 Hi I’m Karen. I'm a cook that gardens. We have a walled organic vegetable garden where we grow vegetables, herbs and fruit. Our chickens live there too. We also have a food and wine shop in Clonakilty and I give cooking lessons. I also enjoy sun and travel Skills to Exchange I'm happy to share recipes, seedlings and travel tips. Cities with beaches is a speciality! Qualifications and experience I have been cooking and gardening for the past thirty odd years and have travelled to a lot of different places  Contact details Karen@lettercollum.ie |
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Karen Austin
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Fred LaHaye
 I’m a peasant and a facilitator of “For Truth try Dialogue” Skills to Exchange music, poetry, landscaping Contact details peasantfred@gmail.com 026 47985 |
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Sally Kearney
 I love helping people to learn to balance their own, personal energy by giving energy balancing sessions using EMF (the electromagnetic field balancing technique). Skills to Exchange I offer EMF Balancing Technique sessions. Art classes for children Qualifications and experience I am a teacher of EMF, phases i to iv and practitioner of EMF phases i to xiii. I am a painter and have taught art to children for many years. Contact details kearneysal@eircom.net 02833456 0863547432 |
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Malcolm Reed
 I am very keen on the natural world- anything to do with bees, gardening and things of that nature. Skills to Exchange Beekeeping Gardening chopping wood general household maintenance EMF balancing technique sessions Qualifications and experience I have been a professional beekeeper for over 20 years. I am a qualified EMF practitioner of phases i to xii Contact details Malcolmreed@eircom.net 02833456 |
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Hywel Davies
 I’m from Wales and now live for the last 3 years near Butlerstown. I was the only maker of handmade clogs in Wales for 30 years. Skills to Exchange I would be very happy to share my knowledge of clog making and other small wood carvings for favours.  Contact details 023 8869024 |
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Almut Davies
 I live near Butlerstown for the last 3 years but I am originally from Germany. I was a piano teacher and was involved in the Camp Hill communities. Skills to Exchange I would be willing to offer piano lessons for favours. Contact details 023 8869024 almutdavies@gmail.com |
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Micheál O'Mahony
 Skills to Exchange Career Coaching, Computers, Interview Skills, Sales Coaching, CV Preparation + Targeting, Marketing, Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Digital Marketing Qualifications and experience Diploma in Career Coaching - FETAC 7 , Diploma in Life and Business Coaching, NLP Practitioner and FETAC 6 Certificate in Train the Trainer. Degree in Management. Experience in management, recruitment, career + life coaching and business development, Diploma in Digital Marketing Contact details momahony@gmail.com 0861719311 |
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Terry Marshall
 Skills to Exchange I can help you with servicing and repairs also advice on purchasing and using lawnmowers, hedgecutters, strimmers, chainsaws and generators. Qualifications and experience I am a certificated chain saw user also have experience as a support worker to young homeless adults . Contact details 0864090216 |
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Ruth Fortune
 Skills to Exchange Architecture/design ideas. 3D modelling. Help with navigating planning and building regs. Graphics skills, proficient with Photoshop. Car pooling. I'll be travelling from Glandore to Cork City on Monday mornings and back on Tuesday evenings usually and would like to share the journey. Also other trips from Glandore. Can offer lifts. Qualifications and experience Architecture degree and masters and 5 years post grad experience.  Contact details ruthfortuneis@gmail.com 086 3606830 |
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Lorna O'Regan
 Skills to Exchange Baking. You supply the ingredients and I’m happy to bake the cakes and buns. Help and advice on organising events Qualifications and experience Bsc Nutritional Science Diploma in Marketing . Contact details lornacoll@yahoo.com.au 089 4058836 |
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Mary Kay Ryan
 Skills to Exchange Chinese medicine - acupuncture and/or herbs Qi gong instruction for individual health problems or to groups. Shamanic Healing Work Permaculture design advice Short term pet minding at my home Qualifications and experience Practicing and teaching Chinese medicine for 30 years in three countries. Written 3 textbooks in Chinese medicine. Served as Dean of Herbal Medicine and Clinical Supervisor in two schools. Started multiple free public health clinics. Worked with HIV impacted people, women victims of domestic abuse; returning combat veterans, PTSD sufferers. Taught Qi Gong for the last 15 years to individuals and groups. Certified in Permaculture Design by Bill Mollison instructors 15 years experience shamanic training and work Contact details marykaythered@sbcglobal.net |
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Bernadette Ruane
 I’m a mother of three children age 7, 9 and 13 years. I moved to Clonakilty having lived overseas for almost 20 years. Skills to Exchange I can offer hand, neck and shoulder massages and massage for stress relief. I am also available for dog walking. Qualifications and experience Fully qualified as a massage therapist in the U.S. Contact details bruane99@gmail.com 086 3437006 |
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Billy Smith
