Dr. Nuki from East Care Guard, the focus. No, we have passed. You have to introduce us to people from Kekitian who are arrayed here in front of us. Yeah, we are joined by Jim Moroni with chairman of the Education Development Association. Olivia King is secretary and Mike Organ was a long-term chairman, but he stepped back a bit from the company, you know, but of course he's still involved. You're welcome to scavenge the community earlier. Thanks, Pat. Thank you, Pat and Jim. Of course, the development of Kekitian, you're going to have an area very close to two big cities, maybe in Shenania, Port and Ireland, Mike, and it's a nice place for people to live and they're only talking minutes away from where it goes. Well, it is actually, it's very convenient in actual fact. You're in very short distance, especially to Shannon, where we ourselves work for a number of years and who's very convenient with the boss gone through in the early stages and then, you know, but it is very convenient. But it's developing as well. You know, as time goes on, Kekitian is developing. And there's a lot of history associated with the villager course, you know, and going back even from a community point of view, it was very, very strong in community activity. We had went in Attira and a lot of those people have passed on. But we hope to be carrying on the mantler ourselves, you know, and we get a lot of help, you know, with Gueva. We have a very active and good committee as well, because we've a lot done, I suppose, since I remember taking over in 1999 and 2000 and 2001, and I suppose started from there. The carry-on from went in Attira started on from there, you know. I suppose, Mike, the waste water facilities put in in 1999 were a big addition to the villages as well, where you could build housing development and all that as well. Yeah, there were, there was a huge asset to the area. And I think we benefit a lot by that, because we got people back from, you had a rural housing, started up a development here around just before that, and then there was another relation to other housing estates that continued on from there, you know. But unfortunately, it looks like we're coming to the end of that term of the capacity of the system. And I think it needs to be upgraded. But there's a few other issues that we've been talking to, the Cloud County Council about in relation to that as well, that because the fact that we're underground here, we know a lot of what's happening. And I think it doesn't mean a huge investment at all. I think it could be resolved by some minor investments, you know. There was a bit of disappointment with the accountability and around the area with the turn down of the 61 new houses and the total orders. There was actually, yeah, there was. That was disappointing because, you know, every so many years you need an influx of people, I suppose, to improve the community and where you've got, when the original housing estates started in the '70s and '80s, then you need an influx of new people again. And I think that would have been a big asset to the area going forward, you know. And a big asset to the school. I know that even the school is the point of time is going very, very well because we're at our highest numbers at this point of time, but I'm sure by the time that development would have been complete, it would have added a lot more, you know, to the community and young families to the community, you know, young people, you know. And when there, where's more of a treatment campus between that time, was it a bit short-sighted? They didn't stand for the future. And they say that they can't do it, they can't do it anywhere. The capacity is at its limits, you know. But I personally think it could, if work was done and a survey was carried out, which we have spoken to the council about recently, it would have eaten there recently because there's developments going on now with the National School and that's associated with some issues with the stormwater and the foul water, you know. I was supposed to eat and I'd have to go there. Of course, it was the paper back and I was, I think I had been talking to you about it on a while to get you on the program. I've just, this is a bit funny here now. The concrete began discussions with Council Planner's in 2020, which I do look at seeing proposals for residential development on the site to planning stage. Intel's sketches, designs, layouts for the site were discussed by an area planner in late 2020. The scheme was amended and adjusted and the elements from other developments in the committee were taken board, which were requested by the planners as a view to ensure the design were agreed, nudging and application. You could imagine with the planner discussed with the company, and didn't they turn down the application? Yeah, it's something that I suppose we're not. It is a strange kind of situation. I believe that the Irish water was that raised the issue subsequent to the planning application going in. Yeah, yeah. That Irish water itself lodged the appeal or objection or concern, I suppose, about the capacity of the system rather than the Council itself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that might be, just plain devil's advocate. That might be where the planners didn't. I wonder, is there much to be done in relation to the system to bring it, we'll call it, to