breakingnews.ie The GAA have confirmed that the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship relegation play-offs will go ahead as scheduled next weekend and that the controversy surrounding the promotion and relegation issue has finally been put to bed. An Coiste Bainisti met today at Croke Park and confirmed that Antrim will take on Offaly at Parnell Park next Saturday (July 25), while Clare will face Wexford on the same day. The losers of the Antrim-Offaly and Wexford-Clare ties will then meet in a relegation final, with the loser of that game demoted to the Christy Ring Cup for 2010. However, this decision is likely to draw opposition from those involved and in particular Antrim, who were told they were guaranteed participation in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship for a three-year spell. The Saffrons took part in the Leinster Championship for the first time this year, losing out to Dublin at the quarter-final stage at Croke Park. Carlow have already gained promotion ...
Examiner.com - Karen Misuraca The 138th British Open is being played this week, July 16-19, at Turnberry in Scotland. Headquarters for players and guests, the country estate-style Turnberry Resort was built in 1915 high on a hill above the Firth of Clyde and the golf courses. 111 luxuriously appointed, 5-star rated rooms and 21 suites are accompanied by commodious lodges and cottages comprising 2-, 6- and 8-bedroom residences. Guest rooms have large bathrooms with whirlpool tubs, elegant Edwardian-style furnishings, sumptuous draperies, upholsteries and linens. Newly renovated Deluxe Ocean View Rooms have huge picture widows. Oak-paneled public rooms are grand, and museum-like with antiques and golf-related art. Reading rooms and lounges are formal yet cozy with fireplaces and leather sofas. Every evening a Highland bagpiper trods the grounds, his eerie strain heralding the setting sun over the Irish sea. The full-service spa offers traditional and exotic treatments, including ...
The Republican Thursday, July 16, 2009 By KEITH J. O’CONNOR Look Park will have a distinctly different look on Saturday. Visitors to the popular Northampton park will feel as if they’re in another land when the 16th annual Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival kicks off at 9 a.m. for a day of “everything Scottish” from dancing lassies to piping pipers and from big brawny athletes tossing some pretty big stones to Celtic music ringing out across the park. “This is not just an event for those with Scottish heritage, but one for everyone, and it’s a great family event,” said Peter Langmore, chairman, Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival. Highlights of the festival will include a dramatic and colorful opening ceremony featuring more than 34 massed bands of pipers, drummers, and a calling of the Clans as they parade before the crowd, as well as the popular spectacle provided by the annual athletic games, dating back thousands of years, when athletic compet ...
GT Weekly Step away from the Guitar Hero, take your hands off the fake plastic instrument with knobs that don’t play real notes, and head into the redwoods with your traditional - not electrified - instrument to learn age-old Irish jigs and folk songs … Sound like a fruitless demand when it comes to kids today? Hardly, says Shelley Phillips, the executive director and founder of Community Music School of Santa Cruz. Phillips’ nonprofit has been holding its Teen Celtic Music Camp in local mountains for 10 years, and each year it lures participants hungry for good music and good living the old-fashioned way. “Kids plan their whole year around it,” Phillips says of the camp, which runs from August 10-15. “It’s a real lovefest where people feel free to be creative.” Integrating the California outdoors with Ireland’s pub spirit (think hot chocolate in the place of Guinness), the camp provides a time and place for participants to f ...
Sunderland Echo Published Date: 13 July 2009 Twelve schools, 20 teams and more than 200 children have taken part in a special Gaelic football competition. The event, which took place at Sunderland AFC’s Academy of Light in Whitburn, came about after the South Tyneside School Sport Partnership (SSP) introduced the sport in a number of schools. The SSP enlisted the help of ex-SAFC professional footballer Fynbar Lynch, who also played Gaelic football in Ireland. The schools enjoyed the coaching and sport so much that they asked for more, and a Gaelic football competition was held. David Newton, SSP development manager, said: “The coaching and competition has proved extremely successful. “Teachers have been talking about the positive effects this sport and Fyn’s coaching have had on their young people. “The word has spread and schools have approached us to increase activity within after-school clubs.” The sport incorporates various skills, incl ...
by Kenneth Speirs, Paisley Daily Express A FASCINATING exhibition at Paisley Central Library is giving visitors the chance to step back in time AND go globetrotting into the bargain. Dozens of historic photographs taken in Paisley and Linwood a century ago are on display in the main lending library as part of Scotland’s Year of Homecoming celebrations. And alongside them are amazing old snaps which were taken in two of their ‘namesake’ towns in the United States of America - Paisley, Oregon, and Linwood, New Jersey. The display is dubbed ‘The Ice Cutters’ after two photos which were taken in Paisley, Oregon. And most of the snaps of our own Paisley and Linwood here in Renfrewshire that are on show have not been on public display for some time. They include images of the Paisley Militia, a prison ship in Paisley harbour and women handwashing clothes in a back court. Jean McLean, assistant librarian at Paisley Central Library, said: “We searched on ...
The 2nd Australian Gathering of the O'Dea Clan was held in Adelaide, South Australia in February 2010. Photos from the event can be found here: Clan Gathering in Adelaide in 2010
The 7th International Gathering of the O'Dea Clan was held in Ennis, County Clare in July 2008. Photos from the event can be found here: Clan Gathering in Ireland in 2008
Login
Lost Password?
Register now!
Home Page
Event Calendar
Application Forms
Office Bearers
Forums
Clan Newsletters
Genealogy Queries
Griffith's Valuation
Notice Board
Photo Gallery
Site Map
Contact Us
Links to Other Web Sites
Advertisements
FAQ
System Info
Site Statistics
Online Shopping - Australia
