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Welcome Home News: A message from Sinéad Ní Mháille

Fáilte Abhaile Festival – Three weeks and counting!

Hi all,

I’m dropping a note to remind everyone that the Fáilte Abhaile Festival 2007 is just about three weeks away now and the clock is certainly ticking. Most of the main events have been organised at this stage and the final programme will be completed and circulated within the next week.

As you probably know, events include golf, yawl racing, family sports day, family barbecue and trad session, photo exhibition, ceili and a special mass to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the church.

The closing buffet will take place on Monday night 6th August in Ostán Oileáin Acla (Alice’s to you and me!) and tickets are now on sale at €20 per person. There is a limited number of tickets available for this night and you can arrange to book tickets now with Helen Gallagher (086-4063675). Some tickets will be for sale over the Festival weekend but none on the door on the night.

You can also now buy or place orders for the souvenir polo shirts which have a special 2007 logo designed by the kids in Currane National School and the Ógras group. Shirts are €25 and you can contact Michéal Ruddy at (086-4077666) for yours. Kids shirts are available too for €5.

Finally and most importantly, we really, really need volunteers to help out with events throughout the weekend. We have kids art workshops on Friday, a teen disco on Friday night, family treasure hunt on Saturday, barby on Saturday afternoon and football on Sunday. There’s also a clean up of the village the weekend before the Festival, not to mention traffic management and stewarding for the sport events in particular.

If you are willing to help out with any of these events please let any of the Committee know or reply by email. We also have a meeting scheduled after mass on every Sunday between now and the Festival so please come along.

If everyone helps out a little bit, even for an hour or two over the whole weekend, we can make sure that the Festival is a great success and a great weekend for everyone.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Currane in a few weeks. Please feel free to anyone with Currane connections or affections.

Sinéad.

Last chance for the Welcome Home Festival?

There is still some interest in the idea of another Welcome Home Festival for Currane in 2007. There will probably be a meeting either over St Patrick’s Weekend or Easter. Details of the meeting will be posted here. In the meantime, if you are in favour of another festival, or indeed have anything to say on the subject, please let us know.

Time for another Welcome Home Festival?

We all enjoyed the Welcome Home Festival in 2003 didn’t we? It will be etched in the memories of many Currane people for a long time to come. Now it’s time to start planning another one.
Planning for the 2003 Festival was started way in advance of the occasion and the Festival was such a success because of the careful planning and hard work of the committee. If there is to be another Welcome Home Festival in 2007, planning will need to start shortly.
There will be a meeting at our Community Centre, Glór na dTonn on December 27th at 3.00pm. If you enjoyed the last Festival, please try to attend and show support for the next one. Attendance at the meeting does not mean you will be forced onto a committee!