 I am currently working as a Territory Manager with a highly positive and proactive field sales company. I'm representing a very large multinational Company with big brands. I was awarded top performer in Ireland for 2009, I'm passionate about what I do, and believe that there is no point doing a job if you don't love it! I'm very much into the power of the mind, and fully believe that we can change our economic woes by changing our thinking. My big passion is in the whole human potential movement, and this passion started way back in 1977 when I learned Transcendental meditation the technique brought to the West by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – famously known for a brief period as the Guru to the Beatles! At that time I suffered with Anorexia Nervosa, and Transcendental meditation cured it! In the early 80's I let meditation slip, and lived to say the very least a 'colorful' life until the late 90's, when I started meditating again. In 2002, I did Reiki level 1, and noticed profoundly positive changes taking place in my life. I went on to do Reiki Level 2, and became a Tera Mai Reiki Master in 2004. I completed the Master Degree in the Usui System of Reiki with Cork based Reiki Master Teresa Collins in April 2006. In the summer of 2006, I discovered Gary Craig's EFT, which had a profound effect on me, allowing me to clear many emotional issues. I hold both a fundamentals PACE certificate of Completion and an advanced certificate of completion in the Original Emotional Freedom technique. Sadly, these certifications are no longer recognized, and that caused me much angst, and became a tapping issue! Gary has given so freely, and I was very sorry to hear of his sudden retirement from EFT back in 2010. Apart from EFT, I have also done a number of sessions of Robert Smith's Faster EFT which I found extremely powerful. It seems to me that many different EFT Practitioners have put their own spin on the process. I was delighted to see that Gary Craig has come back out of retirement with his new web site– www.emofree.com It is thanks to the open hearted and open handed approach of Gary Craig that there are so many versions of meridian tapping available today, each one has its own degree of effectiveness, primarily depending on the practitioner. I will always admire and have enormous respect for Gary. I currently practice my own version of meridian tapping incorporating the best parts of all energy systems that I have come across, when this process has evolved to a finely tuned elegant process I plan to launch it - watch this space! I will call my process Biosolas EFT (BEFT), where the E= Energy, F = Focused, and T = Therapy. Skills to Exchange 1.Biosolas Effortless Mantra Meditation. 2. Mantra Healing Workshops. 2. Reiki. 3. BEFT (Biosolas EFT Tapping) Qualifications and experience Teachers Certificate in Biosolas Effortless Meditation. Fundamentals PACE certificate of Completion and an advanced certificate of completion in the Original (EFT) Emotional Freedom technique. Master Degree in the Usui System of Reiki . biosolas@gmail.com 086 0491035 |
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Laura Bryner
 Hi, my name is Laura. I'm from Switzerland, here as a workawayer. I'll stay for about 4 months. My hostmother, Michelle Ryan, is involved in Clonakilty favour and I was at the market last Sunday. It was great, I enjoyed it much. And I'd love to help and exchange some skills too. Before I came here I was travelling in my old van around Europe, I finished high school and I worked as a chef last winter. When I go back to Switzerland I'll start studying physics. Skills to Exchange I could help with German, maybe a little with French. I'm always delighted when I can cook, so any occasion where you need help or if you want me to prepare a meal or whatever. If you want to learn about the Swiss kitchen I can show you a few things. I'm staying with a family with two lovely boys, so if you need a babysitter I love being with the kids! Qualifications and experience About my language skills, I finished high school as I said, my German is good, my French is okay. About my cooking, you have to taste it. But as I worked in a Hotel kitchen for a season, I have some experience as well. For minding the children, please ask Michelle. . Contact details laurabryner@gmx.ch 087 6020170 |
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Katey Sleeman
 I am a rare breed in that I was brought up in Ardfield and came back to live here in September 2000. I lived in Bristol for 12 years previous to that where I qualified as am Alexander Technique Teacher. Skills to Exchange I am happy to offer lessons in the Alexander Technique in Clonakilty. Qualifications and experience I am a qualified Alexander Technique teacher and have 20 years experience in teaching individuals and groups, Over the last 9 years I have run a class for students in the Cork City School of Music . Contact details sleeman.klp@gmail.com 087 9632908 |
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Jonny Callaghan
 Skills to Exchange I would like to offer my carpentry skills, I have a number of years experience in construction and also a number of years in furniture making, so I can offer woodwork at all levels and take great pride in my work (I have worked on a wide variety of projects so I don't mind the quirky jobs). I would also offer advice to anyone undertaking renovations/extensions or house projects, and or anyone taking on a woodworking project of some sort. I am currently studying horticulture so I can offer my gardening skills and advice and am also qualified for chainsaw work and tree felling. Qualifications and experience Fetac Level 6 in Furniture making with Over 10 years experience in building construction and carpentry/woodworking Currently studying a degree in Horticulture(2nd year) Certified for chainsaw use and tree felling . Contact details jpcondy@gmail.com 085 1220720 |
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Fionnuala Harkin
 Skills to Exchange Cooking and cookery demonstrations; teaching cooking to children; advice on restaurant or private dinner menus or wine; wine appreciation classes; playing music or singing for a party or event; tourism ideas in Ireland, especially Cork, Kerry, Waterford, Wicklow, Wexford and Donegal; teaching swimming and diving(off the rocks in Simon's Cove, not Jacques Cousteau style!) to children, teenagers or adults. Qualifications and experience Self taught chef - ran Fionnuala's Little Italian Restaurant in Clon from 1991 to 2003; WSET (Wines and Spirit Education Trust) qualified; Swimming and lifesaving certs (way back in the 70's!). Contact details fmharkin@gmail.com 086 8533758 |
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CFE is one of the best reasons to love Ireland
CFE comes in at no 24 in the Irish Times guide to the "reasons to love Ireland"
The Irish Times asked some of its top contributors for reasons to be cheerful. As they put it "We racked our brains for reasons why – despite the rain, recession and repression – we remain proud of our country. And here they are."
