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Wednesday, 11th April, 2012. Vol. 5, Issue 15 • 63 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Tel: 042 9320888. Fax: 042 9329676. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Boxers enjoy national success

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Local scouts take a hike

Students in line for award

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Positive news for Baby EllenLITTLE baby Ellen Barron McGee has responded well to stem cell treatment in the Dominican Republic as she continues her fight to beat the life threatening disease known as Mito-chondrial Condition.

Ellen, daughter of Lisa McGee from Ashling Park in Dundalk and Tom Bar-ron from Dublin started her treatment last week thanks to generous donations of people all around the coun-try who were touched by her plight.

Lisa and Tom lost their son Christian to the same condition ten years ago and with the help of friends they plan to continue their ef-

forts in raising funds to en-sure Ellen receives a further three rounds of treatment.

Rhonda Mackin who is involved in the Baby Ellen Barron McGee fundraising team has spoken of the posi-tive early signs of improve-ment in Ellen after the first round of treatment.

“She’s resting up at home in Laois now after her treat-ment and the doctors have said that she has responded well to treatment so far which is wonderful news. Part of the disease means that she continuously has her hands in a fist and af-ter her treatment she has started to open them up so that is a very good sign” ex-plained Rhonda.

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By Paul Byrne

Nice One

money refund

Baby Ellen with parents Tom and Lisa

Holders of Dundalk Nice One gift cards have been assured that those with a val-id balance will have money refunded after it was announced that the scheme will be discontinued as of the end of April.Town Centre Commer-ical Manager, Andrew Mawhinney, revealed that the initiative will come to an end after a changes in the Zapa Technology company that was operating the scheme.“As of the end of April 2012 the Dundalk Nice One card will be dis-continued. All card holders with a valid balance (i.e. a mon-etary value which was uploaded in the past 12 months) will be re-funded.“To obtain this refund they can either: Call into the TCCM Office, Market Square, See Page 8

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Some of the local scouts who took part in a hike in the Cooley Mountains. See Page 9 for details

JudgE Flann Bren-nan commented that an assault on a post-man doing his job was completely unjustified, when he convicted a Nigerian man, Ken-neth Omah, who threw stones in the face of a delivery man arising from the non delivery of parcels to his address.

dundalk Court was told that the 26 year old FAS trainee threatened to kill the postman and made a pointed ges-ture with his hand, and called him a “-- ing rac-ist b.”

The defendant de-nied the allegations, but Judge Brennan said he had no doubt whatso-ever about the evidence given by the postman.

He fined the defend-ant €500, and warned Omoh if he misbehaved like this again he’d have to consider jailing him.

The court heard that parcels were not being delivered to the defend-ant’s address.

On February 3 last year the postman con-cerned was delivering a notice to the defend-ant’s address at 197 Glenwood, Dublin Road.

As he was going to the door, the defendant asked where his parcel was.

The defendant called him names and threat-ened him.

He put his hand straight out in front with fingers pointed,

Assault on postman was unjustified

dundalk is ready for a spring clean

and fired stones in the postman’s face.

The postman said he was able to continue with his work after the

incident.defence solicitor

Conor Mcguill said the defendant denied throwing pebbles or

putting his hand out, and during an inter-view with a garda the defendant also denied the allegations.

He said in evidence that his answers to the Garda were correct, and he didn’t assault the postman.

The National Spring Clean kicked off last week when Dundalk Town Council (DTC) launched the annual clean up in Market Square. DTC Chairperson and Tidy Towns member, Cllr Marianne Butler was on hand to get the proceed-ing off to a flying start.

The Council says it is delighted to support An Taisce’s annual National Spring Clean, which it is now in its 14th year.

With the main objec-tives of creating aware-ness of litter issues, to

encourage clean ups as well as environmental issues, t he Spring Clean is An Taisce’s main anti-litter campaign.

Twenty community groups in Dundalk have already registered their spring-cleaning events which all take place dur-ing April.

The Environment Sec-tion of DTC is providing material including gloves and bags to the registered groups and is also assist-ing in the waste manage-ment side.

DTC are hoping to see a general improvement

Last year judges criti-cised the outskirts of Dundalk Town Centre- noting that as they moved into the peripheral areas there was a marked in-crease in litter dog foul-ing and kerbside weeds.

The tidy town com-mittee says that only 15 minutes a week of work in an estate by a few vol-unteers would be enough to keep an area in pris-tine condition. A true community effort would

be required as the team intend to make contact with residents associa-tions, establish litter and weeding groups as well as conducting a skills audit to place volunteers in positions that they too will flourish.

To start the ball roll-ing Tidy Towns Tus are requesting as many residents as possible will give up 15 minutes of their time to clean up their own street on Sat-urday 14 April 14. This would give a great start to National Spring clean and would be an ideal start for our campaign in the National Tidy Towns Competition 2012.

The Tidy Towns team is encouraging people to manage their own estates. A substantial number of residential groups have made a success of their own areas as judged by the results of our own Improve our Town Com-petition run by the staff of the Environmental Section of Dundalk Town Council.

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Tackling illegal fishing

DkIT student elections

Successful book launch

More success for young O’Hanlon Park boxers

The Inland Fisheries are tackling those who are fishing illegally. In September 2011 Mr. Vladimir Prokopieve was found to be using nets at Drumcar Lake in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan with the intention of taking coarse fish and pike il-legally.

Prokopieve was apprehended by Assistant Inspector Ronan O’Brien and he found to have more than four coarse fish over 25cm in length on him and pike larger then 50cm. Following a number of summons issued to the defendant the case was heard at Dundalk Dis-

trict Court on March 22. Prokopiev with an address at 11

Chestnut Grove, Bay Estate, Dun-dalk appeared in court and entered a guilty plea. Judge Sean McBride convicted him under Section 95 of the 1959 Fisheries Act in rela-tion to fishing in fresh water for coarse fish by means other than rod and line. He also convicted him for breaches of the coarse fish byelaws. The defendant was fined a total of €1400 with one month to pay and Inland Fisheries Ireland was awarded €927 expenses for bringing this case.

Inland Fisheries Ireland is a statutory body operating under the aegis of the Department of Com-munications, Energy and Natural Resources.. Its principal function is the protection and conservation of the inland fisheries resource.

