Issue 12. Sponsors, Sport, Substantial amounts of Pizza

Good Morning and Welcome,

To issue No. 12 This week sees the start of sponsors, well ads. There’ll be no more than 4 an issue and all will be relevant to us in South Kerry. Unfortunately, after many years I’ve learned that (this) man cannot live on bare faced cheek alone. If you’d like to sponsor/advertise get in touch.

Also a bit of sport, some social good, more festival fever & everything else. Huge props, once again go to the excellent Wild Derrynane book by Vincent Hyland, you’ll soon see why.

South Kerry by the numbers:

• 10: Is the number of wildflower species along the Greater Skellig Coast that will have their first flowering in July, including Fleabane (both common & Mexican), Sea Aster & Great Willowherb.

• 6: Red spots on a Moth? In the daytime? Must be a butterfly, no. That’ll be a 6-Spot Burnet Moth, in flight, currently, around sand dunes. Be nice though, if attacked they’ll release Hydrogen Sulphide.

• 4: Red spots & 2 red lines on a moth, in daylight? That’s not a butterfly either, it’s a Cinnabar moth, eating ragwort.

First, A word from this week’s sponsor

Iveragh Eagles RFC offer you the raffle of a lifetime. For just €20 you could find yourself watching (with an incredibly grateful spouse/child/fanatic) the most anticipated game of the year, before strolling back to the luxury 4 star Herbert Park Hotel to calm down. These tickets are long sold out and on resale sites for over €1000 each, almost as much as a 4 star hotel in Dublin, both could be yours for €20. Get them NOW

The Festival of Sneem

Sneem Summer Festival is very much in full swing and plenty to look forward to throughout the weekend. All details here

• 2pm tomorrow afternoon at The Church of the Transfiguration there’s a talk on William Spotswood Green'Fisheries Scientist, Mountaineer, Explorer and Man of God'. Also, the guy that sketched the Faraday coming into Ballinskellings Bay with the first Atlantic cable, I think. Fascinating.

• The Rising are on tonight at 8.30pm.

• For the early birds, there is an Owl display at 9am tomorrow.

• What would you want to be doing at midday tomorrow that wasn’t throwing an axe?

• Or save yourself for midday Sunday and climb atop the rodeo bull, in a sumo suit.

Its The South Kerry Close Up, Sort of 🎺🎺🎺

On the back of literally tens of complaints, a slightly easier version this week. So tell me

What’s written on this sign, bonus points if you know where it is?

Easy wasn’t it? Wasn’t it? Want to know if you are right? Click below

Congratulations to last week’s Winner. 🍰🍰🍰

1. Craig Newell 

Applause, Applause, Applause. Bravo Craig, a man outstanding in his field of local knowledge.

If it wasn’t easy enough or you have a suggestion for a better name, a better game even, just hit reply.

Sport

• Just in case you missed it, Iveragh Eagles have just launched an absolutely massive raffle

• Cable O’leary’s hosts their peninsula famous penalty competition on the 10&11th of August.

• Tomorrow 5pm in Con Keating Park is the South Kerry Mens Senior final, St. Marys Vs Renard.

• Karate classes continue on Wednesdays in Cahersiveen Community Centre, more here

• Basketball camp in the Foilmore Community Centre from 12-15th of August, more here

• Dance camp from the 19th-23rd of August, contact Katrina on 083 010 0695

• Oh, and um, Up The Rebels!!!

Social Good

A hearty congratulations to all involved in the Forbairt Na Dromoda Cancer care support car that made its first journey this week. If you would like to add your name to our list of volunteer drivers on 066-9474782 or [email protected]

Everything Else

• Fancy pizza and a choir later? Then head to Cill Rillaig in Ballinskellings from 6pm and delight in the Serpentine Choir from New Orleans.

• Fancy trying Waterville’s newest pizza provider? Well, he’s in the Sea Lodge car park from 4pm.

• Haven’t had enough pizza? Well, there’s always Cafe Cois Tra in Ballinskelligs that continue their pizza & wine nights across the weekend.

• The Watch House in Valentia is now open for dinner too, more info here pizza, as yet, unconfirmed.

• Yoga and a Sauna of a Saturday morning? Head to Derrynane for 10.45, but book here first

• Sea Synergy have a Shore Workshop in Portmagee next Saturday more here

• Portmagee market continues in the Community Centre, every Wednesday, 11-2pm.

Just Announced

The Mantle is a community arts project at Rossbeigh over the summer - next month we have a series of events taking place around the strand. I’ll have more on this next week

Thanks

Apologies again about the lack of heat recovery systems info, one day.

If I’ve missed anything, you’d like to contribute or have news you think should be covered, just hit reply. Alternatively, you can just tag your posts #skoracle and I’ll pick them up.

Finally, I’d like to bid a fond farewell to Fr Gerard Finucane and wish him good luck in Causeway. Fr Finucane is everything you could wish for in a Parish Preist, for both committed churchgoers and those more like myself. He was a huge asset to our community and will be sorely missed.

Thanks for reading, for signing up, for following on socials, for sending over bits to be included. if you know anyone who might like this type of thing please send them on this email, and they can join below.

Good luck, be well

Dave

southkerryoracle.ie