On Saturday, 11th June  St Finbarr’s Hospital will be holding its annual Garden Party from 1.30 to 4.30 pm. As part of a whole series of events planned, Cllr Kieran McCarthy invites the general public to take part in a free historical walking tour of St. Finbarre’s Hospital at 1.30p.m.  (meet at gate). The workhouse, which opened in December 1841, was an isolated place – built beyond the toll house and toll gates, which gave entry to the city and which stood just below the end of the wall of St. Finbarr’s Hospital in the vicinity of the junction of the Douglas and Ballinlough Roads. The Douglas Road workhouse was also one of the first of over 130 workhouses to be designed by the Poor Law Commissioners’ architect George Wilkinson. 

Cllr. Kieran McCarthy also invites all Cork young people (primary and secondary) to participate in McCarthy’s ‘Make a Model Boat Project’. All interested must make a model boat at home from recycled materials and bring it along for judging to the Atlantic Pond on Sunday afternoon, 12 June 2011, 2pm. This project is in conjunction with the Ocean to City Martime Festival. See www.kieranmccarthy.ie under community programme for details and an application form.