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.........Annual Work Plan (no work plan this year)

........Preview the 2004-2009 Development plan

........Newsletter 1st edition

........Fun Day 2008 in the fair green

.........Last AGM February 2006

• September 2009
  Ballynacally triumph again in this year Tidy Towns competition winning a silver medal for the second time and coming within 6 points of the overall win
  
  
  
• August 2009
  The official opening of the playground in the fairgreen took place. Oliver Garry acting as Mayor of Clare carried out the opening and speeches by James Maher current chairman, Frank Gavin ex chair and Frank Henn were heard at a mass conducted by Fr. Tom O'Dea to mark the opening of the playground. Grant aid from Clare county council along with some locally raised funds secured by a special playground committee paid for the new play

• February 2009
  Tidy Towns group meet to discuss plans for the 2009 season in the blue cottage. Plans were unvailed by the officers and the group discussed them adding to the ideas. Work will start immediately, intensifying as we near June 1st. This is the big one.......
• Also the group discussed the much needed renovation of the hall. Chairman james Maher felt that the tidy towns effort would keep the committee very busy and that working on the hall may interfere with the result.

• November 2008
  Members of the development association are invited to the radison hotel in Limerick to accept the silver medal and endeaver award. Meanwhile a sub group of the development association, the playground committee who are a large group of local ladies are busy with funding ideas, such as designing and printing christmas cards and recipe booklets.

• September 2008
  Major success in the tidy towns competion as Ballynacally are awarded a silver medal..... Also this month a fun day was held by the playground committee in the fair green to raise funds.
  
  
  
• June 2008
  Planning permission granted eventually for the proposed playground in the fair green, fundraising to commence over the late summer.

 

• April/May 2008
  Tidy Towns application form prepared and submitted

• Jan/ Feb 2008
  More tidy towns success as Ballynacally are inited to recieve more awards at functions in Ennistymon and Ennis. Planning permission for the proposed new playground is submitted. The location is to be the rear of the fair green.
  
  
  
• November 2007
  Some of the current Tidy towns committee recently attended a function at the Radison hotel in Limerick recently to accept the endeavour award for the greatest points increase in the county this year. More details on the Tidy Towns page.

• October 2007
  Architects have been out to the community Centre to assess the condition and prepare a specification of works to protect the buiding from damage from damp and rain. The committee will seek quotations from building contractors for these works and then when the costs are known, fund raising will need to begin to raise this money if the costs are higher than the €13k grant aid recieved. Further works will also be necessary in the hall including replacing the heating system and flooring etc.
  Click here to view the architects report (2.2 MB)
  
  
  
• October 2007
  A Bullying awareness night was held on Thursday the 4th of October in The woodstock Hotel, click for more detail
  
  
  
• September 2007
  Architects were out on the 25th of September to survey the community centre with a view to drawing up plans for the refurbishment/rebuilding of the hall into a multi-purpose centre. More news will be posted when available but it is likely this project will be a big one and take many years to accomplish.

• September 2007
  The tidy towns committee are delighted with the 21 point increase on last years result which earned them the endeavour award for 2007, click here for details
  
  
  August 2007
  The new meeting room located in the blue cottage, which is the end cottage in the range of houses in the fair green. This comfortable modern facility will serve as a meeting room until the hall is developed. The committe have invested some of the money raised in recent festivals to refurbish the room and make it into a modern comfortable meeting room for all the community to avail of. New flooring, painting, lighting conference table and seating was provided and a lot of voluntary work by members of the committee.
  Please contact 086 2628152 or 6838189 to book the room.
  
  See some pictures of the meeting room here
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  August 2007

  At a recent meeting the Chairman Jamer Maher announced that we have been successful in securing €54'000 for the development of a new playground facillity in the village. The agenda of the meeting was where the park should be located and how we can raise another €54'000 to match the grant monies awarded by the council, the council will only grant 75% of the total cost to a maximum of €54'000.
  If anyone has any ideas on where the park can be located or is in a position to donate some land please let us know. Also if would like to donate some money or if you have any fund raising ideas please contact us, we cannot do this on our own and we must raise the money and start works within 12 months or we will lose the grant.
  

• August 2007
  
  The committee are also pleased to announce that they have recieved €1100 to hold a drug awareness night which they hope to run in the autumn in a hotel in Ennis
  
  
  
• March 2007
  
  The development Association have been sucessful in securing a grant in the region of 12--13'000 Euro's from the heritage department of the council for the re-plastering of the "old school" section of the community centre which is necessary to prevent dampness and decay. Also the monies are to be used to repair sections of the roof which are leaking.
  
  
  
• The association hope to re apply for more grant aid this year to replace the first floor of the old school which many feel is not structurally safe to use.
  
  
  
• The group met on the 1st of March to discuss the annual work plan. It was decided to begin the application process for the grant available for a community playground and a sub-group was set up to tackle this projest with a closing date of the 16th of March.
  Sheila Daly, Dolores Meaney and Ann McMahon to work on this project
  
  
  
  
• The production of a newsletter was agreed with all present members and the first issue should be March 2007. Copies to be distributed through school childrens school bags, the church and local business,s.
  James Maher, and Martin Kelly to work on the first edition and thereafter the FAS community services may be able to continue production on a 3 to 6 monthly basis.
  
  
  
• The renovations of the blue cottage as a multi-function room was discussed and it was decided to tackle this project as soon as possible.
  James Maher and Martin Kelly to work on this project
  
  
  
  
• The proposed information evening on bullying was discussed and it was decided to put this back until autumn, see annual work plan for more detail
  Deidre Convey, and the parents council to liase and work together with All the development group on this project
  
  
  
  

• The group met again early May and the tidy town initiative was discussed, a sub-group was devised to start the planning process. A new green area adjacent to the forge was suggested for development as well as the suggestions of the adjoudicators report from 2006.

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