Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes
Scór na nÓg
The Shannon Gaels club once again hosted
the Scór na nÓg semi-final in St. Mary’s Parish Hall on Saturday night last. As
usual there was great competition for all the different disciplines and the
full house joined in acknowledging the tremendous work gone into preparing for
this their big night.
The Shannon Gaels club had representatives
in Solo singing; Tara Leigh Lulham, accompanied by Sean Mc Grath, Ballad group;
Cillian Flood, Conor English on guitar, his brother Ronan, Chloe Kenny and Tara
Leigh Lulham, Sketch; Laura and Anna Peters, Lauren Guinan, Dearbhail Flood,
Stephen Tobin, Andrew Ward, Niall Keane and Shane Kenny, Quiz team of Aaron
Farrell, Daniel Curran and Stephen O’Dowd. Each and every one of them gave
great performances and the club is very proud of their efforts and the time
they gave in preparation for Saturday night.
Unfortunately only one of the clubs entry
got through to the County Final that takes place on Sunday night next in Ardagh
Community Centre. The club are county champions in the sketch and it was the
sketch that got through to Sunday night in Ardagh to defend their title.
We wish the lads and lassies the very best
of luck.
The club would like to thank Irish and
Cultural officer Michael O’Sullivan, the county Scór committee for allowing us
the opportunity to host the event this year. The club would like to thank
everyone that made themselves available to help out in any way on the night and
make the event a great success.
Wedding
The marriage took place recently in St.
Mary’s Church, Blessington, Co. Wicklow of Hugh Devereaux youngest son of Denis
and Joan Devereaux, Rathcline Road and Wendy Swarbrigg, daughter of Gerald and
Katie Swarbrigg, Malahide, Co. Dublin. Bestman was David Devereaux brother of
the groom and groomsmen were Colin Murtagh and Declan Feeney, both friends of
the groom. Chief bridesmaid was Lynne Swarbrigg sister of the bride and
bridesmaid was and Hannah Swarbrigg, also sister of the bride. The marriage
ceremony was celebrated by Rev. Isaac de la M abrilmay2011@yahoo.comere assisted by Rev. David Swarbrigg. The
wedding reception was held in the Tulfarris Hotel and Golf Resort, Blessington.
We wish the happy couple many years of wedded bliss.
Musical Event for your Diary
Edel Loftus, her harpists and Choir will
perform a rendition of Christmas Music and carols in St. Mary’s Parish Hall on
Sunday 11th December at 7.30pm. As usual this promises to be one of
the highlights of the Christmas season and an evening of true enjoyment for all
music lovers.
Table Quiz
During November each year, Movember is responsible for
the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in Ireland and around
the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s
health, specifically prostate cancer. A Table Quiz will take place in Clarke’s Bar
on this Friday night 25th November at 9pm to raise money for this
very worthy cause. A table of 4 will cost €40 and there is guaranteed a
wonderful night of fun. The organisers would appreciate a huge turnout and lots
of prizes available on the night. Following the Quiz a dj will take over to
finish off a wonderful night.
Death
It was with great sadness and regret we learned of the
death at her residence at Lough Ree Park, Ballyleague on Wednesday 16th
November of Mary Carty. Mary had been suffering for a few years and she bore
her illness with great strength and dignity. Mary prior to her illness worked
in Costelloe’s Nursing Home where she was a very hardworking and popular
figure. She was a woman utterly
dedicated to her husband Brendan and two daughters, Charlene and Amanda. She was a warm and friendly lady whose bright
and cheery dispensation endeared her to anyone that had the pleasure to know
Mary. Her remains reposed at her residence on Thursday until her removal to the
Church of the Holy Rosary, Ballyleague. Following the Mass of the Resurrection
her remains were interred in Cloontuskert cemetery. To her husband Brendan,
daughters, Charlene and Amanda, grandchildren, brothers Billy and Ambrose Mc
Dermott, sister Margaret, aunt Chrissie, extended family, relatives and many
friends we extend our sincere sympathy.
