Boolavogue
1971 CLASS REUNION
The class of ‘71 from Boolavogue NS are having a reunion and this will take place in the Harrow on Saturday, June 23, starting at 9 p.m. Admission is only €5 and even if you were not in sixth. class that year, you’re still very welcome to come along and join in the celebrating and reminiscences. Please bring along any old class or school photos to help jog memories. Music and food will be provided and if you want any further information, please contact Eileen Nolan (née Dempsey) at 087 2446168.
SOCCER AWARDS
On Friday, June 8, St Cormac’s hosted a presentation night in Kelly’s of the Harrow to honour some of their winning teams of the past season. The Youths’ Team, league winners, were presented with their medals by Gerry Foran.
Pádraig Moran and Eoin Murphy were jointly awarded the title of ‘Player of the Year’ for their ourstanding contribution throughout the season and Jamie DempseyDoyle received the award for the ‘Goal of the Season’. This was in addition to the Wexford Football League Divisional Player of the Year which Jamie had already been awarded. The top goal scorer for the Youths was Nathan Dickson. Eoin Murphy was honoured once again later in the evening, picking up the trophy for ‘Player of the Year’ with the Men’s ‘B’ team.
The Men’s ‘A’ team were also on hand to collect their league winners’ medals and Johnny Fitzgerald was selected as ‘Player of the Year’. Phil Donnelly was awarded the trophy for ‘Goal of the Year’ and Brendan ‘Frikki’ Burke was the top goalscorer. Also on view on the night was the under-14 league trophy won by the under-14 girls’ team the previous night and this was proudly displayed by their manager, Séamus Doran.
This has been a great season for St Cormac’s, winning three league titles with the ladies’ team gaining promotion as runners-up in their division.
CONGRATULATIONS
Pedigree shone through in the under-14 girls’ last league match of the season with Sophie Kirwan, grand-daughter of Séamus Kirwan, scoring a hat-trick before the break to ensure that her team would clinch the league title.
Away to Ross Celtic, they needed to win and did so emphatically and with style. A free kick early in play was smashed to the back of the net from 30 meters by Sophie. Five minutes later, the relentless pressure forced another foul from Celtic and again Sophie stunned the keeper with an unstoppable shot. A third free kick, a penalty, awarded when Jessica Foran was taken down in the box, was cooly slotted home by Sophie for her hat-trick.
New Ross started well in the second half and pulled one back after creating some good scorable chances. Our defenders regrouped, gained control once more and made it impossible for New Ross to score again. Emerson Doran, who had starred not just in the game but all season, sent a stunning shot to the top right for our fourth goal just before the final whistle, to restore the three goal margin. After the game, having received their Division 2 League shield from Wexford Schoolgirls representative, Barry Dempsey, they stopped in Lawler’s of Morriscastle where Edward Redmond, a Harrow man, was delighted to show them top class hospitality.
Team: Colette Mythen, Eva Corrigan, Michaela Milling, Sophie Kirwan, Shona Procter-Laird, Belle Kisov, Abby Gibbons, Katlyn Redmond, Emerson Doran, Bronagh Kenny, Jessica Foran, Katie Burke and Taylor Gibbons. Well done to all the team and to their manager, Séamus Doran.
GAA LOTTO
On Tuesday last, June 12, the draw was held for the Monageer-Boolavogue GAA lotto jackpot and the numbers picked out were 14, 15, 20 and 24. There was no winner and so the top prize has been increased to €4,200 for the next draw. This will be held in the club complex in Monageer on Tuesday next, June 26, at 9.30 p.m. If you have three of the numbers drawn you could win or share in the €160 match-three prize.
GAA NEWS
On their way to the Wexford-Kilkenny game in Nowlan Park, the under-13 hurlers played St Martin’s of Muckalee in Castlecomer. Scoring 6-12, our lads ran out well deserved winners. The hosts laid on a feast of sandwiches and cakes which our lads dispatched before going on to the big game. The mentors are already planning a rematch, in Monageer, against St Martin’s and are looking forward to returning the generosity and warm welcome afforded our young players by the Kilkenny club.
