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 |
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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…
Continue ReadingBig Week for Butts as Children Prepare for Festival
March 23, 2009 |
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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…
Continue ReadingButts Family Festival to Mark 70th Year of Housing Estate
March 17, 2009 |
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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…
Continue ReadingAdams Invites Butts Community To West Belfast and Stormont
March 16, 2009 |
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Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, thanked the Butts community and the Fr. McGrath Centre for the warm welcome he received and his tour last week of the community education programme for children run by Kilkenny volunteers. The meeting was organised by Sinn Fein candidates in the local elections, Kathleen Function, daughter of the well known and retired SIPTU officer, Phil. Gerry said that the innovation, social enterprise and community commitment to not stand by quietly when their children and neighbours…
Continue ReadingButts Community To Set up Committee To Protect Elderly and Children
March 11, 2009 |
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A community meeting between Garda and residents of the Butts Community last week to discuss a serious incident of harassment by local drunken teenagers against a 72 year old women in Connolly Street has lead to agreement to establish a new committee to look out for elderly and young children in the area. Srgt. Gary Gordon and Communtiy Garda Caroline Daily (nee O’Malley) heard a packed meeting at the Fr. McGrath Centre on St. Joseph’s Rd tell them of a…
Continue ReadingThanks for the Park!
March 4, 2009 |
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On behalf of our voluntary board of management we would like to thank the following for making this public park project possible…… The Dept of Environment, Culture and Heritage and Kilkenny Borough Authority (with particular thanks to Director of Community and Enterprise Services – Tony Walsh and Claire Murphy, Stuart Gunning, and Tom Morrissey -Borough Parks Dept.) for acquiring and developing the land as a public park, Martina Comerford and the RAPID programme and Marie Kennedy and the HSE for…
Continue ReadingBreagagh River Valley – People’s Public Park Plan
March 8, 2007 |
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A plan and supporting committee began a campaign to preserve the green space in the Breagagh Valley from urban development and help preserve adequate living and outdoor passive and active social facilities for many future generations of Kilkenny families. 1. Breagagh Valley; 5 point plan 2. Breagagh Valley PR Election 3. Open letter to the people of Kilkenny for support for Public Green Space for City families 4. Save the Waterbarrack
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