Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes
Longford Ladies on the Up
Congratulations to Longford Ladies Senior Football team who on Sunday last in Tullamore came from behind to beat a strong Limerick team in the Bord Gáis Energy League Final. It was a particularly great day for the ladies of the Rathcline Ladies club who had five of their players on the winning panel. All of our club ladies performed admirably and the day was made all the sweeter with the performance of our ladies and especially Claire Greene who was awarded Player of the Match. The five ladies representing our club on the panel were Claire Greene, Rathcline, Paula Kenny, Fermoyle, Sinead Farrell, Josephine Donlon, Clonfower and Lauren Farrell, Cashel.
The good news does not end there with 4 of the 14 Ladies on the Longford panel that are playing Kilkenny in the Leinster Final. This is a further acknowledgement of the progression in the club of Ladies football. Good luck to the girls and their teammates in the Leinster Final.
Defibrillator Training
Are you trained in the use of the defibrillator? Do you need to complete your refresher course? If yes, then you are asked to leave you name in with Martina or Bridgie O’Brien in the Corner Shop and a refresher course will be arranged.
Do you want to be trained in the use of the defibrillator? It is one of the most vital and worthwhile training you can have. If you are interested in being trained in the use of a defibrillator you are asked to leave your name in with Martina or Bridgie in the shop. There is always a need for more people to take this course and your support will be vital.
Death
The entire area was saddened to learn of the death on Tuesday last 1st May at the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin of Mrs mary Dowling, Ballyleague. Mary was a native of Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath came to Ballyleague with her husband Brendan many years ago. Mary was a nurse by profession and served as a district nurse in Roscommon. Her beaming smile and warmth of welcome told the personality of Mary and she brought kindness, hope and may laughs to her patients as she cared for them. Her legacy will be long remembered by the many families that she called to during the course of her duty. Mary was also a great and keen Bridge player and was a popular figure at the bridge games locally. Fourteen years ago Mary was diagnosed with cancer and as was the way and will of Mary she did not let it disrupt her way of life. She dealt with her cross with the courage and strength that she gave to patients in previous years and with an enthusiasm that defied belief. Mary was an example and strength to everyone. Her remains reposed at Farrell’s funeral Home on Thursday before being removed to The Church of the Holy Rosary, Ballyleague. Following her Funeral Mass on Friday her remains were laid to rest in Cloontuskert Cemetery. To her husband Brendan, daughters Breda and Ciara, sisters Peg, Kathleen and Rose, brother Joseph, relatives and many friends we extend our sincere sympathy.
Lanesboro Bridge Club
There was great anticipation over the past two weeks as to the identity of the winner of the coveted President’s Prize presented by club President Mona O’Flaherty. The winner turned out to be a very popular figure in Una Lawlor. Runner-up was Katharine Harrison; third place was taken by Kathleen Hanley. The first session winner was Bernadette Gillen and the second session winner was Phil Chalmers. The club would like to show its appreciation to the two organisers, Gemma Douglas and Cyril Hussey who did a wonderful job.
The results of the competition held on Wednesday 2nd May were N/S 1st Frank and Frances Brennan, 2nd Mona O’Flaherty and Bernadette Gillen and 3rd Phil Chalmers and Cyril Hussey. E/W 1st Mike Flynn & Mary Mc Gushin, 2nd Una Clarke and Tom Feeney and 3rd Brid Mc Dermott and Una Lawlor.
Death
One of our most recent arrivals to the parish passed away last week. Mickie Comerford, 1 Longford Road, a native of Tipperary, many years ago came to work with Lyons Meat Company in Longford. He had lived in Killashee for many years before recently arriving in Lanesboro where he became a popular figure. Mickie, like most Tipperary people had a keen interest and love of hurling. We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to his family and friends. Mickie’s remains were laid to rest in Clonbonny following his Funeral Mass in Killashee Church.
Lanesboro Library
Storytime with Frances continues in Lanesboro Library on Saturday week 19th May from 12noon to 1pm. All are welcome.
