The Millbank Theatre are delighted to announce another talented music act coming to our stage. The award winning “The Breath” come to the Millbank Theatre Sunday November 10th.
The Breath is Manchester-based guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly. They met on the city’s gig circuit in the late noughties. An unlikely pairing though it was, he an acclaimed guitar whiz, ex long-time member of The Cinematic Orchestra and a softly spoken Manchester urbanite, she a folk singer with a larger-than-life personality and a powerful voice to match.
The Breath have released three albums on Peter Gabriel’s Real World label.
‘Only Stories (Let the Cards Fall Revisited)’ reimagining previous work (alongside two new songs) took the music back to its acoustic roots. This new direction would see Ríoghnach Connolly receive an RTÉ Folk Award nomination for Best Folk Singer and win Folk Singer Of The Year at the 2019 BBC R2 Folk Awards for which the duo were also nominated as Best Duo/Group.
In readiness for the spooky season, St Catherine’s National School Parents’ Association held a Halloween Costume Swap on Saturday 5th October in conjunction with Rush Tidy Towns. It was a very busy morning as many visitors to the St Catherine’s school hall brought and swapped their costumes and were entertained by games provided by Let’s Play Rush. It was great to see the circular economy in action as over 80 costumes were swapped on the day.
The next similar initiative will be the Christmas Jumper Swap in Rush Community Centre on Saturday 23rd November.
Rush Community Council will hold it’s 2024 AGM in the Community Centre at 8pm on Wednesday the 20th of November. All are welcome to attend. The AGM will hear presentations from the Community Council and it’s sub-committees Rush Tidy Towns, Rush Heritage and Tourism, the Community Development Group and the Christmas Lights Committee on the great work that they have done throughout the year.
Rush Community Council Chairperson, Brian Doherty said that the Community Council are particularly keen for people to attend who wish to volunteer to assist with the Community Council and its subgroups.
“The lifeblood of any community is its volunteers and in Rush we are truly blessed with a strong culture and history of local people donating significant time and energy to give back to the town. Whether it be the Rush Tidy Towns army, the Let’s Play Rush events, the great work that Rush 38th Scouts do, or the annual harbour festival a lot what you see around Rush in any given year is fuelled almost entirely by volunteer energy. But we need more of it, we need new volunteers for all of our local groups and for the Community Council itself in order to achieve even more in the coming years. We are particularly interested in meeting those people who are new to Rush and may wish to get involved,” he said.
If you are interested in volunteering, please come to the Community Council AGM and find out more about how to get involved.
The Rush Multipurpose Youth Facility (RMYF) held a very successful open day on the 3 of Oct at the newly refurbished Facility (Martins Shop) Millbank Rush.
The Open day was put together by the board of the RMYF and was held to promote the activities of the facility to the local community. The refurbishment of RMYF has transformed the building into vibrant welcoming space that will benefit of the youth in the surrounding area. Many of multipurpose rooms suitable for, music, drama, dancing, after school services, youth support, yoga, Mindfulness and many other activities.
We are keen to here from people and groups that would like to utilise that space, we meet everyone with an open mind and are there to help our users grow and develop their programmes. We had a very successful open event there was huge interest in the new facility, and we had many enquires.
More importantly it was great fun on the night, with refreshments, music and networking with people from the area. The Facility in already very busy with new users and enquiries. RMYF (Martins Shop) will be a great asset for the youth in our community. Its refurbishment represents a significant investment in local development and will offer high-quality spaces for various activities. The facility will offer enhanced resources and opportunities for youth and community groups alike. RMYF is proud of this vital initiative and looks forward to seeing the facility flourish as a cornerstone of community life in Rush.
We are looking for people to help with the running of the building and would love to here from anybody who would like to give of there time to support this community project. Please contact RMYF at: info@rmyf.ie or go to our website at www.rmyf.ie
The Millbank Theatre and Rush Pantomime Group are busy preparing the theatre once again this Christmas for another fun filled Panto for all the family!
