What's going on in Meath.

squod

Can we post up an event list of stuff to do/see list for 2013? Other regional forums seem to have them.

Royal County 5km Sunday 28th April in Kells

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Diamond Cinema doing a Saturday matinee €3.50 for adults and children.

KIDS CLUB SATURDAY ONLY WRECK IT RALPH 1.20PM AND G.I. Joe Retaliation 1.15PM TICKETS €3.50

KERSPLAT!

Good idea, forum seems to be pretty dead!

Franco-Irish Concert: Dunboyne

http://www.meath.ie/Tourism/EventsandNewsItem/Name,52550,en.html

PippaChic

10km and 3km race at Lismullin today at 12 noon

http://meathathletics.blogspot.ie/2013/04/lismullen-10km-with-tara-ac.html

Mince Pie

**Walk To Historic Tara for SVP**
The historic Hill of Tara in Co. Meath is again the destination of Navan St. Vincent de Paul Society’s second annual community walk on Sunday, May 19th next. The 9Km fundraising event starts at 2.30pm at the local Ardboyne Hotel.
**Entry fees are payable on the day or in advance at http://www.svp.ie/tarawalk Further information is available at 0864497557**

There will be refreshments available along the route & on the hill, as well as entertainment. Each walker will receive a medal at the finish & buses will bring everyone back to the town afterwards.

http://www.svp.ie/tarawalk

chewed

Solstice Centre Navan events

http://www.solsticeartscentre.com/events/?cat=10.php

KERSPLAT!

Navan Choral Festival, 9th-12th May 2013

http://www.meath.ie/Tourism/EventsandFestivals/Name,51366,en.html

squod

Tonight's Lunar eclipse.

Join us at The Spire of Lloyd on Thursday April 25th for The Partial Lunar Eclipse.
Weather permitting we hope to get images of the Sunset & the Moon Rising, lovely landscape scene from the top of Lloyd and even use the Tower as a silouette.... Please remember to wrap up warm,(and maybe bring a flask of tea) and dont forget you'll need a tripod, any beginners that maybe dont have a lot of equipment dont worry someone will help you out, look forward to seeing everyone and remember new members always welcome and existing members are encourged to bring a friend

squod

Might as well watch the eclipse on Tara. Anyone going??

Maximum Eclipse 25 Apr, 21:08 120° 2.8° Moon is closest to the center of the shadow.
Moon close to horizon, so make sure you have free sight to East-southeast.

Mince Pie

squod wrote: »

Might as well watch the eclipse on Tara. Anyone going??

What time? Gonna see if I can get a lift!

squod

Mince Pie wrote: »

What time? Gonna see if I can get a lift!

Think it starts at earth rise or whatever its called. 9.00pm peak.

FueledbyCoffee

Hi Everyone

I hope this is okay to share here - we are having a Vintage Car Rally Festival in Ballivor as part of the Gathering celebrations. It's going to be a full day of events with entertainment for all the family and a market taking place.

There is more information on the Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ballivor-Vintage-Car-Rally-Festival/150865495087579?fref=ts

Hope this link is okay - haven't done it before - Thanks

niallb

... the Tara Dawn Run is an annual event held in or around the Summer Solstice on the historic Hill of Tara, Co Meath.
The difference with this 4km fun run is the starting siren goes off at 4am ............ in the pitch dark!

On finishing, everyone is a winner, as each participant gets a legendary Tara Dawn Run Sausage Sambo cooked on our massive BBQs! Live music entertains the crowd and to top off that feeling of well being all proceeds are in aid of the Children’s Medical and Research Foundation at Our Lady’s Childrens’s Hospital, Crumlin.

4AM ON JUNE 15TH

http://www.taradawnrun.ie/

PauloMN

Summerhill 10k road race and 4k fun run, Monday 6th May (this bank holiday Monday), 11am.

Trim Braveheart 5k trail run and 1k junior race, Friday 14th June, 8pm.
http://www.bravehearttrailrun.com/

(Great idea for a thread by the way!)

Popsy

Hi all,

Hay Festival Kells will take place from the 28th to 30th June 2013, and will see approx. 30 events over the 3 day festival, and we hope will attract over 7,000 visitors to our town.

