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By Paul Mooney AT the March meeting of Waterford City and County Council, Director of Services, Paul Daly and Councillor Pat Nugent clashed over what work is needed to stabilise the Cunnigar in Dungarvan Bay.

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Mr. Daly said there is one piece of work of up to 120 metres to be finished on the Cunnigar, which will “substantially complete all the works needed out there”.

However, Cllr. Nugent said he was “amazed” by Mr. Daly’s response.

“I believe that a couple of hundred metres should be done every year at the Cunnigar,” said Cllr. Nugent.

Mr. Daly had responded to a question from Cllr. Siobhán Whelan, who pointed out that there was no funding allocated for the Cunnigar under the Coastal Repair Works programme. She asked if the Council had any notion of carrying out more works at the Cunnigar as it had been damaged badly by floods and is a great amenity for Dungarvan and the surrounding area.

Mr. Daly replied that the Council has applied for funding for work at the Cunnigar, but he said that the funding source “isn’t the traditional model where you would apply for funding last year and be notified early this year”.

“The funding tends to happen within one year. We have been onto the Office of

Public Works to try and get funding for that work. Hopefully, we will get it this year and finish the job,” Mr. Daly said.

Cllr. Nugent said the consequences of not carrying out annual work at the Cunnigar will result in the Western part of Dungarvan being “taken away” if there are gales and the Cunnigar is breeched.

Cllr. Nugent said he has brought the matter up continuously at previous Council meetings and was informed the Council would be looking for overall funding for work at the Cunnigar.

“From a local point of view, the people know the Cunnigar. There are hundreds of metres to be repaired at the Cunnigar.”

Cllr.Tom Cronin queried the length and cost of works needed at the Cunnigar.

Mr. Daly replied saying the Council has monitored the Cunnigar for over 20 years and have records, data, photographs and extensive surveys of the area carried out over the years.

Mr. Daly said he would be happy to say that there would be up to 120 metres left for work to be carried out.

He said if the Council receive the same scale of funding as they received last year (between €50,000 and €75,000), he would be “pretty happy that the Cunnigar would stabilise for quite a long number of years”.

“A good deal of stabilisation has taken place behind the works we’ve been doing over the last 20 years or more,” Mr. Daly added.

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for that try and get fundingyear and Public Works to we will get it this work. Hopefully, Daly said.

Mr. of finish the job,” the consequences at the Cllr. Nugent said

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overall funding on the meetings Mr. Daly said be looking for to be finished com- would the Cunnigar. of up to 120 metres will “substantially people work at Cunnigar, which needed out there”. point of view, the of “From a local There are hundreds plete all the works Nugent said he was know the Cunnigar. at the Cunnigar.”

However, Cllr. to be repaired and Daly’s response. “amazed” by Mr. a couple of hundred metres Tom Cronin queried the length Cllr. at the Cunnigar.

“I believe that year at the be done every cost of works neededsaying the Council has metres should Mr. Daly replied Cllr. Nugent. over 20 years question Cunnigar,” said the Cunnigar for and responded to a Mr. Daly had pointed monitored records, data, photographs out Whelan, who have area carried from Cllr. Siobhánno funding allocated for and surveys of the Repair extensive out that there was to say under the Coastal Council over the years. would be happy the Cunnigar She asked if the Mr. Daly said he up to 120 metres left Works programme.carrying out more works there would be out. of damaged that had any notion to be carried same as it had been work the for receive Cunnigar for at the He said if the Council received last year and is a great amenity area. badly by floods funding as they the surrounding has scale of €75,000), he would Dungarvan and that the Council the (between €50,000 and Cunnigar would Mr. Daly replied happy that the for work at of years”. funding be “pretty applied for funding a long number he said that the where stabilise for quite has taken Cunnigar, but of stabilisation doing traditional model “A good deal year and source “isn’t the works we’ve been Daly for funding last place behind the or more,” Mr. you would apply the last 20 years this year”. within over be notified early tends to happen added.

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Council confirms grant of €30k for 1916 Centenary celebrations A GRANT of €30,000 has been provided by the government to Waterford City and County Council to go towards the centenary celebrations and commemoration of one of Ireland’s most historic periods in history - the 1916 Proclamation and Uprising.

Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan had questioned how much the government had given the Council, at the March meeting of the local authority.

Cllr. Jason Murphy said he hoped that

Councillors would have some sort of role to play in how funding will be spent, while Cllr. John Hearne asked the Council to write to community groups to get their input into the commemoration.

Director of Services, Michael Quinn confirmed that the Council received €30,000 from the government to assist with the preparation works for commemorating the centenary of 1916.

“It is not a significant amount of money,” Mr. Quinn conceded. “So the use of the

funding needs to be considered carefully.”

Mr. Quinn said proposals would be outlined to the Special Policy Committee (SPC) at the end of March, which will address the broader involvement of the community, as well as a steering group and an outline programme of events and how the Council will be involved in the process.

Mr. Quinn said once the SPC considers the outline, it will be brought to the Plenary Council meeting for consideration and adoption.

Déise Greenway expected to be completed by April 2016

By Paul Mooney THE Déise Greenway should be fully completed by April, 2016 at the latest, with the Ballinroad to Durrow section expected to be completed by the middle of this year, according to the Chief Executive of Waterford City and County Council, Michael Walsh.

Councillors Liam Brazil and Declan Clune both asked when it was envisaged the Greenway would be completed and open to the public for use.

Speaking at the March meeting of Waterford City and County Council, Mr. Walsh said the Council’s target was to have the Greenway completed by April, 2016 and opened in its entirety.

He said the Ballinroad to Durrow section should be completed around the middle of 2015, while the Bilberry to Kilmeaden section should be finished by November, 2015.

Mr. Walsh said he hoped the Greenway would be open next year in time for the tourist season.

Cllr. John O’Leary expressed concern that many farmers who have land adjoining the proposed Greenway are “not happy with the progression the project has taken”.

He said they feel there is a lack of co-operation in regards to problems faced by farmers, and it is felt the project is geared more towards the walkway.

“The question of ‘liability’ is one issue they would like to see

more response on from the Council,” said Cllr. O’Leary.

He said some farmers believe the officials they are dealing with do not have enough experience or understanding in farming matters and asked if the Council could consider a farming expert to liaise with them.

Cllr. Pat Nugent said he could understand the point being made by Cllr. O’Leary as there are many issues affecting farmers in relation to diseases in livestock spreading from one farm to another.

Mr. Walsh pointed out that there are well over 100 property owners which adjoin the route of the Greenway.

“There are still a number of people who wouldn’t be entirely happy with the reality, but equally, are we going to satisfy everybody’s demand, every-

where, every time? The answer is no, because we couldn’t do so and we have to have due regard for public money,” said Mr. Walsh.

He said he would not accept the position that the Council officials don’t have enough knowledge and said there is an appeals committee with “more than enough” farming expertise on it, including himself, as he would know some of the principles of farming.

Mr. Walsh said he envisaged the appeals committee to be up and running in four weeks time.

“Beyond that, in terms of community and property owner management, this is continuous in terms of relationship and it is our intention to go out into the community in the next while and form a steering committee, which will have specific repre-

sentation from property owners, so that on an ongoing basis, the operation of the entity will have input from stakeholders along the way,” Mr. Walsh said.

“I think if we have a stakeholders group that has a really serious involvement in the Greenway, property owners will be represented significantly and there is still the appeals committee for anyone who is dissatisfied.

He said the Council is currently surveying areas where they didn’t have access to previously.

“It will be an ongoing engagement with landowners and I’m hoping we can resolve the issues to a point where people are somewhere reasonably happy. We are certainly trying to be moderate and reasonable in our response.”

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A WATERFORD family with a close association with Ireland’s oldest development charity were amongst the guests who were honoured at a reception hosted by President Michael D. Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin recently.

Board member of Gorta SelfHelp Africa Tom Corcoran, who is a long-standing former chairman of the charity, was joined by his wife Anne-Marie and son Danny amongst the representatives at the function to mark the 50th anniversary of the organisation.

Established in 1965 in response to a United Nations led campaign

to end global hunger, President Higgins paid tribute to Gorta SelfHelp Africa’s remarkable work for over half a century.

He said that he saw, on a State visit to Africa last year, the positive impact that Ireland’s development organisations were having across the continent, and praised Gorta Self-Help Africa for its positive contribution to global efforts to end hunger and achieve a more equal and fair world.

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Budget for footpaths and lighting won’t be substantial Water informed.

Noting other issues in relation to footpaths and lighting raised by Councillors, Mr. Daly said it is hoped there will be a capital programme later in the year, which is “not big, but as much as we can afford”.

Mr. Daly said that although there is a provision in the maintenance budgets for repair of paths, substantive replacement of paths would have to come out of the capital programme budget.

POTHOLES Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan said wintery weather has left potholes in its wake and said it was imperative that the Council gets manpower out to fix the problem, along with the jet patchers and combi units.

He pointed out that potholes in roads can cause damage to people’s vehicles.

Cllr. O’Ryan urged the Council to put more resources into filling potholes and do as much as they can now.

COAST ROAD Meanwhile, Cllr.

Liam Brazil complimented the Council on recent work along the Coast Road to scale back roadside hedgerows.

“It has been all cut back lately and it is fantastic,” said Cllr. Brazil.

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WHILE Waterford Council may have a budget later in the year to carry out work on footpaths and lighting under a capital programme, the budget for it won’t be substantial.

Raising the issue at the March meeting of Waterford City and County Council, Cllr. Pat Fitzgerald outlined examples of where work was needed, including areas of Dunmore East and Cheekpoint, where heavy traffic due to the sewerage scheme works, have damaged the paths.

Concurring, Cllr. Eddie Mulligan said there are many footpaths which need to be addressed from a health and safety point of view.

He also suggested that residents be notified of any works taking place at least 48 hours in advance, as there were instances of works taking place, but the residents living adjacent to the works were not informed.

Cllr. John Carey also outlined an area of Passage East, from Danny’s Lane to the Point, which is in a state of bad repair.

Director of Services, Paul Daly, said the Council was aware of damage caused to the footpaths in Dunmore East as a result of the sewerage works.

“It is a water services problem and will have to be repaired by the contractor,” Mr. Daly said.

He said the Council generally try to advertise and announce in social media any works to take place, so that residents are

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Tw o L i t t l e D u c k s w i n Eu ro M i l l i o n s P l u s !

Two Little Ducks – a group of 22 pharmaceutical staff from GlaxoSmithKline in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford - picked up a cheque for €500,000 at National Lottery offices in Dublin last Wednesday. The lucky winners won the prize on Friday, 6th March, 2015. They will split their winnings equally, each taking home €22,727.27. Pictured are: Dermot Griffin, Chief Executive of the National Lottery presents cheque to: Michael Hart, John Fitzgerald, Sean Fahey, Stuart Fee, Fabiola Hyslop, Austin Regan, Dermot Ryan, Brendan Kenneally, Jackie Veale, Martin Murphy, Donal Bray, Joan McCarthy, Conor Power, James Phelan, Mervyn Egan, Caroline O’Rourke, Joe Pratt, Shirley O’Donnell.

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The colleagues won the prize in last Friday week’s EuroMillions Plus draw (6th March 2015).

They play EuroMillions together occasionally when the jackpots are high and luck

happened to strike twice for them last week when the EuroMillions jackpot rolled to a massive guaranteed €100 million.

On Tuesday, 3rd March, 2015, they matched four numbers to win €2,000 and then on the following Friday night they went one big step better – matching all five numbers in the EuroMillions Plus draw to win the top prize of €500,000.

The group range from ages 25 years – mid 50’s and work in different

departments in the pharmaceutical company which has been in operation in Dungarvan for 28 years. They will split their winnings equally, each taking home €22,727.27.

Their lucky €15 Quick Pick ticket was purchased in Centra, Clonea Road, Dungarvan, on Friday, 6th March, 2015.

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Dungarvan may fly purple flag for County

By Christy Parker DUNGARVAN Councillor Damien Geoghegan wants Dungarvan to seek Purple Flag status in recognition of its benign night time attractiveness.

The flag is considered the ‘gold stan-

dard’ for night time destinations and represents an international accreditation scheme that honours excellence by town and city centres between the hours of 5.00 p.m. and 5.00 a.m. About ten urban centres in Ireland are presently enjoying the status.

Waterford city was recently awarded

Purple Flag status and Cllr. Geoghegan, in his capacity as Cathaoirleach of the Dungarvan-Lismore Municipal District Council, flagged the proposal so to speak, at that body’s March meeting. He said bringing a second purple flag to the county would raise Dungarvan’s profile considerably

The Cathaoirleach said Dungaravn’s “wonderful offering” of bars, art centre, restaurants, theatre, etc., should earn it the breeze-flattering recognition.

The councillor explained that a lot of work would be involved with the business community and An Garda having actively to support the “rigorous” appli-

cation process.

Cllr. Geoghegan said he understood that the flag would initially stand – or flutter - for a year and following a further assessment would fly subsequently for three years.

The proposal was accepted without question.

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Councillors frustrated by Data Protection Legislation

By Christy Parker LISMORE-Dungar van Municipal District council is to write to the data protection commissioner in complaint against the severe restriction imposed on councillors making representations on behalf of housing applicants and tenants.

The matter has repeatedly frustrated the councillors and again surfaced at March’s meeting when Cllr.

Siobhán Whelan described it as “frustrating” when recently she was not even afforded the information that a house being refurbished was too small for a mother of two living in the family home on whose behalf she made representation.

Cathaoirleach Damien Geoghegan said that data

protection laws were causing controversy and confusion to many local authorities, with councillors apparently not being informed when a house is allocated, not to mind to whom. The councillor quoted from an Oireachtas Group letter in which it stated that, prior to recent times, a local authority could ‘generally assume that a constituent had given the release of personal data, necessary to respond, where a public representative is making recommendations on their behalf.’ By contrast, nowadays councillors were being largely excluded from the process, he admonished.

The cathaoirleach said constituents were often dealing with the housing application system for the first time and needed councillors’ assistance. Data protection legislation impeded

it being rendered.

SENSITIVITIES Responding, Director of Housing Community and Culture Michael Quinn said restrictions had been imposed on the council executive too. He said there was no difficulty in discussing an applicant with a councillor making representation, as long as “sensitive information” was not relayed. Council staff were well aware of the range of issues that could be discussed, he advised.

Mr. Quinn explained that the council executive could not speak to councillors about other applicants, such as those further up the list due for whatever reason, as the councillors did not have permission to represent that person. To do so could expose the council to litigation.

