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MEN’S SHED

Action from the Men’s Shed in Killadreenan sees the members ever busy in the allotments during the last few weeks, with lots of veggies needing tender loving care, especially now in this beautiful but scorching sunshine plants are kinda suffering, beetroot and onion in particular seem wanting to give up.

In our newly sponsored polytunnel, tomatoes are begining to redden at last, watched by green and red peppers, while baby pumpkins stare out from under their broad leaves to get a look at the action, the coming and going of members busily tending to all their needs, without being a spoilsport we must make a wish for a little rain at this time, as all our stored rain (captured from the roof) is almost gone, but aren’t we all enjoying the great sunshine anyway. Members have just completed the construction of a large garden shed as a project for our neighbours St Cathrine’s respite home, and duly delivered same early last week followers of our popular Facebook page would have seen pictures of the shed in the home’s garden, well done to all the members who put many hours into it’s construction. In conjuction with the Tidy Towns members are nearing completion of restoring an old style public phonebox (again pictures on Facebook page) which will eventually be located in the village as an item of historical interest.

July 21 is this coming Saturday and we at Newtown and Newcastle Men’s Shed extend a welcome to all within our community and surrounds to join us at midday to a community open lookabout day, where tea, sandwiches, burgers, and most important of all items made at the shed by the members, Bird nesting boxes, Bat nesting boxes, garden novelty items such as wheelbarrows, mushrooms, etc, await you. So pencil in that morning and spend an hour or two getting to know what a Men’s Shed brings to your community, we guarantee you won’t be disappointed, see you there.

GAA

The seniors took to the field last Saturday in Arklow in the first round of the championship and suffered a disappointing loss. Overall the team were dissatisfied with their performance in what was a tough match in a difficult group. The next game against Baltinglass is scheduled for this Saturday in Aughrim. Plenty of support makes all the difference so please come along and support.

The under-nines had their last home blitz this month and are improving with every outing, this is a huge testament to all the hard work being done by Paul and Alun, their next blitz is in Enniskerry on Friday the 20th. Training continues every Monday at 6.30 p.m. give Alun a bell at 086 3017500 for more information. Training continues every Monday at 6.30 p.m. for the under-11s and at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday for the under-13s.

All our juvenile teams are always looking for more players and volunteers so if you want to get involved with any aspect with either a boys or girls’ team give our secretary Tom a buzz at 087 6611480. The under-eight_u10 girls are training on Tuesdays at 6.30 p.m. The under-12 girls are training in preparation for the championship, they train twice a week on Tuesdays and Friday at 6.30 p.m. The under-14 girls training continues on Mondays and Thursdays at 7 p.m., The Cúl Camps are returning to Newtown on July 30, there are still some vacancies, contact Garrett Doyle at 083 4357460 for more information regarding all camp matters. Please remember that online booking for the camp closes at midday on the 27th, which is the Friday before the camp starts.

The lotto is pushing toward €9K as it rolled over again last week, numbers drawn were 11, 21, 22 and 27. Please buy a ticket and support the club.

NEWTOWN JUNIORS FC

Just a mention of a few exJuniors, who over this past weekend made their bow at national level. On Saturday in Greystones the home side played UCD Waves in the first game ever in the girls’ under-17 National League. On the Greystones team were Kerryann Hamilton and Niamh Caffrey while Ciara Dease lined out for Waves. Waves won the game 3-1 (Kerryann scoring the Greystones goal). Then on Sunday in Belfield UCD took on Kilkenny in the Senior WNL and they had to come from behind to win the game 2-1 with the winning goal coming from Amy Guilfoyle on her full debut. Making her first start in goal for UCD was Lucie Ashmore. Well done girls keep up the good work.

Not forgetting Becky Cassin, who is playing a starring role for Wexford, who currently sit five points clear at the top of the WNL and Chelsee Snell (UCD) who is on a college placement with Hibernian FC in Scotland.

Just some information regards when all our team’s will resume their on field action.

Under-eights, -nines and -10s will return the weekend of September 9 and fixtures will be set till weekend of November 17/18.

Where Leagues finish early as in end of Sep, start of Oct, the WDSL will look at a shield competition for these age groups.

All Fixtures Competitive and Non-Trophy will finish weekend of November 17/18, followed by the WDSL Awards, Presentation Day in the Parkview Hotel Sunday, November 25 (details times etc to follow in Oct),

Under-11s website has been updated with Champions League Groups (Format) Fixtures Set for Group Stages, four groups in each, top two in each group into Cup Quarter Finals, Bottom two in each group into Plate Quarter Finals. Group Stages will be Home and away Q/F, S/F and Finals winner on the day. (WDSL will look to run finals on neutral grounds)

The WDSL will be hosting/ running a number of invitational tournaments for different age groups over the summer and the details are as follows:

The WDSL will be Inviting DDSL teams, Carlow teams and Wexford teams to enter, there will be a limited number of places available so if interested clubs must put forward their interest sooner rather than later.

Weekend of July 28/29 under10s and under-12s Girls Blitz (seven-a-side) Girls born 2008 and 2006 Woodlands Greystones.

Weekend of August 11/12 under-eights/nines Blitz Tournament and under-10s/11s Blitz Tournament (Both seven-aside) Celtic Park Arklow.

Weekend of August 18/19 under-14/15 Tournament Players Born 2004/2003 (Whitegates/ Finlay Park Wicklow)

We had our ‘ Golden Goal’ coupons out for the World Cup Final between France and Croatia, won by the French on a 4-2 scoreline. The opening goal was scored in the 18th minute and the holder of that ticket wins €60. The holders of tickets marked 17th and 19th minute will receive €20 each. Full results will be available ASAP Newtown Juniors will hope to run their popular Mini World Cup competitions in the lead up to the restart of the WDSL season.

We have only the one player from the club celebrating a birthday in the coming week and he is Albie Chance from the under-nines team. Happy birthday Albie from everyone at Newtown Juniors FC There are also a couple of slots on all our teams at the moment so if there are any girls or boys who would like to join the club please contact our secretary Hughie at 087 6987653 and he will provide you with all the information you will require.

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