St. Anne’s GAA notes
THE ST. Anne’s GAA Club online bingo will take place every Saturday at 8 p.m. sharp.
New players will need to register by emailing stannesgaabingo@ gmail.com. State your name and the names of the players you require a bingo book for, as well as your email address and your telephone number.
Payment is via Revolut and the number is 085-1574246. You will receive an email back with the name(s), bingo book number(s) assigned to the name(s), bingo book(s) and instructions on how to pay and play bingo every Saturday night. The Friday deadline before the Saturday night bingo closes at 7 p.m. sharp.
The club received eleven nominations across three categories in this year’s Cáirde Loch Garman awards which take place on Saturday, February 27, and will be streamed live on Wexford GAA TV.
Club football team of the year 2020 nominees: Paul Brennan (goalkeeper), Kenny Cloney (corner-back), Páraic O’Keeffe (corner-back), Finn O’Driscoll (wing-back), Seán Gaul (centre-back), Diarmuid O’Keeffe (wing-forward), Jonathan Fogarty (wing-forward).
Club hurling team of the year 2020 nominees: Justin Moran (wing-back), Aaron Craig (centre-back), Diarmuid O’Keeffe (midfield).
Young hurler of the year 2020 nominee: Justin Moran.
The very best of luck to all our players on Saturday night.
Lidl has launched their 2021 fundraiser for all LGFA clubs across the country where clubs may get a set of team jerseys or cash. The initiative began on Monday, February 15, and runs until Sunday, April 11.
Follow these four easy steps: download/open the Lidl Plus app and follow the prompts; select the club you want to support, namely St. Anne’s GAA Club; spend over €30 in store and scan your Lidl Plus card to earn a stamp (over €60 = two stamps, over €90 = three stamps, etc.); collect six stamps and submit your completed stamp card by Sunday, April 11 (users can submit multiple completed stamp cards).
IT WOULD take more than a global pandemic to stop Ray McManus and his team of Sportsfile snappers in their tracks. They had to improvise like the rest of us when Covid-19 came into our lives so unexpectedly, but they were there front and centre as per usual when the action re-commenced across a variety of sporting disciplines.
Every year without fail since 1997, ‘A Season of Sundays’ has been a stand-out feature on our Christmas bookshelves, with the entirety of the GAA season over the previous twelve months captured through some stunning imagery.
With the most recent All-Ireland football final not taking place until December 19, it meant publication of the 24th issue of this fantastic publication was put on hold until the new year.
However, it’s available now and, given the unprecedented nature of the 2020 campaign, this particular edition is likely to become a real collector’s item in years to come.
On that note, you might be sitting on a mini-goldmine if you have copies of the back issues from 1997 to 2000, 2002 to 2005, 2010, and 2012 to 2015. All of those are now completely sold out, but there’s plenty of GAA enthusiasts out there hell-bent on acquiring missing editions to complete their collection.
Limerick’s Gearóid Hegarty, crowned hurler of the year over the weekend, adorns the front cover of this new publication, with a group shot of the all-conquering Dublin footballers on the back.
It’s somewhat unnerving in the early pages of the book to witness crowd scenes from the matches played pre-Covid.
However, the year under review takes on an entirely different complexion between pages 60 and 61, covering early March, and a stunning shot on 62 and 63 of a couple watching television in their apartment overlooking MW Hire O’Moore Park in Portlaoise on the day in May when the venue should have been hosting a Leinster Senior hurling championship game.
Ray McManus heads a team of 15 with a keen eye for detail, and they have outdone themselves in this publication. Ben McShane, Brendan Moran, Dáire Brennan, David Fitzgerald, Diarmuid Greene, Eoin Noonan, Harry Murphy, Matt Browne, Oliver McVeigh, Piaras O Mídheach, Ramsey Cardy, Sam Barnes, Seb Daly and Stephen McCarthy deserve fulsome praise for their work.
Contact The Book Centre (053-9123543 or bookswexford@gmail. com) to secure a copy before it sells out.
Wexford GAA (@OfficialWexGAA): ‘Well Done to the Mahoney Family, “Take a Bow” ‘Ireland’s Fittest Family’ @Glynnbarntown2 And Plus Big well done to the Cullen’s you gave it everything. #irishfittestfamily’
Mairead Ronan (@cocomairead): ‘Huge Congratulations to the Mahoney’s from Wexford and Davy Fitz . The fact that the lads never left go of their mam throughout that race was a thing of beauty. #IrelandsFittestFamily’
St Peter’s College (@StPetersCollege): ‘Fantastic win by the Mahoney family in Ireland’s Fittest Family. Making SPC and Wexford proud’
Blackwater GAA (@BlackwaterGAA): ‘Hard luck to the Cullen family. Serious effort finishing in the top 3. Proud parish and left nothing in the tank. #irelandsfittestfamily’
Anthony Masterson (@antomasterson1): ‘Congrats to the Mahoneys... Mammy Mahoney didn’t take any nonsense from the Referee. #fittestfamily #champions’
Una Sinnott (@UnaSinnott): ‘Congrats to the O’MAHONY’S!!! #irelandafittestfamily Such deserving winners!! Loved following your journey!! C’mon Wexford!’
Horse Sport Ireland (@HorseSportIRL): ‘**FLASH** Bertram Allen and Castlefield Vegas (ISH) win Florida Grand Prix - Four Irish in top five. Another brilliant performance from Bertram Allen and The Irish Sport Horse Castlefield Vegas has seen them take victory in today’s feature $137,000 Grand Prix @ESP_WEF in Florida’
Shane McCormack (@mcwexford): ‘Great to see @LeonReid_Woody and Israel Olatunde tick the euro 60m box in race 1 here today, the team grows by the race’
Wexford Youths (@YouthsWomen): ‘NEW SIGNING! Experienced midfielder Kim Flood switches to @YouthsWomen for the 2021 season from @pats_cyfc!’
Kim Flood (@KimFlood9): ‘Looking forward to the new challenge this season with @YouthsWomen’
Wexford FC (@WexfordFC): ‘Fantastic to see Evan Farrell make his first team debut this afternoon. Evan started at Ferrycarrig Park with our U11 Talent Development Programme and then right through to our U15 and U17 LOI teams and still has two years to play at U19. Huge congrats to Evan & his family.’