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Athenry Parish Newsletter Sun 31st Jan 2010
Athenry Parish Website.
http://www.athenry.net/stmarysparish
Presentation car park
Beginning 13th/14th March 2010 To facilitate parking for Church Services in the Athenry Church the Presentation Car Park will be open 6.30p.m to 8.30p.m on Saturday evening; 9.00a.m to 12.30pm; 6.30p.m to 8.30p.m. on Sundays and Holy Days. At other times during the weekend the gate will be locked.
Athenry Camogie Club Registration Night
Athenry Camogie Club Registration Night in the Newpark Hotel on Thursday February 4th from 6.-8.00p.m. New & old members welcome.
Support our very own Julie Feeney
Best Irish Female Meteor Music Award Please text: VOTE FEMALE 2 to 085 7114444 1 text per day per phone till Feb 15.
Athenry vocalist/ composer Julie Feeney, Barna’s Adrian Crowley, and Dark Room Notes, two of whose members come from Galway, will perform at the fifth annual Choice Music Prize awards next month. As well as performing at the prestigious event in Vicar Street, Dublin, on Wednesday March 3, all three are also nominated to receive the award on the night. The Choice Music Prize - Irish Album of the Year - was established to celebrate and acknowledge the work of Irish musicians. The prize aims to simply highlight those albums which deserve some extra time in the spotlight and, ultimately, to select the album which best represents Irish musical releases from the previous year. Ten albums have been nominated, among them pages by Julie Feeney, Season Of Sparks by Adrian Crowley, and Dark Room Notes’ We Love You Dark Matter. The Galway albums face competition from releases by And So I Watch You From Afar, Codes, The Duckworth Lewis Method, Valerie Francis, The Swell Season, Bell X1, and Laura Izibor. The winning act will receive a cheque for €10,000 and a special commemorative trophy. Julie Feeney could be in line for her second Choice award as she won the inaugural 2005 Choice award.(Galway Advertiser) Tickets for the event are on sale from Ticketmaster and usual outlets at €27 each, including booking fee.
WeightWatchers for Men and Women
WeightWatchers for Men and Women, Raheen Woods Hotel, Athenry on Wednesdays @ 10.15 a.m & 6.45p.m.
Athenry Musical Society
Athenry Musical Society currently seeking sponsorship for their upcoming production of “ All Shook Up”. To become a patron or sponsor or to advertise in our programme please contact 087 6877859.
Gairmscoil Mhuire, Athenry Evening Classes
Basic Computers, -Ms Word, Internet, Computers Intermediate French Language and Culture, Trace your family history, Skin Care & Make-up, Digital Photography, Homeopathy, Homeopathy for Health- First Aid. Registration on Mon 1st Feb from 7-9p.m. (091 844159)
River Clarin Drainage:
A meeting to discuss the drainage of the River Clarin will be held in Coldwood N.S on Monday Feb. 1st @ 8p.m. sharp. All interested parties please attend. (F.Rooney @ 087 9608685)
Ennis to Athenry rail link in March
Iarnród Éireann have announced that the opening of the Ennis to Athenry line, which will also deliver direct Limerick to Galway services, is now scheduled to take place in March. The original planned opening of the Ennis to Athenry line had been January 9 of this year but it was deferred as a result of the flooding in November. Flooding at Ballycar also forced Iarnród Éireann to close down the Limerick to Ennis rail line but it was reopened this week, which means good news for the first phase of the Western Rail Corridor. The redevelopment of the Ennis to Athenry line, which is expected to cost €106.5 million, will serve Limerick, Ennis, Athenry, and Galway with new stations at Sixmilebridge, Gort, Ardrahan, and Craughwell. There will also be an expansion of commuter links to Limerick and Galway and an emphasis placed on promoting regional development, in line with the National Spatial Strategy objectives, by linking the two gateways and serving the hub of Ennis. Driver training resumed between Ennis and Galway last week and will now continue over the full Limerick to Galway route. As a result, Iarnród Éireann has stated that the line is scheduled to open in March with a precise opening date expected to be confirmed shortly. The investment project involves the renewal of 36 miles of track, including all necessary fencing, and installation of points and crossings at Gort and Ennis; a 90m platform with furniture, signage, shelter, ATM machine, lighting, car park, PA, customer information systems, help point and CCTV provision at Sixmilebridge, Gort, Ardrahan, and Craughwell; PA, customer information systems, help point, and CCTV will be provided at Ennis and Athenry stations; repair and improvement work has been undertaken on bridges on the route to allow rail services to operate; modernised signalling system; and improvement to level crossings, and elimination where practicable.(Galway Advertiser)
Thornton retains Fields 10km title in style
GCH's Gary Thornton set a new course record in today's 8th Fields of Athenry 10km, in an exceptional time of 29:57. Donegal's and Finn Valley's Teresa McGloin took the ladies title ahead of last year's winner Catherine Conway, smashing the course record along the way too.
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Afterschool Club
Margaret Flannery opening an afterschool club in Sept 2010 in Newcastle community center if interested please give me a call on 0861780592 Hot meals provided,homework supervision and activities sessional rates given.
Interested in playing Squash in the Athenry area ?
Using the court at Newcastle Community Centre. Interested?: Please phone/text 0872043643
Gort to Tuam motorway to start in November
€500m project to bypass Tuam and Claregalway bottlenecks Construction work on the long-awaited €500 million new motorway from Gort to Tuam will commence this November. The National Roads Authority has confirmed that two consortia of builders and financial institutions have been shortlisted from a list of around six consortia who had expressed interest in building the road in a Public Private Partnership (PPP). BAM Balfour Beatty and Direct Route will now go ‘head to head’ in a competition to win the tender for the development. BAMBalfour Beatty consists of BAMPPP and Balfour Beatty Capital Ltd and Direct Route consists of AIB plc, Strabag SE, John Sisk & Son (Holdings) Ltd, Roadbridge and Lagan Construction Ltd. The 57kmstretch of dual carriageway will run from Gort to North of Tuam. It will include a Bypass of the North Galway town and could also help alleviate congestion in one of the county’s worst bottlenecks – Claregalway. Once it is completed it will link up with a ‘super junction’ outside Athenry criss-crossing with the new Galway to Dublin M6 and linking up with the new N18 motorway linking Gort and Limerick, which is currently under construction. The NRA has confirmed to Galway West Deputy Frank Fahey that the project will commence in November of this year. It is expected to be fully constructed within two and a half years. Deputy Fahey told the Connacht Tribune: “This is another major step in the progression of this project. The 57Km piece of dual carriageway, once commenced, should be fully constructed within a two and a two and a half year timeframe and it will mean that a person may travel from the new bypass in Gort to the north side of Tuam. (Connacht Tribune)