s Our Lady of Lourdes National School summer fair will take place at the school on Sunday 9 June 2013 between 2pm and 5pm. The re-enactment event, supported by Cllr Kieran McCarthy, brings history alive for all the family, with the participation of re-enactment groups, storytellers and more.

Cllr McCarthy noted: “The vision for the afternoon is one of encouraging community participation.  Join re-enactors to honour the past, where there is much to learn, as one helps build the future; I am encouraging people to actively engage with life around them, as well as examine the history that brought us here. I believe that growth and transformation in society is affected positively by respecting our heritage in this way”.

Final, McCarthy’s Community Talent Competition 2013

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Thanks to everyone who recently supported McCarthy’s Community Talent Competition 2013. Forty audition acts came to the Lifetime Lab to audition. My thanks to Yvonne Coughlan or RSVP for producing the projects. The finalists and winners are listed below. They recently performed at the Firkin Crane.

Primary School Finalists:

 

Beat That (Roisin Fahey, Benushila Tripathi)

Roisin Mulcahy

Amy Clarke

Anabel Hedman

Raw (Alexaner Bevkh & Raymond Felano, *3rd

Katie Flynn

Daniel Cremin

Zoe Olden

Lyrical (Mia Dorney, Kaitlin O’Regan, Ciara Coughlan, Faye Mullane) *Winner

Tamara Lawlor O’Driscoll, * 2nd Remix (Kaci White, Amy Fitzgerald, Anna & Tara Cosgrove)

Beat That (Roisín Fahey, Benushila Tripathi)

Roisín Mulcahy

Remix (Kaci White, Amy Fitzgerald, Anna & Tara Cosgrove)

 Secondary School Finalists:

Cian Mullane
Shauna Nolan *Winner
Mayowa Arikawe *2nd (joint 2nd)
Jordan Morrison * 2nd (joint 2nd)
Máirín Rua Ní Aodha
Fiona O Donovan
Billy O Dwyer
Emma Hayes Sarah Cremin and Emma Field
Erin O Regan

Sarah Cremin and Emma Field

Erin O Regan

Dynamite (Jay Dondolo and Caitlin Creamer) *3rd

Remix (Kaci White, Amy Fitzgerald, Anna & Tara Cosgrove)

 

winner, primary category, McCarthy's Community Talent Competition 2013

winner, Secondary school category, McCarthy's Community Talent Competition 2013

McCarthy’s Community Talent Competition 2013

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 Launch of McCarthy's Community Talent Competition 2013 with last year's winners and Cllr Kieran McCarthy

 

 

Cork’s young people are invited to participate in the fifth year of ‘Cllr Kieran McCarthy’s Community Talent Competition’. The auditions will take place on Sunday 28 April 2013 between 9am-5pm in the Lifetime Lab, Lee Road. There are no entry fees and all talents are valid for consideration. The final will be held over one week later. There are two categories, one for primary school children and one for secondary school students. Winners will be awarded a perpetual trophy and prize money of €150 (two by €150). The project is being organised and funded by Cllr Kieran McCarthy in association with Red Sandstone Varied Productions (RSVP). 

Cllr. McCarthy noted: “The talent competition is a community initiative. It encourages all young people to develop their talents and creative skills, to push forward with their lives and to embrace their community positively”. Further details can be got from Kieran at 087 6553389 or info@kieranmccarthy.ie from the talent show producer (RSVP), Yvonne Coughlan, 085 1798695.

Results, McCarthy’s Design An Adventure Playground, Art Competition, 2013

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A great exhibition was held in the Lifetime Lab last Saturday, 2 March for Engineer’s Day. McCarthy’s Design an Adventure Playground, in association with the Lifetime Lab attracted over 200 entries. The entries were all on display last Saturday. Below is the list of winners in the various age categories and the winning pictures. My thanks to Meryvn Horgan and Rebecca Archer (of the Lifetime Lab) for their logistical support with this project.

 Project guidelines: http://kieranmccarthy.ie/?p=9376

Age Category 4-6:

First, Oisín Smith Beaumont Boys N.S.
Second, Ryan Sugrue Beaumont Boys N.S.
Joint Third, Clara Cahill, Gaelscoil Cionn tSáile Cappagh, Kinsale
Joint Third, Lily Cahill, Gaelscoil Cionn tSáile Cappagh, Kinsale

 

Age Category 7-9:
First, Ryan Sweeney, Beaumont Boys N.S.
Second, Anna Ní Shúilleabháin, Gaelscoil Mhuscraí, An Bhlarna
Third, Ruan Barrett Crean, Beaumont Boys N.S.

Age Category 10-12:
First, Cara Walsh, Whitechurch N.S.
Second, Cian O’Donovan, Ballyheada N.S., Ballinhassig
Third, Evan Healy, Ballygarvan N.S.

 Entries, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, Art Competition in association with the Lifetime Lab

 

Age Category, 4-6, Winners:

First Place, 4-6 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, Art Competition in association with the Lifetime Lab

Second Place, 4-6 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, Art Competition in association with the Lifetime Lab

Third Place, 4-6 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, Art Competition in association with the Lifetime Lab

 

Age Category, 7-9, Winners:

First Place, 7-9 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, Art Competition in association with the Lifetime Lab

Second Place, 7-9 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, Art Competition in association with the Lifetime Lab

Third Place, 7-9 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, Art Competition in association with the Lifetime Lab

 

 

Age Category, 10-12,Winners:

First Place, 10-12 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, in association with the Lifetime Lab

 Second Place, 10-12 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, in association with the Lifetime Lab

Third Place, 10-12 Age Category, Cllr Kieran McCarthy's Design An Adventure Playground, in association with the Lifetime Lab

Kieran’s Comments, Dereliction, Cork City Council Meeting, 11 February 2013

Arts, Kieran's Council Work, Uncategorized

As someone who gives walking tours around Shandon, there is a need to have a proper inner city renewal plan. For too long places like Shandon, Barrack Street are limping on..indeed only for the Shandon Area Renewal Area group, volunteers, Cork Community Art Link…Shandon Street would be further down the road of dereliction…indeed such groups have added to the creative hub of the city. We need to build more of such groups.

Barrack Street is more or lost except for the traditional pubs that survive on student trade.

It always seems to me that there is no vision for such streets, no way forward. Shandon Street should be recognised officially as key heritage quarter.

History is oozing out of this area… and despite a plethora of best practice examples out there, there is a huge disconnection between its sense of place and its modern day economy.

In Shandon Street and other areas we need to create an attractive place to live, work and visit; to safeguard, protect and enhance the built heritage and promote a sustainable, diverse and integrated residential and business community.

For example I would like to see a summer heritage programme of events implemented for the area. There are great buildings in the Shandon Street are but they are not appreciated enough and harnessed enough and not celebrated enough so that they can play a part in the life of the inner city.

That is the same as the Good Shepherd Convent, the building and the site was not appreciated enough by all partners in it… the site is secure now but now it is too late for it..  it is now an abandoned and burned heap of heritage with no plan for it…the city needs a vision for such heritage markers and when I say that I’m thinking of the longest building in Europe, Our Lady’s Hospital which needs a plan and needs to be secured.

McCarthy’s Make a Model Boat Project 2012

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Thanks to all the participants of the 2012 McCarthy’s Make a Model Boat Project. Thanks to our judges Siobhan and Donncha of Meitheal Mara plus project support from Mervyn of the Lifetime Lab and Yvonne from Red Sandstone Varied Productions. Below are pictures of some of the entries plus my thanks to TG4 news for coming along and doing a story on the event. I’ll post the winners online soon.

 McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012

McCarthy's Make a Model Boat Project 2012