The local lotto this week was won last night, in Mary Kings Bar the lucky winners were Stephen Blayds & Kate Ferron who won €2’000 it was quiet a surprise to see a winner so soon, as just a short time ago Margaret & Owen King won €5’150. Stephen says that the winning numbers 1 9 11 12 are numbers he uses all the time; Next time perhaps it will be the national lotto Stephen wins. That brings the amount of winners to 12 since we began our Roundstone Lotto. Other winners were Josephine Mannion who had two prizes receiving €75 and John Leyne €50 and Tommy Mongan €25 in all we paid out €2’150 last night.

Tidy Towns:
Richard, Ann Conneely & Paula de Courcey had a meeting on Sunday 16th to discuss the results of last years Tidy Town competition, and to follow up on some items and to prepare for a full committee and public meeting towards the latter half of February. Last years results were very good and with very little effort we could improve on it immensely. One of the ideas we came up with was that perhaps instead of the table and seat proposed for down below the new quay which we feel could encourage late night drinking parties, we would like to put an old currach into it, plant it with flowers and make a nice feature of it. So if anyone out there have an old curragh going to rack and ruin and would like to donate it, contact Richard or myself.

The Roundstone web site
Is now up and running and doing very well. There have been many inquiries for self catering and general accommodation coming through to me at any rate, so if you out there have accommodation or a house and you would like to have your business on the site
Get in touch with Richard. It only costs €50 per year, its money well spent

Dogs Bay:
The recent storms, which we are glad to say, did not affect Roundstone to badly but has changed Dogs Bay quiet a bit. Richard reports that on Wednesday last he took the dogs down for a walk, and to his surprise, or rather shock, Dogs Bay looked so different, the path down to the beach has gone, litter you would not believe, only that all the rubbish is now in the Marram Grass up on the banks.
There were at least five to six feet of erosion all the way along, which made the beach look much larger, with a completely new image.
At the other end of Dogs Bay by the gobeens a whole lot more stone had been swept in.
In the center of Dogs Bay all the old seaweed with all the nasty rope plus more litter with all the heavy timber was in a large pile, the wind must have shifted to the west plus the fact of a huge high tide to clean up both ends, in some ways it will make things a little easier to do a marathon clean up when the winds drop a bit more and to arrange some volunteers.
I will take some photos in a day or two and put them on the website
www.roundstone-connemara.com
It just shows you, one cannot under estimate the power of Mother Nature; as well as being destructive, and she also has the power to recuperate.

Congratulations
To Barbara Nee, daughter of J.J. & Kathleen of Legman Cashel who is getting married to Chris on Saturday next in Florida. Barbara worked in Eldon’s for the last two years. Her parents and some friends are travelling over to be with them for their big day.