Thursday, 25th
May 2017
info@eastcorkjournal.ie Youghal Youth Clean Up On Claycastle Beach by DENISE The
FITZGERALD Hot
Spot Youth
Cafe Youghal, in conjunc- tion with Foróige, is a very strong and vibrant Youth Club which is located in Nagle House and run by a tremendous team of volun- teers who provide full su- pervision at all times. On Thursday evening
last a Clean Up at Clay- castle Beach was organised and, at 7.30pm, a group of almost twenty arrived armed with pickers, big plastic bags, gloves and oth-
er equipment, ready to get to work. Then, armed with the
multitude of parapherna- lia, the youth of Youghal’s Hot Spot Cafe and their Supervisors headed onto the soft sand at Claycastle Beach and worked their way out to Redbarn, pick- ing and packing every piece of debris along the way. Supervisors Elizabeth and Geraldine
told The
East Cork Journal that it was the idea of the members themselves, who wanted to do something to “give back to the commu-
nity”. “We have a great group of members” they said, “and we are always
delighted when they want to do something for some- one else”.
Great work. Well done to
the youth of Youghal and their dedicated Supervisors.
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• Let’s hear it for the girls!
• Members of Hot Spot Youth Club with Foróige volunteers Dominic, Bridget, Sheila, Geraldine and Elizabeth.
• On the beach with the boys, ready for the clean up.
Cork County Councillors Claim Government is Anti-Rural
by SEAMUS WHELEHAN
Cork County Council
is to request a meeting with Minister for Rural Affairs, Heather Hum- phrey’s following con- cerns by its members, the County is being treated unfairly when it comes to the distribution of her de- partments’ allocation of a €20 million fund to rural communities over the next two years. Under the Town and
Village Renewal Scheme the country’s thirty one councils will each be giv- en €380,000 to rejuvenate their rural communities. The money is available towns in each
for eight
county with a population of less than ten thousand. Councillors at the May
sitting of the authority de- scribed the financial injec- tion as a pittance for com- munities that are fighting
to keep their village cen- tres alive. Independent Councillor
John Paul O’Shea said the scheme in its current form was untenable, illogical and inadequate. Last year the local au-
thority wrote to the Minis- ter requesting an increase in funding under the same programme but were un- successful. Cllr O’Shea said “Cork
is being unfairly treated again given the popula- tion, given the number of towns it has with a popula- tion under 10,000 people and the number of villages it has under 5,000 in pop- ulation.” He said “in relation
to the plan for Rural Ire- land the same treatment in each of the grants that are being brought forward are being treated similarly. The community facilities scheme announced
last week I believe is €54,000 @eastcorkjournal / #eastcorkjournal
per local authority re- gardless of population or size. The Town Renew- al scheme is not the only scheme
being unfairly
managed it’s every other scheme that’s coming out of the government at the moment.” Fianna Fail Cllr Frank
O’Flynn said in the past through the
LEADER
project, which had a rural regeneration aspect to it, the authority was “recog- nised as three counties.” He stated that individual allocations for the Town Renewal programme should be given for South Cork, North Cork and West Cork. Between 2007 and 2014
Cork County Council had been allocated €49 million in LEADER funding In 2015 the authority
agreed to put €3.5 mil- lion over five years into the LEADER programme after government slashed
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their allocation to €13.9 million, representing al- most a 70% cut. Independent Councillor
Timmy Collins stated the amount of money that’s allotted to this village re- newal is entirely too small. People in my village are saying it’s not worth apply- ing for it. Also the amount of time applicants have to apply is too short.” Meanwhile
actually work and we can’t work it unless the depart- ment work with us. “ Council Chief Exec-
utive Tim Lucey said he “supported” the
council
for pressing the case for an increase in the level of funding. He said the local au-
Independ-
ent Cllr Marcia Dalton said her village of Pas- sage West received an al- location under last year’s scheme but
the funding
has still not been released. “The project was to be
delivered last Christmas (2016). We
plans for advancement to the Department
submitted for ap-
proval, and we are now in May still waiting. I would also ask the department it would not just be about image and granting fund- ing. That funding needs to
thority “every county got €380,000 last year whether it was Leitrim or Longford or Cork County. There is a significant difference be- tween those. We made a strong case for increasing the level of funding four fold”, but were unsuccess- ful.
Last Friday 19 May the
Cork County Council had received 40 applications from community groups through the Town and Re- newal programme. Senior engineering staff will have to reduce this number to 15 projects before submit- ting them to government for funding.
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