Saturday, February 22, 2014

Club Notes - 19th February

Jack the Joker
No. Drawn - 28
Our popular Jack the Joker Fundraiser will continue this Sunday night in Kennedy’s Live where the Jackpot will be €2,000 as on Sunday night Claire Cosgrave was drawn out of the drum and picked card 28 which turned out to be the Joker Card, meaning she scooped the Jackpot of €9,100. James, Jack and Joey and Fran and Lar won €25 each. As well as our group of ticket sellers tickets can be purchased from Convenience Store Ballinroad, The Village Inn, Village Flowers, Kennedys Live, Spar and Mousies Takeaway.





Club Bingo
This Sunday our Club Bingo continues in the CBS Hall at 8:30 pm where the jackpot is €1150.

Membership
With a number of football Championships due to get underway in the next number of weeks we would ask that all players and indeed non players make a special effort to pay their membership to our Membership Officer Kevin Tobin as soon as possible.

Under 21 Football
On Saturday last our Under 21 footballers beat Brickey Rangers in Fraher Field in the first round of the Western Championship. They now play St. Olivers in the Western Semi Final on Sunday March 2nd at 2pm in Fraher Field.
TEAM: K. DWANE, S. O’GORMAN, E. BERGIN, S. O’CONNOR, J. ELSTED, B. LOOBY, C. McCARTHY, C. PRUNTY, D. COLLINS, B. HENLEY, C. KINDREGAN, D. SWEENEY, S. CLIFFE, M. MAHER, D. LOOBY.
SUBS: C. O’DWYER, P. COLLINS, R. ROCTOR, K. DEE, E. YOUNG.

Club Social
Our Club Social took place last Saturday in the Park Hotel, and it turned out to be a fantastic night where we will be presented medal s to our victorious Senior and Under 21 Football teams and our Junior Hurling Team.  Also on the night we made presentations to Brian Looby, Conor Prunty, Kevin Dee, Laurance Power, Eoin Kiely, Michael Maher, Sean Daly and Kevin Dwane who won All Ireland Colleges medals with St. Augustine’s College and Colaiste Dún Garbhán last year, whilst a special presentation was also made to our generous club sponsor Jack O’Hare in recognition of the great support his company Adesco have given to our club for the past number of years. Following speeches by our Chairman Bernard Shields and County Chairman Tom Cunningham the medals were presented to our players by Tom Cunningham after which all those in attendance enjoyed themselves immensely into the early hours of Sunday morning. We would like to thank all those who worked so hard to make the night such a success and a big thanks to our MC Kieran O’Connor who rushed home from Thurles to be with us on the night.

GAA National Draw
This year for the GAA are staging a National Draw with some truly fantastic prizes on offer. The prize fund is being fully paid for by Croke Park meaning that 100% of the money the club makes from the draw will be kept by the club. Tickets cost €10 each and are currently available to purchase from any member of the Club Committee or the Juvenile Committee.

Booking of Pitches
All team managers are reminded to please ensure that they have booked the pitch for training or matches with Michael O’Donovan. We would also ask tem managers to please try and do as much heavy training in the areas behind the goals.

Sympathy
On behalf of all in the club we would like to send our deepest sympathies to the family and many friends of the late Pete Clancy, Murphy Place, who passed away last weekend. Pete was a very talented player who gave many fine performances in our club colours for many years and this tradition was carried on by his sons who also gave sterling service to our club in their playing days and continue to work for the club today. Once again we send our sympathies to all Pete’s family and friends especially his wife Bernie. We would also like to send our sympathy to Pajoe Lanigan on the death of his father John (Jackie) Lanigan, Holycross, Co.Tipperary. Jackie was a regular visitor to Abbeyside for many years traveling down to support our teams especially if Pajoe was involved with training the teams or if his grandsons were playing for us, and was always great company to be in after the games. Ar dheis lámh De go raibh a anam usuail.
Club History
Abbeyside / Ballinacourty GAA Club was formed in 1967 as a result of the amalgamation of Abbeyside Hurling and Football Clubs and Ballinacourty Football Club. It is situated within the Parish of Abbeyside, Ballinroad and Garranbane. Located on the eastern side of the River Colligan, it forms the northern and eastern shorelines of Dungarvan Harbour from Abbeyside Church to Ballinacourty Lighthouse
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Development Fund
Abbeyside/Ballinacourty GAA Club has been growing at a dramatic pace over the past 10 years with the population of our parish increasing rapidly. We must ensure that we have the best facilities for all our players. We want to ensure that the next generation have the facilities that they need and deserve. We are asking supporters and friends to support this project over the next five years.
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Strategic Plan
Past generations have had their visions for the future of our club. These are our current aims and with these achieved we hope to hand on the club to future generations in the same healthy state it was passed onto us.
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Abbeyside/Ballinacourty GAA Club, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
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