County Kildare News

The Mondello Superbike Championship returns to the Co. Kildare circuit this Sunday for Rounds four and five of the eleven race, four event championship.

The Fingal Motor Club will be in charge for this second event of the season and a strong line-up has been attracted once again in the main Superbike and Supersport classes once again. Brian McCormack and Marshal Neil were the class of the field at the first event and both are back for this Sunday's races with Neil determined to break McCormack's dominance which has seen him take three wins from the three races run so far. In the Cup class Martin Murphy leads the way while also sitting a very credible seventh in the overall standings.

The Supersport class has seen similar dominance with top spot after event one being taken by relative newcomer Glen Irwin. The impressive teenager won all three Supersport races at the May event with Jonny Buckley and Gary Jeffers his nearest challengers. The majority of the huge Supersport entry at the first event was made up of Cup Class riders and the best of these was Austen Wilson who takes a slim championship lead over Dermot Deegan into round 4. Wilson and Deegan also sit together in the overall points in ninth and tenth place.

Alongside the feature Superbike and Supersport classes the remainder of the programme will be made up of Two Strokes, Pre '97, Lightweight Supersport, Supertwins and Sidecars. Each class will race twice with both races counting for championship points. Following the first round of races for each class the line-up for the grand final will be decided with the fastest thirty riders overall getting the chance to race for Prize money in the main event. At Round one it was McCormack who took the top prize of €1,500 with Neil once again coming home second by the tiny margin of less than a tenth of a second.

Sunday's event will once again see the main races concentrated between 14:00 and 16:00 with the Superbike Supersport and Grand Final featuring pre race grid interviews and post race podium presentations. Admission for Sunday's event is €15.00 but Individual spectators can get a €5.00 discount of the normal ticket price by visiting the special offers page of the Mondello Park web site. A rider and passenger arriving on a bike together will be admitted for just €20.00 while a car and up to four passengers can gain admission for €25.00. As always under 16's will be admitted free of charge and all ticket prices include a complimentary event programme. For further information see www.mondellopark.ie

Championship positions are available HERE.

Gorta Annual churchgate collection in Clane & Rathcoffey 3rd/4th July, 2010

The Annual churchgate collection takes place in Clane & Rathcoffey parish this coming weekend.  This collection is usually organised by Retired Fr. Denis Harrington, but as he is not available, we will be looking to get volunteers to help with this collection.

If anyone of you can help, please let me know asap. Contact Ann Byron Murphy, Community Fundraising Co Ordinator.

Ann.Byron@gorta.org  or 01 664 0155

The mass times are  Sat: 7.30pm – Clane.(SS Patrick & Brigid. Sacred Heart).

                                         Sun: 9.30am and 11.30am in Clane

                                          Sun: 10.30am in Rathcoffey.

 Total 4 masses between Clane and Rathcoffey. 

The 2010/11 Guide to Nightcourses in Leinster is the market-leading title, listing practically every course in the Leinster region. 

Divided into subject headings, the guide makes it easy to browse subject areas of interest, making it easier than ever for prospective students to find your courses.

Alphabetically listed, the guide is an easy reference tool for anyone actively seeking to pursue a course in their area.

•  The best-selling evening classes publication for the Leinster region (excluding Dublin), distributed by Newspread, Easons and Argossy Libraries to bookstores,  
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• Free copies sent to local libraries throughout Dublin.
• Available free to read digitally or download to the general public.
• Pass-on readership of approx. 3 per issue, due to nature of publication being stocked in libraries, community centres, colleges and local amenities.
• Promoted by Learning Ireland's in-house distribution team, who ensure that the guide is restocked frequently throughout the year in all stores and outlets over the
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For more information see www.learningireland.ie

Kildare business woman Noelle O Connor, owner of  Elau Beauty Salon Chain, is having great success with her organic tanning product, Tan Organic. The product was launched in May and can now be found in many pharmacies throughout Kildare. In Janurary Noelle secured investment on RTE's Dragons Den from Gavin Duffy who invested for a 45 per cent share. Noelle holds the record for having been before the dragons for almost two-and-half hours.

Noelle had invested a great deal of time and financial investment in the product herself before she went before the dragons, using her two existing businesses, a chain of salons called Ealu and a cosmetic distribution business, Skinlogic, to help her finance research into an organic tanning product.