IFI promote, support, facilitate and advise the Minister on the conservation, protection, manage-ment, development and improve-ment of inland fisheries, including sea angling and develop and advise the Minister on policy and national strategies relating to inland fisher-ies and sea angling.

DKIT students last week elected david Branagan and Brendan Traynor as president and vice president of DKIT students union.

Roughly 1400 stu-dents turned out to vote on the day and both were elected on the first count. Mr Branagan was

elected with 1071 first preference votes and Mr Traynor was elected with 761 votes.

David, who is currently serving as vice president of DKIT students union for the second time, and he has been responsible for the welfare and enter-tainment of students.

David has also run many high profile cam-

paigns in the college such as the ‘road safety’ and ‘sexual health’ cam-paigns. He has also been responsible for bringing many high profile bands, celebrities and comedi-ans to the college.

David says his past experience in the stu-dents union will help him greatly in his new posi-tion.

“I’m delighted with such a strong mandate from the students and having been involved in national and local cam-paigns for the past two years, I can ensure them, that both Brendan and myself, will be in a great position to face the many challenges for students ahead,” he added.

LOCAL poet Kathleen Maddy successfully launched her new book ‘With dawn I arise’ last week.

The book which con-tains 33 reflections on the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth was fittingly launched during holy

week. Thirty-three is a highly significant number in the Christian faith as it is believed that this is the age at which Jesus was crucified and that this is also the number of mira-cles he performed ac-cording to the gospels.

A selection of the re-flections was read out by Ms Maddy herself

and by Reverend San-dra Pragnell and Father Michael Dempsey. Lo-cal singer songwriter Stewart Agnew and tenor David Martin sang to ac-company several of the reflections.

Ms. Maddy’s poems were written as witness accounts of the Pas-sion and people such as

Barabbas, Simon, Tho-mas and even the crown of thorns are given an opportunity to voice their thoughts and emotions.

‘With dawn I arise’ is available in Eason’s, Stairway to Heaven and Carrolls bookshops. It is also available at www.writteninIreland.com.

O’Hanlon Park ama-teur boxing club achieved their best re-sults to date in the re-cent Leinster juvenile boxing Championships, which were held in the Royston Clubrooms in Newbridge, Kildare.

Irish Champion CJ Mcguinness picked up another provincial title in her category, while Andrew Stokes won his first Leinster title in his weight division.

unfortunately An-drew then had to box clubmate denis McGinley in the final in what was an extremely tight contest with An-drew getting the deci-sion by the narrowest of margins.

Others to perform very well in the compe-tition and reach their respective finals were Colm Bracken and Patrick Hamill.

dillon Carter was

a very unlucky loser in his semi final, as all concerned thought he was a clear winner.

Coach Paul Taaffe was more than pleased with the performances

of all the boxers, saying that the experience will stand to them for next year’s competitions.

CJ and Andrew will contest the All-Ireland finals in April and eve-

ryone associated with the club wish them well. Patrick Hamill will rep-resent Leinster against dublin in Athy in an interprovincial compe-tition also in April.

By Aislinn McCooey

By Aislinn McCooey

Back: Andrew Stokes, CJ MCGuinness, Denis McGinley. Front: Colm Wykes, Patrick Campbell, Dillon Carter



Merita Bayly, Mary Callan, Eamon Mullen, Amanda McBride and Regional Youth Officer Joe-Anne O’Brien.

Car Boot SaleCar boot sale resumes at Readypenny Inn on Sunday April 15 at Noon. Proceeds in aid of Ardee Hospice. Contact Marga-ret 086 2381030.

Volunteering Fair DayTo celebrate the National Volunteering Week, the Louth Volunteer Centre are planning to host a Volunteering Fair Day at Dundalk Library, Roden Place. Groups are invited to take a free stand to show case their organisa-tion and volunteering op-portunities. Ph. 041 980 6900 to book a place.

Support GroupThe next Tuesday meet-ings of Parents Separated Support Group will take place on April 17. Those wishing on attending the meetings should confirm their intentions with Val on 085 7303609. Meet-ings are every second Tuesday. Cost of €5 to include refreshments on arrival. From 7:30pm until 9pm at Social Services Building, 15a Clanbrassil Street.Visit: www.par-entsseparated.org for details.

TableQuizDundalk Young Irelands are holding a table quiz on Friday April 13, in Mc-Geoughs Bar, Roden Place. Team of four costs €30 and can be booked by contacting: John Laverty at 086-8558614 or [email protected]; Tony Hande at 086-8174083 or [email protected]. The full sup-port of players/committee members, supporters and friends of the club would be greatly appreciated.

NEWSin Brief

NEWSin Brief

President Michael d Higgins recognised the achievements of the Louth Foroige volunteers for the ‘life enhancing good they do.’ The honour came at the group’s 60th anniversary celebrations where Mr Higgins lauded the work of volunteers, including Merita Bayly, Mary Callan, Eamon Mullen and Amanda McBride.

“In my inaugural speech, I spoke of the importance of active citizenship and I believe that the value of

volunteerism in any community should be recognised for the life enhancing good it does in just about every corner of our island”, said President Higgins.

The ceremony was attended by Westlife star Kian Egan who joined the organisation when he was 12 and got a taste for the stage when he entered into the organisation’s variety shows. The Foróige youth club was set up some 60 years ago as a sort of experiment in informal education. It now works with more than 57,000 young people.

ZuMBA Ireland is hosting a fund-raising event for Muscular dystro-phy Ireland this April 21.

Organiser Heather gordon said that they are hoping to get up to 200 people participating in the event which entails non- stop dancing for an hour and a half. She says she chose St Louis as Zumba is so pop-ular there and the students were so keen to help out.

Muscular dystrophy is the col-lective name for a range of neu-romuscular conditions, which are characterised by the progressive

weakening and wasting of the mus-cles. It can affect adults and chil-dren.

There is no cure for muscular dystrophy but there have been huge advances in increasing the quality of life for people with the condition and scientists around the world are working hard to develop new treat-ments. The MDI network of sup-port extends to almost 4000 people but is not government funded.

The event is set to take place in St Louis Secondary School from 3 -5pm this April 21.

SENATOR Mary Moran and TD Gerald Nash met with the Minis-ter for Jobs last week’s regarding Vodafone’s transfer of jobs from Dundalk to Newry. The two La-bour Party members hoped to encourage a review of the deci-sion by the telecommunications multinational.

