License

We are eventually legal until Dec 31st, which is nice to know , and despite Gidi's best efforts we are in the town park.

Well we are legal again at least until December 31st .

Letter to the Cork Co Manager

Dear Mr Riordan,

Having attended the UDC meeting on Monday last , I feel I have no option but to inform you of some of the things that

went on .All the Councillors were entirely supportive of the Market being moved back to the Short Quay , and the Health and Safety issues being dealt with as speedily as possible.

It was also noted that the normal way for a health and safety issue to be handled would have been for the Market to have been made aware of the issues and given a week to address them .

Instead we were given 24 hours notice of closure ,and refused sight of the H and S report. I have still not been given a copy , so that we can start to address the issues.

Ms Mary Ryan then proceeded to give her views on the matter , which included an assertion that I had agreed to relocate the market to the Back Glen , which was patently untrue,

and to wonder whether we all as Traders had tax clearance certificates, which is entirely outside her remit, and frankly insulting,and she did not seem to be aware that we all have to be registered with the Envirenmental Health Authority , and are inspected regularly,when she complained that because the market was run by me , she didn't know if the Traders were safe.

She then announced that she was not prepared to go to jail over the H and S issues, which I find somewhat ridiculous.

Having watched her attitude to the wishes of the Councillors, and to the people of Kinsale , and being aware that she lives in Co.Clare , I fail to see how she can continue to act in the best interests of a town she knows nothing about , and quite obviously cares less , and I would humbly suggest that we need a Manager who is more sympathetic to the needs of Kinsale

These moves of the last 2 weeks have resulted in direct losses of approx 20,000 euros to the Traders in the Market at a time when we can ill afford it , but we are now relocated to the Town car park, for the winter and hopefully can continue to trade without interruption

Yours Sincerely Miles Cattell

well done

Well done today guys,hopefully next week will be better. The good news is we have Ballycotton fish coming on Tuesday.

Dear Miles,

I am very supportive of the Farmers Market and will do my best to express that support at Mondays Council meeting. I have recieved several e mails from individuals some of whom I presume are traders or who may simply support your weekly market. I cannot reply individually to them all so if you are in contact with them please pass on my intentions.

Tony Cierans.

I just recieved the above from councillor Cierans, and he asked me to pass it on

we are getting quite a lot of action through WWW.twitter.com/cattellmiles if any one wants to have a look, only signed up this morning , but allready lots of action

more emails of relevance

Cllr Kevin Murphy: kevin.murphy@corkcoco.ie

Cllr Alan Coleman: alan.coleman@corkcoco.ie

Co. Manager Mr Martin Riordan: manager@corkcoco.ie

Co Engineer: noel.okeeffe@corkcoco.ie

We are definitly in the Town park as of next tuesday, and for the forseeable ,so get there early. I will try to get a rough map up asap

Cllr. Michael Frawley, The White House, Kinsale 086 3653854

michael@whitehousekinsale.ie

Cllr. Tomas O’Brien, Seandroichead, Tissaxonmore, Kinsale. 087 2784953

tomasobrien@hotmail.com

Cllr. Billy Lynch, Ballinacubby, Kinsale 087 2417503

billy_lynch7@yahoo.co.uk

Cllr. Isabelle Sutton, Coolmoreen, Innishannon, Co. Cork. 086 0515734

isabellesutton@eircom.net

Cllr. Fred Treacy, Rustic Lodge, Tisaxonbeg, Kinsale 086 8275481

ftreacy@gofree.indigo.ie

Cllr. Darren Cotter, 4 Newmans Mall, Kinsale. 086 8205593

Darren@cotterestates.ie

Cllr. Dermot Collins, Harbour Heights, Kinsale 086 2554676

saile@eircom.net

Cllr. Tony Cierans, 2 Eltins Wood, Kinsale 087 6387792

tonycierans@eircom.net

Cllr. Noel Harrington, 11 Ardbrack, Scilly, Kinsale. 087 8772153

noelharringtonkinsale@hotmail.com

Frank Morrison, Senior Executive Engineer, Cork County Council 021 4772137

New Road, Kinsale.

frank.morrison@corkcoco.ie

Email campaign

Here's how I see it working.

We send out emails to email addresses of likely sympathisers urging them to take action and pass on the email message to their friends as quickly as possible. The letter could read:

Dear Friend,

You may be aware that Kinsale Farmers Market is in danger of being permanently stopped. In its short successful history the present market has had to withstand continuous harassment by local council officials(e.g..not being allowed signs that other markets are allowed by right,....more examples)

The latest piece of harassment - too dangerous to use Short Quay because of steps(which were installed by Council with blessing of the local Engineer)has meant that the Market is homeless and cannot operate from the Short Quay until this 'health and safety matter' is resolved. It will only be resolved if enough pressure is put on local politicians and officials to force them to act.

You can help by sending some emails to or contacting the main 'players' some of whom are listed below. You can also help greatly by forwarding this email to your own contacts who you think might also help.

The list of those who need to be lobbied are as follows:

• Kinsale Town Councillors -list
• Kinsale town clerk Name
• Councillors Kevin Murphy, Alan Coleman
• local TD'S by names
• County Manager(name)
• Chief County Engineer(name) (Morrison's boss)
• Mary Ryan, Kinsale Town Manager
• Trevor Sergeant, Minister ,

Just click on the email address in blue and either write your own email or copy and paste the one below.

Kinsale Farmers Market

Dear(insert name)

I am writing to you to protest against the continuous harassment of the Kinsale Farmers Market by the county council.

This market provides a valuable service to the Kinsale community by offering them additional choice of food not offered by existing local retailers. It generates badly needed extra business for the town, acts as an easy and effective way for people, many of them local, to start and run a business, it provides an attraction and valuable service to visiting tourists as well as being a regular meeting place for all strata of the local community.

This harassment has finally resulted in the Market being barred from using its natural venue in Short Quay in the centre of town on the grounds of 'health and safety'. These issues, which are of the County Council's own making, are perfectly capable of being resolved while the Market continues to use the Short Quay.

I would ask to vigorously support the immediate re-instatement of the Farmers Market in Short Quay.

I would be grateful if you could reply to this email outlining your views on the matter and what positive, immediate steps you are taking to resolve this issue quickly.

I look forward to your early reply.

Yours etc.

(Your name)

If you can all get this going it would be great.