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CASTLECONNOR

CÚL Camp CASTLECONNOR Cúl Camp will go ahead from July 20th to 24th. A couple of important things to note,

1- The camp will be capped at 120 children 2- You may only attend one camp, so if you intend going to Castleconnor do not attend a different camp in another club in advance of ours.

3- All registration must be done online, no walk in will be accepted on the day. The above rules will be strictly adhered to this year due to Covid-19 restrictions. General Online booking is open from Wednesday, June 24th.

Yearly Lotto Tickets

It is also the time of year where we offer our annual lotto ticket. This is our main fundraising event in 2020 and we do ask our members and friends to please consider supporting this. Our annual ticket is superb value, it offers 52 consecutive draws for €75. That’s a great deal as you get 14 draws for free. Check out www. castleconnor.gaa.ie/lotto/Annual

All Annual Tickets begin at the July 18th draw, the last valid draw for current annual tickets is 11th July. To ensure you never miss a draw for our huge jackpot please consider taking out the annual lotto ticket option. This jackpot is sure to go sooner or later so make sure you are in with a chance. Please Note: If you previously purchased from one of our members, you can add their name on the online form so that your purchase is credited to them. Weekly Lotto

Our Lotto was Live Streamed on Facebook again on Saturday, June 20th. Stephen Henry, Sligo GAA Games Promtion Officer, joined us to talk about his role, Cúl Camps and the secrets behind Tourlestrane’s success. The draw and interview can be viewed here hwww.facebook.com/watch/?v=2634814393459563

Numbers drawn; 3, 13, 17, 28. No winner of jackpot. €50 Lucky Dip Winners; Mary O’Meara, David O’Regan and Pat Flynn. Next draw 27/6/20. New Jackpot €25,200. Our draw was live streamed on Facebook again on Saturday. This week we had our own Jim Kent coming in for a chat on his football career with St Mary’s and his experiences coaching in Castleconnor. Jim is one of the most decorated players in Sligo and was a very interesting guest to talk to. Envelopes now available for purchase at usual outlets. Please also consider playing online at www.castleconnor.gaa.ie/lotto.

U12 Skills Contest

Our U12s top scored in their group this week in the 3rd round of the skills’ test. This week was another difficult drill, player having to bounce and solo of each side at speed. Well done to all the kids who took part. The last challenge is this week. Return to Playing

The club is preparing to get football running again in line with GAA rules. For all parents of children and adult players/ coaches two items must be carried out...

1- A Covid 19 e-learning module needs to be completed by every parent, before your child can return. It must also be completed by every playing adult. It gives information on how we can safely go back to training. It will take 15 - 20 minutes to complete. On completion you will receive a certificate. If you could take a photo of the certificate, you will be required to forward to the team Covid Officer (once confirmed we will let you know the Covid officers for each team). Any questions you have in relation to Covid and training should be found in this module e.g. drop off and pick up requirements etc. Link to online Course is here https://courses.gaa. ie/Covid19ClubEd/

2 - A Health Questionnaire needs to be completed before the first training session or before anyone can take part in training. This can be done on-line. It only needs to be done on the first evening. After that all that is required is a signature to say that your child is OK to train. Link to

Questionnaire is here https://learning.gaa. ie/sites/default/files/Gaelic%20Games_ Health%20Questionnaire_User%20 Guide_22.06.2020.pdfPlease print out, fill in and hand in at your first training session. Please note: It is important that you complete both these before you and/ or your child attends a training session. Grounds Maintenance

In the past week the club has made a significant investment in our pitch, our no one physical asset.

1- We contracted Corbett landscaping to professionally sand and Shockwave the pitch. This was completed last Thursday. 2- A group of club volunteers have been working away in the past weeks to get the grounds ready for use. Many thanks to the pitch committee and ordinary members who have been painting the goal posts, Painting the dugout benches, strimming, moving advertisement hoardings onto the new fencing and many other tasks. As a result we think all will agree the grounds are in terrific shape.

