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It could be you Wednesday, 27th June, 2012. Vol. 5, Issue 26 • 63 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth.

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Dundalk’s newest millionaire yet to claim prize

By Niamh Kirk

Dundalk could be home to a new millionaire as last Saturday’s winning lotto ticket was sold in Mace Stores on the Carrick Road.

The winning ticket was a €4 quick-pick bought on Saturday and by the time the Dundalk Leader went to print it on Tuesday evening the lotto spokesperson confirmed the prize had not yet been claimed.

While the new millionaire may be celebrating secretly, or is still unaware of their windfall, the staff in Mace and the shop’s owner Annette Quigley are buzzing from the win. Mace Stores was full of energy and colour on a gloomy Tuesday morning as balloons, streamers and banners announced that they were the shop that sold the €2m winning ticket.

“People have been in and out of the shop wondering who it might be but we have no idea.”

In cases where lotto winners would like not to be named the

Jennifer Green new chair of Dundalk Town Council

By Niamh Kirk

Owner of the Carrick Road Mace shop, Annette Quigley, with Eddie McArdle, waiting on the millionaire to return

lotto refrain from giving out too many details so that the winner can’t be identified and can claim their millions anonymously.

Annette said that she was “absolutely delighted for who-

ever it is that has won” and expressed her hopes that some of the winnings would be spent in local businesses.

This is not the first big win in the store on the Carrick Road as earlier this year they sold a

ticket that had five numbers and the bonus number – a win of more than €25k. The winnings are increasing and as Annette pointed out, “sometimes these things happen in threes.”

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Sinn Fein councillor Jennifer Green is the new chairperson of Dundalk Town Council. She was declared the new chair of the council at last night’s town council AGM. The Mulholland Avenue woman takes over from Marianne Butler who wished her successor all the best in her new role.

30 year old Jennifer became a Sinn Fein representative on Dundalk Town Council in 2010 when she replaced Ian Dooley who stepped down because of other commitments.

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Award for age-friendly initiative

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Louth is celebrating another Age Friendly accolade with the presentation of a Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Award.

Cllr Finan McCoy Cathaoirleach, Louth County Council received one of the 20 Public Service Excellence Awards 2012 from Taoiseach Enda Kenny at a ceremony held in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle on Thursday June

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The principle of the Louth Age Friendly County Initiative is that through the participation of older people through a partnership approach, creation and innovation will be enriched.

The programme puts the older person at the centre of the decision making process on

Jim Cousins, Louth Older People’s Forum; Mary Deery, Louth County Council; Cllr Finan McCoy, Cathaoirleach, Louth County Council; and Catherine McDonnell, Louth County Council pictured with Taoieach Enda Kenny

ie and this model is to be replicated by other counties which have adopted the Age Friendly County Initiative.

Louth’s Age Friendly Initiative has been hailed as pioneering.

Louth is Ireland’s first Age Friendly County and was Ireland’s only Age Friendly location included in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) study of 2006/2007 Speaking on receiving a Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Award, Cllr Finan McCoy said “I am absolutely delighted to accept this Award on

behalf of all the people in Co Louth who have contributed to the success of our pioneering Age Friendly initiative.

“The Awards are organised as part of the Government’s programme of Public Service reform, aimed at increasing effectiveness and efficiency in the public service, to make better use of resources, improve services delivered to the citizen and business customers and create innovation and creativity, through flexibility, teamworking, cross-organisational cooperation and eGovernment”, he added.

service delivery across multiple agencies and the community and voluntary sector around ageing.

The provision of programmes such as the Men’s Sheds, Fáilte

Isteach, Senior help Line, Friendly Call Service, Good Morning Drogheda, Care and Repair. Intergenerational programmes and the drop in centres called the “Parlour” in the Age

Friendly Initiative were programmes that impressed the judging panel. These programmes are delivered by volunteers at the front line in response to the need of older people and at last

received the recognition for their great work under the Age Friendly brand.

The Louth Older People’s Forum has also designed a website www. louthagefriendlycounty.

Judge Flan Brennan advised three young women to be more careful in drinking alcohol and also particularly in relation to their behaviour.

The judge opted not to record a conviction against Amy Carolan (21), Aghameen Park,

Amanda Thornton (33) Glenmore Park, both Muirhevnamor and Chloe Enright (23) Beechmont Drive and applied the Probation Act for a breach of public order in allegedly engaging in threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour.

Charges of assault against the three were dropped by the state with the defendants who were also complainants in this instance and another injured party declining to give evidence.

The case arose from an incident at Earl Street

language which was McGuill said his client on May 7 last.

Frank McDonnell inappropriate towards was never in court for Enright said she the Gardai, while Conor before. was excitable when the Gardai arrived. She was of good character, and was not in trouble before or since Peter Lavery for Carolan, said she unfortunately used

Judge warns three women to be careful with alcohol

Town waits on Lotto winner to claim prize Continued from page 1 She considered that if the trend continues then the next big lotto win sold in store could be the Euro Millions.

“The winner still has plenty of time to come forward and claim their prize, we have champagne on ice waiting for them”, she added.

A spokesperson for Lotto Ireland had some practical advice for the new millionaire, saying “be sure to sign the back of the ticket and make contact with the national lottery office as soon as possible.”

Once the call has been made and the lotto have verified the ticket is authentic winners are offered some pointers and tips on how to get the best from their win before being handed their cheque and sent on their very merry way. The whole thing takes about an hour and winners

have 90 days after the day of the draw to claim their winnings.

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Local family meet President Higgins

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Blackrock family the O Donnachdha’s, who will be representing Ireland later his year in the World Karate Championships, were honoured to be invited to meet with the President Michael D. Higgins in Áras an Uachtaráin.

At the meeting the President congratulated them on their outstanding achievements on the national and international stage and he also impressed upon them what an honour it was for them to represent their country at such a prestigious event.

