Results of the Kenmare 10k race - Sat 11th Feb 2012

There was a great start for this new 10k road race in south Kerry with over 160 runners taking part. The winner of the inaugural Kenmare 10k was George Waugh of Bandon AC in a time of 33:45. Local Maureen Harrington was the first woman home in 40:32.

FirstName    Surname    Gender    AgeGroup    Club-Area    Cat    Time
1. George    Waugh    Male    Under 40    Bandon    Not Local    0:33:45
2. Cathal    O'Donovan    Male    Under 40    St Finbarrs    Not Local    0:34:38
3. Robert    Purcell    Male    Over 40    Gneeveguilla    Not Local    0:35:23
4. David    Comber    Male    Under 40    Leevale    Not Local    0.36.50
5. Aidan    O'Gorman    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:37:56
6. Alex    O'Shea    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:38:46
7. Michael    Corbett    Male    Under 40    Eagle    Not Local    0:38:52
8. Chris    Grayson    Male    Over 40    Riocht AC    Not Local    0:38:55
9. Stephen    Mangan    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:39:07
10. Jerry    O'Shea    Male    Over 40    Kenmare    Local    0:39:12
11. Robert    Whyte    Male    Over 40    kenmare tri club    Local    0:40:09
12. Maureen    Harrington    Female    Over 40    Kenmare    Local    0:40:32
13. Michael    Harrington    Male    Under 40    West Muskerry    Not Local    0:40:43
14. Michael    Mangan    Male    Over 50    Star of the Laune    Not Local    0:41:08
15. Karina    Teahan    Female    Under 40    St Finbarrs    Not Local    0:41:15
16. Donnacha    Cassidy    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:41:31
17. Flor    O'Sullivan    Male    Over 45    Kenmare    Local    0:41:34
18. Willie    Hayes    Male    Over 50    St Finbarrs    Not Local    0:41:40
19. Tim    Bogue    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:41:56
20. Tom    Palmer    Male    Over 40    Kenmare    Local    0:42:17
21. Pawel    Glowczyk    Male    Under 40        Local    0:42:20
22. Geraldine    O'Shea    Female    Over 40    St Finbarrs AC   Not Local    0:42:34
23. Fergal    Quinlan    Male    Over 40    Cobh    Not Local    0:42:45
24. Charlie    Byrd    Male    Over 45    Eagle    Not Local    0:43:09
25. Tim    Horgan    Male    Over 50    kenmare tri club        0:43:13
26. David    O'Shea    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:43:17
27. Conor    McSweeney    Male    Under 40        Local    0:43:18
28. Siobhan    Daly    Female    Under 40    Riocht AC    Not Local    0:43:19
29. Patrick    Murphy    Male    Over 50        Not Local    0:43:25
30. Donie    Kelleher    Male    Under 40    Gneeveguilla    Not Local    0:43:34
31. Padraig    Keane    Male    Under 40    Gneeveguilla    Not Local    0:43:51
32. James    Murphy    Male    Under 40    Bantry AC    Not Local    0.44.06
33. Tom    Johnson    Male    Over 40    Kenmare tri club        0:44:09
34. Ger    Morgan    Male    Over 50    Kenmare    Local    0:44:23
35. Ken    Harney    Male    Over 40    youghal        0:44:27
36. Paul    Nagle    Male    Under 40            0:44:31
37. Denis    O'Neill    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:44:32
38. Linda    O'Connor    Female    Under 40        Local    0:44:33
39. Deirdre    O'Leary    Female    Under 40        Not Local    0:45:00
40. Keith    Rogers    Male    Under 40    Togher ac        0:45:15
41. Mary    O'Shea    Female    Under 40        Local    0:45:54
42. Mike    Merrigan    Male    Over 40        Local    0:46:03
43. Marcim    Konaziov    Male    Under 40            0:46:36
44. Maurice    Fitzgerald    Male    Under 40        Local    0:46:39
45. Philip    Elwell    Male    Over 50        Not Local    0:46:46
46. Chris    Shaw    Male    Over 50        Not Local    0:46:55