Cllr. Geoghegan com-

plained also that it was forbidden to advise councillors that a tenant was in arrears when they unknowingly made representation on their behalf. Mr. Quinn explained that in if a tenant did not inform the councillor of the arrears, then neither could the council. It could only cite “issues” being involved, without being specific.

MEETINGS A short meeting on the issue had been conducted recently with councillors and the director offered to discuss it again prior to the next meeting. Cllr. James Tobin said this was pointless as ultimately data protection law was the issue and only the Environment Minister could change that. It was agreed that councillors would meet Mr. Quinn individually where they had cases with particular con-

cerns.

Meanwhile, Cllr. Whelan asked what data protection had to do with her not being informed from the outset that a two-bedroom house was being refurbished while a girl was seeking a three-bedroom premises?

Neither did she see where was the transgression in being told if someone was of high priority on the list or otherwise.

Mr. Quinn said the council could refer in a broad sense as to someone’s position on the list but could not indicate any certainty as to how soon a person could be allocated a house. “That’s a matter of supply as much as anything else,” he clarified.

Cllr. Geoghegan suggested the meeting convey its concerns in writing to the data commissioner and this was agreed.

No dispensation for hedgecutting during closed season UNLESS there is a serious health and safety issue with overgrown hedges at the road side, Waterford City and County Council cannot issue a dispensation to landowners to cut hedges. The season for cutting hedges closed at the end of February and landowners cannot cut their hedges from 1st March until 31st August under the Wildlife

Act, due to the bird nesting season.

At the February meeting of Comeragh District Council, Cllr.

John O’Leary pointed out that overgrown hedges is a very serious problem in rural country areas and narrow roads.

Cathaoirleach, Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan concurred, saying he was receiving complaints from people

who have had their vehicles damaged because of overgrown hedges at road sides.

Senior Executive Engineer, Pat McCarthy said the Council issued hedgecutting notices to various landowners along different routes, which required cutting.

“The responsibility for cutting trees and hedges lies with the

owner,” Mr. McCarthy pointed out.

“The hedgecutting season closes at the end of February and after that, unless there is a serious health and safety issue, we cannot issue any dispensation for landowners to cut the hedges.”

He said the Council can examine cases where trees are causing a health and safety issue.

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Expected completion of work at Bonmahon car park before bathing season WATERFORD City and County Council is to carry out further works of the rock armoury at Bonmahon car park, to enhance protection from storms.

At the February meeting of Comeragh District Council, Cllr. Liam Brazil sought an update on proposed works at Bonmahon car park.

Senior Executive Engineer, Pat McCarthy, said the Council is to carry out

phased works at the location and implementation of rock armoury to provide some defences against the sea.

“There is rock armoury already in place, but we want to place more there to enhance the protection from storms,” said Mr. McCarthy.

“When that is done, we intend to have work on the car park completed before the bathing season.”

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It costs just €10 for 4 weeks of training and takes place on Tuesday mornings from 11.00 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join this training. For more information call Dungarvan Enterprise Centre at (058) 23598.

Sports Capital Likeable Fund 2015 opens Monday

for Applications

By Christy Parker

FINE Gael Waterford Minister Paudie Coffey has received confirmation from the Minister for Sport Michael Ring that the Sports Capital Fund for 2015 has now opened.

Minister Coffey said that €40 million worth of capital grants will be made for sports clubs and organisations around the country.

“The Sports Capital Grants were re-instated by the this Government in 2012 and so far in Waterford alone we have benefitted to tune of over €2 million worth of sports capital grants. I am pleased that a third round of this important fund has now opened.

“I would encourage all those who are interested to

ensure that they are registered on the online system before 5.00 p.m. on Friday, 10th April, 2015 (if not already registered) and to get their applications in online at www.sportscapitalprogramme.ie before 5.00 p.m. on Friday, 24th April, 2015.”

“This round of the Sports Capital Fund will bring the total level of monies awarded by this Government to €130 ml. across the State for Sport Clubs and Organisations.

This Fine Gael led Government is committed to Sport and an active society and I welcome this news from my colleague Minister Ring today.”

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WATERFORD County Councillor James Tobin hailed Monday, March 9th as “a good day for Waterford.” Speaking at the March sitting of the Dungar van-Lismore Municipal District Council, he was referring to an increase in flights from Waterford to the UK and also the opening of the €500,000 National Lifeguard Training Centre at Tramore Surf Lifesaving Club. The municipals authority’s meeting had been deferred by three hours to allow the councillors attend the lifesaving club’s event. “And I’m delighted it happened during my tenure (as council mayor),” he joked.

Municipal District Council Cathaoirleach Damien Geoghegan paid tribute to airport CEO Desmond O’Flynn on the acquiring the flights which, he said, amount to twelve to Luton and four to Birmingham per week.

Minister of State for Equality, New Communities & Culture Aodhán Ó Ríordáin T.D. and Ciara Conway T.D. met with The Waterford Childcare Committee in Kilmacthomas recently and discussed a number of issues relating to childcare and the Minister's brief.

Pictured are Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Ciara Conway T.D., Noreen Healy Magwa, Manager Waterford Childcare Committee and Rose Murphy CEO WCC.

Minister Coffey opens National Lifeguard Training Centre in Tramore FINE Gael Waterford Minister Paudie Coffey was delighted to open the new National Lifeguard Training Centre recently in Tramore, Co. Waterford.

The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government sanctioned €200,000 for the development of this World Class Facility last year and Minister Coffey was happy to see this important facility opened in Tramore.

“The total cost of this facility was €500,000 and will be a welcome boost for Tramore Town now that this facility is open. This centre will be the National lifeguard and training centre for Ireland and will be a major boost

for the town; from the construction phase in the short term, to the longer term economic benefits that will assist the town long into the future.

“Tramore has a long association with beach lifeguard activities. The combination of beach and bay make the area ideal for water sports and water safety training. The Irish Water Safety Association has run such training courses in Tramore for over forty years.

“Organisations such as the RNLI, the Irish Coast Guard Service and Sea and Cliff Rescue, have bases and carry out training in Tramore.There are also numerous organisations, clubs and

enterprises associated with sea/beach activities operating in Tramore, including many surf clubs. The National Lifeguard Training Centre will be a centre of excellence in Ireland providing state of the art training and infrastructure to lifesaving organisations.”

“I have worked closely on this project with the local community and I am delighted it has opened today and will be of economic benefit to the town for many years to come. I want to commend the work by Cllr. Lola O’Sullivan who has worked on this project closely with myself and my Department to ensure that this facility was delivered for Tramore.”

Repossesions shifting burden onto taxpayer, says Councillor

By Christy Parker WATERFORD Cllr. James Tobin says bank repossessions of property are rendering evicted householders “a tax payers’ problem.” Cllr Tobin made his observation at the March sitting of the Lismore-Dungar van Municipal District Council.

Cllr. Tobin had asked Director of Housing Community and Culture Michael Quinn if people whose houses had been repossessed became a

council priority for rehousing. Mr. Quinn said that the council would recommend homeowners facing repossession to contact homeless services “as early as is practical.” He said the council is there “to provide emergency support in terms of accommodation.”

Cllr. Tobin responded that “you can’t put people out on the road” so they become “a tax payers’ problem” once the bank evict them, “having given them the money for the house in the first place.”

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Various road issues aired at Dungarvan-Lismore March Municipal District Meeting

By Christy Parker CROSSING APPRECIATED – MORE NEEDED Cllr. John Pratt welcomed the lighting of the pedestrian crossing in Tallow and also sought that two more disability bays be installed at the Tallow school, at the request of some parents. He then reminded that he had previously asked for a pedestrian crossing at Cappoquin school and had been told to wait until the New Year.

Senior Executive Engineer Josephine McGrath said the council was considering designs and planned to locate a crossing there.

ROAD RAMPS WANTED Cllr Pat Nugent said a lack of decisiveness in installing speed ramps at Ballinamuck was “driving the public off their rockers,” and called for more alertness.

NEVER ENOUGH MONEY Cllr John Pratt regretted that there was enough capital funding for footpath maintenance and public lightening provision. He said he had contacted TD Ciara Conway and by proxy Minister Alan Kelly. He added that he knew of one person who had recently suffered a fall as a result of

footpath deterioration. The councillor said there were some “disastrous” areas needing attention, including Dungarvan, Aglish and Tallow and he would continue to fight for better funding.

Senior Engineer for Roads Pat McCarthy confirmed that the available budget does not provide for any new footpath provision, though it does allow for repair to existing footpaths to “a small extent.” The council would meet its responsibility to repair broken footpaths, he assured.

RAILINGS AWAITED Cllr. Tom Cronin referred to Barnawee Bridge, recalling that five months ago he had raised an issue whereby a railing would be installed but this hadn’t yet happened. Senior Engineer for Roads Pat McCarthy said a commitment had been made to erect a railing and he would refer to Smarter Travel on the matter.

He was aware that the company had been unhappy with quotations for the work received last year, he recalled, but he would ensure the work was done as soon as possible.

Cllr. Geoghegan interceded that the company’s commitment should be honoured regardless of their quotations.

JET PATCHER SOUGHT Cllr. James Tobin has called for the council’s jet patcher to be located and provided to treat potholes throughout the west Waterford region. Senior Engineer for Roads Pat McCarthy replied that the first three months are the “most difficult” times for the jet patcher’s but that it had spent a third of its time in the Dungarvan-Lismore area so far, with “substantial” budgetary provision made for its future presence very soon.

CAN’T OVERTAKE Cllr. Séamus O’Donnell was critical of the newly designed approach road into Dungarvan from Youghal.

He said he had received a number of phone calls complaining that drivers could not overtake when a vehicle in front was overtaking because of the impeding effect of two traffic islands. Senior Engineer for roads Pat McCarthy responded that the purpose of the design was to slow traffic, with the islands deliberately intended to prevent overtaking. He added that he would explain the design philosophy more in due course.

ROAD MARKINGS NEEDED Cathaoirleach Cllr.

Damien Geoghegan asked that road markings be

applied at Boreenatra near sports centre... He said there was a large car park in the area and a number of houses with small children, but no road markings and a tendency amongst drivers to “cut corners” in the region. Senior Executive Engineer Josephine McGrath agreed to investigate.

SCANLON’S YARD UPGRADE Cllr. Tom Cronin asked for an update on a previous agreement to have Scanlon’s Yard car park upgraded and made “more presentable.”

Senior Engineer for Roads Pat McCarthy said he knew there was a commitment to upgrade signage but he didn’t have any details at hand on overall upgrade works and would report back at a later date.

COASTAL EROSION Cllr. Pat Nugent asked how much money was being soughy for costal erosion measures this year. He was told that no submission had yet been made. Mr. McCarthy said no submission had yet been made.

“They (Department of Environment) normally come to us seeking our submission and probably will do so soon,” he elaborated. “When they do so we will provide a detailed submissions, with help from district engineers from along the coast.”

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Jet patcher on the move as temperatures rise THE jet patcher will be back at work repairing pot holes around the county now that Winter is making way for Spring and temperatures are rising.

At the February meeting of Comeragh District Council, Cathaoirleach, Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan noted that pot holes appear to be making a return to the county’s roads, thanks to the recent thaw and freeze.

He also pointed out that a recent snow fall caught some areas unawares.

He asked the Council to revise the areas they drop grit, after becoming aware of some areas which experienced problems after being covered with snow.

Senior Executive Engineer, Pat McCarthy said the jet patcher will be back at work now that temperatures are rising, and the Council would be obtaining either a second jet patcher or combi unit this year.

Council to launch CPO to complete realignment works WATERFORD City and County Council intends to launch a Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) for a piece of land in the Kilmacomma area to complete some road realignment works.

Cathaoirleach, Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan had asked the February meeting of Comeragh District Council for an update on the ‘vertical realignment’ of the R665 at Wood Road, Kilmacomma, County Waterford, near Clonmel.

Responding, Senior Executive Engineer, Pat McCarthy said the Council intends to launch a CPO with a view to acquiring land in the area necessary to complete the road improvement.

However, Mr. McCarthy said he believed that construction work will not begin in the current year.

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Local business hailed at Waterford Business Awards

Dawn Meats Announced as Overall Business of the Year . .

Council received large THIRTY of Waterford’s top busi- presented with a custom designed behalf of 400 plus employees in Waterford Business Award, while included nesses were honoured at the Waterford Crystal trophy and the county Waterford and Waterford category number of applications Waterford Business Awards, which Overall Winner of the Waterford City, it is fantastic to win this Genzyme, AIBsponsors Bank, FBD Hotels, held on Friday evening Business Awards, Dawn Meats, was award.” Upon being ask what advise PwC, Coillte Panel Products, WIT, for employment panels were (March 6th) at Dooley’s Hotel, presented with a custom design he would offer to new businesses City Enterprise Centre, The Clock A LARGE number of applications were received by Waterford City and County Council in relation to filling employment panels for general operatives.

At the February meeting of Comeragh District Council, Cathaoirleach, Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan asked for an update on the creation of panels from where the Council can draw general operative workers, particularly for the Comeragh area.

He was informed by Senior Executive Engineer, Pat McCarthy, that there was a large number of applications for the General Operatives panel.

Mr. McCarthy said that interviews would be held at a later stage and due process would be followed in relation to creating the panels and filling any vacancies.

Heritage funding sought

by Council is for specific projects in 2015 FUNDING of €27,000 has been sought by Waterford City and County Council from the Heritage Council for Heritage Plan Projects in 2015.

At the February meeting of Comeragh District Council, Cllr. Mary Butler noted from a planning report that the Council had sought the funding under the ‘heritage’ section.

“I hope that some of that funding will go towards the Heritage Centre in Portlaw,” said Cllr. Butler.

However, Director of Services, Brian White pointed out that the money sought by the Council was for “specific projects in the Heritage Plan” and is not earmarked for support of community groups.

“There are other bits of community aid available,” he pointed out.

Mr. White said he would get the community section of the Council to report back to Cllr. Butler on the issue.

Waterford.

Topping the ten categories were Spraoi in Arts and Culture; Shellac Nails for Best Small Business; Ballybeg Greens for Community & Social Enterprise; M & D Bakery in the Food & Agri category; Eirgen Pharma in Innovation & Technology; Dawn Meats in Manufacturing & Industry; Theatre Box in the Best New Business category, Mulligan’s Pharmacy Group in Retail, Eishtec in Services and in Tourism & Hospitality, The Reg took the title, while the Overall Winner of the Waterford Business Award was Dawn Meats.