He also briefly spoke to them about an initiative of his which he recently launched called ‘Young and Irish’ which

Pictured l-r: Joe O’Donnachadha, Martin O’Donnachadha, President Michael D. Higgins, Shannon NíDhonnachadha, and Rachael NíDhonnachadha.

is aimed at 17 to 26 years old and runs until September, where he is seeking to consult with the young people of Ireland regarding their vision for Ireland and what

we collectively need to do to get there. Once the formalities were over the President chatted with them and they were treated to a guided tour of the magnificent

Garda found man with Hammer A Garda found a glass shatter hammer on a local man when he carried out a drugs search on him.

Dundalk Court heard that a report was received of men acting suspiciously at Bridge Street on November 12 last.

Garda Clegg who responded to it came across Patrick English (22) of Oakland Park who turned and walked away and entered an off-licence.

When he came out the Garda searched English and found the hammer.

Solicitor Conor McGuill said

that English came by the hammer earlier which had been left by somebody else.

Inspector Martin Beggy said that English had eight previous convictions, and previously received suspended jail sentences.

Judge Flan Brennan sentenced him to four months jail or 120 hours community service.

He deferred finalising penalty until October 17 to receive a report whether the defendant was suitable for community service.

He warned English “you wouldn’t want to be in any trouble between now and that date.”

Three men rescued off County Louth coast Four men from County Down were rescued off the Co Louth Coast early on Tuesday morning after they got into difficulty off shore.

The men raised the alarm after they realised their fishing vessel

Peter Conlon and Christopher Conlon present a cheque to St Vincents principal, Deirdre Matthews to replace two lap tops which were stolen during a recent breakin at the school

began taking on water.

A helicopter was dispatched from Dublin and a boat from Belfast.

The incident took place north of Clogherhead and the men were taken to Killkeel harbour.

The men had a pump

on board and so the water was pumped off the boat, named the ‘Martin Paul’, which was also taken to Kilkeel.

The seas were described as calm on the day and all four men are safe and well.

residence that is Áras an Uachtaráin.

It truly was a day that was full of wonderful memories that will be treasured and will not be soon forgotten.

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in Brief Dundalk Library

Celebrate the arrival of the summer holidays with face painting and balloon modeling at Dundalk Library on Saturday June 30 at 11am. Everyone welcome.

For further details of this and other summer events for children contact Dundalk library at 042 9353190.

Photographic Exhibition

‘Club Life’ a solo photographic exhibition

by Ken Finegan will open in the County Museum, Dundalk, on Thursday July 5 at 7pm.

Fundraising Night

A fundraising night in aid of the Fearghal Treanor Trust Fund will be held in The Fairways Hotel on Saturday June 30.

Admission is €10 with live music by Vertigo.

Spot prizes on the night.

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Fun walk for Rockmarshal funds

By Niamh Kirk

Dun Dealgan N.S. had a visit from the mobile Reptile Zoo last Monday. Students found the visit interesting and exhilerating as they learned about and got to touch all sorts of animals from tarantulas, scorpions, lizards, snakes and even a caiman.

No change to Louth electoral boundary

By Niamh Kirk

Louth County Consituency borders will not be rearranged as a part of the Constituency Commissions redrawing of the country’s electoral map.

The constituency map for Co Louth was redrawn in October 2007 to include an area of Meath surrounding Drogheda town. In 2011 the number of TDs was increased giving the county five representitives in the Dail. There had been only four since 1977.

Following the results of the 2011 Census the population of many areas has shifted.

The commission plans to reduce the number of constituencies in Ireland from 43 to

40, and to reduce the number Ireland’s 166 TDs to 158.

Drogheda based Labour TD, Ged Nash, welcomed the recommendation that the constituency remain untouched.

Deputy Nash argued for the retention of the boundry in his submission to the Commission. He commented that “For far too long Drogheda was in the ludicrous position of being effectively divided with almost a third of its population being forced to vote in Meath for general elections. I also believe that it makes far more sense for Meath Coast to be included as this is a natural part of Drogheda’s hinterland and their concerns would be much more in line with Drogheda’s than Navan’s 20 miles away.”

The Protect Rockmarshal Mountain group are planning a fun walk this weekend to help raise funds for the costly process of objecting to Gealectric’s hopes to build five wind turbines on the mountain.

Gaelectic’s application was recently rejected

by Louth County Council which the community gathered together and utilised every resource to submit their opinions and issues with the energy company’s plans in their area too.

Gaeletric have now appealed the rejection to An Bord Pleanala and the process of fighting to preserve their community’s natural attributes must start once again. In order to respond effectively to Gaelectric’s planned development in the area the group must engage with a number of specialist consultants who can examine and reply to the company’s detailed plans and appeal.

The community’s main concerns are with the turbine size, the impact on homes in the area and the extent of the shadow flicker as well as the striking impact on the landscape.

Fighting a company who has easier access to specialist knowledge and experience is always a costly business. The difficulty of funding is frequently a decisive factor in who D wins out and to date the expensive proc- H ess of objection as been contributed to by t local residents and businesses. Despite the e significant amounts donated by these community minded people it covers only part o the costs and it is hoped that the ‘Fun Walk’ d H will help make-up the short fall.

The walk will begin in the car park of Fit- b zpatrick’s restaurant at 3pm and will last M about one hour depending on how energetfi ic a walker you are. Participants will return to Fitzpatrick’s for a barbeque. For information on getting involved call John Collins on 087 l t 7821918.

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Household charge protest Dundalk Campaign Against Household and Water Tax protest at local Senators Constituency office.

On Friday last the local Dundalk Dundalk Campaign Against Household and Water Tax group brought their protest to Senator Mary Moran’s constituency office.

“We wanted to meet with our local representative to reiterate to her and her Labour Party colleagues that there is a very strong

campaign here in Dundalk that is totally against these unfair and unjust taxes. Senator Moran was not available to speak to the grou”, a spokesman said.

The Dundalk Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes are urging people not to be bullied into registering and paying this unfair tax and are offering their full support in all matters regarding non registration and non payment.

