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Our Ethos,
To Actively support the local community in organising and developing their capacity to effectively respond to identified needs and problems and promote a spirit of community service in working for the common good where every voice is heard. James Maher (Chairman)
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Latest news
Development Festive afternoon pictures
Recipe book appeal
Roscliff Court
Hall repairs
Clare in bloom
Geraldines Retirement
Tidy Towns Awards
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COMMUNITY ALERTThe local Community Alert group have have recently formed and held meetings in the Community Centre Ballynacally. They provided information to advise all eligible senior citizens that grants are available to improve the security of their homes. For more information please contact any member of the committee
John Clohessy Chairperson 065 6832212 / 087 9882487
Marcella Daly Sec 0656832134
John Frawley Treasurer 065 6838107
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RECIPE BOOK APPEAL
The Clare Branch of Cystic Fibrosis is selling a recipe book in aid of TLC 4CF (Tipperary,Limerick,Clare), to help build a specialized Adult Unit for Cystic Fibrosis patients attending the Regional Hospital Limerick.
Recipe books are selling for a very reasonable €10 each and are available locally from Mary Donnelly Five Arches, Ballycorick,
Ph. No. 065 6838138."
click here for sample
Please support this very worthy cause
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HALL REPAIRS & RE-OPENING
We have recently refurbished the village hall back to a working condition. Down through the years the hall has been maintained from time to time and again in 2009 it has had a facelift. We would like to thank the tradesmen and helpers who gave their time to carry out the essential works to make the hall a warm and inviting place once again. To celebrate the re-opening of the hall Ballynacally development held a festive afternoon on Saturday the 5th with a special visit from Santa and lots of other entertainment.
Renovation works will continue into the new year, any Plumbers out there with a little time to spare to help repair the heating system would be very welcome.
Picutes here of work to date....
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ROSCLIFF COURTWARMEST CONGRATULATIONS to the Rosscliff Residents on their two awards in the Clare Co. Council "Best kept estate in Clare" competition at the Clare County Council Offices.
They won two awards:
1.For being the 'Most Highly Commended' estate in their category for which they received a cheque.
2. For being the 'Overall Best New Estate' in the competition, for which they received a cheque and a framed certificate.
Local resident Geraldine McCarthy who attended the event commended the work of the local committee for their hard work and dedication and she commented "We at Rosscliff Court are all very proud. What a great honour and achievement this is"
It certainly is! well done and thanks to all in Roscliff who took part for their fantastic effort, it looks great and has certainly played a big part in Ballynacally's tidy towns success this year.
Click here to See some pictures below
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....................................................................................... CLARE IN BLOOM & Tidy Towns awardsBallynacally Win the 2009 Clare in Bloom title. Members of the development association attended the Clare County Council awards recently to accept a cheque for winning the title. See Clare Champion picture here and full article here. Ballynacally also collected their silver medal at this years Shannon region tidy towns awards. We were also highly commended in the county award section and collected a €700 cheque.
See a picture of the award presentation here
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Winning team visits Ballynacally NS....... Click here
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Tidy Towns awards2009 Tidy Towns Adjoudicators report click here
A delegation of Ballynacally Tidy Towns Committee attended the Royal hospital in Kilmainham, Co. Dublin on September 6th for the supervalu Tidy Towns award ceremony.
With Ennis receiving the tidiest largest urban centre award only 1 point below Emily the overall winners. It was announced that Ballynacally had recieved a Silver medal for the 2nd year in a row and scored only 6 points below the winners Emily, with a fantastic score of 299.
The link above outlines the adjoudicators report, which shows where we scored well and where there may be room for improvement.
A copy of this report will be distributed to the local villagers soon. The committee would like to sincerly thank all those who dedicated their time and helped out in any way, whether watering flowers, weeding, painting or making their own houses more beautiful etc, well done and thank you, the village was a credit to you.
Of course our village could not have looked so well were it not for the FAS community services team who worked on maintaining our village greens and helped with the watering of the shrub beds and hanging baskets, and helped with the litter watch etc, we are indeed lucky to have this scheme in our village, thanks to its members.
We now await the presentation of the Silver medal at the local Tidy Towns awards ceremony
To see all other towns and villages adjoudicator reports and previous years for comparison .click here
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Items of interest......click below
**Playground / Fairgreen opening event
**Playground 2009
**Tidy Towns news 2009
**Tidy Towns award ceremony 2008
**Tidy Towns report 2008
**Development plan 2004--2009
**Plans for community centre repairs
**Roscliffe court opening
**Irish traditional music from Ballyncally in Germany
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More information on the tidy towns page
........................................................................................................................... New Playground The playground opened (unofficially) on the 30th May and at a special ceremony it was officially opened on the 1st of August 2009. The Development association have had the fair green landscaped and a stone sculptured seating area to complete the works. It must be said the combination of the newly architecturally designed playground which was designed to blend in with the fair green and the newly landscaped fair green look fabulous. A special word of thanks to the playground group who formed as a sub-group of the development association to oversee the designing, planning and fundraising of the works.
Pictures of the installation works here
Pictures of the opening event here
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Interested in joining us??
Ballynacally Development Association are always seeking new members to help continue the implementation of the Development Plan for the area which was launched in 2004. Your support will be invaluable to our area and will be more than welcome.
Whether you live near or far, please consider volunteering some time to this worthwhile cause which will benefit us all.... Please look at the news items page to see if anything on this years annual work plan interests you and contact us via phone or email, or contact any member individually.
If you do have time to spare please do not be afraid to join, we meet very informally and sometimes socialise after meetings so take a look at the "about us" page and make contact with someone you know......
The next big task will be the renovation of the community centre which would be a focal point of our community allowing for the staging of events and running of sporting activities, youth clubs etc.
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Some members of the Tidy Towns group 2009
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 Local volunteers helping with the Tidy Towns
Photo by Arthur Ellis
Roscliffe CourtThe residents of Roscliffe court were celebrating recently as the official opening of the estate took place. Madeline Taylor-Quinn, Mayor of Clare performed the ceremony on May the 20th 2009.
The opening was both for the new housing section and also a belated opening for the existing section of houses at the front which were built 31 years ago according to local resident Mrs Mandy O'Shea.
The estate has been entered into the councils "Best kept estate in Clare" competition by the proud residents and by the looks of it, it will be a strong contender. The renewed look of Roscliffe court should also help enormously with Ballynacally's Tidy Towns competition this year as it looks so well.
Below are some pictures taken of the litter free estate and some of the features residents have recently added, well done to the newly formed committee of local residents for their work and the official opening.
 
New name plaque ....................Flower bed
 
New trees and hedging....Tree and shrub bed
 
View towards the front......Local children
New picket fencing ....Charlie helping out
2005 Festival Collage Click pic to enlarge
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Jerome and Nicola, two tourists on a cycling trip from Lille in northern France on-route from Shannon, bed down for the night in the
fairgreen before heading on via kilimer to visit the west Kerry penninsula where
they scattered the ashes of their friend who they say loved Ireland but did not get the chance to visit.
Dont forget to look up our German friends who play traditional Irish music all over Germany with their popular band called...."Ballynacally, trad Irish music" click below to see their latest song/video raggle taggle gypsies on you tube;
Raggle Taggle Gypsies
Rose in the heather
See Ballynacally on My Space
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Frosty spell
The recent frosty weather on the run up to christmas caught a lot of unfortunate locals by surprise. The side roads were treacherous and along with the National and Secondary school closures there were many minor accidents. Several accidents took place on the cranny road close to the village, whilst many drivers were unable to travel up the mount road. Thankfully nobody was hurt.
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