Lanesboro Ballyleague Notes
Gathering meeting this Thursday
The Gathering 2013group continues their meeting in preparation for the welcoming home celebration of all natives of Lanesboro and Rathcline on August Bank Holiday weekend 2nd to the 5th August with another follow up meeting in Adie’s meeting room on this Thursday evening at 8.30pm. The group welcomes many and all parishioners to come along to the meeting as we put our plans for the weekend in place. We are seeking your ideas to marry into those already decided on.
Much time and energy is being put into getting a wonderful and exciting welcome home party celebration where the returning parishioners will mingle with old friends and make many new ones and really have an exciting weekend in the old homestead.
This Gathering 2013 is one not to be missed in Lanesboro Rathcline and our group invites and welcomes all those that have left the parish to return over the weekend.
Lough Ree Athletic Club AGM
The AGM of the Lough Ree Athletic club will take place this Wednesday night 23rd January in St. Mary’s Parish Hall at 9pm. The club offers so much activity to so many young athletes and they seek your support by attending the meeting. Lough Ree AC is synonymous with so many present day parents and it continues to offer the same opportunities to their children. Great fun, great sport, great activities and wonderful friends and memories are all part of Lough Ree AC. Please support the meeting as your presence will be greatly felt and appreciated.
Fair Day AGM
The Fair day AGM took place on Thursday night last in Joe and Martha Farrell’s Yacht Bar. After many years Kevin Murray called time on his tenure as chairman and the new chairman elected was Adie Farrell. Kevin Murray will long be remembered for his chairmanship of the Fair Day committee and the amazing amount of work that he has given to the fair day over his time. He must be congratulated and thanked for his wonderful time and efforts to the huge success of the fair. Along with Adie as chairman, Samantha Lulham was elected secretary and Steve Ormsby as treasurer. We wish the committee every success and look forward to another successful Fair Day on Saturday 2nd March.
Dogs Soiling the Street
Here we go again!!! More times than I care to remember I have commented time and time again about dog owners walking their dogs through the streets of Lanesboro and Ballyleague and allowing them soli the footpaths. This is greatly unfair to all the people that walk the streets and end up putting their feet into the dog soil. So many people, on a daily basis, are making comment in the shop about this dog soiling and I am appealing to all dog walkers that do not use the pooper scoopers, to pick them up free of charge, and clean up after their dogs soil the streets.
Rathcline Draw deferred until this weekend
The Rathcline GAA club is holding its annual Christmas Draw. For the club this is the most important draw of the year. The proceeds of the draw will go towards the paying of the clubs insurance and affiliation that is due at the first meeting of Longford GAA county board. The figure is huge for a small club and it makes this draw vital for the clubs finances. Tickets are priced at €20 each and the prize fund is; 1st – €3,000, 2nd – €1000, 3rd – €750, 4th – €500, 5th €250, 6th – €200, 7th – €200, 8th – €200, 9th – €200 and 10th – €200.
The club looks forward to your generous support. Tickets are available from club executive and members or from O’Brien’s Corner Shop. The draw will take place in Adie Farrell’s on Saturday next 26th January.
Shannon Gaels Minor Club
The club would like to wish our club players Shane Kenny, Owen Sorohan and Jack Rooney and Community College players Shane Cosgrove and Diarmuid Murtagh the very best of luck in the Leinster final against Kildare in Cashel on this Friday evening at 7.30pm.
Registration Night: The club will hold its registration night in the clubhouse in Clonbonny on Friday night 8th February from 7pm to 8pm. The club welcomes all young footballers’ and their parents to the club for the 2013. The club caters for young footballers from under 6 years right up to the minor grade. Registration fees for the coming season are €25 for one member and €35 for family membership – two or more children.
Congratulations to Shane Donohoe and Liam Connerton for minor club players who along with their Longford county U21 team were victorious last weekend when beating Cavan in the Hasting Cup Final.
Rathcline Parish Tax Relief Scheme
Forms for the scheme are available in the church porch. Please call in and take one.
Seeking accommodation
The Gathering 2013 will take place in the parish of Rathcline and Lanesboro over August Bank Holiday and we are actively seeking people with property to rent in the general area over that period of time. The group is drawing up a database of all property available and if you have property please contact Joe O’Brien, Corner Shop with property location and description.
Lanesboro Gun Club
Lanesboro Gun club will hold its AGM at 9pm on this Friday 25th Jan 2013 in Adie Farrell’s meeting room. As the AGM had to be deferred from last October it is very important that all members attend to discuss important club matters.
Lanesboro Community College Enrolment
Enrolment at Lanesboro Community College will take place on Tuesday 29th January from 7pm to 9pm. All sixth class students from the locality will be brought to the school earlier that day.
The college offers a ‘cead mile failte’ to all sixth class students and their parents. “Ar Aghaidh le Chéile”.
Lanesboro Community Games
Hard Luck to the U15 Lanesboro Community Games Badminton team on losing out to Killoe in the County Final on Sunday last. The team made up of Stephen O’Dowd, Aaron Farrell, Cillian Flood, Sean Maguire and Cronin Flood played very well and Stephen O’Dowd had a great win in his set 2-1 with the other players playing well throughout their matches but Killoe proved too strong to beat. The team came away with County Silver Medals so well done to the lads for trying their very best and for getting to County Final level.
