CHURCH NOTICE
Please take Note:
Mass Change as follows
Saturday 8th. July at 5pm.
ATHEA FISHING CLUB
A competition will be held this Friday evening, 7th July, from 6pm to 9pm for the MOSS FITZGERALD CUP.
Sign on in BATT’S BAR from 6pm.
Meet back in BATT’S BAR for weigh in & a few tasty morsels of food.
We thank PROPRIETOR HELEN for her kind help & hospitality.
FISHING BY PERMIT ONLY.
The same can be purchased in COLLINS’ SHOP.
Happy Fishing to all competitors. TIGHT LINES.
Camino Challenge 2023
I have signed up to take part in the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Camino Challenge 2023. Along with 30 others from Ireland, we will take on a challenging 114km walk over five days along the First Stage of French Camino – crossing the challenging Pyrenees in September. Each participant funds their own expenses, with a target set for fundraising €1,200, which will go directly towards furthering the work of the Irish Hospice Foundation, striving for best care at end of life for all. This charity rely on voluntary fundraising to support and maintain this work.
I would be most grateful for any support you could give by way of donation by contacting me on 0879042477.
Tugaim buíochas leat roimh ré as do chabhair.
Damien
The Way I See It
By Domhnall de Barra
The airwaves, over the past week or so, have been dominated by the RTE failure to disclose payments made to presenter Ryan Tubridy. There is no need for me to go into the ins and outs of the case because they have been well aired but there are a few observations I would like to make. I am surprised at the vilification of Mr. Tubridy who has done no wrong. Yes, there is a lot of begrudgery and he was paid far too much but which one of us would turn down a good salary if it was on offer? His agent, doing his job, negotiated the finances with the powers that be in RTE and got the best deal he could for his client. That is how business works and, though we may not like it, he has nothing to feel guilty about. It was not his business to correct the figures that RTE supplied and he had no hand or part in organising the “slush fund” from which it was paid. He will however pay the price and it is difficult to see him presenting a programme on RTE again. The problem lies with the treatment of certain employees in RTE as individual contractors who use agents to negotiate their wages. This did not start with Ryan Tubridy and has been going on since the days of Gay Byrne. Agents will give ultimatums to the station that, if they are not prepared to pay exorbitant wages, they will take their clients to other stations who are willing to pay what is asked. RTE has caved in to theses demands and in doing so have paid well over the odds for the services of what they refer to as the “top talent”. This might not be so bad if they were not treating other members of staff in a miserly way, telling them there was no money for any increases and using every excuse to cut costs. RTE 1 is a great radio station. It has been acclaimed internationally and only recently was voted the best public service broadcaster. This is not down to the “top talent” but to the many reporters, producers, actors, continuity announcers and all the loyal staff who give us such great service day by day. They are the ones that have been let down by their bosses and unfortunately will take the brunt of the fallout from this debacle. There will have to be a complete clean out at the top if the station is to survive and a change of culture which will see an end of a two tier employment system that makes some people more equal than others. There should also be a cap on wages. If some presenters feel they can do better elsewhere, let them go. There is plenty of real talent to fall back on and they will not let us down. In the meantime we wait for the result of an enquiry that will, hopefully, hold certain individuals to account for the way the distorted the truth and sought to treat us and the government as fools. Make no mistake about it, heads will have to roll if we are ever again to have any confidence in those who govern RTE.
The shooting dead of a young man in France at a police checkpoint has resulted in night after night of serious protests. On the face of it, it looks like a policeman got trigger happy and unnecessarily took the life of the teenager as he sought to drive away. It was inevitable that people were going to protest and rightly so. The problem is that there are people with a different agenda who attach themselves to protests like this, not for the support of those protesting, but to take the advantage to loot, burn and pillage. Shop windows are broken, cars set on fire and police are attacked by youths throwing stones and any other weapons they can get their hands on. The right to protest is a good thing and is part of our democratic system but these thugs who just want to cause mayhem and destruction are in danger of forcing governments to ban protests altogether. Most of the people protesting in France are teenagers and are part of a generation who have grown up not knowing what the word “no” meant. Corporal punishment is long gone and, let’s face it, it was overdone in the past, but if you grow up with no limits as to what you can do, how are you expected to react when life hits you between the eyes?. There was nothing wrong with a slap on the bum to make kids realise that there are consequences to their actions. The world is not a nice cosy place and, as you get older, will present problems that we all need to be equipped for. I am not advocating a return to the type of punishment that we grew up with but I do believe that we all need boundaries which should be respected and we have to find a way to educate our young people with that in mind. My sympathy is with the shop owners, car owners and all the others who find themselves targets of looting burning and pillaging gangs who are nothing less than common criminals.
St. Bartholomew’s Church Athea
Ide Naofa Pastoral Area ( Athea-Abbeyfeale-Mountcollins-Templeglantine-Tournafulla)
Fr. Willie Russell 087 2272825, Canon Tony Mullins 087 2600414, Fr. Denis Mullane 087 2621911 and Fr. Dan Lane 087 2533030 (retired)
Priest on call Sunday 2nd July: Rev. M. Noonan 087 6796217
Sunday 9th July: Rev. D. Mullane 087 2621911
Sunday 16th July: Rev. D. Casey 087 2272791
Sunday 23rd July: Rev. J. Mockler 087 2342242
Sunday 30th July: Rev. F. Duhig 087 6380299
Baptisms on 4th Saturday of the month at 2.30 pm – next date; Sat. July 22nd.
Next Baptism course on Tues July 11th at 8pm, contact Theresa for further details on 087 1513565.
Parish Administration: Mon – Fri 11am – 1pm. Call Siobhán on 087 3331459 or email [email protected]
July Intentions
Fri 7th July @ 7pm Connie O’Sullivan (Month’s Mind) and his wife Margaret (Anniversary)
Sat 8th July @ 5pm Patrick Cotter (1st Anniversary) and all deceased members of the Cotter family.
Patsy O’Sullivan, (Anniversary) and his wife Josie (Tooreendonnell)
Bridie & Jack Stackpoole and Mary B.B. Sheahan (Lower Athea)
Sat 15th July @ 7.30pm Mary & Jimmy Dee, Nora Mulvihill and her husband Tom (Toureendonnell) Margaret & Maurice Danaher (Templeathea).
Fri 21st July @ 7pm Patsy Brosnan (1st anniversary) Knocknagorna.
Sat 22nd July @ 7.30pm Margaret Broderick, Johnny Sheehy (Late of Knocknagorna), Thomas & Kit Woulfe
Danny Mulvihill, Nancy Langan (2nd Anniversary), Patsy Collins.
Fri 28th July @ 7pm Paudie Mullane (1st Anniversary) Knocknagorna.
Sat 29th July @ 7.30pm Michael Kiely and deceased members of the Crowley family (Knockfinisk)
Bridie & Eamonn Riordan (Upper Dirreen).
Graveyard Masses: Holy Cross Graveyard Mass on Wed July 12th. at 7.30pm
Templeathea Graveyard Mass on Wed July 26th at 7.30pm.