Carriglea Cáirde Services

13/11/2025

☕ Coffee Morning

Join us on Friday, 21st November at 10:30 AM upstairs in The Causeway Tennis Club for a fundraising coffee morning hosted by Carriglea Cáirde Services Fundraising Committee.

Your support helps the Carriglea Cáirde Services Fundraising Committee raise funds for our vital projects like sensory rooms, buying vehicles, and Special Olympics participation.

📍 Where: The Causeway Tennis Club
🕙 When: Friday, 21st November 2025 at 10:30 AM

12/11/2025

🎄✨ Carriglea Day Service Christmas Craft Fair – You’re Invited! ✨🎄
📅 Date: Friday, 28th November 2025
🕙 Time: 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
📍 Location: Fusion Centre, Ringnasillogue, Dungarvan, X35 P922

Join us for a festive day filled with handmade crafts, gifts, music, and fun! All proceeds go to support the Carriglea Special Olympic Munster Team for June 2026.

🎅 Highlights:
✅ Beautiful handmade decorations and gifts
✅ Pop-up gift shop
✅ Fun games and music
✅ Santa will visit at noon – perfect photo opportunity!
✅ Prize for the best Christmas jumper

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the amazing crafts created by our talented team:
🧦 Adorable snowmen
🎨 Hand-painted golden ornaments
🌲 Decorative Christmas trees
🏠 Festive popsicle stick houses

Every piece is made with care and creativity – perfect for adding a personal touch to your holiday season!

📣 Mark your calendars and spread the word! Let’s make this a day to remember while supporting a great cause.

10/11/2025

🎉 Exciting News and Congratulations to Hannah! 🎉

We had a fantastic start to the week when Hannah O’Mahony was interviewed on WLRfm’s Big Breakfast Show! Hannah shared all about her new job at The Park Hotel, Dungarvan, and we couldn’t be prouder.

Congratulations, Hannah, on this amazing achievement — wishing you continued success in your career! 🌟

You can listen back to the interview here:

https://www.wlrfm.com/podcasts/the-big-breakfast-blaa/hannah-omahony-making-dungarvan-proud-2176963

07/11/2025

We were delighted to be part of the official opening 20 years ago. A special moment now was looking back at four familiar faces from Carriglea Cáirde Services — David, Hughie, Liam K, and Liam M — given the honour of cutting the ribbon. It was a lovely surprise to see them all looking so well.

We fondly remember Liam K, who sadly passed away in 2023. Seeing him in full flight in the photo was a touching reminder of our dear friend and the joy he brought to those around him.

Congratulations to Movies at Dungarvan on this milestone — here’s to many more years of success! 🎉🍿

07/11/2025

🎄✨ Join Us for Our Christmas Craft Fair! ✨🎄
Carriglea Day Service is excited to welcome everyone to our Christmas Craft Fair on Friday, 28th November 2025, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Fusion Centre, Ringnasillogue, Dungarvan (X35 P922).
Enjoy a festive day filled with:
🎁 Handmade gifts & crafts
🛍 Pop-up gift shop
🎶 Music & fun games
🎅 A special visit from Santa at noon (and yes, Santa loves photos!)
👕 Prize for the best Christmas jumper
All proceeds and donations will go towards supporting the Carriglea Special Olympics Munster Team for June 2026.
Come along, soak up the Christmas spirit, and help us make a difference! ❤️

07/11/2025

📢 Family & Friends Information Evening – Presentations Now Available
Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Anne Le Roy Centre on November 6th for our Family & Friends Information Evening. We shared updates on satisfaction survey feedback, the All 4 1 Committee, our Board Planning Day, and the National Human Rights Strategy.
📄 Couldn’t make it? No worries — the presentations are now available on our website:
👉 http://carrigleaservices.com/index.php/volunteers/family-forum/

We were pleased to welcome family members and friends of people who receive services from Carriglea Cáirde Services to an information evening held on Wednesday 6th November 2025 in the Anne Le Roy Centre. The evening provided an opportunity to share important updates and developments across the org...

07/11/2025

🌍✈️ Wishing Valerie Safe Travels!

We’re delighted to share that Valerie Power, a student at SETU and a member of Carriglea Cáirde Services, is heading off to Salzburg, Austria this weekend as part of her Erasmus experience!

Valerie is currently in her second year of the Personal Development Course (Level 6), and this exciting opportunity is a wonderful step in her journey. We’re incredibly proud of her achievements and wish her all the very best for the trip ahead.