47. Geraldine    O'Sullivan    Female    Over 50    Bantry AC    Not Local    0:47:28
48. Caelan    Verdekai    Male    Under 40    Kenmare    Local    0:48:46
49. John    Healy    Male    Over 45    Kenmare    Local    0:49:11
50. Lydia    O'Shea    Female    Under 40        Local    0:49:13
51. Finbar    Kingston    Male    Under 40    Youghal        0:49:14
52. Hugh    O'Donnell    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:49:15
53. Joan    O'Sullivan    Female    Under 40    Kenmare    Local    0:49:17
54. John    o sullivan    Male    Under 40            0:49:39
55. Vincent    Goggin    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:49:40
56. Franceas    Casey    Female    Under 40        Local    0:49:42
57. Colin    Lane    Male        Togher ac        0:49:47
58. Noreen    O'Sullivan    Female    Under 40        Local    0:50:01
59. Mary    O'Connell    Female    Under 40            0:50:02
60. Rory    O'Sullivan    Male    Under 40        Local    0:50:03
61. Liam    Doyle    Male    Over 40        Local    0:50:05
62. Regina    Harrington    Female    Under 40    Ballincollig        0:50:09
63. Denis    O'Shea    Male    Over 45        Local    0:50:10
64. Mike    Delaney    Male    Under 40        Local    0:50:41
65. Michael    Lane    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:50:43
66. Charlie    Bogue    Male    Under 40    St Finbarrs    Not Local    0:51:01
67. Mike    Price    Male    Over 40        Local    0:51:41
68. Deirdre    Harrington    Female    Under 40    West Muskerry    Not Local    0:51:54
69. Brian    O Sullivan    Male    Under 40            0:52:05
70. Stephen    Griffin    Male    Over 40        Not Local    0:52:13
James    Mulchrone    Male    Over 45    kenmare tri club    Local    0:52:30
Billy    Collins    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:52:54
Neill    O'Sullivan    Male                0:53:07
Karen    Mullins    Female    Under 40        Not Local    0:53:27
Helen    Whelton    Female    Under 40    Kenmare    Local    0:53:28
Edel    O'Neill    Female    Under 40        Not Local    0:53:29
David    Smiddy    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:54:14
Michael    Dineen    Male    Over 50    Gneeveguilla    Not Local    0:54:22
Lynda    O'Gorman    Female    Under 40        Not Local    0:54:59
Patricia    O'Connell    Female    Under 40        Local    0:55:13
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Mary    Falvery    Female    Over 45    Kenmare    Local    0:55:33
Joan    Wallace    Female    Over 40    Kenmare    Local    0:55:39
Mary    Kingston    Female    Under 40    youghal        0:55:47
Nora    Kelleher    Female    Over 45    Kenmare    Local    0:56:01
Tom    Dickinson    Male    Under 40            0:56:07
Clare    Kelly    Female    Under 40        Not Local    0:56:15
Patricia    Lane    Female    Under 40    Youghal        0:56:38
Mikaela    Mulcahy    Female    Under 40    Kenmare    Local    0:56:49
Diarmaid    McCarthy    Male    Under 40    Kenmare tri club        0:57:10
Mary    Maybury    Female    Over 45    Kenmare        0:57:17
Mairead    O'Sullivan    Female    Under 40        Local    0:57:52
Teresa    O'Donnell    Female    Under 40        Local    0:57:53
Mary    Kavanagh    Female    Over 40        Local    0:57:54
Noreen    O'Regan    Female    Under 40        Local    0:58:17
Mary    Murphy    Female    Under 40        Not Local    00.58.26
Marguerite    Desmond    Female    Under 40        Not Local    00.58.26
Phyllis    Crowley    Female    Over 40    Kenmare    Local    0:58:37
Evelyn    O'Shea    Female    Under 40        Local    0:58:42
Sharon    O'Leary    Female    Under 40        Local    0:58:45
Robert    Lucey    Male    Under 40        Not Local    0:58:47
