East Cork Journal IMOKILLY PEOPLE Issue no. 572


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Midleton Men’s Shed Offers Free Floodgates to Protect Flood Prone Properties


by SEAMUS WHELEHAN


Midleton Men’s Shed


is taking steps to protect some of the town’s most flood prone properties. In the absence of a Flood Re- lief Scheme for the area, the group is providing ten homes with a set of flood gates worth almost €1,500 The barriers are quick to install and do not require tools to deploy the product. Once placed in a doorway, you ratchet open the gate over the doorway area and inflate the seal. The flood barriers are being offered free of


charge to vulnerable, low income families, while the town continues to wait for its promised Flood Relief Scheme.


Parts of the


town which were devastat- ed by the last major flood event in 2016, remain at risk. The Office of Public Works, OPW, say almost 250 homes and businesses were affected by the flood of January 2016, and that they continue to be at risk of future flood events. The threat has led the Govern- ment to pledged €20million towards flood management and defences in the market Continued on page 2


MAJELLA O’DONNELL OPENS CORK ARC CANCER SUPPORT HOUSE YOUGHAL


McCarthy Family Killeagh among Hundreds of Students left Stranded


by SEAMUS WHELEHAN


Oisin McCarthy is heading into Sixth year at St Colman’s Community College Midleton this year, where he’ll be joined by his two sisters Anysha who is starting Third Year and Sabhbh who starts First Year. Even though Oisin and


• Majella O’Donnell, who officially opened a new service for those affected by cancer in East Cork and West Waterford.


The new Cork ARC Cancer Support House located at 29 Friar Street Youghal, provides free drop-in and telephone support services, counselling, therapeutic massage, reflexology, yoga, pilates and art therapy for cancer patients and their families.


Guest of honour, Majella O’Donnell, performing the official opening of the Cork ARC Cancer Support House, in Youghal, surrounded by team members, volunteers and service users. Pic: Brian Lougheed


School’s Out as East Cork Students Collect Leaving Cert Results


by SEAMUS WHELEHAN


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was the day hundreds of stu- dents across East Cork dis- covered what Leaving Cert results look like. Many opted to check their


results online, with some go- ing on holiday and calling their school for the results.


In Cobh, Midleton and


Youghal there was a gradual trickle of students through- out the morning to pick up their results in person. For most, it was a day filled with emotion, smiles, Continued on page 6


THURSDAY, AUGUST 23


ROY B U C K L E Y MU S I C P R E S ENT S


CHRISTY DIGNAM & JOE JEWELL OF ASLAN


WITH MIKE HANRAHAN OF STOCKTON’S WING & ROY BUCKLEY AT


Anysha have been using the Bus Eireann School service for a decade their mother Lorraine, has been told there is no space on the bus this year! The children all went


to National Schools from where,


traditionally, chil-


dren go on to Secondary schools in Midleton. The McCarthys are just


one of hundreds of East Cork second level students that have been left strand- ed at the side of the road, having been denied a place on the Bus Eireann school run. In April Ms McCarthy registered


from Killeagh


her three children for the school transport service for the coming year. The single mother of


three made the €650 family payment to the Bus Com- pany before last month’s payment deadline. However, just two weeks Continued on page 8


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