Kilkerley

PARISH NEWS

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place each Friday from 6.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Please pray for Joe Duffy, Mill Road, Dundalk, Barney Farrell, Tankardsrock. Baptisms take place every second Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. Mass. Confession will take place after 6 p.m. Mass on Saturdays and before Mass on First Fridays. Readers List is available for collection in the sacristy. If there are any readers who have not given their email addresses to Kathleen McCreesh and would like to do so please submit them.

RECENT DEATHS

Condolences to Mary and Séamus Lambe and family and the Lambe families, Carnroe and relatives on the death of Kay McLoughlin, Clindalkin, sister of Séamus Lambe.

DANCING

Dancing in the community centre continues this Sunday night July 29, with music by Just two. Declan Aungier plays on August 5, J& S Sound on August 12, Curtis Magee on August 19, Showbud on August 26. Dancing from 9 p.m. to midnight.

LOTTO

Kilkerley Emmets lotto July 17, jackpot €3,100, Week 23, numbers drawn – 10, 19, 21, 22 – no winner Winners of €20 each – Charlene Carr c/o Callans Bar; Olive Lambe c/o W Quigley; John O’Connor c/o Kennedy’s Bar; Sandra and Rodney Meehan c/o J McCarthy; Dermot Hanratty c/o K McEnteggart. Thanks to all who supports the club lotto and those that promote and assist at draw each Tuesday night. Funds raised go to the week to week costs of running the club.

The lotto continues on July 23 for jackpot of €3,200. Just two weeks of the 25 left so if jackpot is not won it carries over to 2019.

KILKERLEY PLAYGROUND

Nearly There. Final appeal to raise €4,700 – additional expenses incurred to complete playground. Sincere thanks for your generous support so far. Please contact Orlaith Ryan 087 2035918 or Majella Babington 086 0694345.

TUSLA

Tusla Child and Family Agency is urgently recruiting foster carers for children in Louth. If you are interested in receiving more information please contact the Fostering Team on 9392201.

BUS SERVICE

Flexibus Local Link have a bus service that travels from Kilkerley Church to Dundalk at 9 a.m. every Friday morning and returns at 12.30 p.m. For more detail or book a seat please call 1800303707.

PILGRIMAGE TO MEDJUGORJE

On September 5, Fr Oliver Brennan. Booking with Phyllis Mulligan 087 2028492.

HOMECARE SERVICES

Affordable Live-in Homecare provide live in carers for the elderly in your area. If you are looking for a live-in carer for your relative, please call Mary or Tom today at 087 9916791. Our website is alhomecare.ie.

EMMETS GFC

The last league game is away to O’Raghallaighs on the second weekend in August where a win would secure a return to senior league level. The seniors are in the championship relegation play off after losing to Naomh Martin 3-11 to 1-9 on Sunday last. The juniors play at home to Finbarrs on Tuesday, August 7, at 7.30 p.m. with the junior championship is on Tuesday, August 14. Kilkerley Emmets Dowdallshill ladies play in the senior championship at home to Cooley at 11 a.m. on August 5. The minors beat St Fechin’s 2-17 to 4-10 in Division 2 A Knockout and play the final against Cooley this Friday at 7 p.m. in Darver. On Monday next the under-14 team play away at Rock Road to O’in the championship at 7.30 p.m. The under-16 team play at home this Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. to Mattock Hunterstown in the championship and on August 8, play away to Gaels at 7.30 p.m. The under-12 boys league semifinal resulted in a home win over Dreadnots 1-5 to 1-4 and they play the final this Friday in Darver against Cooley at 7.45 p.m.

CANCER SOCIETY

The Irish Cancer Society is looking for volunteers in the Louth, Cavan, Monaghan and Meath areas to drive patients to and from their treatments in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, and the Dublin hospitals. Volunteer drivers will pick a patient up at the door of their home, drive them to the door of the hospital and then when finished treatment, pick them up and drop them home again. Drivers will use their own cars but all volunteer expenses are paid. For more information call Gail at 01 2310 566 or visit the Irish Cancer Society’s website at cancer.ie.

WMOF

Every Diocese in Ireland has been asked to organise their own opening ceremony for WMOF This will happen for us on Tuesday, August 21, in Armagh. An afternoon of music and sport in the city followed by a prayer service in St Patrick’s Cathedral involving all the choirs in the Archdiocese. A bus will be provided.

EMPLOYMENT

Would like to work part-time or full-time? Are you unemployed due to accident, illness, injury, disability or in recovery from depression? We can help you seek employment. For further information on this service please contact EmployAbility Service Louth at 042 9386718.

TRÓCAIRE

This organisation is looking for new volunteers who will be Parish Ambassadors in the Armagh Diocese to help raise awareness of the challenges facing the world’s poorest communities and the difference been made by support from Ireland. If you are interested please email volunteering@trocaire.org.

TEXT ALERT

If you want to receive text messages from Kilkerley Community Alert ‘Text Alert’ then text your full name, address and mobile number to 089 4725650.

Belfast Burns Association with members of Stephenstown Pond Trust Ltd., Reverend Captain Geoffrey Walmsley of St Nicholas Church, Colin Lloyd from St Nicholas Church performing a wreath laying ceremony at the grave of Agnes Burns Galt to honor her brother, Scottish poet Robert Burns, who died on July 21, 1796. There is an epitaph erected in S t Nicholas’s Cemetery in memory of Scotland’s national bard, which was originally erected by the Belfast Burns Association and the Dundalk Burns Club. Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne, Awe Fond Kiss and My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose, to name just a few. Agnes Burns Galt and her husband William Galt lived at Lake View Cottage adjacent to Stephenstown Pond Nature Park in Knockbridge. The cottage is now known as the Agnes Burns Cottage and was built for the couple in 1817 by the local landlord Matthew Fortescue, owner of Stephenstown House and estate. He had commissioned William Galt to come over from Scotland to build him two ponds, one of which is Stephenstown Pond. The couple lived at Stephenstown Pond from 1817 until Agnes died in 1834 and William in 1847. Both are buried in St Nicholas’s Cemetery in Dundalk. Belfast Burns Association has been the cross-border partners of Stephenstown Pond Trust since 1997 and were instrumental in Phase 2 of the project, which was completed in 2000, when the Dairy Maid Coffee Shop opened its doors at Stephenstown Pond.