Barry Kavanagh directs the production again this year with a dream team in place of Eimear Sheridan as Choreographer and Colin Sloan as Musical Director. Script by Ritchie Smith.
Rehearsals kicked off nice and early in September, (oh yes they did!!!!) with a very talented youth troop from the area who are now ready to wow audiences with a nice variety of singing, acting and dancing to entertain throughout the festive season. Please note, The oldies on stage are very talented too!!
Hilariously Funny, Colourful and Filled with Christmas Cheer, Rush audiences will be brought on a journey from The Millbank Theatre to the Kingdom Of Scandinavia.
Frozen Solid runs from December 5th -29th at the Millbank Theatre. Book online at www.millbanktheatre.ie
With Last year’s Jack and The Beanstalk proving a sell out success it is advisable to get booking as soon as possible!
Leonard Cohen would have celebrated his 90th birthday in September this year. The event was marked by a “Leonard Cohen Birthday Bash” as part of the “Meet Me At The Altar” 2024 music season at Rush Library. Curated by Pat Burke, these performances have been running since July 2022 and have become a fixture in the local calendar with shows on Saturday afternoons from July to December.
Pat conceived this latest idea having seen various Cohen tributes in Dublin and felt that there was ample local talent to stage a similar performance Leonard’s birthday was actually September 21st, but this coincided with the launch of local man Eoghan Fyne’s art exhibition at the library altar space. So, the event was a belated birthday celebration. Eoghan was there himself (a long-standing Cohen fan) and kindly offered to mount a Leonard Cohen framed poster on his (much spattered!) easel as a backdrop to the performance.
Pat kicked off the event himself, performing “Dance me to the end of love”, the opening song for many Leonard Cohen concerts in the later years. This was followed by Ed Byrne who travelled from Kildare just to perform, and he delivered “Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye” and “Who by fire” on his trademark jazz guitar. Louise Emerson gave us an unaccompanied sung version of a Cohen poem titled “Song to make me still”. Then it was back to the songs and Ciarán Saunders sang a lovely stripped-back version of the classic “Hallelujah”.
The O’Donovan clan were there in force; Ritch performed “First we take Manhattan” and brothers Robbie and James gave us “Take this waltz”. In between, we had a tender version of “If it be your will” by Seán De Burca and Laura Bissett. On then to Adrian Leonard, who gave us a brace of songs; “Famous blue raincoat” and “Bird on a wire”. Finally, Tess Doherty ably backed by dad Brian on 12-string guitar, sang a Boygenius cover called “Leonard Cohen”, a quirky and delightful song that only goes to prove Leonard’s enduring popularity and influence on contemporary music. The show came to a rousing end with “So long Marianne” with everyone back on stage and the audience joining in for the chorus.
Meet Me At The Altar is delighted to announce that Chien Buggle will be performing solo in the library on Saturday 30th November, at 3pm. Chien is a member of the Dublin Guitar Quartet, a group formed in 2001 and which specialises in the performance of contemporary classical music, particularly music associated with minimalist composers.
There were almost 70 competitors taking part at Malahide Yacht Club’s Annual Dinghy Regatta on Sunday 13th October.
The competitors were warmly welcomed by Commodore Margaret Fay and hot drinks and scones were provided to keep all warm in the autumn chill whilst they waited for the off. The forecast for Sunday had predicted little to no wind in the early morning but to build to a reasonable breeze between 12am and 1pm.
Just before 2pm the first race of the main fleet got underway in about 8 knots of breeze, followed by a second just before 3pm. The Optimist Regatta fleet remarkably managed to get four races completed.
The big showing of talented Optimist sailors from Sutton Dinghy Club was rewarded by bringing home five of the six prizes in the main and regatta Optimist fleets. They were however denied first place in the main fleet by local sailor, Charlie Noone. Siun Barry from Sutton scooped wins in all four races in the regatta fleet – undoubted another sailor to watch for the future.
