Thursday, 4th
May 2017
East Cork Flower Club
East Cork Flower
Club will hold a talk on gardening
with Philip Cunningham, Repre- sentative, Enthusiasts
from St. John the Baptist National School, Mid- leton on Monday, 8th
.
Sunglasses Lost in Carrigtwohill
Black Rayban Sun- glasses lost between Cost-
cutter and Dr Barry’s in Carrigtwohill
May 2nd
if found please Contact 0876259769
Sinead Kane Blind Marathon Runner Is Cork Person Of The Month
volved. She qualified as Ireland’s first legally blind solicitor in 2009. “It’s all about mental
strength and realising why you want to do it. I want to change people’s perception of disability” said Sinead. One of the
who nominated Sinead for the Person of
• Pictured at the award presentation l/r Kelvin Flanagan, Lexus Cork; Michael Lynch, AV3 Productions; Sinead Kane, April Person of the Month; Ann-Marie O’Sullivan, AM O’Sullivan PR; ManusO’Callaghan, Awards Organiser; Pat Lemasney, Southern. Pic Tony O’Connell Photography.
Sinead Kane, with
only 5% vision, has com- pleted seven marathons in seven days on seven continents to establish a new World Record. April Cork Person of
the Month Sinead, with her guide runner John O’Regan, ran the first
marathon at Union Gla- cier in Antarctica, then Puuta Arenas, Chile, Miami USA, Madrid Spain, Marrakech Mo- rocco, Dubai UAE, and finally Sydney Australia. She is the first visually
impaired athlete to com- plete
the World Mar- @eastcorkjournal / #eastcorkjournal athon Challenge and
the 34 year old Youghal native only took up run- ning a few years ago. Sinead Kane
also
succeeded in a career people told her would be unsuitable because
for her, of the heavy amount of reading in- eastcorkjournal
people the
Month award said “I’m nominating an elite ath- lete, not a blind girl, for this award. She just in- spires all people, both disabled and non-disa- bled, to realise their own potential”. Since she was a child,
Sinead has been used to having obstacles put in her path.
She recently
spoke about the bully- ing she experienced in Primary School and the isolation she felt when she moved on to attend
Secondary School. “
I have come through some very low periods in my life, but I have al- ways had the ability to bounce back. Too many people
are not Sinead Kane living
their dreams, because they are living their fears “
lives
with a very positive at- titude “I can choose to be blind or I can choose to be visionary.
It takes
courage to have limit- ed sight and to go out and run with thousands of people because the risks of being injured are higher. What I have learned from life is that courage has a ripple effect.
Every time we
choose courage we make those around us feel bet- ter and the world a bit braver”. Sinead’s
name now
goes forward, with the other Persons
of the
Month chosen this year, for possible selection as
Cork Person of the Year at a Gala Awards Lunch in mid-January next.
Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email:
info@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web:
www.eastcorkjournal.ie
CORK COUNTY COUNCIL COMHAIRLE CONTAE CHORCAÍ
ROADS ROADS ACT, 1993 TEMPORARY CLOSING OF PUBLIC ROADS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, under Section 75 of the Roads Act, 1993, that the following road will be closed to public traffic for the dates and times stated:
Moby Dick Festival – R634 Barrys Lane, Youghal from 18.00hrs to 22.00hrs Friday, 2nd June 2017
from 08.00hrs to 22.00hrs Saturday, 3rd June 2017 from 14.00hrs to 22.00hrs Sunday, 4th June 2017
Road to be closed: The R634 from its junction with Nealon’s Quay to its junction with the L95301-0 Fox’s Lane.
Road Number: R634 (Part).
Alternative Route: At R634 Market Square turn left onto Nealon’s Quay and then turn right to re-join the R634 at Kent Street.
This closure is to facilitate the Moby Dick Festival 2017.
Director of Roads, Cork County Council, The Courthouse, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
May at 7.30 p.m. In the school. Please note ear- lier time of 7.30 p.m.
info@eastcorkjournal.ie
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