Over 200 guests attended the prestigious event, which was organized by Waterford Chamber and media partners WLR FM, and the top Waterford businesses were celebrated for their successes and their contribution to the local economy.

The Mayor of Waterford City and County, Cllr. James Tobin presented Dawn Meats with their award and commenting at the gala dinner, he said: “When I look at the nominees I realise we are celebrating Waterford’s best. These are people and businesses who would all hold their own in any company both nationally and internationally.

Waterford’s future is indeed bright with these businesses leading the way and giving inspiration to others.”

Each category winner was

perpetual trophy.

Receiving the Waterford Business of the Year title, Niall Browne from Dawn Meats said, “We are delighted, I accept this on

Niall recommended that they let common sense prevail, keep on trying and don't give up.

Waterford City and County Council sponsored the Overall

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Niall Browne, CEO Dawn Meats, winners of the Overall Waterford Business of the Year Award, accepting the award from Mayor of Waterford City and County, Cllr. James Tobin, at a gala event in Dooley’s Hotel on Friday night. Also included is Dr. Derek O’Byrne, President, Waterford Chamber and Event Comperes Timmy Ryan & Karen Tomkins, WLR FM's Big Breakfast Blaa. [www.gerryocarroll.com]

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‘Men in black’ lured to Boardwalk

By Christy Parker IN its 18 month existence from 2012, the Youghal boardwalk at Claycastle attracted a large volume and variety of visitors to delight in its splendour.The successor to the storm-dismantled structure seems already set

to repeat the attraction.

Contractors are now on site to commence restoring the phenomenally popular facility, which was demolished unceremoniously by the storms of early January 2014. Fully funded by Cork County Council to the tune of €280,000, the 400 metre long installation is

expected to be returned not just in time for this coming summer but also for any preliminary May heatwave that nature may wish to spring as surprise.

The main pylons of the original boardwalk, built in 2012, remained in situ and the new boards - extremely hard wood imported from

Africa- will be fastened differently this time round.

“They will be fitted onto a steel structure affixed to the pylons and so attached far more strongly,” says Municipal District official Helen Mulcahy.

Meantime, seen strolling in the vicinity last Saturday (March 14th) and lending

New airline at Waterford Airport welcomed by Council THE announcement that Belgian-based VLM Airlines will fly 12 times a week in each direction from Waterford to London Luton and four times a week to Birmingham, England was welcomed at the March meeting of Waterford City and County Council.

Mayor James Tobin congratulated Waterford Airport’s success in attracting a major airline to take over from Flybe, which is pulling out of the Waterford to Birmingham / London Luton route at the end of March.

It was last December when Flybe announced it was axing its service from Waterford Airport.

However, VLM Airlines announced recently that it will begin operating from Waterford Airport on 27th April.

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“We need the support of the whole South East going forward to make it a viable airport,” said Cllr. O’Neill.

Cllr. John Cummins commended the work of the airport’s CEO and

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He also congratulated all the staff at the airport and also called on the public to support the airport and new airline.

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Waterford Airport CEO, Desmond O’Flynn said the two routes would be a “key driver for incoming tourists from the UK, especially at a time when the Eurozone is particularly attractive to UK travellers”.

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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

First of new parties launched THE old Irish cliché about the first item on the agenda of a new organisation being the split seems to have been outdone in the case of political Ireland today, as Lucinda Creighton and Shane Ross opted to go separate paths rather than join forces and form a joint party based on the ideologies they represent.

After much signalling over the last twelve months, the new party promised by former Fine Gael Minister of State, Lucinda Creighton, T.D., was launched last week in a less than confident or competent manner. However, much of this can be put down to overwork and opening night nerves and even the disastrous interview by the new party’s representative, Terence Flanagan will recede into the past and from the minds of Irish people who have more on their minds than radio stage-fright.

Lucinda Creighton takes centre-stage as the leader of Renua, the new party being offered to the Irish people as part at least, of the alternative in the next general election to the present coalition or Sinn Fein and a disparate group of independents.

She comes with impeccable credentials and a wide range of endorsements of her term as Junior Minister for European Affairs when she organised the Irish Presidency of the EU in a most capable and successful manner.

The Irish public have seen incoming governments declare that they would operate behind glass walls and make a strong commitment to openness and transparency. Such commitments were usually quickly forgotten, however, but the leadership of Renua have promised ‘government in the sunshine, a completely open policy where there is no need for cabinet confidentiality, except for security issues’.

It is to be hoped that this concept will not get lost amid

St. Patrick’s Day Incorp. Munster Industrial Advocate the pressures of Parliament, or even Government and that one party at least will discharge their commitment to trust the people.

One of the proposals which makes a great deal of sense and which will probably strike a chord with voters is Ms. Creighton’s suggestion that people should pay for excess use of water after a reasonable quota has been allocated to cater for family needs. She is also critical of Irish Water and undertakes to abolish it if in government and replace it with "a streamlined, independent organisation that will oversee investment in water".

The next task for Ms. Creighton is completing her list of candidates for the next general election. She should not be short of suitable material as many within the political system are disenchanted and looking for a home which promises something which appears to be better and more in tune with the people of Ireland.

It should be remembered however, that the party under her stewardship may not be offering the economics, tax reliefs or policies which the people want, but a desperate public may suspend some of those reservations in favour of what they may perceive to be more open and honest politics.

The new party may well carry the hopes and aspirations of the Irish people and Ms. Creighton and her party should be cognisant of that. How they react to that responsibility will decide their success and rate of growth, but the last thing the Irish people need is another party remote from the people of Ireland and unwilling or unable to deliver on their promises.

ONCE more the various St. Patricks Day organisations across the County did well to remember and honour our National Saint and put on an appropriate display in which to involve the wider public.

This year, in addition to the two long-standing Parades in Dungarvan and Waterford there were also organised celebrations in Tramore and Cappoquin and Portlaw people watched the first Parade in the town for the last thirty years.

It was beneficial that both Portlaw and Cappoquin held their Parades in the late morning which allowed families to attend either Dungarvan or Waterford in the afternoon and gave an opportunity to children and clubs to take part in two events on the day.

The music provided in Grattan Square on the eve of the Saint’s Day was much appreciated and the weather was not too unkind, though the evening had the distinctive cold generated by the wind from the east.

Many of the public chose to watch the exciting fireworks display at Davitt’s Quay from their cars, all of which adds to the importance of the occasion. Shamrock was also in evidence on the day which indicates that we have not totally lost the traditional meaning of the celebration or the holy man whom we gather to honour.

The day will be remembered as a good one, especially by the children who dressed or were dressed appropriately for the occasion and who will harbour memories of our celebration of being Irish and also of St. Patrick himself.

On behalf of the people of the town and wider county, we thank those who took the trouble to organise the various events. It is an important and onerous task, but one which must be undertaken if we are to preserve this very valuable element of our rich and diverse heritage.

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FROM Wednesday, April 2nd next, General Practitioner, Dr. Noelle Quann will join the team at the Lismore Clinic, to set up a new medical practice in Lismore.

Dr. Quann is a vocationally trained General Practitioner on the GP Specialist Division of the Irish Medical Council register. Dr. Quann holds a great deal of experience both locally and nationally, and also internationally, having worked with The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. In addition to her role as a GP, she is also actively involved in emergency medicine, currently working a dual role as A&E Registrar in University Hospital Waterford, thus keeping to the forefront of good clinical practice guidelines.

Dr. Quann also has extensive training and experience in pre-hospital emergency care, and is the co-founder and clinical lead for the Lismore Community First Response Programme, for which she was shortlisted to the final three nominees nationally in the Community Category of the Volunteer Ireland Awards in December 2013.

The General Practice surgery at the Lismore Clinic will provide all the usual medical services normally provided by GPs, such as diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic medical problems in adults and children, routine screening, antenatal and preventative care. In addition to these services, Dr. Quann is also fully trained and experienced in a variety of specialist areas.

Dr. Quann has specialist training & qualifications in dermatology (the diagnosis and treatment of skin conditions) and in minor surgery, and is therefore able to carry out various procedures at the surgery, such as suturing of minor lacerations, skin biopsies, and removal of moles, sebaceous cysts, skin tags, and excision of ingrown toenails, which might otherwise require a referral to a dermatology or surgical clinic with the associated prolonged waiting time.

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Council expected to take Need in charge Kill housing Help? estate by end of year THE process to take in charge a housing estate by the Council and have houses available for tenants in the Kill area won’t likely happen until the end of the year.

Cllr. Liam Brazil sought an update at the February meeting of Comeragh District Council in relation to the houses at Ceol na Mara, Kill, which are currently in the hands of NAMA. Liz O’Mahony, of the Council’s housing section, said that work still needs to be completed on the houses, as well as generally in the estate and roads, before the Council can take the estate in charge.

Cllr. Brazil said it was “frightening” it would be ten months before the Council could take over the estate, particularly as it was a fairly new estate.

Ms. O’Mahony pointed out that the

St. Declan’s College congratulated CONGRATULATIONS were extended from the Comeragh District Council to St. Declan’s College, Kilmacthomas, on winning the Munster Colleges Under 181⁄2 ‘C’ Hurling Final recently.

The win saw the school progress to the semi-final of the All-Ireland Post Primary Schools competition.

They are a great college and they do a lot of sport,” Cllr. John O’Leary said.

Cathaoirleach, Cllr.

Michael J. O’Ryan echoed Cllr. O’Leary’s sentiments.

Council has no funding for public lighting programme WATERFORD City and County Council has no money for a public lighting programme this year.

At the February meeting of Comeragh District Council, Cathaoirleach, Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan said there was a very dark Tjunction at the Bridge Bar, Ballymacarbry, and sought funding for the Council to provide lights at the location.

“It can get very busy at that junction at times,” he said.

Senior Executive Engineer, Pat McCarthy, said the Council does not have a public lighting programme.

He indicated that if any funding is made available, he will come back to the Council in relation to the issue.

houses and infrastructure / services, have to be a certain standard before the Council can take the estate in charge.

Director of Services, Brian White, said the Chief Executive has taken a personal interest in the matter and has been in contact with NAMA. “We have given NAMA a list of outstanding works they need to finish and they are committed to providing finance to have the work done,” said Mr. White.

Mr. White said there are issues in the estate in relation to water supply and the capability of serving the houses in the long term.

Mr.White said the ultimate solution is to connect the estate to the Council’s water mains.

“Given the Chief Executive’s approach to NAMA we are hopeful

that the process might move a bit faster now.”

Meanwhile, Ms. O’Mahony said a full report would be given to the Council when an agreement has been reached with the Department in relation to allocation of funding for social housing.

Cllr. John O’Leary had asked if the Council had any idea how much funding Waterford would be getting for social housing and whether there were any lands in the Comeragh area to build social housing.

Ms. O’Mahony said there hasn’t been an announcement of allocation of funding, but the Council are in the process of putting proposals together in relation to what social housing projects can be developed over the next three years.

Enterprise Centres connect to deliver Digital Training DUNGARVAN Enterprise Centre, in conjunction with Waterford City Enterprise Centre, will be hosting a number of Connect Online workshops aimed at improving local businesses online skills and output.

With €4billion being spent online in Ireland businesses cannot afford to ignore the digital space, these workshops offer the core skills a business needs to thrive in the online environment. The workshops, which are being generously subsidised by the Local Enterprise Office, will cover a wide range of digital topics. They begin on April 1st in Waterford city and will run until 24th June 2015.

Workshops on offer include Twitter, LinkedIn, Pay-Per-Click advertising, Google Analytics, Facebook, SEO, YouTube, Blogging, Pinterest, Email

marketing, generating quality content for digital marketing, and managing your online presence. The wide range of selection allows participants to pick and choose particular areas of digital marketing that may benefit their business output and intake.

As consumer activity continues to transfer rapidly to the online market with the ever explosive and expanding growth of digital technology, these workshops will allow small business owners insight into connecting with their customers through numerous means of digital channels.

Each individual workshop will last for three hours and will cost participants just €30. Moreover, due to the enticing variety of workshops on offer, participants can avail of a special four for the price of

three discount – an offer that allows them 12 hours of training for under €100.

There are two sites for these workshops – Dungarvan and Waterford City. Dungarvan Enterprise Centre and Waterford City Enterprise Centre are connecting together to deliver this project.

This collaboration will provide networking opportunities for businesses across the county.

These workshops will allow businesses from all over Waterford the chance to meet and work closely together and develop ties that can help benefit each other.

To book a place on this course or for more information go to http://connectonline.eventbrite.ie or call 058 23598/email info@dungarvanec.com for further information

Pedestrian warning lights to be replaced with traffic light WATERFORD City and County Council is to look at replacing flashing amber warning lights at a pedestrian crossing in Kilmeaden with traffic lights.

At the February meeting of Comeragh District Council, Cllr. Declan Clune said there was a problem with faded flashing amber globes at the pedestrian crossing.

He said he has received complaints of speeding traffic at the location.

“The engineering solution is to replace the amber lights with red stop lights, so the

traffic has to stop if people want to cross,” said Cllr. Clune.

“Is there anything we can do before someone gets injured?”

He said he has notified the Gardaí about the problem with traffic speeding at the location and they indicated there would be more of a focus on speed checks.

Senior Executive Officer, Pat McCarthy said he would consult with the engineers and see if the lights can be converted sooner, rather than later.

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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

Representatives from thirteen different sports attend Concussion Awareness seminar THE 2015 WSP Club Development Seminar Series marks a commitment from National Governing Bodies and Waterford Sports Partnership to deliver on common goals of increasing participation, coach education and safe involvement in sport.

The series began on Monday, 9th March, with fifty seven people from twenty one clubs representing thirteen different sports attending a Concussion Awareness Seminar delivered by Shane Mooney on behalf of Munster Rugby and the IRFU.The interactive seminar included information relating to Concussion Recognition Management and Return to Play protocols. All information from the evening, including posters and videos for clubs is available to view at www.waterfordsportspartnership.ie Damon Ulrich, Community Rugby Manager, Munster Rugby said ‘Munster Rugby is pleased to be involved in the first evening of the WSP Club Development Seminar Series. Waterford Sports Partnership and Munster Rugby have a strong working relationship and it is great to see other

Ella Gantley, Mia Fitzgerald Philips, Saoirse Kelly and Lily Higgins, Scoil Mhuire, Abbeyside, who dressed up it their favourite book characters for World Book Day at Dungarvan Library.

