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Hostel For Patient's Families

A grant of 1.26 million Euros( £1 million) has been made by the National Millennium Committee towards the building of a facility at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire, that will offer accommodation to the families of recovering patients so that they can be close to their loved ones and offer valuable support.

The Millennium Hostel and Vocational Training Unit is now under construction and is due to be officially opened later this year. The Millennium Award was officially handed over at a recent ceremony by Minister Seamus Brennan TD, Chairman of the National Millennium Committee.

A large number of patients who are victims of traumatic brain injury, stroke and spinal cord injury live outside Dublin with the result that their families experience considerable difficulties supporting their relatives through the major post trauma crisis. At any one time, in the hospital there are patients from all over the 26 counties who are being treated.

The new hostel, which is being built adjacent to the hospital will enable parents in the Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Unit to stay overnight and offer invaluable support. It will also allow the families of patients who make limited recovery, time to spend learning the skills required to support their relatives in the home setting. The hostel will also provide accommodation for those brain injury survivors who would benefit from the rehabilitation service that allows them to regain life skills.

Minister Brennan said," We are all grateful to the National Rehabilitation Hospital for the invaluable contribution it makes to the care and rehabilitation of people who have suffered major disabilities. Recognition was one of the central themes adopted by the Millennium Committee. In this case, how better to mark the start of a new Millennium than by recognising and saluting in a tangible way the work of this hospital and it's staff, and by providing an essential service for patients and their families."

Minister Charlie Mc Creevy Launches Corrigan Campaign

Although an election has not yet been officially called, one of the most significant events of the Fianna Fail pre election campaign took place on 20th February at The Goat Inn.

Minister Charlie Mc Creevy launched the election campaign of Councillor and TD candidate Maria Corrigan. He also made a major policy speech. Councillor Maria Corrigan is standing for election in the Dublin South constituency. As well as being a councillor, she holds a senior position as a psychologist in St John Of God's Services. Maria Corrigan's campaign will be strong on health and environmental issues especially issues concerning mental handicap.

She says, 'There are not enough speech and language therapists and child psychologists for schools and waiting lists to see these specialists are too long. The earlier you intervene with a child, the more effective intervention is. In terms of learning and development, six months to a year on a waiting list is quite a chunk out of a child's life and really exacerbates the difficulties they have. Educationally we still have children who have completed primary school without learning to read or write adequately and this issue needs to be addressed."

Regarding disability she says, "We need to move to a position where the disabled can expect the same rights as others- and not charity. They should not just have to depend on other's good nature to get the services they are entitled to as citizens. At the moment I am also pushing hard to have an inspectorate set up for group homes and residential care facilities."

Booterstown Student Composer

Garrett Sholdice, a 6th year Music student, from St Andrew's College, Booterstown has made it to the final stage of The National Chamber Choir/Bus Éireann Composition Workshops.

This two year Composition project sponsored by Bus Éireann and supported by the Department of Education and science concludes on Tuesday Feb 26th with young composers from all over Ireland having their works performed in Dublin Castle, at a Gala concert hosted by The Minister for Education Dr. Michael Woods TD and recorded by Lyric FM.

Garrett's composition entitled 'Lines from Song' is a setting of text from Allen Ginsberg's 1954 poem 'Song'. This is not Garrett's first experience of composing: while attending St Patrick's Cathedral Choir school where he served as a chorister, he composed an organ prelude, which was played on the Willis Organ. Garrett hopes to study Musical composition at third level this autumn.

At the concert Minister Woods will present the composer(s) of one piece with the Gerard Victory Memorial Commission. Instigated in 1995 this commission is awarded each year to the composer(s) of one of the pieces composed during that Composition Workshops series. The commission worth Euro 650 is to compose a new piece for the National Chamber Choir, which is a 17-member full time professional choir.

The 'Composition Workshops' Concert begins at 8pm in St Patrick's Hall of Dublin Castle. Tickets are available from the National Chamber Choir, priced at 10 Euros for adults and 6 Euros for students, with school-group discounts available.

Hanafin Hosts First Comhairle na nÓg

Following the successful first Dáil na nÓg held in September, the Minister for Children, Mary Hanafin TD last week held the first Comhairle na nÓg ( Children's' Council) for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Development Board.