The under-10 footballers took part in a football blitz in the Ferns Centre of Excellence on Sunday the 10th. They took on teams from the Raparees, Adamstown and Davidstown and displayed skill, determination and very good teamwork throughout, winning two games outright and drawing the last.
MINISTERS OF THE WORD
The Minister of the Word reading at the Vigil Mass on Saturday, June 23, is Bernie Flood with Georgina Gahan helping distribute Holy Communion. Mary Gilbride is reading at the 11 a.m. Mass on Sunday morning and Dorothy Hall is Minister of the Eucharist.
ANNUAL PATRON
This weekend sees the annual patron and field-day being held on Sunday, June 24, at 3 p.m. Mass will be celebrated in the cemetery if the good weather continues or in St Cormac’s church if it is raining. All those who have received raffle tickets are asked to hand them back to the various promoters before the field day.
Items for the various stalls, books, toys, bottles, cans, bricà-brac etc, can be left in boxes in the church porch. Cakes and other perishable goods can be left into the hall on the night of the 23rd. or the morning of the 24th. seen in a long while. There will also be a Photographic display and some light refreshments on the night. More to follow.
On Saturday the seventh we begin at 9 a.m. with an early morning bus tour to nearby locations associated with the 1798 rebellion. Sites include the Fr Murphy Centre Boolavogue, and Ballymore Historic Features.
Also on Saturday morning 10 a.m. Camolin Celtic FC and St Patrick’s GAA Club have kindly offered to facilitate a ‘Kids Novelty Sports Day Event’ The best part is that all you have to do is show up with your children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews and the rest will be taken care of. Activities include all the classics: egg and spoon races, three legged races, sack races, wheelbarrow races, hopscotch, skipping etc.
Afternoon events will begin at 2 p.m. with the unveiling of a ‘Wall Plaque’ at Camolin post office to the memory of Camolin native Michael O’Loughlin ‘HERO OF SEA DISASTER’ who went down on the SS Vestris, off the Virginia coast in November 1928.
This will be followed by an ‘unveiling and blessing’ of a 1798 Memorial in memory of those who took part and lost their lives during the 1798 Uprising. Proceedings commence at 3 p.m. at the GAA/Soccer Grounds with a Rebellion Re-enactment between the Rebels and Redcoats featuring Enniscorthy Historical Re-enactment society, who will add a uniqueness and entertaining element to this event. Pike-Men and Redcoats will then assemble and march along the street of Camolin to the 1798 memorial adjacent to the present 1916 memorial. The Organisation of National Ex-servicemen, and the United Nations Veterans will be in attendance.
Saturday evening 8 p.m. Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann’s ‘SEISIÚN’ featuring Celtic Roots – A night of dancing, singing, trad-music and storytelling.
Sunday, July 8; activities commence at 2 p.m. with the annual patron and blessing of the graves.
This will be followed immediately by a Medieval Fair featuring the ‘Deise Medieval’ group bringing to life the crafts and skills of the early to mid medieval period. The fair comprising a tented village with various stalls where people can handle and try on weapons and armour. Demonstrations of weaving, spinning, cooking, daily life and other crafts in Medieval times and chat to the re-enactors as they go about their business. Also fight demonstrations and a display of how the various weapons are used.
Sunday evening will commence at 7 p.m. with ‘Traditional Sunday Evening Devotions, which will be offered for present and former members of Camolin Parish.
At 8 p.m. in Camolin Hall ‘The Tinker’s Wedding’ performed by the Ballyoughter Drama Group and directed by Jimmy Kavanagh, is a play by the Irish playwright J. M Synge, whose main characters – as the title suggests – are Irish Tinkers. It is set on a roadside near a chapel in rural Ireland and premiered November 11, 1909.
Visit our Facebook Group ‘Camolin Parish Homecoming’ for additional info on events and timings etc.
GAA LOTTO
There was no winner of last week’s jackpot; winning numbers were 3, 16, 25 and 26; two matched three numbers to each receive €100: M & S, Pat Mordaunt.