[Dan McGrath/Editorial Images]

At the WSP/IRFU Concussion Awareness Seminar (from l. to r.): Peter Jones, Sports Development Officer, Waterford Sports Partnership; Shane Mooney, IFRU First Aid & Injury Prevention Co-ordinator; John O’Neill, Community Rugby Officer, Munster Rugby. sports benefiting from the expertise of specific NGBs. We are delighted with the excellent feedback from all sports regarding our Concussion Awareness Seminar’.

Derek Lyons from Dungarvan GAA said ‘a

Attending the Concussion awareness Seminar were Geraldine Hallissey and Martina Coonan from Dungarvan Rugby Club.

At the WSP/IRFU Concussion Awareness Seminar (from l. to r.): Peter Jones, Waterford Sports Partnership, with Derek Lyons, Dungarvan GAA Club; Gavin Breen, Abbeyside/Ballinacourty GAA Club; Kevin Tobin, Abbeyside/Ballinacourty GAA Club; John O’Shea, Dungarvan GAA Club.

very informative evening presented in a way that was easy to follow and understand’. Martina Coonan from Dungarvan Rugby Club said ‘absolutely fantastic knowledge on concussion and how to recognise the symptoms’.

The WSP Club Development Seminar Series aims to ‘share knowledge between sports and promote positive change’.

This was the first of eight seminars which will be cohosted by WSP and NGBs over the coming months and open to all coaches, volunteers, parents and participants from all sports.

These seminars include: Strength and Conditioning (FAI); Social Media for Sports Clubs (WSP); Speed Development (Athletics Ireland); Warm Up, Stretching and Movement (GAA); Dealing with Challenging Behaviour (WSP/Michael Carruth); Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation (Camogie) and Club Roles and Responsibilities – A practical approach (Swim Ireland).

A full listing of the upcoming Seminars is available at www.waterfordsportspartnership.ie. For more information, please contact Peter Jones on 058 21191 or email pjones@waterfordsportspartnership.ie

Host a coffee morning in Waterford this Daffodil Day – Friday, 27th March ONE in three of us will face cancer, and by raising money for Daffodil Day you will help the Irish Cancer Society make sure no one has to face cancer alone. Hosting a coffee morning for Daffodil Day is the perfect chance to catch up over a cup of coffee.

Last year there were 293 coffee mornings all around Ireland on Daffodil Day –

so why don’t you join them and register to host your own event? In 2014 Daffodil Day raised an amazing €3.4m, this year the Society needs to raise their target of €3.5m to continue to be able to provide free nationwide support and information services, fund research and advocacy campaigns.

Liz Logan, National Campaigns Manager, Irish

Cancer Society “We are seeing a big increase in people holding coffee mornings to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society. It’s a really nice thing to do for yourself and your friends and a really easy and fun way to raise money for Daffodil Day. More coffee mornings around the country will help ensure that we can support more people

affected by cancer.”

Please host a coffee morning this Daffodil Day, Friday, March 27th. Visit cancer.ie/daffodilday or CallSave 1850 60 60 60 to register your coffee morning and receive your pack with balloons, posters, and a fundraising guide with lots of ideas on how to make your event go with bang – everything you need to host your event.

Huge reaction to “Free Money” Dungarvan Chamber seminar Non-members snap up more than 50% of limited ticket availability A SEMINAR on accessing grant aid and funding for local businesses and community organisations arranged by Dungarvan Chamber has been a surprise hit with non Chamber members.

More than half the tickets for the event to be held in The Park Hotel in Dungarvan on March 31st have been bought by businesses who are interested in learning about funding opportunities from public bodies such as the Local Enterprise Office, Forfás and Leader.

Jenny Beresford from Dungarvan Chamber expressed her delight at the windfall as the event is free to members but attracts a charge €10 to non members.

“Once the word got out that all the major funding agencies were going to be in Dungarvan on the morning of March 31st, the phones were hopping with businesses looking to learn more about the funding streams available through agencies such as Rikon,

Enterprise Ireland and the Department of Social Protection. But we quickly started to notice that more than half the companies and organisations booking were non Chamber members. We are delighted that they recognise the opportunity, and we look forward to getting to know them better and telling them about the many benefits of being Chamber members, not just the free entry to events like these.”

Members of the Chamber who have not already booked are encouraged to do so as availability is limited.

President of Dungarvan Chamber Christine O’Donovan explained the types of funding available.

“Perhaps you're a retailer who wants to repaint the signage over your shop? Maybe you want to rebrand completely but can’t justify the spend involved? There’s a fund for that through Forfás.

If a part time staff member would

allow you to concentrate more time on marketing your business? then there’s assistance through the Dept. of Social Protection to get extra help for no extra outlay?

We are inviting people to come hear how their tax euro can be returned to them through grant aiding and funding. They will also have the opportunity to set up one on one meetings with the agencies most relevant to their needs."

This seminar is already over 50% filled and places are limited. We have had an amazing reaction from non Chamber members and have bookings from as far as Limerick & Dublin!

Members and non members are invited to come along to The Park Hotel from 8.30 to 11.00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 31st, to find out more”.

Tel 058 45054 or email info@dungarvanchamber.ie to secure your place now!

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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

Councillor concerned over government ‘interference’ in wind farm applications

By Paul Mooney A WATERFORD Councillor has hit out at what she terms as “interference from central government” in the local planning process when it comes to wind turbine and wind farm applications.

Speaking at the March meeting of Waterford City and County Council, Cllr.

Siobhán Whelan said communities affected by the erecting of wind turbines are very concerned there isn’t a level playing field.

“Many people are extremely concerned about the interference from Central Government in local planning decisions,” said Cllr. Whelan.

Citing examples, she said in Donegal recently, Environment Minister Alan Kelly issued a directive which resulted in the overturning of a change in Donegal’s County Development Plan, which had been voted on by Councillors.

In another recent example, she said Minister Paudie Coffey signed a veto in Kildare, in relation to the minimum separation distance for high tension overhead wires.

Cllr. Whelan said the latest interference by central government was in Laois where Councillors were threatened by the Department of Environment with Ministerial action if the Council goes

ahead to remove from the County Development Plan all areas designated suitable for wind farms.

“With all this coming to light, can we assure people that when dealing with planning permission for wind turbines, that people will get a level playing pitch?” Cllr.

Whelan asked.

Director of Services, Brian White, said that in dealing with any planning application, the Council must take into consideration the adopted policies of the Council and the application itself, the impact on the environment and any submissions made by third parties.

“The assessment is carried out by the Council’s qualified planners and signed off by the Director of Planning,” said Mr. White.

“Certainly, at local level, an application gets its most independent assessment. If either applicant or anyone who made a submission is not happy with the decision of the Council, they can have it determined by an independent board, An Bord Pleanála.

“In dealing with development plans, zoning and policies, there is an onus on elected members to take into consideration the advice and guidance of various government departments and international treaties we have signed up to,” Mr. White said.

World Book Day at Dungarvan Library – Jenny Power and Roisin Hurney, Scoil Mhuire, Abbeyside.

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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

All set for Jigs and Reels Cappoquin Community Centre - Saturday, 21st March ALL roads lead to the magnificent Cappoquin Community Centre on Saturday evening next where Dungarvan Lions Club presents Deise Jigs and Reels 2015. For many weeks our celebrities and their mentors have been preparing for the big night on stage which will provide a wonderful evening’s entertainment and raise much needed funds for club charities. We thank them most sincerely for their generosity and the public whose support is vital to the club.

Who will join previous winners - Jack Lillis and Kathy McGrath, Fr. Flor O’Callaghan and Anne O’Connor, Peter Hayes and Eliza Sheehan, John Donovan and Cora Kearney and last year’s winners Ger Fitzgerald and Caoimhe Coward.

A limited number of tickets (€15) are available from Hallahan’s Pharmacy, Dungarvan; Feerick’s Pharmacy, Cappoquin; SuperValu, Cappoquin and Lismore Heritage Centre.

This week we profile the final four couples along with the adjudicators and MC Karen Tomkins.

John Pratt and Carleen Casey JOHN PRATT What makes you laugh most?

A good comedy like Mrs. Brown’s Boys.

If you could only watch one TV programme for the next year what would it be? My biggest vice is backing horses so it would be At the Races.

What is your favourite film of all time?

Shawshank Redemption.

Who do you most admire and why? My Mam who always looks out for everyone but herself and my wife for her positive outlook on life despite receiving

a number of hard knocks.

Are you creative in any way (other than dance)? I enjoy singing a song or two in the pub - some people might prefer it if I kept it to singing in the shower.

CARLEEN CASEY Your favourite dance scene in a film? Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing.

Your favourite dance duo? Michael Flatley and Jean Butler.

What cheesy song do you love to dance to (a) in public and (b) alone? I only do Irish

dancing in public. Alone One Direction would be my guilty pleasure.

Awards for dancing you have won? As a child many Feis competitions and County and Munster medals for set dancing with Ballyduff and Knockanore Have you danced on stage? I first danced on stage in Limerick when I was 3 years old and I have done so many times since. I dance with the Knockanore Set Dancers at fund raising events.

Ruaidhrí de Paor and Margaret Lake RUAIDHRÍ DE PAOR Are you a morning bird or a night owl? I am a morning bird and I can’t do late nights.

Name a thing not many people know about you? I cannot eat spicy foods without breaking out in a sweat.

If you could only watch one TV programme for the next year what would it be? Modern Family What is your favourite film of

all time? Once Upon a Time in the West Who do you most admire and why? My late father because of his ability to manage people and to get them to agree with his way of doing things.

Are you creative in any way (other than dance)? I have acted with Dungarvan Dramatic Club for a number of years MARGARET LAKE Your favourite dance scene in

a film? Solo in Flashdance Your favourite dance duo?

Michael Flately and Jean Butler Awards for dancing you have won? - Provincial, All-Ireland and World titles Your favourite kind of dance?

All types - I love learning native dance while on holidays.

Are you creative in any way (other than dance)? I have a very keen interest in interior design

Gabriel Foley and Sinead Kiely GABRIEL FOLEY What makes you laugh most?

Good company which is always enjoyable.

Name a thing not many people know about you? I love to travel.

If you could only watch one TV programme for the next year what would it be? News and nature programmes.

What is your favourite film of all time? Bourne Legacy.

Who do you most admire and why? Bill Clinton for his work in Northern Ireland and

other parts of the world to bring people together and stop fighting.

If you could choose to stay a certain age forever what would that be? Any age once I have my health.

Are you creative in any way (other than dance)? Yes I greatly enjoy wood turning SINEAD KIELY Awards for dancing you have won? I have six Munster titles, All Ireland and 2nd in World Championship medals.

Your favourite kind of dance?

A treble reel - a hard shoe dance to reel music, very fast and upbeat.

Do you teach dancing, If so what dance? My sister Deirdre is a TCRE and I like to help her out with her classes when I can.

Have you danced on stage? I dance as the lead dancer in a show called Ragus and have done so for many years Are you creative in any way (other than dance)? I work full time as a hairdresser.

Karen Landers and James Fleming KAREN LANDERS What is the strangest thing that has happened to you? I plucked a chicken once for charity on WLRfm’s Dial a Dare What is your favourite film of all time? The Snapper Who do you most admire and why? My mother because she is a legend.

If you could choose to stay a certain age forever what would that be? I’ll let you know when

I get to thirty.

What cheesy song do you love to dance to? Good Time Girl by Nathan Carter ... the title explains it all Are you creative in any way (other than dance)? I’m a beauty therapist - hopefully that answers the question JAMES FLEMING Your favourite dance duo?

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Awards for dancing you have won? I have won medals for

various levels of ballroom dancing.

Have you danced on stage?

New on stage but participated in exhibition dancing with Margaret Fitzgerald’s West Waterford dancers in a Valentine Charity Dance fundraising for deserving causes.

Are you creative in any way (other than dance)? Joe Power, in organising musical gatherings, often calls on me to sing and it seems to go down well.

M.C. - KAREN TOMKINS WATERFORD native Karen Tomkins presents The Big Breakfast Blaa on WLRfm from 6 a.m. each morning. Her chirpy tones, along with Timmy Ryan, help to get Waterford moving. She has been with the station for 7 years and previous to this was Deputy Editor of Irish Independent’s Fine Wine and Food Magazine.

She stills has a passion for writing and contributes to an array of national magazines and through her blog. She holds an MA in Journalism and has appeared as a panellist on RTE Today Show and hosts daily entertainment programmes on WLRfm. The busy mum of two boys is currently training for the Waterford Viking Marathon but believes her training is far easier than that of the dancers who will perform in Deise Jigs and Reels.

ADJUDICATORS EDWARD LYNCH EDWARD is a native of Navan. He qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon in 1970, came to Lismore and never ever thought of leaving it. He is now semi-retired. He has a lifelong involvement in drama and has appeared regularly with Lismore Dramatic Society and also with Ballyduff and Conna Dramatic Societies in plays and musicals. His favourite stage role was his most recent - the Bishop in Moll. He is a Director of Immrama and was very much involved in the Lismore Festival of Early Music. Edward is a keen racing enthusiast and is just back from Cheltenham.

ANN MULQUEEN ANN is a native of Castleconnell, Co. Limerick and has lived in An Rinn for many years. She is very well known as a singer but she danced from an early age with Fitzgerald School of Dancing in Limerick. She taught dancing in Scoil Náisiúnta na Rinne and Meánscoil San Nioclás. Her adult dancing class was very successful at competitions and the Oireachtas. Together with Fergus Ó Conchúir she performed a beautiful piece called “Gach Mac Máthar” throughout Ireland and at the London Arts Festival where it was received with great acclaim.

EOIN MURPHY EOIN fought off all comers to become RTE Celebrity Jigs and Reels Champion in 2007. As a result of this experience he is well aware of what the contestants have experienced in preparing for their performance in Deise Jigs and Reels.

Eoin was one of the best hurlers to wear the Waterford jersey and received an All Star Award for his outstanding performance on the field. He is the holder of a National League and three Munster Championship medals.

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Council to consult NRA over moving of speed limits on N72 MOVING speed limits on a national road cannot be done without consent of the National Roads Authority, the March meeting of Waterford City and County Council was told.

Cllr. Declan Doocey had previously proposed at Dungarvan-Lismore District Council, the moving of the 50 km/h speed limit on the N72 at Kilderriheen, Cappoquin, 300 metres towards the Dungarvan direction.

Speaking at the March meeting of Waterford City and County Council, Cllr. Doocey said it was important the speed limits are moved as soon as possible in the interests of road safety.

Concurring was Cllr. John Pratt, who had seconded the proposal at the District Council meeting.

He said it was important to have the location of the speed limit changed in the interests of a local nursing home, which has plans to expand.

