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SILVER CIRCLE DRAW
The first draw of 2018 and the 10th month of our Silver Circle draw was held in Clonroche Community Centre last Tuesday night January 2. The winners to date are as follows:- 1. Bridgie Murphy, 2. Patty Keely, 3. Hilary Foley, 4. Anne and John Kehoe, 5. Colin Bowe, 6. Joe Freeman, 7. Eoin Byrne, 8. Barry Kinsella, 9. Nancy and Denise Carthy, 10. Bill Cleary.
We are very grateful to everyone who contributed in any way to our fundraiser and would like to thank you all for your continued support. There are still 2 draws left to run. Good luck to all who purchased tickets.
VINTAGE CLUB
Clonroche-Poulpeasty Vintage Club would like to sincerely thank all who supported their annual St Stephen’s Day tractor run, they would also like to extend their thanks to all their sponsors and anyone who helped out on the day, All proceeds are going to the local Meals on Wheels Association.
PARISH PARTY
Sunday, January 28, at 1 p.m. is designated for one of the highlights of the social calendar, the Parish Party. With over 100 guests at last year’s’ event this year promises to surpass even that. An opportunity for social interaction amounts old friends and acquaintances with good food and an evening’s entertainment is something to look forward too and not to be missed.
SPLIT-THE-POT
The first winner for the new year was Mary Hickey, Gurrawn, the pot was €338 Envelopes are available in local shops and businesses around the village.
Patrick and James Cully at the South Eastern Ford Tractor Club’s vintage tractor showcase at Murphy’s Motors, Glenmore.
11.30 a.m., if this is something you would be interested in please ring the library 056 7794178 to book a place. Previous classes have been a great success so if you have received a new tablet or laptop for Christmas this is the perfect opportunity to get started.
12 Books of Christmas: All completed forms for this ultimate Christmas reading challenge which gives you the chance of winning book vouchers or tablet must be returned to the library by January 10.
NEW FIRE STATION
Work has being completed on the new €1.1 million state – ofthe – art fire station on the ring road months ahead of schedule. The new station replaces the one located at High Street, which dates back to the 1950s. It is expected there will be an official opening later in the new year. the Carols By Candlelight Service Collection in December, a total of €660 collected.
DORAN’S CROSS
There will be a meeting regarding Doran’s Cross (between Kiltealy and Bunclody) at 8 p.m. this Tuesday, January 9, in Kiltealy Community Hall.
CAMOGIE CLUB NOTES
We would like to wish all our members, family and friends a very happy and healthy New Year. We look forward to seeing everyone to help us celebrate 50 years of Rathnure camogie club. Stay tuned for updates or you can follow us on Facebook ‘Rathnure camogie club’.
SHOT & CAUGHT BARBECUE
Our annual charity event is taking place in Conran’s Bar and Lounge + marquee on February 17. This year we are pleased to announce it’s going to be in aid of an extremely worthy and noble cause ‘Touched By Suicide’. More details to follow and a FB page is on the way.
CWCW COLLECTION THANKS
Thanks to all who contributed to the annual collection last weekend in aid of St Anthony’s Pre-School. €185 was raised in Templeudigan.
PENNY BANK
Templeudigan Penny Bank will re-open this Saturday, January 6. Collection will be after 6 p.m. Mass in Templeudigan hall. had been seriously ill for some considerable time but bore that with courage and dignity right to the very end. Ann was a familiar figure around the area and never really recovered from the death of her husband Michael some five years ago.
A lover of all things connected with nature and the Irish music and dancing she will be sadly missed in Rosbercon Parish and much further afield. Her wake was in Doyle’s Funeral Home the Old Rectory Rosbercon.
Her funeral Mass celebrated by Fr Seán O’Connor assisted by parish priest Fr Dan Cavanagh Rosbercon took place in the Carmelite Church Knocktopher on Monday January 1 and where her brother, Henry Creaney, paid a fitting memory to her love of Irish music by playing traditional tunes on the mouth organ.
Afterwards on Tuesday the body was taken to the Island Crematorium Ringaskiddy for the cremation service and her ashes and those of her late husband Michael will be laid to rest in Knocktopher Cemetery.
Ann is survived by her brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, and a large circle of friends and neighbours to whom we extend sincere sympathy in their sad loss of Ann. Go nDeana Dia Trcaire ar a Anam Dilis.
NEW BISHOP
Pope Francis has appointed a new Bishop to the diocese of Ossory which has been left vacant since the retirement through ill-health of Bishop Séamus Freeman in 2016.
The new man is Monsignor Dermot Pius Farrell, parish priest of Dunboyne and Kilbride in County Meath. Monsignor Farrell was born in Castletown Geoghegan in 1954 and was educated at St Finian’s College Mullingar and St Patrick’s College Maynooth where he studied for the priesthood.
He was ordained in 1980 by Bishop John McCormack of Meath and served in many parishes including Tullamore before been appointed Vice-president of Maynooth College in 1993 and becoming president there in 1996. In 2007 he came to Dunboyne and Kilbride as parish priest and was made Vicar General of the Meath Diocese in 2009.
Now his travels take him to Ossory and the people of the diocese extend a warm welcome to him in his new ministry of the church and these challenging times for religion in Ireland.
STORM ELEANOR
With the yellow warnings from Met Eireann in vogue it was a question of battening down the hatches for Storm Eleanor which thankfully was nowhere as bad as the Met Office predicted.
The west and south west bore the brunt of the storm as the south east remained relatively calm in comparison. True, we had a bit of wind but no reports of structural damage accrued from same.