The local Dundalk Campaign

Against Household and Water Tax group are asking people to get involved in the campaign. At present the group are putting the finishing touches to a “Household Charge Survival Pack” which will be available to the public. There will be an information evening in the Fairways Hotel in July.

The group meet every Wednesday night in the Redeemer Resource Centre at 7pm and all are welcome.

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Salad days in Dulargy NS The Gardening Project in Dulargy National School is now in its third year and is going from strength to strength. Run by parents Roisin Cotter, Tara Mullen and Ann O’Hagan, the project gives each child in the school the opportunity to sow seeds and watch their plants grow, until they are ready to be brought home.

Each class grows flowers or vegetables or both. This year Junior Infants grew sunflowers, Senior Infants grew tomatoes, 1st and 2nd class grew strawberries and onions, 3rd class grew courgettes and pumpkins, 4th class grew salad crops, beetroot and poppies, 5th class grew carrots, parsnips and turnips and 6th class grew cabbages, broccoli, lettuce, scallions, celery and marigolds.

A wonderful addition to the project this year was the installa-

Pupils from Dulargy NS with gardening project co-ordinators, Roisin Cotter, Ann O’Hagan and Tara Mullen

tion of four raised beds in a new school vegetable plot, all made by school caretaker, Jimmy Quigley.

This has been a great bonus, as now 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes all have permanent beds for planting each year at school.

4th class have just harvested their bed of salad crops and as well as

bringing home big bags of salad this week, produced a beautiful salad of mixed leaves, rocket, coriander, radish, beetroot tops and chive flowers for everyone in the class to try.

The project continues in September with the harvest of the remainder of the crops.

Man went off the rails

Anthony Connolly (30) of Slieve Foy Park, Muirhevnamor carried out a number of thefts during a two month period that he “went off the rails”.

Solicitor Sean T O’Reilly told Dundalk Court that all the offences occurred at Christmas and January this year.

Judge Flan Brennan asked for a report on the

defendant before dealing with the offences and put the case back to October 17.

Garda Inspector Martin Beggy outlined that the defendant took a television on December 4 last from Tesco on the Long Walk which was recovered undamaged.

He also stole an IPod and two DVDs from Dunnes Stores on

December 20 in the Marshes, and was observed throwing a red Heatons bag away at the Ramparts on January 30 which contained goods, including perfume and aftershave, valued €302. These were stolen from Boots. All of these items were recovered.

Mr Reilly said that the defendant had €80 towards the cost of the

missing IPod and DVDS which were valued at €100 approximately. wHe expected to come up with the rest of the money.

He explained that the defendant had fallen into bad company as a youth and had more or less kept on the straight and narrow until he went off the rails over the period of these offences.

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Dundalk’s got pride

By Niamh Kirk

Dundalk Outcomers will be hosting the third annual Pride Festival this July as a part of the international week of Pride events.

The festival aims to acknowledge lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the region, and recognises the important roles they play in the community.

It also offers an opportunity for family and friends of the LGBT community in the north east to connect and to support an equal and inclusive society.

The members of Dundalk Out-

comers have been organising this year’s Pride Festival for the past number of months and hope to see it build on the previous few years successes. There is a whole series of events organised from Thursday July 12 to Saturday July 14.

The festival kicks off with the opening of the Art Exhibition ‘Community’ in the County Museum on Tuesday July 10 but will have its public launch on Thursday and will continue until July 21 and the admission to the exhibition is free.

The weekend will be filled with quizzes and social gatherings which will lead to a busy day on Saturday July – Pride Day. The

annual celebration is being held in Dundalk Outcomers facility in Roden Place. The theme of this year’s festival is ‘Urban Body and Soul’ and will have plenty of color, food, games, crafts and music. Again admission is free and the price of some of the events is minimal.

It all culminates in the Pride Party which takes place in the Fairways Hotel, the event has grown year on year and with the continuation of the Urban Body and Soul theme should make for a spectacular event.

It is an open event for the whole community and all are welcome to attend.

History in the making Ireland Wadokai Karate-Do Remnei held a Dan Grading recently under the critical eye of visiting Sensei Barry Wilkinson 7th Dan along with the rest of the grading panel.

Sensei Barry Wilkinson is the Chief Instructor of England Wadokai, a founding member of the Executive and Technical Committee of the Federation of Wadokai Europe and is currently the Secretary of Admissions for New Country Applications to the

Black belt; Mary Marcus; Tommy Marrett; Barry Wilkinson; Ollie McHugh; Karate; Blackrock

FWE. Sensei Wilkinson put Mary Marcus through a gruelling regime of not only her karate basics, but Combinations, Blocks, Ohio’s, Kihons,

Kata (form), and Kumite (fighting).

Mary has been training under the guidance of Sensei Tommy Marrett 4th Dan for six years.

She joined IWKR with

her daughters Elizabeth who is a Brown Belt and Catherine who is a Blue Belt. They have all travelled throughout the country and the UK competing at various competitions and always return home victorious with numerous medals.

Recently Mary was part of a large Irish Team who represented IWKR in Birmingham, where she competed in Individual Kata, Pair Kata, Master Kata and Team Kumite, and came home with four medals.

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Pupils visit bird sanctuary Teachers nominated for awards Blackrock NS became the first Primary School from the county to visit the recently opened Bird Observatory on the Navvy Bank.

Brendan and Abby McSherry made presentations to 30 pupils from Blackrock National School. Brendan McSherry is Heritage Officer for Co. Louth and Abby McSherry is Project Officer for Action for BioDiversity Project in the North East Region.

Dundalk Tidy Towns stated they are delighted at the positive response from the schools and four other school visits are planned over the next Blackrock pupils on the visit to the bird sanctuary two weeks.

By Niamh Kirk

FIFTEEN Louth Teachers received nominations at this year’s Teacher of the Year awards. The annual competition was set up to acknowledge the exceptional work done by some teachers who go above and beyond the call of duty to help their students.

Louth teachers received the fifth highest amount of nominations from parents and students ending up with 5% of the total nominations nationwide. Reflecting the national trend there were more nominations for Primary School Teachers and more nods for women than men.