Lanesboro Bridge Club
The results of the competition held on
Wednesday last 1st Mona O’Flaherty and Bernadette Gillen, 2nd
Noreen Dunne and Mae Casey, 3rd Frank and Frances Brennan and 4th
Elish Gray and Mary Mc Gushin.
Lanesboro Badminton Club
The
club is holding a Fundraising Table Quiz in Clarkes Bar on Friday 2nd December
at 9pm. Teams of 4 with prizes on the night. All support is greatly appreciated
Lough Ree 2000 Bridge Club
The results of the competition held on
Monday 14th November are N/S: Gross and
Nett:
1st Joan Browne and Patricia
McGann, 2nd Eileen Kelly and Renee Walsh, and Hannah Clyne and
Maureen Hynes. E/W: Gross 1st Mark and Peggy Crehan, 2nd
Brendan Dowling and Goretti Kenny and 3rd Geraldine Cafferty and
Mary Casey. Nett: 1st Mark and Peggy Crehan, 2nd Brendan
Dowling and Goretti Kenny and 3rd Ger and Breda Clarke.
EGM
Lanesboro Triathlon Club EGM on Friday 9th of
December at 8 pm in the Co-op Hall, all members are asked to attend this
important meeting.
Tales from County Roscommon
A
new collection of poetry ‘Tales from Roscommon’ was recently launched by local
man Kieran Furey. The book has received excellent reviews and it can be
purchased in O’Brien’s Corner Shop priced only €10.
Lanesboro Library
Go
along and check out the new fiction and non-fiction titles available now! The opening times are as
follows: Monday 2pm – 8pm, Tuesday 2pm – 6pm, Wednesday 2pm – 8pm,
Friday 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 1pm.
AGM
Lanesboro
Gun club are holding their AGM on Friday 25th November at 9.30pm in
Adie Farrell’s meeting room. All members are required to attend.
Sympathy
We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to Carmel and
Walter Burke and family, Cloontuskert, on the death of Carmel’s sister Molly
Wyer, Portarlington, Co. Laois last week.
A Musical Christmas
Quietly
and indeed successfully working away in Lehery is the mother and daughter
combination of Edel and Alida Loftus. Edel is the founder and director of the
Windsong Musical School. Specialising in the harp this mother and daughter duet
have place in the most prestigious venues both nationally and internationally. They
have the unique distinction of teaching the harp in China via the internet and
video conferencing. This is an amazing accomplishment
and the school has really taken off in China through this medium.
Windsong
is presently in the throes of organising what should be a wonderful year ahead
and we look forward with great anticipation to the announcement of the year’s
programme of events.
For
this Christmas the Windsong Music School has release a DVD that is an essential
purchase this Christmas. The DVD features members of the Music School that
includes local ladies Melissa Coughlan, daughter of Joe and Ann Coughlan,
Barnacor, and Ann Marie Devine, Longford.
Alida,
who heads the Windsong ensemble, has also released a CD and it is compulsory
listening and shows a remarkable expertise on the harp from Alida Loftus. The
CD is entitled ‘Returning Home’ and this is a CD that would grace anybody’s
home.
Both
DVD and CD are available for sale in O’Brien’s Corner Shop at €10
Lanesboro Ballyleague Annual Christmas Fair
The Lanesboro and
Ballyleague Annual Christmas Fair will be held in St. Mary’s Parochial Hall,
Lanesboro, on Friday 2nd December, from 11am to 4pm. There will be a
range of stalls selling local home baking, local jams, free range eggs &
mushrooms, silver and costume jewellery, goats milk beauty products, sense
flameless candles, books, bric a brac, Forever aloe vera products, Christmas
gifts, decorations, beautiful handmade cards and fab locally produced hand
crafts. Free car parking to rear of building (beside the
playground). Tea, Coffee and light snacks will also be available.
The regular morning tea provided by the organisers for the local rural
transport ladies & gents will be on as normal. We look forward to seeing
you all there. We would like to thank everyone who has supported us
during the year. Contact 087 3965568 for queries – market as
usual this Friday 11am – 2pm.