Olivia    Lucey    Female    Under 40        Not Local    0:58:48
Noreen    Crowley    Female    Over 50            0:58:53
Sharon    O'Leary    Female    Under 40            0.59.08
Marian    O'Gorman    Female    Under 40            1:01:47
Margaret    Gaine    Female    Under 40        Local    1:01:48
Fiona    O'Dwyer    Female    Under 40        Local    1:01:53
Aine    O'Sullivan    Female    Under 40        Local    1:02:00
Tina    O'Sullivan    Female    Under 40            1:02:34
Jane    O'Brien    Female    Over 50    kenmare tri club        1:03:10
Aoife    O'Callaghan    Female    Under 40        Not Local    1:03:36
Niamh    Nic Gearailt    Female    Under 40        Not Local    1:03:36
Claire    Keohane    Female    Under 40        Not Local    1:04:03
Aileen    O'Shea    Female    Under 40        Local    1:04:19
Majella    Murphy    Female    Over 40    Kenmare    Local    1:04:41
Paudie    Moriarty    Male    Over 50        Local    1:04:41
sinead    fitzgibbon    Female    Under 40    Kenmare        1:05:13
Ruth    Murphy    Female    Over 40    Kenmare    Local    1:05:49
Anna Marie    Adams    Female    Over 40        Local    1:05:50
Grainne    Nic Gearailt    Female    Under 40        Local    1:06:00
Lisa    Stapelbroek    Female    Under 40    kenmare tri    Local    1:06:00
Bronagh    Doherty    Female    Under 40        Not Local    1:08:02
Marie    Kehow    Female    Over 45    Gneeveguilla    Not Local    1:09:13
Niamh    Griffin    Female    Under 40            1.09.14
Niamh    Dignam    Female    Under 40        Local    1:09:18
Tara    Griffin    Female    Under 40            1:10:11
Tommy    Sheehan    Male    Over 50    Mallow    Not Local    1:10:12
Ann    Lynch    Female    Over 50        Not Local    1:10:20
Carmel    Sheehan    Female    Over 50        Local    1:10:31
Georgina    Quinlan    Female    Under 40    Cobh        1:13:43
Ursula    MacGearailt    Female    Over 45        Local    1:13:55
Sheila    Doyle    Female    Over 40        Local    1:21:17
Noelle    O'Sullivan    Female    Under 40            1:21:28
Mary    Soundy    Female    Over 50            1.22.12
Alfred    Hensel    Male    Over 50        Local    1:22:17
Joan    O'Reilly    Female    Over 50        Local    1:22:18
Dennis    Horgan    Male    Over 50            1:22:20
Gemma    Donovan    Female    Over 40        Local    1:24:11
Margaret    Bevan    Female                1:24:14
Helen    O'Sullivan    Female    Under 40        Local    1:24:20
Patricia    Breen    Female    Over 40        Local    1:24:20
Mary    O'Connor    Female    Over 40        Local    1:24:24
Joe    Horgan    Male    Under 40        Local    1:25:42
Mary    O'Brien    Female    Over 50        Local    1:29:48
Ka    O'Sullivan    Female    Over 45        Local    1:29:48
Gemma    Donovan    Female    over 40        Local    1.31.06
Mary    Mayhew    Female    Over 40        Local    1:31:07
Ellish    O'Sullivan    Female                1:31:22
Christine    O'Sullivan    Female    Under 40            1:39:38
James    O'Brien    Male    Over 40        Local    1:43:20
Michelle    O'Brien    Female    Over 40        Local    1:43:21
Yvonne    O'Brien    Female    Under 40        Local    1:43:22
Catherina    Healy    Female    Under 40        Not Local    1:43:25
Sabrina    Horgan    Female    Under 40            1:43:40
Patrick    Fraham    Male    Under 40        Not Local    1:45:28
Vicky    O'Sullivan    Female    Over 40        Local    1:45:29
Siobhan    Comerford    Female    Under 40            1:45:29
Oonagh    Comerford    Female    Over 45        Local    1:45:30
Laura    Haynes    Female    Under 40        Local    1:45:31
Fiona    Riney        Under 40            1:45:31
Moira    O'Leary    Female                1:45:31