In the Toppers, Amy Shelly from the National was equally dominant, winning both races. Malahide members Paidi A’Coistlealbha and Alex Butcher did very well with second and fifth places. While a seasoned Optimist sailor, it was only Alex’s second day and first competition in a Topper.
Howth’s Harry Dunne narrowly edged out Malahide’s Sasha Bezpalyi and Glenda Gallagher, who had each won a race, to take first place in the ILCA 6 Class. Sasha finished second and Glenda third. Malahide’s Siun Ni Choistealbha took to an ILCA 6 for the first time at the event and narrowly missed out on third place having matched Glenda in points.
In the ILCA 7 Class Malahide’s Tim Noone equalled his son Charlie’s success in Optimists by also taking first place. Malahide’s James Anglim and Andrejs Samoilovs came second and third respectively.
The event also facilitated the Kona Nationals. Royal St. George’s Robbie Walker took home the silverware for a second year while Malahide’s Cormac O’Brien and Joe Galeckas were second and third respectively.
Story courtesy of Afloat.ie & Malahide Yacht Club
Malahide Locals are reminded to save the date for the opening day of this year’s Christmas Market that takes place on Saturday 30th November from 10.30am - 2.30pm at St Andrew’s Parish Centre, Church Road, Malahide.
This year’s stalls will include Cakes&Deli, Toys, Bric-A-Brac, Santas Grotto, various gift stalls and book stalls.
Don’t’ forget to take in some refreshment at the Market Café and enjoy the entertainment provided by the Christmas Choir!
Malahide Lions Club’s major art exhibition and sale in the Tennis Club on 18th & 19th October saw a celebration of Malahide’s most celebrated artist, Nathaniel Hone.
Nathaniel Hone the Younger was born on October 26, 1831 and died 107 years ago on October 14, 1917. He was a prolific Irish painter who began his career as a railway engineer but gave this up to study art in Paris.
Most of his later paintings are landscapes, very often enlivened with animals and occasionally with figures. In France he was influenced by the painter Gustav Courbet. His closest painting tips were, however, from another French impressionist, Camille Corot. Hone became a close friend of one of Corot’s followers at the Barbizon School of landscape painting. At Barbizon he learned to appreciate colour, texture and tone in the landscape and apply it in strong and confident brushworks to the painting of Irish subjects on his return.
On the coast road to Portmarnock, close by the entrance to Seapark estate, stands Muldowney House, which was once the Hone’s home. In 1872, he married Magdalen Jameson of the Jameson distilling family. After a short sojourn in Seafield House at Kilcrea on the northern shore of Malahide estuary, they moved to Muldowney House. They lived here until 1895 when they moved to St. Doulagh’s Park following the death of his Aunt Dorothea at her home there. Thereafter, Hone’s brother-in-law, the Rev. William Reid, resided in Muldowney House until his death in 1912.
Hone became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1880 and accepted an R.H.A. professorship in 1894. While at Muldowney House, he spent his time painting, sketching, sailing, yacht racing and golfing. The changing light and seascapes of Malahide attracted him. He had a studio and gallery at Muldowney and painted one of his best-known works, ‘Malahide Sands’ from his window, which still overlooks the beach. When Nathaniel died in 1917, his wife bequeathed the greatest part of his collection to the National Gallery of Ireland.
Hone, his brother-in-law Reid and Richard Wogan, 5th Baron Talbot founded Malahide Golf Club on the foreshore and land around the house in 1892.
Junsa Taekwondo recently took part in the prestigious Korean Ambassadors Cup held in Baldoyle Dublin. This tournament is run by our national governing body, Taekwondo Ireland in conjunction with the Korean embassy here in Ireland. It was a fantastic event which catered for both disciplines of Taekwondo and included countries such as the UK, Denmark, Albania and all of Ireland.
Junsa’s players, Darragh (Gold), Ethan (Bronze) and Conor took part and showed excellent results. Conor’s matches along with other fighters had to be postponed to another weekend due to technical difficulties, so hopefully one more medal to come.