Maura Cahill from Scoil Mhuire Fatima was nominated by a The staff at Nannyboppers Creche and Montessori would sincerely like to thank all the children and parents for their generosity recently. A fancy dress party was held in conjunction with the Louth County Childcare Committee in aid of Temple Street Children’s Hospital. A total of €225 was raised.

parent who helped build the confidence of her students and is credited with nurturing “their strengths and helps them to overcome their weakness.”

In St Oliver Plunkett NS Sean Morahan was praised for his dedication to helping students in math in particular and giving them the resources, time and support so that they can find the problem solving method that best suits them.

Elaine O’Hanlon in Scoil Mhuire na nGeal was also praised by parents as “She manages to teach without the children even noticing that they are learning”.

It was not only primary teachers getting all the praise as Mary Gilmore from St Louis Secondary School was also applauded for her dedication in both her subjects.

Philip McGuiness, De La Salle College, was nominated for his insurance that his students truly understand their subjects and to relate the theory to real life and for the free time he sacrifices for extracurricular activities.

Maura Hennessy and Vicky Muckian both from St Vincent’s Secondary school were also praised by their students in the awards.

Other teachers that were nominated were Ms Elaine Mills and Ann Savage, Our Lady’s College; Bernadette Mullen, St Marys N.S; Maura Hennessy, St Vincent’s Alan Keenan, St. Josephs; Anita Flynn, Mullaghbouy; Don Thornton, St Mary’s Diocesan School; Keane O’Hagan, St Peters.

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Olympic legend Ronnie Delany opens exhibition Olympic legend, Ronnie Delany, helped Dundalk get warmed up for the London games when he performed the official opening of an exhibition to honour Louth Olympians.

‘Patriot Games: Ireland and the Olympics 1896-2010?’ is currently being hosted by the Louth County Museum in Dundalk.

The exhibition features a display on Delany’s gold medal

win in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and Curator, Brian Walsh, was thrilled to have the sporting legend at the opening ceremony.

“Ronnie Delany is the first name that comes to mind when you think about Ireland’s Olympic medallists. It was wonderful to speak to him when I was putting the exhibition together and it is a great honour for us that he agreed to open the exhi-

bition”, he said.

The exhibition features contributions from many former Olympic competitors and their families, which Mr Walsh explained gives visitors a look at Ireland in times past.

Speaking to Maeve Kyle, who was Ireland’s first female athlete, competing in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics was a real eye opener. At that time female athletes were somewhat

Tidy Towns and local snappers’ exhibition

Group l-r: Pictured under “Hopscotch” by Thomas Gray; Back row: Celine Breen; Peter McVeigh; Michelle McNally; Marie Agnew; Christine Agnew; Eithne O’Hanlon and Charlie Flynn.; Front row: Marty Garland; Paul Twibill and Thomas Gray.

Dundalk Tidy Towns and Dundalk Photographic Society launched their outdoor exhibition of award winning photos in the Outdoor Art Centre (Francis Street – Park Street).

Over 80 prize winning photos were submitted by members of the club to a panel of judges who chose the 34 entries of the exhibition. There was huge interest within the club to see whose photos were choosen as they did not know the selectd photos until it opened.

The banners are positioned on the light poles and the organisers would strongly recommend people take time

out to stroll up Francis Street as far as the junction at Park Street/Demesne and then return back to St Patricks viewing the banners on the opposite side of the road.

This project is part of the Tidy Towns Committee and Dundalk Town Council’s efforts to encourage people to the town centre and to ‘get out and walk for your health’.

The exhibition will close in September and be replaced with further artwork.

If any artists would like to be part of future exhibits contact Celine Breen, on 9392974 or email celine. breen@dundalktown.ie

Dundalk economy boosted by start ups

By Niamh Kirk

Thirteen tech start-ups have been given an extra helping hand by DkIT, DCU and Enterprise Ireland as they made it through to phase two of the New Frontiers programme.

The new businesses cover a wide range of industries and are all have the promise to become leaders in their fields which span from gaming and social networking to medical devices, telecommunications and energy.

The 13 were selected from a group of 28 who entered phase one. Enterprise Development Manager Garrett Duffy from DkIT said that there had been strong presence of entrepreneurs from Dundalk in the initial stages and some had made it through to the second round.

And if they do, the rewards can be substantial. Garrett noted that “Since May 2011 this collaboration has seen

graduate companies receive offers of in excess of €2.5 million investment into their businesses.

It is not only the companies that stand to make substantial gains and many of them are thought to have the potential to employ approximately 4 to 5 people each with some having the potential to expand even further – all adding to the North East emerging from the recession with a formidable tech-based local economy.

They will receive mentoring, training and even office space in either DCU or DkIT and will have access to the research facilities, finding and know-how of each college.

Paschal McGuire, Director of Entrepreneurship with enterprise Ireland was in DkIT this week to launch the second phase. He congratulated the successful entrepreneurs who hail from, Louth, Meath, Cavan and Dublin.

frowned upon and it was said that the Catholic Church had an extreme disapproval of such activities for women.

“Hitler’s interest in Irish Olympians cannot be discounted, he added: “We had heard via the family of Dan Coyle who competed in 1948, that Hitler had ordered the Irish team to be filmed at their training sessions prior to the Berlin Games in 1936.

Research into Ireland’s Olympics competitors has also uncovered numerous associations with Co Louth including: Beatrice Hill Lowe, Ardee Archery, 1908; Henry Joseph Browne, Annaskeagh - 1908; Dr John Sellars, Dundalk Rifle Shooting, 1908; Dan Coyle - Hammer, 1948; Tony ‘Socks’ Byrne, Drogheda - Boxing, 1956;

Noel Carroll, Annagassan Athletics, 1964 and 1968; Peter McArdle, Dundalk - Athletics, 1964; Conor McCullough, Drogheda - Hammer Throw, 1984 and 1988; Patrick Holmes - Canoeist, 1988 and 1992; Colin Lowth, Drogheda Swimming, 2000; Edmond Gibney, Louth Equestrian, 2004.