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Kenmare Golf Club

This weekend we held
the 3rd Round of the District
League. This was an 18 Hole Singles Stableford.
Result :-

1st Paudie Kelleher (24) - 45 pts
2nd Brendan Nagle (19) – 43 pts
3rd John Sweeney (9) – 42 pts
Kindly Sponsored by Mr. Colin Mulhall of Lloyd Bowmakers Chartered Accountants
There was a magnificent third round by Kilgarvan to pip Templenoe/Sneem for the third spot
to take them into the playoff next week.

Final placings:
MacGuillicuddy Reeks -542
Sliabh Luchra –532
Kilgarvan – 530
Templenoe /Sneem– 529
Cork – 494
Tuosist – 491
Kenmare – Sound Road – 477
Kenmare – Main Street - 441

Next weekend we hold the District League playoff and a Singles
Stableford. Please also note that the Club 4 ball qualifier will be played on
the weekend of 3rd/4th March.

Ladies Fixtures & Results:

Sun. 19th February 2012
Final Round of Winter League/12 Hole Singles

1st: Anna O’ Connor (35) 37 pts
2nd: Kim Kennedy (18) 30pts
3rd: Nora Mai Harrington (34) 28 pts

Next Sunday 26th February 1st Round Spring League

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Mill Cove Awards & Beara Arts

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Mill Cove, A Grand Day Out....

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Emerald Isle gems

It's a nation long renowned for its luck and hospitality, but with good fortune now at a low ebb, Ireland is banking on that famous charm to turn things around.

While home owners in the Republic struggle to negotiate the miseries of negative equity and euro uncertainty, sterling buyers can expect a warm welcome, according to Ronan O’Hara, director of Savills Ireland. A eurozone report published by Savills this month goes as far as to say that the weaker euro could be “the silver lining for Ireland for the first half of 2012”.

O’Hara says: “Although the circumstances that have driven Irish homes into 'fire sales’ are terrible, they present almost unbelievable opportunities for overseas buyers. Where home owners’ hands have been forced by the banks, any buyer, even at a considerable price reduction, is better than none.”

Sherry Fitzgerald Group, another nationwide agent, which held a showcase event in London last week, reports that 10 per cent of traffic on its website is now coming from mainland Britain. “There’s significant interest,” says the director Triona Gorman, “and 37 per cent of those visits are from Greater London alone.”

Myhome.ie, the Irish property portal, has also noted “a sea-change” during January. “UK applications on our site’s mortgage calculator are almost double what they were this time last year,” says Angela Keegan, the site’s managing director. “The holiday homes thing has kept bubbling under, and people are now after anything that’s a bit unique.” She cites Bram Stoker’s childhood home, a Georgian house overlooking Dublin bay, currently attracting lots of interest, at €750,000 (£624,000).

But, Keegan says, there has also been a noticeable shift. “At the Allsopp receivers’ auctions this last year, one thing stood out: overseas buyers with Irish connections are now actively looking for a 'homestead’.”

David Owen and his wife Bernadette live in Stockton-on-Tees. They have been taking their five children, aged three to 11, to Ireland for holidays for the past seven years and last month bought a four-bedroom bungalow in Co Roscommon, for €40,000 (through Sherry Fitzgerald P Burke), as a holiday home and investment.

“We’ve been thinking about it for a while, and then prices dropped dramatically so it made sense to buy,” David says. “We all love the nature of the place, the way of life. The people are so friendly.

“Roscommon is cheap at the moment. It’s central, between Dublin and the West Coast and not far from Northern Ireland. Our children love it - they spend our holidays on mountain bikes and waterskiing on the lakes.”

UK “professionals” have, in fact, been nudging back into the prime areas of Dublin – where asking prices have dropped 50-55 per cent – for nearly a year and a half, many buying for long-term investment in the elegant Ballsbridge area (Dublin’s Knightsbridge). But with the national average house price 43 per cent lower than the peak of spring 2006, the inviting prospects throughout the country cannot be ignored.

