Girl Guides from Cork explain the tests they have passed to gain badges and awards.
Three Girl Guides from Cork have earned the highest achievement in Guiding, the Gold Cord Award.
Eileen Gleeson, who is a member of 9th Cork St Anthony's Company, and Mary O’Reilly and Róisín McSullivan, who are both in 8th Cork St John’s Company, have been working towards the Gold Cord Award for some time.
Eileen Gleeson explains that the achievement began by earning badges in cookery, homemaking, camping and other skills like swimming.
It involved nearly everything we learned in Guides.
A series of challenges followed, such as bringing a foreign visitor on a tour of Cork city and performing a community service. The outdoor section involved using an axe to make an emergency shelter, which Mary O'Reilly describes as great fun. Other backwoods skills were tested, such as cooking a meal on a campfire, and they had to know everything about hiking.
This episode of 'Junior Journal’ was broadcast on 7 March 1966. The reporter is Maire Ni Mhurchadha.
‘Junior Journal’ was an RTÉ Radio series looking at the lives of young people in Munster in the 1960s, and was compiled and presented in the Cork Studios by Maire Ni Mhurchadha and Sile Ni Bhriain.
Consisting of interviews with children, teenagers and young adults on their interests, hobbies, education and family, it also features music performances from young contributors. First broadcast in November 1962, it ran until October 1968.