The Comhairle na nÓg had two purposes: To give children a voice in their local community in line with the first goal of the National Children's Strategy and to select five local delegates for the next Dáil na nÓg in the autumn.

Up to 100 children between the ages of 9 and 17 attended the Comhairle na nÓg. Every school in the area was asked to send delegates and delegates were also invited from minority groups such as asylum seekers, the travelling community, children with disabilities and early school leavers. The ISPCC aided Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Development Board in the organisation of this event.

New Bill For Safety Home Electricity

Fine Gael spokesman on public enterprise Jim Higgins TD has this month published a Bill to regulate electrical contractors.

He said, "The legislation being introduced is designed to improve electrical installation standards and to save lives. The safe use of electricity is a major issue of public safety. Between 1988 and 1999 there were 76 people killed in Ireland as a result of accidents attributed to electricity. In 1998 nearly 5% of all fires were attributed to electrical causes in over 1,261 fires in Irish homes and businesses. However, fire attributed to electrical causes was responsible for nearly 18% of deaths caused by fires that year.

"While all of these fires and fatalities cannot be solely attributed to the standard of work that contractors carry out, it is alarming that the incidence of accidents is at such a high level. There is no doubt that the better regulation of the work of electrical contractors would have a positive impact and reduce the risk of death, damage or injury."

He concluded, "Until recently the Government approach to the issue has been to pass the regulation of electrical contractors from one Government Department to another." "The Health and Safety Authority has also claimed it has no responsibility for the regulation of electrical contractors.

"The major impetus for change in this area had come from the Report of the Review Group on Public Safety, whose report was published in July 2000. In the foreword to the report, the Chairman of the Review Group stressed the urgent need to address concerns about the regulation of electrical contractors," said Deputy Higgins.

National Tree Week

National Tree Week will take place from 3rd to the 9th of March with a variety of exciting events planned for all around the country. Organised by the Tree Council of Ireland and jointly sponsored by Coillte and Spar, Tree Week has become a major national event.

Tree Week 2002 will be officially launched by Síle de Valera on Saturday March 3rd at Killaloe in CO Clare. The theme will be " Follow the Tree Trail!" and everybody is being encouraged to do just that. The Tree Council in association with it's member organisations, has put together a varied programme of events which will take place during Tree Week. An events guide is available from any Spar Shop or Coillte office around the country. In addition, over 15,000 trees will be distributed to schools and community groups free of charge, by every local authority in the country.

The Tree Council is a voluntary organisation formed to promote the planting, care and conservation of trees. It represents over 37 professional voluntary and public service bodies who share a common interest in trees and their welfare. Tree Plantings and walks will be organised around the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area. For information on these contact Noel Mc Evoy at telephone number 2054700.

More information can be obtained from The Tree Council, Cabinteely House, The Park, Cabinteely, Dublin 18 Telephone 2849211 or Email trees@treecouncil.ie

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED TO STAGE GAMES

Fancy being a volunteer at the biggest sporting event in the world next year? Now is your chance. The 2003 Special Olympics World Games last week launched the country's largest ever volunteer appeal when it asked for 30,000 people to work at next year's World Games.

Launching the appeal, An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD., became the first person to apply to become a World Games volunteer at a Reception hosted by Dublin's Lord Mayor, Michael Mulcahy in City Hall Applying to become a World Games volunteer could not be easier- the Games website - www.2003specialolympics.com has an on-line application form, while a special phone line - 8691700 - has been set up to take application details. Volunteer information leaflets will also be available in O'Briens Sandwich Bars throughout the country. O'Briens Sandwich Bars are 2003 World Games Sponsors and Sponsors of the Volunteer Programme for the Games. Following the completion of the application form, potential volunteers will be interviewed before beginning a special volunteer training programme.

While specific skills such as languages, computers, medical, sports officiating are being sought, there is also a huge need for general volunteers who are willing to work on a wide variety of tasks. From administration to entertainment, from language translation to safety, from security to transportation, altogether there are hundreds of different types of jobs that need to be done. Over the course of the Games, volunteers will be needed at nearly 50 different locations, and tasks could include anything from moving and setting up equipment to making sure that there are enough sandwiches and refreshments for all.