increase the capacity? Well, in my personal view of what we have seen down through the years, and I know that the system problems there has been, and I discussed it, we discussed it recently with a meeting with the Democratic Council Engineer, and some others as well in relation to what could be done. And there's something else that's ongoing, discussions at the moment. And it's something that I think the County Council will have to carry out a proper survey of the whole street, because there are issues, there have been issues with people, the community complaining about how the drains, the problem with the drains and the problem with the sewer system, and the others developing from that up along the street. So that has gone in, and I know it is with our elected representatives and our engineer, and I think if a proper survey was carried out, we'd be able to determine, and I think we have more capacity than what they're actually seeing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As far as we move on from there, we won't self adhere anyway, but it's just on here and I'm highlighted as well. And I suppose, Jim, speaking is an issue in education village as well, and speaking controls maybe. It is, Pat, oh yeah, it is, you know. This is something that we've been trying to find a solution to for years now, years, and to be honest, nobody's come up with one, and nobody's really listening. Just to say this Thursday, next, at half seven here, in Calcucian Cultural Centre, there is a public meeting to discuss again, for the onteenth time traffic coming through Calcucian, the speed is incredible that cars pass through. You know, look, the cars are actually increasing on the road. Speed is a problem all over the country. I mean, there isn't a week goes by where we don't hear a news, somebody lives in their life. And what we're trying to do is be proactive as opposed to reactionary, you know, before somebody gets seriously injured or worse in Calcucian, you know. Calcucian is unusual in clear in that you have over kilometer of a straight run from one side before you meet another significant bend to slow you down. There's nothing to slow you down in Calcucian. And we're just looking for help, serious help. Yeah, yeah, and it's possible to be very busy, especially in the morning and the evening time. It is, yeah. I thought it is. Before a walk and after a walk. Yeah, and on either side of Calcucian, you have numerous large towns and villages, people like, you know, Calcucian is like a thoroughfare for getting for me to be for a walk in the morning, get home in the evening. Everyone's in a hurry to go out to work. Everyone's in a hurry to get home. And there's nothing to actually slow you down. And it's not just the main village, the main run through Calcucian. It's actually the national school as well. It's a serious problem. You know, people want to be able, you know, kids want to be able to walk in a footpath through the village from a shop to go home without actually being afraid. And sometimes in Calcucian, if you're even walking on the path, the speed of the car at the pass alongside you is frightening. It's incredible, you know. Nobody seems to be listening. And actually, in fact, I know for an incident last night where there was a, as it happens for in the morning, a car passed at high speed. I know, I've wakened a number of people as well, where, where it was probably travelling at over a hundred kilometers an hour. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I was just in the outskirts of the, of the, of the, on the, the, the middle's road there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the other thing is that I suppose the playground, the playground and, and the, the, the national school are situations across the road from one another. And the speed gone through there is unbelievable, you know. Like, like, the solutions exist. We just need somebody with the will to want to get it done and listen to us. Because before we're actually reacting to something terrible that has happened, you know. Yeah. And are we, are we talking about speed bumps? Or are we talking about, I know there's a, in scariff, there's a table inserted. There's another table down near Daley's cross. Yeah. Well, that's, that's, we'll definitely still hold. Yeah. Well, Jim, we, we had an attempt at a, a raised table in the middle equation about two years ago. And it was an attempt, I would say, because I hear Mike laughing in the background there. Because I think you could hit this thing, I'd say, at a hundred kilometers an hour. And you'd easily, softly go over it. It, it wasn't, it wasn't nothing. It shouldn't have been done. It was an attempt. That's all it was. So look at there, there's so many solutions out there. You know, I mean, as the old saying goes, you know, we could put men on the moon. This shouldn't be that difficult to come up with a solution. You know, they do exist. Aesthetics should really go out the window when you're talking about kids and trying to save people. Aesthetics just, it, it can't be, it can't hold the subject, you know. What can, can, can, that's probably what the, the, the, the, in our villages would probably be the life. It would help. It would help. But the speed, and I'd like, like, what Jim was saying there, the, the, the table ramps, I think, at the future. Because I see one number of other