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RCB’s Local Sports Round Up – 7th April 2014
In local sports news today, the long wait for promotion from Division Four is finally over for the Clare footballers as Colm Collins charges secured their place in Division Three with a 0-10 to 0-6 victory over Antrim in Creggan yesterday. It’s a result that sees Clare promoted to Division Three for the first time since 2007. All the heartbreak of 2010, 2011 and 2012 was washed away on the shores of Lough Neagh and Clare can now look forward to a Division Four final against Tipperary in Croke Park on April 26th, safe in the knowledge that promotion is secured. Clare began the game nervously, and had no fewer than 13 wides in the first half. In fact it took 19 minutes for Clare to open their account with a Martin O’Leary pointed free. Clare were unlucky not to strike for a first half goal when Shane McGrath saw his effort rebound off the post. Further points from David Tubridy, Sean Collins and Shane McGrath left Clare leading by 0-4 to 0-2 at the break, having played with a storm at their backs.
Throughout this League campaign, Clare have played some of their best football when forced to implement a short passing running game, and this certainly proved the case in Creggan yesterday. They wore their northern opponents down in the second half, and superior fitness proved crucial. The introduction of dual star Podge Collins could be signalled as a turning point in the game, and his industrious style yielded a brace of points for the Cratloe man. Two each for McGrath and Tubridy closed the game out for Clare on a final score line of Clare 0-10 Antrim 0-6. It was a real red letter day for Clare football, and hopefully, the springboard for greater success.
Clare are joined in the Division Four final by Tipperary despite the Premier losing out to Wicklow in one of the most sensational finishes to a game ever seen. Wicklow trailed by 7 points as the game entered the closing stages, but three goals in less than two minutes saw them win by 4-12 to 0-22. The result wasn’t enough to gain promotion for Wicklow, and they will remain in Division Four. Waterford ended their campaign with a 1-9 to 0-9 win over Carlow, while Leitrim overcame an early scare to beat London in Ruislip by 2-6 to 1-7. Clare’s opponents in Division Three next year will be Tipperary, Limerick, Armagh, Louth, Wexford, Sligo and Fermanagh.
Longford and Offaly meanwhile have made the drop to Division Four, while the Division Three final will be contested by Cavan and Roscommon. Armagh and Louth were relegated from Division Two while the final will pit Donegal against Monaghan. Kildare and Westmeath will be playing Division Two football next year after being relegated from Division One, while the semi-finals of Division One will see Cork take on Dublin and Mayo up against Derry.
In local club action this weekend, Round 3 of the O’Gorman Cup took place on Saturday and Sunday. Ennistymon had one point to spare over O’Currys, winning by 2-8 to 2-8. Miltown beat Doonbeg, 2-9 to 1-10 and Kilmurry Ibrickane beat Clondegad by 1-14 to 0-7. There were three games postponed, Lissycasey v Doora Barefield, Kilmihil v Eire Óg and Cooraclare v Kilrush. No refixture details have been announced yet.
Moving to news of underage football and defending champions Ennistymon will once again represent Clare in the Feile Peil na nOg competition after they came through the qualifying series this weekend. They were victorious over the Banner in the final yesterday.
In news of ladies football, Clare were unlucky to lose out to Down by 0-15 to 3-3 in Newry yesterday. The result brings the curtain down on Clare’s campaign for 2014, and attention now turns to Clare’s championship opener in July.
Finally in news of local soccer and it’s been a big weekend for Kilrush Rangers in the Suttons Lighting Third Division League. On Friday evening last, they were 1-0 winners at home to local rivals West Clare United. They then followed this up on Sunday with a 6-1 victory against Corofin Harps B. Those results now mean that Kilrush Rangers are top of the Third Division Table on 25 points. Their nearest rivals St Pats meanwhile suffered their first defeats of the season, going down 5-1 away to Rineanna Rovers on Friday night before losing out 2-1 to Sporting Ennistymon B on Sunday. They are now second in the table, four points off Kilrush Rangers but with two games in hand. West Clare FC lost out 4-2 to Lifford B on Sunday and they now sit 5th in the table, 8 points off the lead and with two games more played than Kilrush. In the Premier Division meanwhile, Ennis Town A remain on top despite a 1-1 draw against Bridge United A, while Avenue United kept the pressure on with a 6-0 win at home to Connolly Celtic.
Full review of all the weekend action tonight on the RCB Sports Show from 6pm.
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New series! The Blessed Wells of West Clare
Raidió Corca Baiscinn is starting to broadcast a new series which is seeking to explore the large number of holy wells scattered throughout West Clare, with a series starting on Monday 24th March at 3.30pm.
