Enniskerry
GAA NEWS
Enniskerry Junior Footballers are away to Shillelagh in the first league game of the year next week. The league games were drawn up by Leinster Council for all Divisions together with championship ties for 2018.
SOCCER NEWS
Last weekend’s Soccer fixtures took a hammering from the rain, no results to hand.
DARTS NEWS
Powerscourt Arms darts team started a run of four away games last night. Hopefully the winning run will continue.
POWERSCOURT/KILBRIDE
Powerscourt Tomorrow (Thursday): 10 a.m. – Holy Communion and Prayer for the sick.
Services of Worship in Powerscourt for Sunday, January 28 – Epiphany 4: 8.30 a.m. – Holy Communion One (Said); 10 a.m. – Buggy and Toddler Service in the School Hall; 11.30 a.m. – Morning Prayer Two.
Services of Worship in Kilbride for Sunday, January 28 – Epiphany 4: 10 a.m. – Morning Prayer Two.
ST MARY’S CHURCH
Sacrament of Reconciliation – (Confessions): Our Lady Queen of Peace, Putland Road, Bray – Saturday after 10.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Masses; Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Main Street, Bray – Saturday after 10 a.m. Mass.
St Mary’s: Confessions are held after 10.15 a.m. Mass on Saturday morning. Exposition of Blessed Sacrament after 10.15 a.m. Prayer Service each Friday morning. The Rosary is recited each morning at 9.55 a.m. in the Prayer Room. The Rosary Group meet on first Monday of each month.
Save the Date – Saturday, March 3: St Patrick’s National School annual dinner dance in the summer Hill House Hotel. More information to follow. Contact Sorcha Burton at 086 1718652.
ACCORD
The annual collection for ACCORD – the Diocesan Agency for Marriage and the family, will be taken up at all Masses on the weekend of Saturday, February 17, and Sunday, February 18. The collection for ACCORD will replace the usual SHARE collection.
Baptism: Baptisms will be held in St Mary’s on Sunday, February 11, and on Saturday, March 11, in St Mochonog’s. If you wish to book a baptism please phone parish office at least two weeks beforehand.
Legion of Mary – Kilmacanogue Presidium: Meet at 11.30 a.m. every Tuesday in the sacristy of St Mochonog’s. New members are most welcome. Group recite the Rosary on the first Saturday of each month at midday at the Grotto in the church grounds. Visit legionofmary.ie to view website.
Facebook page: Enniskerry, Curtlestown, Glencree and Kilmacanogue are part of the Bray and Enniskerry Pastoral Area. A Facebook page has been created to coordinate any and all activities common to all parishes in the area. So please link in with it and like our page. To find: type Bray and Enniskerry Pastoral Area on your own Facebook page and like it please.
HISTORY SOCIETY
Chris Corlett will be the guest speaker for the Thursday, February 8, 8.30 p.m. meeting of the Enniskerry History Society at which he will present his lecture ‘Powerscourt in the Middle Ages’ in the Powerscourt Arms and Country House Hotel in the village. All welcome to attend – admission €5.
Further information on the Enniskerry History Society and its activities are available from John Callan at 01 2867853.
Other events which may of interest to members of the Enniskerry History Society are tonight’s (Wednesday) 21st Sir John T Gilbert Commemorative Lecture ‘ Live from the Conniving House: Poetry and music in Eighteenth-Century Dublin’, by Dr Michael Griffin, university of Limerick, chaired by Ardmhéara Micheál Mac Donncha, place in Dublin City Library and Archive, 138 – 144 Pearse Street, Dublin two, at 6 p.m. Wine reception. No Booking required. Come early to ensure a place. For further information: call – 01 674 4999; Email dublinstudies@dublincity.ie or dublincitypubliclibraries@dublincity.ie, and tomorrow (Thursday) nights 6.30 p.m. lecture by Historian in Residence Maeve Casserly on ‘The History of History: from Marxism to Fukuyama’, the first of two lecture looking at the history of Historiography (history writing), in Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin two. All welcome – admission free. The second lecture will take place in the same venue on Wednesday the seventh at 6 p.m. On Saturday New Acropolis will hold a free public talk ‘Shackleton: Explorer, Adventurer and Idealist’ at 5 p.m. in 20 Castle Street Shopping Centre, Bray. Further information from 01 551 6833 or email info@ acropolis.ie.
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has launched a ‘winter of Heritage’ programme which runs from January Monday, February 22, to Sunday, February 18, offering free tours of Cabinteely House, James Joyce Tower and Museum, Marlay House, and the Oratory, Dún Laoghaire, plus lectures in Marlay House on Wednesdays January 31, February 7, February 14, and February 21 which must be booked in advance. Copies of the brochure available from the Tourist Office in County Hall, Dún Laoghaire, DLR branch libraries, or downloaded from dlrevents.ie or events.dlrcoco.ie.
ENNISKERRY LIBRARY
The new opening hours for the refurbished library are – Tuesday and Friday: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m., and Saturday: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. New members to the library are always very welcome. Please phone 01 2864339 for further information or to renew books.
WALKING ASSOCIATION
The Enniskerry Walking Association was formed in 2004 to protect traditional walking routes in the area and to promote walking for recreation, for health, as a safe alternative to car use, and to help us all to learn more about our locality.
Our popular Tuesday evening walks usually meet at the Spar in Enniskerry at 7 p.m. while the Saturday walks meet at 1.30 p.m. All, who are interested, adults or children, are most welcome. Walks vary in length but most last between one-and-a half and two-and-a-half hours; some (but not all) involve a bit of climbing. Please wear appropriate warm and rain-proof clothing, and proper walking boots for the occasional muddy or rocky track. In the interests of walker’s comfort and safety participants are asked to respect the directions of the walk leader and stay between the leader and the anchor person.
This Saturday the walk is from Kilmashogue to Fairy Castle and Three Rock, duration 2½ hours. Meet outside Spar, 1.30 p.m. or meet at entrance to Kilmashogue Wood Kilmashogue Lane at 2 p.m.
Please note these walks are a community activity organised by volunteers who accept no liability for injuries or loss caused to participants in any of the above walks. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is closed for lunch between 12.30 p.m and 1.15 p.m.
INDOOR BOWLS
Bowls takes place every Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. in St Patrick’s/Forrester’s Hall. New members are welcome.
PARENT/TODDLER GROUP
All are welcome to come along to the parent and toddler group at the community centre from 10.30 p.m. to midday every Wednesday. €2 per child.
BINGO
Bingo is held on Monday nights in St Patrick’s Hall at 8 p.m. Everybody is welcome.
NOTES
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