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in Brief Minister’s Delight

Minister Fergus O’Dowd has congratulated everyone involved in the Louth Age Friendly County initiative on receiving a Taoiseach’s Public Service Excellence Award.

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Women get dressed up for charity inNews Brief Women from Louth are being invited to dust down their best party gear and get dressed up for a night on the town, with the added bonus of helping out a deserving charity.

Adell Woods from Ardee is organising a Posh Frocks and Brides night in Darver Castle on Saturday June 30th with proceeds going to the Gary

Kelly Cancer Centre.

The Drogheda facility recently cared for two of Adell’s aunts and she came up with the idea in order to raise funds and help continue the good work.

“We are inviting women from all over Ireland and especially in the North East to get there favourite dress out of the wardrobe and

wear it for one more day.

“We all have a bridesmaid dress, ball gown, Debs dress, mother of the bride outfit or that favourite dress in the back of there wardrobe, so this is the chance to wear it once again for a excellent cause”, explained Adell.

“We hope to meet at the Gary Kelly Cancer Support Centre at 1pm on Saturday

At the launch of the Book Dundalk Urban District Council Power station by Canice O’Mahony were Cllr Mark Dearey, Cllr JIm Ryan, Cllr Marianne Butler Chairperson Dundalk Town Council, and Canice O’Mahony

Jennifer Green new chair of Dundalk Town Council

Continued from Page 1 place whereby each party takes a turn in the chair.

This year is the turn of Sinn Fein and according to councillor Harry Todd, Jennifer was the obvious choice.

“She’s only a young girl but she’s got a great head on her shoulders and she is going to be around for a long time. We need young people in politics and Jennifer will do a great job in the chair” said Harry.

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Jennifer Green

Speaking after she was voted in as chairperson, Councillor Green said it was ‘an honour and a privilege to serve the people of Dundalk as

council chairperson and said it was a role she was really looking forward to.

Outgoing chairperson Marianne Butler thanked everyone who had supported her through the year and said she was proud to have represented the people of Dundalk during her time as chair.

There many tributes paid to Cllr Butler with Cllr Martin Bellew saying she had served the town with distinction.

Community service for drugs offence A 31-year-old Dundalk man at whose address Gardai found €1,200 worth of cannabis, was sentenced to 200 hours community service.

This follows what his solicitor described as a “very positive report” on John Mulligan of 60, Chapel Street. Charges for unlawful possession of the drug and possession for the purpose of sale or supply were adjourned to Wednesday last when Judge Flan Brennan imposed community service instead of ten months jail on the defendant.

Inspector Martin Beggy told Dundalk Court in early January that Gardai found the quantity of the drug as a result of a search carried out on April 8th last year.

The defendant had a previous clear record.

Dermot Lavery solicitor, said the defendant hadn’t come under notice since the date, and was very determined nothing like this would happen again.

He bought the drugs to share with pals and got his own needs from what he did.

30th June where we will then walk around Drogheda showing off our dress as well as doing a bucket collection.

We will then get on buses and stop off in Ardee where we will walk from the church at 3pm and also do a bucket collection walking through the town”, she explained.

After a stop off at the Hillside Bar and Restaurant

the group will then be bussed to Darver Castle at 6:30pm for a champagne reception a meal and music so we can dance the night away.

Beauticians and hairdressers will be there on the night to top up make-ups and fix hair.

For information contact adellward@hotmail.com or 087 190 7014

Polio thanks

The Post Polio Support Group would like to thank the Rotary Club the Rotary Club of Dundalk and its President, Criona O’Reilly, for their kind donation to the PPSG. If you would like to know more about the Post Polio Support Group please contact Brendan Moore at 083 4036434.

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Weekly Quiz

History In what city was Checkpoint Charlie?

Transport What is the more common name for the data recorder of an aircraft?

Sport Which Jockey was nicknamed ‘The Kentucky Kid’?

Books The Grimm Brothers, famous for their fairy stories, were also noted for compiling what other types of books?

Movies Zeppo and Gummo were less well known members of what comedy act?

Food and Drink What type of biscuit is named after an Italian revolutionary leader?

Showbands Derek Dean and Billy Browne were lead sing-

ers with what outfit?

Business Which footwear company have their headquarters in the town of Street, Somerset?

Religion Which saint is most associated with the Monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise?

Local Sport What year is depicted on the crest of Clan na Gael GFC? This Week’s Stinker Which was the first team sport played at the modern Olympics?

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Building wins award

Dundalk Institute of Technology acquired the PJ Carroll property adjacent to the campus in 2002 for €16 million.

The factory itself, designed by Ronnie Tallon of Scott Tallon Walker in the late 1960’s, is a listed property of national and international significance and a major landmark building at the

southern entrance to Dundalk.

The refurbished scheme has been designed by the original architects Scott Tallon Walker and includes many innovative architectural and special purpose design features.

These include a substantial

emphasis on the use of renewable energy systems with, for example, the Institutes wind turbine being used to create ice banks at off peak times to reduce reliance on grid supplied electrical energy for air conditioning.

Conor Lait from DKIT was understandably delighted to have received word of the award.

“Obviously we were delighted to hear that our building here in DKIT has been recognised by such a prestigious organisation. We’re delighted as it demonstrates the idea that we had to refurbish the building rather than build it from scratch worked.” explained Conor.

“The concept we originally had was to recycle an old cigarette company’s building into a state of the art education facility and I think we’ve achieved that” he added.

Two men charged with causing damage to the Carroll Shopping Centre were ordered to stay way from the centre.

It was one of the conditions on which Damien Byrne and Kevin McKenna (34) were released on bail at Dundalk Court on Wednesday. They also must adhere to a night curfew and

sign on three times a week at Dundalk Garda Station.

The pair, who also must reside at Carroll Village, are charged with damage to the back door of the shopping centre on June 16 last. They also are charged with thefts on the same day at the centre of two cash registers; value €1,000 at McCabe’s

Pharmacy, a large number of medical products and tablets, including Solpadeine and Nurofen along with €110 in coins at Wise Owl. They were remanded to July 25tand an order made to present their solicitors with statements in the case. McKenna was granted legal aid.