In rural Ireland you’re really talking rub-your-eyes value. There is particular demand for “premier” country homes and estates, which have experienced a 68 per cent drop nationwide.

“Back in the Nineties, our landed estates were a real focal point for UK buyers,” says David Ashmore of Savills Ireland’s country houses division. “But as the country grew wealthier, sales campaigns were short and sharp as Irish buyers snapped everything up. Overseas buyers barely got a look in and also considered the prices too high. The recent correction means we’re back to 1999-type pricing and demand is roaring again.”

The road infrastructure has changed dramatically since those days, which, combined with ease of access from the UK to Ireland’s airports – an hour’s hop – makes the emerald isle a beacon for escapists and home-workers looking for a change.

So what’s on their radar? “Anything near water,” says Ashmore. Ireland’s coast, from rugged Donegal in the north to the enchanting Ring of Kerry in the south, is a huge draw. But its tranquil loughs and rivers are often overlooked by period mansions, and the lifestyle they afford – fishing, equestrian sports – is now within reach.

“The key driver is value, and good period houses all over the country are finding buyers,” says Ashmore. “If they are in a poor state of repair, the reductions are substantial, but either way, they’re one of the most attractive opportunities.”

Take Slevoir, a 14,873 sq ft Victorian-Italianate mansion house on the shores of Lough Derg, Co Tipperary, Ireland’s largest inland county. Set in 40 acres, the house, with its baronial hall, grand carved staircase and galleries, was built in 1870. It is in good structural order, but requires some repair – a small price to pay for perfect sailing breezes, brown trout and coarse fishing, and sweeping views of mountains and river valleys. Its price is €650,000 (£541,000, savills.ie;             00353 1 663 4356      ).

For a more modern but just as romantic take on the “rural estate”, the River Shannon offers Drummanmore, a six-bedroom house in six acres, with a private marina and floating jetty, for €800,000. Poised on Lough Boffin, in Co Roscommon, it would make a peaceful place to work from home (00353 23 883995; sfon.ie).

Top-end “trophy homes” in and around the capital are not so easy to come by, O’Hara says, but when they do crop up, they can be as little as 20 to 30 per cent of their price at the peak. Imagine popping in to Bono’s or Enya’s house to borrow a cup of sugar. The privilege would have cost you €6 million in 2006, but now the sale of Eirene, a magnificent period house on the well‑to-do elevated coastal stretch overlooking Killiney Bay, has just been agreed for less than €2 million.

Meanwhile, on Silchester Road, in Glenageary, another of the capital’s most coveted streets, a secluded, colonial-style house with five bedrooms, a turreted wing, sweeping staircase and gardens is on for just over €1m, two thirds of its price in 2004 (            00353 1 663 4356      ; savills.ie).

Dublin is unusual as a capital city in that it’s surrounded by sandy stretches. Picture-perfect cottages and swish duplex apartments in areas such as Dalkey, a suburb and seaside resort, are prompting “a deluge of calls from the UK”, says O’Hara. In Sandycove, one of the most affluent coastal villages, Ingleside, a sumptuous house near the sea, came to market at €1.4m last year but is now on at €895,000 (            00353 1 288 5011      ; savills.ie).

O’Hara believes the lower end of the market is bottoming out, with the top end expected to follow this year. While prices plummet, rents have held up. A two-bedroom beachside pad in Monkstown, Dublin, would cost you €185,000 to buy and would rent, for €1,100 per month, according to Savills.

Then there’s Cork, which has been firmly in the spotlight since the Queen’s visit last summer. The county is drawing the group Tourism Ireland calls “scenic relaxers”. It is known for its foodie scene: much of Ireland’s award-winning produce comes from west Cork, and attractions such as the restaurant-studded port of Kinsale and Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe House Cookery School in Shanagarry, entice international food lovers.

In Clonakilty, home to the majestic Inchydoney beach (and its famous cheeses and black pudding), Youghals, a contemporary six-bedroom home with balcony, 10 acres and stables, could be yours for €1.2m. Compared to a three-bedroom terrace in south London, that’s quite an offer.

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Kenmare Golf Club

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