BALLYMORE/ MAYGLASS
GAA LOTTO
The St Fintans GAA lotto now stands at €3,000 and tickets can be purchased from local shops and from club members at a cost of €1.50. A match three prize of €300 is also up for grabs each week and St Fintans supporters Frank Staples, Barry Wright, Tom Rowe, Sally Kelly, Jamie Jordon, Fintan Murphy, Betty Goff, Sandra Furlong, Maire Farrell, Frank Staples (snr) and Patrick Goff shared in this prize last week with the following numbers drawn 4, 6,7,11.
The big prize winner was our good supporter Marguerite Hogan who bought her lucky ticket from Andy and Bernie Foley, Ballycogley. Congratulations all.
TABLE QUIZ
A table quiz in Mary Barrys on Wednesday November 14th at 9pm in aid of rest and recuperation for Dima. A table of four is €20, with a raffle on the night. Should you require any further information please contact Nichola Hendrick on 085 7219689.
GOLF SOCIETY
The St Fintans golfing society will hold its final outing of the season on November 17th at Rosslare golf club with a tee off time of 10.20am. Members please keep this date in mind.
BOOK LAUNCH
The six hundred page book “Our Sporting Past”by James Parle will be launched in the Riverside Park Hotel Enniscorthy on Wednesday November 14th at 8pm. The book features a history of track and field,athletics,cross-country,cycling and tug o war in County Wexford in the period 1877-1967.
Many items revelent to this area feature,i.e a man born in Mayglass in 1863 who went to work in Wexford on a boneshaker tricycle and emigrated to England to become a noted racing cyclist setting many road records.
Willo Ross is also profiled as a top class sprinter from Killinick. The longest tug o war pull on record was at Ballycogley in 1923. This book is a good read.
CAKE SALE/RAFFLE
The last cake sale and raffle for 2012 in aid of Mayglass church restoration fund will be held on Saturday November 24th in Mayglass church porch before and after 7.30pm mass. Donations of confectionary would be very much appreciated by the fundraising committee. Very many thanks.
SENIOR CITIZENS PARTY
This years senior citizens christmas party will be held in the Danby Lodge, Killinick on December 16th at 5.30pm. Tickets for the parish council christmas raffle will go on sale in the coming weeks and your support would be greatly appreciated.
CHARITY DANCE
The fundraising committee of Mayglass church restoration fund would like to say a very sincere thank you to Mary Goldsmith and family for orgainising the charity dance in the Danby Lodge Killinick on Friday week last. A very enjoyable night was had by all.
CHRISTMAS CARDS
The reminder of the Ballymore/Mayglass christmas card collection will be on sale in the porch of both churches after weekend masses from Saturday November 17th until Christmas except on the weekend of December 8th/9th when the annual St Vincent De Paul collection will take place. Christmas cards are also availasble at Ballycogley post office.
DRAMA
The Ballycogley players will perform their three one act plays in Carrig On Bannow on Sunday November 18th at 8pm. Tickets available at the door.
The group would like to give a big warm welcome to Jim Kielthy Mayglass who joined the group in the recent past.
NOVEMBER MASSES
Mass for our faithfully departed will be offered every Tuesday and Friday during the month of November.
INTO THE FINAL
On Sunday morning last two hundred plus supporters of the St Fintans GAA club took the journey to Clane, Co. Kildare to support their intermediate ‘A’ football champions in the semi final of the AIB Leinster club junior club football championship.
With little or no breeze and ideal underfoot conditions for the time of year the large following was treated to an action filled encounter when St Fintans took on Clogherinkoe (Kildare)for a place in this years Leinster finals. The Kildare champions opened the scoring in the 7th minute but a minute later Brendan Huges leveled the scores.
This timely score helped to settle St Fintans and in the 17th minute Joey Wadding pounced to score a goal with Donal Shanley from a forthy five and Cathal O’Brien from play before a Conor Sinnott converted penalty kick leaving the scoreline at the break St Fintans 2-3 Clogherinkoe 05.
A further goal by Wadding on 7 minutes of the second half saw St Fintans stretch their lead to 6pts and it was then that Clogherinkoe came good reducing the defecit to two pts with ten minutes remaining but a J.W. Rowe point steadied the ship for St Fintans and they once again stretched the lead to 6 pts but an injury time goal for the Kildare men produced a scoreline of 3-7 to 1-10 in favour of the men from the sunny southeast.
To a man St Fintans men stood tall with Frank and Jimmy Staples,Kevin Day, Conor Sinnott and Joey Wadding all looking a bit special.