A refurbished building in Dundalk has won a prestigious award at a major architectural awards ceremony in London this week.

At the Royal Institute of British Architects award ceremony, PJ Carroll’s factory in Dundalk was described as the rescue of “an important example of midcentury modernism and answers questions about how best and most economically we can reuse under-performing and outmoded structures, rather than building from scratch”.

P J Carrolls on the Dublin Road.

Men ordered to stay away

Witam Serdecznie Polonie w Dundalk; W Simulu nieco zmian, mam nadzieje, że na lepsze.

Nowym Prezesem Organizacji został Krzysztof Nowacki; Sekretarzem – Eugeniusz Ząbek; swoją funkcję Skarbnika niezmiennie pełni Ewa Toporek.

W imieniu Organizacji i własnym gratuluje, i życzę powodzenia.

Simul Polonia w zeszłym tygodniu gościła w szkole na Bay Estate; opowiadaliśmy dzieciom o Polsce, o naszym herbie, kolorach na fladze, zwierzakach, które tu nie występują, atrakcyjnych miastach, polskiej pogodzie i zróżnicowanym krajobrazie, o folklorze, polskiej kulturze i tradycjach, a także uczyliśmy dzieci tańczyć – młodsze Krakowiaka, starsze natomiast Poloneza.

W odpowiedzi szkoła zaprosiła nas na spotkanie z prawnikiem, który udzielał rodzicom różnych narodowości informacji, na temat świadczeń socjalnych.

Myślę, że większości z nas warunki otrzymania wszelkiego rodzaju świadczeń są znane, mimo to przygotujemy osobny artykuł temu poświęcony i umieścimy już niebawem na naszej stronie internetowej: www.dundalk.pl Z ważniejszych informacji – w Citizen Information, przy Long Walk, w każdy wtorkowy wieczór można spotkać się z prawnikiem, nieodpłatnie uzyskując poradę prawną.

W ubiegły piątek udało się nam również spotkać z Panią Marią Doyle, lokalnym politykiem reprezentującym Fine Gael. Maria wspierała nasz projket „Młody Toruń na paradzie Św. Patryka” i wyraziła gotowość współpracy z naszą organizacją i wsparcia.

Już w najbliższy piątek – ostatni piątek miesiąca – spotykamy się na Polskim Wieczorze Klubowym, tym razem na wieczór z „Misiem”. Dodatkowo, każdy posiadacz misia weźmie udział w konkursie z nagrodą niespodzianką.

Bardzo na Was liczymy i gorąco zapraszamy!

Powoli formuje się Klub Młodej Mamy. Wszelkie informacje na ten temat znajdą się na naszej stronie internetowej: www.dundalk.pl Przypominamy Rodzicom, że we wrześniu rusza w Dundalk Polska Szkoła, wszystkich chętnych i spragnionych szerszej wiedzy zapraszamy w imieniu Przedstawicieli Szkoły na dyżury informacyjne prowadzone do końca czerwca w głównym budynku VEC, przy Chapel Street, w każdy wtorek i czwartek pomiędzy 15:30 a 17:00. Można także pisać na adres email: polskaszkoladundalk@gmail. com lub skontaktować się telefonicznie: 0852269456.

Pozdrawiam, Agnieszka Boniewicz.

1. Berlin 2. Black Box 3. Steve Cauthen 4.

Dictionaries 5. The Marx Brothers 6. Garibaldi 7. The Freshman 8. Clarks Shoes 9. St Ciaran 10.

1916. Stinker – Mens’ Water Polo in 1900.

Pictures from Blackrock Raft Race and Fun Day

The group ‘Boom’ who won the

talent contest

Shibu Ittiavira, Alan Shibu and Sona Sani

Una O’Neill and Clodagh Lynch

Moran Damien, Conor, Cillian and Mary Elizabeth McKoewn and Alex McKeown

Sophie Hawe

Cathal Fee

Cafe Aqua who were third in the raft race

Ashleigh Cummins, Tara Cummins and Brian Sherry

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With many of our readers anxious about their child going into preschool we have taken the liberty of asking and answering just a few of those important questions! This feature focuses on the Government’s provision of a year’s free preschooling for every child in the country.

What is the free PreSchool Year in Early Childhood Care and Education?

The ECCE programme is designed to give children access to a free pre-school year of ap-

propriate programmebased activities in the year before they start primary school.

Participation in a preschool prog r a m m e provides children with their first formal experi-

ence of early learning, the starting-point of their educational and social development outside the home.

Children who avail of preschool are more likely to be ready

for school and a formal learning and social environment. In general, each eligible child is entitled to one free preschool year.

Certain children with special needs may avail of a pro-rata provision over two years, provided they fulfil certain conditions (please see the section ‘Children with special needs’ below.)

When will my child be eligible to par ticipate in the ECCE programme?

Childcare services participating in the programme are required to provide agea p p ro p r i a t e activities and programmes to children

within a particular age cohort, and therefore it is necessary to set minimum and maximum limits to the age range for qualifying children.

The ECCE p ro g r a m m e is open to all children aged between 3 years 3 months and 4 years 6 months on 1st September each year. To avail of the programme at any stage during the preschool year commencing in September 2012, children must have been born between 2nd February 2008 and 30th June 2009 (both dates inclusive).

How will the Pre-School Year be provided?

Children will

normally receive preschool year sessions for 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, over 38 weeks (September

to June). The weekly capitation fee for these sessions is €62.50. If you choose to enrol your child for few-

er than 5 days per week, the capitation fee payable to the provider will be reduced on a pro-rata basis.

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Over to you Question: Who was to blame for Ireland’s Euro failure?

Maurice Kerley I don’t think it’s really fair to solely blame Trapattoni. The players just aren’t there at the moment and unfortunately there’s not too many coming through.