The Blessed Wells of West Clare is an 8 part series exploring the rich heritage and tradition of Blessed Wells all across south west Clare. Throughout the series, reporter James Flanagan travels all across west Clare to Blessed Wells in Querrin, Spanish Point and Scattery Island to name but a few, and hears of their history and importance in the fabric of their local communities. The series explores cures & legends associated with each well, along with how the wells have been maintained through the years, and the people responsible for keeping their tradition alive.
Producer of the series, RCB Programme Controller Derrick Lynch, said of this new series, “I had always been intrigued by the holy wells that you see all around West Clare, but by working on this series with James, I have discovered how varied and unusual these wells are. Each programme is very different, and reflects the variety of stories associated with each of the wells.
The Blessed Wells of West Clare will be broadcast on Monday 24th March at 3.30pm, repeated at 3,30pm on Tuesday 25th March, and the same dates and times for the following 7 weeks.
Posted in News, Programming, Uncategorized | Tags: holy wells, local history, radio documentary, Raidió Corca Baiscinn, religious programme, West Clare
RCB Newsletter – 13th March 2014
Global Women celebrate in Clare!
It is not everyday that an international event takes place in Clare, but on Saturday 8th March Ennis was part of a Europe wide event, Global Women.
Events, concerts, dancing and singing took place in 22 cities and towns across Europe, particularly in Poland, from where many of the Ennis event’s organisers originate.
Global Women is a social movement raising awareness of the importance of women’s role in passing on culture, knowledge and folk heritage from one generation to another, through speech, food, handicraft, dance, song and story. The theme of the day’s events, held on International Women’s Day, was “Woman is a culture – culture is a woman”.
In Ennis, passersby on Parnell Street were arrested by the sight of women (and men) wearing traditional folk costumes from Poland, and in the case of Marcin Piotrowski, he dressed to prove that cultures are dynamic and can be combined by wearing a Scottish kilt, a Ukrainian shirt and a Polish flowered headdress!
Aśka Bitner, one of the organisers who lives and works in Kilrush, said, “Women are the depositories of tradition, usually they are actively working for local communities in rural areas, we want to show their part in a traditional culture. This is as important in Ireland as it is in Poland, Ukraine or anywhere.” To illustrate this on Saturday, people were encouraged to sit down, share a chat and peel potatoes, as generations of women have done.
It is hoped to make this an annual event, and the organisers plan to build awareness of Global Women and to celebrate the importance of traditions, crafts and heritage to present day Ireland and across Europe. Global Women is already recognised as a social movement in Poland, and Aska hopes that it will spread and grow across the continent.
Posted in Community Interest, News, Uncategorized | Tags: Ennis, Global Women, Globalna Baba, International Women's Day, Kilrush, West Clare, women
RCB Newsletter – 6th March 2014
Beef crisis latest – Feirm Cainte
On Raidio Corca Baiscinn this Thursday, Feirm Cainte brings you the latest developments in the beef crisis. Speaking to Feirm Cainte, Henry Burns, and Chairman of the IFA Livestock Committee gave us an update after a second round of protests, this time taking place outside the Department of Agriculture.
“We had three and a half thousand farmers there, and with this time of year when farmers are trying to calf cows and lamb ewes, it just shows you the problem that is out there when people will turn out at this time of year… There is a lot of anger there about the way the minister has not engaged with this process and the way the factories have been allowed to run rampant over farmers”.
Despite this anger amid calls for the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney to exert more of an influence over the issue, the factories have continued to play around with prices and specifications.
“We met the minister for agriculture two weeks ago and he called in the meat plants and after that meeting, about 24 hours later, the meat plants cut the price again by 5 cent and lowered the weight specs on cattle”.
Even more frustrating for farmers and people affected by this crisis, Mr Burns said there has been no “real official communication” from Minister Coveney since that meeting. Indeed the only communication that they have received is more pressure regarding price cuts and specifications.
He called on Minister Coveney to get involved in the situation and for the minister to pull the meat factories back on the specs in the way they continue to tighten. To compound the pressure on the farmers here, live exports to Britain, which had been considered a good substitute to provide competition in the Irish market, appear to have been shut off.
“Since the last time we spoke, it seems we can’t get cattle into Northern Ireland, it’s becoming a problem. We were talking about getting them across the water to England”.
“One thing is clear about this, we are supposed to have a single European market, we don’t have a single island market and the European single market is not working for us. The minister needs to get involved to sort it out”.
Mr Burns warned that “this is a serious crisis going out through rural Ireland” and “will bring rural Ireland to its knees”, citing a fall in income to beef farmers of €175 million. He also warned the minister could see a response from this crisis when people go to the polls next June.
For this and more on Feirm Cainte, tune in to 92.4 or 94.8 or stream it from our website on rcb.ie, at 7:30 each Thursday.