villages, there's one above the nine just before the school. It's perfect, you know, and you will slow down. There's no, there's no way that you'll, you'll, you'll go through high speed. If you do, you won't do it a second time. You know, and even the one in Scariff now, the one in Scariff, it's actually excellent as well, you know. That table ramp. I agree. I'm just saying recently I, I, I had reason to drive down to County Cork and the roads that it took me to the back. It was a lot of background. Small village, I went through three or four small village, just like Calcichian. And every single one of them had numerous speed ramps. And I had to slow down to the point of about 20 kilometers an hour to get through it. You go up and down. There were several of them. So I don't know if it's a council rule, maybe from council to council, county to county. They don't like them, but I've seen them and they're effective and they work. So there are, there is the solutions are there. There's just a way to get this done before we're talking about something else. You wonder, it wonder is it funding as well, because we've asked for funding, you know, you've, that's what we've done with the Calconic Council. And funding is, is an issue here as well. The one, one problem I see here is that Calcichian is not in the Clara area, where I think there would be more funding available if we were in the Clara area. It's in, it's in our parish, right? Yeah, yeah. In our parish, the middle is right. But we haven't had any Calcichian. Oh. And I think that's the reasons for that. And the people who say, I would share a year away, which it is, we have plenty, there's no difference between the, the value of the land here and anywhere else, the quality of the land. But because I think we were originally in the, in the Shannon Municipal District. We weren't in the Caledume Municipal District. And that's when we got, we got divided. Yeah. That's when we got divided. And it was never returned. Yeah. I think we should have, we should be in the Clara area. And there probably would be more funding that way, you know, because very little funding has come through here. You know, since 1999. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And powder, just to repeat there again, Thursday next, it's the 5th of September, half seven here in the Cultural Center. It's a public meeting. We've asked all our local representatives to be here. And we'll, we'll go again. Very good. Thank you. Olivia, you're a West player woman. woman, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're down the side now here in Kincushion and there was secondly of the local comedy here and I suppose doing great work as well. So maybe you'll give us a smart bit of history from the west. Thanks, Paro. Yeah, I moved here Ross about 18 years ago now, so still a blowing. I suppose speaking to the point that we were talking about earlier about Kincushion being central, that's how I finished up here as well because I'm working in Shannon. So and it's easily commutable to Limerick Arenas as well. So yeah, I'm one of those people that proves that exactly why we're here. And then I got asked to help out with the playground fundraising at a, you know, just help out with a little fundraiser here or there. And then it was like, get involved in the big Protestant church restoration which resulted in the building we're in here today. And somehow it's become my second job. Yeah, yeah. Actually, it's a beautiful building there. It's a credit to the people involved in getting the project going here. The Protestant church is a smashing building for, you know, for the community. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I suppose we've lost sports facilities as well, Jim. Sports. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You know, between the Holland and... Well, we have. Holland and handball and soccer and of course the other thing now I think which we're working with the National School. And we have gone in partnership, I suppose, in relation to the AstroTurf. We've built an AstroTurf pitch in cooperation with the school. And it's been a huge asset, I think, because you've got a lot of, where it's school activity during the school hours. But it's community after that, you know. Yeah. And it's open, it isn't right now, but up to us, but it's July, up to the end of July, and up to the holiday period. And it's gone back now again, it's starting to be booked again now for September, right? And it's from, there's a huge amount of work been done in underage training there, you know. So a lot of the underage soccer, Holland, you see, we have a subcommittee of made up of all of the sports bodies. And we coordinate that, you know. And I think it's a huge asset, you know. You were telling me before we came on air that you're looking at another historic building in the village. We are upgrading it. We are in actual fact, we're, you see a bit of activity shortly where when we were looking at developing for a community activity center here, we looked at the old school, which was closed, officially closed from being in school since 1960, and we looked at this building as well. And so we decided, to a lot of work anyway, we decided on, we settled on this one, and we got a grant for this one. And we've developed this, so now we're left with the old school building. It was very active at one