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

The Solas Lae Cabaret:

to celebrate the light of Spring  -  on Fri, 27 April 2012, 9pm, €10 adm

The Cáca Milis Cabaret, back from its trip last month for the Second Annual Cabaret Ceilteach in Wales, will be rocking the Wexford Arts Centre this coming Friday night again with a little something to celebrate the longer evenings.  Helena Mulkerns present a packed evening of the arts, as usual, and will be backed by fabulous Featherhead Trio, who will play out the evening with their own magic.

Special Guests are Artist and Writer Waylon White Deer of Choctaw Nation and Kate Dempsey – Diva of the Poetic Persuasion!!

To kick start the evening, we’ll have the lovely Eva Barbiarczyk of Khelashi Dance followed by Chanteuse Cat Black in fine form, along with fellow singer-songwriter Shane Hurley, who is celebrating the release of a brand new CD (available at the show).  Our Ciné Sweetcake is a beautiful Bealtaine short film by award-winning Director Conor Horgan and dancer David Bolger called, “Swimming with My Mother.”

Waylon White Deer – more familiarly known to Irish friends as Gary – has exhibited his paintings worldwide, and is also a Choctaw tribal chanter and dance master.  His non-fiction works include a history of the Choctaw Nation, Chahta Bilia Hoke; an Overview of Choctaw History and a soon-to-be published novel, Spirits in the Rain. Writer and Poet Kate Dempsey, whose poems “The Dinky Poetry Book, Some Poems,” was published by Moss Editions in 2011, writes the popular blog Emerging Writer.blogspot.com and also founded the dazzling, delectable Poetry Divas.

For bookings, see:  www.wexfordartscentre.ie or phone  053-912-3764
Please see more at The Cáca Milis website at:   www.cacamilis.org

Pre loved designer and vintage clothes sale

Pre loved designer and vintage clothes sale this Saturday in Greystones St.Patrick’s church hall

A Pre-loved and Unworn Designer, vintage & high street clothes sale is taking place on the 28th of April in Greystones St.Patrick’s church hall from 11-5 pm

There will be many ladies from the fashion industry, Designers, Stylist, Models and stylish women clearing out their overflowing wardrobes and flogging there beautiful wares at a great prices so drop in and pick yourself up a dream outfit at a fraction of its cost.

Just some of the Labels that will be on offer are YSL, Alexander McQueen, Lainey Keogh, Diane von Furstenberg, Jimmy choo and vintage clothes and furs along with some high street lines so something for everyone with every budget.

There will be a rock n roll dj and a tea rooms serving afternoon tea and cakes.

26th June Midsummer run from Alive Outside

Sign up to our MIDSUMMERS 10KM RUN in Killruddery House & Gardens, Bray, Co Wicklow Tuesday 26th June.

There is LIMITED numbers still available for the early bird price of €16 and after that it is €19 so follow the link and register your name today for an event thtat is not be to missed. www.aliveoutside.ie/MidSummerRun.html

The third annual Midsummers 10KM Run, supporting Greystones Cancer Support, is a magical race around the beautifully landscaped Killruddery House & Gardens estate in Bray, Co Wicklow (www.killruddery.com), taking place at 7:00pm on Tuesday 26th June 2012, right in the heart of the summer.

The Venue
With a stunning location nestled between the Sugar Loaf Mountain and Dublin Bay, Killruddery House & Gardens is one of Ireland’s best kept secrets. Widely known as the “Gateway to the Garden of Ireland”.

The Course
The 10KM course will be the same as in 2011, starting in front of the magnificient Killruddery House, one of the most successfully restored EIizabethan-Revival mansions in Ireland.

The course is primarily an off-road trail course – the perfect opportunity to get off the pavement and add variety to your run training. Instead of cars and noisy traffic, you will have the pleasant sight of Killruddery’s farm livestock in the neighbouring fields! We recommend that you wear trail runners because, if the course is wet, you may lose traction if you’re wearing normal road runners.

Entry Fee

• Early Bird 10K Reg Price = €16. Available to the first 100 individuals to sign up
• Regular 10K Reg Price = €19
• Walk / Jog 5K Reg Price = 15
• Closing date for online registrations is 23:59 on Wednesday 20th June.
• You will also be able to register for €20 cash on the night between 17:30 and 18:30.

Visit http://www.aliveoutside.ie/MidSummerRun.html for more details

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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Traditional Ginger Beer Stockists in Wicklow

Sullivan’s traditional Irish ginger beer is the first alcoholic Irish ginger beer to be launched on to the market from the new Sullivan’s range.

This distinctively Irish range specialises in producing traditional and nostalgic beverages for the modern day refreshment connoisseur.

Without doubt the mere suggestion of ginger beer will evoke numerous happy memories for many people, which in itself is a great incentive to enjoy a chilled glass of Sullivan’s. At Sullivan’s we are taking time to ensure a revival of such unforgetable drinks are not lost as a distant memory.

At Sullivan’s we encourage our consumers to actively engage with us via our email address on our ”contact us” page, and to keep an eye on our ”where to buy” section of this website for our ever growing list of retail outlets where you can purchase Sullivan’s.

Furthermore, give us a ‘‘like” and ”share” on facebook, or ”follow” us on twitter to keep up to date with upcoming promotions, events, competitions, prizes and all things beer!!

Sullivan’s now available in Wicklow in;

• Quinn’s Spar Supermarket, Main Street, Baltinglass
• Morrin’s Centra Supermarket, Main Street Dunlavin

If you would be interested in stocking our Ginger Beer Please contact us today on +353(0)59 9175220 or via our contact page here >>

Locked into Devils Glen

Funny story… myself and my sister went for a gorgeous walk in Devils Glen , Ashford yesterday ( Saturday 14th April). As we drove in we acknowledged the sign that read: Gates Close at 5pm.

We drove up to the carpark as we wanted to see if the masses of bluebells had come out yet.. ( not quite is the answer) and then set off for a long walk down to the waterfall and back…HOWEVER, we got a teeny bit confused and ended up walking for two hours whereupon when we returned we realised that it was now 5.45 and the gates may be closed.

We drove as fast we could ( 25mph on that road) and lo and behold the gates were indeed locked tight. What to do?…

Unfortunately there is no notice of what to do in this case- the notice board does have a contact tel for the Coillte Newtownmountkennedy office, but that’s no use if its after 5pm or a weekend!

The answer:

We rang Ashford garda station who took our number and got back to us via Wicklow garda station, The Wicklow station did indeed have a key and woud be on their way out to us promptly! PHEW!

Ten minutes later we were free again with thanks to the two guards who came out to open the gate ( in the rain)

So a HUGE Thank You to the Wicklow guards and I hope this info can be of help to some other unfortunate souls in the future!

Wicklow Guards: +353(0)404 60140

Still, was an adventure my sis won’t forget!

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.

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