Jack the Joker
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| 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.
