Durrow

Durrow

Breda Whelan, Ann Maher, Kathleen Molloy and Betty Gee at the Abbeyleix Senior Citizens party in Abbeyleix Parish Hall. Picture: Alf Harvey.

Published on 26/01/2013 11:11

Lotto

The parish lotto with a jackpot of €5,050 was not won, small winners were €30 Mary Dwyer, €25 Enda Murphy and €20 Bronagh McEvoy. The lotto of January 28 will be held in the Peadar’s Bar with a possible jackpot of €5,350. Tickets must be handed in before 9.30 pm on the night of the draw to be included in that jackpot.

IFA

A meeting of Durrow IFA will be held in the Presentation Centre on Thursday January 24 at 8pm. Guest speaker on the night will be Paul Delaney, county tillage chairman. Also present on the night will be County Chairman Pat Hennessey. Please make a special effort to attend this meeting. Tickets for the Annual County IFA Dinner Dance are available from the committee. the Dinner Dance will be held on Friday night January 25 in the Manor Hotel Abbeyleix. All are welcome to attend both events

Whist

The Killermogh Parish next Whist Drive will be held in the Parocial Hall, Cork road, Durrow on January 24,2013 at 8 pm. All are welcome to attend.

Community Services

There are vacancies on Durrow Community Services- Project Secretary, Playschool Assistant and General Worker. More details from the FAS web site or contact the local office on 0578736870.

Community Council

Durrow Community Council are holding a table quiz in Dec’s Bar on Saturday January 26 at 9.30 pm. Quiz master is David Finnegan. Table of four 40 euro. Your support would be greatly appreciated as all proceeds goes to the senior citizens party on March 2. The senior citizens party will be held in the Castle Arms Hotel on Saturday March 2 at 2 pm. invitations will be distributed this week and anyone who wishes to come or nominate someone please contact any member of the committee.

Tidy Towns

A meeting will be held in Cullohill Community Centre to discuss the reviving of Cullohill Tidy Towns on Friday January 18 at 8 pm. everybody interested are invited to attend and anyone with new ideas are also asked to come and let everyone know their opinions. All are welcome to attend

Blood

The mobile unit of the Blood Transfusion service will be in Castle Arms Hotel Durrow on Tuesday January 29 from 4.30 pm to 8 pm. There is a huge need for blood and we appeal to everyone who can donate blood to come to the clinic. Over 3,000 unit of blood are needed each week and your donation will save lives . If you are between 18 yrs and 65 years old ,in good health you can donate blood. Please come and give the gift of life to some very ill patient.

Community

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Top stories

Community