ST PATRICK’S

JOKER Jackpot; St Pat’s Joker Jackpot now stands at €1800 as there was no winners in the late draw back in March. Next draw will be streamed online on Sunday next July 5th at 12 noon. A new feature of Joker Jackpot is you can now enter online by purchasing your ticket via Pay Pal. It’s still €2 per entry and the link is www. paypal.me/StPatricksGAASligo. The Club thank you for your continued support. Tickets available from the following; Aurivo Skreen, Audrie, Ardabrone Stores, Beltra Po, Collery’s or any Committee Member or Senior Players. An annual Joker Jackpot ticket is available which ensure you are entered into every draw for a year priced €45. Please contact Nigel on 086-8234898 for further details.

St Patrick’s G.A.A Club Shop; St Pat’s club shop in association with O’Neills Sport. For all club replica jerseys,socks,shorts available in all sizes. Also Jacket,polo shirts and a lovely club bobble hat a must for all supporters. For further details check stpatricks.sligo. gaa.ie

Senior Team News; The Senior team return to training during the week under the guidance of Noel Kearins and his backroom team. Wishing all involved a successful campaign.

COOLANEY/MULLINABREENA

IN accordance with the updated GAA roadmap, regulations and requirement Coolaney/Mullinabreena GAA Club Seniors resumed training last week. Please note the following underage training that will take place during the week of 29th June in Nace O’Dowd Park.

U16 & U18 panels was on Monday. U14 panel Wednesday 1st July at 8pm. U12 panel Wednesday at 7.00, all our coaches’ details are available on our Website under Club Info tab.

Please note all players/coaches/management/parents of underage must complete the relevant compulsory Covid-19 requirements: eLearning module, Health Questionnaire & required training and games pre check ins and Club Registration before returning to both training and games. Please check our website and social media platforms for further details and links. Thank you in advance for your corporation with these requirements. Any questions please contact Covid Coordinators Eugene Henry 0872447098, Rose Maloney Quinn 086 4658877

Coolaney/Mullinabreena Cúl Camp will return from Monday 17th August to Friday 21st August in Coolaney Community Pitch. All bookings must be completed online. Further details are available on our clubs website and social media platforms. Club Lotto 2020 Update: First Lotto Draw was held on Wednesday 17 June at our Club Meeting. Lotto numbers 4,16,21,24. No Jackpot winner or match 3. Random number winners: Caroline & Kieran Henry, Toberscarden. John & Nicola Marren, Carniara. Congratulations to our winners. Thank you to all for your continued support in what has been a difficult year for all. Thank you.

The walking/running track at Nace O’Dowd Park remains ‘closed’ until further notice due to ongoing construction works on the car park. Thanks to all our users for your continued patience. We expect to be back in action very soon.

Car Park safety measures continue at Nace O’Dowd Park. The Clár fund 2019 under contractor John G Kilcoyne is making a real difference to our busy facility, leaving it a much safer environment for all of its users.

Club continues with our Club Sponsor appreciation series via the club’s Facebook page, the club would like to take this opportunity to thank all our sponsors for their continued support in what is a difficult year for all. We remind all our members to continue to support local businesses now and into the future.

Club continues our Player Profile series on our Facebook page and social media platforms. Thank you to all for the great feedback and to the players for contributing to this.

Our “Reeling down the Years” continues on our social media platforms. Currently we are archiving club memories and history for the 1950s. The Club would appreciate any photos or stories from this great decade. Please contact our PRO Rose Maloney Quinn on 086 4658877 or by email to rosequinn.ire@gmail.com. Thank you for your support with this.

DRUMCLIFFE/ROSSES POINT

LAST Friday, the club along with St John’s GAA present a cheque for €32,000 to Bridget Kerrigan of Sligo Cancer Support Centre. The proceeds were from #GoTheExtraMile. The community involvement and participation was simply phenomenal. Thank you to everybody who walking, jogged or donated. When we stepped foot inside the Support Centre on Wine Street last Friday, we realised how much this money is valued and appreciated by the local charity, especially considering that they rely on fundraisers like these to cover 80% of their yearly expenses. There are three photo galleries of all the DRP pictures from the day itself is available on the club’s Facebook page.

