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Showing below articles from the Saturday March 6th, 2010 issue of The Southern Star.
Hoped-for first sailing of new ferry scheduled for weekend
AS we went to press, the first sailing of the Swansea-Cork ferry, the MV Julia, was scheduled for this Friday night after the vessel’s scheduled inaugural voyage on Monday had to be cancelled because of technical difficulties. Fastnet Line’s MV Julia sailings scheduled for Monday, March 1, Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th had to be cancelled because of technical difficulties in completing the refitting of the 21,699-tonne vessel, which was built in 1982, that...
49th West Cork Drama Festival line-up announced in Rossmore
THE 49th West Cork Drama Festival was launched in St. Mary’s Theatre, Rossmore, last Friday night and will take place there from March 12 to 21, with Mr Scott Marshall as the adjudicator. Mary Deasy, festival chairperson, welcomed the guests and said that, “as we have reached our 49th year, we must be doing something right, as the festival is going from strength to strength every year.” She thanked all those involved in ensuring the continued success of the...
Death is a reminder to make the most of time that remains
TIME flies faster as you get older. The playwright Christopher Fry commented when he was 93 that, after the age of 80, you seem to be having breakfast every five minutes. And around the age of 50 or so, most of us lose our immortality; we realise that our time on earth is finite. For some, this is it. As John McGahern put it, ‘We bloom only once, and you would want to be very foolish not to know that.’ For others, it is a mere preamble to a joyful...
Pope’s pastoral letter will need to offer more to satisfy victims of abuse
UNLESS the imminent Lenten pastoral letter from Pope Benedict XVI to the people of Ireland is more specific about his response to the scandal of clerical sex abuse of children in this country, its victims will remain deeply unhappy with the attitude of the Vatican to their plight, as the statement issued after last month’s historic two-day meeting between the Irish bishops and the Pope in Rome gave them scant hope of real closure to their ordeal. The very...
New breed of politicians thinks it can get away with anything!
IN the old days, when politicos came seeking our vote, we were well aware that much of what they said was unbelievable, cant, humbug and baloney. For that reason we never labelled them ‘liars.’ That would be going too far – so we were quite prepared to share their euphemistic make-believe world. Consequently, whenever we cried ‘shame’ at their irresponsible actions, we did so out of a sense of good-humoured skepticism. We were conscious of a certain ethical...
Dunmanway meeting cautious on 2010 milk prices amid calls for ‘reality check’
NEARLY 200 dairy farmers from all over the Mid and West Cork areas gathered at the Parkway Hotel in Dunmanway Wednesday, February 24 last, to hear the president of ICMSA, Jackie Cahill, J.J. Walsh of Carbery Milk Products and the Dutch farmer, Willem Smenk, who is an official with the French Dairy Farmers Union, OPL, discuss the prospects for milk price this year. The meeting was hosted by West Cork ICMSA, which was described by Mr Cahill as one of the...