Tan Organic is a 100% natural product which is supplied in 100% recyclable and biodegradable packaging. Carefully formulated with the inclusion of wonder herb Aloe Vera (certified Organic), TanOrganic fills a niche in the market for a an anti-ageing professional tanning system, which hydrates the skin as well as developing a natural looking sun kissed glow. Tan Organic contains no parabens, a group of synthetic chemicals widely used as preservatives in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries which has been linked to the premature ageing of skin and found in trace amounts  in women with breast cancer.

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival will take place this coming weekend at the Curragh Racecourse. A host of glamorous guests and international visitors are set to descend on the Kildare track to watch world class racing and enjoy fabulous food, fashion and celebrity spotting.

The festival has become even bigger over the years and this year includes a host of ancillary events and live entertainment outside of the weekends racing. The Ladbrokes.com Derby Friday will kick off the weekend’s racing.   

Saturday is one of the most fashionable racing days of the year with high drama on the track and high fashion in the enclosures with Europe’s leading fillies lining up in the Audi Pretty Polly Stakes. Hats will be the most important fashion accessory on Derby Saturday and the fashion sponsors Kildare Village and their judges will be looking out for The Most Stylish Hat.  

Sunday will feature the best of racing, fashion, food, entertainment, pageantry and spectacle culminating with the top horses and jockeys competing for €1.25m in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby. The fashion competition is always a big attraction at the races and for the first time ever members of the public will have their say in who will win the title of Kildare Village Most Stylish Lady.  Six finalists will be chosen by the judges who will then go through to the public vote.  

The inaugural running of the National Lottery Sweepstakes Race is a very exciting addition to Derby Day and will create a new millionaire with the person lucky enough to draw the winning horse in the Sweepstakes winning a cool €1 million.

A selection of delicious food courtesy of Good Food Ireland will be showcased and will be available to all race goers in the Good Food Ireland Village over the whole weekend. Some of the celebrity chefs who will be doing live demonstrations over derby weekend in The Neff Kitchen will include RTE’s Catherine Fulvio and Darina Allen of Ballymaloe fame.  A variety of Good Food Ireland restaurants, hotels, food shops, cookery schools, cheese makers, artisan bakers, master smokers, chocolatiers and many more of Ireland's favourite artisan food producers will showcase their delectable cuisine.

For more information or tickets for the racing or any of the events over derby weekend log on to www.curragh.ie or call (045) 441205

The next Open Motorcycle Track Day on the International Track is scheduled for Monday June 21st. There are still spaces available but with good weather expected the remaining slots are sure to fill up fast, so pre booking is essential to ensure you recieve a space in your required group.

For 2010 prices have been reduced with a Morning session now €80.00, the afternoon available for €95.00 and the full day down to €150.00. To book contact 045-860200 or email info@mondellopark.ie.

If you are considering having a go at track day riding for the first time and would like more information, or would like to book one of our Track Day Training Courses, please contact our office.

For further information on Mondello Park track days and all of the rules and regulations see HERE.

Gardaí at Newbridge, Co Kildare are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 13 year old Ryan Delaney.

Ryan was last seen at approximately 8.15pm on the 12th June 2010 in the Newbridge area. He is described as 5ft tall with short brown hair, blue eyes. He is of slim build.

When last seen he was wearing a blue and white striped hooded sweatshirt, navy tracksuit bottoms and black Nike runners.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Newbridge Garda Station at 045-440180, The Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1-800-111-666 or any Garda Station.

This weekend's annual 'Classic Car Live' show in association with Irish Vintage Scene magazine, is set to be the biggest gathering of Alfa Romeo cars ever seen in Ireland as the unique show celebrates one hundred years of the Italian thoroughbred. The exhibition takes place at Mondello Park on Sunday June 20th and with this years date falling on Fathers day a bumper crowd is expected.

The Alfa Romeo display will be the centre-peice of the event with the Italian cars taking over a large area of the show, before taking to the track in the final parade of the afternoon. Cars of various vintages are expected, from pre war racing cars to iconic sixties classics such as the Alfa Spyder and more modern sporting saloons such as the GTV and 75, with the display topped off by a selection of cars from the current Alfa range.

Alongside the Italian stars will be representatives from the biggest range of owners clubs ever to exhibit at Classic Car Live including the largest ever contingent from event supporters, the Irish Veteran and Vintage Car Club, who are the umbrella group for Classic Motoring in Ireland. Irish Vintage Scene will also bring a selection of high quality cars as they once again display a number of the cars which have graced the cover of the magazine over the past year.

For those interested in Classic Car products, parts, services and memorabilia, the trade area will feature a larger number of exhibitors than at any of the previous Mondello Classic Car shows. Regular event supporters AXA insurance will be just one of a large number of traders on hand to help current and prospective car owners to keep their classic vehicles on the road.