CFE came in at no 24 thanks to Fintan O Toole. Deputy editor of the Irish Times and an author Fintan came to speak at an open meeting of our book club last November. The discussion was about his book Ship of Fools, and met members of the exchange. Here is his entry in the 50 best reasons article.
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"24. Because we can share. There might be a lot wrong with Irish culture, but it has always had a sense of community and of the value of co-operation. Much of that may have been lost in the deluded boomtimes, but there’s an opportunity to recover it. The Clonakilty Favour Exchange is a brilliantly simple idea. People use a website to offer favours to neighbours – help with digging a garden, music lessons for a child, a lift to Dublin – for which they gain credits. These credits are then banked and can be used to pay for favours in return. It’s a lovely way of using contemporary technology to return to and to revive an older sense of co-operation. And it shows that there really is more to life than money".
– FINTAN O’TOOLE
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Read the whole article in the Irish Times here
More about Ship of Fools here
Fintan O'Toole "Ship of Fools"
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For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in the heat of the global financial meltdown. For years, those with economic power had been investing in a gigantic property bubble.
In Ship of Fools Fintan O'Toole tells the story of this dizzying rise and sickening fall. Ireland may have had a tiger economy, but those in charge of it had not lost their taste for sweetheart deals, back-handers and bribery. This is the essential analysis of Ireland's economic suicide.
The Irish Times asked some of its top contributors for reasons to be cheerful. As they put it "We racked our brains for reasons why – despite the rain, recession and repression – we remain proud of our country. And here they are."
CFE came in at no 24 thanks to Fintan O Toole. Deputy editor of the Irish Times and an author Fintan came to speak at an open meeting of our book club last November. The discussion was about his book Ship of Fools, and met members of the exchange. Here is his entry in the 50 best reasons article.
"24. Because we can share. There might be a lot wrong with Irish culture, but it has always had a sense of community and of the value of co-operation. Much of that may have been lost in the deluded boomtimes, but there’s an opportunity to recover it. The Clonakilty Favour Exchange is a brilliantly simple idea. People use a website to offer favours to neighbours – help with digging a garden, music lessons for a child, a lift to Dublin – for which they gain credits. These credits are then banked and can be used to pay for favours in return. It’s a lovely way of using contemporary technology to return to and to revive an older sense of co-operation. And it shows that there really is more to life than money".
– FINTAN O’TOOLE
Read the whole article in the Irish Times here
More about Ship of Fools here
Fintan O'Toole "Ship of Fools"
For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in the heat of the global financial meltdown. For years, those with economic power had been investing in a gigantic property bubble.In Ship of Fools Fintan O'Toole tells the story of this dizzying rise and sickening fall. Ireland may have had a tiger economy, but those in charge of it had not lost their taste for sweetheart deals, back-handers and bribery. This is the essential analysis of Ireland's economic suicide.
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CFE Regular Newsletter
Easter Newsletter March 2013
T'Aint a Bird special with Tina Pisco
To mark the anniversary of the crash landing of an American plane in White's Marsh in 1943 Tina reads from and discusses her best selling novel "Only a Paper Moon" - a fiction based on these true life events. Meet her in the convivial setting of An Teach Beag bar behind O Donovan's Hotel. All welcome. 8.00pm Thursday 28th March. Art meets life meets pint. Details here.
Stop sniggering at the back
See the dramatic march of the CFE Morris Men as they swing their way to a prize winning performance at the Paddy's Day parade. (T'Aint a Bird either). If you don't want to see it, don't click here
CFE NO 24 in the best things about Ireland
Many thanks to Fintan O Toole for voting us no 24 in the Irish Times list of the best reasons to love Ireland. Read all about it here.
