‘Always something to be doing’ for spirited Noreen

She has yet to sit down to watch a DVD — although now in her 80s, Noreen Minihan simply wouldn’t have the time.

Chairperson of the board of management of her local boys’ school, she also trains more than 50 altar servers, holds storytelling sessions in the local library, does Sunday readings in the community hospital, and, amongst other things, helps clean litter from the streets of Clonakilty.

The retired school principal and mother-of-six was one of almost 100 locals who received the Spirit of Clonakilty 2012 Town Council Recognition Awards.