Rathcline GAA
Congratulations
to the U21 team on their crunch victory over Mostrim in the U21 Championship on
Sunday. The match ended 3-09 to 4-05 to Rathcline. Thanks to everyone who came
out to support the team. The team will now play Ballymore or Granard in the
semi-final next Sunday. The match will take place in Keenan Park, Ardagh at
2pm. Again we would ask everyone to turn out in force to support the team.
The
AGM of Rathcline will be held on Friday 9th December at 8pm. All
parishioners are invited to attend. Nomination and motion forms have been
issued to all members. Can members please return forms to any of the executive
before Monday 5th December.
The
annual Christmas draw will take place in the Swan Tavern on January 7th
2012 at 11pm. The prizes are as follows: 1st prize – €3000. 2nd
prize – €1000. 3rd prize – €750. 4th prize – €500. 5th
prize – €250. 6th prize – €200. 7th prize – €200. 8th
prize – €200. 9th prize – €200. 10th prize – €200.
Tickets are priced at €20. Tickets have already been circulated to various
ticket sellers around the parish. We would ask all ticket sellers to try and
work as hard as possible and as early as possible on selling these tickets. The
club really needs as much funds as possible and so there will be a big emphasis
on this draw. We would encourage everyone to support this draw for your club.
Congratulations
to Mark Kenny and Sean Farrell who finished in a fantastic 2nd and 8th
place respectively in a recent Triathlon event in Westport. Well done lads.
Congratulations
also to Eileen Burke of Innis Ree Lodge on winning the Nursing Home Director /
Person in charge award at the City West Hotel in Dublin recently.
The
club would like to extend our sympathies to the Carty family Ballyleague and
the McDermott family Killashee on the recent death of Mary Carty (nee
McDermott). We would also like to sympathise with the Hanly family, Ballagh,
Finn family, Rathcline Road and the Burke family, Cloontuskert on recent family
bereavements.
Tri News
When
most of us are hibernating for the winter in expectations of Christmas and
maybe not adhering to that Summer diet schedule a hardy bunch of athletes for
the Triathlon Club had set their sights earlier in the year on one of the most
challenging and prestigious Adventure races of the season , Westport’s Sea 2
Summit. It is just that a 5 k run around hilly Westport before mounting ones
bike at Roman Island beside the sea and Cycling flat out to Croagh where the
bike is discarded and a race up Croagh Patrick ensues. Following the
treacherous descent , running , the bike is remounted and raced flat out back
to Westport where is returned to the Transition area at Roman Island and a
further foot race is entered in to reach the finish line. I think you will
agree this is not for the faint hearted and particularly at this time of year.
Adventure Racers do not do things easy.9 individuals from Lanesboro set forth
from Lanesboro to compete in this event. Despite their daily long commutes to
work, training time was obviously put in for Mark Kenny and Sean Farrell. In
the Spirit Event of this competition Mark pushed the eventual winner all the
way to claim a brilliant second place in 1 hr. 53 mins and Sean Farrell was
not far behind at 1 hr. 57 mins which
gave him an 8th place. Incredible for a small club to have two in
the top ten in this very testing event. More was to come as PJ O’Neill romped
in just over the 2 hour mark at 2.04 and Martin Gillen close behind at 2.17.
Shortly after that Anthony Gillen and Niall O’Donohoe crossed the finish at
2.17 and 2.27 respectively. The lads had some female company from Lanesboro as
Teresa Hanly , Aoife Farrell ( Sean’s Sister ) and Jo Donlon who did some
extras miles on the bike just for good measure all gave very good accounts of
themselves and the Club was credited as making a very solid performance in the
competition overall.
