Stamullen

BALSANTER.

Contact 086- 2747474 to report any suspicious activity. If you would like to join up to BALSANTER, application forms are available in Maddens Centra, Mc Grane’s XL and both Parish Churches.

AUTUMN SCENE

Children returning to school, sunlight fading in the mornings and evenings, leaves starting to wither and fall, shops filling up their shelves with Halloween paraphernalia, along with Christmas advertising and marketing.

The autumn period is truly upon us. Amidst all of this `commercial activity` that envelopes us from season to season, the stunning, natural beauty of the rural landscape at this particular time of year is breathtaking. The array of wonderful colours in hedgerows, trees, harvested and freshly-ploughed fields, pasture-land with flocks of sheep in lamb; the sights and sounds of wild animals and birds. This is a great time to take a stroll across the rural countryside, good for both mind and body and, leave the ear-phones and other technological gadgets at home, so that you can enjoy the surrounding landscape even better. Sea-field in Laytown, St. Patrick`s Football Club Stamullen played St. Mary`s in a challenge match. With only five-minutes left in the game, the `Pat`s` were leading 1.1 to 0.3 when a free-kick was awarded to St. Mary`s. The men of Stamullen objected to this freekick being awarded and refused point-blank to allow St. Mary`s take it, leaving the referee, Mr. Paddy Martin of Drogheda, with no option but to call off the match and awarding victory to the men of St. Mary`s.

HOSPICE COFFEE MORNING

East Meath Hospice association will be hosting National Coffee Morning to Hospice on Thursday 20th September. This National event is sponsored by Bewley’s, and all money raised will go provide services for people with a diagnosis of cancer Volunteer drivers provide door to door transport to Hospital appointments and comfort fund is available to provide equipment as needed. Local venues for coffee mornings are Whyte’s Stamullen, Bellewstown Community Centre, The Lime Kiln Julianstown and a new venue this year is the Neptune Hotel in Bettystown. Please note all monies raised locally will be used locally.

Grace Crilly, Coolfore, Monasterboice, who recently graduated from University College Dublin with an Honours Degree in Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, and Bachelor of Obstetrics at University College Dublin on June 7th, 2018.Dr Crilly is a past pupil of Tullyallan National School and Our Lady’s College, Greenhills, Drogheda. Grace also holds an Honours Degree Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Trinity College Dublin. Grace is now working at University Hospital Galway in the Acute Medical Care Unit, and will work in the Infectious Diseases Unit, as well as Paediatric and Geriatric Medicine later in the year.Grace, pictured with her proud dad, Seamus, would like to thank all her teachers in Tullyallen National School, Our Lady’s College Greenhills and tutors and teachers in both Trinity College and UCD Medicine, and a special word of thanks to family and friends for their support in all her achievements