Lanesboro’s Indoor Market
Have you been to the Friday Market yet? A large number of locally produced items as well as a great selection of goods are available. The market takes place from 11am to 1.30pm every Friday and it is a place well worth a visit if only to browse. The range of goods on sale are local home baking, local jams, free range eggs & mushrooms, gold, silver, gemstone and costume jewellery, goats milk beauty products, books, bric a brac & cd’s, Forever aloe vera products. John King (Healer and Angel Cards readings), fabulous hand-made cards and hand-made knitted scarfs/hats. There is also a range of dried flowers arrangements and handbags. Drumsna Garden Centre flower arrangements available. Free car parking to rear of building (beside the playground). Tea, Coffee and light snacks will also be available. Contact 087 3965568 for answers to queries.
Rathcline Ladies Clothes Collection
Please donate all your clean unwanted clothes, bed linen, towels and textiles including shoes, bags and belts and soft toys and books (novels). If anyone has bags to get rid of please call Madaleine on 086 1500123.
Bus to Ladies Mini Marathon
The annual Ladies Mini Marathon will take place on Bank Holiday Monday 4th June. As usual a bus will travel to the event from Lanesboro and if you would like to book a seat on the bus you should contact Pam Farrell any day after 6pm at 087-4146987. As seats are limited early booking is essential.
Lanesboro Community Games
Lanesboro Community Games will be holding the Area Athletics competition on Sunday 20th May at 5.30pm. The late time has been set to accommodate those attending Longford’s opening game in the GAA championship. Last year we had 42 children represent Lanesboro in the Athletics County Finals and hope the same will be the case this year. There are many evens from sprint to distance running, and also many field events. We hope every child in the parish will come along.
Best of luck to our swimmers who will be taking part in the County Finals next Sunday 13th May. We are delighted this year to have 12 children taking part. For the first time, probably, we will have two swimming relay teams with both boys and girls U-13squad. All the swimmers are young so this will be for fun and participation. We hope all the children will enjoy what will be a very new experience for most of them. The group are: Con Casserly, Philip Chalmers, Mark Dowd, Evan Chalmers, Séadhna Ryan, Brian Casey and Dúileach Ryan, Orla Ryan, Aisling Farrell, Róisin Brennan, Hazel Johnson and Jane Dowd.
Two in a Row
Congratulations to the Fermoyle National School boys in retaining their title as Longford FAI school’s five-a-side champions last week. They will now go forward to participate in the Leinster Finals on this Wednesday 9th May in Navan.
Lanesboro/Ballyleague Badminton Club
A huge congrats to club members Maura Duffy, Edel McDermott, Ann Duffy, Francis Casey and Stephen Herraty who won out their Grades in the Leinster Individually Graded Championships on Sunday 29th April last, in Baldoyle, Dublin. The club members represented Co. Longford at the Championship, fighting off counties Meath, Wexford and Laois to claim their titles. Maura and Edel are now G6 Leinster Ladies Champs, Frank and Stephen are G5 Leinster Men’s Champs and Ann Duffy was Runner-up in G5 Singles. A huge achievement by all concerned doing both Longford and the Midlands proud!!
Shannon Gaels Minor Club
Pride of place this week must go to the Under 16 panel who have qualified for the league final to be played in Ballinalee on this Wednesday at 7pm. We wish them luck and encourage everyone from within the club and beyond to go along and cheer the lads on to victory.
Well done to the Co. Minors who overcame Laois and especially Liam Connerton who scored the decisive goal – a habit that Liam has gotten into in recent games.
Congratulations to the County Longford Ladies and especially our own ladies, which played a huge part, in the winning of the league final on Sunday last in Tullamore.
The Under 6 and 10 training kicks off this Thursday evening from 7 to 8pm in Clonbonny.
The Under 8’s play in a blitz in Killoe this Wednesday.
Training for all Under 12 players takes place in Clonbonny every Saturday from 11 to 12.
The Under 13’s will play another round this coming Monday night.