The 2003 Special Olympics World Games will be the biggest sporting event in the world next year with 10,000 athletes, coaches and delegates attending from 160 international delegations. The Games begin on June 21st 2003 with the Opening Ceremony in Croke Park followed by seven days of competition at 21 venues throughout the greater Dublin area. The Closing Ceremony will also take place in Croke Park on June 29th.

Plastic Bag Shopping Levy

From March 4th 2002, an environmental levy will be charged, at 15 cent per bag, on plastic shopping bags. This levy is being introduced to reduce the huge number of plastic shopping bags used every day that cause litter in our towns, in the countryside and along our coastline. Plastic bags also impact on our ecosystems, habitats and wildlife. This environmental levy is the first of its kind and is designed to get people to make more environmentally friendly choices by encouraging them to use reusable bags.

The money collected will be paid into the Environment Fund and used to fund litter, waste management and other environmental initiatives. The levy will be payable in all sales outlets - e.g. supermarkets and clothes shops. Every time you shop you will have to decide whether or not you need a plastic shopping bag. One way of avoiding this levy is to bring your reusable shopping bag. Sometimes it is difficult to remember but hang them on your hall door, keep them in your car or carry one in your pocket or handbag.

Certain types of plastic bags will be excluded from the levy:

Small plastic bags used to contain fresh meat, fish or poultry (whether such products are already contained in packaging or not);

Small plastic bags used to contain loose fruit, nuts and vegetables, confectionery, dairy products, hot or cold cooked food and ice, as long as they are not otherwise packaged;

Plastic bags provided for goods sold to passengers in areas restricted to passengers in ports or airports and on commercial ships and aircraft and reusable shopping bags which are sold for 70 cent or more.

For further information contact Lorraine Murphy, Environmental Education Officer, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council at lmurphy@dlrcoco.ie or check out www.10steps.ie . Remember, it's easy to make a difference.

Call For Urban Council Status

A motion was passed by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council calling for Dun Laoghaire's status to be changes to urban. As Dun Laoghaire is a County Council, unlike Dublin Corporation, it does not attract the same level of funding for maintenance of footpaths and roads.

In moving the motion, Councillor Barry Andrews said," In 2001 Dublin Corporation received a grant of 700,000 Euros for footpath maintenance. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown received nothing. The reason given is that Dun Laoghaire Rathdown is a county and not an urban area. The reality is that 3/4 of the area of the county is residential. It's about time that our status reflected the true situation"

New Funding For St Anne's NS Shankill

The pupils and staff of St Anne's' NS Shankill are celebrating this week following the successful outcome of their campaign to secure Department of Education funding for new buildings and a car park.

The staff and parents met with Minister Michael Woods TD in Dáil Eireann on the 19th February to discuss their concerns about the school and particularly their concerns about safety.

The meeting itself had been organised following the lobby of local representatives by the school. On Friday, 15th February, the pupils of St Anne's presented petitions to local representatives at the launch of the National Children's Strategy in County Hall, Dun Laoghaire.

Councillor Barry Andrews said he was delighted that the campaign had been so successful. He said, "I hand delivered a letter to the Minister's home last week calling for an urgent meeting in view of the escalating safety problems. I am very pleased that the Minister has been so positive about this issue. Above all it is a job well done by the parents and staff."

VRT Tax "Anti-Competitive"

Speaking at a dinner in Dublin recently the new Managing Director of Fiat Auto Ireland called on the Government to abolish Vehicle Registration Tax. Michael Howe said that the issue of excessive, unjust and anti-competitive taxation on Irish motorists in the form of the Vehicle Registration Tax should be made an election issue by every motorist in the country. He called for the Government to abolish this tax which is unique amongst EU members saying it is "A tax on top of a tax and is in breach of the spirit of the Open Market concept on which the EU was founded". Mr. Howe pointed out that Irish motorists already paid VAT on cars, on fuel, on replacement parts and servicing as well as an annual road-tax.

