COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS

Must be available to work between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Job Description available on request. Apply with CV to the chairperson, Banteer Community Childcare, Clonmeen Road, Banteer, Co. Cork.

Banteer Lyre and Districts Community Council Elections will take place during April. The Community Council is a locally elected body and is involved in items such as public lighting improvements, Road improvements, council plans, social alarms, Broadband, defibrillators and issues of local concern etc. Nomination forms will now be checked and those nominated will be contacted.

The Community Council is an important community group within the area and elected members will be involved in various community improvement projects.

BINGO

Banteer Bingo is played on Tuesday at 8.30 p.m.; jackpot is now €3150. to Marymount Hospice and Killavullen National School. Earlybird registration is €20 for the first 100 entrants and €25 for all entries thereafter. There will be food stops en route and in Killavullen at the end of this much anticipated event.

Turbine Aware group Nagle View Turbine Aware group held an open meeting in Killavullen Community Centre last Tuesday night to discuss the current plans to develop a 27 turbine wind farm in our parish and surrounding areas. Further information on this group and details of future meetings can be found on their website nvta.ie.

GAA NEWS

RESUMPTION OF FOOTBALL LEAGUES – under-14 Football competitions are due to start on March 9, our opening game is against Kanturk, in Kanturk at 2.00 PM.

Under-18 – Division 1 Football League – Killavullen v Ballycastle, in Castletownroche at 11.00 AM.

Neither the refixed under-21 game or the proposed Division 1 Junior Hurling game have been confirmed at the time of the submission of this report.

It is always wise to consult with our website, closer to the date for confirmation, as with last weekend, when the scheduled under-21 game had to be postponed from Friday to Sunday, and underwent three different venues, before the appointed referee declared on Sunday, that the chosen pitch in Grange was deemed unplayable.

TOUGH CONDITIONS BUT OPENING WIN FOR UNDER 16S – Last Saturday evening in Buttevant, Killavullen made a winning debut in this year’s under-16 football league when they defeated our hosts on a final score of 3-13 to 3-05.

The conditions were not conductive to open attacking football, but Killavullen would have reason to be pleased with their overall performances and especially in the second half when they scored 1-09 against a strong wind. A feature of that second period was the ability of the Killavullen backs, in particular to offer themselves up as an attacking option going forward, and that speaks volumes to the training that they have done in advance of this game.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PATRICIAN ACEDEMY – Killavullen GAA Club would like to extend their congratulations to the Patrician Academy Mallow on their recent Corn Sheáinmhic Mhurchidh (under-19 C Football) Final win. The final score was Patrician Academy (Mallow) 4-13, St Augustine’s (Dungarvan) 2-8

Local participating Killavullen Players in the squad were Liam Fox and Pádraig Cronin.

This strong Academy team will face the Leinster champions in the all-Ireland semi-final on March 9

LOTTO – The lotto of €1,900 last Tuesday night was not won, and rolls on. Numbers drawn – 11, 16, and 31 – No Winner. The lucky-dip winners were as follows: €50 Carmel McGuire – Seller Magner’s Bar; €30 Catherine Hickey – Seller – Griffin’s Bar; €30 Jamie Fenton – Seller Magner’s Bar. The next draw will be in Griffin’s and will be for €2,000