Jack The Joker
Our ever popular Jack the Joker fundraiser continues this Sunday night
in Crotty’s Bar where the jackpot is €3000 as on Sunday night Rosie Cosgrave was
drawn out of the drum and chose card
number 25 which when turned wasn’t the joker but she did win €50. Jim Egan was
drawn out twice and won €25 each time.
Senior Hurling
Our senior hurlers play An Rinn in the County Championship this Sunday
evening in Bushy Park.
Junior Hurling
Both of our Junior Hurling teams were in Championship action last
weekend. Firstly on Saturday night our Junior C hurlers took on Shamrocks and
at the end of an entertaining game it was our opponents who emerged victorious.
Then on Sunday night our Junior A hurlers travelled to Bushy Park to take on
Ballinameela. On a sweltering hot night
the team played some great hurling only for our opponents to hit some late
goals to win by 4 points.
This weekend our Junior C hurlers play Modeligo in Fraher Field on
Saturday afternoon at 3pm while our Junior A hurlers take on Tourin later on
Saturday at 7pm in Cappoquin.
Healthy Club
Initiative
There was a fantastic turnout in the
club grounds on Saturday morning last for the launch of our Healthy club initiative.
Our Health and Wellbeing officer Eamonn Cashin had everything in place to
ensure the launch was such a success, whilst Kieran O’ Connor kept things
moving along in his normal efficient way.
We now look forward to ensuring the initiative is a huge success and
delivers benefits to as many of our members as possible.
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
adresses 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. CrÃonna 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 €700.