Great new members to say hello to and exchange with
Meet the latest 12 members of CFE who joined in the last few weeks. Carpentry, piano lessons and wine appreciation are just a few of the fantastic skills on offer from these new members. All just a click away
March 2013 Newsletter CFE goes international
Paddy Meets Morris
Please come with cheers and support for CFE members and friends dancing a special parade version of a traditional Morris Dance at this weekends Patrick's Day Parade. CFE banner will be there to lead the team of dedicated and talented dancers. Kick off at 3.00pm - don't miss it! Details hereTain't A Bird US plane landing 5oth anniversary
No secret that CFE member Tina Pisco is also a talented author. Join Tina for a special public talk about her international best seller Only a Paper Moon. The novel is set around the landing of an American plane near Clonakilty 50 years ago and the real events following the arrival of the crew and their monkey. The public talk will be at O Donovan's on 28th March at 8.00 pm and is a CFE special event as part of the T’Ain’t a Bird weekend celebrations. All welcome. Copies of the book available via clonfavour@gmail.com or on the night.Germany discovers Ireland's answer to the recession
Deutsche Welle (Germans world TV channel - 60 milliion viewers) came to Clonakilty recently and filmed this fantastic film of CFE members at work, with beautiful shots of the town. The film, part of a series showing how Europe is coping with the recession in different ways, contains shots of at least ten CFE members - prizes for spotting them all! Link here to see the film.Favour Fayre
Hi, just a reminder that Sunday 10th March is the next CFE Favour Fayre. Come to the market space behind O Donovan's Hotel and enjoy all the fun of the fayre! Meet members and exchange goods for favours, or favours for goods - or both!Special notice too of a meeting to plan the future fayres. Stay at the end of the fayre for a chat with other CFE members at 3.30 to form a committee and make plans for the future of this fantastic event. Help it reach its full potential. Details all here - don't miss out!
We are also meeting at 1.00 to clean and prepare the space - all welcome.
Whats happening with CFE these days?
Its all in the minutes of the last CFE coordinating group meetings. Find out what is going on and being planned for CFE. Read about at least 10 scintillating and amazing ideas! All are welcome at the next meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. Full minutes of last Tuesday's meeting and previous meetings here.
Just a reminder of four great CFE events this week!
Book Club
On Thursday 21st Feb join Jo ant the gang for a read of Harry Potter author JK Rowling's fabulous new book A Casual Vacany. Details here.Film Club
On Friday 22nd Feb join us for a first viewing of the film Cloud Atlas based on the book by CFE hon member and best-selling local author David Mitchell. Details hereHomeopathy course
On Saturday 23rd spend the day with experienced practitioner Alice Glendinning for a special one day course on using homeopathy for first aid in the home. Details hereBalls and Bells
And to cap it all join Vic at 7.00pm on Saturday for a course of Morris dancing leading to a public dance on Paddy's Day - no kidding! Details here.
Great CFE events coming up again this season - read on!
Admin training session
What better way to spend a cold wet evening, and earn favours, than to help with the administration of CFE! Join Bev in theBoardroom upstairs over the Courtyard Bar on Wednesday 16th Jan at 7.00 for an initial training session and become a CFE regular. No offer of help too small, no skill level too pitiful. For details please email clonfavour@gmail.com or text or call 089 43526
Book Club
After a great season the book club completes its 2012 run with Hans Fallada's "Alone in Berlin". But if you missed out, no need to again!. At 9.00pm in the Courtyard Bar on Thursday 17th Jan (immediately after the regular meeting) Jo will be choosing the books for the next run of book club meetings. All details here
Build your own Website
The favour academy winter season continues with a unique opportunity to learn the arts of blogger from CFE webmaster Bev. Within 2 hours you will have the knowledge needed to knock up a website or blog of your own! All courses charged in favours. Wednesday 23rd Jan at the Courtyard Bar. Details here
Favour Fayre
Hi, the CFE Favour Fayre continues on Sunday 3rd February. Come to the market space behind O Donovan's Hotel (under cover and in the Venue if it rains) and enjoy meeting members, exchange goods for favours, or favours for goods - or both! Stalls always welcome. See you there! Details all here - don't miss out!
CFE coordinating group meeting
Join us in the Courtyard Bar at 7.30 on Tuesday 5th Feb. to discuss the work of CFE, plan future events and share brilliant ideas for taking the programme onwards and upwards in 2013. All members very, very welcome. Agenda and details here.
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Thank You!
Thank you for your feedback. We will be discussing the results of the survey at the next coordinating group meeting on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30 in the Courtyard Bar Boardroom- all welcome.
Meanwhile to thank you for completing the survey please look at this short (14 second) video and imagine it is you.
If you are a member of CFE and haven't completed the survey yet but would like to please follow the link here.
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