Boolavogue

GAA LOTTO DRAW

The numbers drawn in the recent Monageer-Boolavogue GAA lotto draw were 5, 24, 27 and 31 and as there was no winner, the jackpot has been increased to €5,800 for the next draw. This will take place in the New Clubhouse on Tuesday, March 5, at 9.30 p.m. Tickets costing only €2 are available from all club members and many local businesses.

SCHOOL PUBLICATION

The fifth. And sixth. class pupils in Boolavogue NS are involved in the Junior Entrepeneur Programme and have published a delightful booklet celebrating 60 years of Boolavogue NS occupying the ‘New School’ building. This wonderful publication only costs €10 and is available from the school. This are only a limited number of copies available so don’t delay or it will be sold out.

ST CORMAC’S NEWS

The Youths’ team were out against Bridge Rovers on Saturday, February 16, and were first on the score sheet thanks to dominating the first 20 minutes of play. Harry Ellix sent a long range pass to Ciarán Walsh, who spotted Liam Walsh perfectly placed for a goal shot. Liam had no hesitation in finishing the move to give our lads the lead. David O’Gorman bamboozled the Bridge keeper with a stylish back flick and we went 2-0 ahead. Bridge fought back into the game and at the break they only trailed by a goal. Another fine score the other side of the interval saw them draw level and with only 25 minutes left Ciarán Walsh was red-carded. The hosts pressed home their advantage and took the lead and seemed set to collect the points. However, player-of-the-match, Daire Swords, rallied the defence and set up some slick penetrating attacks that could only be stopped by Bridge fouling the attacker. Daire converted one of these frees to make sure his team shared the points with a 3-3 result.

The following day, the ladies suffered the heartbreak of a 1-0 defeat against their rival New Ross in a title-deciding fixture. A draw would have been enough to give our girls the title but it was not to be. Michelle D’Arcy and Ailish O’Connor were the stars for Cormac’s in a bittersweet finish to their league campaign.

The men’s ‘B’ team also lost, crashing 1-5 out of the Gynn Jones cup to Shamrock Rovers. Short of some regulars, they drafted in some of the Youths’ players and Daire Swords set up Ray O’Brien the team’s only score of the game.

The ‘A’ team, out against Enniscorthy Town in the Neil O’Sullivan cup, went down 1-3 after a very tough exciting game. Playing with the wind, they saw the town side reduced to 10 players inside the first half-an-hour, just before Matthew Dunne gave us a 1-0 lead with a 25 metre screamer. Despite being a man down, Enniscorthy dominated the second-half and ran out deserved 3-1 winners in the end.

GAA NEWS

Congratulations to the under-13 hurlers who got their Leinster League campaign off to a great start beating Burren Rangers in Carlow in their first game of 2019. Their next game is on March 2 against Bannow-Ballymitty.

ST PATRICK’S DAY PARADE

Any group interested in taking part in the St Patrick’s Day parade in the Harrow, are asked to contact Eithne Turner or Caroline Farrington in order to book their place. This promises to be a very enjoyable and family friendly event with a very special guest acting as Grand Marshal to oversee the action and with St Patrick and famed Fr Murphy taking part in the march-past.

MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARIST

On Saturday, March 2, at the Vigil Mass, Geraldine Doyle is the Eucharistic Minister on duty while on Sunday morning at the 11 a.m. Mass, Catherine Gahan will help distribute Holy Communion.

CLOTHES COLLECTION

The Wexford Branch of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus are collecting unwanted clothes as a fundraiser. They will accept household linen, curtains, belts, handbags, paired shoes as well as ordinary clothes. However, they do not accept cushions, duvets, socks or any underwear. If you would like to make space in your cupboards and wardrobes and at the same time support a very worthy cause, please contact Bernadette Flood at 085 7216075 or Bernie flood at 087 6959156. The closing date for this collection is first week of April.