A joint statement issued after the meeting said “It is important that the retention of the call cen-tre jobs in the Republic are priori-tised. The State must use all the

strength at its disposal to engage with Vodafone and encourage the company to comprehensively re-flect on its position in respect of the Dundalk jobs and ultimately all of the jobs it currently pro-vides in this State.

“We will continue to engage positively with the union and the Minister in order to ensure that this issue remains very much in the public eye and to make sure that the authorities do everything in their capacity to have this seri-

ous issue for our local economy addressed.”

However, there has been no indication by Vodafone to go back on the decision. The group changed contract provider from Rigney Dolphin, who were based in Dundalk and staff much of the Vodafone call centre here, to Teleperformance in Newry. The number of redundancies that the move will cause will not become clear until the end of the si x week consultation process.

President’s approval for local volunteers

By Niamh Kirk

Local politicians hope to reverse Vodafone decision

Zumbathon in aid of Muscular Dystrophy


Local residents fought a against the proposals

Irene’s murder has never been solved

A VIGIL to mark the sev-enth anniversary of Irene White who was brutally murdered on April 6, 2005 was held close to her home in Ice House Hill on Good Friday.

Irene’s sister Ann Dal-cassian held the vigil both to remember Irene and to give other families and friends the chance to remember their own loved ones. At the vigil Miss Dalcassian called for changes in the govern-ments failed policies re-garding the many women murdered over the last number of years.

Speaking at the vigil she also spoke of the 174 women who have been murdered since 1996.

“I held a vigil for Irene exactly five years ago which was also a Good Friday. At that time I rep-resented the 126 women murdered as a result of violence. These statistics have been recorded by Women’s Aid since 1996.

Now this figure stands at 174 female homicide victims. So nothing has re-ally changed in the last five years. So this vigil today is about change. I want to

good Friday vigil to remember Irene

The Protect Rockmar-shal Mountain Group who fought tirelessly against the five wind turbines that Gealectric hoped to place on the mountain side, reacted with to the news that the plans had been refused by thanking all those who have supported them and their campaign,

Last week Louth County Council decided to refuse the construction

of five wind turbines on the picturesque Rock-marshal mountain that overlooks Dundalk.

The council took into account many of the sub-missions made to them by the people in the area. They cited the location of the wind farm in a designated Area of Out-standing Natural Beauty, visible from designated scenic roads and protect-ed views and prospects,

as being among the rea-sons for refusal.

The council also ex-pressed concerns about the level of shadow flick-er and the diameter of the blade.

The findings indicated that if it went ahead it would have a dispropor-tionaly negative impact on the residents in the area and would damage the amenitits of the prop-erties in the vicinity of

Council refuse planning permission for five wind turbinesthe turbines- all of which would be contrary to the sustainable development of the area.

The group put up a

strong fight and over 160 individual submissions were made which include a number of petitions..

In a statement the

group said “we would like to sincerely thank all those who have sup-ported them to date. it is likely that the develop-

ers of the proposed wind farm will appeal Louth County Council’s deci-sion to An Bord Pleanala. It is also possible that the

developers will make a new application to Louth County Council for a wind farm on Rockmar-shal mountain.”

look at what changes can be made to make women safer in their own homes and how change can be implemented and devel-oped.” she explained.

During the vigil Ann also launched the Euro-pean Alliance Justice For Families, which wants to develop family justice centres across Europe and changes in legislation. During the well attended vigil she also called on Irene White’s killer to give himself up and help bring peace to her family.

“I want those who know anything about Irene’s death to come forward and make themselves known. How can you carry on with your lives as if none of this matters?” asked Ann.

“It matters to her daugh-ter, to me, to her friends and family. I believe there are people out there who know what happened and that they are tired of hid-ing. I plead with them to come forward and let themselves be known”, she said.

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Dundalk Town Council Caothaoirleach, Marianne Butler, with Louth County Arts Officer, Brian Harten and , artist Jackie Nickerson

Poc Fada meetingThe 2012 A.G.M of the Poc Fada Comh Coiste (Louth/Armagh Committee) will take place on Monday April 16, commencing at 8pm at the Sportsmans Inn, Newry Road.Nominations will be accepted on the night .With a view to attracting some additional help to the Committee for 2012 it would be greatly appreciated if as many as possible to attend on the night. Any queries to Pat Hamilton on 086-2373345 or [email protected].

CongressDundalk Cursillo are holding a pilgrimage to the 50th International Eucharistic Congress, Dublin on Wednesday June 13. Bus will leave St Patrick’s, Dundalk at 7.30am and fare of €50 includes entry fee to Congress events and meal voucher. Events include Mass, Solemn Eucharistic Procession, Talks, Youth Events and much more.For information contact Steven at 087-2030855.

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NORTH County Louth is the dump of choice for washed diesel smugglers as four cases of the abandonment of IBC’s filled with toxic sludge were reported last week.

Environmental officers from Louth County Council attended three separate dumps on Wednesday at Ballykelly on the Carrick Road and Car-

rickarnon, as well as on a roundabout near Feede. Be-tween them 19 IBCs, contain-ing 1000 litres per IBC, and three barrels of the bi-product from the washed diesel were cleaned up.

These finds were only a prelude to a far greater dump which was found early Thurs-day morning. A trailer contain-ing 30 IBCs – 30,000 litres- of the toxic waste was abandoned

near Callans Ceili House Pub on the Castleblayney Road.

The Local Authorities have already exported over 314 tonnes of the waste to Germa-ny for treatment.

Last year the Louth County Council spent almost €1m euro cleaning up after crimi-nals dumped 989 tonnes in 2011. While the funds are recovered through the depart-ment of the Environment the

expenditure puts undue strains on the council’s cash flow, ef-fecting services.

It is approximated that laun-dered diesel now accounts for 12% of the market. How-ever the washed diesel causes catastrophic damage to car engines. The issue has esca-lated to the degree that there have been calls to abandon agricultural diesel and for new mechanisms to be introduced

to restrain the trade in the dam-aging material.

Illegal diesel laundering yields a high return from crim-inals and incidents of dumping the toxic waste have dramati-cally increased. In 2009 the council exported 72 tonnes of the toxic material, the number of cases of dumping rose ex-ponentially in 2010 to 220 tonnes.