Director of Services, Paul Daly, said the Council has commenced the process of moving speed limits, including consultation with the NRA first before moving any speed limits on national roads.

Mayor James Tobin asked if the NRA can object to speed limited

being shifted by the Council.

Mr. Daly clarified that while speed limits are set nationally, any alteration by local authorities are referred to as ‘special speed limits’.

“The setting of speed limits is a reserved function of the local authority,” said Mr. Daly.

“Where those speed limits are on a national road, to move or alter those speed limits, the consent of the NRA must be obtained. The Gardaí and public also have to be consulted, and a report will be brought back to the Council members for adoption,” Mr. Daly added.

Ciara Conway T.D. and Cllr. John Pratt at the Tallow Link Road. Cllr. Pratt is keen to secure funding to open this up in a move which would help traffic problems and create economic opportunities in the town. The pair are working with the Council to secure funding for the project.

Dawn Meats business accolade praised by Council

Pratt hopeful that Tallow link road can be opened up A SOLUTION to Tallow’s traffic problem could be within reach, according to Labour Councillor, John Pratt.

The West Waterford public representative says that he and local T.D. Ciara Conway have been contacted by numerous people in Tallow who are very annoyed about the traffic issues around Chapel St in Tallow which they say could be solved by opening up the Link Road.

“This is a particular problem around school pick-up and drop-off times and during Mass times,” explains Cllr. John Pratt.

“The road is too narrow and it’s creating a problem with a build-up of traffic on

Chapel Street - this is frustrating and dangerous.”

The Tallow representative says he’s keen to see the matter sorted and says there were positive signals on the issue when he raised the matter at the most recent council meeting.

“I raised the matter with the Council Chief Executive, Michael Walsh,” says Cllr Pratt.

“The solution here is to open the Link Road so that it can be accessed from the Youghal Road.

“This would cost around €700,000. The Council has secured €200,000 so far, specifically for this project.

I’ve asked Michael Walsh if we can approach the Department for the remain-

der of the funding to complete this Capital project – and he says this looks positive.

That’s a good sign and I will continue to raise this with the Council and Ciara Conway our local T.D. is also putting pressure on the Department with regard to the extra funding that’s needed.

Opening up the Tallow link road will not only tackle the traffic - but it would create opportunities for economic development in terms of being able to access extra land and so on.

This is an important project for Tallow, and one that I’m determined to pursue,” concludes John Pratt.

Glanbia’s investment in Belview plant welcomed by Council WATERFORD Council welcomed and congratulated the huge investment by Glanbia in its new plant at Belview Port, Waterford City.

Cllr. John O’Leary proposed the congratulations to Glanbia which was seconded

by Mayor James Tobin.

Cllr. O’Leary said the Council should recognise the substantial investment of €185m by Glanbia into its Belview plant, which will help to create 1,600 jobs in the region.

“It is great news,” he said.

However, Cllr. O’Leary said there was “one glitch” in relation to Glanbia’s closed plant in Kilmeaden.

“Glanbia have a top class plant in Kilmeaden but it has been closed for years,” said Cllr. O’Leary.

“It was a huge loss to the area and affected small villages such as Kill, Bonmahon, Stradbally and Clonea where people were employed from.

“While I congratulate Glanbia on its investment in Belview, I would ask this Council to reiterate the importance of setting up some type of industry in the Kilmeaden plant.

“Kilmeaden Cheese is known all over Europe as one of the renowned cheeses of the world. It is unfortunate and a pity that while there is the brand name, there is no employment directly as a consequence of that product.

“The Kilmeaden plant is a fabulous plant and would be a huge benefit to the area. It is a pity to see it lying idle,” Cllr. O’Leary added.

Pictured with local members of the Navy during the TF Meagher Schools Flag Presentation by President Michael D. Higgins are Thomas Cashin, Abbeyside; Ciara Conway, T.D., and Noelle Thompson. Over 300 schools were represented with a tricolour flag during the ceremony. Thomas and Noelle are both from Dungarvan and teaching in Dublin and are cousins of Ciara. There were among the many teachers from Waterford who brought students to see President Higgins in Waterford last week.

CONGRATULATIONS were extended from Waterford Council to local employer, Dawn Meats on their recent success at winning the Waterford Business of the Year award.

At the March meeting of Waterford City and County Council, Cllr. John O’Leary congratulated Dawn Meats, describing them as “a great employer in County Waterford”.

“There were over 30 businesses involved spread across ten categories in the business awards,” said Cllr.

O’Leary.

“Well done to Dawn Meats,” he added.

Work to be completed at Portlaw’s new Fire Station WATERFORD City and County Council wants to finish off some work at the new Portlaw Fire Station before it can be officially opened.

At the March meeting of the local authority, Cllr.

Mary Butler welcomed the fact that Portlaw’s new fire station is now open and in use and congratulated the

Council on the new facility.

“It is something close to my heart as my father was a fireman in Portlaw for 26 years,” said Cllr. Butler.

“I delighted to see it open and functioning,” she added.

Director of Services, Paul Daly said the new fire station is operating, but said there are some minor works

which needs to be completed before the Council can formally open it.

He said it is hoped the works will be completed in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, Cllr. Joe Kelly noted that the new fire station in Ballybeg, Waterford City is 92 percent completed and queried if it would be finished and

opened shortly.

Mr. Daly said the fire station in Ballybeg is “making progress”, but that with every substantial building project, “it takes time to get it to a stage to officially open it”.

He said there is no date yet for an official opening of Ballybeg’s new fire station.

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Tree Planting Ceremony at the Deise Greenway Kilmacthomas Environment Today WATERFORD City and County Council hosted a tree planting ceremony at the Deise Greenway in Kilmacthomas last Saturday.

A Weeping Willow tree was planted by Cathaoirleach Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan of the Comeragh Municipal District to mark National Tree Week. Anne Sullivan Environmental Awareness Officer welcomed everyone to the Tree Planting Ceremony and spoke about National Tree week; which is a week long celebration of trees organised by the Tree Council of Ireland.

This Year’s theme “Do You Love Trees?” was sponsored by the ESB and Tree Council of Ireland through Coillte who donated 300 saplings to Local Authorities all over Ireland for Community Groups on request.

Cathaoirleach Cllr.

Michael J. O’Ryan opened the ceremony and stated: “This week marks National Tree Week and it is fitting that we mark it with a tree planting on a “Greenway” There is certain camaraderie between trees & greenways. Not only does the line go from west to east Comeragh - Ballyvoile to Kilmeaden but continues on into the metropolitan area and also the Dungarvan / Lismore district so it truly is a county wide project with Comeragh being the epicentre and hence an excellent location (on the halfway milestone between Dungarvan & the City) to plant roots for our collective journey as one local authority. The Deise greenway can mirror the life of this willow sapling and go on to be the jewel in the crown of the Deise. When this project comes to fruition we will have a line which joins the 2 major populated areas in the county for people to hop on and hop off at their discretion be it on foot or on bicycle with glorious views of the Comeragh to the North and the Atlantic to the south”.

The Cathaoirleach specially mentioned all the people who got the Deise Greenway project off the ground; Chief Executive of Waterford City and County Council Michael Walsh, stakeholders, landholders,

communities throughout its length such as Kilmacthomas and specially Public Representative Ger Barron and his late wife Kay who pushed the “Greenway” at each and every available opportunity.

Cathaoirleach concluded with a famous poem by Joyce Kilmer – TREES I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.

The tree planting ceremony also involved an Oak tree planted by Ger Barron in memory of his late wife Kay Barron to honour her community participation and dedication to the Greenway. Ger concluded with some lovely words about his late wife Kay and how she loved the Greenway and Nature. The Environment Department of Waterford City and County Council were delighted to be associated with tree planting during National tree week. The Oak tree was especially selected by Ger in Kay’s honour in recognition of all her Community and Greenway participation. On the plaque Ger thought it would be fitting to honour Kay with a quote from one of her favourite singers Don McLean: “there’s freedom when you're walkin even though you're walkin slow” Don McLean TREE PLANTING IN LISMORE FOR NATIONAL TREE WEEK Waterford City and County Council also hosted a Tree planting ceremony with the Lismore Tidy

Towns at the Mall, Lismore, last Thursday, 5th March.

A Lime Tree was planted

by Cllr. Declan Doocey and Cllr. John Pratt of the Dungarvan Lismore Municipal District to mark National Tree Week.

The ceremony was also attended by Teachers and Children from the local Primary School Lismór Mochuda.

Anne Sullivan, Deputy Ciara Conway T.D. Senator Denis Landy, Ger Barron and Brian O’Shea (former T.D.).

Anne Sullivan, Ger Barron, Cathaoirleach Cllr. Damien Geoghegan Dungarvan / Lismore Municipal District, Cllr. Liam Brazil, Cathaoirleach Cllr. Michael J. O’Ryan Comeragh Municipal District, Cllr. Declan Doocey, Cllr. John O’Leary, Senator Denis Landy and Deputy Ciara Conway.

Lismore Tidy Towns Cllr. Declan Doocey and Cllr. John Pratt of the Dungarvan Lismore Municipal District, Teachers and Children from the local Primary School Lismór Mochuda and Anne Sullivan from Waterford City and County Council at the tree planting ceremony for National Tree Week.

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Waterford Food Fights An illustrated lecture by Joanne Rothwell A talk about disputes and conspiracies in food from butter tasters, brewers, millers and cabbages to all out riots.

Food to eat and food to sell were vital to survival for many, so much so, they were prepared to fight for it. This talk will introduce some of the fights that occurred in Waterford about food, from complaints against underselling brewers, over-priced butter tasters and sub-stan-

dard cabbages and the rioting in the streets for bread.

Since Joanne took up the position of Waterford County Archivist, she has proved to be an enormous asset to the Town and County. Particularly in this present time when so many people are researching their roots from various parts of the world. Joanne is always on hand and available to those people seeking her help.

Joanne Rothwell Waterford County Museum is delighted to announce this particular talk which is sure to grab the attention of food enthusiasts, and indeed anyone who is interested in the history of food in the County.

Joanne is no stranger as a speaker for the Museum Society lecture seasons.

Indeed she is a very popular speaker and her talks are always infused with a certain amount of merriment.

This talk takes place on Wednesday 25th March, in the Green Room, Dungarvan Town Hall Theatre at 8.00 p.m. As always all are welcome.

Admission is €5.

Chronic Lower Back Pain that no one can Fix

By Tomás Ryan BSc.AHS, Ph.Th. MIAPT, Registered Physical Therapist (MIAPT) based in Clonmel and Thurles THIS week, I am going to talk about Chronic Lower Back Pain that has been failed by manipulation & exercise treatment. This type of unsolved debilitating Lower back pain is called Non-Specific Lower Back Pain and has been researched extensively by Professor Peter O’Sullivan brain which then affects the central nervof Curtin University in Australia. Normal ous system.

Lower back Pain can be caused by a misWhat changes have caused hyperalignment or weakness, however non- sensitivity of Central nervous System? specific Lower Back Pain is more - Stress and Anxiety due to Increase complex and its cause may indeed lie work demands and two young children with a hyper sensitive nerve system. To - Poor sleep due to stress further explain non-specific chronic This has served to increase his anxiety Lower Back Pain, I will talk through a and stress levels, thus reducing his sleepcase study example. Why does a 40 year ing, his ability to relax, his immune system male cyclist who has been cycling 100 has become weak. His body thus poorly miles per week for 15 years with no recovers from the fatique of work and history of Lower back Pain experience cycling, causing him to become tense in lower back in the last 12 months? his posture and lack flexibility with the His current Symptoms end result he has a hypersensitive nervous - Severe sore back pain when sitting system that easily generate Lower Back - Pain is relieved with walking Pain.

- Has had injections and treatment His treatment included the followwith no relief ing changes - MRI shows L5 vertebra bulging disc - Relaxation and breathing techniques - Exercise aggravates back Pain to reduce stress and improve sleeping - Cycling now aggravates his lower - Avoidance of coffee back & hence he no longer cycles - Commence easy enjoyable physical The mistake here is that his Lower activity Back Pain was viewed simply as a weak - Diaphragmatic breathing rather than bulging disc causing pain. But why has tense chest breathing Not everyone with chronic pain will his body waited for 15 years to produce Lower Back Pain. The answer is that his be successful but we need to seek solunervous system may have become hyper- tions through the hyperactive neural sensensitive due to changes that affect his sitively channel.

Tomás Ryan is a Registered Physical Therapist with The Irish Association of Physical Therapy (MIAPT) and is based in Thurles & Clonmel. Contact Number: 0504 26672.

Patsy Walsh presenting Sinead O’Meara from Cappoquin, the winner of Dungarvan Shopping Centre’s Mother’s Day competition, with the prize.

Off to the 5-Star Cliff House Hotel Courtesy of Dungarvan Shopping Centre CONGRATULATIONS to Sinead O’Meara from Cappoquin, winner of the fantastic Mother’s Day promotion at Dungarvan Shopping Centre.

Sinead’s winning entry was drawn from the prize drum from an entry of over 6,000 customers who visited Dungarvan Shopping Centre and entered with the hopes of landing the ultimate Mother’s Day package where Sinead and a friend will enjoy courtesy of Dungarvan Shopping Centre: • An overnight Dinner, Bed and Breakfast at the 5-Star Cliff House Hotel • Service of a personal stylist and a €250 voucher to spend at Dungarvan Shopping Centre • A make-over at Jenny’s Beauty Secrets • A hair styling at New Images Hair Salon • A jewellery gift from Ciaran O’Flynn Jewellers.

Sinead’s action packed day will begin with coffee with our style consultant Catherine Cahill from the Prima Model Agency who will advise and select a number of outfits from the Boutique’s in the Centre for Sinead to choose from before making her final selection. This will be followed by a make-over session and hair styling before completing a memorable day at Dungarvan Shopping Centre where Ciaran O’Flynn Jewellers will present Sinead with a beautiful piece of jewellery to complement the outfits chosen by Sinead who will then be whisked off to the fabulous 5-Star Cliff House Hotel to enjoy a luxurious overnight accommodation including a Gourmet dining experience in the Michelin starred House Restaurant where Chef Martijn Kajuiter will ensure a culinary experience for Sinead courtesy of Dungarvan Shopping Centre.

Dungarvan Shopping Centre were delighted with the overwhelming response to the Mother’s Day promotion which attracted 6,000 entry forms stretching from Midleton in Cork to as far away as Gowran in Kilkenny and all areas of Waterford.