The County Finals of the Art competition took place last Saturday; Lanesboro had entries in all age groups and Succeeded in winning two medals: Anna Peters got a silver medal in the U-14 Girls and James Gavigan got a bronze medal in the U-16 Boys. Well done to both children and all who succeeded in getting this far.
Well done to the U-12 Chess team who recently won the county final to retain the county shield which they won last year. They will now go though to play Meath. The team was made up of Evan Chalmers, Séadhna and Dúileach Ryan, Orla Lyons, Aine Kennelly and Conor Sorohan. All the team ether won or drew their individual match so it was a great win.
Best of luck to the Lanesboro Community games Badminton team on overcoming Ardagh to win a place in the County Final Vs Killoe. The team is made up of Cillian and Cronin Flood, Stephen Dowd, Sean Maguire and Aaron Farrell.
Well done to the U-12 Chess team who recently won the county final to retain the county shield which they won last year. They will now go through to play Meath. The team was made up of Evan Chalmers, Séadhna and Dúileach Ryan, Orla Lyons, Áine Kennelly and Conor Sorohan. All the team ether won or drew their individual match so it was a great win.
We hope to have a local Talent audition in February in order to get entries represent Lanesboro in the county final. We hope we will get entries in some, or all, of the following events: Solo Singing, Solo Dance (Modern Disco), Group Dance (Modern Disco), Group Drama (Comedy Sketch), Group Music, Group Singing, Set Dancing. All these events, are U-14 – i.e. born after 31/7/1999 – also Solo Music (U-13), Solo Recitation (U-12) and Group Dance (Irish Contemporary) (U-12). So if you have a talent at any of these disciplines and would like to perform, either individually or part of a group this will be the opportunity to take part.
Lough Ree 2000 Bridge Club
The results of the competition held on Monday 14th January 2013 are N/S 1st Mike Flynn and Kathleen O’Reilly, Mairéad Gill and Maura Hanley, Mary Mc Gushin and Renee Walshe and Bernie Gillen and Eileen Kelly. E/W: 1st Mae Casey and Maureen Hynes, 2nd Una Clarke and Nora Kelly, 3rd Mary Conmy and Mary Jameson and 4th Kathleen Hanley and Mary Fallon.
History Show on RTE
The very popular History show hosted by Myles Duncan broadcast each Sunday on Radio 1 this week included a son of Stephen Clancy, formerly of Rathcline Road. Stephen moved to Dublin many years ago but is fondly remembered for his time in Lanesboro. While listening to the show Lorcan Clancy was reporting on the voice of Abraham Lincoln having trawled the archives to find a recording of Lincoln. It is always nice to see and hear sons and daughters of former residents of our area making a name for themselves. We wish Lorcan a long and successful career in broadcasting and journalism.
Rathcline GAA
Senior training is now back in full swing after the appointment of Gerry Lynn as manager for the coming season. The club is asking all available players to make themselves available for both senior and reserve league football this year. Training continues on Wednesday and Friday nights at 8:30pm in Clonbonny and any wishing to tog out are more than welcome to train.
Club membership is now open to everyone for the 2013 season. Prices are as follows: €20 for non-playing members and €50 for players. Peter Skelly will be accepting payment for all non-playing members and Ryan Fallon will be doing likewise with our Club players. Closing date for receipt of membership money is 31st March.
The Annual New Year draw was postponed last weekend and rescheduled for this Saturday night coming 26th Jan in Adie’s Bar at 11pm. We hope that the extra week will allow our very dedicated ticket sellers to make one final push to maximise sales.
Tickets are in circulation around the parish and beyond and are priced at €20. There are ten fantastic cash prizes as follows: 1st Prize: €3,000, 2nd Prize: €1,000, 3rd Prize: €750, 4th Prize: €500, 5th Prize: €250, 6th Prize to 10th Prize: €200.
The club relies heavily on the success of this fundraiser to pay for team affiliation and insurance requirements for the season ahead. Ticket sellers can return stubs and money to our new treasurer Albert Cooney, assistant treasurers Chris Cullen / Seamus Flynn or indeed any member of the Executive between now and next Saturday evening. A club text message will be circulated through the week informing all patrons of where and when they can submit their sold tickets and funds.
Rathcline GAA would like to remind all the local community groups that the facilities in Clonbonny are for GAA related activities only which is covered under Rule 42 of the Association Code. We are asking all community groups to respect this ruling going forward.
Club Rathcline – Reminder to all Bi-Yearly participants of our Rathcline Lotto that €50 is now due for the second half of the fundraiser term. The half term lotto draw takes place next Saturday 26th Jan and payment should be made to any Executive member before this date.
The Jackpot total of €900 was not won this weekend with numbers drawn as follows: 10, 17, 19, 26, 36 and 40. Congratulations to our four €25 winners this week as follows: (1) Nancy & Michael Casserley – Clonfower, Lanesboro; (2) Jimmy Greally – Lisreevagh, Lanesboro; (3) Aidan Ganly – The Green, Lanesboro; (4) James P Quinn – Aughakeel, Lanesboro. Next week’s jackpot will €1000.
