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Thursday, 20th


April 2017


Retired International Referee John West Makes Special Presentation to Midleton Rugby Club


by ALAN SHEEHAN Continued from front page


Mr West presented the


trophy to John Levis, Pres- ident of Midleton Rugby Club, with the club also represented


Midleton Rug- by Roger


Morley, Niall McCarthy (Chairman of Juvenile section,


by Club), George Jeffery (Honorary Treasurer of Midleton Rugby Club) and Con Walsh (Vice-Presi- dent of Midleton Rugby Club). Mr West was the first Northern-Hem-


external,


isphere-based referee ap- pointed to a test match in the Southern Hemisphere, specifically New Zea- land. He officiated in his last


Five Nations match


in 1983. A supporter of Trinity College, Dublin, Mr West is Knight of the Campanile and was Pres- ident


of DUFC Rugby


Union Club, as well as a past-President of Leinster Society of Referees.


• Roger Morley (Midleton Rugby Club), Niall McCarthy (Chairman of Juvenile section, Midleton Rugby Club), George Jeffery (Honorary Treasurer of Midleton Rugby Club) and Con Walsh (Vice-President of Midleton Rugby Club).


• John West (former international rugby referee) presenting the trophy to John Levis (President of Midleton Rugby Club).


Ballinacurra Hopes to Have Edward Bransfield Monument by 2020


by ALAN SHEEHAN Continued from front page


Members of the Brans-


field Monument Commit- tee met with Cork Coun- ty Council regarding the proposed monument


on


Thursday, 6 April. Eugene Furlong, Jim Wil- son, and Liam O’Riordan were among the commit- tee’s representation, while Cork County Council rep- resented by Conor Nelligan (County Heritage Officer), Dave Clarke (Area Engi- neer), Joe McCarthy (Mu- nicipal District Officer) and Tegwyn Stephenson (Parliamentary Assistant to Fine Gael TD David Stanton, who is also Minis- ter of State for Justice with special responsibility for Equality, Immigration and Integration). “It is still a bit pie in the


sky,” said Eugene Furlong of the Bransfield Mon- ument


Committee, “but


Cork County Council seem to be in favour of it.


• The proposed site in Ballinacurra for the monument to Edward Bransfield, including a rough conception of said monument.


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Conor Nelligan, the Herit- age Officer, has been at the proposed site and neither he or the Council seem to be objectionable


to it.


However, there are still a number of other fences to be jumped before receiving the total green light. Next we have to work out and design coursing and apply for planning permission.” Edward Brans- field,1785–1852, was born


in Ballinacurra before he was “press-ganged into the Royal Navy and worked his way up, ending in South America and becoming the first man to chart Antarcti- ca in 1820.” Three men have claim


to be the first to discover Antarctica: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a cap- tain in the Russian Imperi- al Navy, Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer and


Bransfield, with Bransfield charting parts of the Ant- arctic mainland two days after von Bellingshausen sighted ice shelves on the Continent’s east. The hope for the Brans-


field Monument Commit- tee is to have the monu- ment erected by 2020. “The idea to have a mon-


ument has been bandied around for a good couple of years,” said Mr Furlong,


“but it is only in the last 12 months that Jim Wilson, Michael Smith the polar exploration author and I, had stringed up the clogs and actively done some- thing about it. The rest of the Irish in Antarctica have monuments of some kind erected about them but the first man ever, not just the first Irishman, to chart Antarctica, has nothing up for him.”


• Con Walsh (Vice-President of Midleton Rugby Club), Roger Morley (Midleton Rugby Club), Niall McCarthy (Chairman of Juvenile section, Midleton Rugby Club) and George Jeffery (Honorary Treasurer of Midleton Rugby Club). Mary Lee West,


John West (former international rugby referee), John Levis (President of Midleton Rugby Club) and Cecily Lee West.


• Mary Lee West, John West (former international rugby referee), John Levis (President of Midleton Rugby Club) and Cecily Lee West.


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