Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes
Break In
Last Wednesday a break in took place at the home of Anthony and Mary Lannon in Ballagh. There was nobody at home during the break in which took place during daylight hours. A lot of valuable items were stolen during the robbery If you were travelling in the vicinity of the Lannon household, Ballagh church and Ballagh National school on Wednesday last and noticed anything all you are asked to contact Roscommon Gardaí 09066 38311
As we are in the run up to Christ it is very important that you be very vigilant about your own property and also your neighbour’s property. If you sense that there is anything out of place or suspicious you are encouraged to contact your local Garda station and the text alert system for your area will kick in. If you have not already joined the text alert system in your area there is not a better time than now to sign up and ensure that you are contacted by any of the alerts that go as the case arises.
Social Services Whist Drive
Next Friday is Friday 1st November and as usual the first Friday means the Lanesboro Social Services Whist Drive. Next Friday night along with all the regular Whist players there is a call for new players to come along. With the clock having gone back one hour last weekend there is a greater need for the services offered by the committee. We approach Christmas and a goal of the committee is to ensure that all the needy are in a position to enjoy the Christmas season worry free. The Whist Drive every first Friday helps in a major way to help alleviate the fears of those most in need. Your support and the support of your card playing friends is a major help to the committee and they look forward to welcoming you on Friday night to St. Mary’s parish Hall for the game commencing at 8.30pm.
Lanesboro Triathlon Club AGM
The AGM of Lanesboro Triathlon Club has been set for Friday week 8th November 2013 at 8pm. The meeting will take place in the club rooms in the co-op hall, Lanesboro. All members are asked to attend.
Christmas Golfing Outing this Saturday
Lough Ree Golfing Society Christmas Outing to Strokestown Golf Club will take place on Saturday 2nd November, players are asked to be in attendance from 10.30 when light refreshments will be served. Outstanding presentations and AGM will follow golf.
As this is the Christmas outing is a wonderful opportunity for all local golfers, whether society members or not, to come out and enjoy a game of golf among friends and neighbours. The Lough Ree Golfing Society is a local club organised by local people and one that should be supported and helped grow by all local golfers and their friends.
No Boxing this Thursday
Lanesboro Boxing club would like to inform all members that the club will not be open for training this Thursday night 31st October. Boxing will resume on Thursday night week 7th November at 7pm sharp
Athlone Samaritans
Athlone Midland Samaritans urgently needs volunteers. No experience is necessary as training will be provided. If you would like to volunteer please call 0852845010 immediately.
If you have the time it should be put to exceptional use and to help those in need of the Samaritans
Longford Toastmasters
Would you like to be more confident at speaking in public and to learn how to improve your communication skills? Longford Toastmasters are looking for new members to join our club. We meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month in The Longford Arms Hotel from 8.20pm until 10.30pm. Our next meeting takes place on 17 Oct. All are welcome to our enjoyable and sociable meetings and no experience is required. For further information please contact Mary on 086 1219281 or Terrie on 086 1706367.
Getting Married in 2014?
There are still some places available on the Accord pre-marriage course on Monday 2nd and Thursday 5th December. This course runs over two evenings from 6.00 pm to 10.30pm. You are invited to contact Accord in longford at 043-3347515.
Brushstrokes Art Calendar
The Brushstrokes calendar is now on sale. The quality of this year’s work is exceptional – all of it done by the local Brushstrokes Art group who do tremendous work each year and their work can be seen and bought at the exhibitions during the year.
The proceeds of the sale of the calendar will be split between the Lanesboro Tidy Town committee and Ballyleague Tidy Towns committee, both groups who worked so hard and were very successful in improving both sides of the bridge.
Nathan Carter
On Monday night 18th November the Radisson Hotel will host an Evening with Nathan Carter. The night is a fundraising event for Archbishop Leo Cornelio, SVD India, for the building of a new school for street children. Nathan Carter will also be joined on the night by Lisa Stanley and T.R. Dallas. Tickets are on sale in O’Brien’s. The concert will commence at 8.30pm and the doors will open at 7.30pm. Not only will you be enjoying a night in the company of one of Ireland’s most popular entertainers but also helping a most wonderful cause.
