Boolavogue
GROTTO REPAIRED
Those, who assembled at the Grotto for prayers to Our Lady on May 28 were blessed with great weather. The railings, accidently damaged recently, had been expertly repaired by Christy Whelan and totally repainted by Mattie O’Loughlin, Monica Gahan, Christy Whelan, Cormac O’Loughlin, Sheila Whelan and Declan Whelan using paint donated by John Ivory.
GAA LOTTO
The numbers drawn in the Monageer-Boolavogue GAA lotto on Tuesday night last, were 8, 15, 17 and 30 and Susan Gibbons, who had three of the numbers collected the €160 match-three prize. As there was no outright winner the top prize was increased to €4,100 for the next draw which takes place on Tuesday next, June 12, at 9.30 p.m. in the club complex in Monageer. Tickets only cost €2 each and can be had from all club members and local shops, pubs and businesses.
MINISTERS OF THE WORD
The Minister of the Word reading at the Vigil Mass on Saturday, June 9, is Catherine Whelan with Ann Whelan helping distribute Holy Communion. Marie Barne is reading at the 11 a.m. Mass on Sunday morning and Gay Gahan is Minister of the Eucharist.
ANNUAL PATRON
On Sunday, June 24, the annual patron will take place in Boolavogue on. If the weather is good, Mass will be celebrated in St Cormac’s cemetery at 3 p.m. Failing this, the Mass will in the adjoining church. The patron will be followed by a field day with all the usual stalls, entertainments and amusements. Families with graves in the old and new cemetries are asked to take away any rubbish generated in preparing the graves for the patron.
GAA NEWS
The underage players of out local club collected what they hope is their first trophy of the year on Wednesday the 30th. of May by beating Kilanerian in the Rackard League district final in Ferns. Afer an enthralling encounter, they triumphed by 4-6 to 2-10. The boys and their parents would like to thank Ms Richardson from Boolavogue NS nad Ms Doran from Monageer N.S. for all their hard work and dedication in preparing the boys for the competition and games.
The previous evening the under-13 hurlers had beaten Liam Mellows by 5-9 to 2-9 in a tough, physical game. Goals late in the first half helped them into a onepoint lead at the break, despite having been outplayed from most of the half. Brilliant play from Bobby Codd, Charlie Donnelly, Euan Pender and Christopher Kelly helped them win the game. Euan’s skill between the posts was vital as the Liam Mellows’ players tried to regain the lead.
JUNIOR ‘B’ HURLING
The Junior ‘B’ encounter between our lads and Rapparees was the stuff of legend, with a final score of 2-19 to 0-31 in favour of the Enniscorthy town side giving some idea of the intensity of the play. Training and preparation for this game has been so intense that it is rumoured that one of the players invested in a foam roller. The Rapps lead for most of the first half, but accurate shooting from Niall O’Loughlin, Conall Nolan and James Gahan hauled them back. The town side pulled ahead again and lead convincingly by 0-15 to 0-8 at the break.
Immediately after the restart, Niall found the net and aided by the breeze, we were soon only two points adrift. Again, the Rapps opened a substantial gap only to have a James Gahan goal and some fine freetaking by Colm McGannon reduce the deficit to two points once again. What they saw as a harsh free against Keith Swaine unsettled our lads and the Rapparees took advantage to slot over five fine points to no reply. Both teams served up thrilling entertainment and in the end the Rapps deserved to win the titanic tussle.
Team: Darren Millar, Pádraig Stafford, Barry Millar, Keith Swaine, Colin Hawkins, Peadar Lacey, Adrian O’Loughlin, Conall Nolan, Arran Breslin, Colm McGannon, Niall O’Loughlin, James Gahan, Cathal O’Leary, Eugene Breslin, Micheál Stafford.
WELL DONE
Conagratulations to the pupils and staff of Boolavogue NS who were collected two awards recently. The pupils and staff have been working towards their third Green Flag all year and received this at a ceremony in Hotel Kilkenny. The staff have been engaged in an iniative with WIT since last October and collected their ‘Excellence Award for Creative Language’ last week.
CÚL CAMPS
The hugely popular GAA Cúl Camps are now taking online registrations. The Monageer-Boolavogue Cúl Camp will start on Monday, July 30, and run till Friday, August 3, from 10 a.m. till 2.30 p.m. each day. The camps are open to all school children between the ages of 6 and 13 and only cost €60 for the first child, €50 for the second and €40 for the third child registered from each family. If you intend sending your children, please book early as this camp fills up very quickly.
SOCCER NEWS
On Thursday night, May 31, the under-14 girls were away to Bridge Rovers in their second last league game of the season. Sophie Kirwin carved throught the defence early in play to set up Emerson Doran for one of her signature spectacular scores. Rovers were not fazed by this and attacked relentlessly only to have Collette Mythen pull off some splendid saves to deny them all the way throught the fist half.
But in the second half, from the kick off, Bridge scored and what had been an energetic game became totally intense. Again and again we attacked but could not score and again and again Collette denied Rovers the winning goal. Collette’s skill helped our girls collect a very valuable point which means that if they win their final game against New Ross Celtic, they will be crowned league champions.
PRESENTATION NIGHT
St Cormac’s is organising a presentation night for the Youths, the Men’s ‘A’ and the Men’s ‘B’ teams in the Harrow this Friday, June 8. The fun starts at 9.30 p.m. and all are welcome to the celebrations.