The Under 14 team will play away from home this Thursday. It is expected that the players will show a marked improvement to their game as they are much better players than they are presently showing. Go for it lads!
The minors continue their get together every Thursday evening. The lads are showing remarkable aptitude but there are a few still not making it to training and parents and attending players are asked to encourage these lads to the pitch.
Keep Lanesboro Tidy
The committee would like to thank you to all who contributed to last week’s clean up in the town. The next date for the town clean-up is Friday next 11th May at 7pm. You are asked to meet at the parish hall and bring any cleaning equipment you can. The judging for the Tidy Towns start the end of May so no is the time to get the extra work completed. The committee looks forward to any time you can contribute.
Lough Ree Golfing Society
The first outing for 2012 is to Roscommon Golf Course this Saturday, May 4 at 11 am.
Following our AGM on 24 March 2012 the following is the committee for 2012:
Captain: Liam Rosemond; Secretary: Frank Conmy; Treasurer: Colm Dardis;
Committee members: Sean Brennan and Brendan Whitty.
Please contact any of the committee or text 0879730611 should you wish to join us.
Ladybird Shop
Well done to all the young artists who entered the ‘paint a ladybird’ competition. All the paintings will be on display in the shop window until Saturday next 12th May.
Rathcline GAA
Congratulations to the Rathcline contingent of Paula Kenny, Claire Greene, Lauren Farrell, Josephine Donlon and Sinead Farrell and the rest of the Longford Ladies on their excellent National League triumph against Limerick last Sunday.
Congratulations also to Liam Connerton and the Longford minor footballers on their recent three points win against Laois. Liam made the difference, coming off the bench to score the decisive goal.
Our senior team’s next task is at home to Fr. Manning Gaels in the league on Saturday at 7pm. Please support.
Finally, good luck to Western Gaels Under 16 team who play Colmcille in the Div. 2 League Final this evening, Wednesday, in Maguire Park, Ballinalee.
Rathcline Ladies GAA
Big congratulations must go to Claire Greene, Paula Kenny, Lauren Farrell, Sinead Farrell and Jo Donlon and the Longford Ladies Team on defeating a tough Limerick side in the All-Ireland National League Final in Tullamore on Sunday last. The girls really rose to the occasion on the day and it’s a credit to the girls for all their commitment with the County Team. Congratulations to Claire Greene on receiving Player of the Match.
The U14 girls had a good win against Clonguish Monday evening last and continued their winning ways with a great win over Carrickedmond on Monday morning. The girls are going very well with this being their third win.
The U16 girls were in hard luck last Thursday evening against a very strong Carrickedmond team.
On Friday night last the senior ladies were out in Clonbonny in the Gold Cup competition against the Killoe Ladies team. It was a very tough game but the Rathcline ladies played a great game to overcome the stern challenge of a strong Killoe side by a point. The next game in the senior league is next weekend against Slashers time to be decided.
Best of luck to the Western Gaels U16 team in the final on Wednesday evening at 7 in Ballinalee.
St. Faithleach’s GAA
O’Rourke Cup: Seniors play against Western Gaels on Sunday next, see fixtures for details.
Juniors: The lads had a win over Clan na Gael on Friday last. Final Score – St. Faithleachs 1-18 Clan na Gael 2-5. Team: S. Connor, P. Flynn, R. Cox, J. Walsh, J. Tarmey(0-1), B. Scally(0-1), D. Harrison(0-2), J. Quigley(0-1), C. Gunn(0-2), K. Farrell(0-2), A. Dooney(0-2), A. Kenny(0-2), D. Rooney(0-3), P. Reynolds(1-1), B. Hussey(0-1). Subs: P. Trautt, M. Neilan, S. Garvey.
U16 Boys were defeated Elphin on Friday last. Final Score – St. Faithleachs 3-09 Elphin 3-19. Team: E. Farrell, J. Irwin, L. Parker, J. Sweeney, J. Farrell, D. Barry, D. Kelly (0-1), M. Cox (0-1), D. Foley (1-1), S. Phillips (0-1), C. Gannon (0-1), J. Hussey (2-0), S. Walsh (0-3). Subs: J. Kelly (0-1), M. Gill, R. Guinan, J. Donlon.
