Blackwater Boolavogue
TEXT ALERT SCHEME
All are welcome to a Community Text Alert Scheme proposal meeting in Blackwater GAA Clubhouse on Thursday, March 22, at 7.30 p.m. Further information is available from Eamonn Kennedy at 089 2127808 if required.
BOOK AND CAKE SALE
St Cormac’s parents’ association are organising a book and cake sale for Good Friday. The sale will be held in the hall after prayers on March 30. They would appreciate any donations of goodies or books and if you have any to donate, they can be given to any member of the parents’ association. Fresh baking can be left into the hall before the Good Friday ceremonies.
EASTER PARISH RAFFLE
Lines for the Parish Raffle will be on sale before and after weekend Masses in St Cormac’s this weekend. Each line costs €2 and you can buy three for €5. There are sixteen prizes in total on offer and the draw will take place next Sunday, March 25, after the 11 a.m. Sunday Mass. Your generous support would be gratefully appreciated and all proceeds will go to church funds.
EASTER FITNESS CAMP
The GAAs Easter Activity Camp is filling up but you can still book a place by contacting Jonothan Dunne at 083 0022912. The camp will run from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. each day and will include hurling, camogie and football skills development as well as athletics and rounders. It only costs €25 for one child, €40 for two siblings or €50 for three or more from the same family.
SOCCER NEWS
All matches due to be played on Saturday the 11th. And Sunday the 12th. had to be postponed as the pitches were unplayable.
MINISTERS OF THE WORD
Catherine Whelan and Rosaleen Gahan will be reading at the Vigil Mass for Palm Sunday at 8 p.m. on Saturday evening with Marie Barne and Rika O’Neill reading at the 11 a.m. Mass on Palm Sunday the 25th.
The Eucharistic Minister on duty on Saturday night is Ann Whelan while Gay Gahan will be helping distribute Holy Communion at the 11 a.m. Mass on Palm Sunday.
COFFEE MORNING
Colm and Rosmary O’Loughlin are hosting a coffee morning in aid of the Ronald McDonald House in Crumlin Children’s Hospital in the Presentation Centre, Enniscorthy from 10.30 a.m. till 2.30 p.m. on April 4. Their youngest child, Darragh, was operated on in Our Lady’s Hospital, Crumlin, when he was only six days old and ended up spending the first six months of his life in the hospital.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Eugene and Siobhán O’Leary, who won a car in the recent Ferns GAA Super Draw.
KILNAMANAGH NS OPEN DAY
Kilnamanagh National School is holding an open day in the school on Thursday, March 22, from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. Friends and family of existing school pupils are all welcome to attend as well as anyone who would like to enrol their child/children in the school.