The Kilkee Civic Trust welcomes you to our lovely seaside town with its golden beach and cliff walks.

We endeavour to enhance the environment of Kilkee with restoration projects, and a cultural programme for the summer months.

This season's Music and Talks have been very well received and already we are having thoughts about next year's programme so if you have any ideas and suggestions please let us know. We are also interested in feedback from you about this year's events as we are always trying to improve our presentations. What have you enjoyed most? Please let us know.

We are very grateful to our speakers who give of their time freely. So too do many of our musicians even though they are professionals with low incomes.However we have to pay expenses and even with an entry charge we still don't cut even with the concerts, so if you have any ideas about fund raising or sponsorships we'd like to hear from you.

One of the most successful things we did this year was to try improving the acoustics in St Senan's Church by the installation of huge curtains for the 'Europe's Finest' concert. It worked, but the cost ran into thousands of euros and we'd like to find some way of doing it on a regular basis but not breaking the bank in the process.

The mailing list is now well established but there have been certain problems with it. Addresses that have cheerfully been winging their way are suddenly not deliverable for arcane electronic reasons. Some other addresses have just not been recognised at all, but that may be due to a more explicable handwriting problem. If you didn't receive the mail shot about Barry O'Donoghue's talk on Hen Harriers and would like to be included or just want to join the list for the first time please send an email to:

HonSec@kilkeecivictrust.org