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September 25, 1976
Big weekend of visiting anglers
THIS should be a big weekend of activity for Cloughaneely Sea Club personnel as they act as hosts for the Ulster Inter-Club Sea Angling competition.
Busloads of eager sea angling enthusiasts will arrive in the district this weekend and hopes are that the weather proves suitable to permit them to put to sea and bring home good catches form the rich waters off this coast.
The local organisers have arranged to have nine boats standing by to take them out, and they hope that the visitors will be welcomed warmly and treated to the hospitality of the district during their stay.
The presentation function on Sunday will be in Joe McFadden’s Errigal Lounge, Falcarragh.
Letterkenny Film Society ready with best ever programme
THE Letterkenny Film Society is alive and well.
The committee has been working very hard all summer and has arranged an attractive programme for the coming season.
It consists of a record number of 12 films and despite inflation, the price of the season ticket is unchanged at £5 for two people.
The season begins on Wednesday, October 6, with the screening of “Women in Love.”
This film of DH Lawrence’s controversial novel deals with the complex and intermingling passions of four people.
The cast includes Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden.
“Films and filming describe “The Valley”, as “the most extraordinarily beautiful, perfect film I am sure I will ever see. It is a flawless masterpiece of cinema and with reservation an immediate classic.”
“The Valley” is directed by Hungarian director, Tamas Renyl, and will be shown on October 20.
Letterkenny teacher is Kilkenny All-Ireland star
SELDOM does Donegal have any direct interest in an All-Ireland Senior Camogie final.
But last Sunday was different.
And the reason was Kilkenny’s forward Anne Carroll.
She was on the teaching staff of Letterkenny Loreto Convent and with the interest of others, perhaps that partly explained the rise of interest in camogie last year.
When the All-Ireland final came around she was on the team, and there were students and fellow teachers anxious to make the journey to Dublin to cheer her on.
One, of course, was the school principal herself, Sister Canice Drea – a strong Kilkenny fan.
But on Sunday they were all keen Kilkenny fans and deeply involved in what was a great sporting occasion.
None cheered louder than the Donegal contingent when the spectacular equalling point was scored for Kilkenny by Anne Carroll.
And it was she who set up the chance for the winning point and the All-Ireland title.
2009: Frankie Ferry, Patrick Green and Gary McGettigan, Junior Infants, Scoil N. Fiachra, Illistrin, display their Letterkenny Tidy Towns Schools’ Award.
September 21, 2001
Major award for small school
ONE of Donegal’s smallest national schools scooped a prestigious £10,000 award in the Irish Independent sponsored “Sense of Community” competition.
St Colmcille’s 17 pupil school in Ballyheerin took the overall prize in the disadvantaged school’s scheme section.
Principal Ms Breegin Hawke and her fellow teacher Ms Anne Marie Duffy were delighted to learn of the school’s success in the nationwide competition.
She explained how the project came and the community elements they based it on.
“We devised the theme ourselves and submitted the final document which had 30 A4 pages.
“We looked at communication, employment and leisure and how the school and community interacted to bring a sense of community to the area”, Ms Hawke said.
They based their submission on the interaction between the Milford based Tir Conaill Tribune and how it brought them local news and how they use the paper to reach the Ballyheerin community.
2009: Jim Lynch and Jim McCormick with Lester Speer, Winner of the Best Kept Shop Front at the Letterkenny Tidy Towns Cleaner Community presentations.
On the employment side they looked at Marine Harvest as the largest employer in the area and for the leisure aspect, they profiled the development of Fanavolty Hall under Fr Logue’s guidance to provide all of the community with a meeting, educational and social venue.
Ms Hawke expected they would be presented with their prize next week and then they would decide how best to spend the £10,000.
“We have lots of ideas on how to spend the money.
“We would like to do something with it that will be there for pupils in the future,” Ms Hawke added.
Training with a difference for nursing students
THREE psychiatric nursing students from Letterkenny are due to travel to Belgium and Finland next Wednesday where they will spend the next 12 weeks on clinical work experience in local hospitals.
They are the first group of National Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing students from Letterkenny Institute of Technology to travel abroad on such a programme.
They are Ciara Toye, (Ballyraine Park, Letterkenny), Bernie Heanneghan (Castlebar) and Peter McCarron (Monaghan).
The two girls will be based in a psychiatric hospital in Flemish speaking Kortriyk region in South West Belgium.
Peter McCrarren will be based in Kotka in Finland.
The National Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing in Letterkenny is run by the LYIT in partnership with the North Western Health Board.
“The placement will give us excellent experience of nursing skills and practice in another EU country. “We are really looking forward to the programme.
“A group of general nursing students travelled abroad on a similar placement to Finland last year but this is the first time that psychiatric students have gone out on a programme like this, “ Ciara said.
Mr George McFadden, Head of the School of Nursing at the LYIT said the placement would be an excellent learning opportunity for the students.
St Eunan’s ladies seek ninth county title
ST EUNAN’S ladies will be hoping to lift their ninth Donegal ladies football championship title in ten years when they take on Four Masters in the county final at the Mac Cumhaill Park in Sunday at 12 noon.
The final is a repeat of last year’s decider and promises to be close affairs. Four Masters have had the benefit of three tough games against Aodh Ruadh (Ballyshannon) including a play-off to reach the final.
St Eunan’s reached the final without a competitive game but on Sunday will start the final as favourites.
Twelve of the panel were involved with the county team this year and with some fine young players in their squad they will be difficult to overcome.
The St Eunan’s manager Hugh McClafferty is being very cautious and is well aware of the threat presented by Four Masters.
“They are a young team that will be difficult to contain.
It could be a close final on Sunday”, he said.
Sean Maloney and coach Mickey Dorrian with an Iona schoolboys team which played in the old Letterkenny and District Schoolboys League.
