mallow go to south west kerry

Mallow had a lovely trip to south west Kerry on Thurs 23rd June.We visited the Skellig chocolate factory where we had tastings of the fabulous chocolate, the art gallery of the Cill Rialig artists centre,Waterville, the Barracks museum near Caherciveen , the church in Caherciveen dedicated to Daniel O Connell and finished up at the Castlerosse hotel in Killarney for a delicious meal. A long and very tiring trip but very enjoyable.

Nora, Brenda,Bridie and Eileen

Bernie,Margaret and Kathleen

Kay, Rita Margaret and Joan

Pat and Liz

Gina,Mary, Rene, Eileen and Mae

Mary, Eileen, Pearl and Eileen

Mary Denis Breeda and Dora

Daniel O Connell

Mae and Gabrielle

Mary and lil

Ros and the guard

Ros, Gina, Sheila and Margaret

Eileen and Margaret

Margaret and Brenda

 An exhibition in the Art gallery

Margaret and your man

Lish and her favourite painting

An unusual painting on a dish

Lil and a stretcher marked Mallow

The Barracks museum near Caherciveen

Betty Brenda and Eileen with Charlie Chaplin

Chocolates from Skelligs

Chocolate Killer heel from Skelligs

Betty Brenda and Eileen with Mick O Dwyer in Waterville

Photos from Noreen Lucey, Rene Collins and Margaret McCarthy

mallow go to south west kerry

Mallow had a lovely trip to south west Kerry on Thurs 23rd June.We visited the Skellig chocolate factory where we had tastings of the fabulous chocolate, the art gallery of the Cill Rialig artists centre,Waterville, the Barracks museum near Caherciveen , the church in Caherciveen dedicated to Daniel O Connell and finished up at the Castlerosse hotel in Killarney for a delicious meal. A long and very tiring trip but very enjoyable.

Nora, Brenda,Bridie and Eileen

Bernie,Margaret and Kathleen

Kay, Rita Margaret and Joan

Pat and Liz

Gina,Mary, Rene, Eileen and Mae

Mary, Eileen, Pearl and Eileen

Mary Denis Breeda and Dora

Daniel O Connell

Mae and Gabrielle

Mary and lil

Ros and the guard

Ros, Gina, Sheila and Margaret

Eileen and Margaret

Margaret and Brenda

 An exhibition in the Art gallery

Margaret and your man

Lish and her favourite painting

An unusual painting on a dish

Lil and a stretcher marked Mallow

The Barracks museum near Caherciveen

At the Skelligs chocolate factory

Mary Gina and Rene

Betty Brenda and Eileen with Charlie Chaplin

Photos Noreen Lucey Rene Collins and Mgt McCarthy

De Cedaoin mallow

Gina, Mae,Kitty, Margaret, Eileen and Rene in the background at the Arches

MALLOW ARA WALKING FOR HEALTH

Each Wednesday Mallow ARA meet at Lidl's at 10.30 am to go for a walk each morning in a different direction. Come and join us!

Ros, Margaret OR, Margaret Mc,Gabriel,Attracta,Nora and Michael

Mary G, Ros,Patsy, Mae and Nora

Pearl and Nora in foreground with MaryG Patsy and Mae in Mallow Castle grounds.

Mary G striding it out

Eileen, Noreen, Emma,Breeda and Margaret

photos M McCarthy

Shirley our instructer

Photos Margaret McCarthy

MEDIA STUDY WITH LIFE FM

A group of over 55's completed a media course over 10 weeks at 93.1 life fm recently. We attended the classes at the Tory Top library in Ballyphehane Cork City and the studio work at the studio in Togher .The group blended very well and learned a lot from each other. Terri Kruschke was our teacher and an excellant teacher she was too keeping us all in line and reminding us by e mail not to forget our home work!
We learned about production planning music scripting interviewing ( not as easy as it sounds), running order which had to be timed to the last second. We divided into two teams to make two half hour programmes. We decided to have as our subject "Promoting good health in older people" and "Attitudes to older people"

We allocated tasks to each member and decided who we could interview.We worked very hard over the 10 weeks and ended with more material than needed of course so then we had the task with Terri and her team of editing. We ended up with two programmes of 45 mins each.

They will air on 93.1 life fm on 29th and 30th June at 12.10 pm.and will be repeated on Sat 2nd July at 3 and 4 pm. You can get it online if unable to pick up transmission.

Fourteen members completed the course.

Back:Joan,Phil,Maureen,Tom,Anne,Philip,Margaret,Con,Kay and Siobhan.

Front:Mona,Donal,Terri( our teacher)Tessie and Elaine.

MARIGOLD SERIES

The Marigold series was a great success  again this year. All stands were filled by our loyal patrons.There was a huge crowd at the Garden show. This year there were more vintage cars than before and they looked gorgeous in the shining sun. There must have been plenty of elbow grease the night before!
There were a lot more food stalls also as well as the usual stands.There was a lot more entertainment for children also. And the flowers and permanent gardens were fabulous.
Our own Active Retirement stand was very busy with enquiries and for the raffle.

Our President Mai Quaid was there of course also Kay Murphy( Board member) from Shannon.

John Noel's vintage car

Margaret McCarthy and Brenda Greene

Kay and Karen on the MPHC stand

John Noel Cronin Kay Murphy and Anne O Brien

Jean and Michael Stubbs at the 1916 memorial garden

Doing the Slosh with Kevin and John on music

Nancy Hegarty, Kay Murphy, Anne O Brien,Noreen Lalor and client 

John Noel's 3 cars

May Quaid

Photos by Michael Stubbs and Martin Casey