Throughout the show the Mondello Park track will be kept busy. Three groups of high speed track sessions for performance cars will start the day off and will be followed by races for historic saloons and sportscars, Pre 1955 race cars and historic single seaters. The track activity will be rounded off by one of the most popular parts of 'Classic Car Live', the parade laps, where show exhibitors get the chance to take their cars for some slow laps of the circuit. The last of these parade laps will be for the Alfa Romeo's and will culminate with a photo shoot on the main straight which will close the show.

Tickets for the event are priced at €10.00 for adults with under sixteen's admitted free and are available either on the day or in advance through the Mondello Park web site www.mondellopark.ie.

Turtle Bunbury and photographer James Fennell are preparing to start on the  next volume of their Vanishing Ireland series, chronicling the life stories of men and women of senior vintage, ideally in their 80s, 90s or 100s, who were perhaps involved with a trade or way of life that has now gone or is on the way out or is perhaps being reinvented in a 21st century manner.

In the first two volumes they sought people with a spark of life or sense of humour or a solid grasp of history or who can simply inspire us younger pups with their energy. They are also keen on those whose houses or workplaces still remain much the same as they would have been half a century ago.

If you know of any suitable characters to consider for Co.Kildare, please let them know.

Email: turtle@turtlebunbury.com

More about the Vanishing Ireland project can be found here

Measuring, Monitoring and Management of Irish Habitats and Wildlife Course

 ‘Well worth doing’, ‘this was a great mix of theory, practical and putting learning into action’ and ‘excellent course’ were just some of the comments from the course participants from the first Measuring , Monitoring and Management course held in April. 

Due to demand the IPCC are offering their new course ‘Measuring, Monitoring and Management of Irish Habitats and Wildlife’ again on the 14th and 15th July.

Whether you are a new graduate seeking employment, are just about to retire or are employed, now is the time to increase your skills to conserve, restore and protect habitats and wildlife throughout Ireland.  IPCC are offering this new course to mark the International Year of Biodiversity. 

The course is an introductory course that includes twenty-five skills used to measure, monitor and manage Irish habitats and wildlife.   Skills that are included in the course are map reading, water level measuring, developing a management plan, drain blocking, indicator species identification, recording abiotic factors affecting habitats and survey techniques. 

The course will be held on the 14 th and 15th July 2010 at the Bog of Allen Nature Centre, Co. Kildare from 9am-5pm.  The cost of the course is 95 Euro per participant and places are limited.  Attached is a brochure for further information.  If you have any queries or would like to book a place contact the centre on 045-860133 or e-mail  bogs@ipcc.ie.

This course is funded from the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government under the Notice Nature campaign for International Year of Biodiversity

Times and places of Blood Donor Clinics in County Kildare for July 2010:

Dates: 5th - 6th July 2010

Venue: Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth

Times: 5.00 -8.30pm

Date: 8th July 2010

Venue: San Carlo Senior School, Confey, Leixlip

Times: 5.00 -8.30pm

Information: www.giveblood.ie

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The Irish Georgian Society & Kildare County Council in partnership with the Office of Public Works are hosting a Traditional Building & Conservation Skills in Action Exhibition on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June 2010. 

The exhibition will be held in the grounds of the splendid Castletown, Ireland’s largest and earliest Palladian house.  The exhibition will include demonstrations of all the traditional building skills needed for the care and repair of historic buildings to include: traditional ironwork restoration; traditional slate dressing; decorative plasterwork conservation; use of lime-based mortars and renders; building of traditional stone walls; mud walling; traditional wallpaper making; historic paint effects; pole lath turning and furniture restoration to name a few.

Visit conservation information stands provided by

• Irish Georgian Society
• Kildare County Council
• The Heritage Council
• Building Lime Forum Ireland

There is no admission charge to the exhibition which will run from 10am to 5pm.

10am to 5pm daily
ADMISSION FREE

The Venue

The Exhibition and associated demonstrations and lectures will take place in Castletown, Celbridge, Co. Kildare.

Castletown
Castletown is Ireland's largest and earliest Palladian house. Built in the 1720s for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the wealthiest commoner in Ireland.  In the 1960s the future of the house was in jeopardy until the Hon. Desmond Guinness, founder of the Irish Georgian Society, purchased it.  Since 1994 the house has been in the management of the OPW, who have undertaken extensive conservation works.