Dungarvan Shopping Centre is located a mere 30 minutes from Youghal and Waterford City and is the largest shopping centre in the South East with 50 retail units, with all the National and International brands such as Carraig Donn, Dunnes, Eason and Game Stop.

Dungarvan Shopping Centre would like to thank all our customers for participating in our Mother’s Day promotion and for making it such a successful event and would like to remind you of our upcoming events for Easter and the West Waterford Festival of Food, courtesy of Dungarvan Shopping Centre the Centre of Dungarvan.

James Moore picking out the winner of Dungarvan Shopping Centre’s Mother’s Day competition, with Gerry O’Connor, Dungarvan Shopping Centre.

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A FEW months back a couple of guys that hadn’t really partaken of any physical training since cycling to school in the 70’s & 80’s decided that they wanted to do something that would challenge them physically and mentally.

The “Killarney Adventure Race” is a one day multi adventure sport race, it includes a 60 Km of mountain running, cycling and a Kayak trip across the Lakes of Killarney. They decided this was the “something” that would challenge them!

When the number of people that were interested in taking part in the challenge started to increase, some of the participants came together and discussed the idea of making it even more worthwhile by using this opportunity to raise funds for a local cause.

Our chosen cause was the New Children’s Isolation Ward in University Hospital Waterford, it’s a little known service but life-changing for those who require its services.

University Hospital Waterford (UHW) is a designated shared care centre partnered with a designated specialist centre, which in UHW’s case is Our Lady’s Hospital, Crumlin.

UHW currently provide a 24/7 drop-in service and a Cystic Fibrosis outpatient clinic once a month. UHW currently have about 25 children with CF registered for treatment.

New CF cases diagnosed by the New-born Screening Programme from the region are referred back to UHW for on-going care. Currently, there are no en-suite facilities on the Paediatric Ward in UHW. Hence, children with CF have to share toilets with other kids on the wards, which is not an acceptable standard of care and is a huge infection risk. So, UHW embarked on a PublicPrivate partnership to refurbish four rooms on the Paediatric Ward to have en-suite and state-of-art infection control facilities.

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Killarney Adventure Race raises €23,176 for UHW Cystic Fibrosis When the refurbished rooms are not in use by children with CF they will be available for all the at risk children requiring isolation facilities, the main at risk group of children are the immunocompromised children with cancer.

UHW is also a designated shared care centre for oncology with Our Lady’s Hospital, Crumlin and unfortunately there is a steady throughput of children with cancer who require strict isolation facilities.

The refurbishment of these four rooms on the Paediatric Ward was a necessity which was long overdue but as with many services at the moment, the money was just not there.

This will go a long way in caring for the children of the region for the present and future generations.

The CF Association of Ireland is actively involved in fund raising both locally and nationally for the project and are totally dependent on voluntary donations and fundraising.

The event itself was a challenge which was enjoyed by all that attended. The bikes had to be left at the transition stage in Kate Kearney’s Cottage on the Friday night ready for the early start the following morning. It was an early start on a cool October Kerry morning, all competitors met at the Glen Eagle at 7.00 a.m., took a short bus ride to Kate Kearney’s Cottage where they were met with the imposing site of Strickeen Mountain.

Once the safety briefings were over it was a 9Km run starting at the base of the McGillycuddy Reeks, this stage took us through a tough steep bog mountain trail up and over Strickeen mountain over hill trail and bog with stunning views of Carrantuohill, the Gap of Dunloe, the Lakes of Killarney and Purple mountain.

When we got back down the mountain it was time to pick our bikes up at Kate Kearney’s Cottage and start the

Trevor Galvin who took part in the Killarney Adventure Race.

amazing cycle with breathtaking views around every corner.

On this stage you encounter steep fast downhill cycling with sharp corners as you negotiate through this challenging section passing through The Gap of Dunloe, the Black Valley, Molls Gap, ladies view, Lakes of Killarney and the eagles nest to name a few. There were a few casualties on this 40km element which sharpened the mind as we went.

Next up was the water, we had to Kayak a circular route around the spectacular clear waters of Muckross Lake on double sit on top kayaks. Some more successfully than others.

Good thing we had Captain Eoin McGarry in the team to marshal proceedings. The toughest discipline of the race started by getting rid of the bikes again at the base of Torc Waterfall and running under a 250 year old tunnel under the road, competitors had to ascend to Torc Waterfall and following a forest trail to a viewing point at Barr na Currane.

The 9km distance seemed to really test the endurance of the athletes, especially the run up Torc steps past all the tourists on the forest and mountain track.

The final cycle was a sprint stage bringing you to the finish line at the Gleneagle Hotel where all competitors had a final 800m sprint run to cross the finish line.

We had a couple of fundraisers coming up to the event, mainly the Auction in The Local and the Quiz night in Paddy Foleys but the generosity of the local business and people in general was outstanding.

Sincerest thanks to all that organised the events for us, allowed us the use of their premises for the various fundraisers, that took part in the event, that sponsored one of us etc etc, take great pride in the fact that this money has gone DIRECTLY into the provision of rooms for the kids requiring care and isolation facilities in our community.

On Christmas week a few of us went and dropped the cheque down to the UHW CF Unit. It was humbling to see the work being done there by Anne Doyle and her team under severe commercial restraints, even more poignant the fact that it was Christmas week and there were so many kids there.

The ward was full including the corridors. Anne brought us in through the new rooms, which have been funded mainly by fundraisers such as ours by the people of Waterford,Tipperary and South Kilkenny.

This was like another world of cutting edge medical technology and infection control measures but also with some home comforts, in so far as that is possible in hospital. It is actually mind-blowing the work that these nurses, doctors and medical staff do on a daily basis, it has to be seen to be believed.

Eddie O’Sullivan, Benny Dunford, Trevor Galvin and Majella Fitzgerald presenting a cheque for €23,176,00 to Dr. Daz and Anne Doyle for the Cystic Fibrosis Waterford Hospital Project.

Pictured are local athletes who competed in the Helly Hensen, Killarney Adventure Race 2014, a one day multi adventure sport race.

The competitors cometed in disciplines of mountain running, cycling and kayaking in the MacGillycuddy Reeks and Killarney National Park, before finishing after a gruelling day at the Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney. Back row left to right: Benny Dunford, Eoin McGarry, Trevor Galvin, Brian Shanley, Tom Morrissey, Conor Fitzgerald and Mike Fennell. Front row left to right: Cathal Hennessy, Dermot Dee, Eoin Fitzgerald, Seamus Moore and David Byrne.

One of the new rooms at University Hospital Waterford, CF Unit.

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Irish Cycling Show at the RDS April 18th & 19th …

Bike industry showcase announces show highlights and attractions

John Cassidy, Area Manager at Waterford and Wexford Training Services, with Margaret Nugent and Anthony Durand, course participants with Waterford Wexford Training Services. [Leo Murphy]

Waterford Wexford Training Services launch new website A BRAND new learner friendly website has been launched by Waterford Wexford Training Services.

The new site offers a variety of information on training courses for people entering the workforce for the first time, early school leavers, people with disabilities, those wishing to change careers and are looking to refresh their knowledge or gain new skills.

Waterford Wexford Training Services have been providing the very best training in Waterford at the Waterford Industrial Park on the Cork Road in Waterford and in Wexford at Whitemills North Industrial Estate in County Wexford for the last 47 years.

Launching the new website John Cassidy, Area Manager for Waterford Wexford Training Services said, “This new website has been developed based on

research to determine what the current and potential learners needs are, it is very user friendly yet it offers a great deal of information on all courses available and most importantly how to access them.

“We are very proud to delivery top quality training in areas where there are current employment needs.

These are delivered at our purpose built training centre’s in Waterford and in Wexford by our experienced team of staff, who provide the very highest standard of training under the National Government Department of Education and Skills brand ‘ETB’,The Education and Training Board.” Mr. Cassidy concluded.

An array of fully certified courses are on offer at the Waterford and the Wexford training Centre’s.

Participants can enroll on full-time day courses, parttime evening courses and

Community based courses.

Waterford Wexford Training Services also deliver a variety of apprenticeships.

Learners can gain skills on one of many Apprenticeship Training courses, ECDL, Childhood Care and Education, Healthcare, Health and Safety and First Aid, Hospitality & Catering, Beauty Therapy, Hairdressing, IT and Software, Design, Multimedia Technology, Welding, Business and Management Courses, Security Training, Construction Courses and Training, Horticulture, Engineering, Pharma Manufacturing and Cleanroom training.

For further details on the variety of training courses on offer at Waterford Wexford Training Services see wwetbtraining.ie or join Waterford Wexford Training Services on Facebook.

World Book Day at Dungarvan Library – Darragh Reddy, Rian Walsh and John Joe Queally, Scoil Mhuire Abbeyside.

[Dan McGrath]

THE fourth annual Irish Cycling Show will take place in the RDS Main Hall this April 18th and 19th with vibrant stands, stunt teams, an indoor cycle track and a jam-packed series of seminars. An array of national and international exhibitors will add to the excitement at Ireland’s leading consumer cycling event.

Promoters Mara Media are currently finalising preparations for the established showcase cycling event in Ireland with an expanded roster of top exhibitors and show attractions. With exhibitors travelling from around the world to attend the show along with top local based suppliers getting set for another cycling extravaganza, all roads point to the RDS on the third week of April.

Announcing the dynamic show line-up in the RDS today, Irish Cycling Show organiser Hugh Bonner described how encouraged he has been by the response from the bike industry and the Irish public to this unique event.

Hugh Bonner of the Irish Cycling Show said, “The move back to the RDS and into the Main Hall puts us in the centre of commercial and social activity in Ireland and gives us the best opportunity to showcase the very best of cycling equipment and entertainment”.

Bonner continued, “We’ve been impressed by the response so far to this year’s event and I think it’s another signal of the general upturn in the economy. In the past few years cycling has grown as both a commuter activity and a leisure pursuit. Dublin is fast becoming one of the most bike-friendly cities in Europe”.

He concluded, “Our show not only offers entertainment for visitors of all ages but also great value bikes, accessories and gear, top class advice and exposure to all the latest trends in the industry”.

Among the big brands getting ready to display their product ranges at the show are Trek, Madison, Kona, Moda, Forme, Bobbin, Bottechia handmade Italian bikes and Peugeot E-Bikes with other household names in the bike industry signing on a daily basis.

Triathlon is also boom-

ing in Ireland at the moment and The Irish Cycling Show is delighted to announce that Triathlon Ireland will be present at and supporting the show for the first time. Reflecting the increased interest from the multisports world, well known triathlon suppliers Aropec and Provision will also be exhibiting in Ireland for the first time at the show.

In addition to the thrilling array of the finest in 2015 bikes and accessories, the show is set to feature a range of other attractions to keep the committed and the casual bike fan entertained throughout their visit.

World renowned Savage Skills UK will display their amazing ability and creativity on two-wheels in a number of jaw-dropping displays throughout the two days. Likewise, crowd favourite Keelan Phillips from Style Bicycle will be back to present his extraordinary dexterity in the always exhilarating BMX Flatland show.

For cyclists looking to

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Pictured (l. to r.): Brian McArdle, Katie O’Reilly, aged 7 from Sandymount, Fair City actor George McMahon, AKA Mondo O'Connell, and Seán McKenna at the RDS for the launch of the Irish Cycling Show 2015 which takes lace in the RDS Dublin from 18th to 19th April.

get more from their own bike riding, a series of talks and seminars from top nutritionists, fitness and well-being experts will help kick start the summer campaign on road and trail.The show will also boast its largest ever bike test track adjacent to the main hall offering show visitors the opportunity to sample products from various show exhibitors.

This is the perfect opportunity to try out a range of models from Penny Farthings to City

Bikes and Racing Bikes. It’s also a great place for anyone who perhaps hasn’t cycled in years, or who is a confident cyclist to have a practice with the Irish Cycling Show staff available to offer advice.

These are just some of the attractions confirmed already for the Irish Cycling Show on April 18th and 19th with more exhibitors and entertainment in the pipeline.

For more information visit: www.irishcyclingshow.ie

Calling all cycling enthusiasts! We’re giving away 6 family passes to the fourth annual Irish Cycling Show, taking place in RDS, Dublin this April.

The Show takes place on April 18th and 19th and will feature a wide array of products, GIVEAWAY exhilarating bike shows and talks from top experts in the fitness field. Visitors will also get exclusive deals on bikes and accessories. There will be stunts from world-renowned Savage UK and crowd favourite Keelan Phillips – entertainment for all ages! As Dublin becomes one of the most bike friendly cities in Europe, take the whole family to this exciting show.

For more info visit www.irishcyclingshow.ie Answer the question to enter and post your entries into Cycling Show Competition, Dungarvan Observer, Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, on or before 12 noon on Tuesday, 14th April, 2015. Editor’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

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Understanding and Enjoying Waterford Nature CROWS - THE ULTIMATE BIRD BRAINS

By John A. Power CROWS, including ravens, magpies, choughs and jays are a very successful family. They occur on every continent except Antarctica and number in excess of 120 species. Most species are omnivorous which undoubtedly contributes to their success.

Many ornithologists and scientists consider that crows are the most evolved of all bird species with some demonstrating the reasoning level of a seven year old child. This is not necessarily a modern observation. Aesop, a Greek storyteller living between 620 B.C. and 560 B.C., describes a very thirsty crow looking into a pitcher containing water which the crow could not reach.

Eventually the crow figured out that by dropping pebbles into the pitcher it could raise the water level and get a welldeserved drink. In New Caledonia, crows have evolved to use twigs as tools to pick grubs and insects from deep within tree bark. In the wild, the very few animals using tools include primates, cetaceans, elephants, sea otters and perhaps most surprisingly, octopuses.

Nine different types of crow have been observed in Waterford. Seven are resident, one an occasional visitor and the other a one-time occurance.

In Waterford four species of crow are ubiquitous – magpies, rooks, hooded crows, and jackdaws.

One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl Four for a boy Thus goes the nursery rhyme describing the exotic looking magpie. Magpies are widespread throughout Ireland but this was not always the case. The first recorded arrival of magpies in Ireland was said to be in or about 1676 in Co. Wexford, on an easterly wind. Magpies have demonstrated amazing selfawareness in that they can recognise images of themselves.

This is unique among birds.

Self-awareness in the animal world is confined to primates, elephants and cetaceans.

Rooks, our most numerous crow, have a grey coloured bill, with a white base and a peaked crown. They are noisy, colonial nesters. The nesting colony is known as a rookery. Rooks in captivity have learnt to use tools but have not been observed doing so in the wild. They are very determined feeders and observing their antics at bird feeding stations can be very entertaining, or annoying dependent on your view.

