Ballyhaunis Blog

Possibly a regular feature - Horoscopes For October 8th 2011

Aries March 21 – April 19

All meaning will disappear from your life this week when you realize that the hokey cokey isn’t what its all about.

Taurus April 20 – May 20

You can’t seem to make up your mind about some big project you’re working on – so do what you normally do, start it and leave it on the long finger for the next couple of years. You’ll soon forget about it, like you always do. You sad hopeless case .

Gemini May 21 – June 20

Your great social energy is perfect for work, its just a shame your strapped to the bed and confined to a padded cell for the next 37 years.

Cancer June 21 – July 22

Your friends conspire against you next week when they suddenly decide to get married and start families. Thus succeeding in their sick and evil plan to make you feel old and lonely.

Leo July 23 – August 22

You are thinking quite a bit about all you do for your friends and family — and what they may or may not do for you in return. But that’s just you isn’t it? Always thinking about yourself.

Virgo August 23 – September 22

Your lack of purpose in life prompts you to reactivate your facebook account, where you find the inspiration and strength you need to carry on.

Libra September 23 – October 22

Your social network provider will contradict your star sign this week when it suddenly asks you to ‘reach out’ to unwanted old school friends.

Scorpio October 23 – November 21

Unfortunately, you will leave a DNA sample inside a body this week.

Sagittarius November 22 – December 21

Your relationship with a friend gets even closer this week after a horrific car crash and a mislabeled body part.

Capricorn December 22 – January 19

Turn away from social chit-chat and see if you can probe life’s biggest mystery, your gender.

Aquarius January 20 – February 18

Your life will be thrown into chaos when forces beyond your control cancel your tracker mortgage.

Pisces February 19 – March 20

Your generosity is magnified quite a bit this week when you donate your body to a 6-year-old pit bull terrier.

In one of his Dail speeches in April this year - the TD for Roscommon and South Leitrim - Luke “Ming” Flanagan told the Dail how he spent time as a prisoner in Castlerea prison and experienced torture!

He told whoever was listening (probably not many) how … “

I was put in a remand cell on my own and experienced the torture of being able to listen to only one radio station, Midwest Radio, which was playing country and western music. How that did not put me off it for life I do not know.

Midwest Radio - it’s enough to keep criminals out of prison.
Maybe the Guards should use it as a threat to trouble makers - Midwest Radio all day in prison !

The new T-Mobile advert filmed at Heathrow Airport will not get them any new customers here in Ireland - because they don’t operate here - but it is a brilliant advert.
Makes you realise how much money these mobile companies must be making!

See it on Youtube Here

Someone was not impressed with Monsoon this weekend

Monsoon in Ballyhaunis:
OMG - what can I say…Women cat fighting and tearing strips out of each other Sat Halloween Nite (Oct 2010). Bouncers didn’t chuck the cat fighters out and they were at it twice again before the nite was out. As for *some* of the female dress sense - eh, you’d swear they were on The Game. Slapper dress sense and agressive drunk with it. Under age girl head dived off the stage as she was absolutelty plastered drunk. Saw her asleep in a pool of water in the ladies toilet later. As for the Ladies toilets - jeeze worst I’ve seen in awhile. Toilet attendent in there holding onto the soap dispenser like it was a gift - hello - we need soap on the counter, it’s not supposed to be a luxury!! Floors were soaking and puke in most of the cubicles - bad, bad, bad.
The only good thing was that the fancy dress costumes were excellent - well done to The Joker!! Good effort by all….loved the Avatar guy..v good.
Won’t be going back there anytime soon though….
Niteclub rating (this nite) 1/10 (and that was for the punters costume efforts only)

Full Story Here

Updated December

Irish viewers can vote for contestants on the XFactor Final on TV3 again in 2011 . www.tv3.ie/xfactor
The Irish phone numbers are not shown on the screen during the programme - so viewers have to go on to the TV3 website to get them - but the TV3 Xfactor site can get very slow because of all the traffic . going to www.tv3.ie xfactorvote.

These are the TV3 Xfactor Voting Phone numbers to call from Ireland
These phone numbers change each week - so don’t keep ringing the same number .- If you call the Irish voting lines outside the voting times you will still be charged but your vote will not be counted.

Irish X-Factor Voting Numbers

The phone numbers for Saturday 10th December are

Amelia Lily 1513 711 303
Litttle Mix - 1513 711 302
Marcus Collins - 1513 711 301

Calls cost €0.60 including VAT from an Eircom landline.

Calls from other networks may be higher and from mobiles will be considerably more.

Voting closes in results show. Votes cast after the closing time will not be counted but may still be charged.

Calls are to be made with the bill payer’’s permission.

Numbers from www.tv3.ie/xfactorvote www.tv3.ie/xfactor

BALLYHAUNIS – The National Chamber Choir, The Friary, Ballyhaunis Friday July 23rd at 8pm

As part of Mayo County Council Arts office Summer Music Series on Friday July 23rd
, The National Chamber Choir play the Friary Ballyhaunis @ 8pm. This is a free event but booking is essential.
Contact the Arts Office on 094 9024444, exts 7558 & 7560, or e-mail: mayoarts@mayococo.ie.