"Most surveys confirm Irish pre-tax car prices are among the lowest in Europe, yet the final prices customers pay are among the highest, thanks to double taxation. No one likes paying tax, but we all do in the belief that there is an equitable system in place. However the VRT tax on motorists is quite simply a money-grabbing exercise by Minister for Finance and it should be ended now, to bring Ireland into line with other EU countries. Why are we the only country with this tax, why are Irish motorists being discriminated against?" he asked, pointing to the fact that the revenues collected did not go directly towards road improvement or repair. Irish motorists have one of the highest tax burdens and some of worst roads in the EU, he said and he called for a re-think by the relevant Government departments.

Mr. Howe pointed to the fact that Fiat's Open Book policy, introduced in 1995, included the most tax-efficient way to buy a new car and it had reduced Fiat prices by over 13 per cent. He concluded, "Other manufacturers who are complaining about excessive taxation should follow this example if they are seriously on the customers side-but there is no doubt that the Government is the main culprit in retaining a tax that discriminates against people living in Ireland."

Stillorgan Woman Drives Away with Success

Aoife Cruise from Stillorgan won a sparkling new silver Vespa and was one of four loyal staff from the Fitzwilliam Hotel Group to Drive away with success.

Last year, The Fitzwilliam Hotel Group captured staff attention with a fresh approach to employee incentive schemes, when an employee won a gleaming new car. The initiative proved to be such a huge success that this year the hotel group has expanded the scheme with the addition of three Vespas as well as the car.

"We are delighted with the reaction to this initiative, and recognise the role that our staff play in our success. We also realise that our staff are key to our growth and that is our reason for running and expanding this initiative. The finalists include staff from all of our four hotels: the Fitzwilliam Hotel, The Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links, The Royal Dublin and The Fitzwilliam International in Belfast," said Michael Holland, Managing Director, Fitzwilliam Hotel Group. "Despite the setbacks in the marketplace last year, we have every confidence in the future and have recently expanded into Northern Ireland with the acquisition of the Fitzwilliam International Hotel in Belfast."

All employees who have been with the hotel group for at least six months were eligible to win a new Fiat Punto or one of three Vespas. All eligible staff were automatically entered into a draw that took place at their Christmas parties and eight finalists were selected to take part in a special staff event that was held at the Fitzwilliam Hotel, St. Stephen's Green.

Scenes at Dodder May End With New Bill Says Olivia Mitchell

Scenes like those witnessed on the Dodder and elsewhere may be coming to an end, with the Minister's admission that there is a genuine problem surrounding large scale encampments and his acknowledgement of a Fine Gael Bill to address the issue, said Fine Gael's Frontbench spokeswoman on local government and housing, Olivia Mitchell TD last week.

"I welcome Minister Molloys admission that the issue needs to be addressed in legislation. The Housing Bill currently going through the Dail offers an ideal opportunity to make at least some of the changes required to protect public amenities and facilities. "If the Minister does not propose these amendments at Committee Stage then I will do so myself.

"The Minister has referred the Fine Gael Bill, which was published recently -and which would strengthen the hands of Local Authorities in controlling large scale encampments - to the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform. "He has indicated that new legislation may be sponsored either by that Department or the Department of the Environment and Local Government or both."

Local groups eligible for new EUR1.2m Combat Poverty Agency grants scheme

The Combat Poverty Agency has announced details of a new EUR1.2million grants scheme for locally based community and voluntary groups. The scheme, 'Working Against Poverty', will run over three years from 2002 - 2004 and is designed to assist these groups contribute to policy formulation on anti-poverty issues.

Announcing details of the scheme, Ms Helen Johnston, Director of Combat Poverty, said: "Community and voluntary groups learn a great deal from their work about how best to tackle poverty. Their experience and expertise has a lot to offer policy makers seeking to tackle the causes and effects of poverty."

A survey of previous grant schemes during 1999-2001 shows that over 230 grants were issued to local community and voluntary groups in the period. Combat Poverty is keen to encourage more applications from, and allocations of grants to various counties.

The scheme, worth EUR380,000 per annum in total, funds four types of activities:

• Training and skills development: Groups can train members in the skills needed to understand how public policy is made and how they might contribute to it.

• Conferences, seminars and publications on policy making issues

• Research on poverty and evaluation of actions taken to deal with it

• Policy analysis and promotion in order to help groups contribute effectively to policy debate.

Combat Poverty assesses each grant application on its relevance to poverty, potential to influence policy debate, realistic costings and time scale, clarity, and appropriate research and evaluation methods. The grant can be used by the group to do the work itself, or to contract an expert to assist them to do the work.

