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Irish Independent
2 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Juvenile Cork angler and teammates come fourth in major US fly-fishing competition
A juvenile member of Kanturk and District Trout Anglers Association is part of an Irish team that finished fourth in a world-renowned fly-fishing competition.
Irish Independent
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Young Cork angler to represent Ireland in world-class fishing competition in United States
Cian Hayes, a Dubliner who has fished with the Kanturk club for five years, will compete at the 22nd FIPS-Mouche World Youth Fly Fishing Championship next week. The competition will take place in Idaho Falls from July 12 -19. The championship venue, located near the famous Yellowstone Park, is known for its beauty and excellent fishing. Ireland is one of several countries set to compete at the event. Cian told The Corkman he is excited to compete at the championships, which will mark the second time he has represented his country. He said that preparing for a competition on the other side of the Atlantic is difficult as US rivers are totally different. 'It is not easy to prepare for the States because in the summer their rivers are in flood, which is the total opposite of Ireland,' Cian explained. 'There could be rivers that a flowing down miles per hour because it is fed by a glacier, and in the summer the ice melts and the flows through the river making the water level high, while rivers tend to be lower in Ireland,' he said. Thankfully, the Irish team will have four days of practice to acclimatise to the rivers. Cian earned his spot in the six-man team by qualifying through the Munster youth fly fishing competition for Kanturk. He then finished in the top three places in the river category of the All-Ireland competition. Team Ireland is made up of Cian, Henry Suiter from Magherafelt, Adam Adcock from Tipperary, Zack Barnett from Donegal as well as classmates Jacob Griffin and Lewis Harte Porter. Kanturk & District Trout Anglers are massive supporters of Cian, and they held a fundraiser in Killarney last month in support of the youngster's trip across the Atlantic. Cian received a cheque with the proceeds of the fundraiser during a presentation. 'I would like to thank the Kanturk & District Trout Anglers, Trout Anglers Federation of Ireland (TAFI), and TAFI Munster as well,' he said. Youth Officer at Kanturk & District Trout Anglers, Declan O'Sullivan, told The Corkman that the club is very proud of Cian. 'On behalf of the club I would like to wish Cian the best of luck in America, and we are so proud of what he's achieved so far,' Mr O'Sullivan said.
Irish Times
03-07-2025
- Irish Times
Body found in Co Cork as gardaí appeal for information
Gardaí have appealed for witnesses after a body was discovered at Ballymaquirk, Mallow, Co Cork on Saturday evening. The witness appeal is seeking information in relation to a male walking on the road between Banteer and Kanturk, Co Cork, on the evening of Friday, June 13th between the hours of 3.30pm and 9.00pm. Road users who were travelling in the vicinity at the time who may have camera footage including dash cam are asked to make this available as investigations are ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Kanturk Garda station on (029) 20680 or Mallow Garda Station on (022) 31450, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda Station.
Irish Independent
03-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Kanturk stave off Cullen in epic Duhallow Junior B football league decider
Kanturk 3-16 Cullen 2-14 (after extra-time) KANTURK held their nerve to overcome Cullen after extra time in a pulsating Nevin Cup Junior B Football League 1 Final at Millstreet on Sunday. At the end of 80 minutes plus, Kanturk prevailed in a massively entertaining contest and with the lead changing hands, it made for a terrific spectacle in the presence of a large attendance. All through Cullen were game and committed but a more balanced Kanturk availed of a productive return from their bench and utilised a numerical advantage in extra time to sway the outcome. The experienced Grantas Bucinskas gave Kanturk a head start with points from play and a free only for Cullen to reply from John Hickey and Colin Moynihan points. Kanturk held the upperhand for a spell, Dylan O'Connor, Christopher Mullane, Eoin Geaney, Bryan Healy and Bucinskas to the fore. And substitute Stephen Sheehan was quick to make an impression, his introduction yielded a goal. Cullen recovered from a shaky spell, right back in the hunt, Donncha O'Leary dribbled the ball right through the Kanturk defence for a peach of a goal to force parity, 1-4 apiece at the interval. On the restart, Kanturk took up the running, a second Sheehan goal helped push his side five points clear. Credit Cullen for responding positively to the challenge, driven on by Dermot