Last year the council was

forced to spend over €1mil-lion on the clean-up of more than 1005 tonnes of dumped sludge.

In the first quarter of last year there were eight reported dumps, the number has risen to 11 for the same period this year. With these most recent finds it appears that the final tally for incidents of dumping toxic sludge will be up again for 2012.

Environment officers find more diesel sludgeBy Niamh Kirk

Man brokewindow paneA 24-yEAR-OLD man was bang-ing on a window of a house to get attention of people inside and broke a pane of glass.

This caused Kevin McDonagh 261, Cedarwood Park to face a charge of criminal damage which he admitted at Dundalk Court on Wednesday last. He was convict-ed and fined €200.

Garda Inspector Martin Beggy told that the incident took place at Ashling Park in July last to which Gardai were called.

Solicitor Frank McDonnell said that the defendant had drink taken after a family gathering. He paid €70 to a glazing company to re-pair the damage. The defendant knew the people in the house.

Haven is buzzing with excitementTHE great Northern Ha-ven was once again buzz-ing with excitement as the official unveiling of an art work by celebrated photography based artist Jackie Nickerson.

In its time Barrack Street was considered a major railway line and was the location of the first passenger station in the great Northern Rail-way. Now that the gNR’s time has passed, it is be-ing remembered through artistic expression and a way of bridging the tem-poral distance between past and present. Jackie collected stories from the

former employees of the gNR however the interest was so high that she took three times as many stories as originally planned and says she was sorry to have to stop there.

She said on the project she used the personal ex-periences and photographs of those involved in the Railway on the project and created a stunning collage picture made up of tiny in-dividual images but collec-tively depicting the fitting rooms of the gNR.

Town Council Chair-person Marianne Butler was present to officiate the celebration as was Louth County Arts Officer Brain Harten.

By Niamh Kirk

From Page 1“Lisa and Tom are are in constant contact with

Ellen’s US doctor and he is very excited and en-couraged to hear of her progress as are we all. She will have a few days rest and then prepare for her next journey over the next couple of weeks de-pending on her progress.”

Ellen is expected to receive at least four courses of treatment which are thought to cost roughly €50,000 each trip. Fundraising efforts are con-tinuing and according to Rhonda the family have been overwhelmed by efforts to help them so far.

“People have just been brilliant so far. Only for all those who have helped Ellen would be in seri-ous trouble today. There is still al long road to go and we will continue our efforts in raising money for her.

We’d also like to thank Emmet ‘Nino’Hayes who has written and recorded a song called ‘Hope for Ellen’ which he will be selling around town next week to raise funds for the treatment. Hopefully after this treatment is all over Ellen can live a full and happy life.” added Rhonda.

The Mitochondria is the part of the cell respon-sible for energy production. If the Mitochondria is defective, your body cannot function as it should. The brain becomes impaired, muscles start to twitch spastically and weaken, the heart does not pump correctly, vision becomes impaired and the list can go on.

From page 1Market Square, Dundalk with their card from Tues-day April 17; phone (01) 2134700 with your card details ready; or email their details, including the card number to, [email protected]”, ex-plained Mr Mawhinney.The dundalk Nice One card was launched in late 2009 by dundalk’s Business Improvement District Scheme (BIDS) and Zapa Technology. At the gift Card’s height €100,000 worth of trans-actions were processed for the 60 plus business involved.The company who provid-ed the hardware and soft-ware to operate the Nice One Card, Zapa Technol-ogy Ltd., went into liqui-dation in October 2011 and was then acquired in November 2011 by a new CEO and management team and a new strategy was developed.Zapa would like to en-sure that the process to wind down the program is as smooth and as easy as possible for everyone. A Zapa representative will contact each busi-ness in the coming week to arrange removal of the hardware.

Students up for Eco award

Adams begins campaign to encourage ‘No’ voteLouth Sinn Fein TD Gerry Adams is to host a series of public meetings in the lead up to the referendum. The first of which will take place in Omeath this Monday April 16 at the Granvue Hotel at 7pm. Deputy Adams has already come out and urged the public to vote ‘No’ come this May 31.

Speaking in the Dail Mr Adams said “. It will cost the taxpayers at least an additional €6 billion in public spending cuts and tax increases after 2015. It will mean more cuts

to our schools, our hospitals and our commu-nity services.

“It will also mean more charges and tax hikes. There will also be significant new powers given to the European Commission and European Court of Justice.

“It will also undermine this Oireachtas and give significant control over economic and fiscal policy to unelected bureaucrats and judges in Brussels and Luxembourg. And that is why the Europeans Trade Union Confederation is opposed to the Treaty. It’s

why the French Socialists, the German Social Democrats and the Dutch Labour Party – all sister parties of the Irish Labour party, are op-posed to this treaty.”

In the series of talks on the issue the Sinn Fein Leader will argue that the referendum will not deal with the debt or banking cri-sis and that it will deepen the recession and destabalize the currency.

He also aims to highlight that inability of the county to raise a further €6billion through cuts and taxes after 2015.

A group of eco friendly students from O Fiaich College have been pitching their ideas at the Eco Den, a Dragons Den style format, where the winners stand to attend the ECO-UNESCO young Environmentalist Awards 2012.

The group pitched their innovations to a panel of expert judges including Elaine Nevin, National Director, ECO-UNESCO; Claire McCormack, En-vironmental Protection Agency (EPA); Alan Hayes and Elaine Mahon, both from National youth Council Ireland (NyCI); and Sandra Smith, Dublin City Council.

This panel will select from among them whose ideas should appear at the final showcase this May.

The judges were impressed with the pitch ‘The Importance of Trees in Biodiversity’ from O’Fiach.

The project aims to complete a range of research and awareness raising activities in their school.

They completed a survey of the school grounds to identify the vari-

eties and quantities of trees and uti-lised their research to raise aware-ness about biodiversity amongst their peers.

Locals are invited to support their favourite project in an all-is-land online public poll, ‘The Peo-ple’s Choice Award 2012.’ Voting is

open until April 30 and the winners of this prestigious award will be announced at the ECO-UNESCO young Environmentalist Gala Showcase and Award Ceremony. Simply log onto www.ecounesco.ie and support your local youth-led ECO-Action

Dean, Tanya, Lorna, Karina, David will be representing O Fiaich

Gift card refund

Positive news for Baby Ellen

Baby Ellen with Tom and Lisa


LOUTH fire and rescue services have urged householders and landlords to ensure there are working fire alarms in all homes. This is following news that an average of 46 people die in house fires each year-which is nearly one a week. There was also a statistic that said there were 3,000 house fires in Louth last year resulting in ten deaths.

