New Childcare Facility

It was with great delight that we learned recently of the provision of additional funding for the proposed childcare facility for the parish. We will now be able to forge ahead quiet quickly with the construction of the building.
There is a considerable demand for this facility, many enquiries have been made as to when if it might be built. Well it will, and the site is situated on land behind the tennis courts at the Sports Complex.

Access to the building will be through the car park at the rear of the Complex.. This will be a very safe place for children
and parents and there is no danger from traffic as there would be had access been from a public road.
It is planned to have full day care at the centre from early morning at 7.30am to evening at 6.30pm five days a week and fifty weeksper year.

Welcoming the decision to go ahead and build the centre Breda Byrne who runs the present playschool and is a member of the committee chaired by John Leahy said that "It is very hard to put in to words the joy I feel with the news of the approval of funding for our new purpose built childcare centre it is just wonderful. It will benefit so many people in our community and catchment area."

"The facility will be a full day care which will cater for babies, waddlers, toddlers, pre-school and after school children. Up to fifty children at any one time and will facilitate working parents with the opening times of 7.30am to 6.30pm." "It will enable children from the area to live and go to school and stay in their own community rather than travel to other towns or go to Cork City for childcare. It will provide parents with new opportunities
either to return to education, training, or employment enabling them them to leave their children with caring qualified staff in an environment that will meet the holistic needs of their children and the needs of parents as they arise" states Breda.

For over fifteen years Breda has provided a quality service to families in the area this service will not be lost as it will merge in to the new facility.
Congratulations to all involved in this worthy project, people from various parts of the parish are on the committee which is chaired by John Leahy, a great deal of hard work and planning has gone in to
bringing the project to this happy stage. We will, when this project is complete, as a community council have
accomplished the provision of a full range of services which benefit people of all ages within the community. That is as it should be, without the support and goodwill of the people of this parish and beyond we would be unable to provide many of these facilities and for that support we are indeed grateful.