Halloween Camp at Lismore Heritage Centre is Ready for Take Off!

We've decked the halls in preparation for a fantastically frightful week of Halloween Camp.

Camp commences bright and early on Tuesday 27th and runs until Friday 30th October. The Heritage Centre is delighted with the huge amount of interest in this year's camp and is working hard to ensure all those brave enough to join us will have the greatest grimest time of their lives.

We hope all our campers are as excited as we are. Why..we are simply dying to meet you!

Best of Luck Lismore!

The management and staff of Lismore Heritage Centre wish the Lismore senior hurling team the best of luck in the county final.

The boys face Ballygunner in Walsh Park at 3.30pm on Sunday 11th October.

Come on Lismore!

Halloween Camp's Coming to Get You!

Preparations are well underway for Halloween Camp 2009 at Lismore Heritage Centre.

There's no excuse for anyone to be bored this mid-term break! The Heritage Centre Halloween Camp is back for its biggest and best year yet. We have four days of arts, crafts, games, grisly experiments, ghosts, ghouls and much much more.

Camp will run Tuesday 27th-Friday 30th October from 10.30am-2.30pm daily. Activities are suitable for children aged 5-12 years. One day at camp costs €15, children booking in for four days can avail of a special rate of €50.

Bookings and enquiries to Arlene and Michelle at 058-54975 or just pop into the Heritage Centre.

Change to Opening Hours

As the summer season is sadly most certainly over the Heritage Centre has changed its opening hours. The Centre remains open Monday - Friday 9.30a.m.-5.30p.m. but will now be closed Saturdays and Sundays.

The Heritage Centre will reopen for weekends in November with the Craft Shop's fantastic annual sale.

Brushing Up on Energy Expertise!

Several Heritage Centre staff members were recently lucky enough to have the opportunity to train with SEI Ireland. The Lismore Science Workshop 2009-2010 focuses on Forces, Environmental Awareness and Renewable Energy. In preparing the latter element of the workshop Sustainable Energy Ireland have kindly allowed us the benefit of their invaluable knowledge and experience in renewable energy education

Mealla, Alice, Michelle and Arlene spent the day with SEI's expert science facilitators taking The Energy Challenge and meeting Guzzler the energy gobbling puppet. The girls are ready and waiting to put their new found learning at your disposal!

Bookings are now being taken for the Lismore Science Workshop. The workshop is a hands-on activity packed two hour session exploring friction and gravity, measuring forces, examining simple machines, learning about global warming, sharpening environmental awareness and discovering renewable energy. The workshops are designed for older primary school pupils.

For further information please contact Alice on 058-54975 or email info@lismoreheritage.ie

Busy Times in the Craft Shop

The Heritage Centre is pleased to announce that Rachel Allen's exquisite Kitchen Range is now available from the Craft Shop.

The acclaimed TV chef has collaborated with Tipperary Crystal to produce a charming collection of delicately decorated tableware. Also available are an assortment of pretty yet practical kitchen utensils and a variety of fragrant candles.

Also newly arrived in the Craft Shop is a fabulous selection of bags ranging from an elegant evening wear collection to tempting holdalls and casual shoulder bags. These are handsomely complimented by an assortment of new season shawls and scarves now on display.

If any (or many!) of these exciting new items tickles your fancy or seems like the perfect present for your nearest and dearest you may be interested in the Craft Shop Christmas Club.

Now open for business members can secure any item in the shop with a small deposit or save up for the festive season- an especially prudent move considering the Craft Shop's ever popular sale will be coming up in November!

To find out more, to buy or just to browse call into the Craft Shop any time.

Congratulations to Waterford's Tidiest Town

Lismore has once again struck gold in this year's national Tidy Town's Competition.

This was the town's eight time reaching this prestigious category. Such repeated success hasn't led Lismore's devoted Tidy Town's committee to rest on their laurels however. Constantly striving for bigger and better things the town's overall points score increased since 2008 and indeed fell only four marks behind that of the competition's overall victor Emly, Co. Tipperary.

Lismore also earned a special award for Nature Biodiversity and kept its tip top spot as Co. Waterford's tidiest town.

The Heritage Centre offers its most sincere congratulations to Lismore's Tidy Town's Committee and thanks them for all their work which has such a positive effect on our surroundings.