The National Chamber Choir of Ireland is widely regarded as Ireland’s most distinguished choral ensemble, and is celebrated both nationally and internationally for its fresh and innovative sound. The choir was founded in 1991 by the composer and conductor, Colin Mawby and was developed under the direction of the Brazilian conductor Celso Antunes until early 2007. In 2008, the internationally celebrated conductor Paul Hillier joined the group as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor.

www.nationalchamberchoir.com

This SAturday and Sunday sees the annual Ballyhaunis Festival back again for 2011

Party In The Park
All new “Party in the Park” will take place at the Friary fields in Ballyhaunis, on Friday 3rd June. Come and see the amazing local bands who will showcase their talent on the night. You may already know of them but if not you will get to hear them for the first time, we will have Whiskey Dancers, Spitfyre, Nevernoodz, SevenEven and more.

The evening starts at 6pm, and there will be food so chill on the grass with a burger while you take in the great atmosphere of Ballyhaunis’ first Party in the Park. Everyone is welcome so bring friends, family or even make it a date.
For information call 094 9630311 or 086 3177123.

Family Fun Day
Saturday 4th June is the excellent free children’s day at the Friary Fields with the Family Fun Day. There will be free entertainment for the kids in the form of bouncy castles, bungee run, Velcro wall, street art, treasure hunt, face painting, giant Jenga and giant connect-4 and much more.

There will also be plenty of sports displays to watch and interact with including rugby, soccer, cricket and Camogie. There will be refreshments all day with a catering van and ice creams. The fun starts at around 1pm so bring the kids or just come for the craic because it’s promised to be a great day!

While you are at the Friary field why don’t you pop up to the Friary for the Ballyhaunis Artist Group Exhibition between 2pm and 5pm.
For information call 094 9630311 or 086 3177123.

Traditional Fair Day
On Sunday 5th June, Ballyhaunis will be alive with activity. The Summer festival peaks with the traditional craft fair day with stalls lining the streets, demonstrators, animals, face painting, vintage machinery and much more to see.

The kids can look forward to a puppet show in the grounds of the Courthouse at 1.30pm, 2.45pm, 3.20pm & 4pm. There will be a wonderful display from Mary Elwood’s School of Irish Dancing at 1pm, followed by music in the Square, and then the Tuam All-star Gymnastics Team will enthral the audience with their high-flying acrobatics at 2pm.

Then Ramblin Bob will play music in the Square at 3pm while the Vintage Cars drive through the town and park in the Church car park. There will also be the good old-fashioned duck race down by the river on Bridge Street at 3.30pm.

There will be much to see and do and there will be plenty of food throughout the town for all tastes, so come along for a great day out. We have a few more stalls available for anyone who is interested so call us quick to book your spot in town.
For information call 094 9630311 or 086 3177123.

Mobile Cinema Coming

June bank holiday weekend is the weekend of the Ballyhaunis Summer festival and this year we have organised a mobile cinema for Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June. The cinema will be behind the Enterprise Centre and will cost €5 for one showing. The times are as follows: Saturday; 12.30pm, 5.30pm & 7.30pm. Sunday; 1pm, 5.30pm & 7.30pm. We will be showing up to date films for tots to teens.
For information call 094 9630311 or 086 3177123.

Final Day

The Ballyhaunis Summer Festival will wind down with a relaxed day. There will be a 9-hole Beginners Scramble at the Ballyhaunis Golf Club. The Ballyhaunis Gun Club is arranging the Inter Provincial County Shoot from 12pm-5pm and there will be an Open Day Fishing Competition down at Derrykins Lake at Greenwood organised by the angling club.
For information call 094 9630311 or 086 3177123.

A new weekly club is opening in the Al Lochan Bar starting Saturday May 1st with DJ every Saturday night!!

If you have any ideas for a new name for the club please text your name and the suggestion to 0867910900 (closing date 15th april). THE BEST NAME PICKED WILL BE GIVEN €200!! Keep it Clean now..

To become a club member please email your name to anlochanbar@gmail.com or text your name to 0867910900

There is a 20th year reunion planned for the 1990 class of Ballyhaunis Community School.
It is on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 9:30pm
Location: The Hazel, Main Street, Ballyhaunis.

More details on the Facebook Event Page

RESIDENTS on Clare Street in Ballyhaunis have strongly objected to a new fast food outlet for the town.

The objection, signed by people living along the street, states that the proposed takeaway for Clare Street, is positioned directly across from Monsoon nightclub and would lead to antisocial behaviour.

The planning application, lodged by PJ O’Connor, is seeking to change the use of a ground floor retail unit at Clare Street to a fast food takeaway outlet.
In their letter, the residents say that

“Crowds converging outside a takeaway while waiting for a taxi always seems to lead to conflict and damage to nearby property. Clare Street is a largely residential area and the residents (some of them elderly) have already endured years of disturbance due to the proximity of the nightclub to their homes. We are in no doubt that a takeaway would further increase noise level and be a focal point for conflict,”

“In recent years, Clare Street has undergone somewhat of a facelift with the new Connacht Council offices, MidWest Radio and the new Credit Union building. A fast food takeaway would, we feel, serve no purpose but to diminish the streetscape and is not in keeping with the aspirations of the recently published town plan.

“We have a very active Tidy Towns committee who work tirelessly for the betterment of our town. Unfortunately, the excessive amount of rubbish generated by the takeaways in the town poses continuous problems for them each year when the Tidy Towns judges arrive.

“Late night revellers coming to our town show scant regard for the local environment and chip containers and burger wrappers are simply thrown on the pavement or on approach roads each night,”

“As your planning officials may be aware, there are already four fast-food outlets in Ballyhaunis – two on Main Street and two on Bridge Street. In our opinion, this is more than adequate to serve a small town – more indeed than some of the larger urban centres. “We earnestly request that the planning office give our objections serious consideration.”