Olive becomes Paul at Ballymoney
Rotary Clubs of Navan and Banbridge meet at the Boyne
Ballymoney Rotary Clubʼs president David Robinson presented Olive Harvey with a Paul Harris Fellowship at the recent Presidentʼs Charity Ball, attended by over 160 people and raising over £3,000.
Olive has been Chairman of the Parent
Teachers Association of Dalriada Prep. She has been Secretary for the Save the Children and Guide Dogs for the Blind; a member of the Select Vestry of St Patrickʼs Church Ballymoney and County Secretary to the Girl Guide Association in NI for many years. She is President of St Johnʼs Ambulance Ballymoney for close to 30 years and has served for 10 years as area representative for Northern Ireland on the Pony Club Council in London with one of the highlights being a trip to Australia in charge of 15 year olds representing the British Isles. She has been a scorer for many years at Irish Horse Trial events all over Ireland and notably in the European Championship held at Punchestown.
She has held every office in the Ballymoney Inner Wheel Club including President twice, Secretary, Club Correspondent, Treasurer and Overseas Secretary. She has also served as Treasurer and Vice Chair for District 16 and has just completed a very full and successful year as District Chair covering the island of Ireland.
Car Ballot opportunity
Rotary Club of Banbridge met the Rotary Club of Navan on the Battle of the Boyne site on a warmish day in August. The visiting group arrived promptly and introductions completed before we all adjourned to the bright, airy café where tea, coffee and, in some cases, scones and muffins were consumed.
Then it was time for work as we headed for the main house where a guide of the Office of Public Work (OPW) was on hand to welcome us and start our tour. He gave us the political background to the period in which several European countries (including the Vatican State!) supported William of Orange in his campaign against the Jacobites in Ireland on the basis that James was an ally of his cousin Louis XIV of
France whose expansionist policies were of major concern to other European powers. We also learned about the complicated family relationships between the two protagonists with William being both nephew and son ‒in ‒law of James. Already our perceptions of this battle were beginning to change ‒ this battle seemed to be much more about dynastic rivalries and European power plays than religion. Having set the political context we moved on into a room where it was fascinating to discover that this was not a battle between Irish Catholics and British Protestant forces but between two armies that contained soldiers from many different European countries and with Irishmen to be found on both sides.
Rotary Club of Castlebar KOPO Project
Rotarians Stephen Torrans, Bill Armstrong, Colin White and Billy Geary from Belfast East kick off the successful ballot at The Connswater Shopping
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Front Row (seated) Joe Mulroy, Fred Flynn(Club President), Fr Michael Brady, Caroline Costello Back Row (standing) Paddy OʼBrien, John Horkan, Seamus Cashin, Vivienne Kyne, Kevin Burke, Tom Collins, Bred Mulroy, Peter Glynn, Paul OʼGrady.
The President of Castlebar Rotary Club Fred Flynn and fellow members presenting a €20,000 cheque to Fr Michael Brady, Castlebar / South Africa. Six members of the Rotary Club of Castlebar visited Rustenburg in South Africa and have been supporting a number of projects in the townships. KOPO (which means Please) is an ongoing project and is headed up by a long‑standing Rotary member Joe Mulroy
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