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SANTA IS COMING

Newtown primary school and St Matthew’s parish invite you to our Christmas bazaar in the grounds of St Matthew’s at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 2. While the young people visit Santa the adults can browse the gift and Christmas decoration stall, purchase jams, cakes and chutneys, eat, drink and be merry. Among other things there will be a raffle, hotdogs, afternoon tea, hot chocolate and mulled wine.

Then at 5 p.m. we invite you all to join members of the Steadfast band and the choir of the school (tickets on the door) to sing Christmas favourites in the church for an hour or so before Santa turns on the lights of the village Christmas tree at 6.30.

GAA CLUB NOTES

Both the senior and juvenile award ceremonies took place on Saturday last. The first to kick off were the juniors who packed out the community centre for the afternoon to celebrate the underage achievements over the past year.

Newtown’s juvenile achievements included an under-12 girl’s league, an under-13 boy’s shield, under-14 girls A shield and an under-16 girls league. GO games medals were also awarded to our under-sevens and under-9s as well as medals to our under-8 and under-10 girls.

Winners of most dedicated awards were under-11 Jack Daly, under-13 Seán bishop, under-12 girls Alicia Farrell, under-14 girls Yasmin Phipps o Connor. Juvenile player of the year awards went to under-11 Hannah Martin, under-13 Shane Synnott, under-12 girls Grace Murphy, under-14 girls Laura Murphy, under-16 girls Lucy Rooney. The under-16 girls also picked Ava McGlynn as the players player of the year, Ava was also presented with her all-Ireland blitz medal which she won with the Wicklow under-17 development squad earlier in the year. Peter Heffernan was a popular winner of the club person of the year; an award he richly deserves. Our juvenile AGM will bring the curtain down on the past year and it is on Wednesday, November 29, at 7.30 p.m. in the clubhouse and everybody is invited along to review the past season and plan ahead for the next.

Thanks to all who helped out on the day from presenting medals to cleaning up afterwards. Many thanks also to be Mario’s, Eugene’s, and O’Kelly’s of Bray, Ruairi Martin, Gar Doyle and our hard working juvenile committee for a well-run event.

Next came the turn of the seniors who packed out the the Druids Well pub Saturday evening where great craic was had by all to finish out the season. Ross Davis was a clear winner and had a clean sweep taking away awards for under-23 player of the year and senior player of the year. Congratulations Ross well deserved. Congratulations also to Conor Odlum, who won minor player of the year. Many thanks to the Druids Well pub.

Christmas will soon be upon us so if you want to buy Newtown GAA merchandise get your order in early as there are always delays around the festive time. We will be placing a large order within the next week. There is a good stock of club gear now available to buy for any enquiries regarding club gear please contact Amy at 086 3332195 or Ruth at 087 7472682.

Our senior AGM is on Wednesday, December 6, at 7.30 in the clubhouse and anybody with the interest of Newtown GAA at heart should attend.

Tickets for the national draw are now available and as usual all money raised by the club goes to the club so if you’d like to buy or maybe even sell a few tickets please get in touch with any committee member. Tickets are great value at only €10 each and would be a great Christmas present to either give or receive. Keep up to date on all that’s happening by following us on Facebook or Twitter at Newtown GAA. We also have a notice board of all upcoming activities on public display in the window of the local post office.

NEWTOWN JUNIORS FC Unfortunately for our under-11s their game last weekend at home to Ark low United was postponed due to circumstances outside our control.

Both our under-8s and 9’s played away to their respective Wicklow Rovers counterparts and both teams overcame the wintry conditions to play out some highly entertaining football. For the 8’s Nathan Donohoe, Tyler Doyle, David McCormack and Erik Lis were to fore in their game while for the 9’s among the players who shone were Nathan McMahon, Alex Ryan, Leon O’Connor and JV Kelly.

Well done to the under-8s players who stepped in to help out the under-9s after five of their squad was unavailable due to illness etc.

Our under-10s hosted St Patrick’s from Avoca and the game ended all square 3-3. Pats raced into a two-goal lead but goals from Aidan Heffernan, Pat Carey and Max Roche gave the ‘Bens’ a narrow advantage at half time. Pats scored a third to make sure the spoils were shared. On the day Frank Lang, Aaron Roy and Ryan Collins were among the players who starred.

For the second week in a row our 12’s lost away to Rathnew as they exited the 12’s/13’s Challenge Cup after a 3-1 defeat. Patrick Martin scored the Newtown goal from a free kick and he along with Hannah Martin and Jack Coughlan were Newtown’s star performers. Our 14’s had no game last weekend. Well done to Shane Synnott from our under-14s who was part of the WDSL Squad, who played Kilkenny in the Inter League competition. The game took place in Arklow (Lamberton).

The following are the fixtures for the weekending Sat/ Sunday, December 2/3: under-8s – Fixture to be confirmed; under-9s – Fixture to be confirmed; under-10s – Fixture to be confirmed; under-11s – Fixture to be confirmed; under-12s at home to Sporting Greystones Black ko Saturday at 10.45 a.m. (Cup S/F); under-14s at home to Roundwood FC ko Saturday at midday (Cup S/F second Leg) (fixtures and KO Times are subject to change)

Our Last Man Standing competition heads into week five with 52 players still standing after week four as we lost 10 players. Its €450 for the winner of the competition and you can keep up to date with the LMS on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Many thanks to everyone who supported this fundraiser, it is very much appreciated.

Four of our players celebrate their birthdays in the coming week and they are Finn Heffernan from the Development Squad, JV McCullagh-Kelly from the under-9s, Rose Kelly Tynan from the under-11s and Luke Breen from the under-14s. Last week also saw two of our coaches, Rory Hackett and Stephen Nolan celebrate a birthday. Happy birthday all from everyone at Newtown Juniors FC For further information on all matters Newtown Juniors FC 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.