The Stag (part 1)

Just recovered from a magic weekend in Berlin. Not going into any details but here is a photo showing what a civil weekend it was.

On the roll of honour: John, Dave, Benny, Gearoid, Cian, Murph, Rich, Gaz, Tim, Phil, Bubbles, Omar, Aidan, Niall and Will.
It's the girls turn next!

Wedding stationery

For anyone getting married and looking for invitations I would highly recommend checking out Debbie Jenkins website. Debbie runs a hand-made invitations business from her home in Wales and the final product is excellent. See for yourself...Debbie and her team are a pleasure to deal with and Lynne and I would like to say thanks for a job well done.

Hotel rooms

Hi all,

Most of you will now have received your invites and may be wondering about booking your accommodation for the night.

One of the rooms at the Celtic Ross

At present I have the rooms block-booked so please contact me to confirm your room. I'll deal with the hotel. Otherwise you can wait for about another week, when I will be releasing any unreserved rooms. At that point you can contact the hotel direct.
Thanks.

The Boogie Band

The music for the wedding is going to be great. We have been lucky enough to secure the services of The Boogie Band, who we have seen and enjoyed in the past. For more info, check out their website here.

Bit too geeky?

For anyone using Sat Nav, the GPS coordinates for the hotel are: 9.03 West & 51.576 North

Cork City

There will be a few strangers to Cork attending the wedding (although not many) so I wanted to add a note on Cork City for anyone coming in the day before or making a weekend of it.

First of all the airport. Only ten minutes from the city centre, Cork airport is very city access friendly. Ryanair and Aer Lingus are the main carriers coming in with 6-7 flights a day from London, as well as links to other parts of Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.Cork City is in the south of Ireland and the main city is an island. The link will bring you to the Irish tourist board site which gives a good account of things to see and do. And there are plenty of places to stay both in and around town.
The Honan Chapel is on the UCC campus, which is just off the bottom left corner of this map. The trip from the city to the Celtic Ross Hotel is about an hour and ten minutes by car (51 miles). If you have tie on your hands going via Kinsale along the coast road is a stunning spin.

Staying nearby

In addition to the Celtic Ross Hotel there are a couple of other accommodation options in Rosscarbery.

Celtic Cottages are based a short walk (4-5 minutes approx) from the hotel and offer accommodation to groups of up to six. Prices range from €45-70 per head for the night, depending on how many share. For more information and booking details, go to http://www.celticcottages.ie.

There are also a number of B&B's within striking distance.

Name - Proprietor - Distance - Phone
Ethan House - Ms. O'Donovan - 0.15 mile - 00353-234-8795
Clybee Patricia - MacCurtain - 0.15 mile - 00353-86-8916663
Kilcor - Mary O'Donovan - 0.25 mile - 00353-233-1793

Others available on request. Contact us by comment or by email: yednnek@gmail.com or lyn_uli@yahoo.com.