Parking: Free parking is available at Castletown

Food: Enjoy gourmet food at the CHC restaurant at The West Wing or sample other culinary treats from the food stalls.

Tours: There will be OPW guided tours of Castletown house throughout the weekend.  Regular entrance fee applies.  By kind permission of the Irish Landmark Trust the newly restored Batty Langley Lodge and Round House will be open with respective conservation practices, Blackwood Associates Architects & Cathal Crimmins Architect on hand to interpret the restoration works they undertaken.

Directions: The house is located 20km from Dublin off the M4 Sligo Road, from the M4 take the R449 Celbridge West/Leixlip West exit 6, stay in the left hand lane and before the top of this sliproad there is a third lane on the left, go into this lane and then after approximately 100meters you will see the Castletown Estate gates on the right. Please note that cars/ buses access is from the above entrance as the avenue from Celbridge is for pedestrian/bicycle access only.

Pedestrians can get the 67/67A bus from Westmoreland Street in the centre of Dublin to Celbridge and walk 15mins up the avenue to the House.

Information on Castletown: www.castletownhouse.ie or call 01 628 8252

Traditional Building Skills on Show

Don’t miss the opportunity to see:

• Thatching
• Stonecutting
• Restoration of timber sash windows
• Traditional ironwork restoration
• Traditional slate dressing
• Decorative plasterwork conservation
• Use of lime-based mortars and renders
• Building of traditional stone walls
• Mud walling
• Traditional wallpaper making
• Historic paint effects
• Pole lath turning
• Furniture restoration

Visit conservation information stands provided by

• Irish Georgian Society
• Kildare County Council
• The Heritage Council
• Building Lime Forum Ireland

Hear relevant experts in the field of architectural heritage

A series of conservation talks will run throughout the weekend at Castletown. Admission to the lectures is free of charge and booking is not necessary.  However the capacity of each lecture will be limited to 60.

Traditional Building & Conservation Talks:

Saturday 26th June

11am My House is a Protected Structure: what does this mean?
Jacqueline Donnelly, Architect, Architectural Heritage Advisory Unit, DoEHLG

12noon The Significance & Conservation of Kildare’s Thatch Buildings
Charles Duggan, Heritage Officer, Dublin City Council

1pm Making & Using Lime: A Practical Demonstration
Edward Byrne, Traditional Lime Company (in farmyard)

2pm Conservation in the Limelight
Ivor McElveen, Chairman of The Building Lime Forum Ireland

3pm A Legacy of Light: the history & conservation of windows
Nessa Roche, Architectural Advisor, Architectural Heritage Advisory Unit, DoEHLG

4pm Conservation of Irish Decorative Ironwork
Ali Davey, Head of Technical Outreach & Education, Historic Scotland

Sunday 27th June

11am Grant Aid for your Protected Structure: how to apply & what to consider
Peter Black, Conservation Officer, Kildare County Council

12noon Peeling Back the Years: Historic Irish Wallpapers
David Skinner, Historic Wallpaper consultant

1pm Making & Using Lime: A Practical Demonstration
Edward Byrne, Traditional Lime Company  (in farmyard)

2pm Taking Care of your Old Roof,
Colm Murray, Architecture Officer, The Heritage Council

3pm A Stitch in Time Saves Nine’: the importance of preventative maintenance
Frank Keohane, Associate, Paul Arnold Architects

4pm The Dos and Don’ts of Plasterwork Conservation 
Andrew Smith, plasterwork conservation consultant

Family Friendly Event
Free Bouncy Castle all day & Face Painting from 12noon to 3pm Sat & Sun

Launch
The exhibition will be launched by Ciarán Cuffe, Minister of State with special responsibility for Sustainable Transport, Horticulture, Planning and Heritage at 12 noon on Saturday 26th June 2010.

Sponsors
This exhibition has been made possible through funding and support of The Heritage Council’s Heritage Education, Communications & Outreach Grants Scheme 2010, Kildare County Council & the Office of Public Works

The following have also kindly supported the exhibition:

Blue Bangor Company www.bluebangor.com
George O’Malley Plastering www.omalleyplastering.com
Stoneware Studios www.stonewarestudios.com
Conservation & Restoration www.stonedevelopments.ie
The Traditional Lime Company www.traditionallime.com
The Old Build Company www.oldbuilders.com
W&J Bolger Traditional Sash Restoration www.wjbolger.ie

Irish Georgian Society
The Irish Georgian Society has a remit to promote and protect Ireland’s built heritage & decorative arts.   It is a charitable organisation founded in 1958 with 2,800 members.  Everyone is welcome to join & by joining you support our conservation and education work.  Members have the opportunity to avail of a first rate events progamme, which includes access to significant historic buildings and gardens often closed to the public.