Brian Crilly

Peter Flynn

Alan Hartigan

I don’t really think it was anybody’s fault. At the end of the day some of the players are just too old. There’s not much the manager can do in fairness.

I’d have to blame Trap for the dismal performances me of the players in the Euros. Some of the players he brought to Poland should never have been picked. What was Paul Green doing there for instance?

I’d have to point the finger at the manager. Some of his decisions during the game were very strange and his selection policy was all over the place.

Local musicians in Crowne Plaza

By Niamh Kirk Three of Dundalk’s finest musicians will take to the stage in the luxurious surroundings of the

Crowne Plaza hotel as part of Kilkerley woman Donna Bates’ fundraising efforts to reach Ghana where she will help impoverished communities during a ten day visit.

John McIntyre, Zoe Conway and Stewart Agnew will showcase their considerable talents in what promises to be one of the gigs of the year on Friday July 6.

Husband and wife duo Zoe and John have enthralled audiences all across Europe with their unique mix of Irish traditional, classical and jazz music.

Zoe who has won ‘The Irish Traditional Musician of the year’ has played as guest soloist with renowned orchestras including The Irish Chamber Orchestra, The Ulster Orchestra, The RTE Concert Orchestra, Il Gardino Armonico of Italy, and The Symphony Orchestra of Galicia in Spain.

John is a member of the well known rock band, The

Revs. He has toured worldwide with the band and has performed at international festivals including Oxygen, Slane, Reading and Rockpalast. As a result of playing with The Revs, John was voted “Best Musician of the Year” in a reader’s poll in Ireland’s Hotpress Magazine.

Alongside his ‘rock n roll’ playing, John has a strong background in Irish Traditional music and has also studied classical guitar. As a result, he is increasingly in demand for guitar masterclasses and workshops.

Stewart Agnew who recently released his acclaimed second album has been described as one of the best songwriters to come out of Ireland in recent years. His recent album ‘Hello Bright Spark’ produced the hit singles ‘Look How the Stars Turn On’ and ‘Show me where it hurts’ Tickets for this concert are available at a reduced price

“Welcome Here Again” Tour

By Niamh Kirk It’s a night of uplifting fiddle and invigorating guitar as Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill take their “Welcome Here Again” tour to the Spirit Stores stage on Thursday June 28.

The two men often begin with the simplest of melodies and builds upon it until the set has developed a palpable intensity. The venue has harvested a well earned reputation for amplifying the qualities of performing artists enveloping audiences by taking them on the journey the artist intended.

The two men met in the US in the 1980s and forged a friendship and musical camaraderie that has taken them on tours around the US and Canada, Australia, China, Japan and throughout Europe. Martin is renowned for his exceptional talent and future orientated mindset when it comes to the musical tradition as he feels that Trad music is not just an insight into our history but in its modern form can be reflection of people’s lives.

This night promises to be a celebration of Irish Music at its finest, guttural, lively, intense and refreshing.

of €15 or €12 for students.

They can be bought in 23 Seats Café, Crowe Street, Dundalk.

Sean Martin The players are getting on I’m afraid and some of them are past it. It’s time to try and get some new blood in. A lot of that team are probably finished now.

Best dressed ladies day

Get set, go for Marshes Best Dressed Lady at Dundalk Stadium Ladies Day, Thursday July 12. Marshes are once again betting on stylish race goers to pull out all the stops in the hope of winning the grand prize - a €5000 Marshes shopping spree. Register to enter online at dundalkstadium. com.

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in Brief Separated Parents Meeting

“Parents Separated Support Group” meeting dates. The next Tuesday meetings of Parents Separated Support Group will take place on: July 10 and 24.

Those wishing on attending the meetings should confirm their intentions with Val on 085 7303609.

Meetings are every second Tuesday, Cost €5 to include refreshments on arrival from 7:30 till 9pm at Social Services Building, 15a Clanbrassil Street.

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Man told to pay compensation or face spell in jail

Patrick Stokes (42) of Villa Park, Greenacres, Dundalk, was warned that he would go to jail for as long as Judge Flan Brennan could impose.

The judge agreed to adjourn to October 17 for him to come up with compensation resulting from a hit and run accident in October 2009.

He made it clear he

would jail the defendant for 12 months or longer unless he had the money and he received a positive report on the next date.

He gave the state liberty to re-enter the case in the intervening period and said if that happened the defendant could forget serving community service.

The defendant hadn’t the compensa-

tion at Dundalk Court on Wednesday last.

His solicitor Peter Lavery explained he had a number of bills from recently moving house but would be in receipt of money in the next couple of months.

He was found suitable for community service which he wished to do, and asked for a further chance to come up with the money.

Blackrock Raft Race and Fun Day

Mundow Corbett, Keith Connolly and Mark Damien Callan, John Lally, Peter

Aoife, Niamh, Sharon and Gerry McQuaid

Ryan Clarke Doran who was third in fancy dress with Mary Murtagh

Aoife and Niamh receiving their

Eve Costello and Hannah Farrelly

Cillian, Mary and Tara Moran

awards at the Fun Day

Briege Morgan, Mona Larkin and Owen Larkin

Ryan Kirk, Daniel Mullen, Rachel Mullen and Abdul Moeed

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Blackrock raft race and fun day

By Paul Byrne THE 17th annual Blackrock Raft Race attracted huge crowds to Blackrock again this year.

One of Blackrock’s most eagerly anticipated events of the summer took place on Sunday and offered a fun event for the Blackrock community.

Dundalk’s Damien Callan, John Lally, Peter Corbett and Mark Mondow took the coveted crown this year. The lads who were racing for Dundalk’s Mens Sheds Brendan Roche, PRO for Blackrock Tidy Towns, said; “We were delighted with the turnout on the day and thank-

Broken Heels taking part in the talent show

fully the weather held up for us. We had a record twenty rafts out on the water and the craic was great. We also managed to raise some money for the Tidy Towns, which was what this is all about”.