stage. It was a community, it was a youth center, it was, that this was bad men, big bad men activity down there. And we even had a mass there while the church was being renovated, you know. So it's back now sitting there, and it needs to be, I think it needs to be developed. And we're working on this now where the three of us are working on this, on developing that. So we have a couple of ideas. There will be more, we want to get more feedback from the community. We definitely have one which is started is the men's shed, so they'll definitely get a space in there. The youth space I think is another activity where do we get feedback from the community there as well. And at Darwin, hopefully now, we're having, I know that Olivia will describe an activity next weekend, which we hope to get a lot of feedback as well, you know, get feedback from the communities, or what might be needed as well for that, you know. Ogon Lord developed their old school. They did, yeah, they did a fabulous job. They did a fabulous job. And it's really a credited move there, so it can be done. That's right, so it can be done, it can be done, definitely. And we're working with development officers in Clark County Council, and, you know, the steps to go on with our experience then going through here. This, I think we should end, of course, the help we get from the community. Because when we were developing this, we got a huge amount of help from all of the communities. Didn't we, Olivia, was there? Yeah, the community fully supported this, and we hope to engage them again for the next one. Yep. And you'll be doing something next weekend. Next weekend, and yeah, Mike has mentioned we're having, well, we're kind of combining two events together. We're holding a pop-up shop here next Saturday. So you wouldn't be here next Saturday, but basically we have a number of safety repairs to make to the playground. So we've got Clark County Council funding, but we have a shortfall. So we are doing a pop-up shop to kind of raise someone, pick up the balance. And we did it last year, and it was very successful, and it was very popular. And the community has asked if it was coming back again. So it's a great opportunity. And if anyone has any pre-loved clothes or shoes or books or anything, anything at all, we'll sell it on. And it's safe stuff going to landfill, and it also gives people the opportunity to maybe bag a bargain, which we all like. And as well as that, we're hosting an event, or combining an event where we're displaying the different activities that are available in the parish, all the sports clubs, and have been invited, and we'll be advertising all our own activities, and just encouraging people to get involved. And I've seen it myself around the village in the last, I would say, two years. We have a huge number of houses have changed hands, and we have a lot of new residents from across the country, across the county and across the world really. So just to invite them in and introduce ourselves, and introduce all the other clubs as well. I'm probably from 11 o'clock on, where we're still finalizing the details. Keep an eye on the cultural centre Facebook page for the final details. I think now it is critical for all organisations within the parish to work together, because you need that to go forward really, and cooperation, and not because at the end of the day, same people involve the same parents, involve the same children involved. It is to everybody's benefit. Just before we go on our time, it's fairly close to being up. There's an upgrade there on the Christian school as well. That's right. Yeah, in actual fact I know that Kana would be here as well, but he said that with his family, he's engaged in small ones. I know that there's two extra rooms being built and added on to it, and that will take up all of the hours. After developing the astrotorf, we're going to extend the playground down by the astrotorf as well, so it will be a combination of the ones, but that'll be a big asset now as well. And of course, increased car parking space as well. That's right, there is, you know, which is necessary. How many children have gone to their school? It's up to 135 now, which is the highest ever, you know, this year, because of the extra people that have moved in and are moving in, and the various nationalities as well. It will be increased because you have more houses and more and more and more. It will be increased. And you see the number of teachers are increasing as well, you know. SNAs, that's a great idea as well, they have SNAs in any school, you know. Huge, huge, you know. So, thanks very much for your coming in this morning and next year. Thank you. And I hope you have everything covered, and you're happy enough. Thanks, Pat. And thank you. Hopefully we'll be back here again and we'll be back here. You're welcome, you're welcome. And we'll have more good news, maybe. Hopefully we'll have a message. Hopefully we'll be there. You might even hit a speed ramp when you're getting there next time. Yeah, you might have to. You never know, Pat. You never know. If the speed ramp gods are listening, you never know. You never know. You never know. Coming in from the middle side, everybody. The lead's going to be flying. That's right, that's true. Okay, gentlemen. Thanks very much, mate. Thanks, Olivia. And thanks, Jim, for your... Thanks very much.