Baptism
Congratulations to Jason and Emma Fallon, Killinure on the recent baptism of their baby son at St. Mary’s church.
Lanesboro Bridge Club
The results of the completion held on Wednesday night last 23rd October are; N/S 1st Gemma Douglas and Elish Gray, 2nd Phil Chalmers and Cyril Hussey and 3rd Frank and Frances Brennan. E/W 1st Katharine Harrison and Philomena Walsh, 2nd Noreen Dunne and Mae Casey and 3rd Maura Hanly and Mairead Gill.
Shannon Gaels Minor Club
Saturday night live – Our club brought younger members of the club to Croke Park on Saturday night last for the second and final game of the two game series between Ireland and Australia. There definitely is no place like Croke Park for an evening game and our young players were totally in awe of the whole occasion. Despite the game being one-sided it did not take from the brilliant occasion for these young people and they are now left with a huge memory of a very special night with their club mates in Croke Park. It was an absolutely smashing night all-round. The club would like to thank those parents and club members who travelled and helped to make the night so very special.
Schools Coach – The club is very pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin Hanley as schools coach for both Lanesboro Primary school and Fermoyle Primary school. We wish Kevin well on his appointment.
Now that the season is at its end the club would like to thank everyone that helped in any way towards the successful running of the club throughout the years. It was a year that has a tremendous buzz and it was great to be involved.
However, and there is always a however, it was notable at club events be they matches, training and social events such as concerts; it was notable that there were a great number of parents not supporting the club. There were always the regular people there but there was also a large absence. This was disappointing as practically all teams were very competitive and the young players were enjoying themselves. Hopefully in the year ahead there will be a huge number of parents turning out to support their kids within the club. Come along, enjoy and be part of your club.
The club would like to encourage all their supporters to support the new Rathcline Club Lotto that is commencing in the very near future.
Local Training Initiative Course
There are vacancies in Local Training Initiative scheme based at the Genealogy Centre in Strokestown. The vacancies are FETAC accredited Levels 3, 4 and 5 available to suit all abilities Modules include: Bookkeeping, Payroll, Information Technology, Word Processing, Work Experience, General Office Skills, Business English, Communications, Career Preparation, Functional Maths, Workplace Safety, Customer Service, Functional Mathematics and Reception Skills. The duration of scheme is 48 weeks on a full time or continuous intake. The hours are: Mon – Thurs 9.00am – 4.30pm and Fri 9.00am – 1.15pm.
For all details you should contact: Rachel Feeney at St. John’s Centre, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon. Telephone: 071 96 34935 or email: ltiroscommon@gmail.com
Cloontuskert CD
Last June marked the “end of an era” with the retirement of Phelim Henry as Principal of Cloontuskert NS, after 34 years. A wonderful day of celebration was held in the school and friends, family, pupils and past pupils all gathered to wish “The Master” well. Memories of the day were captured on camera and this wonderful collection of photos has been put together in a CD which is now available to purchase for €10. CD’s are available from Trautt’s Checkout or alternatively may be purchased through the school.
St. Faithleach’s GAA
Minor Ladies – D2 Championship Final: Our minor ladies are through to the championship final following a win away to St. Dominic’s on Sunday last. The final score read – St. Faithleachs 9-07 St. Dominic’s 2-03. Team: M. Banahan, C. Cleary, L. Hoare, E. Kenny, N. Scally, J. Geoghegan (1-1), R. Costello, A. Nerney (1-0), A. Curley (0-1), T. Nerney, E. Hegarty (2-0), K. Murphy (4-1), R. Banahan (0-4). Subs: N. Hegarty, N. Carty, L. Farrell (0-1). Best of luck to all players on the panel along with their management, Padraig Murray, Ursula Kilcoyne and Pat Costello in the final this coming Saturday 2nd November against St. Croan’s. See fixtures for details of venue and time. Please come along and show your support.