Hooded crows, also known as scald crows or grey crows, have developed an interesting adap-

Raven by Andrew Malcolm

tation for securing food. They collect individual shellfish, fly high over rocks or roads and drop the shellfish to smash it and then eat the contents. This behaviour can be easily observed at the Pitch and Putt club at Dungarvan and at Lissellan near Tramore among other places.

Jackdaws are our smallest crow.The name jackdaw derives from Jack and daw, which is variously thought to refer to its small size and/or its call.

Jackdaws often nest in chimney pots and end up blocking the chimneys to the great ire of the house owner. Look for the white eye, set in a dark face with a black bill, which for some gives the jackdaw a rather sinister appearance.

Choughs are a fabulous glossy black crow with blood red decurved bill and red feet.

The bird is named for its call.

Choughs have a stunning acrobatic display flight often performed from a great height.

Clonea beach is particularly good for this species but they occur virtually anywhere along the coast.

Ravens are our largest crow and passerine.Their massive size, black plumage, huge bill and wedge shaped tail makes them very distinctive.Their call, a very loud bark or croak, is instantly recognisable. In Celtic/Irish mythology the raven was associated with The Morrigan, a Goddess of War and a shape shifter. Famously,The Morrigan, in the shape of a raven, landed on Cuchullain’s shoulder to prove to his enemies that he had finally died in battle. Ravens were considered the eyes and ears of the chief Viking God, Odin. In past centuries ravens are said to have attended battlefields, gallows and other places of death and slaughter. In England it is believed that the country will fall if ravens desert

the Tower of London. To prevent this disaster at least seven ravens are kept at the Tower at all times and to prevent them leaving, sensibly perhaps, their wings are clipped. Ravens are widespread though not numerous throughout Co. Waterford.

Jays are undoubtedly our most beautiful crow with a mixture of blue, pink, black and white plumage.The first indication of their presence may be a loud shriek from cover. Jays are a shy species often very difficult to observe. Jays are also noted for their ability to cache acorns for future winter use. They are widespread but not common in woodland throughout Co. Waterford.

The carrion crow is an occasional visitor to Co.Waterford. It was once considered conspecific with hooded crows but is now treated as a separate species. In England, Wales and Southern Scotland hooded crows are rare and replaced by carrion crows. The reverse is the general situation in Ireland and Northern Scotland.

The house crow is an Asian species closely associated with human populations.

It has spread to many parts of the world aided by its penchant for hitching rides aboard ships.

It was first recorded in Europe at Dunmore East, where it arrived by boat on 3rd November 1974. It must have liked what it found because it remained at Dunmore East for upwards of six years. Since then there has only been one further record in Ireland, at Cobh, Co. Cork.

Check out www.waterfordbirds.com for local wildlife updates and submission of records. If you have any questions or comments please email them to japwatntr@gmail.com.

To view previous articles check out understandingwaterfordnature.blogspot.com

Rook by Andrew Malcolm

Jackdaw by Fran O'Connell

House Crow by Fran O'Connell

Chough by Andrew Malcolm

Magpie by Carolyn Ind

Hooded Crow by Andrew Malcolm

Jay by Carolyn Ind

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Local events in Waterford urged to apply for Community Tourism Grants Application Process for 2015 Funding Opens For Community Tourism Initiative for the Diaspora WATERFORD City and County Council has announced that applications for funding are now being sought under the Community Tourism Initiative for the Diaspora.

The initiative, launched last year, builds on the community involvement legacy of The Gathering 2013 and is a joint partnership between Waterford City and County Council, IPB Insurance and Fáilte Ireland.

Now in its second year, the scheme provides a national fund of €1m to support local communitybased events and festivals each year.

Last year, 20 local events were supported in Waterford, attracting large numbers of visitors from overseas. The festivals funded last year included: • Imagine Arts Festival • Camphire International Horse Trials • The Promenade

Festival • Dungarvan Trad Festival • Irish Hot Air Ballooning Championships • John Dwyer Trad Festival Administered locally by Waterford City and County Council, the application process for 2015 is now open and will close on March 31st. Interested parties are advised to contact Bernadette Drohan, tel.

058-21169 or bdrohan@waterfordcouncil.ie to apply.

Announcing this year’s funding, Michael Walsh, Chief Executive, Waterford City and County Council emphasised: “We all witnessed the benefits from The Gathering and this scheme gives us an opportunity to build on its legacy. The Community Tourism Initiative allows us to sustain many of the grass roots net-

works which sprang to life during The Gathering in Waterford and sustain an infrastructure of events and relationships which will have long term tourism and social benefits for this region for many years to come.

“For that reason, I would urge anyone out there with a good idea or interesting event, which would help us to reach out to the diaspora, to get in touch with us and make an application.”

Local authorities throughout the country are now accepting applications in order to determine those local events with the best potential to have the impact and long-term potential to make a difference.

The initiative is being administered at local level with the grant applications and awards being decided in accordance with agreed national criteria.

Proposed bus shelter for Portlaw is welcomed A PROPOSED bus shelter for Portlaw was welcomed at the February meeting of Comeragh District Council.

Cllr. Mary Butler noted that the bus shelter is proposed for George’s Street on the green area adjacent to the old fire station.

While the development is subject to funding, both bus companies servicing the area have indicated their willingness to relocate their stops to the proposed George’s Street location.

Cllr. Butler said she spoke with the Red Cross committee and they are looking to relocate their ambulance in the fire station when the Fire Brigade move to their new

premises.

“All comments in relation to the proposed bus shelter have been positive,” said Cllr. Butler.

Cllr. John O’Leary said he has, for a long time, been requesting a bus shelter for Kilmeaden.

“It is a very unsheltered area where people queue for the bus in Kilmeaden,” said Cllr. O’Leary.

Senior Executive Engineer, Pat McCarthy informed the Council that “discussions are ongoing in relation to both locations” for a bus shelter.

ISPCA warn dog owners to act responsibly and keep dogs under control around sheep and other livestock WALKING your dog outdoors is a great way to get healthy and it is an enjoyable form of exercise for both owner and dog however, the ISPCA is reminding all dog owners to act responsibly and keep their dogs on a lead and under control at all times around livestock.

Dr. Andrew Kelly, ISPCA Chief Executive Officer said: “We do not want to see any lambs or ewes distressed, injured or killed by

dogs this Spring. Nor do we want to see any dogs destroyed as a result. Losses to sheep farmers can be significant and distressing. We would like to remind all dog owners to keep their dogs under control around sheep and other livestock, particularly at this time of year when lambs are being born and are extremely vulnerable”.

Under the Control of Dogs Act, dog owners can be held liable for financial

damage caused to farmers and these costs can be significant. Even the most docile of dogs can join a pack in a sheep attack and dog owners need to ensure that their dogs are secured both day and night.

The ISPCA is reminding dog owners to be responsible and to ensure that their dogs are microchipped, vaccinated, neutered and controlled which are key components of responsible dog ownership.

Pictured are baker Angelina Ryder (4 years), butcher Jack Porter (4 years) and chef Ellen Kenny (4 years).

Free small food business start-up seminar for Waterford THE Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) is holding a free ‘Small Food Business Start-Up’ seminar in Waterford to assist those working in small food businesses and those thinking of setting up a food business.

The free, half day event brings together a range of experts to explore the requirements needed for businesses to get off the ground and to comply with all the relevant food safety legislation.

The event takes place from 8.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 24th March at The Tower Hotel,The Mall, Waterford.

Booking is advised and further information is available at www.fsai.ie/events.

Experts on the day will include representatives from

the FSAI, the Health Service Executive and Teagasc. They will provide assistance and advice on everything from running a small food business, registering a new food business, food product development, food safety training requirements, setting up a food safety management system, labelling regulations, traceability, the food recall process, inspections and the information resources available from the FSAI. Case studies on how to start and run a small food business will be presented by two local companies: Dermot Walsh of M&D Bakery and Ken Madden of The Lismore Food Company. There will also be a number of Q&A sessions throughout the morn-

ing and experts will be available after the event for further discussion. The Health and Safety Authority will be present to answer your queries in relation to the health and safety requirements in your food business.

The Local Enterprise Office and Waterford Chamber will also be present to offer advice.

Raymond Ellard, Director of Consumer Protection, FSAI notes that despite the economic downturn, Ireland has seen a 5% increase in the number of food businesses established over the last five years, with the total number now standing at over 47,000. He states that the upcoming seminar in Waterford is particularly

timely and provides a onestop-shop for anyone who is thinking about starting a small food business and / or who has recently gone into business in the food sector.

“Our aim is to make it easier for new businesses to comply with all the various requirements and food regulations, and thereby reduce the barriers faced by food entrepreneurs seeking to enter the food sector,” he says Mr Ellard.

“This seminar is one of a number of free supports the FSAI provides on an ongoing basis to assist people thinking of setting up a new food business. Other resources include our free Advice Line on 1890 336677 and our dedicated online resource at www.fsai.ie.”

Tidy Towns should contact Council for funding information

By Christy Parker CLLR. Siobhán Whelan asked how Tidy Towns groups access funding information. Executive Engineer at Environment Jim O’Mahoney said Tidy Towns generally work with the Council’s Environment officers, who provide support in terms of identifying projects and making funding avail-

able. Depending on the location, the Tidy Towns might also work with other council groups for specific projects. Mr. O’Mahoney advised that a committee be established or, where one has already been set up, it should contact the Council’s Environmental officers.

GRASS CUTTING Meanwhile, Cllr.Tom Cronin asked how grass cutting could be brought

into line across the county and city areas. “Some areas are carrying it out and some are not,” he alluded. Mr. O’Mahoney said the council had identified the disparity and the Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) would address it in its 2015 programme. He didn’t think there would be any changes in the status quo this year but felt a new policy would evolve in due course.

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Solicitor to investigate if bye-laws are still applicable after Council amalgamation A LOCAL solicitor had an alleged speeding case against one of his clients adjourned so he can investigate whether the local authority bye-laws are still applicable following changes in local government last year.

A prosecution case against a County Waterford man was brought before last week’s Dungarvan District Court, where it was alleged the accused’s vehicle exceeded the 60 km/h speed limit at Garranbane, Dungarvan, in July, 2014.

Solicitor David Burke told Judge

Terence Finn that Waterford County Council and Waterford City Council were amalgamated into one authority in May, 2014, under changes in local government brought about by former Environment Minister, Phil Hogan.

Mr. Burke pointed out that the alleged speeding offence his client is accused of is dated in July, 2014, two months after the Council amalgamation, and argued that new byelaws of the amalgamated authority were never lodged with the court.

Judge Finn speculated whether

the old bye-laws had lapsed, and if the unification of the two local authorities resulted in automatic abolition of the bye-laws, otherwise, the bye-laws would continue as usual. However, Mr. Burke said it was his understanding that the old bye-laws did not continue over to the new local authority, Waterford City and County Council, and neither were any new bye-laws submitted to the court.

Mr. Burke said he understood that the new authority would require new management orders in

relation to the bye-laws to be submitted to the court.

Judge Finn agreed to adjourn the case to 22nd April, 2015, to allow Mr. Burke to investigate whether the old bye-laws are still applicable in the prosecution of speeding charges.

If it is ascertained that the old bye-laws are no longer applicable to governing special speed limit areas until new bye-laws are adopted by the Council and submitted to the court, it could result in numerous speeding charges being struck out.

Suspended sentence Probation report sought on woman who for Dungarvan man who went on shoplifting spree in Dungarvan stole purse from Church A DUNGARVAN man who admitted theft of a 79year-old woman’s purse from a Church was handed a suspended jail sentence last week.

Patrick Keoghan (28) with an address at 87 Childers Estate, Dungarvan, pleaded guilty to theft of a purse from St. Augustine’s Church, Friary Street, Dungarvan, on 9th December, 2013.

Sergeant Mark Allen told last week’s Dungarvan District Court that a 79year-old lady was lighting candles in the Friary Church on the date in question.

“She left her purse on the altar and when she went back to collect it, it was missing,” said Sgt. Allen.

He said the accused was later apprehended and admitted the theft.

Solicitor David Burke

said his client pleads guilty and has paid full compensation.

Keoghan has 64 previous convictions, which include offences for theft.

Mr. Burke told Judge Terence Finn that his client is on a methadone programme and is “making efforts” in his life.

“The crime was horrendous, he accepts that,” said Mr. Burke.

Judge Finn said that going into a place of worship and committing such an offence “doesn’t strike the right note with the court”.

Mr. Burke said his client “deeply regrets what happened”.

Judge Finn handed down a four month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months on condition the accused be of good behaviour and keep the peace.

Woman fined for using mother’s bus pass A WOMAN who admitted deception by using her mother’s bus pass was fined last week.

Teresa Reilly (21) with an address at 18 Convent Lodge, Mitchel Street, Dungarvan, pleaded guilty to making gain or causing loss by deception, at Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, on 20th May, 2013.

Sergeant Mark Allen told last week’s Dungarvan District Court that Gardaí received a complaint on the date in question, that a female had boarded a bus to travel from Dungarvan to Waterford, and used a bus pass belonging to someone else.

“The bus pass was checked. It belonged to the mother of the accused,” Sgt. Allen said.

The court heard the accused has previous convictions.

Solicitor Martin Lavan said his client admitted the use of her mother’s bus pass to obtain travel on the bus.

He said his client usually travels with her mother on the bus to Waterford.

“Her mother is in her care and she is authorised to travel with her mother under the bus pass,” Mr. Lavan pointed out.

“On this occasion, her mother was ill and not able to travel, but my client took the trip by herself using her mother’s bus pass, because she had no funds to pay for the journey. My client admitted her mistake and regrets the use of the pass.”

Judge Finn handed down a €400 fine.

A YOUGHAL woman who went on a shoplifting spree while in Dungarvan had her case adjourned for a Probation report and compensation.

Tirna Coleman (25) with an address at 11 Na Prapóga, Chickleys Road, Youghal, pleaded guilty to theft from Lloyd’s Pharmacy, Sam McCauley Chemist, New Look, Carrig Dunn, and Murphy’s Toymaster, Dungarvan, on

19th June, 2014.

At last week’s Dungarvan District Court, Sergeant Mark Allen told the court that the accused had taken several hundred euro worth of products and goods from the shops involved. He said most of the items were recovered, except €126 worth of items / clothes, which were not resaleable due to damage where the security tag was ripped from the product.

He said the accused made a full admission to the thefts.

The accused has previous convictions.