Big congrats to our own Michelle McNamara, who was named as DCU’s Moynihan Cup Footballer of the Year for 2020. A fitting and well deserved accolade.

Full contact training can resume this week for club teams. Our senior men’s and women’s, minor boys and girls, and under 16 boys and girls teams are resuming training this week. The remaining teams will resume in the coming weeks.

The way we train and use Oxfield and Rathcormac has changed. For the latest Covid information regarding the return to play, please visit our dedicated webpage on the club’s website.

The address is www.drp.gaa.ie/covid19. It will provide useful info and links for all players, coaches, parents and guardians.

There are two items that need to be completed before players, coaches and anyone involved returns to GAA activity 1. Health questionnaire

2. E-learning module.

The links to both items are available our Covid-19 page on the club website. Club registration for 2020 remains open on the website drp.gaa.ie

Anyone who has not registered yet is asked to do so as soon as possible as club activity resumes.

Please note that only registered members/players will be allowed to access to training and games.

If you’ve any queries, please contact club registrar Jimmy O’Brien.

The club has, for now, postponed online registration for the Oxfield Cúl Camp. It is scheduled to take place from August 17-21st, but club officers want to satisfy themselves over the next two weeks that the camp can run safely at Oxfield, as this Cúl Camp attracts particularly large numbers each year. We will update you as soon as that determination is made

The draws for the Sligo men’s senior, intermediate and junior club football and hurling championships will be made live on Ocean FM this Wednesday night (July 1st) at 9:05pm. Sligo LGFA will also ratify the details for the women’s club championships this week. The DRP men will be in the senior championship again this year, while the ladies will be one of five clubs contesting the intermediate championship.

Got an item for the club notes? Please phone/text/whatsapp Club PRO Austin O’Callaghan on 0876855621 or email pro.drumclifferossespoint.sligo@gaa.ie.

TOURLESTRANE

IT’S been a long wait but we are all here and what a great week it is as we finally kick start the return to training! The pitch is in mint condition (whatever about the players) thanks to Dermot Walsh and his merry pitch Committee who made the return all the sweeter when it’s to the perfect venue . I’m sure no more than all the managers, coaches, team players etc it’s an almighty feeling to know that the whole club across the globe no longer need to listen to Kennedys online Friday night quizzes, meetings via zoom calls and in general missing out on the fun of being together. That said I can’t but mention a heartfelt word of thanks to those who tirelessly gave their time to ensure all our vulnerable older club members were taken care of, to all our frontline workers in the club from nurses to care workers and all hospital staff. To our local shops and post office workers and postmen, to our coaches via Sligo GAA and a special thank you to our own Stephen Henry who also launched the HealthyKidz App keeping the younger members active. To Aisling Egan, Katie Walsh, Molly Kennedy,Therese Walsh and Cathy Egan for their huge help to me with our extra club activities for both young and older and thank you most of all to all who participated and their parents ...we will have all the excellent work on display when we are all fully returned.

We extend sympathy to all who have lost loved ones in the past few months. Ar dheis Dé go raibh siad.

Here’s to another great healthy year for Tourlestrane. Stay safe and see you on the sideline in the near future.

ST JOHN’S

ST Johns LOTTO

THE next draw for our club lotto, with a massive jackpot of €14,700 will take place on Saturday, July 4th in The Club Room, Cuilbeg at 9pm. Envelopes will be available in the usual local retail outlets and the online lotto is also up and running again, so you can play wherever you are in the world for this marvellous prize. “If you are not in, you can’t win”. #GoThe Extra Mile Cancer Fundraiser Many thanks to everybody who supported this very worthy charity event which raised the huge sum of €32,000 for the Sligo Cancer Support Group.