Senior asst chief fire Officer Sheila Broderick “There is a responsibility

on all of us to reduce the risk of fires in our home and one of the best defences we have is early detection of smoke or heat. Working alarms that meet good safety standards are vital and particularly so in a fire at night when sleep lowers our natural defences.”

Ms Broderick also highlighted the importance of fitting your home or property with a carbon monoxide detector and warned that it doesn’t double up as a smoke detector as many people think it does, you need

both. “I’d also encourage people once

they have the necessary alarms fitted to check them regularly to ensure they are working in line with the guidelines. Fire safety is not a once-off activity”, she said.

More information on fire prevention and safety can be found on www.louthcoco.ie or www.environ.ie/en/localgovernment/fire safety and visit www.carbonmonoxide.ie for information on detection of the gas.

Householders check that fire alarm

Scouts set-up campA GROUP of 16 adventur-ous scouts and their leaders from First Louth Scouts, St Patrick’s Scout Group, ven-tured into Tipping’s Wood and set up camp for the night.

On what turned out to be a bitter night the scouts camped out in their light-weight tents but true to form lit a large camp-fire where they all cooked a “Cowboy Dinner”.

The meal consistied of rashers, sausages and beans constructed in a box-like shape and wrapped in tinfoil and cooked on hot ambers. During the night they expe-rienced every type of weath-er from winds, freezing temperatures, rain, sleet and even snow only for them to awake to a glorious spring

morning on Wednesday.Following breakfast of

freshly made pancakes made on the fire, the troop took part in a short stroll up to the top of Tipping’s Hill where the scouts got some great photos of the snow covered mountains.

If you have a son, neph-ew, grandson, etc that you

think would be interested in doing activities like these then get them to join scouts. Scouting is a great way for children from six to 21 to get out and discover the countryside. The Scouts are now enrolling boys for both of our scout troops. First Louth Scouts meet on Tuesdays from 7pm to 9pm

and the newly reformed 5th Louth Scouts meet on Friday from 7pm to 9pm. Contact Group Leader Fin-tan on 0879538410 or email s tpatr [email protected]. Also check our or website www.stpatrick-sscoutgroup.ie of find us on facebook at facebook.com/DundalkScouts.

Local scouts visit Tipping’s Wood


1. Pop MusicWho had a hit with Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport? 2. Cartoons What newspaper does Andy Capp appear?3. MoviesIn the Back to the Future what type of car does Martie McFly Drive? 4. Geography Which great Mountain overlooks Cape Town, South Africa?5. InventionsWhich Scotsman cre-ated the pneumatic tyre?6. Food and Drink Ouzo is the national drink of what coun-try?7. LocalBetween what two streets in Dundalk was Timber Street located?

8. Famous PeopleWhat was Walt Dis-ney’s middle name?9. IrelandWhat was the name of the holiday camp near Skerries run by Fergal Quinn’s family? 10. SportWhich racehorse, a great rival to Redrum, was nicknamed ‘The Black Kangaroo’?Stinker:In the Alice and Won-derland Stories what is the name of Alice’s pet cat?

Pete Treanor’sWeekly Quiz

—this week’s answers—

Answers: 1. Rolf Harris 2. Daily Mirror 3. DeLorean 4. Table Mountain 5. John Dunlop 6. Greece 7. Between Barrack St and Quay Street 8. Elias 9. Red Island 10. Crisp Cris Stinker –Dinah.

A yOuNg man who was described as “easily led” accepted an offer while drinking to drive a lorry. It was found to contain items that the Customs authorities are dealing with, Dundalk Court heard.

When garda came across

Stephen Murphy (20) of 51, Dernaroy Road Drumatee, Newry he wouldn’t stop.

This resulted in him facing charges, including dangerous driving, not being insured or having a driving licence, as well as being in possession of a flick knife.

His solicitor said he was easily led by others not before the court who offered him money to drive the lorry on december 3 last. She said the flick knife was used to cut bales on the family farm

Judge Flann Brennan convicted him of a reduced

charge of careless driving and fined the defendant €300. He also fined him €100 for not stopping for the Garda, and applied the probation act or struck out the other offences.

Garda Inspector Martin Beggy said after the

defendant failed to stop for Gardai at Faughart, other cars had to take evasive action at Ballymascanlon roundabout because of his driving.

The Inspector said the defendant had a clean record prior to this.

young man described as easily led

Quest for Tain exhibitionINTERNATIONALLy acclaimed and Ireland’s foremost sculptor, John Behan, recently exhibited his latest collection entitled “Quest for the Táin” in the Basement Gallery, Town Hall, Dundalk.

Specially commissioned by Brian Harten, Louth County Arts Officer and curated by Denis Darcy of Dundalk Town Council Arts Office the exhibition proved to be a great succcess with the Dundalk public.

John’s earlier sculptures on the theme of the Táin Bó Cúailnge Saga form part of the recently re-configured Town Square and they hold a special place in the hearts of the people of the town. The sculptures were originally commissioned by the late Irene Quinn, owner of the Imperial and Ballymascanlon hotels and were kindly donated by the Quinn Family to the town of Dundalk in heritage year 1989.

Enjoying the Young at Heart annual party

Paddy Doogan (centre) with his nieces, Alice and Marie Stewart. Paddy cel-ebrated his 90th birthday recently

Annual Young at Heart party

Maureen Mc Cabe, Roseleen Bradley and Annette McShane

Helpers at the Young at Heart annual : Marie Stewart, Emma Rogan, Anne Morrissey, May Cumiskey, Cahterine Bradley, Theresa Morrisey and Alice Stewart Paul Lyons and Pat Mc Keown

Paddy Doogan (centre) with Community Gardai, Gareth Mc Kenna and Paul

Burke

Annual Young at Heart Party



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Titanic sank 100 years ago

WITH the 100th anni-versary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 14th and the opening of the new Titanic Belfast exhi-bition on 31st March of this year in Belfast’s new Titanic quarter, there has been a renewed in-terest in the story of the ill-fated ocean liner.

