Bannow-Ballymitty

SOCIAL DANCING

Social dancing continues every Thursday night at Tir Nog from 8 p.m. all welcome music Thursday June June 29 Tom Power the Latchico man. Refreshments served in aid of new hand ball build.

BALLYMITTY SCHOOL

St Joseph’s NS are now enrolling for September. Please contact 051 561324.

GRANTSTOWN NEWS

Upcoming Events in Grantstown Daycare Centre: Tuesday, June 27 – Exercise with Vero and Cards in the morning, Pongo in the afternoon. Wednesday, June 28 – Pongo in the morning and Peace Garden Party in the afternoon. Thursday, June 29 – Pongo in the morning, Cards and yoga in the afternoon. Monday, July 3 – Exercise/Games with Mairead in the morning and Pongo in the afternoon.

Trip To Knock – Our annual trip to Knock will take place on Friday, July 14 – Saturday, July 15. The cost of the trip is €120 PP all inclusive. A deposit of €20 is required to secure your place. For more information on this trip contact Betty at 087 9057391.

DANESCASTLE MUSIC GROUP

Danescastle Music Group will host Seisiun in Horse and Hound, Ballinaboola on Tuesday evenings at 8.30, commencing on Tuesday, July 4. An evening of Traditional music, song and dance. Come and enjoy a great evening’s entertainment for all the family. Please note change of venue this year.

B&R SHOW

The annual Bannow and Rathangan Show takes place in Killag on July 13. Schedules are now available to download from the website bannowrathanganshow.com or from secretary Liz Freeman at 087 756087. Closing date for entries is Tuesday, June 27.

PHIL MURPHY WEEKEND

This year’s Phil Murphy weekend will be on from Wednesday the 26th till Sunday, July 30. Watch this space for further info.

GAA CLUB NOTES

This week’s jackpot is €10,700 and will take place this Tuesday evening. Tickets are two euro each and can be purchased from the post office Carrig, Seabreze Laundrette Carrig, Tír na nÓg, Wellingtonbridge, and from any Club Officer over in Grantstown.

This Wednesday the last draw for the Model County will take place. The annual Run and Dye will take place on Sunday, August 27. The golf classic will run on Friday, August 11, in Wexford.

Best of luck to the Wexford hurling team this weekend when they take on Galway in Croke Park. Tickets can be purchased from Wexford Park and Wallace’s Wellingtonbridge.

FÉILE CAMOGIE

Last weekend our under-14 girls took part in Féile 2017. Our Host team was from Portlaoise and 26 of their players travelled down on Friday to stay two nights with allocated families from the parish. Our group consisted of Clarecastle, Portlaoise and Oylegate.

Although the girls played well in all their games their opponents were that much bigger and stronger then our young team of half under-12 and then under-14. Saturday afternoon in the blistering heat the bus brought the B/B team to Myshall on the Carlow border to play a tough game of camogie.

This ended the girls in Féile 2017 but none the less all the squad had a brilliant weekend making plenty of new friends and the crack was mighty on the bus journey to and from Carlow. Tír na nÓg was the venue Saturday evening for some food and a disco.

Thanks to our generous Sponsors Gary Sinnott, Lar Whelan and Marty Kinsella having kitted out the girls and their mentors, which they all looked great by the way. Also without out these great trainers/leaders of Shem Anglim, Frankie Scallan and Ken Foley there would be no guidance or preparation for the team so a special Thank you to you for all your time and effort in training and preparing for the event.

Thanks to the parents of these children who helped out before and during the weekend from making tea to all the Féile fundraising events to opening their homes to the travelling teams. A word of thanks to Monique and Breda for making sure all the paperwork was done to a T.

And on a final note thank you to the 24 girls on the Panel, who put on the club colours and took to the field and played their hearts out in their four matches. All in all a great weekend was had by all. All photographs from Féile 2017 are up on our Facebook page.

MUSIC FESTIVAL

The Tullicanna Music Festival takes place on Sunday, July 16, at Stafford’s of Tullicanna, featuring Hot Ashphalt, Wayne Hogan, John Waters, Jimmy Clooney and Others, kicking off at 5 p.m., BB and refreshments, all proceeds to Wexford MS, for more info contact 086 8300938 after 5 p.m.

CORACH NEWS

Corach welcomed Taghmon Utd to Danescastle on a beautiful summers evening on Friday last. Both sides going well in the league and having played out a 2-2 draw earlier on, this game was expected to be a tight affair, and so it proved.

Both defences comfortable early on as neither side was in the ascendancy. Space in midfield was also hard to come by as both teams pressed the midfield area, none willing to allow their opponents time on the ball. And it was no surprise that it remained scoreless at the interval.

On the resumption it was more of the same as neither team was willing to concede territory in this very tight affair. That was to change however when a corner from Taghmon Utd was headed back across goal and Jason McGloughlin found himself in space and he finished well low to the net beyond Toddy Barry in the Corach goal.

From then on it was Corach, who had most of the ball as they pushed forward in search of the equaliser, but apart from a few half chances from Emmet Deering and Alan Diskin, Taghmon looked comfortable in defence as they were happy to sit back and absorb whatever Corach could muster and play counter attacking football.

One final Corach attack saw the ball break to Marty Keane on the edge of the box whose fierce shot came back off the crossbar and the final whistle sounded moments later to send Taghmon into the semi-final while Corach will now try their luck in the shield.

Congratulations to this week’s split-the-pot winner Breda O’Sullivan, Carrig, picking up €684. Well done Breda, thanks once again to everyone for your continued support.

The Corach Ramblers FAI summer Soccer School takes place from third to July 7. Five days of fun for €65 including training gear. Book now to confirm your child’s place at booking.summersoccerschools.ie/ login.

DEATH

Deepest sympathy to Bernie Anglim and family on the death of her husband Joe last Thursday. He is survived by his sons Joe, David and Shem daughters Lisa and Donna, brothers John, Mark, Tony and the late Tom, Sim and Billy, sisters Ann and Mary, extended family and friends.

He reposed in Ryan’s Funeral Home Wellingtonbridge on Friday from 2 p.m. till 9 p.m. Removal on Saturday was to St Peter’s Church Ballymitty, for Funeral Mass at 11 a.m. with burial afterwards in Kilcaven Cemetery. May he rest in peace.

HISTORICAL TOUR

Bannow historical society annual tour is on Saturday, July 15, This year the tour will visit Altamount gardens, Carlow museum and Ducketts Grove. The tour will leave Ballymitty school car park at 9.15 a.m. Tour cost is €35 including lunch and afternoon tea. For bookings contact 086 8469131 or 087 0925853.

SOCIAL EVENING

A Social Evening takes place in Mary Teresa Redmond’s, Millview, Foulksmills on Saturday, July 8, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. This event is in aid of Co. Wexford Community Workshop (Enniscorthy) CLG. Refreshments will be served all evening.

There will be musical entertainment on stage with many talented musicians and a bouncy castle for the children. Please support this worthy cause and bring along a friend.