Congratulations to Longford Under 21 Team who defeated Cavan in the final of the Hastings Cup in Keenan Park on Saturday. Final score: Longford 1:09, Cavan 0-10.
Special mention must go to the Rathcline representation on the panel – Shane Donohoe and Liam Connerton who are an integral part of the Under 21 setup. The team is now preparing for the first round on the Leinster U21 championship which will be played away to the winners of Carlow vs. Dublin on Wednesday 26th March.
Leinster Final – Rathcline GAA would like to wish the Longford Vocational schools the very best of luck in the Leinster final when they play Kildare in Páirc Ciarán, Newtowncashel next Saturday 26th at 2pm. There is a very strong local connection with the team with Shane Kenny, Eoin Sorohan, Jack Rooney, Diarmuid Murtagh and Shane Cosgrave. Please come up to Cashel and support our local lads in pursuit of glory.
The club extends its deepest sympathies to the Kenny family in Fermoyle on the death of Sr. Chanel Kenny, Donnybrook Convent, Dublin.
Ballyleague Village renewal says Thank You
Ballyleague Village Renewal and Tidy towns committee would like to sincerely thank each and every person who turned up to support their table quiz in St. Faithleachs GAA Clubhouse last weekend. Over twenty tables were in place for the quiz which ended in great excitement with a dead heat and then two exhilarating tie-breaker questions before a winning team was finally found. Special thanks to all those who were not there but made donations, all of those who gave spot prizes for the raffle, our Quiz Master Michael Cleary and St Faithleachs GFC for hosting the event. The event offered the committee an opportunity to display the plans for the re-development of the river bank in Ballyleague which hopefully will go ahead later this year and it was great to get such positive feedback from residents in the area. Anyone who has seen the further slippage of the riverbank in the last 3 weeks will know how urgent this work is now on a very dangerous site and unstable. The presence of teams representing other community groups at the table quiz was also very welcome and the committee would like to thank the members from the following groups for coming along to show support: Lions Club Roscommon / Lanesboro Triathlon Club / Lanesboro Community College / Cloontuskert Tidy Towns / Lanesborough Ballyleague Credit Union, Lough Ree Sub Aqua, ESB Social Club – among others. Other fundraising events will take place later in the year and your continued support for the tidy towns and village renewal committee in Ballyleague is very much appreciated. Full list of sponsors/donations: Joe and Martina Cribben – Daybreak, Michael Hanley – Builder Supplier, Bernard Keane – Supervalu, Gareth Johnson – Johnsons Pharmacy, Terry Mc Loughlin – Butcher Lanesboro, Una and Seamus Clarke – Gortgallon, Eamon Gleeson – Gleeson’s Restaurant, Gerry Reilly and Collette Conlon Ballyleague, Teresa and Steve Ormsby – Clarkes Bar, Lanesboro Angling Club, Lanesboro Tourism Co-op & Tidy Towns committee, Mary Greally & Marie Burke.
St. Faithleach’s GAA
Membership: 2013 Club Membership now due – Adult €40, Student €20, Family €80.
Mouthguards: Official GAA Rule: From January 1st 2013, it is mandatory that ALL players, in grades up to and including minor, will be required to wear a mouth guard in all gaelic football matches and training sessions. Further information will be available at our upcoming St. Faithleachs GAA minor club registration night. Details to follow.
Lotto: The numbers drawn were – 6, 15, 26 and 27. There was no jackpot winner and the five €20 winners were – Ray Deegan, Carmel Clarke, Mary Connaughton, Tommy Murray, Colm and Joseph Mangan. The next draw takes place on Tuesday week 29th January for a jackpot of €7,800.
Cards: Card game takes place every Tuesday in the clubhouse at 9.00pm. All welcome. Last week’s results are – Winners, Brendan/Tom and runners-up, Pat Joe/Tim. The ticket winners were – Frank, Martin, James and Noreen.
Congratulations: To our 2012 St. Faithleachs GAA Club Rose, Maria Quigley & her twin sister Catherine, on their graduation from St. Angela’s College Sligo with Honours Degree in Bachelors of Nursing & Science. To Diarmuid Murtagh who celebrated his 18th birthday last weekend. To Seamus Walsh & Marian Donlon on their engagement.
Functions & Parties: St. Faithleachs GAA Club House, an ideal private function venue, available to cater for your upcoming confirmation/communion events, birthday Parties, Christening Parties & more. Please contact Frank Curley, or any member of the Social/Executive Committee.
Honda 50 Raffle
As you may know PJ Maher is embarking on another trip to bring hope to youngsters in Haiti and the funds from this ‘Honda 50’ draw will go towards helping to bring some comfort to these young people in poverty torn areas. Tickets are on sale for the Honda 50 draw and they are priced at only €10. The draw will take place in St. Faithleach’s GAA clubhouse on Saturday 2nd February. Your support will be greatly appreciated. Tickets are available from Daybreak Ballyleague or from O’Brien’s Shop.