Kildare County Council
Kildare County Council has a strong commitment to the conservation and promotion of the county’s cultural heritage.  Kildare County Council employs a Architectural Conservation Officer, Peter Black and a Heritage Officer, Bridget Loughlin whose work ensures that there is an enhanced level of understanding, conservation and preservation of the county’s natural and built heritage. This exhibition is an action of the County Kildare Heritage Plan.

RTE’s Nationwide will be reporting at the event.

For more information contact the Irish Georgian Society, 74 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (tel 01 676053, email: Emmeline.henderson@igs.ie web Www.igs.ie)

or Kildare County Council, Áras Chill Dara, Devoy Park, Naas, Co Kildare. (tel: 045 980200, heritageofficer@kildarecoco.ie web www.kildarecoco.ie)

The three day event will feature a combination of great sporting action, with high fashion, amazing food and fantastic entertainment.

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival will take place at the Curragh Racecourse from the 25th – 27th of June and the world famous festival promises to be one of the most spectacular sporting and fun events of the summer. Details were announced at a Summer Evening Party at The K Club on Wednesday evening (9th of June). A host of celebrities, trainers, jockeys and representatives of the world of fashion and entertainment were out in huge numbers to hear the exciting details of the forthcoming festival. 

Guests enjoyed a selection of delicious food courtesy of Good Food Ireland, who showcased a selection of delicacies which will be available to all race goers in the Good Food Ireland Village during the Festival. A variety of Good Food Ireland restaurants, hotels, food shops, cookery schools, cheese makers, artisan bakers, master smokers, chocolatiers and many more of Ireland's favourite artisan food producers will be on hand over all three days, while a number of cookery demonstrations will be scheduled between races with some of Ireland’s leading chefs.

The K Club prepared a special Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby cocktail and a summer blend punch which both went down very well with the assembled crowd.

This year Dubai Duty Free will celebrate its third year as title sponsor of the Irish Derby Festival.   The company, which is headed up by Galway native, Colm McLoughlin is now the largest single duty free operation in the world and a winner of over 160 international business, travel and retail awards.  Dubai Duty Free are bucking the global economic trend, the first quarter of 2010 signals the return of their consumers confidence with the retail operation announcing sales of over US$307 million, this represents a 21% increase over the same period last year.

Speaking about Dubai Duty Free’s involvement at the Curragh, Dubai Duty Free Managing Director, Colm McLoughlin said, “We are really looking forward to an exciting weekend of racing and entertainment, this year we are sponsoring one of the world’s most famous races in addition to four other races on the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby day.  We are eager to strengthen tourism and business links between Ireland and Dubai and our continued sponsorship of the Irish Derby fits well with our global strategy of sports sponsorship.”

Ladbrokes was announced as the first ever official betting partner to the Festival and their PR Manager Hayley O’Connor was on hand to provide the latest betting information.

Ladbrokes.com Derby Friday kicks off the weekend of racing with a fun packed evening starting at 6.00pm with the featured Ballygallon Stud Stakes taking centre stage.   The legendary Irish Rock Group, The Saw Doctors will perform on a giant stage in the main enclosure after racing at 9pm.

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Following a five week break car racing returns to Mondello Park with a huge Formula Vee grid backed up by strong entries for the popular Irish Touring Car Championship and Formula Libre. The weekend's busy programme means that for the second time this year some qualifying sessions will take place on Saturday evening, leaving the way clear for a Sunday made up almost entirely of racing.

The Budget single seater racers of Formula Vee will provide the biggest field of the day for their single championship round, made up of a Qualifying Race and Final. A full grid of thirty two cars for both races will make for a very busy track and close racing, as always, will be guaranteed.

The second biggest field of the day will line-up for the third round of the new Irish Touring Car Championship. On only its second Mondello appearance the ITCC field has grown to twenty five cars with the addition of some very strong driver and car combinations. Former Dunlop Supercar champion Johnny Whelan, in an ex BTCC production class Peugeot, and Robbie Thornthon with his Mitsubishi Evo, are just two of the drivers making their debut this weekend.

Formula Libre is always spectacular with its mix of powerful Formula 3000 style machines and more nimble Formula three cars battling at the head of the field. The class also provides more chassis variety than any other Irish championship with a field of more than twenty cars made up of all kinds of single seaters and open top sports cars set to race twice on Sunday.