Club Ground of the Year: St. Faithleachs GAA Club has been awarded the Co. Roscommon – Club Ground of the Year 2013. This is a fantastic achievement for the 2nd year in a row. Huge congratulations to all involved; Henry Kenny field committee, Frank Curley Chairman, all participants on schemes involved in the maintenance and upkeep of our grounds throughout the year and all who helped out in many ways.
AGM: The Annual General Meeting of St. Faithleachs GAA Senior and Minor Club will take place in the clubhouse in November. The minor club will take place on Friday 15th November at 8.30pm and the senior club AGM on Friday 29th November at 8.30pm. All senior players, junior players and junior ladies are urged to attend. All members of the club are encouraged to attend, new members most welcome. We encourage parents of our underage club members to attend the minor AGM and hopefully take an active role in the clubs sporting activities for the year ahead.
Fitness Challenge 2013: St. Faithleachs Fitness Challenge Update – Week 3. The on-going commitment from all involved is to be admired with class numbers still very high so well done! Tuesday night’s circuit was slightly different as we stepped up the intensity and introduced some old favourites. Another great attendance added to the buzz and everyone got stuck in from the start pushing themselves hard. It was a tough class but everyone stuck with it and made it through. Those aching legs and backsides will all be worth it we promise! Friday nights “Mystery Class” was by local Ironman, Neil O’Donoghue from Lanesboro Triathlon Club. Neil gave a tough core strength and conditioning class which really tested the group but once again everyone rose to the challenge and gave it their all. Neil will have to watch out for some of this group on the Ironman circuit next year as they are a very determined crew! Sunday morning’s session up Sliabh Bán was unfortunately cancelled due to the severe weather conditions. As soon as the text was sent out the weather cleared up! We were sorry to have had to cancel as we were looking forward to it all week. This week see’s us reaching half-way in the challenge. It is important to keep the momentum going and the large numbers at the classes help to do that. See you all Tuesday night!
St. Faithleachs 5K Run/Walk: Registration is now open online through Runireland.com for the St. Faithleachs 5K Fun Run/Walk which takes place on Sunday 1st December at 12.30pm. NOTE: 5k Training programmes are available from Ray Cox, please contact Ray directly.
Fundraising Event: Local Drama Group presents “3 Act Play” – “A Wake in the West” on Friday 23rd & Saturday 24th November in Ballyleague Hall. Your support for this event would be hugely appreciated.
Lotto: The numbers drawn were – 7, 19, 23 and 24. There was no jackpot winner and the five €20 winners were – Breege Nerney, Orla Irwin, Tommy Dolan, Bart Fallon & Brendan Henry. The next draw will take place on Tuesday 5th November for a jackpot of €9,800.
Cards: Every Tuesday in the Club House, 9.00pm. All welcome. Last week’s results are – winners, Dan/Dean, runners-up, Jimmy/Martin and last game, Mark/Noreen.
Lough Ree AC
Who is Jack Madigan? Jack turned up at our last run if the Clonbonny training series which finished last Tuesday evening. He is a young man from Sheffield, England, he was reluctant to take part, but when he did, he broke the 10 minutes for the 1¼mile run – of the 57 participants over the 6 outings only 12 managed to beat that time. The youngster disappeared as quickly as he arrived!
Cian Glennon is another who paid us a visit for the first time and brought in a time of 8min 12 seconds – the fastest time over the period of six weeks. We cannot truly evaluate that performance as we don’t know his age group. Suffice to say that he still attends Primary School, while several others are in secondary school.
In paying compliments let us not forget another Cian that is Cian Walton. This youngster is a 3rd/4th class pupil in Cloontuskert NS attended all six runs and brought in best times in most of them, while our leading lady must be Alannah Flood improving on every outing. There were other outstanding achievements but that is for another day. The next fixture is the Connaught championship cross country on Sunday 3rd November at Padraig Pearses GAA club grounds on the outskirts of Ballinasloe – out the old Athlone road from Ballinasloe and up roadway to left.
The results of last Tuesday’s run can be seen in O’Brien’s window.