Muintir na Tíre AGM

Nest Thursday, May 31st, sees Muintir na Tíre host its AGM in Murroe, Co. Limerick. Askamore Community Council and Askamore Community Alert are both under the auspices of this national body, and it is hoped that a number of people locally will travel for this AGM.

There is a very good line-up of speakers and topics:

Repossession of Family Homes by Ross Maguire of New Beginning

Suicide on the increase: Dan Neville TD

Rural Homes under seige from increased burglaries: Asst. Garda Commissioner

Funding for Rural Communities: Carmel Fox

John Lonergan will give the keynote address.

If you would like to attend the AGM, there is a bus being organised which will leave locally next Thursday for Limerick at approx. noon. Cost €10, refreshments will be provided at AGM.

If you would like to travel please give your name to Lorraine on 086 418 3357  as soon as possible, but before next Monday evening.

What locals like about Askamore

As a result of the recent survey undertaken locally by Askamore Muintir na Tíre Community Council Limited (our new official title!) this is a graphic representation of the responses made by locals about Askamore. The bigger the font, the more frequent the comment.

5-year plan – have a look

Huge thanks are due to Dr. Yvonne Byrne, Rural Development Consultant, who helped us in countless ways to put this together.

5-year plan available to download here

Askamore 5-year plan launch

5-year Plan Launch

Askamore’s 5-year plan is being made public tonight – 8pm in the Activity Centre. Come along to hear the results of the recent survey, and how those results are to become reality in the local area. Also visiting us tonight is John Hogan, the national president of Muintir na Tíre, under whose auspices the local Community Council is set up. This is his first visit locally.

Following tonight’s launch of the plan, the document will be available online.

We hope to see you at the launch tonight – please come, and bring family and friends for this exciting event in Askamore’s history.

Community Council 5-year plan – final consultation

The outline of the proposed 5-year plan was made available to the public in the Old School House over the last 2 days, to allow locals to make any further suggestions on the plan.

The completed plan will be presented to the public next Friday, May 11th at 8pm in the Activity Centre, Askamore. All are welcome.

5-Year Plan Launch Invitation

Community Council 5-year Plan – public consultation

Prior to the official launch of the new 5-year plan, locals are being asked to have a final say about the ideas as proposed in the recent survey, and see if there are any further ideas they would like to add.
With this in mind, there will be a presentation of the main points of the plan in the School House Bar after both masses on Saturday and Sunday, May 5th and 6th, for an hour. There will also be a suggestion box for any ideas, and members of the council will be there to answer any questions.
The launch of the plan is to take place in the Activity Centre on Friday, May 11th, and all are invited to attend.

County Wexford Community Forum AGM

This recent event in the Riverside Park Hotel, Enniscorthy, gave the newly incorporated Askamore Muintir Na Tíre Community Council Ltd. an opportunity to showcase our recent local developments. A number of organisations  from around the county as well as ourselves had stands at the AGM.

Jim Gilbert and Lorraine Morris, our newly appointed Development Assistant, manning the Askamore Stand at the Forum AGM

More information on County Wexford Community Forum and its work here.

Askamore Community Texting

Askamore Community Council and Askamore Community Alert have worked together to set up and run this local initiative to try to cut down break-ins and thefts locally.

Over 270 people have signed up their mobile phones, and once a report of suspicious activity locally is verified, each of those 270 people receive a text alerting them to the activity / car etc. A number of Guards in Bunclody and Gorey stations also receive the texts.

This scheme has proved successful in the Rathnure / White Mountain area, and other areas outside Co. Wexford, and robberies have decreased wherever they are in place.

The newly-erected signs, placed at the entrance to the half-parish area, alert everyone, those welcome and those unwelcome, that they are entering an area where people are alert to what’s going on in the area.

Anyone who would like to join may do so by contacting Mary Kenny on 0861541948 or Mary Donohoe on 0861633341. The cost to join is €5.

The area covered is roughly the half parish of Askamore and the immediate surrounding areas.