As well as the raft race there was a host of other events on the beach with activities such as a treas-

News

in Brief

Volunteers Wanted

CURA are presently seeking volunteers to train as crisis pregnancy counsellors for their out reach centre in Drogheda and their Dundalk Centre.

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ure hunt, a sand building competition, a talent show and cricket entertaining the masses.

Aoife and Niamh McQuaid fought off some tough competition as they prevailed in the sand building competition while Shauna Cumiskey O’Rourke wowed the judges in her Bertie Basset liquorice allsorts

outfit.

Seventeen acts battled it out in the much anticipated schools talent show which was hosted

by Patricia Reynolds of Reynolds academy of performing arts. Dance group ‘Boom’ lifted the prize after impressing judges with their flawless routine.

According to Brendan the success of the raft race is an indication of the community spirit which exists in the town.

“We’re a close community here in Blackrock and everybody does their bit to keep Blackrock doing well and it’s events like this which help bring the community together”, added Brendan.

Historical Society walk Annagassan and District Historical Society are holding a Coastal History Walk on Sunday July 1 at 2.30pm.

In what is the second excursion of 2012 Bryan Rogers will conduct a coastal history tour around Dunany starting from

the entrance to Dunany Estate at 2:30pm.

The walk is timed to coincide with low tide and cars can park at the side of Dunany Estate Avenue.

During the walk Bryan Rogers will outline some of the stories associated with the Draghans-

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Anniversary

In loving memory of

Mrs. Maureen Flynn, late of 16/17 Bridge Street, Dundalk who’s 5th Anniversary occurs on Sunday 1st July.

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Knockbridge student holding fundraiser for Ghana trip Knockbridge nursing student Laura Cronin will host a ‘Waxathon’ night in Jackie Murphy’s on Saturday July 7 as she continues her quest to raise enough money to travel to Ghana as a medical brigade volunteer.

Laura who has just finished her second year of a general nursing degree in DKIT must raise €1500 to get herself over to Ghana as part of the ‘Global Brigades’ charity.

Founded ten years ago in America, Global Brigades has become the world’s largest student led development organisation. The Irish section of the organisation was founded last year by a DCU student and has expanded rapidly since.

The fact that Global Brigades work so closely with the community they are helping was one of the main reasons this particular trip appealed to Laura.

“The brigade that I’m travelling with is actually the very first medical brigade travelling from Ireland. I’ve chosen this brigade as it allows me to

Laura Cronin (right) with pupils from Knockbridge NS

put the skills and knowledge that I’ve learned so far in my nursing career to practical use.”

This particular project appealed to me because all the brigades are run in partnership with the community members and are designed to allow for their sustainability once we leave” explains Laura.

However, in order to reach Ghana Laura must first raise €1500. For her main fundraising event Laura has persuaded ten brave men to take part in a “Charity Waxathon” in Jackie Murphy’s bar in Dundalk.

The night will kick off

at 8pm with live music by local musician, Sinead McNally. Throughout the night DJ Peter Carroll is going to get everybody up on the dancefloor and there will also be a raffle on the night with some fantastic spot prizes and plenty of food to nibble on.

Everybody is welcome to attend Laura’s fundraising evening.

Tickets cost €10 and are available from Dundalk FM, Jackie Murphy’s, New Faces or through Laura herself at Icron10@student.dkit.ie or 0872454567.

Anybody who cannot attend the evening and

would like to help Laura reach her target of €1500 can make a donation through her AIB bank account. Sort Code: 9324-50. Account Number: 36836216.

Realt na Mara’s Got Talent On Wednesday June 20 Scoil Réalt na Mara held their annual ‘Réalt na Mara’s Got Talent’. Over the past six weeks 200 children auditioned for the show at lunch time and a final 16 acts were chosen.

They were then divided into four different categories song, instrumental, dance and miscellaneous. A mentor was assigned to each group to help and guide the children through their preparation for the final show.

The children and staff worked incredibly hard and a great day was had by all and they look forward to uncovering even more incredible talent next year.

Sophie Carr, Hannah Dowdall and Zara Wadding

Larkin, Leah Liston, Urte Katie McNamara, Kaydy Hoey, Ellen

ck, Xenia Prits, Katie Chloe Smith, Caoimhe McCorma

beth Natasha Guest, Kerrie Rogers, Eliza

McKeown

Shields, Lauryn Smith

Adam Cole, Caolán Callan, Shane Cairns

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NEW SEAT TOLEDO

Seat have revealed some details of their brand new Toledo which will probably be launched early in 2013.

Unlike the current MPV Toledo the new model looks

more like a saloon but the new Toledo is in fact a hatchback with 500-litre capacity boot based on a lengthened Volkswagen Polo chassis.

The SEAT Toledo will feature at

launch two petrol engines and one diesel from the Volkswagen Group – the two TSI petrol units are a 1.2 litre (75ps) and 1.4 litre (122ps). A sevenspeed dual-shift gearbox (DSG) is offered in

MINI CLUBVAN

It was only a matter of time before Mini rolled out another version, meet the Clubvan.

Based on

the ‘Clubman’ - the Clubvan has blockedout rear side windows which are bodycoloured and feature interior polycarbon-

ate reinforcement.

The glass in the rear doors is tinted to ensure the load compartment is both secure and concealed from prying eyes.

MINI Clubvan has a footprint which is 3,961 mm long, 1,683 mm wide and 1,426 mm high, with a wheelbase of 2,547 mm. And is available in four exterior colours - Pepper White, Ice Blue, Brit-

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combination with the most powerful petrol variants.

The 1.6 litre TDI diesel engine produces 105ps in its Ecomotive format and emits 104 g/km worth of CO2. Later in 2013 a lower output diesel engine will join the line-up delivering 90ps.

M o r e details onpricing, specification, engine and model line-up for the new SEAT Toledo closer to its on-sale date in 2013.

ish Racing Green metallic and Midnight Black metallic. On the inside there are black seats with Cosmos fabric upholstery, a black interior colour scheme and Fine White Silver trim strips are standard. There options as with all MINI’s to customise the interior and exterior to suit.

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