TaghmonCamross

DANCING AT CAMROSS

The July dance will be held on the Friday, July 6, in Camross Ballroom with music by the ever popular Liam Mannering. Adm. €10 including the tea.

LES MISERABLES

Wexford Federation ICA have organised a Christmas outing to the Broadway hit musical production of Les Miserables in Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin on Thursday, December 20. 2018, afternoon performance at 2.30 p.m. Premium tickets, four course evening meal and coach €90 for ICA members and non-members €95.Interested? contact organiser, Breda Whelan, 086 3258386 or 053 9129681 asap. Non-ICA members are, as usual, very welcome to come along.

CAROREIGH FIELD DAY

The 50th Caroreigh field day will be held on Sunday, July 29, next starting at 1.30 p.m. with Fancy Dress and Vintage Parade led by the New Ross and District Pipe Band. All the usual stalls will be up and running, some have been there for the 50 years. Old photographs are required as we will be reeling back the years, give same to Fr Robert as soon as possible. There will be a Tug o War competition made of teams from areas in the half parish, so get training. Interested? contact Fr Robert. The usual Grand Draw will be held, tickets should be with parishioners by now. The next meeting to arrange events will be held on Wednesday, July 11, 9 p.m., do come along please, all ideas and help very welcome.

CAROREIGH N.S NEWS

Hard luck to our rounders teams who lost 11-10 to Barntown in the county final. The girls gave a fantastic performance and it was a great achievement to get this far.

Best of luck to our 6th class as they move on they on their new school after the summer holidays.

The end of year school Mass took place on Tuesday last June 26th. Many thank to all involved.

Best of luck to Ms. Leacy as she takes up a new teaching position in Dublin. We thank her for all the work she done in Caroreigh N.S. and for her commitment to the children in her care.

We welcome Ms. Forde to our teaching in permanent capacity and we also wish her well as she gets married over the summer.

COMMUNITY GAMES

Well done to the 29 children who represented the Taghmon Area at the Community Games athletics final on Sunday, June 24, at Enniscorthy track.

We had a great turnout from entrants despite the heat and the temptation to head for the sea instead!

Thanks to all the parents for bringing them along. Thanks also to everyone who helped out from the area on the day by walking in the parade or helping at events etc. It was great to see Becky Cashin, from our area, taking on the prestigious task of lighting the community games flame to begin the Final this year.

From there, the entrants from Taghmon continued to blaze a trail with all the entrants putting in a big effort in their events. We had multiple medal placings including 13 individual medals and 3 sets of relay team medals.

We hope all entrants feel proud of how they represented the Taghmon area, some for the first time at a county competition. Taghmon Community Games certainly are proud of all our entrants.

The medal winners on the day were: U8 boys 60m Darragh Goff, 2nd place; U8 girls 80m Emma Creane, 3rd place; U10 Girls 200m Kayleigh Butler, 3rd place; U12 Boys 600m Alex O’Keefe, 3rd place; U12 Boys Ball Throw Craig Doyle, 1st place; U14 Girls Long Jump Chloe Doyle, 3rd place; U14 Girls Shot Putt Jade Sinnott, 2nd place; U14 Boys 100m Ben O’Toole, 3rd place; U14 Boys Shot Putt Bobby Jo Pitt, 2nd place; U16 Girls 100m Aisling Kelly, 1st Place; U16 Girls 100m Chloe O’Toole, 2nd place; U16 Girls High Jump Derbhla O’Hanlon; U16 Boys 1500m Evan O’Grady

A special mention also for Cillian Buttimer who so narrowly missed a medal placing on his community games county final debut in the U8 60m sprint.

Well done to our four relay teams who competed on the day, three of whom scooped medal placings. Under-16 girls, Aisling Kelly, Chloe O’Toole, Derbhla O’Hanlon and Laura O’Hanlon placed third under-13 Mixed team of Ben O’Toole, Bobby Jo Pitt, Becky Cashin and Elena Piero Doyle placed second and under-12 girls Becky Cashin, Elena Piero Doyle, Ellie Murphy and Grainne Roche Kelly, who also placed third. Our fourth team under-10 mixed with Róisín Reville, Jake Murphy, Kayleigh Butler and Tom Reville also put in a great performance but didn’t make the medals on the day.

Best of luck to Aisling Kelly, Craig Doyle and Evan O’Grady, who have qualified for the national finals in Limerick in August.

ATHLETICS CLUB NOTES

It was a very busy weekend for the club. Friday evening some of our athletes that competed in the county B championships in Enniscorthy a great evening was had by everyone and well done to those that competed.

Saturday saw fantastic results form the Morton stadium in Santry, Aisling Kelly finished 3rd in 100m with a new PB of 12.31. A performance which has secured her a place on the Irish team for the 4x100m relay in the SIAB championships in Scotland in July. A huge achievement on receiving her first Irish vest.

Sunday was the county finals of the community games, where many of our athletes competed and took home medals.

CAMROSS DRAMA GROUP

Despite the long summer evenings, dedicated members of the Camross Drama group continue to meet for readings and rehearsals.

‘Lucy in the Sky’ by Tony Layton will be our DLI One-Act festival entry this year. It is directed by Paddy O’Gorman with the cast of Marian Kehoe, Gillian Dunlop, Mary Brown and Emma Crosbie. Emma is making her debut with us, following in the footsteps of her mum, Maggie Crosbie. The play will be staged locally in the autumn before taking to the national circuit.

Michael Stafford is gathering together his cast for ‘Canaries’ by Bernard Farrell – details to be announced shortly.

As always, new members are very welcome – both on and behind stage – call Gillian at 086 6038989 for further information.

CASTLE VINTAGE CLUB

Castle Vintage Club will hold its annual barbecue with music by Freeway at Rochford’s Camross on Saturday, July 7, at 9 p.m. Proceeds in aid of local charities. All support would be greatly appreciated.