BALLYLANDERS
Contact Jim Hickey on 086-8564458 or email
jimmy.hickey@outlook.ie
LADIES FOOTBALL ‘SPLIT THE POT’ DRAW
Result from Saturday, 13th February: Congratulations to winner Mary Howard, Glenroe. Jackpot €152. Next draw Saturday, 27th February. Draw takes place every fortnight on Saturdays at 10pm. Thank you for your continued support.
GAA CLUB FORTNIGHTLY LOTTO
Results from Saturday, 6th February - numbers 1, 3, 4, 17. No match 4 winner. 5 lucky dip winners of €20 each - Marie Lane (online), Pa Heffernan, Orla Wallace, Catherine Frewen (online), Mary Murphy. Next draw is on Saturday, 20th February. Next jackpot €6,200. Thank you for your continued support.
CHURCH NOTES
Sunday, 21st February - First Sunday Of Lent.
Anniversary: Roger Riordan and deceased relatives, Cullane North.
Recently Deceased: Kitty Sheedy, Main Street and Seamus McCauley, Ballylanders and London. May they rest in peace.
TRÓCAIRE BOXES
Trócaire boxes are available in the church porch. Please be generous as you can.
PENANCES FOR LENT
The first thing to do is to take a close look how you are coping with the day to day difficulties due to the virus. The first penance is to meet the challenge everyday life presents to us. Offer that to the Lord as your first sacrifice, we all have lots to deal with in that area and only then, add other penances.
SUNDAY MASS
10am Mass on Sunday will be available on Facebook. Also, you can access Masses and religious services from County Limerick and all over Ireland by using www. churchservices.tv
KNOCK SHRINE LENTEN FAITH DISCUSSIONS
This year Knock Shrine will host a new series of online discussions to help engage Christians during Lent, under the title ‘Living Christian Faith - Lenten Conversations’.
Over the 6 weeks of Lent, a new series of online discussions on the topic of ‘Living Christian Faith’ will be explored. The talks will be streamed at 8.30pm every Thursday during Lent. Visit www. knockshrine.ie/watch-live or on Facebook @knockshrine
SENIORLINE
If you are an older person and would like someone to talk to, particularly since Covid-19, consider phoning SeniorLine, Ireland’s national confidential service for older people. Open every day of the year from 10am-10pm, we are older people too, trained to listen and support. We would love to hear from you. Freefone 1800 80 45 91.
DEFIBRILLATOR UPGRADE
If you have any fundraising ideas or would like to help with replacing the defibrillator and the storage box in the village, please do not hesitate to contact the committee on 087-6647670. A GoFundMe page has also been set up. All donations appreciated.
CONDOLENCES
We express our sincere condolences this week to the following:
To Jim and John McCarthy and their sister Mary (Whelan) and their respective families on the death of their mother Joan which occurred on Thursday last and also to her sister, Sr Catherine. Joan was a gentle and kind person and she and her late husband, Timmy were most obliging when they had the petrol pumps in The Square and were often knocked up ‘out of hours’ by someone who had ‘run out of juice’. Joan would also have been the last person to have lived in ‘The Hotel’ in The Square. May she rest in peace.
To the Heskin family Kilclough - Teresa (O’Driscoll), Margaret, Barbara (Henry), Denis, Cora and Mary (Blackburne) on the death of their mother Gabrielle (nee Smiddy) who died on Wednesday of last week (Feb 10). The family, who had already been mourning the death of Gabrielle’s brother - their uncle Dominic Smiddy (Clashmore and Youghal) who died on January 18, have also had to contend with the news that the last of their mother’s siblings - their Aunt Margaret O’Keeffe (Ballynoe), passed away just two days after their mother. United now, may Gabrielle, Dominic and Margaret find rest in the Heavenly peace of God’s kingdom.
THE JAB
Great to see the Over 85s begin to receive their Covid jabs this week. While it gives us some hope, we need to keep our guard up and do all that is being asked of us and we will win through.
Anyone needing help with messages (or other) should contact one of the GAA volunteers who will be glad to help. Names and numbers courtesy of Kilworth GAA.
STATIONS
Stations cannot be held in the homes or church this Lent so Masses will be offered online for families in the the various areas. Four Masses in all will be offered beginning on Monday next, 22nd February, at 7.30pm on Donal Leahy’s Facebook page for the following areas: Monadrishane, Maryville and the village from Elm Place to Brennan Place, Inchinleamy, Raspberry Hill, Kilmurry, Leitrim, Kylebeg, Knockaskehane, Ballinlacken, Coolalisheen, Ballinaparka, Ballyderowne and Knockanohill. Offerings can be handed into the Parochial House, Kilworth.
MASSES
Masses continue on-line on Canon Donal Leahy’s Facebook page at 10am weekdays, 7.30pm Saturday and 11.30am Sunday. The church is open daily for private prayer until 4pm - please observe the guidelines.
A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY
The summer of 1970 saw hundreds of Northern Ireland families flee from ‘The Troubles’ in the North, several of them coming to find refuge in Kilworth Camp. The local Red Cross branches (Mitchelstown and Fermoy/Conna) became involved with collections of foodstuff, clothes and toys etc., for distribution to the refugees.
In all, over two hundred refugees, the majority of whom were children, lived in the timber huts at the camp that lies between the Blue Dragon (Corbett Court) and Glocca Maura. The huts were divided by curtains, each family assigned their own space.
Fifty years ago on Christmas Day, they were treated to a traditional Christmas dinner in joyous surroundings in the camp’s dining hall. Christmas carols were sung, there was plenty of festive spirit and plenty of gifts for the children.
A Northern Presbyterian by the name of John Friars, a butcher by trade, when interviewed by RTE, vowed he would never return to Belfast as he did not feel safe raising his family there. A butcher by trade, he had hopes of getting work down here and had aspirations that he might one day get to open his own butcher shop. I wonder where he is now?
A number of families had television sets rented from Cavanaghs TV in Fermoy. I worked at Cavanaghs at that time in the hire purchase area (Acorn Holdings) and so, I had on occasion, the job of calling to some of the refugee families when they fell behind with their payments.
On one occasion I was with a man who was sitting on his bed reading a magazine when a news bulletin came through on his transistor radio of a killing in a particular section of The Falls Road. He jumped out of the bed really agitated, cursing and swearing saying that it was in his particular area and that he knew the particular person who was mentioned. Seeing him in such a rage, I didn’t wait to hear the rest, just left him to it. No money collected on that occasion - of course he may just have been a very good actor, but if he was, he deserved an Oscar!
While they were away from the conflict in ‘The North’, it must have been very difficult for the families to be ‘exiled’ from their own place, the younger ones of course viewed their trip to Kilworth merely as ‘a holiday’. Eventually, they were sent to school in Kilworth - but that’s a story for next week.