Jack The Joker
Our ever popular Jack the Joker fundraiser continues this Sunday night
in Crotty’s Bar where the jackpot is €2800 as on Sunday night Alice Marie was drawn
out of the drum and chose card number 13 which when turned wasn’t the joker but
she did win €50. Alice Marie and Carmel and Pakie Hurney won €25 each.
Junior Hurling
Our Junior C hurlers took on Melleray in the Western Championship on
Saturday evening last in Bushy Park. As the match neared its conclusion our
opponents held a narrow lead but great credit is due to our team as they fought
to the end a well taken goal gave us a two point win.
This weekend our Junior C hurlers play Shamrocks in Cappoquin on
Saturday night at 7pm while our Junior A hurlers take on Ballinameela on Sunday
evening in Bushy Park at 7 pm.
Best of Luck
On behalf of all in the club we would like to wish the Waterford Senior
Footballers especially Stephen Enright, Brian Looby and Conor McCarthy the very
best of luck ahead of their Qualifier game against Monaghan in Fraher Field on
Saturday.
Healthy Club
Initiative
The club are launching a very
exciting new initiative, namely the GAA Healthy Club this Saturday 23rd
June at 11am.
Healthy Club project aims to transform
GAA clubs into health-enhancing hubs for their communities. Flagship Healthy
Clubs such as us are now in every county of Ireland. So far, over 12,000 people
have benefitted from physical activity programmes and 50% of Healthy Clubs are
now smoke-free zones. 1,000 people engaged with mental health and emotional
wellbeing programmes. Over half (55%) of Healthy Clubs delivered healthy eating
programmes targeting teenagers in particular.
We have 4 target areas that we are
addressing in our first phase:
A. In association with Waterford Sports Partnership.
"CLUB ON THE MOVE".
This is a 6 week initiative and will
run each Wednesday and Friday from July 18th and 20th at the club respectively.
It will finish on Friday August 24th (Names, mobile contact numbers, and email
addresses with an expression of interest will be taken at the launch). It will
be open to committee members, coaches, former players, members of our community
etc being the participants! It's all about inclusion. Along with the help of 2
Waterford Sports Partnership tutors this exciting programme will see 10 to 30
participants the chance to become healthier by getting on the move!!
B. Tobacco free Club from January 1st 2019 (Ban includes cigarettes
and vapes).
C. Recipes for Success.
About Recipes for Success:
We all want to maximise our health
and our performance both on and off the field but with so many mixed messages
out there about what we should eat and drink it’s hard to know what’s best.
The Community & Health Section
in Croke Park along with the Home Economics Department at St. Angela’s College,
Sligo and leading sports performance nutritionist Dr. Críonna Tobin have
developed a Recipes for Success toolkit – which is filled with tasty,
performance enhancing recipes that are easy to make and aims to support GAA
players and members in making the right food choices.
This unique collaboration is about
bringing together expertise from an array of sectors and is designed to respond
to an identified need in GAA clubs for both educational and practical
programmes supporting healthy eating for sport and the game called life.
Workshop is open to both male and
female. Ideal age group for the workshop is minor (U18’s) to U21’s.
D. Wellbeing Talks:
A series of talks will be organised
for our adult and juvenile players, mentors and parents which we hope will give
them the skills required for dealing with the many challenges people face in
their every day life.
We hope to see you at the launch
this Saturday.
Booking
of Pitches
We would like to remind all our coaches to please ensure that
they book the pitches with Michael O’Donovan before training.
Club Bingo
Our club bingo session continues in the CBS Hall this Sunday night with
a jackpot of €650.
