Festival will benefit day care centre
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NEXT year's Pan Celtic Festival in Dingle will help support the Gairdín Mhuire day care centre on Green Street.
The local Pan Celtic festival committee is currently running a raffle for a Volkswagon Polo to raise funds for the festival. However, in light of a lack of funding for vital services at Gairdín Mhuire, the festival committee has decided to donate €5 from each raffle ticket to the day care centre.
Announcing the decision, committee chairman TP Ó Conchúir said that due to a lack of funding this year Gairdín Mhuire was going to be left severely short of funds and, like the local Pan Celtic committee, would have to try to come up with other ways of raising the money.
"We have been selling tickets for the past few months but we see this as the perfect opportunity to help the local community in their efforts also. This initiative could yield Gairdín Mhuire around €25,000 which will go towards providing necessary services which are in danger of being axed as a direct result of lack of funding," he told The Kerryman.
Speaking on behalf of the clients at Gairdín Mhuire this week Nurse Coordinator Maria O'Brien said the centre would benefit hugely from the donation and she hopes that local people and the community of Corca Dhuibhne will give their support to both the centre and the festival.
Tickets for the car draw are currently available from Gairdín Mhuire and An Díseart and will be available in various outlets on the peninsula in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, the festival committee has partnered with Irish Welcome Tours to cater for the accommodation and transportation requirements of all overseas and domestic market visitors during the course of the festival which will be held in West Kerry from April 6 to 11, 2010. This will enable the festival committee to optimise the spend on the Dingle Peninsula and ensure festival visitors have every opportunity to stay locally.
Interested parties who wish to be included on the accommodation and transportation database should contact Alison Groves, Contracting Director, by email on alison. groves@ irishwelcometours. co m or by telephone on 066 9150626 / 086 8120851. It will be essential that very keen off-season rates are discussed and agreed with her to encourage bookings.
The accommodation webpage, which is due to go live in mid November and whose link will be available on the main Pan Celtic website, will be managed by Irish Welcome Tours. The idea is that all available accommodation would be contracted to the event and put up live on a link on the Pan Celtic website, thereby ensuring that up to date availability on the Peninsula is shown at all times.
All types of accommodation will be considered. Further information is available from Susan Ní Churnáin, 066-9150100.
