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Community Games Card Night

We have a date for the card night.
Friday 31st March @ 9pm. The Monastery Inn
The game is “25″
Pat Dunne will supply sandwiches & tea on the night.
Pat is also sponsoring the jerseys for the indoor soccer, he is checking out to see if he can find a company to make jerseys.
Well done Pat.
Feel free […]

Who Wants to Present Clonard :-)

While looking around for ideas for community and regional sites I heard about this one.
Aine (now known as Sligo’s Dame of Tourism) is doing her bit for Sligo, will you?
Click on the movie link, its well worth the wait even on Dial-Up
Lissadel beach and a special Christmas message are some of the more […]

National Tree Week March 5th – 11th

National Tree Week will take place on March 5th to March 11th 2006.
Meath County Council has ordered 3,500 saplings, which will be distributed to Community Groups, Schools and Individuals on request, to mark the occasion. The trees are a mix of Oak, Alder, Ash, Beech, Birch, Holly and Rowan.
If you would like some of […]

Metro Hysteria

While reading about the propsed Metro line in Dublin I came across this post.
It really is astounding what we have to go through in this country in order to have a modern nation. Everytime a major infrastructural project (which other countries don’t even think twice about) is announced, hysterical chicken littles come screaming out […]

Community Games Newsletter

Laura O’Donoghue has written up the latest newsletter for the Clonard Community Games.
Details include the finances, upcoming events and proposed events.
Please offer the committee support and assistance where possible.

2 Month Anniversary of the New Look Site.

Some interesting statistics about the clonard.org site after two months.
8,148 webpages viewed since December 20th 2006
An average of 131 pages viewed per day.
1,841 unique visitors
On average 45 people per day
Each person looks at least 3 pages
The searches that most often got someone to this site were in order of popularity…
clonard
monastery clonard
monastery inn
meath councillors
meath planning
houses […]

NEC is to Close in Ballivor

The sad news today from Ballivor was that NEC will be shutting their doors for good after 30 years.
The company made the announcement this evening and is blaming high operating costs for the closure.
The company employed 300 full time and around 50 part time staff. The jobs will be transferred to Singapore, Beijing and […]

Commuters Would Swap Commute for Wages

In yet another statement of the blindingly obvious a survey of Meath commuters has reached the amazing conclusion that “A survey of commuters in Co Meath has reportedly found that most are unhappy with the long hours they face travelling to and from work every day.”
Never. Really?
From breakingnews.ie
Commuters ‘would swap high wages for job closer […]