The 2009 Mallow Home and Garden Festival 2009 takes place this weekend at the Cork Racecourse ,Mallow,Co,Cork commencing tomorrow Friday 19Th June at 2.00 pm -8 pm,Saturday the 20th 11am to 6pm and Sunday the 21st 11 am – 6pm.
ONE of the country’s biggest garden exhibitions will be held at Cork Racecourse, Mallow, at the weekend.
Last year, around 30,000 people attended Mallow Home and Garden Festival and numbers are expected to be just as big this year.
More than 200 exhibitors will display a wide range of the latest household and gardening items. Gardening experts, including Peter Dowdall and Dominick Cullinane, will be on hand to give tips.
Free seminars on all sorts of topics, from renewable energy to gardening to flower arranging, will be held during the three-day festival.
Event organiser Alan Collins said people would also have the opportunity to purchase all kinds of products at very reasonable and discounted prices.
“The landscaped gardens at the racecourse will be an attraction in themselves. Staff have been working on the gardens for the last four months and they make a fine spectacle at this stage,” he said.
The festival will run from 2pm to 8pm on Friday, and from 11am to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are €10 per person with free admission for children.
As part of the family-friendly atmosphere, there will be plenty of entertainment and games on offer for children, including a children’s playground, bouncing castles and face painting.
Homeowners will have a large selection of products and services from which to choose and there will be expert advice for amateur gardeners.
ONE of the country’s biggest garden exhibitions will be held at Cork Racecourse, Mallow, at the weekend.
Last year, around 30,000 people attended Mallow Home and Garden Festival and numbers are expected to be just as big this year.
More than 200 exhibitors will display a wide range of the latest household and gardening items. Gardening experts, including Peter Dowdall and Dominick Cullinane, will be on hand to give tips.
Free seminars on all sorts of topics, from renewable energy to gardening to flower arranging, will be held during the three-day festival.
Event organiser Alan Collins said people would also have the opportunity to purchase all kinds of products at very reasonable and discounted prices.
“The landscaped gardens at the racecourse will be an attraction in themselves. Staff have been working on the gardens for the last four months and they make a fine spectacle at this stage,” he said.
The festival will run from 2pm to 8pm on Friday, and from 11am to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are €10 per person with free admission for children.
As part of the family-friendly atmosphere, there will be plenty of entertainment and games on offer for children, including a children’s playground, bouncing castles and face painting.
Homeowners will have a large selection of products and services from which to choose and there will be expert advice for amateur gardeners.
It has been a great year in our garden pond with an abundance of frogs ,the previous years we usually would have seen only one frog perhaps its the maturity of the garden has contributed to more pond life visiting .
Munster were today drawn in group 1 for the Heineken European Cup season 2009 – 2010 with the current French Champions Perpingan ,Northampton Saints which will evoke memories of the 2000 final loss to the same opposition and Benetton Treviso from Italy.
Perpingan seen here with the Brennus Shield courtesy of Eurosport.
The Perpingan tie is the tie of the round for me,i watched them win the French Final last weekend where they defeated the perennial underachievers ASM Clermont Auvergne(a hatrick of final losses).It was a special win for the Catalan side as it had been 54 years since their previous victory in the competition The Brennus Shield been awarded to the winners. Perpginan were also noted this season for the signing of the All Black Dan Carter on a 6 month contract for a 5 figure sum so the club has a large budget .There is a possiblity that this tie with Munster will be played in Barcelona for financial reasons and the close ties with the Catalan region of Northern Spain.
Read more from the French Final Perpingan v Asm Clermont HERE and HERE
Starlings feeding at the Birdtable in the Photo,likewise this Birdtable is visited Daily by several species of Birds from Blackbirds,Robins,Sparrows,Pigeons,Grey Collared Doves etc..except we will now have to cease placing out feeding for the Birds for a duration.
Yesterday it had an unlikely visitor….
In Broad daylight
Not to be viewed if you are Squeamish…now we have a real problem trying to get rid of this rodent.
The following have been elected in the Adare Electoral Area in the local elections .
Leo Walsh Fine Gael topped the poll,Richard Butler Fine Gael,Rose Brennan Fine Gael,Tomas Hannon Labour,James Collins Fianna Fail ,Leonard Enright Fianna Fail and Patrick C Fitzgerald Independent were all elected to Limerick County Council.
Update :7Th June 2009.
There was a recount between Seamus Sheahan(1,168 )Independent and Patrick Fitzgerald(1172)Independent this morning in the UL Arena ,as there were four votes of a difference.Patrick Fitzgerald was deemed elected after the recount.
This weeks guest poet in the Whitehouse is Tim Daly.
lyrical consultant on Pink Floyd’s “Momentary Lapse”
White House Poets
Location: Limerick, Ireland
The White House Poetry Revival has being going for five years. Every Wednesday the famous old world bar is transformed into a centre of culture as poets recite their latest work. Barney Sheehan and Dominic Taylor, the people behind the revival of poetry at the White House, continue to attract the best of Irish and International poetry to Limerick. The reading has provided an open, supportive venue for countless poets to perform their work, and has fostered a community of poetry. Over the last five years the reading has grown, evolved and matured. We are proud to have provided an open-mic for poets from all over Ireland, Europe and the world: from Buddy Wakefield to Greg Delanty to hundreds of others you have never heard, but should have. The reading continues to grow and change and we would invite you to come down, to listen – and should the mood strike you – to speak. The White House Poets would like to acknowledge the support of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, Foras Na Gaeilge, Limerick City Council, http://www.limerick.com/ and the White House Bar, all of whom helped make the White House one of the pre eminent venues for poetry in Ireland. Proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.
Jim O’Farrell was born in Corbally in Limerick, Ireland in 1951 and has been recording scenes of the city since he was a boy. It has been said that he captures the very air of Limerick in his work; perhaps because the city has always played such a significant role in his life.
And he’s not just a city boy! He lives in the country in Clarina, some miles from Limerick city, and he is also a lover of the sea. He has painted the countryside around his home and in West Cork, Clare, and Kerry . . . most notably the Blasket Islands…See More on
