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MEN’S SHED

We are tiding up and hoping to display some work in progress on the community thank you day coming up on July 22 (Saturday) at the shed in killadreenan where those lucky enough to arrive, will be well fed and watered plus lovely ice cream to top it all, hope ye all can make it, it starts at midday till around 4 p.m.

There is fantastic interest in our ongoing ‘Sunflower’ contest, some have reached 86 inches and still growing, and we have received word from Met Eireann that they request the owner (s) to fix a winker light to the top of those in case of air planes-flying into them, I believe there is also an letter marked urgent in the post box at the shed from Nasa the space agency (wonder what that’s about), it’ is hoped to get an independent judge to proclaim the tallest flower at the community day, but this will only be after an inspection of the soil around the base of the tallest flower to determine if any illegalities are afoot, such as rogue fertiliser, as complaints have already been made to management, it has also been noted of late that the chicken run is exceptionally clean, and furthermore some rather smelly concoctions have been uncovered, let’s hope all is above board, so come on over and join in the shenanigans on the day.

NEWTOWN ICA

The members of our Newtown Guild recently held their July meeting before they break for the summer, guests on the night included Shay Cullen, chairman Wicklow County Council, who gave a very informative talk on plans, and indeed recent changes happening to our village, thank you Shay.

Dr Brendan Cuddity, Wicklow Hospice, gave an update to our members of current progress on the planned start-up of the Hospice at Maghermore, and our president Dympena Davis presented a cheque to the Doctor to help towards funds being raised for this vital service. These money presented were partly raised by our annual cake sale and raffle towards the costs of our senior citizens Christmas party and charities chosen by our members.

We will be back meeting once again on September 4 (Monday) in the community centre at 8 p.m., and are always ready to welcome new members, so think about it ladies. We wish you all throughout our community, a happy and fun filled summer and holiday time.

NEWTOWN JUNIORS FC

Last week we posted all the results from the finals of the Mini World Cup and this week we post all the players and the countries they represented in the competition. In the 5/7 yr age group the teams were as follows;

Ireland: Oliver Roche, AJ Doyle, Finn Heffernan, Cian Foley and Jake O’Brien-Fitzsimons

Iceland: Leon WhiteEkikhamenor, Colin Healy, Lucy Heffernan, Kayla Hamilton, Calem O’Brien-Kenny and Jack Gavin.

USA: John Paul Dunleavy, Alana Synnott, Kian Lofts, Elijah Donnelly Kelly, Mia Hamilton and Tommie Ryan.

Belgium: Donnacha EagerO’Brien, Nathan Donohoe, Scott Murray and Aoibhe Perks.

The players and their countries in the under-eight/nine-year-old age group were as follows;

Holland: Mikey Synnott, Sebastian Anton, John Turley, David McCormack, Lee Smillie and Mikey Synnott-Daly.

Brazil: William Valentine, Luke Turley, Darren Fisher, Ryan McDonald, Nathan McMahon and Emma Murray.

France: Dylan Dunleavy, Max Roche, Scott McKenna, Lucas Dowdall and John Vincent Kelly.

Argentina: Aidan Heffernan, Albie Chance, Lauren Coffey, Aaron Nolan, Alex Ryan and Leon O’Connor.

England: Pat Carey, Cathal O’Toole, Eva Carey, Leighton Byrne and David Mackey.

Germany: Frank Lang, Ryan Collins, Kacey Kelly, Oisin Duffy, Daniel Eager and Nichita Neaga.

The players and the countries in the under-10/-11 age group were as follows;

Wales: Pádraig Gammell, Ryan McMahon, Cillian Coffey, Rose Kelly Tynan, Evan Fahey and Hannah Martin.

Sweden: Jack Coughlan, Keelan Dodd, Jack Daly, Cormac Chance, Naoise Lowe, Hollie Breen-Jackson and Patrick Martin.

Scotland: Ben Synnott, Iggy Szpilka, Jake Robertson, Lynda Lucy Elliott and Lucy Duffy.

Italy: Aaron Cawley, Grace Murphy, PJ Duffy, Matthew Doyle, Aaron Hackett and Tyra Doyle.

The players and their countries for the under-13/-15 group were as follows:

Shane Synnott, Marcel Kocajda, Fionn O’Reilly, Seán

Douglas, Ciaran Mangan and Andrew Waters.

Portugal: Ryan Clarke, Charlie Sullivan, Bobby Dowling, Shane Dunleavy, Ben Moran and Josh Odlum.

Colombia: Darragh Heffernan, Martin Kelly, Alex Byrne, Steven Coughlan and Ryan Smillie.

Spain: Luke Breen, Bogdan Rusu, Ryan McGuirk, Stephen Doran and Josh Kennedy.

Well done to all the boys and girls who played and played the games in a very sporting manner. Finally well done to everyone for all their assistance throughout the competition and here’s to the MWC 2018 next season.

At the recent AGM of the WDSL it was decided courtesy of a vote to move the WDSL season to a calendar season. This means a year ahead of a directive from the FAI that the WDSL will have a ‘short season’ followed by a ‘long season’. The ‘short season’ will start beginning of September 2017 and finish the end of November 2017. The new season or long season will commence end of Feb/beg. of March 2018 and will finish in November 2018. There will be breaks during the course of the season to facilitate state exams etc. We will post further details as we get them.

Also in another initiative and also due to the amount of girls playing throughout the WDSL the league are looking at setting a girl’s league at under-12 and under-14 and if this venture proves successful the league will look to extend it to all age groups.

The proposal is to run the girls’ football every two weeks and all players can double up on their mixed team within their club. Again as we get more information we will post it here.

We have three players celebrating a birthday this coming week and they are Albie Chance from the under-eights and Jack Coughlan and Martin Reinhardt from the under-11s. Happy birthday, lads, from everyone at Newtown Juniors FC.

For further information on all matters Newtown Juniors please contact the secretary at 087 6987653 or by email to hughienolan@gmail.com and you can also follow the club on our Facebook and Twitter pages.