Safe travels, Valerie — enjoy every moment! 🇦🇹✨

04/11/2025

🎃👻 Halloween Fun at Déise Day Centre ! 👻🎃

We had great fun joining in the Halloween celebrations at Déise Day Centre last Friday! There were amazing costumes, brilliant music from DJ Mad Mike, and lots of laughter all around.

A big thank you to everyone at the Déise Day Centre for organising and hosting such a fantastic event — we really enjoyed taking part and celebrating together with our wonderful friends. 💙🧡

14/10/2025

Job Vacancies - Programme Assistants

At Carriglea Cairde Services, we provide a comprehensive range of day, residential and respite services to approximately two hundred individuals who utilise our Services.

Our goal is to develop skills and opportunities, to forge lasting friendships and to promote independence through meaningful and active lives.

Due to expanding services we are currently looking to hire the following post:


Programme Assistant
Day Services
Monday to Friday hours.

Applicants must demonstrate genuine kindness, empathy and patience in their daily interaction with service users in a person-centered service. The successful candidates will provide support to adults with an intellectual disability to develop their independent living skills.

Programme development will include daily living skills, personal development and occupational and leisure activities, within the context of a quality of life model and person centered planning. This will involve working with the service users, their families and other staff in developing a person-centered plan for each individual. Applicants will be required to support, service users with their personal care needs. There will be a strong emphasis on developing daily living skills that is individually based with a goal towards independence.

Applicants should hold a relevant qualification, minimum FETAC Level 5. Experience of working with people with intellectual disabilities is desirable. Excellent communication and organisational skills are required.

Candidates must have a full clean, driving license.

If you are creative, flexible and enthusiastic, come and join our dynamic team in caring for adults with intellectual disabilities. Current HSE Salary Scales will apply for the above posts. Closing date is 27th October 2025.

Please send your Curriculum Vitae along with a covering letter on email to: HumanResources@carrigleaservices.com

Carriglea Cairde Services is an equal opportunities employer.

24/09/2025

🏆 Huge Congratulations to Desmond! 🏆

We are so proud to share that Desmond Curran, one of our star Special Olympics athletes and a very popular member of our Service, is shining on the national stage! 🌟👏

Check out this great feature on Dungarvan’s Dessie Curran on WLR FM’s The Big Breakfast.

Ollie and Dymphna had the good fortune to meet two great people in the shape of Kieran o Connor and Dessie Curran

24/09/2025

We were delighted to host a “Changing Gears” workshop, delivered by the amazing Brian Dooney, which ran for 5 consecutive weeks. 🗓️

These workshops were designed to boost wellbeing and resilience for individuals in their older years, with a focus on managing transitions in mid to later life. They support people in navigating life changes, helping participants develop skills and techniques to build confidence and resilience, and reframe transitions as opportunities for positive growth, challenging negative stereotypes about ageing. 💪✨

Age & Opportunity, the national organisation behind this initiative, works to empower older people through physical activity, arts, creativity, personal development, and active citizenship. Their vision is an Ireland where older age is recognised as a time of opportunity, and all older people can be active, visible, creative, connected, and confident. ❤️

They work across three key areas:
🎨 Arts Programme – Engaging in arts and cultural activities
🏃 Active Programme – Promoting participation in recreational sport and physical activity
🤝 Engage Programme – Offering courses and workshops for personal development, community collaboration, and active citizenship

Brian delivered the workshop in a fun, personable, and charismatic way, and both our service users and staff really enjoyed it – they were even a bit sad to see it finish! 😄👏

A huge thank you to Brian for such a fun and interactive workshop! 🙌

15/09/2025

We are all devastated to hear of the unexpected passing of our dear colleague and friend Molly O’Mahony.

Molly was an example of compassion and kindness to all those she supported and worked alongside.

Molly had a natural gift to make people feel seen and valued, and was always the first to lend a hand and offer words of encouragement.

Molly helped to create a culture of kindness and warmth, just by being herself.

Molly will be remembered with deep gratitude and affection by all who worked with her and those she supported.

We offer our sincerest condolences to her parents, Michael & Marie, and her sister, Hannah.

As a mark of respect our community based day service operations will be closed on Wednesday the 17th September 2025.

https://rip.ie/death-notice/molly-omahony-waterford-dungarvan-605199