Thursday, 8th December 2016


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Clean Coasts Ballynamona Win Ocean Hero Award


by LEAH RING


Clean Coasts Ballyna- mona were awarded the Raising Awareness Award at last week’s Ocean Hero Awards at the Westin Ho- tel, Dublin. The ceremony by host-


ed by comedian Colm O’Regan and with just seven awards up for grabs and


500 organisations


competing the group has stiff competition. The


Raising Aware-


ness Award recognised the group’s #ThinkBe- foreYouFlush


campaign,


which, Prionsias Ó Tua- ma, Clean Coasts Bally- namona explained, ‘aims to change flushing behav- iours and reduce sewage related litter.’ Clean Coasts Ballyna- mona group were formed last year to actively care for the marine environ- ment in Ballycotton and Shanagarry. The group began the


#ThinkBeforeYouFlush campaign to raise aware-


ness and promote positive flushing activity. The #ThinkBeforeYou- campaign


Flush hopes


to reduce Sewage Relat- ed Litter, which is made up of sanitary products and other items that are flushed down public and private toilets and end up littering inland and coast- al waterways. Mr Ó Tuama said:


“The filters in waste wa- ter treatment


plants do


not always stop items like wet wipes and cotton buds from passing through, so they end up littering our waterways and beaches.” He explained that


group were


• ft Proinsias O’Tuama,teacher from St Colmans Community School,Middleton,Co Cork who were winners of the School of the Year; with Martin Dorey, founder #2minutebeachclean at An Taisce’s Clean Coast Ocean Hero Awards 2016.(Pic:Naoise Culhane).


the highlighted


because ‘almost 200 peo- ple and local businesses, including the


Garryvoe


and Bayview hotels, Bal- lycotton Stores and post office, The Schooner, Lynch’s Inn by the har- bour, The Blackbird pub and the Garda Station committed to change and support the campaign.’ This is the second year


St Colman’s Community College Midleton Win Ocean Hero School of the Year Award For Second Year Running


by ALAN SHEEHAN The


Continued from front Ballynamona


Clean Coast Community Group was awarded the Think Before You Flush Raising Awareness Award at the same event. Two of the school’s stu-


dents, Saoirse O’Driscoll and Aine Lane, along with their teacher Proinsias Ó Tuama, who is also affili- ated with the Ballynamona Clean Coast Group, went to Dublin for the Clean Coasts Symposium and the award ceremony. “We were shortlisted for


three of the seven awards, and we won two,” said Mr Ó Tuama, speaking of both East Cork groups. “So from Ballycotton to Ballynamona,


that 6km


of coastline, we’ve won two of the seven nation- al awards that were given out for conserving more than 300km of coastline. And to win School of the Year


dented. We beat out 3,700 other


twice is unprece- schools, because


it’s awarded not just for conserving coastlines, but inland waters as well. It’s phenomenal, phenomenal.”


@eastcorkjournal / #eastcorkjournal absolutely


the group have won an Ocean Hero award for their work protecting and preserving the coastline in East Cork. Last year they received for Best New-


the title


comer at the Ocean Hero Awards.


Mr Ó Tuama described


An Taisce’s Clean Coasts Programme as “a fantastic way of educating schools and communities”. Coastal


are delighted to be cele- brating the 10th


Anniver-


sary of the Clean Coasts’ Ocean Hero Awards. The awards have really brought to the fore the remarkable work and wonderful coast- al celebration events that Clean Coasts volunteers have been involved in over the past decade along the Irish coastline.” The awards


recognise Communities


Manager of An Taisce, Sinéad McCoy said: “We


the work community groups carry out to pro- tect the coastline of Ire- land.


Youghal Man Waiting Over 16 Months For A Disabled Parking Bay


CARVED OUT A REPUTATION


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• Patrick O’Sullivan who has been waiting over sixteen months for a disabled parking bay outside his Youghal home.


by SEAMUS WHELEHAN


The East Cork Munic-


ipality has recorded an apology to Councillor Aar- on O’Sullivan after failing to provide for one of his constituents. A senior engineer at


Monday’s Municipal meeting cited a busy sched- ule for not installing a dis-


eastcorkjournal


ability parking bay outside Patrick O’Sullivan’s home in Dermot Hurley Place. “Maybe it got buried in


my email inbox. It will be done shortly” the senior engineer told the repre- sentative. Mr O’Sullivan who has


limited mobility following a series of strokes he suf- fered in 2014, has been kept over sixteen months


• Patrick O’Sullivan who has been waiting over sixteen months for a disabled parking bay outside his Youghal home.


waiting for a disabled parking bay. Fuming Patrick said “All I want for Christmas is a blue box. If I had the paint I’d do it myself.” “I can barely walk on


the road. There is only one taxi in Youghal that can take me. He goes up onto the footpath so I can get in. With a no parking spot it would make things


handy.” Cllr O’Sullivan applied


for the disabled parking bay outside Mr O’Sulli- van’s home almost a year and a half ago, but has failed to get a satisfactory response to his request un- til now. At the December sitting


of the borough the Fianna Fail Cllr blasted East Cork Municipality engineers in


their delay. Mr O’Sullivan who is paralysed on his right side told the East Cork Journal “all I want is to stop cars parking Friday to Monday so I can go to the pub to meet my friends.” The liners are due in


Youghal later this week and will look at Mr O’Sul- livan’s request, East Cork Municipality said.


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