Christmas Greetings from Seamus Forde Chairman Muintir na Tire

Message from Mr. Seamus Forde Chairman of Cork County Federation Muintir na Tire to Community Councils, Community Alert Groups, Elderly groups, Tidy Towns Groups and Community sector partners this Christmas

Firstly, our thoughts are with all of those who have lost loved ones during these unprecedented times. You are in our thoughts and prayers.

We urge you and your families to continue to take care and keep safe and healthy.

It is important that we all  follow the official advice to protect ourselves and those around us. 

To all our health professionals and key workers, we thank you. You are all heroes. Cork County Federation Muintir na Tire stands with you and salutes you all. 

Here is the latest update from Cork County Federation Muintir na Tire

General

We urge our members to continue, as you have always done, to look after the older and vulnerable people in your community. We know that Muintir na Tire people in Community Councils and Community Alert have always been to the fore in doing this. 

We are still taking this Covid -19 Pandemic very seriously and nearly all our meetings have been cancelled. The members and Officers of the board continue to keep in contact via telephone and using online conferencing. We continue to work tirelessly behind the scenes with our partners and members to ease the burden on the most vulnerable in our communities.

Our Office in Sydney Place is open with strict social distancing in place and some of our key staff are also working from home when they can.

We will continue to send out our weekly e newsletter to over 400 groups and individuals working in the community sector and media. We have full access to email and can be contacted at admin@muintircork.com

Community Development

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Our Community Development Officer Mr. Denis Kelly is available to give guidance and support to community groups. Denis can be contacted by phone at 0872034876 or by email at deniskelly@muintircork.com

 Community Care

Our community Care Health Information Seminars are currently postponed at this time and any return to action will only when medical guidance allows

Cork School Gardens Project

We are sad to announce that due to current government guidelines the Cork School Garden Competition was cancelled for 2020/ 21. We will be back bigger and better next year

Pride in our Community Competition

A final decision this year’s Pride in our Community was made during the year and we were delighted to be able run the competition during 2021. We are very confident that the competition will run again in 2022. We fully agree with the principle that any return to action will only be in line with Government Guidance. 

Cultural Companions

Cultural Companions is, like everything else, scaled back at the moment. Our launch was held in 2021 but had to be held online. However, we are keeping in touch with our members by email and telephone. I believe that telephoning some of our members has been very much appreciated by them and we have great chats at what is a very difficult and lonely time for some. We are compiling a list of links to various online cultural resources (most arts and cultural establishments have gone online) which we will share with our members that are active online and we will update it as we source new links. For those that are not online we will keep up contact with them and assure them that we are still here and will be even more eager to make Cultural Companions work for them after all this awfulness is over. Unfortunately, there will be even greater need for it on the other side of this. 

Barbara Quinn our Cultural Companions Coordinator can be contacted on 0851300335 or by email at culture@muintircork.com

All updates will appear on WWW.muintircork.com and across our social media. 

If you have any queries, please continue to contact us in the usual ways: 

Finally this Christmas Season Cork County Federation Muintir na Tire would like to thank everyone for their support and commitment to their communities during a very year. 

We wish everyone a peaceful and happy Christmas and a prosperous and successful New Year. We wish you all success in 2022.


Seamus Forde
Chairperson