BALLYMOREMAYGLASS
MAYGLASS CEMETERY
The parish council is pleased to support the group involved in the Biodiversity project in the parish. In order to do our part to improve the environment for pollinators and insects and encourage biodiversity, a small area of the grass in Mayglass cemetery has been allocated to be managed as a wildflower area for the coming season on an experimental basis.
We ask for your patience with this initiative and hope it will bring environmental benefits and enhance the area.
MAYGLASS NS
Mayglass National School is now enrolling for the academic year 2021/2022 please note change of website. Our enrolment forms are available on our website mayglassns.weebly.com or by contacting us on our email address st.fintans.mayglass@gmail.com, they can be posted straight to you. The forms can be sent back to the school via our email address or by post.
Our breakfast club and afterschool is available Monday to Friday. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at 053 9135279 our mobile 086 8392775 or email. It would be greatly appreciated if all enrolment forms could be sent in by February 26.
We are looking forward to welcoming you all to our school.
NATIONAL GAA CLUB DRAW
National GAA Club Draw tickets are presently on sale from all St Fintan’s adult team players. Tickets are €10 and all proceeds stay with the club.
This is a very important fundraiser for our adult teams for the coming season as all other traditional fundraising avenues are curtailed due to the present Covid crisis. Prizes include a new Renault Clio and €2,000 cash aswell as shopping vouchers and various other cash prizes and all-Ireland packages.
Just make contact with any of our players to purchase your ticket. As ever your support is very much appreciated and we all look forward to the day where we will once again line the sidelines cheering on our players in the green and yellow.
WIN A TRACTOR
The St Fintan’s GAA Club is currently running a fundraiser with a Ford 3000 tractor as the prize. The proceeds from the draw will go towards the provision of an indoor training facility for the underage and a club gym. Tickets for the draw are €5 each or five for €20 and may be purchased online at winthetractor. ie or by contacting a committee member. Best of good luck in the draw.
WALKING TRACK
The walking track on the grounds of the St Fintan’s GAA Club is currently open free of charge to all and all we ask is that you adhere to all the covid guidelines. Due to health and safety guidelines, dogs are not allowed (except guide dogs).
Following the heavy rain and frost the grassed area in the grounds is unsuitable for use so we ask that you refrain from doing so for the foreseeable future. Many thanks for your co-operation. A healthy way to exercise so please stay safe.
CHURCHES OPEN FOR PRIVATE WORSHIP
We are pleased to let you know that both churches in the parish are open each day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for private worship. Hand sanitizer is provided and we ask that you adhere to the social distancing regulations and the wearing of masks.
COVID 19 HELPLINE
Support group ALONE has a national support line and additional measures for older people who have concerns relating to the outbreak of covid 19. The support line is open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and the contact number is 081 8222024.
CAIRDE LOCH GARMAN AWARDS
Congratulations to St Fintan’s man Conor Sinnott, who was one of five nominees for the number nine jersey on the Wexford 2020 club football team of the year.
The winners for all 15 positions on the team were announced via a virtual awards night which was streamed by Wexford GAA on Saturday night last. We hope to have good news on his behalf in next week’s slot.
HORSE RACING
Local man and one of Irelands top qualified riders Jamie Codd received the bad news that he and his fellow qualified Irish jockeys plus the amateurs in England were banned from taking part in this year’s Cheltenham festival due to government restrictions on grass roots sports. Jamie is then denied the opportunity to add to the 10 winners he has already ridden at the festival.
ST FINTAN’S LADIES’ FOOTBALL
Once again Lidl have launched its fundraiser for all LGFA clubs across the country with prizes ranging from a set of team jerseys sponsored by Lidl and up to €5,000 in cash with a special prize of €20,000 for the club with the most nominations in each province.
The fundraiser began on February 15 and runs up to April 11 To join shoppers are asked to download or open the Lidl app from where you will be prompted and you will be asked the name of the club you wish to support and of course it will be St Fintan’s. When you spend €30 in the store and scan your Lidl plus card to receive a stamp and €60 will get you two stamps and so on.
When you collect six stamps you have a full card which must be submitted by April 11 and the more cards you submit the better. Happy shopping and thanks for your support.
UNDERAGE LADIES – Last week’s edition of this paper had a lovely photography of the St Fintan’s under-14 ladies’ football team proudly wearing the Kiely’s centra Killinick sponsored jerseys having defeated Starlights on a score line of 6-06 to 1-08 in the Div.2 final. The edition also featured a proud moment when Sophie Wallace was receiving the trophy from Yvonne Fylnn after the final. We are now left wondering as to when these young stars may get to grace the playing fields again.
WOMEN’S SHED
The ladies of Tomhaggard Women’s Shed have been busy over the past week’s making another batch of sensory blankets for a nursing home while some of the ladies were learning crochet skills by making ‘mice’ which were included on the blankets. Well done ladies very thoughtful and beneficial and a good way of keeping busy during this time of lockdown.