Hickey, Daniel Murphy, Seamus Moynihan and Finn O'Dwyer. Upfront, O'Leary caught fire, a goal levelled the game before the Cullen talisman delivered a two pointer to grab a lead approaching the end of the hour. Kanturk reacted and in a last throw of the dice, Bucinskas showed composure to convert a free from outside the arc for parity at 2-11 to each side. Cullen lost Brian O'Connell and though down to 14 players, a two pointer from Daniel Murphy offered the perfect start to extra time. Kanturk responded swiftly and a Healy goal secured a 3-13 to 2-13 advantage. Into the second period, substitutes Ronan Cashman and Matthew Hootan added to the Kanturk tally. Though Kanturk 'keeper Jordan Fullerton picked up a second yellow card, Cullen's best efforts were repelled. KANTURK: J Fullerton; N Forde, D O'Connor, P Leahy; C Mullane, L Cashman, J Moylan; A Geaney, E Geaney 0-1; D Cronin, G Bucinskas 0-8, C Breen; D Quirke, B Healy 1-1, G Kenehen. Subs. S Sheehan 2-1, E O'Keeffe 0-3, O Daly, R Harrington, L Cashman 0-1, M Hootan 0-1. CULLEN: L Mullane, J Twomey, D Hickey, C O'Connor; D Morley, Daniel Murphy 0-2, J Hickey 0-1, F O'Dwyer 0-2, C Moynihan 0-1; L Hickey, D O'Riordan, B O'Connell; D O'Leary 2-7, M Twomey, David Murphy. Subs. C O'Riordan, C Drummond, S Moynihan, K Duggan 0-1.
Irish Examiner
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
'There's great satisfaction in hearing your own tunes played': Jackie Daly turns 80
Jackie Daly, accordion legend, composer, Gradam Ceoil recipient, and renowned joke-teller, may already have the honour of putting the Lucrative into Sliabh Luachra, if only as one of his vast collection of puns. But as the Kanturk native celebrates his 80th birthday this weekend, now ranked among his proudest achievements is the title of the Man who put the Planxty into the Sliabh Luachra tradition. Steeped in the music of the Cork-Kerry border, whose tunes he first learned from fiddle master Pádraig O'Keeffe's past pupil Jim O'Keeffe, Daly has long made his own mark on the area's tradition as one of the finest purveyors of its polkas and slides, airs, reels, hornpipes, and jigs. In a career playing and recording with Dé Danann, Buttons & Bows, Arcady, and Patrick Street, and with duet partners including Séamus Creagh, Kevin Burke, Máire O'Keeffe, and Matt Cranitch, Daly's broader musical credentials on both accordion and concertina are impeccable. When public performances were curtailed during covid lockdown, his talents as a composer flourished and a trickle of new tunes became a torrent, culminating in the 2022 publication of The Jackie Daly Collection of 227 original works. Between the jigs and the reels are four planxties, reflective of the Irish harp melodies associated with Turlough O'Carolan, described by Daly as 'a little bit classical'. 'They never seemed to be part of the Sliabh Luachra tradition, so in my collection there's four of them and one of them is getting popular now – it's called Planxty Luachra,' he says. Among his musical accomplishments thus far, he adds: 'At the moment the one I'm most proud of is the planxty because it wasn't done before.' Considering the possibility that in another 80 years academics might pontificate on the origins of this Sliabh Luachra 'planxty tradition', he quips: 'I don't know if they will or not. We'll harp on that later. 'But I love the slides and polkas. There's three [self-composed] polkas - The Cat on the Half-Door, Pauline's Panache, and Joe Burke's – that have got popular now and a lot of people are playing them together. There's great satisfaction in hearing your own tunes played.' Beyond his new compositions, Daly has been helping to shape traditional music for decades through his arrangements, ornamentation, and reinterpretations of existing tunes, many becoming so well known that they are now themselves the standards. 'I should bring out another collection,' he says. 'There's lots of tunes that are not in the book because of the fact that I put extra parts to established tunes. They've become popularised as well, so in the future maybe I'll do something about that.' Already mulling the title of such a volume, he tells a tale of how a Sligo-Leitrim version of the tune The Bucks of Oranmore once earned the disapproval of musician John Kelly. 'Connie Connell was playing it in Dublin and John Kelly said to me 'what's that?'. He said 'Jackie, The Bucks should not be interfered with.' So I'm thinking of calling my book 'Jackie Daly and the ones he interfered with'.' All joking aside, in interpretations of tunes Daly respects the tradition and if he adds anything to the tune it's always in context, according to his long-time collaborator, fiddle player Matt Cranitch. 'On the recording that he did with Dé Danann on The Mist Covered Mountain, the set of reels The Cameronian and The Doon - and The Doon is a well-known Sliabh Luachra tune - every single note on that is a workshop in musical integrity,' says Cranitch. 