However one thing many people may not know about it is there was a County Louth man on board the ship at the time of its sinking who luckily managed to survive.

William Clarke who was born in Greeenore and family at the time had an address of Peter Street Drogheda, is believed to have lived in Liverpool. Clarke who was a ships fireman was thought to have died in the disas-ter until he showed up to collect the remainder of his wages several weeks

land “it was my luck to be on duty at the time of both accidents. The Titanic dis-aster was much the worst of the two. I mean it was the most awful. The wait-ing was the terrible thing. There was no waiting with the Empress of Ireland. you just saw what you had to do and did it.”

Clarke began his career on the sea on a British warship, however he soon felt restricted and deserted but the call of the sea was too strong and he took up a position as a fireman on a merchant steamer.

He later travelled to Durban, South Africa, however, it was war time and Clarke left the ship and went to fight on the front.

Towards the end of the war Clarke was struck down with disease and lay in a hospital bed for eight-een months but he recov-ered and joined the crew of the Titanic.

County Louth man was on board Titanic and survived

later. Clarke was possibly one

of the luckiest sailors on the seas at the time having also survived the sinking of the Empress of Ireland two years later in 1914 and it was also rumoured that he also may have survived the sinking of the Lusita-nia in May 1915 (but it is believed that he worked under a different name as he would’ve been seen as bad luck and many sailors would’ve refused to work with him at the time).

Speaking after the sink-ing of the Empress of Ire-

By Aislinn McCooey

Drugs pair’s bail conditions relaxedBAIL conditions were further relaxed including the lifting of a night curfew on two Lithuanian men facing charges resulting from the discovery of a cannabis growing plant at Seatown Place on November 28 last.

Sergei Malasicevas (43) of 3, Brookwood Lawns, Red Barns Road , and Tomas Petkevicius (31), previously of no fixed abode, but now stated to be residing at the same address as his co-accused , face two counts of possession of the drugs and having them for sale or supply.

Garda Inspector Martin Beggy told a previous hearing that the value of the drugs involved was over €400,000 approx, comprising 800 cannabis plants.

He was granted a further adjournment to obtain the directions of the director of Public Prosecutions, stating the file was sent to the director on March 23.

Judge Brennan remanded the pair to June 6 next.

A solicitor for Malasicevas asked for the relaxation of an 11pm to 7pm curfew to allow him pursue his hobby of fishing at night for which he travelled to donegal. He asked for even one or two nights at the weekend.

It was stated there was no objection by the investigating garda to the request in respect of both accused.

Niall Lavery solicitor, appearing for the other accused, was granted a request for the statements to be translated so he could take instructions.

Ask not what your community can do for you but what you can do for your community. Paul Taaffe is certainly a man who lives by that ethos having given over 14 years of his life helping run the successful O’Hanlon Park Boxing Club in Dundalk.Paul, originally from O’Hanlon Park, was tired seeing youngsters in the area hanging around the streets with nothing to do so decided to do something about it.“I saw young fellas hanging around the streets acting the maggot getting into trouble so I decided to open a boxing club. I’ve loved boxing nearly my whole and it’s given me a lot of joy so I decided to give something back.” explains Paul.“I first took up boxing aged six years old and I started in the Dealgan club in the Vinegarman’s Hall. I loved it straight away and I became Irish Champion at age 14 which was a great thrill at the time. I put a lot into boxing and I managed to win four Louth titles, four Leinster titles and an All Ireland title which wasn’t too bad I suppose.” he says“We have boys and girls aged from 7 to 70 down in the club now. It’s not just a boxing club

you don’t go out with a friend that night there’s something wrong. We have kids from all over Dundalk and County Louth.” he adds. “It’s a very family orientated place and there is no animosity at all. Everybody is supporting each other. If there’s any hint of bullying that person gets a warning straight away and is told that they are out if they do it again. They know the rules.“Boxing is starting to get popular again having been off the radar for a wee while. Maybe it’s the change in the economy that has brought people back to boxing but it’s definitely on the up.” says Paul.“When you train a young fella from ten or eleven years of age it’s very exciting to see him develop his skill. We’re all volunteers so the buzz for us is seeing these kids develop both in the ring and even through friendships being made.”

onPaul Taaffe

Paul Byrne’s

Paul Taaffe lands a blow for local community spirit

as people can come in and do all the training without ever stepping foot in the ring. It’s all about the people. It’s you doing whatever suits you best. That’s the thing about it.”Paul started working as a trainer in Clan Naofa boxing club 14 years ago before moving back to his home patch in O’Hanlon Park seven years ago to help training youngsters in the area. Over the years

they soon outgrew the premises in O’Hanlon Park and currently train in the De La Salle college. Aside from the obvious physical benefits boxing brings, Paul also talks about how boxing can improve people’s confidence and self esteem.“In our club we deal with kids with low self esteem. We try and build up their confidence. You come into my club and if

Paul Taaffe



THE Ultimate Garth Brooks Experience is roll-ing into Dundalk Fairways Hotel next month. Friends in Low Places otherwise known as the Ultimate Garth Brooks Experience has been wowing audiences across Ireland over the past number of months.Standing into the shoes, or rather cowboy boots and Stetson, of Brooks is renowned country singer Trevor Smyth. He has called upon eight of Ireland’s musicians to authenti-cally recreate the original live show. Garth Broks shot to fame in the 90s with a series of hits including “If Tomorrow Never Comes” The Dance and Friends in Low Places. He became one of the biggest selling solo acts of the 20th Century and still packs out stadia and concert halls the world over. ‘Friends in Low Places’ brings the same electricity and quality to their shows and assure that it is the next best thing to the man himself. The show takes place in the Fairways Hotel the May 5.

IRISH band the Kanyu Tree is playing a gig in the Spirit store on Thursday April 19. The Kanyu tree is three brothers from Galway who released their debut album “People Street” in September 2011, since then they have toured the country, sold out Whelan’s music venue in Dublin and toured with the coronas. The band will be supported by Dundalk four piece band Mighty Tempest (previously known as ‘fourkicks’). The band has a unique sound mixing folk and rock sounds to create distinct songs.Tickets are €10 and available online at www.spiritstore.ie or call in to the spirit store at Georges Quay Dundalk.

Kaynu Tree heading for Spirit Store

Friends in low places

A chance to hear some of Garth Brooks’ classics

ThiS year’s Vantastival festival is gearing up to be a good one with acts such as Cathy Davey, God is an Astronaut, Ham Sandwich and the Original Rudeboys set to perform.

The festival has a real local feel to it as it fea-tures six acts who are all from the area or have members that hail from the area including Jinx Lennon, The Trampz and RedTwelve.

This will be the fes-tivals third year and it takes place in Bellur-gan park from the 4th to the 6th of May and will feature three stages and over 70 music acts, scheduled kids activi-ties and festival traders. The festival has a family friendly atmosphere with children under 14 getting free entry.

It is €89 for a three day camping ticket with a day ticket costing €40. Also on the day of the festival a special full weekend ticket for 13-17 year olds will be available for €30 (note minors must be accompa-nied by a parent or guardian 21 years old or over)

There is no extra charge to bring your camper van on site but if you do not have a van there is also a dedicated tent only campsite. Also in another attempt to be recession friendly the event is bring your own beer, with only one on site pub which will be run by the Spirit Store and patrons should be aware that no glass bottles will be permitted on site.

Festival organisers also try to minimise the environmental impact the festival has on the local environ-ment. Festival goers are asked to recycle as much waste as possible on site and take all non recyclable

waste home. There will also be a penalty for those seen to be dispos-ing of cigarette butts in a irresponsible way, those guilty will have to do thirty minutes ‘commu-nity service’ or spend the same amount of time in a sin bin with wet seats in the middle of the site. This is to ‘name and shame offenders so that they don’t do it again.

Tickets can be pur-chased and more infor-mation on the festival can be found on www.vantastival.com. Alter-natively tickets can be purchased on lastminute.com, the Spirit Store, The Setanta guesthouse in Ardee, Soundcellar ion Nassau St Dublin or from Xtravision stores nationwide.

Top line-up heading to Vantastival festival on Bank Holiday weekend

Cathy Davey is heading to Vantastival


St Patricks Cathedral will be the loca-tion of dramatic and moving perform-ance this April 13. Drawn by the county’s interest in contemporary and 20th Century music the University of Ulster (UU) Choir will perform a number of scared and inspirational corals. Under the direction of the gifted Dr Shaun Ryan the choir has gained an impressive reputation its distinctive and dramatic performances presented

in beautiful ecclesiastical settings. The choir have particular skill of tapping into the raw emotions of the audience and moving them to the point of tears. The choir is delighted to be joined by Gail Evans (piano) in performances of Morten Lauridsen’s sumptuous Lux Aeterna. Also included in the programme are works by Howard Goodall and Eric Whitacre.The 70 strong choir is comprised of

students from the University of Ulster but a UU students, staff, and choral singers from the wider community. With a wide ranging membership cross-ing class, creed and generations, the University of Ulster Choir’s existence has been instrumental in forging strong relationships both within and between the university and its wider community - ultimately enriching, immeasurably, the cultural life of the first ever desig-nated UK City of Culture 2013.

A NuMBER of dundalk bands have gotten together to raise funds for Temple Street Chil-dren’s Hospital. Boy Light’s Fire, Manifesto, Collision and Camouflage are all performing in the Spirit Store on Wednes-day April 11.

The charity event was organ-

ised by Steven O’ Leary and gerard McHugh and promises to be a fantastic night with a full bill of the areas emerging talents.

Last year Manifesto released their single “Pending’ and donated the profits to the Chil-dren’s hospital.

The three-piece ensemble are back again to help raise more funds.

Andy Cronin from Manifesto said “ We thought it’d be cool to help them out again, people should go because its only a fiver admission and its a great cause”.

Locals bands gather for Temple St fundraiser in Dundalk tonight

St Patrick’s Cathedral set to host dramatic and moving performance

Ardee Concert Band on the march in Ardee on St Patrick’s Day 2012 being led by Staff major, Fiona Reilly

Local scouts pictured on a hike in the Cooley Mountains. See Page 9


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Anniversary Birthday Remembrance

Birthday rememberance of the late John

(Jackie) Moranlate of 26 O’Hanlon Park, who’s birthday occurs on 11th April.

What you suffered you told but few

You didn’t deserve what you went

throughTired and weary you

made no fussBut tried so hard to

stay with us.Two tired eyes are

sleepingTwo willing hands

are stillThe one who worked

so hard for usIs resting at God’s will.

Always loved and never forgotten.

From your loving sons,

daughters and grandchildren.

In loving memory of Marion and

Brandyn Moran who’s anniversary

occurs on 6th April.We do not need a

special dayTo bring you

into mindBecause days with-out a thought of you

Are very hard to find.

Always loved and remembered by all your family

and friends.Anniversary mass takes place this

Saturday 14th April in the Church of the Redeemer at 10am.

Family Noticesin memoriam announcements , anniversaries, Birthday Remembrances, thanksgivings & acknowledgements.

We are now taking Family Notices.

Sean Farrell

PADRE Pio Mass & Devotions will take place on Friday April 13 in St Nicholas Church, Dundalk. Rosary at 7.15pm, Mass at 7.30pm, and blessing with Relic after Mass.

Divine Mercy on SundayApril 15 in St Nicholas. Confessions from 2pm to 3pm. Mass at 3pm followed by Adoration and Chaplet.

Padre Pio Mass

SeAN Farrell has been recently elected Chair-person of Dundalk Tour-ism Committee

Both The Dundalk Tourism Committee and The Dundalk Chamber of Commerce would like to acknowledge the hard work and significant contribution made by the outgoing Chairman Tim Mullins. Tim progressed many initiatives includ-ing the Tain Festival for which preparations are in full swing.

Newly appointed Chairman Sean Farrell paid tribute to the work and commitment Tim has made since taking office and wished him every success in the festival de-livery.

Sean is now actively seeking new members to help fashion and drive promotional activ-ity within the region as a local destination and is

Sean is new tourismchairman

keen to see representation from all walks of busi-ness life.

The committee meet at 9 am on the last Thurs-day of each month and are keen to hear from anyone on their views on a Tourism Programme, for further details please contact Catherine at The Dundalk Chamber on 042 93 36343. Alterna-tively e-mail Sean [email protected]


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A 37-yEAR-OLD man who was described as having drink “get the better of him from time to time” ad-mitted trespassing in a kitchen of a restaurant and stealing a purse from a supermarket within the space of days before Christmas.