The deadline for applications for the first round of grants is March 27th. Grants brochures and information on the scheme are available from Combat Poverty at their website www.cpa.ie or by telephone 6026625.

Counterfeit 50 Euro Notes

Gardai in Dublin are investigating a number of cases of counterfeit 50 Euro Banknotes being used in business premises in the City Centre area. The counterfeit notes differ from the genuine 50 Euro in a number of ways, including:

There is no visible watermark when the note is held up to the light
When the note is tilted there is no shifting image visible on the hologram foil patch
The paper has a different 'feel' - the unique feel of the 'raised' print on the genuine note is absent from the counterfeit note

Overall the counterfeit could not be described as good quality. Gardai are asking traders to be vigilant and if in doubt to contact the Gardai.

Note: Security features of the 50 Euro note are detailed on the European Central Bank Euro website at www.euro.ecb.int

"STOCKING LANE THE NEW DODDER"

Olivia Mitchell, T.D., said the appearance of yet another large scale traveller encampment in South Dublin was further evidence of the urgent need for some legislative control. "Dozens of caravans now flank both sides of a new road serving just a couple of families off Stocking Lane. These residents are now living under virtual siege conditions and even the Council's own bin lorry will not attempt to obtain access.

"Neither the Gardai nor the County Council will offer any solution or protection. All over South Dublin, residents fearful of similar incursions onto open spaces and park lands, are seeking the protection of physical barriers such as walls, boulders and mounds of clay."

"The cost of such walls and the destruction of our urban landscape by the blight which such boulders and clay mounds represent, could all be avoided by simple legislative change. Unless the Local Authorities can guarantee action against large scale and totally inappropriately located encampments, genuine permanent accommodation programmes are going nowhere. This is a vicious circle that must be broken."

Olivia Mitchell continued," The Minister's latest demand that each Local Authority in Dublin must identify a 20 bay transient site in their area by February 26th will merely compound the problem. In the absence of any legislative backing to control or regulate such sites and their surroundings this new requirement will merely attract travellers to the Dublin area. Any transient site would be immediately filled and Local Authorities would still lack the ability to control the number or location of encampments."

"More and more communities are losing faith in the political system to protect their interests and are becoming increasingly disaffected. The current legal regime and the apparent complete inability of the Council to protect communities like that in Stocking Lane does little to persuade even the most well disposed citizens that well designed and regulated accommodation for travellers can offer a real solution to both sections of the community."

GOVERNMENT IN SHAMBLES ON REFERENDUM COMMISSION

The Labour Party Spokesperson on the Environment, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, has described the arrangement for the distribution of information to the public on the abortion referendum as 'a shambles entirely of the government's own making'.

Mr Gilmore accused the Minister for the Environment of complete incompetence and said that the Government was following up its campaign of misinformation with one of non- information."

"It is simply unacceptable that the public will not be provided with the information required to enable them to make an informed decision on what everyone acknowledges is a difficult and complex issue. It almost defies belief that not only will the full text of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution (Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy) Bill, 2001 not be reproduced on the polling card going to voters, but neither will it, apparently, be on display in polling stations."

The text of the Bill to alter the terms of reference of the Referendum Commission was only published on December 11th and all stages of the legislation were forced through the Dail, with the use of a government guillotine, just three days later on the last sitting day prior to Christmas. This Bill greatly reduces the role that the Referendum Commission can play in the provision of information to the public. During the debate the Labour Party warned that the Bill would inevitably result in the sort of difficulties we are now experiencing."

"But once both bills were passed there was nothing to prevent the order for the referendum being made thereby allowing the Government to establish the Commission. Instead, the government then delayed naming the date for the referendum as Fianna Fail and the PDs fought out their phoney war. The Chairman of the Commission was only appointed last week, and the funding for the Commission only approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday of this week. This means that the Commission has even less time to inform the public than it did in the Nice Referendum, although the Commission is already on record as saying that the time then was not sufficient to allow it to do its job."

"The Government and the Minister for the Environment must explain too why having waited until Friday 1st February to make the order it took a further week to have the Referendum Commission in place. Having awaited the result of a high court decision for a number of weeks everything should have been ready to roll.

