The trend of having a commercial for your business seems to be growing in Dundalk.
Earlier this week Auto Assure Ltd released theirs but first up to record an advert with Global FilmMakers were McGeough’s Bar and Restaurant in Roden Place.
Check it out above.
Oliver Hanratty
Dundalk-based Special Olympics athlete Oliver Hanratty has secured a bronze medal in the Bocce team event at the Special Olympics Euro Games in Antwerp.
Oliver, a member of the St Therese’s club from the Redeemer Family Resource Centre, is well known in the area as an amateur DJ and for his work in McGeough’s in Roden Place.
Also on the Irish team, who were in action yesterday, were Thomas Comer, Darren McClatchey and Kris Gilroy.
Well done Oliver!
UPDATE: Oliver also secured a silver in the doubles competition at the event.
A fundraising table quiz in aid of the Marist Missions in Ranong, Thailand, will take place this Friday at McGeough’s Pub, Roden Place, at 8.30pm.
The event is being organised by St Mary’s College student Shane De Rís, who plays to travel to Ranong in June after his Leaving Cert to teach English.
Admission is €5 per person and there will be a raffle on the night.
Further details can be found on www.maristthailand.org
The Dundalk Photographic Society resumes tonight after their summer break and for those not in the know, they are in a new premises.
The group will now meet above McGeough’s Bar in Roden Place, in the offices once occupied by Dundalk Town Council while the Town Hall was being renovated a number of years back.
There’s even a shiny new plaque letting people know they are there.
Tonight’s meeting gets underway at 8pm.
Ultra-runner Tom McGrath
Ultra-runner Tom McGrath will be coming through Dundalk on Tuesday as part of a 300km charity run for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin.
Tom’s run will be started by Senator Eamon Coghlan at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin on Monday morning, and from there he will run to Navan and then on to Dundalk before he moves on to Carrickmacross and various other towns around the country.
Tom is expected to be arriving in Market Square around 5.30pm and he will be carrying the Olympic Torch from last year’s Olympic Games in London.
To help Tom raise additional funds later that evening a bring a bag/buy a bag charity event will be held in McGeough’s Bar in Roden Place.
Ladies are asked to donate their favourite handbags to be sold on for sums ranging from €5 to €25.
Anyone who cannot attend can also leave their bags in to the Tourist Office at the Market Square before Tuesday.
McGrath, originally from Fermanagh, but a US resident since the early 70s, made it into the Guinness Book of Records in August 1977 when he ran 3,046 miles unsupported across the continent, from New York to San Francisco, in 53 days and seven minutes.
He averaged a phenomenal 57 miles a day – five miles more than two marathons – and held the trans-continental record for three years.
In 1983 he came home to Ireland and ran 630 miles around the island in a week, while for three consecutive years in the early 90s, ran a 1,000-mile solo run each year for paediatric cancer charities in the US, each run taking an average of 15 days.
Asked why he was taking on this challenge, Tom replied: “When I finish these daily runs my body is weak, my muscles are sore, and I am really tired but I know after some rest I can do this again tomorrow. Some of these sick children will never be able to walk again, never mind run, so that’s what drives me to take on this challenge to make a difference for sick children.”
“For over a year now the hospital have been putting a huge effort into raising funds. They are nearly there with a total of €6m raised but they still need to raise a further €2m, and I wanted to play my part in that,” he concluded.
Talk of the Town 