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FMC newsletter Summer 2012

February 17, 2012 | By
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This newsletter contains Summer Programme of events with activities including; Tree Top Discovery, Trip to National Aquatic Centre in Dublin, Trip to Nore Valley Farm, Teddy Bears Picnic, Magical Adventures in Jenkintown, Cook Offs, Pizza Parties, Trip to Rancho Reilly’s, Trip to Tayto Park, Trip to Parsons Green Open Farm, Bat Walk, Kayaking Course, Horse Riding in Mount Juliet, Excitement in Kippure Outdoor Adventure Centre, Survival Training, Splash & Dash in the Watershed Yes, its going to be a busy…

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Butts Boy Get Closer To The Heavens Than Any Other

March 31, 2010 | By
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Enterprise Plan Launches Big Winter Programme for Kilkenny’s New Neighbourhood Centre

March 21, 2010 | By
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A big winter programme starts this week from Kilkenny’s newest Neighbourhood Centre and young and old in the Parish will be the biggest winners as the voluntary and community partnership effort launches its first three year enterprise plan. A morning drop in cafe for all ages, games, social networks, snooker activities, indoor bowling, table tennis, craft classes for children, dance classes for all ages and Tea Dances for older people are just some of the latest activities to run alongside…

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Bishop and Mayor to Officially Launch New Neighbourhood Centre in Kilkenny

March 17, 2010 | By
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This Sunday Bishop of Ossory, Seamus Freeman, will give his blessings to a community venture trying to revive the fortunes of the last parish hall left in the City. Following 11.30am Sunday mass, St. Canice’s Parish Priest Fr. Jim Murphy and Bishop Freeman will be joined by City Mayor, Martin Brett to officially open St. Canice’s Parish Hall Neighbourhood Centre at a special ceremony marking more than fifty years of service to Kilkenny families from the old parish building on…

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Brewery Boys Voice Support for Butts Neighbourhood Centre

March 5, 2010 | By
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The St. Francis Abbey Brewery Carol singers did their bit this week for the Butts effort to redevelop their old parish hall as Kilkenny’s newest Neighbourhood Centre. Workers and formers workers and spouses from the Brewery brought some Christmas cheer to the Town Hall on a bitterly cold Saturday in their effort to raise funds for the Fr. McGrath Centre and the new Neighbourhood Centre on the Butts Green. Local people gave generously to street collectors and St. Francis Brewery…

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Butts Kids Climb Every Mountain in the South East

March 29, 2009 | By
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Three children from Connolly Street in Kilkenny were presented with awards from Ossory Youth for their incredible feat of climbing nine mountains in the south east over nine weeks. Twelve year olds Michael Phelan and Calem Donovan and thirteen year old Thomas Donovan took on the gruelling tasks in some of the wettest weather imaginable to complete the challenge set by them in the programme run by Ossory Youth in conjunction with the Fr. McGrath Centre. Paul Bolger, Youth worker…

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Big Week for Butts as Children Prepare for Festival

March 23, 2009 | By
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Butts children will be praying for good weather this Saturday, otherwise their promised outdoor family festival of sports games, mini Olympics and bouncing castles and other novelty stalls will have to be postponed. Residents, parents, teenagers and children have finished festooning the streets of their community with their legendary displays of black and amber for the upcoming historical All Ireland and are now turning their attention to a special family day to mark seventy years of The Butts estate and…

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Butts Family Festival to Mark 70th Year of Housing Estate

March 17, 2009 | By
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The Butts Family Festival is to be revived to mark the 70th year of the building of the Connolly Street and Pearse Street blocks of the Corporation housing scheme. Residents, parents and young people have been meeting over the summer months at the Fr. McGrath Centre to organise a series of fun activities for families and children on the last Saturday (29th) in August. A Miss Congeniality contest for children under twelve, bouncing castles, mini Olympics, novelty races and handball…

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