12 Christmas Preparations in Saleen
Community Christmas Tree and Carols All are welcome to the
lighting of the Saleen vil- lage Christmas Tree out- side the church at 6.45pm this Saturday 17 December. Join in the festive spirit by singing some carols around
the tree.
Times & Tales We are very grateful to all
who have purchased copies of ‘Times & Tales’ since its recent launch. Only a few copies now remain. Con- tact Jerry O’Brien at 086 8262746 or Liam Robinson
at 086 2457019 to obtain your copy of this treasure of stories and information on the Saleen, East Ferry, Rathcoursey and surround- ing areas. ‘Times & Tales’ is also available at Day’s Eu- rospar (Whitegate), McCa- rthy News (Midleton) and Midleton Books.
East Cork Motorists Receive €23,000 in Pothole Pay- Outs
by SEAMUS WHELEHAN
Almost been spent
€65,000 has in pothole
compensation pay-outs by Cork County Council since 2015.
Cobh and East Cork Municipalities
forked out
nearly €23,000 to 79 peo- ple up to November this year. The figures were ob-
tained as Labour Coun- cillor Cathal Rasmussen called on the Government to commit extra money to allow Municipalities to repair potholes, saying it will save money in the long run.
revealed that
Cork County Council there
had
been 507 complaints re- garding the condition of roads since last year. The authority said 270 com- plaints had been settled at a total cost of €63,840. The authority did not
provide a break down by town in each district. Of the amount paid out
in East Cork €11,772 was given to thirty two people from the East Cork Munic- ipality. A further €10,966 was
paid to 47 motorists in the Cobh Municipal district. The West Cork Munici-
pal district had the lowest pay-out of €3,723 to twen-
ty six motorists Cllr Rasmussen said the
figures were worrying with many potholes reappear- ing at the same location. “We can’t get around to
all the potholes, I accept that, but it is an issue. If we are repairing something it needs to be done proper- ly. Potholes that are fixed should not reopen.” Cobh Municipality
Chairman, Fine Gael Cllr Anthony Barry said “it is rather damming that both Cobh and East Cork seem to have a significant prob- lem. We are always hearing the West Cork Councillors complaining about their roads, obviously they are not as bad as they have led us to believe.” East Cork Municipality
Chairwoman, Independ- ent Cllr Mary Linehan Foley said she was sur- prised at the amount paid out in her district. “It’s a pittance to what
I got over the past twelve months
in complaints.
Staffing is certainly an issue. It’s taking a three to four week wait before potholes are filled in. The day has come where we are throwing money af- ter money, paying people who have damaged their cars. It’s come to the stage in Cork East where some- thing radical has to be put
in place.”
Council Chief Executive Tim Lucey admitted the County’s roads budget has been running on fumes for the past number of years, which was hindering the demand for improving and maintaining the network. Significant cuts have
been made to the roads budgets since 2008, staffing resources have also been cut by at least 50%. Despite this he said he
didn’t consider the report to be damming. He said the highest pay-outs were in areas with the highest volumes of traffic. “In 2008 Cork County Council was contributing €17million
to roads and
got a further €65million from government. 2016 we are still providing 85% of our own funding into the repair of local roads and receive 43% government funding.” The
said “the
info@eastcorkjournal.ie
Thursday, 15th
December 2016
Midleton Library Entertains Kids With Christmas Crafts Workshop As Part of Magical Midleton Initiative
by ALAN SHEEHAN and ANDREA
CUNNINGHAM Midleton library hosted
a story and craft workshop for children last Saturday, 10 December, as part of the Magical Midleton in- itiative. Nine children took part
in the free workshop, ran by library staff member Ann Lambe, where they created all sorts of hand- made
Christmas crafts
and decorations which they could later bring
home. “We’d nine children on
the day,” said Anne-Ma- rie Kenneally of Midle- ton Library. “It was very, very good. The kids were lovely, like. They were all into their arts and crafts. It was free, like all of the library’s events. The ma- terials sponsored by Cork County Library and Arts Services. The kids made Christmas crafts, like stars, cards, and decorations for the home and the tree. They made about two or three pieces each to take
home with them.” This particular work-
shop was held in associa- tion with Magical Midle- ton, a Christmas initiative run by Midleton and Area Chamber of Commerce to encourage the people of the town to shop locally during the holiday period. “We were working with
the Magical Midleton people, and that was our contribution,” said Ms Kenneally. “We hold these workshops periodically during the year. We hope to start doing them more
often, as we have staff in- house that can do it, like Ann Lambe who ran that workshop.” Midleton Library hosts
a variety of events for children and adults, all of which are free of charge, and it’s suggested that you ask in the library further information on upcoming events. The library will maintain its regular hours until it temporarily shuts down from 24-28 Decem- ber inclusive, before re- suming its usual business hours.
• Ava Garde and Martha Flynn Gould.
• Jack Corbett and Scott Lemasney.
• Juliette, Ciara and Livia McCarthy.
Chief Executive recommend-
ed best practice for road strengthening and surface dressing of roads is that you do them once every twenty years and resur- face
once every sixteen
years. Our budget for road strengthening allows us to do it once every fifty five years and surface
dress-
ing once every thirty nine years.”
Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email:
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www.eastcorkjournal.ie • Aoibhinn O Regan and Ava Swords. eastcorkjournal @eastcorkjournal / #eastcorkjournal
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