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Thursday, 18th


May 2017 EAST CORK MACRA NA FEIRME info@eastcorkjournal.ie


Seandun Macra’s Year Starts Drawing to a Close


plenty left in the calendar over


Seandun began to wind down for the


Although there’s still the coming weeks, summer


break last Friday night with their end of year so- cial which took place in the Spailpin Fanach in Cork City. Music was pro- vided on the night by Dan- ny Dineen. This Sunday is a busy as ever in Seandun however with the Seandun final of tag rugby taking place from 11am in the Douglas RFC grounds in the morning with Seand- un also hosting the Mun- ster final of Creative Chal- lenge in the evening. Best of luck to all taking part!


Deadline Monday at noon


Seandun’s Bakers Rise to the Challenge


Seandun Macra mem-


bers from all over the region attended a social baking night out at


the


Cookery Cottage, South Douglas Road. This proved to be an incredibly enjoyable


group were initially


evening. The split


up into pairs where they


worked on two different sweet treats from a selec- tion including baked alas- ka, red velvet


cupcakes,


oreo muffins, chocolate chip cookies, sponge cake, sweet


drizzle


scones and lemon cake.


Afterwards


the group convened for a cup of tea where they en-


joyed sampling the mas- sive selection of incredible baking that was on offer. Thank you to all 16 Mac- ra members who attended the event, the staff of the Cookery Cottage and es- pecially to Zara Long, Gl- anmire Macra who co-or- dinated the event.


• Macra members from different clubs in Seandun pictured at the Seandun end of year social at the Spailpin Fanach


Glanmire Farmers in Flying Form! The Seandun final


of farm skills and dairy stockjudging was held last Sunday May 14, hosted on the farm of Sean Ahern, Glanmire


Macra. Not only did the club have the honour of hosting the competition but


farm skills category, over 23


dairy they then contin-


ued to sweep the boards on the day winning the


stockjudging


(Tomas Cuffe) and un- der 23 dairy stockjudg- ing (Cathal Cashman). Congratulations to all


who took part and a massive Sean


Ahern


thank you to and


his


family for hosting the event.


• Macra members from various clubs in the Seandun region at a recent Seandun social baking night held at the Cookery Cottage, South Douglas Road


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• Members of the Glanmire Macra Farm Skills team who won the Seandun final last Sunday; Paul O’ Regan (Seandun competitions chairperson), Cathal Cashman, Donal O’ Callaghan and Tomas Cuffe


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