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Cork City Council hosts the first Cork Bike Swap Shop on Saturday, 29th March 2008

Cork City Council will host the first Cork Bike Swap on next Saturday, 29th March 2008 at Emmet Place (near Cork Opera House), Cork city, between 2pm and 5pm.

Do you regularly find yourself stressfully hunting for parking spaces? Or do you regularly get frustrated because you’ve just missed the bus?

If so, then read on and dream of a healthier life…imagine cycling…
If you don’t have a bike or if you’ve outgrown the one languishing in your shed, then why not join the bike spring clean?

Whether you are a Sunday cyclist or a die-hard biker or you’re just eager to get-fit on a bike, you can soon avail of a unique opportunity to get a new bike.

Curious? Then, why not venture over to Emmet Place (near Cork Opera House) on next Saturday, 29th March, between 2.00pm and 5.00pm, where Cork City Council will be hosting the first Cork Bike Swap Shop.

Just bring along your old bike or the bike your kids have outgrown or simply come and see if someone else has a bike that takes your fancy.

So why not come and set free one of the most convenient and civilized conveyances known to man: the bicycle!

For more information about cycling events in Cork city please visit:
http://www.corkcity.ie/ourservices/roadstransportation/trafficdivision/cycling/

Hi all,

Our next Monthly Meeting will take place on Wednesday 2 April at 7pm in Nasc, Mary Street, Cork. We will be showing a number of short documentaries lent to us by the Latin America Solidarity Centre on the issue of water in Latin America, followed by a discussion. Water is the theme of Latin America Week 2008 which is taking place from 5 - 12 April, check out www.lasc.ie for further information.

From this month, our Monthly Meetings will take place the first Wednesday of every month at Nasc - pencil it in your diary! If you have any issues you would like raised please let us know. We will also soon begin working on our next Irish Aid funding proposal so if you have any ideas you would like explored please let us know so we can include them.

Best regards,

Ethical Development Action
www.edacork.org

Darfur rebel leader Dr Abdullahi El-Tom will visit Kinsale to speak about the ongoing conflict in Darfur.

DATE:            Friday 4th April 2008

TIME:            8.00 PM

VENUE:         The Friary Centre, Carmelite Friary, Kinsale

ADDMISSION FREE

DONATIONS TO THE PROJECT ARE WELCOME

A leading academic at the Department of Antropology at NUI Maynooth, Abdullahi El-Tom is head of training and strategic planning for the Justice and Equality Movement – JEM in Darfur. 

Dr El-Tom sits on the advisory board of Irish Aid, the Government’s overseas development division and is involved with briefing Irish Troops before their deployment to Chad as part of EUfor.

The aim of the Kinsale Peace Project is to promote peace and justice at home and overseas and to encourage Huan Rights Speakers to come to Kinsale and speak about their peace-building work in conflict areas of our world.

Light FAIRTRADE refreshments will be served on the night

For further information please visit www.kinsalepeaceproject.com

With Tom and Joanne Doorley. Lots of tips for soil preparation, choosing which vegetables to grow and ideas for tasty dishes.

Also Madeline McKeever of Brown Envelope Seeds will have seeds for sale.
Crawford Art Gallery Cafe at 7.30pm
Entrance 6 euro including tea & coffee

Due to time commitments of other projects we, at Cork Greenmap, unfortunately haven’t had much time to organise walks so far this season.

But spring is here and it’s time to get out and about. So if anyone is interested in suggesting and/or leading and/or coordinating new walks in and around the Cork area in the near future that would be much appreciated.

Please feel free to contact us with your ideas at any stage and we will do our best to facilitate any outings, thanks!

The Cork Greenmap Team

Learn more about Cork Green Walks here and download our walk leaflets.

The workshop has been open to the public on Saturdays now for over two months and there has been a steady stream of interest from people wanting to maintain their own bicycles and from people looking for second hand bicycles. We also had a very successful few days out with the bulls over St. Patricks weekend.

We are now half way though our first six week bicycle maintenance course for adults. At present we are looking for numbers to start another course. Details of the course content can been seen in the projects section of our website. It’s a great opportunity to learn as we are lucky enough to have the skills of an expert bicycle mechanic at our disposal. Please get touch by phone or email if interested. We have also recently completed our first six week bicycle maintenance workshop with young people from the Togher area and the program has been endorsed by all the youth workers involved.

Two projects coming in the next two weeks of note are Kinsale Spring Fair and the Bike Swap in Cork city which will both take place on Saturday the 29th of March. The Kinsale spring fare is a family day out with local artists, food and music in Kinsale town. Pedal powered juice will be on hand and one of our bicycle mechanics to do a Dr.Bike for the day. The Bike Swap is primarily aimed at the second hand bicycle market with a Spring Clean theme associated with it. People are welcome to bring along old or disused bikes (which are in good enough condition that they can be of use to somebody else) to swap with other bargain hunters in a fun and friendly atmosphere. We will be participating with an information stand and perhaps a few bargains to boot.

Off the topic of bicycles. We are now in the final stages of building the home made wind turbine. Photos can be seen on the website. Hopefully we will run further wind turbine courses in the near future. Get in touch if interested.