A barrister, acting on behalf of the accused, told the court that his client was experiencing domestic difficultiesand was suffering from anxiety and depression at the time of the offences.

“She was treated for it, but she went through a period of not abiding by the

medical treatment,” the barrister said.

“On the date of the offences, my client was accompanied by her fiveyear-old son. She came to purchase stuff for him, but she had an impulse on the day and went on a shoplifting spree.”

He said the accused made a full admission to Gardaí.

“My client is now in full control of herself and can’t

Assault case adjourned for compensation A DUNGARVAN man who assaulted a fast food outlet owner was told to gather compensation for his victim.

Cory Connors (20) with an address at 1 George’s Court, Dungarvan, pleaded guilty to assault, contrary to Section 2 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, at O’Connell Street, Dungarvan, on 28th June, 2014.

At last week’s Dungarvan District Court, Sergeant Mark Allen said the accused assaulted the owner of the Curry Hut, at O’Connell Street, Dungarvan, at 1.30 a.m., when he was involved in taking a delivery.

Sgt. Allen said the accused was

involved in an incident on the premises of Curry Hut, where he threw a bottle at the owner.

“Gardaí were called and escorted the accused from the takeaway. He was in an intoxicated state,” said Sgt. Allen.

Solicitor David Burke told Judge Terence Finn that his client was “highly intoxicated” on the night in question.

“He can’t handle his drink. He hasn’t drank since New Year,” said Mr. Burke.

“He has changed his ways and is behaving himself. He can’t control himself with alcohol taken and ends

up acting in a stupid fashion.”

Mr. Burke pointed out that there are other matters against his client which have been adjourned to 24th June, 2015, for a Probation report, and suggested this matter be adjourned until then.

Adjourning the case to that date, Judge Finn said the accused is to put aside €500 as compensation for his victim.

While Mr. Burke pointed out that his client is putting aside money for compensation for another matter, Judge Finn said the accused “will just have to redouble his efforts!”

Woman pleads guilty to theft of purse WOMAN pleads guilty to theft of A ROMANIAN national who stole a purse from a fast food restaurant had her case adjourned to pay compensation.

Emma Stoica (23) unemployed, with an address at 21 Windmill Hills, Belvedere Road, Wexford, pleaded guilty to theft of a purse at McDonald’s,

Dungarvan, on 14th March, 2013. Outlining the case at last week’s Dungarvan District Court, Sergeant Mark Allen told Judge Terence Finn that a woman had left her purse on the seat at McDonalds.

“The woman left momentarily, but when she came back the purse was gone,” Sgt. Allen said.

A total of €350 in the purse was taken and never recovered. Sgt. Allen said after viewing CCTV, the accused was identified.

“She made an admission of taking the purse,” said Sgt. Allen.

Solicitor David Burke said his client has no previous convictions for anything similar. “It was a silly

bit of opportunism,” said Mr. Burke.

“My client has been living in Ireland for the past 15 years. She has a young child, and she is from Romania originally.”

He asked for an opportunity to allow his client to put together compensation.

Judge Finn adjourned the case to 10th June, 2015.

Road traffic offence struck out after solicitor argues ‘road does not exist’ in Dungarvan A ROAD traffic charge was struck out against a Carrick-on-Suir driver after his solicitor argued successfully that a road “does not exist” in Dungarvan.

Evidence was given at last week’s Dungarvan District Court that the accused man was observed allegedly holding a mobile phone while driving

at Hospital Road, Dungarvan, on 25th July, 2014.

Solicitor David Burke, acting for the accused man, argued that ‘Hospital Road’ does not exist in Dungarvan, and produced an Ordnance Survey of Ireland map to the court.

“From my knowledge of

Dungarvan, there is no such place as ‘Hospital Road’,” Mr. Burke said.

Following a short adjournment of the case until later in the court sitting for further investigation, the prosecution indicated it would not proceed with the case, which was then struck out.

understand why she allowed this to happen. If she stands by her prescription from her doctor, she is in control of herself.”

He said his client is willing to put together compensation for the damaged items.

Judge Terence Finn adjourned the case to 27th May, 2015, for a probation report on the accused and to allow her to gather the €126 compensation.

Sent forward for trial A MAN accused of alleged assault was sent forward for trial last week.

Anthony Harty (61) with an address at Bleantis, Ballinamult, is accused of alleged assault causing harm and allegedly producing an article in the course of a dispute, at Ballintlea, Kilrossanty, on 23rd October, 2013.

At last week’s Dungarvan District Court, Judge Terence Finn was informed that a Book of Evidence was served on the accused and the DPP consents to having the accused returned for trial.

Judge Finn made an order sending the accused forward for trial to the next sittings of Waterford Circuit Criminal Court, commenting from 14th April, 2015.

Judge Finn warned the accused that he has 14 days to furnish the prosecution with details of any witnesses he intends to call to the trial. Failure to do so and those witnesses won’t be entitled to give evidence.

The accused indicated he understood.

Legal aid was granted to the accused, with solicitor David Burke and one counsel assigned to the case.

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Community Service order for theft of scrap items A MAN who stole items of scrap ended up with a community service order in lieu of a jail sentence.

Thomas Harty (36) unemployed, with an address at halting site, Shandon, Dungarvan, pleaded guilty to theft at Ballintaylor, Dungarvan, on 27th August, 2014.

Last week’s Dungarvan District Court heard that items of scrap, such as car batteries, cylinders, radios, etc., were taken from a premises on the date in question.

“Gardaí were given a description of the vehicle observed at the location and called to the accused’s home,” Sergeant Mark Allen told Judge Terence

Finn.

“The accused handed over the items, which had a scrap value of around €100.”

The court heard that the accused has previous convictions, including some for theft.

Solicitor David Burke said his client directed the Gardaí to where the items were being stored.

“My client says the items of scrap were straddling the boundary of the premises and he foolishly took them,” said Mr. Burke.

“He gave all the items back and made a full admission.”

Judge Finn queried if the accused held a waste collection permit to be collecting

such items, pointing out that car batteries have corrosive material which need special disposal.

Mr. Burke said his client did not hold any permits and said his client may not have been aware to a full extent of what he had in his possession.

“He foolishly thought he was entitled to take it,” said Mr. Burke.

Following a same-day assessment by the Probation Service, the accused was deemed suitable for a community service order.

Judge Finn handed down a 150 hour community service order in lieu of four months imprisonment.

Fine for public order incident A FINE was handed down to a Bonmahon man for a public order incident.

Shane Dwane (20) with an address at Knockmahon, Bonmahon, pleaded guilty to using threatening abusive language and behaviour in a public place at Strandside North, Abbeyside, on 27th October, 2013.

The case was adjourned from a previous sitting of the District Court to monitor the accused’s behaviour.

Outlining the case at last week’s Dungarvan District Court, Sergeant Mark Allen said Gardaí observed the accused in an intoxicated state on the night in question.

“He was being restrained by three people because of his behaviour,” said Sgt. Allen.

“The accused was arrested and detained at the Garda Station.”

The accused has a previous conviction.

Solicitor David Burke said his client has changed his ways and it is a rare occasion he would take alcohol.

“My client works as a fisherman and does not indulge in alcohol. He is involved in junior football in Waterford,” Mr. Burke said.

“He won’t be coming to the attention of the Gardaí again.”

Judge Finn handed down a €250 fine.

Bus pass deception charge struck out TWO people who tried to avoid paying the bus fare, by using another persons bus pass, had a charge of deception struck out under the Probation Act after they paid compensation.

Karen Lawlor (41) and Max Keith (30) both with an address at 7 Brendan Corish Gardens, Newtown Road, Wexford, pleaded guilty at a previous sitting of the District Court, to

obtaining services by deception at Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, on 4th February, 2014.

The court had previously heard that both accused travelling from Cork to Waterford on the date in question were using bus passes which belonged to other people, to avoid paying the €19.50 fare.

The case was adjourned to allow the accused to

Woman fined for theft STEALING property from a Dungarvan retailer to the value of €2.00 resulted in a fine of €200 for a Dungarvan woman.

Kathleen Keenan (23) formerly of 6 An Cluain,Youghal Road, Dungarvan, but now with an address at the Women’s Refuge, 72 Morrisson’s Road, Waterford, pleaded guilty to theft from EuroGiant, Dungarvan, on 28th September, 2014.

At last week’s Dungarvan District Court, solicitor David Burke said his client has paid the €2.00 compensation.

Sergeant Mark Allen said the accused has 11 previous convictions, mostly for theft offences. He said the accused’s last offence for which she was convicted was dated in 2011.

“My client has changed her ways dramatically,” said Mr. Burke. “I hope that this was an isolated once-off incident.

“She was going through a difficult time when the offence occurred. She has addressed that problem by moving away from the locality. She now lives in sheltered accommodation in Waterford.”

Judge Finn said he was disappointed to see the accused reoffending. He handed down a fine of €200.

gather €19.50 each and pass it onto the Gardaí, which would then be forwarded to Bus Éireann as compensation.

The money was paid at last week’s Dungarvan District Court.

Judge Terence Finn struck out the charge against the two accused, under Section 1 (1) of Probation Against Offenders Act.

Fine for no TV licence A HOUSEHOLDER who was found in possession of an unlicensed television set was fined last week.

Walter Murray, with an address at 13 Kilbarrymeaden, Kill, Kilmacthomas, was fined €70, plus €80 prosecution costs at last week’s Dungarvan District Court, for being in possession of an unlicensed television set when an Inspector for An Post called to his home on 22nd May, 2014.

Councillor Damien Geoghegan Cathaoirleach of Dungarvan/Lismore Municipal District, Michael Colivet and Cathleen Murphy, both from sponsor FBD pictured with Mary Flahavan from festival sponsor Flahavans at the launch of the 2015 Festival Programme at the Dungarvan Tourist Office, Main Street, Dungarvan.

[David Clynch Photography]

Road Traffic Prosecutions PARKING in a disabled parking space without a permit resulted in a fine for a Tramore driver.

Richard Breslin, with an address at Shamrock Cottage, Main Street, Tramore, was fined €80 at last week’s Dungarvan District Court, for failing to pay a fixed charge notice which was issued by Gardaí who observed his vehicle parked without a permit in a disabled parking bay at Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, on 14th July, 2014.

A POOR box donation resulted in the strike out of a speeding charge for a driver.

Peter McBride (35) with an address at 14 Parkside, Johnswell Road, Kilkenny, failed to pay a fixed charge notice, which issued after Gardaí detected his vehicle travelling at 89 km/h in a 60 km/h speed limit on the N25 at Windgap, Dungarvan, on 2nd August, 2014.

At last week’s Dungarvan District Court, the accused told Judge Terence Finn that he did not receive the fixed charge notice.

A €150 donation to the court poor box was made by the accused and Judge Finn struck out the charge.

A SPEEDING charge was struck out after a driver made a donation to the court poor box.

Patrick O’Flynn (47) with an address at 26 The Hermitage, Gurteenroe, Macroom, Cork, failed to pay a fixed charge notice, which issued after Gardaí detected his vehicle travelling at 99 km/h in a 60 km/h zone on the N25 at Windgap, Dungarvan,

on 1st August, 2014.

The accused, who attended last week’s Dungarvan District Court, told Judge Terence Finn that he has moved address to Charleville and is expecting to move to Mallow in the near future.

The accused said he also disputed the speed given in evidence, but never followed through with a request to the local Superintendent in relation to the calibration of the speed detection equipment used on the day.

A €150 donation was made to the court poor box and the charge was struck out.

A DRIVER was fined last week for a speeding offence.

Michael Murray (51) with an address at 36 Corrib Lawn, Mayfield, Cork, was fined €200 at last week’s Dungarvan District Court for failing to pay a fixed charge notice, which issued after Gardaí detected the accused’s vehicle travelling at 85 km/h in a 60 km/h zone on the N25 at Windgap, Dungarvan, on 25th July, 2014.

A PROVISIONAL driver who was involved in a minor collision ended up being fined for not being accompanied by a qualified driver.

Mary Ann Dinan (22) with an address at 129 Seamus Murphy Place, Mallow, pleaded guilty to being unaccompanied by a qualified driver and failing to display ‘L’ plates at Kyne Park, Abbeyside, on 27th September, 2014.

Last week’s Dungarvan District Court was told that Gardaí responded to a single vehicle collision at Kyne Park on the date

in question.

Gardaí found that the accused was a provisional licence holder who was unaccompanied by a qualified driver and did not have ‘L’ plates displayed on her vehicle.

Judge Terence Finn handed down €80 fines on both charges.

USING a vehicle without an NCT resulted in a fine for a driver.

Anthony O’Keeffe (42) with an address at 33 Glencove Apartments, Dunmore Road, Waterford, was fined €150 at last week’s Dungarvan District Court, for using a vehicle without an NCT at Knockeylan, Lemybrien, on 2nd July, 2014.

NOT having tax resulted in a fine for a motorist.

Margo Fitzpatrick (49) with an address at 21 Aysbury Close, Southways, Dungarvan, was fined €60 at last week’s Dungarvan District Court, for failing to pay a fixed charge notice, which issued after Gardaí observed her vehicle without a current tax disc at Ballymacmague, Dungarvan, on 17th September, 2014.

A DRIVER was fined for using a vehicle without an NCT. Declan Deasy (57) with an address at 5 Beechfield, Portlaoise, Laois, was fined €150 at last week’s Dungarvan District Court, for using a vehicle without an NCT at Garranbane, Dungarvan, on 17th July, 2014.

A charge of failing to produce NCT was marked proven and taken into consideration.

Bench warrants issued A MAN who failed to appear in court had a bench warrant issued for his arrest.

John Roche (22) with an address at 2 Birch Avenue, Birchwood, Waterford, failed to appear at last week’s Dungarvan District Court to answer a charge of allegedly being in possession of a controlled substance for his own personal use at Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, on 5th July, 2014, contrary to Section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act. With no appearance by the accused and no valid reason for his absence, Judge Terence Finn issued a bench warrant.

A MAN facing a number of road traffic charges had a bench warrant issued for his arrest when he failed to appear in court last week.

William Hogan (32) with an address at 60 Liffey Park, Mayfield, Cork, failed to appear at last week’s Dungarvan District Court to answer charges of not having insurance, driving with no licence, drink driving, and driving while disqualified, at Shandon, Dungarvan, on 26th June, 2014.

Judge Terence Finn noted there was no valid reason for the accused’s absence from court and issued a bench warrant for his arrest.

A BENCH warrant was issued for the arrest of a woman who was not in court when her case was called last week.

Sabrina Jones (32) with an address at 18 Stephen’s Street, