Hotspot Cafe Greystones – Gigs, Food & Internet Cafe

Hot Spot Cafe - Internet Coffee House – Business Centre – Wine Bar – Venue

The only café in Greystones with a seaview! And… only 2 minutes walk from the DART Station

May Bank Holiday Events at Hotspot Cafe:

Hotspot Cafe,
Mill Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow

Tel: +353(0)1 201 6888
Email: info@thehotspot.ie
Facebook: www.facebook.com/HotSpot Greystones
Web: www.thehotspot.ie

Gourmet Greystones Sunday 6th May, 2012

Workshops and Demonstrations Taking Place at various venues throughout the town

• Raw Milk Butter Making, Cheese & Dairy Talk by David Tiernan of Glebe Brethan Cheese
• Foraging with Ed Hick, 3 Q’s and Slow Food Sugarloaf Convivium
• Wine Tasting with John Wilson, Irish Times Wine Correspondent
• Growing Vegetables in a small garden with John Markham
• Black Pudding Talk & Tasting, Hands on Pork Curing & Charcuterie with Jack McCarthy and Ed Hick

Live Cooking Demonstrations Main Stage, Meridian Point

• Catherine Fulvio, Ballyknocken House
• Sunil Ghai, Ananda
• Chakra Indian Cuisine & A Caviston showcasing Mackerel
• A Caviston Seafood Cookery
• Jeff Norman, Backstage@Bels

Street Food

At various locations throughout the town including Rory Morahan  the Druid Chef Restaurants will be offering tasting dishes from their premises.

Live Music on the Street

Final of Wicklow on a Plate Cookery Competition

This is a schools based “Masterchef” style cookery competition, sponsored by Failte Ireland – the final of which will be held on the day.  For information on Wicklow on a Plate Competition contact martin.potts@failteireland.ie

Contact Details:

• Wicklow Food Producers Market  - Meridian Point
• Call  Elaine Willis on  087 131 8124
• Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/GGreystones for up to date information
• For more information on events call Gráinne Mc Loughlin on 086 8329686
• Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/gourmetgreystones

Wicklow News

Looking for local Wicklow News on events happening in and around Co Wicklow? Look no further than TheWicklowWay.ie and WhatsOnWicklow.com

Our Team are busy adding information on festivals, family fun, things to do, new businesses and more.

Our websites have been promoting County Wicklow and all of it’s beautiful towns and villages online since 2007.

Our websites include:

• WicklowBusiness.ie
• WicklowTourism.ie
• TheWicklowWay.ie & WicklowNews.ie
• WhatsOnWicklow.com
• ExploreWicklow.ie

If you would like to see your event published then contact us today at office@thewicklowway.ie

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French Polishing Services Wicklow

With the current economic climate not only are people looking ot enhance their honmes rather than buy a new one, there is also a surge in restoring old furniture and making the most of what we already have.

Adams and Daughter are a french polishing & furniture restoration professionals based in Dublin and servicing counties nationwide.

Adams provide a team of experienced French polishers in our workshop. Our in-house polishing and finishing facility provides high specification finishes to all products.

Within the polishing process we offer a wide variety of colours and finishes as well as being able to provide antique, distressed or other specialised techniques.

If your looking to restore an old piece of furniture to it’s former glory or would like a new look for your kitchen then why not give them a call on (01) 6771960 and see what you can do!

Visit them online at www.adamsanddaughter.com

Laragh, Glendalough & Hollywood News

To see the latest local community notes please follow the links below:

Glendalough Notes >>

Hollywood Notes>>

From now on our community notes will be available on the WicklowTourism.ie website.

Titanic Centre Belfast Opens Today

This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Titanic. The new Titanic Centre in Belfast opens today and remains open throughout the summer with daily tours.

Titanic Belfast® will be a “must see” visit in any tour of Belfast and Northern Ireland. It is located in the heart of Belfast, on the slipways where RMS Titanic was built…
http://www.titanicbelfast.com/Home.aspx

Our good friend Terry of HilltopTreks has expanded his tours to include Titanic Day Tours.

Leaving Dublin City Centre with pick ups at Dublin Tourist Office, Suffolk St: – 7:55am & the  Gresham Hotel, O’Connell St: – 8:10am, this Titanic tour to the new Titanic Centre in Belfast is sure to be interesting and a bit of fun!

About The Tour:

We will visit the new Titanic Visitor Center in the heart of Belfast city.

We will also visit many interesting locations along the way giving an insight to some of the events that lead to Belfast becoming the ship building capital of the British Empire.

Drogheda – Historical Norman city of the mouth of the river Boyne, the siege of Oliver Cromwell

Mellifont Abbey – The first Cistercian monastery in Ireland founded in 1142 by St Malachy of Armagh, its most unusual feature is the octagonal Lavabo c. 1200.

Monasterboice – Monasterboice is said to have been founded by St. Buithe (d. 520), a follower of St. Patrick, in the late 5th century AD. Some of the finest examples of High Crosses in Ireland.

Belfast and the Titanic Visitor Centre – Tour of Belfast, its past and present visiting both the Falls Road and the Shankill Rd with a stop for lunch before visiting the Titanic quarter of the city.

We highly recommend trying it out!

(Other Pickups locations are available upon request.)

You can book online with group rates available at http://www.titanicdaytours.ie/book-titanic-tour-tickets/ or visit them on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Titanic-Day-Tours/208104989264398

Make Your Good Friday Great

Full Moon Walk taking place in Enniskerry on Good Friday April 6th
Make Your Good Friday Great with A Full Moon Walk.

Meet: Enniskerry at @ 8pm. (Beside the Clock Tower)
Price €25

Bus available @7pm from Dublin Tourism Office Suffolk St  €10 return
For more info or to make a booking contact Terry www.hilltoptreks.ie/fullmoon.htm

Citizens Information Bus coming to a town near you

CIC Bus Dates Co Wicklow:

Bray Citizens Information Centre will team up with Bray Area Partnership’s Local Employment Service on Tuesday 13th and 14th March 2012 at Bray Civic Centre.

County Wicklow Citizens Information Service is delighted to announce the return of the highly successful Citizens Information Service Bus initiative – an accessible, mobile information and advice unit for the public.

This initiative has been put in place to provide information on civil and social rights and entitlements, particularly to those who are affected by the economic downturn.

“Because of the current economic situation and cut backs in public finances it is crucially important that people know where they can go to get information on their rights and entitlements” said Martina Cronin, Development Manager with Co Wicklow Citizens Information Service.

Citizens Information Centres (CICs) can give advice to people who have recently become redundant, unemployed or are having income difficulties for the first time. In addition, the needs of vulnerable people in society, such as those on low incomes, people with disabilities, immigrants and older people, are becoming more acute. They are greatly exposed during tough economic times.

“People’s needs have become more complex in areas such as personal finance,debt, employment rights, unemployment and access to services“ explained Martina. The numbers accessing services has increased exponentially 17,868 callers into the centres in Co. Wicklow and 21,723 queries in 2011 compared to 16,445 callers and 19,302 queries in 2009.

There is always a concern that the hard to reach are not being accessed and this is why the CIC mobile unit initiative is important.

It allows the Citizens Information Service in County Wicklow, along with other agencies such as Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) and Bray Area Partnership’s Local Employment Service, the opportunity to travel to areas where there are no services available and to provide a one-stop-shop for all information needs.

“When the bus is at the Civic Centre in Bray it allows us to meet with and give out information to people on signing on days, some whom might not normally come into our offices” said Mary O Carolan ,Employment Services Co coordinator with Bray Area Partnership.

“It gives us an opportunity to offer a holistic service where our customers have all of their information needs met under the one roof by different service providers”.

Bray Tues 13th & Wed 14th March 2012

Bray Citizens Information Centre will team up with Bray Area Partnership’s Local Employment Service on Tuesday 13th and 14th March 2012 at Bray Civic Centre.

Wicklow Town Thursday 15 march 2012

On Thursday 15th March the CIC bus will be in Wicklow Town at the HSE offices from 11am to 3pm and Citizens Information with Arklow MABS will be able to help families who have financial, housing or family concerns.

Tinahely Friday 16 March 2012

For the first time the bus will visit Tinahely on Friday morning 16thMarch. The objective is to try to reach out to the rural areas of the County to ensure that everyone has easy access to good quality information, advice and advocacy.

Arklow Tues 20 march 2012

Then it moves to Shelton Abbey in Arklow on Tuesday 20th March from 10am to 1.00pm where both CIC and MABS services will be available.

Carnew Wed 21 March 2012

On Wednesday morning 21st March the bus will move to Carnew and assist people with their enquiries.

“Professional staff deliver the service and it’s free confidential and impartial with no need for a prior appointment. The service is purely for the convenience of those who do not normallyhave easy access to information services around the county or who would find it hard to visit the main offices”, concludes Martina. She adds that the mobile unit is fully accessible and that everyone is welcome to drop in.

Co Wicklow Citizens Information Service provides a free and confidential information service on a people’s civil and social rights and entitlements on topics such as Social Welfare, Employment,Health, Consumer Issues and more.

We also have centres in Arklow,Wicklow Town, Baltinglass, Blessington, Glendalough and support the information service in Carnew.

www.citizensinformation.ie

Older Peoples Choir Co Wicklow

Wednesday 14th March

Are you over 55 and interested in becoming part of a County Wicklow Older Peoples Choir (County Wicklow Get Vocal Choir).

Rehearsals will take place in 5 locations  across Wicklow and will come together for a performance in June.  Rehearsals are beginning in the Brockagh Centre on Wednesday mornings 11am until 12.30 p.m. starting Wednesday 14th March.

For further information contact Ann Nolan on 087 9723059.

(Get Vocal is a project led by Wicklow County Arts Office,  County Wicklow VEC, Mermaid and Courthouse Arts Centre)

Irish daily Mail Fan Van

The Irish daily Mail will be visiting Wicklow Gaol this Wednesday from 12pm – 2pm to show off the amazing Fan Van and get signatures from Wicklow Soccer fans who wish to show their support for the Irish Team as they head over to Europe (see info below and attached).

Please pop down to show your support and have a look at the amazing prize that is up for grabs. This is a public event, so feel free to bring your kids, neighbours and local clubs!

Let’s show the Irish Squad full support from Wicklow Town.

show the Irish Squad full support from Wicklow Town