Some of the names confirmed in the programme already are: John Boyne, DBC Pierre, John Banville,Jeanette Winterson; Jenny Valentine, Sarah Webb; Frank McGuiness; Peter Sheridan. Film event ~ The Secret of Kells; Also academics Germaine Greer on Shakespeare and Dr Bernard Meehan on the Book of Kells.


https://www.hayfestival.com/portal/kells.aspx?skinid=1&localesetting=en-GB


There will be a public meeting on Thursday 2nd May at 8.30pm in Kells Resource Centre.

We need to all work together to ensure that this event is as good as it can be so we need your help and support, if you would like to volunteer please PM me for further information.

squod

T'morrow!

Fun for all at the Ballivor Vintage Car Rally Festival 5th May from 12 noon, Ballivor Co Meath..

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ballivor-Vintage-Car-Rally-Festival/150865495087579?hc_location=stream

Access

This thread has died a little... so here is one that a few might not know about.

http://www.navanspiegeltent.com/

The Navan Spiegeltent Festival, will feature over 20 shows, including music by some of Irelands' top acts, as well as screenings of vintage films, comedy, dance, theatre, kids entertainment and fashion events designed to entertain local and national visitors to Navan.

Each night of the Navan Spiegeltent Festival will feature two main events, one at 7 pm and the other at 10 pm, the earlier show intended to facilitate audiences from outside the Navan area. Rebecca Storm, Jack L, The Celtic Tenors, Jerry Fish, Declan O Rourke and a host of other acts have been confirmed for the first ever Navan Spiegeltent Festival.

The film programme will include the classic first silent Dracula movie Nosferatu which will be accompanied by the score played on piano.

Spiegeltents have been used as venues in numerous places around the globe, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Dublin, Brisbane, Belfast, Montreal, Cork, Edinburgh, Toronto and at Caesar’s Palace in Nevada, but this is the first time one will visit Navan.

chewed

I had asked the moderator if this thread can be put up as a sticky in the Meath section!

Pudsey64

ALMC Stage's Rally. Sunday 7th July.
Based in Dunboyne.
Service in Dunboyne Buisness Park.
Stage's outside Dunboyne , Trim And Skryne.

Popsy

Hey all, the festival is this weekend. We really need volunteers to help out- theres a volunteer meeting tomorrow (Thursday) in Kells Resource Centre at 6pm.

If you're interested but can't make the meeting please send on your contact details to Kells Chamber office on info@kellschamber.ie or phone 046 9240005.

Popsy wrote: »

Hi all,

Hay Festival Kells will take place from the 28th to 30th June 2013, and will see approx. 30 events over the 3 day festival, and we hope will attract over 7,000 visitors to our town.

Some of the names confirmed in the programme already are: John Boyne, DBC Pierre, John Banville,Jeanette Winterson; Jenny Valentine, Sarah Webb; Frank McGuiness; Peter Sheridan. Film event ~ The Secret of Kells; Also academics Germaine Greer on Shakespeare and Dr Bernard Meehan on the Book of Kells.


https://www.hayfestival.com/portal/kells.aspx?skinid=1&localesetting=en-GB


There will be a public meeting on Thursday 2nd May at 8.30pm in Kells Resource Centre.

We need to all work together to ensure that this event is as good as it can be so we need your help and support, if you would like to volunteer please PM me for further information.

Pudsey64

ALMC Stages Rally , Sunday 6th July.
HQ is Castle Arch Hotel, Trim.
Stage's near Trim, Kilmessan and Rathcore.
More info on almc .ie

Pudsey64

Rally simulator night on Friday 7th November in the Castle Arch Hotel , Trim.

meathstevie

Athboy RFC Halloween Night (31/10) fancy dress disco in the Old Darnley Lodge Hotel Athboy from 2200hrs, admission €10. Prizes on the night.

Meathlass

Kilberry Amenity and Heritage Group (just outside Navan on the Kingscourt Rd) are having our Halloween Table Quiz in Scanlon's Pub on Sat 1st Nov at 8pm.

Would love to get support for the work we do in our village.

Dubh Geannain

List of confirmed Right2Water protests and their starting points on Saturday November 1st:

Meath, Navan, Fair Green 2pm
Meath, Ashbourne, Arkle Statue, 2pm
Meath, Duleek Village, 12pm

I'll be in Ashbourne anyway

bitemybanger

Request for sticky acknowledged.
Its a good idea but its still a young thread. if it takes off and is updated regularly i'll sticky it.