Dundalk Court heard on Wednes-day last that the supermarket some-times made food available to those “down on their luck” and Mervyn Doyle, 35, Meadow View, Avenue Road went to Costcutters, Clanbrassil Street on December 17 last.

Judge Flann Brennan adjourned his decision for a week to see if Doy-le, who was stated to have 55 previ-ous convictions, was suitable to do community service.

Inspector Martin Beggy told that when Doyle went to Costcutters the

staff had finished and there was noth-ing left.

The defendant went behind the counter and took a ladies purse and left. He took money out of the purse and threw the purse on the ground.

The Inspector said that nine days prior Doyle entered the kitchen of the China Kitchen restaurant at Park Street and Gardai were called. He wasn’t able to give a reason why he was there.

Solicitor Frank McDonnell said that the defendant walked in the back door of the kitchen. He reimbursed the staff member of the restaurant, where he was very polite and offered no violence.

He was endeavouring to deal with his drink habit and was now backing at a course.

A NOVEL and fun idea based on the popular TV show from the 1980’s, “It’s a Knockout” is coming to Omeath. The event will take place over the May Bank Holiday week-end, Saturday and Sunday May 5 and 6 in the Omeath Sports Fields, Chapel Hill.

This is the first time ever “It’s a Knockout” has been hosted in Ire-land and the organisers are looking for clubs/organisations/charities to take part in the event. To enter you will need 10 players to make up your team. There is €2000 in prize money up for grabs.

In addition to this you have the op-portunity to raise funds for your cho-sen club/charity/organisation.

Each team consists of 10 players costing €25 per player and the main aim of this event is to raise money for Charities such as: The Irish Can-cer Society, Down Syndrome Ireland & Suicide awareness.

For this reason the organisers are asking for 10% of all sponsorship your team receives to be donated to the above charities.

Contact Cáitlín McArdle 087 9489174, Mattie 087 9917373, Ci-aran Cunningham 087 4105773.

FOLLOWING the announce-ment of a €30m Sports Capital fund last week the Louth Local Sports Partnership has organised an information workshop on the Sports Capital Programme.

Ann Marie Maher the Sport and Leisure officer for Laois County Council and who has as-sisted over 100 clubs, organisa-tions and communities to success-fully apply for and draw down

from the fund, will be present.The topics that will be covered

on the night will include eligibility for grants; completion of applica-tion forms, preparing a develop-ment plan, planning permission, and examples of good practice. The workshop is free of charge, for an overview and to download the application forms visit www.sportscapitalprogramme.ie.

Drink gets the better of man

It’s a Knockout

Information workshop on the Sports Capital Programme

Final call for carer’s awardTHE closing date for nominations in the Carers of the year Award 2012 is fast approaching. The Carers Association are making their final call for people across the county to nominate a family carer for the award.

The Carers and young Carers (u18) of the year are based on a national nomination process where members of the public, including health care professionals, nominate their chosen family carers from across Ireland. All family carers nominated will receive a commemorative certificate and four regional winners are chosen, from which one will be announced as the overall Carer of the year 2012. The award recipients, including the Young Carer of the Year 2012, will be recognised at a national presentation ceremony being held in dublin in May.

To nominate your family carer, see www.carersireland.com or call The Carers Association’s National Careline on Freefone 1800 24 07 24.


THE BuGATTI VEYRON 16.4 GRAND

SPORT VITESSE

Bugatti has pre-sented the most powerful roadster ever at the 2012 Ge-neva Motor Show. The new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse boasts a remarkable maximum torque of 1,500 Nm (at 3,000-5,000 rpm) from the 7.9-litre capacity of its W16 engine. The maximum output (1,200 hp) is reached at 6,400 rpm. These figures allow the car to accelerate from 0-62 mph from standing in 2.6 sec-onds. The top speed of 255 mph makes the four-wheel drive Grand Sport Vitesse

the fastest produc-tion roadster ever. The 199 hp increase over the Grand Sport model has been achieved by using four larger turbochargers with new intercoolers. Bu-gatti has extensively reinforced all drive-train components in order to safely trans-fer the immense forces at all times. As a consequence of the larger turbocharg-ers and the overall reduced back pres-sure, it was even pos-sible to reduce the fuel consumption slightly despite the increased output.

LOTuS EVORA REVIEWLotus has an envi-able reputation for its lightweight, fast and exciting sports cars, in the tradition

set by the compa-ny’s founder, Colin Chapman. But its past reputation for reliability has been

patchy, such that Lotus was historical-ly known by owners of its cars, jokily but with an underlying

irritation, to stand for “Loads Of Trou-ble, Usually Serious”. Its modern cars are a far cry from the charismatic but troublesome mod-els of the company’s somewhat cottage industry past. Lotus today combines a high-tech engineer-ing company along-side a small-scale, specialist high-per-formance sports car manufacturer with

its own high-speed test track at its head-quarters in Hethel, rural Norfolk. The Lotus Evora – its name de-rives from a mesh-ing of evolution and aura, but is also shared with a Portu-guese town – is an elegant 2+2 sports car that is very much in the familiar Lotus mould. Its name beginning with an E continues a long-

standing Lotus tra-dition. Elegant, light and fast, with a glass fibre body, the Evora is a thoroughly Brit-ish supercar with h e a d - s w i v e l l i n g looks. The version tested here is the Evora S, the super-charged model with a six-speed paddle-shift IPS (Intelligent Precision Shift) au-tomatic transmis-sion.


The Ferrari Cali-fornia which is now 30 kg lighter but is also more powerful by 30 bhp. Its engine delivers 483 bhp while the Sca-glietti Centre of Excellence has applied the most advanced alu-minium fabrica-

THE FERRARI CALIFORNIA HAS LOST WEIGHT FOR 2012

tion techniques to improving the chassis, signifi-cantly cutting its overall weight. Performance has been enhanced with the 0-62mph sprint now down to 3.8 seconds. C u s t o m -ers wanting a more dynamic

driving experi-ence can also opt for the Han-dling Speciale package which reduces body roll and speeds up the car’s re-sponsiveness to driver inputs. The package includes m a g n e t o r h e o -logical dampers

controlled by an even faster ECU (50 per cent re-sponse time) run-ning patented Ferrari software. Also included are stiffer springs and a new steer-ing box with a 10 per cent quicker steering ratio.


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