Kilmihil teenager doodles for glory
Clare teenager Sean Lineen is one of 75 finalists in the Doodle for Google competition. This years Doodle for Google competition has seen Clare teenager Sean Lineen named as one of the 75 finalists from amongst the thousands of entries from around the country.
The competition, which sets out to find a doodle or graphic for its homepage incorporating the word Google, is highly prestigious and pits the most artistic children in the country against each other.
The winner of the competition will recieve a €5,000 college scolarship and a €10,000 technology grant for his or her school as well as a Chromebook for themselves and their teacher.
Raidio Corca Baiscinn spoke to Sean during the week and he explained the theme of the competition and how he worked around that idea.
“Theres a theme put on for the competition, and this year its my adventure. So the doodlist has to try and work around that to decorate the Google logo and work around that theme as well. I did the theme of life and adventure in itself, so I did all the stages of life and I also put across the theme that you can be whatever you want to be in life as well.”
His mother Teresa Lineen expressed her hope that the secondary schools would support Sean in his quest to win the competition and also praised Sean’s art teacher for her support.
“We are hoping the secondary schools come out and they have been great in supporting him…We are hoping to get as much online support as we can… His art teacher Sarah Nestor has been superb as well, she has done a great job guiding him along.”
Before he left us, Sean asked any listeners or readers for support as he said, “Log on to Doodle for Google, go into group 4 and if you like my doodle, just vote for it please, and you can also share it on Facebook, there is a link going around”.
Voting closes on the 10th of March, and for anyone who is interested in viewing Seans Doodle, click on the link below and check it out.
Posted in Community Interest, News, Uncategorized | Tags: adventure, art, artistic, competition, doodle, google, graphic, life, lineen, logo, sean, teresa
Weekend sports roundup
Colm Collins’ unbeaten start as Clare football boss continued yesterday when Clare were comfortable eight point winners over Wicklow in Cusack Park. The result sees Clare stay top of Division Four, with seven points from the opening four rounds.
The 2-13 to 1-8 result was influenced in no small way by the dismissal of Wicklow captain and leading scorer Leighton Glynn in the fifth minute of the game for an incident involving Martin McMahon. The linesman on the stand side of Cusack Park called the attention of the referee to the incident, and he brandished a straight red card for the Wicklow man.
Wicklow fought manfully throughout the opening half though, and went in at the break just a point in arrears, with Clare leading by 1-4 to 0-6. The goal came after 26 minutes when Clare captain Gary Brennan worked one twos with both Martin O’Leary and Shane Brennan before slamming the ball to the Wicklow net.
That left Clare three points to the good, but Wicklow hit two points to leave the minimum between the sides at half time.
Wicklow levelled the game just after half time, but crucially, they never took the lead. The outstanding David Tubridy kicked three in a row to push the Banner clear, and Clare never looked back. Tubridy kicked his seventh, and two more from Shane McGrath left the home side 1-10 to 0-8 ahead midway through the half.
Then came the killer blow for Wicklow. A high ball into the square was fisted to the Wicklow net by Shane Brennan, and Clare were out of sight. A late Wicklow goal from James Stafford was too little too late as Clare closed the game out, and moved another step closer to promotion from the bottom tier with victory by 2-13 to 0-8.
Tipp are up next in Thurles for Clare, in a top of the table clash next Sunday at 12.45pm. The game will be the first in a double header which also sees the hurlers taking on Tipp at 2.30pm.
In ladies football news, Clare suffered a heavy defeat to Galway in their National League Division 2 clash in Corofin yesterday. The Banner were no match for the Tribeswomen, who emerged victorious by 4-12 to 1-4. Clare now travel to take on Meath in Round 3 next Sunday.
Moving to hurling, and the first round of the Clare U21 Hurling Championship got underway over the weekend. In the two games played in the A Championship, there were wins for Eire Óg and Inagh/Kilnamona over Clooney/Quin and Kilmaley respectively.
Finally to local soccer news, and there was no action once again for west Clare sides this weekend as more fixtures fell foul of the weather. Kilrush Rangers game against Shannon Olympic B was postponed, as was West Clare FC’s 2nd Round Cup game against Mountshannon Celtic.
St Pats were also due to play Rinenna Rovers, but this was also postponed. Of the games that did go ahead, the stand out results were a 7-0 win for Newmarket B over Kilmaley United, and an 8-0 win for Avenue United A over Sporting Ennistymon B.
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Unappreciated genius: The music producer
by Darnel Donegan
The role of music producers often get overlooked in the overall construction of a song, while the singer or rapper gets most of the credit. When listening to a song everybody can appreciate the catchy hooks, or like the music video, but don’t really notice how much work is going on in the background.