'When an ornament is put in, they have incredible effect and meaning and this kind of thing doesn't happen by accident. It happens from his lifetime of music and the genius of the man himself.' Daly's lifetime in music is a world tour of festivals, concerts, and sessions from America to Japan, from Kanturk to his current home in Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, and of friendships and acquaintances, famous names, and fond memories. In four 'fantastic' years from 1978 with Dé Danann 'we played a lot in America and bluegrass festivals where they'd never heard Irish traditional music before and it went down a bomb,' he recalls. He went on to perform at 'a big festival in Milwaukee, one in Chicago, in Boston, lots of them, and the Catskills I did 13 years on the trot. I've even done a few tours of Japan.' Of all his collaborations, however, Daly acknowledges accordion-fiddle duets are his 'favourite kind of music' as the instruments 'go so well together'. Influential in popularising C#D, rather than B/C accordion tuning, he says: 'I was the first person to start tuning my box 'dry', as they call it; not using an awful lot of tremolo on it, so it fits in better with the fiddle - and some people even find it hard to differentiate between the fiddle and the box with that kind of tuning.' Eavesdropper, his 1981 duet album with Kevin Burke, earned great critical acclaim and his eponymous 1977 album with Séamus Creagh is for many people one of the seminal recordings of Sliabh Luachra music. Though a native of Westmeath and a former showband electric guitarist, he and Daly were both into the same things – 'music and music and music' – and Creagh fell in love with the Sliabh Luachra style. Séamus Creagh and Jackie Daly provided one of the seminal recordings of Sliabh Luachra music. Picture: Domhnall Ó Mairtín Daly, a fitter by trade, had joined the Dutch merchant navy at 18. 'I was also in Denmark in the late '60s and unfortunately I had a bad experience,' he says. 'I met my wife in Denmark when I was doing a training course and we got married but she passed away a year after. And that's when I packed up my work as a fitter and sold my house in Little Island. 'I started busking on the street and shortly after that I met Séamus Creagh and we took off together, which was great.' Regular fixtures together at The Gables and The Phoenix in Cork, Daly also recalls other gigs in far-flung corners. 'Lovely weekends when we'd play in Dingle on Saturday nights and Sundays we'd do Sherkin Island.' Creagh had taken on the job as the local postman on the Co Cork island. Though profoundly affected by the loss of his wife, her death also 'made me see that you should be doing the things that you love - and I loved music since I was a child', says Daly. Still doing what he loves, between gigs with Cranitch in Beara, Kenmare, and Ballydehob, Daly was back in Miltown Malbay last week, where he plays Friday sessions with fiddle player Eileen O'Brien. In Kerry, what Cranitch terms Daly's 'fiddle sensibility' derived from his early O'Keeffe influences, ensures 'when World Fiddle Day happens in Scartaglin every year he has a position of honour among all the fiddle players in the sense that he's considered to be part of that tradition'. This year, that connection was celebrated in Scartaglin with a tribute to Daly in advance of his 80th birthday this Sunday, his tunes taking centre stage with a new generation. 'They had a concert in my honour,' he says. 'All the musicians went up - a lot of them were young people - and played tunes of mine. It was beautiful to sit there and listen to them.' Jackie Daly is joined by Matt Cranitch, Eileen O'Brien, and Paul de Grae at the Gleneagle, Killarney, on June 27; support by Teorainn. See: Jackie Daly is joined by Matt Cranitch (left), Eileen O'Brien, and Paul de Grae at the Gleneagle, Killarney, on June 27 Jackie Daly: Question of Taste Current reading? My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor. I love his writing. He was a very intelligent man and had a beautiful way of expressing himself. I read an awful lot and I go to the library every week. Current hobbies? I do crosswords all the time. I had a brain haemorrhage about 30 years ago and I was told that if you keep your mind busy, that's good. I do Sudoku as well. I had three aneurysms but I think my memory has improved slightly over the years and I still have the names of all the tunes. Current listening? I listen to any music that I consider to be good, but pop music I hate. The Beatles were good. Myself and Alec Finn took Hey Jude and made a hornpipe out of it and Alec got a letter from McCartney saying it was the best version of it that he came across. It's beautiful as a hornpipe – it's so melodic. What's important in your life right now? The news these days is bad. But I love going for walks and I do meditation. I love meeting people, talking to people - and yes, telling jokes.