A weeks delay in the circumstances, apparently to receive the nomination of the Chief Justice, seems extraordinary."

"It is not good enough for the government to say that a limited number of texts will be available in post offices. Every voter is entitled to full information.

The situation that has emerged is now so serious that serious consideration should be given to deferring the referendum until full information can be made available to every voter."

"The democratic system in this country is now paying the price of the legislation rushed through the Dail at the last moment before Christmas totally emasculating the Referendum Commission.

"Fianna Fail and the PDs are once again treating the electorate with contempt. The electorate will have the opportunity to provide their response to this treatment on March 6th".

Govt's Abysmal legacy Is Of Chronic Traffic Gridlock Says Mitchell

The Government's abysmal legacy to Dublin / chronic traffic gridlock and pathetic public transport - will be neither forgiven nor forgotten, Fine Gael's front bench spokeswoman on local government and housing, Olivia Mitchell TD warned the Dail this week.

Speaking on a Fine Gael Private Members motion, which urges the Dail to condemn the Government's failure to tackle the growing traffic crisis, she said that the Government has had both the time and the money to take action but had blown it.

"When Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats entered Government five long years ago they inherited a congested city centre. Now that they are leaving Government that same congestion has spread to grip every village, town and suburb in the region.

"Through their gross incompetence and inertia they have all but destroyed the Capital as a viable place to do business, and have made it a thoroughly unpleasant place to live.

"These are the inescapable facts and no amount of PR packaging can disguise them. Congestion of intolerable proportions is the reality which confronts every Dubliner every day.

"On election day it will be little consolation to the citizens of Dublin that the Taoiseach was a 'nice guy' when they know all too well they have less mobility now than they had in the 1950s.

"To add insult to injury the Taoiseach is now leaving office with a bare cupboard and after five years of indecision, with a transport deficit which will be infinitely more difficult, more disruptive and more costly to overcome."

How could 'third world' public transport system have escaped Tanaiste's attention Says Mitchell

Fine Gael frontbench spokesperson on Local Government and Housing, Olivia Mitchell TD this week slammed the Tanaiste's unbelievable remarks on the disgraceful state of public transport - and asked how it could have escaped the Tanaiste's attention that she has been in Government for five long years and has had every opportunity to do something about the problem?

"It defies all credulity for her to express concern about our third world transport system as she walks out the door of Government. She has had the time, the money and the opportunity to take action and she's blown it.

"She has been a member of a Government which promised bus competition three years ago. Yet she has sat idly by while Minister O'Rourke and her Department have done everything possible to frustrate efforts by private bus operators to provide a service to a long suffering public.

"Is the Minister even aware that despite the enormous expansion of the region, Dublin Bus now has 10 less bus routes operating than it had when she came into Government five years ago?

"The Tanaiste has declared support for private sector involvement in the provision of transport systems. Yet a firm proposal from private interests in my own constituency to provide an urgently required light rail line is being given the 'cold shoulder' by the Government of which she is a leading member.

"The Tanaiste might have more credibility if she were to ensure that this project gets the 'go ahead' from Government."

Miller Hosts Students for Day at the Races

March 3rd will see the Leopardstown Racecourse open its gates to college students from all over the country. Sponsored by Miller Genuine Draft, the day's event aims to encourage students to take a more active part in Irish racing, while enjoying a good day out. For the modest sum of six Euro, each student will receive entry to the racecourse, a pint of Miller and a Beef Roll.

This sponsorship forms just one part of Miller's sponsorship of

entertainment evenings throughout the Summer at Leopardstown racetrack. ."We were extremely happy with the success of the Leopardstown Race Nights which ran last Summer, and were anxious to continue with the event in 2002", commented Dave Robinson, Miller Brand Manager," We are delighted to be involved in this raceday which has for the last 10 years focused on bringing more young people racing. Assigning a night primarily devoted to students is Miller's way of showing our continued support for third level colleges nation-wide".

Students are advised to book their tickets early through co-operating college clubs and societies or through the racecourse on 01 289 3607. Visitors can also checkout the Leopardstown website www.leopardstown.com for details. First race of the national hunt card is at 2.30pm with the last race at 5.30pm.

 

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