Contact

Mountmellick Development Association , Irishtown, Mountmellick, Co. Laois.
Phone : +353 (0)57 8624525
Fax: +353 (0)57 8644343
E-mail: info@mountmellickdevelopment.com

MDA News Updates

Craft Workshops 2012

Mountmellick Museum hope to run the following workshops over the coming months!
Places will be limited so please use the contact details below to book your place.

Patchwork/Quilting - Date not set

Card-making - Date not set

Basket-making - Date not set

Ribbon Embroidery - Date not set

Mountmellick Embroidery - Date not set

Feltmaking - Date not set

If your interested in any of the above workshops or require any further information please contact:
Kathleen Comerford - 057 8624525
email: themuse@mdaltd.ie

Mountmellick Drama Festival

Under the auspices of the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland
(Main Sponsor: Mountmellick Credit Union)
2nd - 9th March, 2012 Community Arts Centre - 8.00pm

2nd March 2012 - Conna Dramatic Society (Cork)
"Dancing at Lughnasa" - Brian Friel

03rd March 2012 - Prosperous Dramatic Society (Kildare)
"Deadline" - Robert Massey

04th March 2012 - Compantas Lir (Claregalway, Galway)
"The Curious Savage" - John Patrick

05th March 2012 - Sliabh Aughty Drama Group (Clare)
"Thy Will Be Done" - Michael Carey

06th March 2012 - Kilmuckridge Drama Group (Wexford)
"There came a Gypsy Riding" - Frank McGuinness

07th March 2012 Bunclody/Kilmyshall DG (Wexford)
"By the Bog of Cats" - Marina Carr

08th March 2012 - Thurles Drama Group (Tipperary)
"The Seafarer" - Conor McPherson

09th March 2012 - Ferns Dramatic Society (Wexford)
"The Importance of being Ernest" - Oscar Wilde

Season Tickets (8 Nights) €50.00 (Concessions €25.00)

Nightly Tickets €10.00 (Concessions €5.00)
Further Information/Bookings contact: Tricia 086 1604363

Mountmellick Drama Group

The Mountmellick Drama Group are also putting on Tom Murphy's Play
"A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant"
Thursday 16th, Friday 17th and Saturday 18th February, 2012 in the
Community Arts Centre
Nightly at 8.00p.m.

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR
€10.00 each / €5.00 concessions

Splash of Cash Winners
MDA Health Library
Mountmellick Embroidery Classes
Unislim
MYDC Trip to England

Splash of Cash

Draw takes place every Wednesday morning in the MDA
Top Prize €500 & four prizes of €50.00 every week!!

This Weeks Winners! 25/01/2012

Charlotte Griffin, Mountmellick - €500.00
Tony Singleton, Kildare - €50.00
Johnny Lee C/O Cummins - €50.00
Tom Hayden, Nurney - €50.00
Barbara Lalor, Mountmellick - €50.00

Next draw takes place on the 01/02/2012

Lines can be bought from the Reception desk at the MDA
Kirean Melia - Kildare area

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MDA Health Library

The MDA have opened a new Health Library!! We have a wide range of books dealing with various Health Issues, which you can view at home or in the MDA.

Membership is free!!
Forms are available at the MDA Reception Desk!!

Opening Hours 9 am - 5 pm
Closed or lunch 1 pm - 2 pm

Mountmellick Development Association

Mountmellick Development Association recently presented a second Junior Basketball Wheelchair to the Clonalsee Basketball Wheelchair Group.

The wheelchair was purchased under the
Sport le Cheile Project which finished this year. Aislinn Ui Bhuachalla and Kathleen Moore of MDA
presented the Wheelchair to the group who are supported by Gareth Culleton of Laois Sports Partnership.

Mountmellick Embroidery Classes

Mountmellick Embroidery classes resume on September 20th in the top floor of the Musuem & run until March 27th 2012 from 8 - 10pm every Tuesday.
Both Begginers & Advanced stitchers are welcome

Starter Kit €15.00 & €5.00 p.n. there after.
For more information contact Dolores Dempsey Phone - 057 8624525
email - dolores@mdaltd.ie

Unislim

Every Wednesday in the Ground floor of the Museum.
Morning class: 9.30 - 11am & Evening class: 6.30 - 8pm

For more information contact:
Nicola for the Morning class @ 087 2281767
Debbie for the evening class @ 086 1720055

Classes are also held in the Clonaslee Heritage Centre
Thursdays @ 8.30 pm

MYDC Trip to England

Ten members of Mountmellick Youth Development Centre (MYDC) recently travelled to Billingshurst, England as part of a youth democracy exchange programme. The trip took place from Saturday October 23rd to Monday October 25th. The aim of this project is to provide an opportunity for young people to exchange cultural identities with one another and a group of young people from Billingshurst will return to Mountmellick in April 2011.
Sixteen year old Tiffany Lawless is chairperson of New Directions , the group that has been set up by members of MYDC to spearhead this venture. “This project is of great interest to us as we have learnt the different roles required to set up a project such as this. We have enjoyed the meeting young people from England and exchanging ideas on life of young people in our communities”.

Project leader of MYDC, Audrey O’ Reilly says, “The participants have prepared for this trip for several months and have studied the importance of democracy and social equality amongst young people at local, national and European level". We are very grateful for the support which we have received from all our funders!!
Mountmellick Youth Development Centre was set up in 1997 to provide educational, social and cultural programmes for young people in Mountmellick.

For more information contact:
Tiffany Lawless, Kirsty Guilfoyle, Patrycja Muzolf and Amy Brophy at:

mydc@mdaltd.ie or newdirectionsmydc@gmail.com