The remainder of the weekends programme will be made up of double headers for Striker Sportscars, Formula Sheane and Global Lights, while the Historic cars will have just one race. As an additional feature Sunday's programme will include the launch of the new Ginetta Junior championship for 14-17 year olds. The Ginetta sportscars will be on track for a ten minute demonstration in the middle of Sunday afternoons race programme.

Mondello Park's cut price ticket offers continue for this event with reduced price single adult admission available for €10.00 through the special offers section of the Mondello web site www.mondellopark.ie/specials. In addition to our regular ticket offer groups travelling together can also gain admission for just €20.00 per car and up to five passengers.

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Visit the Living Tropical Butterfly Exhibition - open June, July and August, 12.00 noon - 5.30 pm.

Tickets: 8.00 adults, 5.00 Children, 25.00 Family

Walk through a mini jungle with magnificent tropical butterflies flying all around you. Safe behind glass watch giant spiders, scorpions, stick insects and small reptiles. Learn about the life of butterflies from the displays in our educational area.

This is an indoor exhibition so whatever the weather there is always lots to see.

Contact: Iris Fox 01 6271109 | info@straffanbutterflyfarm.com

www.straffanbutterflyfarm.com 

Appearing Friday June 18th -

“She is an innovator, an original; incomparable with any of her contemporaries and she has created what might just be the Irish album of the year” CD of the Week * * * * The Ticket, The Irish Times

 “Feeney effortlessly bridges the classical, pop and singer-songwriter worlds with astoundingly melodic consequences. A unique artist, miles ahead of her contemporaries here and abroad” CD of the Week * * * * Sunday Tribune

 ‘pages is never less than captivating’ Pick of the Week * * * * RTE Guide

 “…confirms Feeney as Ireland’s pre-eminent esoteric songbird” Album of the Week * * * * Metro

 “pages is a wee masterpiece” * * * * Hot Press

 “(pages) confirms Feeney as one of the most original talents on the Irish music scene today” * * * * Sunday Business Post

 “…utterly fantastic, full of light and space, wit and melody” The Word

 Julie Feeney's second album ‘pages’ was released last year to massive critical acclaim, she was nominated for both the Choice Music Prize and Meteor Award for ‘Best Female’.  ‘Impossibly Beautiful’ is currently featured in the VHI ad on the TV and the radio campaign.  

Following on from a hugely successful trip to South X Southwest in Texas, Julie will perform at Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge on Friday June 18th and for anyone with an interest in music, this is not a show you’ll want to miss. 

Julie first made her mark on the international music scene by winning the Choice Music Prize with her debut album 13 songs, and has made a huge leap forward with her popular album  pages. A one-woman powerhouse of creative energy and technical expertise, she tackled the project in a spirit of almost mystical enquiry. 

Having designed the artwork, which is based on a unique, hand-stitched dress sculpted from the actual pages of the musical score, Julie’s  tour consists of a small (eight-piece) orchestra, putting on a show that combines songs from both her albums with elements of theatre and performance art.

“I've decided that instead of having my classical hat and then my other hats, as an artist I want to embrace each of them all as a whole,” she says. “I feel that I'm developing all the time. That's what I'm here for.”

 Julie may be a dreamer, but she is also one of life's achievers. She has three Masters degrees, plays ten instruments and was a professional singer for the National Chamber Choir in Ireland for five years. She has composed scores for concert performances, contemporary dance productions and for short films. She has studied psychoanalysis and has lectured in education. She has worked as a photographic, live art and catwalk model, and as a "movement actor" in the world of contemporary dance. And, for the record, she is also an accomplished windsurfer and a kayaking enthusiast. With all these accolades under her belt it’s no wonder she’s now taking audiences by storm.

 To see Julie Feeney in the intimate setting of Riverbank Arts Centre is an opportunity not to be missed. Tickets only €14/€12, to book call Riverbank Arts Centre on 045 448327 or book online at www.riverbank.ie

 Tickets €14/€12

Riverbank Box Office 045 448327

For more information visit

www.juliefeeney.com  / www.myspace.com/juliefeeney

Maynooth Castle heritage centre is open to the public for the 2010 season from June 28th to September 29th. Admission is FREE and all are welcome.

An exhibition on the history of the Fitzgeralds, the Earls of Kildare, is housed in the Castle Keep. Guided Tours are available and FREE OF CHARGE.

Please contact for further information or for Group Bookings:

01-6286744

maynoothcastle@opw.ie

www.heritageireland.ie