The event was organised by Brian McGowan and Paul McNamara of St Johns GAA and Sean Power and Niall Canning of Drumcliffe/Rosses Point GAA.

The lads got great help from the members of both clubs and from their communities and local businesses and it brought both sets of communities closer together. The fundraising was greatly helped by the many members and former members of both clubs who are now dispersed all over the world.

To everyone who helped out in any way we say “mile buiochas go leir”.

BOYS UNDER 12 FOOTBALL SUCCESS

Our U12 lads took part in the Sligo GAA Virtual skills league for the month of June. They had so much fun and ended up as joint winners and thus get to go to the Connacht Centre of Excellence for a coaching session in the new Dome Indoor Pitch.

Well done to Keelan Mulligan, Adam Feeney, Cameron Rooney, Danny Feeney, Oscar Fahey, Senan Tully, Jack Kelly,

Daniel Toolan, James Lineen and Oliver Ettery - a great bunch of lads. Thanks to Maeve Hayes for coordinating the event.

Kelloggs Cúl Camp

A Kelloggs Cúl Camp will be held in Stenson Park, Cuilbeg starting on July 20th for all boys and girls born from 2014 and upwards. Please use the following link to register on line www.kelloggscamps.gaa. ie/. The number of places are limited and they will be filled on a first come basis so it is important to get in early to ensure you get that great gear.

Our own clubman and All-Star Charlie Harrison is the national organiser of this great event.

ST JOHNS GAA ACADEMY 2020 This 5 week programme for our U6 Boys and Girls (born 2014 and 2015) commences on Saturday July 25th from 11:30 to 12:30. Only €10 for the 5 weeks. The venue this year is Stenson Park, Cuilbeg grass pitch. All risks will be managed and kept to a minimum. It will give children an opportunity to meet some of their friends again and for others to meet some new friends before they start in Primary school in September. Further details are available on the St Johns GAA web page. Registration by WhatsApp or text 087-6760277. Pre booking is advisable. Free Coffee for parents in the clubhouse!! Football Training

Our pitches are once again open for use by our Senior and Underage teams. All players should contact their team managers to check the times of their training sessions. Players and parents of underage players should make themselves aware of the health and safety guidelines and protocols which are in place for all teams.

Sympathy

St Johns wish to extend sympathy to former player Brian McCaffrey and his wife Laura on the death of their new-born son Cillian.

ST MICHAEL’S

WITH GAA returning in phase 3 all clubs are returning to training and activities again much to the delight of players and supporters. All managers are required to compete the learning module. All players /guardians have to complete the health questionnaire before returning to training. Here is link for e learning module https:// courses.gaa.ie/Covid19ClubEd/#/.

Each person participating in Gaelic Games must complete a Health Questionnaire, answering some basic health related questions, prior to the first occasion that they return to their club. They must also re-confirm that their health status hasn’t changed on each subsequent occasion that they participate. Parents / Guardians can submit forms on behalf of their dependants and forms can also be submitted on behalf of persons who may struggle with completing the electronic form themselves.

Covid Supervisors in clubs can verify that individual members of their teams/ panels have submitted forms and are permitted to participate.

They do not have access to view the specific information provided via the Health Questionnaire, they will simply be able to see that the questionnaire has been submitted.

Personal Information contained on the Health Questionnaires is stored for a maximum period of three weeks.

Forms can be accessed by visiting the URL https://returntoplay.gaa.ie or by browsing to the gaa.ie website and clicking the link on the homepage.

Training slots for all teams is now up on the club executive WhatsApp group. Please adhere to this timetable.

Only changes that will be allowed is to accommodate home games.

The club wish to express sympathy to all families in the area who lost loved ones over the last few months.

Indeed the club lost a former player and great friend of the club a few weeks ago.

To the Mulvaney, O’Hara, Parkes, Burke, Clancy, and Henry families we offer our sincere condolences on the sudden death of Fr Martin. The Luby family on the sudden lose of Kyle Luby in Vancover again a former player with the club.