Boolavogue
IFA BRANCH AGM
The local IFA branch will hold their AGM in the soccer clubhouse in Boolavogue on Monday night next, November 14 at 8.30 p.m. All members and intending members are invited to attend and James Murphy, the Regional Chair, will be in attendance on the night.
CHAMPION HURLER
All his many friends in Boolavogue thought Brian O’Loughlin, Ballycarrigeen, son of Cormac and Mary, looked splendid on the RTÉ GAA All Stars presentation last week. He had been selected as one of the Lory Meagher Champion 15 for his display in the Lory Meagher Championship this year. Playing for Sligo, he scored three great points in the all-Ireland final on Saturday, June 4.
GAA NEWS
Monageer-Boolavogue GAA Club would like to send heartiest congratulations to Brian O’Loughlin whose performances with Sligo this year earned him a place on the Lory Meagher Cup All Star team for 2016.
Monageer-Boolavogue’s GAA supper dance will be held the Riverside Park Hotel on Friday, November 18. Music will be by ‘Freeway’ and medals will be presented to the Intermediate ‘A’ hurling winners of 2015, the Junior ‘A’ hurlers of 2016 and the Junior ‘B’ district winners of 2015 and 2016. Hopefully there will be other presentations as well. Tickets costing €25 can be had from all committee members or reserved by phoning the new GAA club phone at 083 8672073.
FORÓIGE NEWS
Boolavogue’s Foróige club organised a very successful Hallowe’en party for children in Boolavogue hall on Sunday, October 30. There was great fun and games at the party which ran from 2 p.m. till 5 p.m.
THANK YOU
The organisers of the céilí and Set Dance evening held in the Upton Court Hotel in aid of the Wexford branch of the Irish Kidney Association, would like to thank all those who helped make is a tremendous success. In excess of €3,300 was raised for this very worthy cause.
ICA NEWS
The Boolavogue ICA guild will be meeting tonight, November 8 in Boolavogue Hall at 8 p.m. and new members are very welcome to join.
PARENT/TODDLER GROUP
On Wednesday, October 26, the Boolavogue Parent and Toddler Group held their Hallowe’en party and the toddlers dressed up as pumpkins, ladybirds, skeletons and scary witches. Many thanks to all who brought along cakes and confectionary. The group will meet again tomorrow, Wednesday, November 9, at the usual time.
MINISTERS OF THE WORD
The Ministers of the Word on duty next weekend in St Cormac’s are Caroline Farrington at the Vigil Mass on Saturday night and Gaye Gahan at the 11 a.m. Mass in Sunday, November 13. On Saturday evening, November 12, Geraldine Doyle is the Eucharistic minister on duty while Catherine Gahan will help distribute Holy Communion on Sunday morning.
SOCCER NEWS
The under-11 boys were at home to St Leonards on Saturday last, November 5, and brilliant goalkeeping by the visitors’ keeper denied our lads three or four certain goals in the first 20 minutes. But it was St Leonards who scored first, rattling the net halfway through the first half and maintaining the lead right through to half-time. Shortly after the resumption, Jack Ellix headed home the equaliser shortly followed by a great James O’Leary goal to give our lads the lead. Bobby Codd made sure of the points with a third goal which means that the team now have four wins and one draw so far.
The under-13s also won, ann emphatic 5-0 defeat of Rosslare Rangers. First on the score sheet was Sam Tyrrell who sprinted on to a splendid pass from Sophie Kirwin and finished it perfectly. Tristan Whelan stretched this lead before the break and Éanna Swords in goal was only troubled by one dangerous attack and managed to keep a clean sheet without much difficulty. Joe Ivory converted a penalty early in the second half to leave our lads 3-0 ahead and Bobby McKeown made it 4-0 with fifteen minutes remaining. Fionn Walsh who had been rock steady in defence moved forward into the attack at this stage and was rewarded with a goal near the end of a great return to form by this promising team. Joe Ivory was ‘player-ofthe-match’ with Matt Gahan, Fionn Walsh and Tristan Whelan starring in defence.
On Sunday, November 6, the Men’s ‘A’ team were away to Taghmon and won by 2-1. Paul ‘Roddy’ Doyle brought them level after they had gone a goal down and a Michael Rossiter special gave them the lead and the vital league points. The men’s ‘B’ team were also away, taking on Duncannon and losing by 2-6. Understrenght from the start, they were under pressure throughout but Dean Fortune still managed to score twice.
GAA LOTTO DRAW
The jackpot in the Monageer-Boolavogue GAA lotto draw is still climbing and has now reached €7,900. No one had all four numbers drawn on October 25. The numbers were 15, 19, 25 and 27 and John Fenlon, who had three of them collected the €160 match-three prize. The next draw will take place tonight, Tuesday, November 8, at 9.30 p.m. in the New Clubhouse in Monageer.