St. Faithleach’s GAA
Minor Ladies: Pride of the
Parish goes to our Minor Ladies who had a convincing win over St. Dominic’s in
the Division 3B County Final in Ballyleague on Saturday last. Faithleachs
opened the scoring with two points from Aisling Ormsby, one from Aileen Nerney
& one from Laura Mc Loone before Dominic’s scored their first point. Ellen
Hegarty added another for the Faithleachs side & Dominic’s replied with
their 2nd point. A further 7 points from Faithleachs and a goal from Dominic’s
lead to the half-time scoreline of 0-12 to 1-2. The second half saw the
Faithleachs side rock solid with a cracking goal from Ellen Hegarty along with
points form Kelly Murphy, Joan Geoghegan, Rachel Banahan, Rachael Costello and
Aisling Ormsby to leave a Final Scoreline of – St. Faithleachs 1-19 St.
Dominic’s 1-03. Team: Shauna O’Neill, Róisin Collier, Emma Kenny, Claire
Cleary, Nicole Carty, Claire Brennan, Rachel Banahan(0-1), Rachel
Costello(0-1), Joan Geoghegan (0-4), Catherine Brennan, Laura Mc Loone(0-3),
Ellen Hegarty(1-2), Aileen Nerney(0-1), Aisling Ormsby(0-4), Áine Collier,
Niamh Scally, Kelly Murphy(0-3). This was a great team effort from all players
on the panel, a great game of football with a ‘Player of the Match’ display
from Ellen Hegarty and great support from all the team. Ladies County Board
Chairman, Sean Murray, presented the winner’s trophy to Captain, Róisin
Collier. Róisin thanked the Team along with their Manager/Mentors, Denis Mc
Loone, Claire Kenny and Lorraine Connor, all parents who supported them
throughout the year & also to St. Dominic’s Team, wishing them well. Both teams
were treated to a meal in the clubhouse where refreshments were served to
parents & supporters alike. Many thanks to all who helped out on the day.
Special thanks to St. Faithleachs GAA club for sponsorship of hoodies for the team.
Minor Club AGM: The Annual
General Meeting of our Minor Club will take place on Friday 25th November in
St. Faithleachs GAA Club House at 8.00pm
Senior Club AGM: The Annual
General Meeting of our senior club will take place on Friday 9th December in
St. Faithleachs GAA clubhouse at 8.00pm
A Taste of Local Christmas: will be held
in St. Faithleachs GAA Club House on Saturday 26th November from 8.00pm. This
is a great chance to get into the Christmas spirit with a huge selection of our
Local businesses displaying their wide selection products including; Cookery
Demonstration, Cake Icing, Jewellery Display, Make-Up, Hair Styling, Natural
Remedies, Aloe Vera & many more. Live Music on the night with Black Porter.
Admission €5. All welcome. Please come along & support. A night not to be
missed to give you some original and local Christmas ideas.
Cards: Every Tuesday
in the Club House, 9.00pm. All welcome. Results of last week’s games – Winners,
Kevin/Joe. Runners-up, Michael Rogers/Michael Finan. Last game, Padraig/P.J.
Ticket Winners – Freda, Pauric, Peggy, P.J., Padraig.
Upcoming Events: Ballagh NS
Fund Raising Event with Frank Nelson in the Club House, 2nd December. Music in
the Club House, Saturday 3rd December by Rory McDonnell. Ballyleague Tidy Towns
are holding a Table in the Club House on Saturday 10th December. In the run-up
to Christmas, there will be something special in store for kids at St.
Faithleachs GAA Club House on 18th December, with Santa arriving at St.
Faithleachs GAA Club Grounds. Sports Quiz to be held in the Club House on 28th
December.
Christmas Draw: The Club are
currently running a Christmas Draw, €2 per line. 1st Prize – Large Hamper to
the value of €150, 2nd Prize – DVD Player, 3rd Prize –Newbridge Silverware
Knife Set, 4th Prize – Bottle of Whiskey, 5th Prize – Clock. The draw will take place on
18th December.
Get Well Wishes: We wish James
Quigley a speedy recovery from his recent injury.
Sympathy: The Club
extends deepest sympathy to the Carty Family on the death of Mary Carty,
Ballyleague. To her husband Brendan, daughters Charlene & Amanda,
grandchildren, relatives, extended family & friends. The Club extends
deepest sympathy to Carmel & Walter Burke and family on the death of
Carmel’s sister Molly Wyer, Portarlington.