The role of the music producer is one the most difficult and complicated ones to play, although it is often misunderstood, in fact most people don’t even know what a music producer does. I asked Ennis native and music producer, Lorcan O’Toole what he does, and his response should give a good idea of the complexity of the job.
“I take small elements of music and sound design and make them into something worth listening or dancing to using innumerable little tricks and techniques to make it all sound good.”
Having witnessed the full process of producing a track, from brainstorming, mixing and rendering, it’s a lot more than just ”pushing buttons”. The patience that is needed is beyond the capabilities of many but have left this writer with a deep admiration for music and especially music producers.
Producers all have different opinions on the most important part of making a track. A producer from Dublin, Martin Darby comments,
“The most important part would have to be the equalizing I think, because it has to sound nice and tight, especially with the high ends ect..“
An equally important part of any producers arsenal is the sample, the art of taking something old and making something new. The sample really came into it’s own in the mid eighties with hip-hop and electronic producers.
Producers would take drum breaks from artists such as James Brown, the most sampled artist in history. It’s not just funk-soul drum breaks being looped there is much more, legendary DJ/producer, DJ Premier, is known to be one of the most innovative sampler in Hip-Hop. He is known for taking obscure snippets of everything from vintage movie soundtracks to Asian koto music.
Taking samples has had the knock on effect of rekindling the love of the that is being sampled such as Elvis who’s song “little less conversation” was recently remade.
There is also the downside that some people believe that sampling is theft because some producers take entire tracks call it their own. Kid Cudi world renowned Hip Hop artist voiced his opinion on Sampling:
“I’m not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it to where it’s more of a re-imagining of a track. The songs that I do utilize samples on, most of it you wouldn’t even be able to tell what it was unless I told you.”
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Apology
In a broadcast dated February 14th, 2014 from Keatings Bar, Kilbaha discussing the recent storm damage, a number of comments were made by a participant in that discussion, which now require clarification. During the course of the program, the professional standards and other personal matters relating to a Clare County Council employee namely, Mr Cyril Feeney, who was not present and did not participate in the discussion, were called into question by a participant in that discussion.
Raidio Corca Baiscinn fully accept that these comments were erroneous and regrets that they were broadcast.
Raidio Corca Baiscinn would like to apologise to Mr. Feeney for any hurt or offense caused.
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The Easter egg challenge
By Aisling Healy
Living life to the full even in her eighties, Jennifer Hornsby, despite suffering cancer, has decided to run a fundraiser for The Marie Keating Foundation.
Jennifer likes to keep busy and help people. What better way to stay happy than setting up an Easter Egg Challenge for children. She is running the challenges in her very own back garden, while at the same time raising much needed funds for this Cancer Research Foundation.
From visiting The Marie Keating Foundation website, their mission objective carries a clear and strong message.
“Following their mother Marie’s death in 1998 from breast cancer, the Keating family promised to try to provide all women and their families with vital information which could help them to prevent cancer or detect it at its earliest stages. Their collective aim was to “enlighten not frighten”. The Marie Keating Foundation is now a leading voice in cancer awareness and information for both men and women in Ireland.”
The aim of the foundation is the main reason why Jennifer chose this particular charity as she understands how terrifying cancer is and believes that everyone needs hope.
The Marie Keating Foundation offers this hope to people, both those suffering from cancer and their families. Jennifer feels that they are a worthy charity to support and asks that others also support them as their work is very important and helpful.
The Easter Egg Challenge will involve a number of challenges based on the television series “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.”
Jennifer reassures me that the children will not be eating any live insects or anything along those lines.
“The children will not be given any live animals to eat. They will not have cockroaches or spiders running all over them but they will have some intriguing challenges to do and I hope they all have great fun! It’s all going on in my back garden on the Easter Weekend, April 19th & April 21st. There will be two sessions run each day, first session starting at 10.30 am and ending around 12.30pm and the second session starting around 2pm each day. Teams of two children between the ages of 6 and 13.”
Jennifer asks that all children wear belts as these will be needed for some of the challenges and also trainers or wellingtons, depending on the weather.
Each team must have a minimum of €10 sponsorship. Sponsorship cards will be available in different places throughout the area, which will be announced closer to the time.
For anybody that would like to sponsor Jennifer and the Marie Keating Foundation, but cannot make the event, she asks that you log on to ‘mycharity.ie’, select ‘Sponsor A Friend’ and find ‘Jennifer Hornsby’.
Jennifer also assured me that there will be tea, coffee and treats for adults. There will also be music on the day but Jennifer has yet to confirm the headline act. Jennifer is currently organising gifts to put in a Lucky Dip for both adults and children. She ensures that these gifts will be very nice and some of them of value up to €25.
With her parting word, Jennifer hopes to see you all at her house in The Crosses of Annagh for the Easter Weekend.
She guarantees it will be a fantastic, fun day for the whole family!