Thursday, 8th December 2016


After Almost A 20 Year Wait Two Midleton Estates Are Taken in Charge


by SEAMUS WHELEHAN


East Cork Municipality


have given Cork County Council the go ahead to take two Midleton Estates in charge. At its December sitting on Monday 5 December the borough agreed to take in charge Ashwood Cres- cent and Hawthorn Drive. Both estates have faced almost a twenty year wait to be taken into local au- thority control. Municipality Executive


officer Joe McCarthy told councillors the reason the estates weren’t taken in charge before now, was because


they were brought to a state not they


could be taken in charge. He said for many years


Midleton Town Council had requested progress to be made on both estates. “There was no bond


the companies had gone into liquidation. With one of the Estates it was the responsibility of the ma- jority of the residents in the estate to resolve cross connections. Storm water drains were connected to foul sewer, foul drains were connected to storm sew- ers.”


as all the


Mr McCarthy said infrastructural


works within the estates had been completed to the satisfaction of Cork Coun- ty Council the ownership of the common areas will now be transferred into the council’s ownership fol- lowing the passing of the resolution.


Over 600 Businesses in Cork County Not Paying Commercial Rates


by SEAMUS WHELEHAN


Cork County Council


is potentially losing out on millions of euro in revenue annually due to a rates as- sessment backlog. It was revealed at the De-


have


cember sitting of full coun- cil that over 600 premises throughout the county are currently not paying rates. Many are premises that either been newly


built or had their buildings altered. It’s anticipated the situ-


ation will remain for a fur- ther three years. A report published at the


request of Councillor Des O’Grady shows that many have avoided paying rates for over three years. The figures show that six commercial properties have not paid rates since 2011, eighteen from 2012, an additional 151 have not paid a rate since 2013, 67 from 2014, 226 from 2015 and 141 so far this year. Under current rules the national valuations office


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in Dublin must first assess a property before a local au- thority can start charging new rates.


Council CEO Tim Lu-


cey said while the situation is not ideal the authority could not charge commer- cial rates until the central evaluations office review the businesses. The agency is current-


ly carrying out a national review of all commercial premises, a process which hasn’t


since the mid-19th process


taken place here century.


It’s envisaged once the is complete, busi-


nesses will be reviewed every five to ten years to ensure rates are current. Mr Lucey said once the


review had taken place the authority could not chase a business for back pay. Cllr O’Grady said “if the local authority rate payers are not going to be asked to pay then it should come from central government.” Figures released by the of Justice


department


show that nationally almost 6,500 commercial units have not been assessed for rates. The department figures


show that both Cork and Kerry are the worst affect- ed counties.


Midleton’s Arianne Singers and Voce Angelica Children’s Group Peform in aid of Cork DAWG by ALAN SHEEHAN


Two musical groups will hold a joint performance in St


John the Baptist


Church, Midleton, in aid of Cork Dog Animal Wel- fare Group (DAWG) this evening, Thursday, 8 De- cember. The


Arianne Singers,


supported by Voce Angel- ica Children’s Group, will begin their performance of classical, contemporary and musical theatre pieces at 7.30pm. Tickets will be available on the door for €10, with proceeds going to Cork DAWG. “All of our concerts are


done for charities,” said Anne


Anderson, direc-


tor of both the Arianne Singers and the Voce An- gelica Children’s Group. “This year we chose Cork DAWG.” The concert is held in honour of Midleton’s Con- gie


Lynch, who passed


away on New Year’s Eve, 2015.


“Congie Lynch dedicat-


ed her life to saving ani- mals,” said Mrs Anderson. “She was an animal lover, who passed away at the very


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end of last year, and she gave her premises to Cork DAWG. So we said we’d do something for them. They do a lot of good work, even though they’re very short of funds.” Cork DAWG, a regis-


tered charity and is run primarily by a network of volunteers that was found- ed in 2007, is dedicated to recuing abused, straying, and abandoned dogs, and keeping them in their sanc- tuary with the aim to relo- cate them to loving homes, rather than city or county pounds where they would join the 10,000+ dogs that are


destroyed in Ireland


each year. It won’t be the first


time that Mrs Anderson’s two musical seven-member


groups, the all female


Arianne Singers, and the younger Voce


Angelica


Children’s Group, have performed together. “I teach singing classes


every Friday to children,” she said, “and I combine the two groups for con- certs. Hopefully now we’ll get a good audience, and it’ll be a success for Cork DAWG. ”


Gearoid Cotter Crowned


Karaoke Winner in Ballycotton


by LEAH RING Almost


€1,000 was


raised for Marymount University Hospital and Hospice by the Blackbird Bar, Ballycotton through its karaoke competition. The final of the event,


which ran throughout No- vember was held on 3 De- cember with seven singers competing to take home the final prize. Gearoid Cotter was the


winner of the competi- tion, with Claire Murphy, Martina Tattan, Laura McCloud, Christopher Tattan, Tina Draddy and Brenda O’Riordan also participating in the night’s contest.


Mossy Tattan, proprie-


tor of the Blackbird Bally- cotton said: “It was a great


night and it was fantastic to raise this for Mary- mount.” Mr Tattan added: “It is


for a great cause. Mary- mount is a charity every- one knows and does great work.” Marymount University


Hospital and Hospice is a healthcare


and acts as an elderly care facility with respite care, intermediate


facility which


provides two separate ser- vices to patients. It


for formed in 1870 palliative


care and continuing care for older people. Marymount


Hospice


also provides care to pa- tients with progressive illness, both cancer and non-cancer, at a time when pain or other symptom is- sues need addressing.


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