U14 Boys had a win over St. Aidans on Monday last. Team: M. O’Donnell, K. Nerney, C. Mangan, M. Gill, L. Parker, G. Carberry, D. Kelly, C. Kennelly, E. Tynan, D. Nerney, S. Walsh, J. Gill, D. Foley. Subs: J. Donlon, R. Guinan, S. Farrell.
Paddy Bolger Memorial Tournament: The Annual U14 Paddy Bolger Memorial Tournament takes place this coming Saturday, 12th May at St. Faithleachs GAA Club, commencing at 11.00am.
Cards: Every Tuesday in the clubhouse at 9.00pm. All welcome. The results of last week’s games are – joint winners, Mark/Noreen & Michael/Sean. Last game, Ann/Michael. Ticket winners were – Michael, Ann, Joe and James.
Sympathy: The Club extends deepest sympathy to the Dowling Family, Ballyleague, on the death of Mary Dowling.
Congratulations: To all the children of the Parish who made their First Holy Communion & Confirmations last week.
Community Games: Kilgefin Community Games will be held at St. Faithleachs GAA Club Grounds on Sunday next, 13th May.
Women’s Mini-Marathon: Your support would be greatly appreciated for our local ladies who are taking part in the Mini-Marathon in June to raise funds for the Development of the new Stand at St. Faithleachs GAA Club.
Lanesboro Pike Angling Club
Lanesboro Pike Angling on Sunday 29th April we held our Michael Casey Perpetual Trophy competition on Lough Ree. 8 boats took part in what were difficult conditions. The fishing was not great due to the exceptionally strong winds, which made fishing difficult 1st prize of €150 and the Michael Casey trophy went to Padraic Corcoran with a fish weighing 7lb 02 oz. 2nd prize of €100 went to Ciara Corcoran fish 6lb 04oz. 3rd prize of €80 went to Michael Galvin with a fish of 6lb 2oz 4th prize of €60 Cathal Galvin with a fish of 6lb We would to thank all the anglers who braved the elements on the day. We also held a draw for our non-fishing members and the winners were David Rhatigan Hughie Smyth Pauline Casey and Paul Farrell, each winner receiving €25. We would also like to mention that on May 13th that the Camlin club is having a competition in Lanesboro. This competition is sponsored by Denniston’s fishing tackle shop in Longford. This competition has a guaranteed prize fund of €1200. Entry fee is €50 per boat and fishing is from 11am – 5pm.
Lough Ree Athletic Club
The Track & Field season for 2012 began on Saturday last in Athlone with the Roscommon County Championships for the Under 9 to Uner11 age groups. Quite a few from the club travelled and the following are the results. County Champions for 2012 are:- Bronagh Kiely Under 9 Long Jump, Ella Hogan Under 9 Ball Throw, Áine Kiely Under 10 500m, Róisin Brennan Under 10 Long Jump and Cait Kiely Under 11 Ball Throw. Winners of silver
medals were: – Jamie Hagan Under 9 Ball Throw and Louise Costello Under 10 500m and Long Jump. Bronze medal winners were:- Jamie Hagan Under 9 300m, Caoilinn Flood Under 10 500m, Róisin Brennan Under 10 Ball Throw, Seadhna Ryan Under 11 600m and Áine Kiely Under 10 60m and Long Jump.
If there was a family award it would surely have been won by the Kiely family. To use racing terminology, they were the “stable in form”. Well done to all the medal winners and indeed to all that took part that made it a wonderful day for the club.
This coming Thursday 10th May, the championships for the Under 12 and upwards will continue at the same venue from 7pm.
Secondary Schools – The Connaught Regionals took place in Sligo during the past week. As of yet there are no results to hand, if the Community college had any qualifiers for the Connaught Finals.