Mince Pie

Local art exhibition at The Bective Millhouse with a few bands thrown in for good measure. Opening night tomorrow night and exhibition open for the weekend.

https://www.facebook.com/events/554851134646391/?fref=ts

chewed

bitemybanger wrote: »

Request for sticky acknowledged.
Its a good idea but its still a young thread. if it takes off and is updated regularly i'll sticky it.

I think they reason it's young is that it's just been lost in this forum! If it was a sticky more people would contribute.

chewed

http://www.farmaphobia.com/

I went to this last night and was great fun.

Get booked in quickly as it seems to be booking out quickly.

DarByrne1980

chewed wrote: »

http://www.farmaphobia.com/

Often walked down some of our fields at night checkin animals and it was this farmaphobia place for free. Website looks good. Walking around a farm in Navan at night does kinda scare me to be honest

Dubh Geannain

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

List of confirmed Right2Water protests and their starting points on Saturday November 1st:

Meath, Navan, Fair Green 2pm
Meath, Ashbourne, Arkle Statue, 2pm
Meath, Duleek Village, 12pm

I'll be in Ashbourne anyway

Can add: Meath, Kells, Rally starting at 2pm at Fair Green Kells

KERSPLAT!

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

Can add: Meath, Kells, Rally starting at 2pm at Fair Green Kells

Ratoath at 2pm Centra/La Bucca also

Pudsey64

Pudsey64 wrote: »

Rally simulator night on Friday 7th November in the Castle Arch Hotel , Trim.

Cancelled

chewed

Des Bishop live in the Solstice tomorrow night!

http://www.solsticeartscentre.com/comedy/des-bishop-coming-home.1025.html

snowgal

Sold out...but there's a great play on Friday from love/hate writer Stuart caralon

scudzilla

This should be good, i'm in it

b318isp

scudzilla wrote: »

This should be good, i'm in it

See you next week then, planning to be there on Thursday and backstage on Friday. I hear Brian is doing a great job with ye!

scudzilla

b318isp wrote: »

See you next week then, planning to be there on Thursday and backstage on Friday. I hear Brian is doing a great job with ye!

and you are???

b318isp

scudzilla wrote: »

and you are???

Can't say here! Let's say I'm in black regularly with Brian and Colette.

Twigster

Christmas craft fair in Trim Castle Hotel on this Sunday in aid of the Trim Playground development:

bladespin

All welcome, especially the toys!

chewed

Christmas Fairs

Sun Nov 30th
Summerhill - Annual Christmas Fair, community centre, 12 noon to 4pm. Adm free.

Dunderry - Christmas Craft Fair community hall, 11.30am to 6pm. Adm free.

Dunboyne Castle Hotel Christmas Fair, 7th December 2014

Dubh Geannain

Anybody got a heads up on where Santy might be making an apearance this weekend? Want to bring the young fella and would rather not have to go to any major shopping centres.

Thanks

chewed

The North Pole!

bladespin

Dubh Geannain wrote:

Anybody got a heads up on where Santy might be making an apearance this weekend? Want to bring the young fella and would rather not have to go to any major shopping centres.

Ashbourne between 2&4, check to be sure.

Dubh Geannain

chewed wrote: »

The North Pole!

With those tracking skills you should be working for [bad pun] InterPole. [/bad pun]

b318isp

Dunboyne Panto is on this Saturday (13th) at 2:30 and 7:30, and Sunday (2:30).

THis is only getting off the ground, so all support gratefully accepted. Some brilliant local talent.

Ruu

Bit of a cheap bump for our parish priest, Father Ray Kelly. His new CD is out now and he will be performing at the Olympia on Feb. 19th.

Dubh Geannain

Anything particularly interesting happening around Meath this weekend?

Don't think we're venturing too far and have nothing planned.

PauloMN

Well I'm doing the Summerhill 10k on Monday, there's also a 4k fun run which would be good for the younger ones. There's a 10k in Drogheda (let's not argue the Meath/Louth thing here lol) which is on Sunday.

Saw a sign for something in Ballivor this weekend, like a classic car run or something. Think that's on Sunday.

That's all I know about, I'm sure there's tons more.

Pudsey64

ALMC Stages Rally 2015.
Sunday 5th July
HQ is Castle Arch Hotel
Service in Oaktree business park.
Ceremonial start at Trim castle carpark , Castle Street on Saturday evening.
More info on the almc stages rally website.

Ruu

Braveheart 5k trail run in Trim on June 12th.
5k in Oldcastle on July 15th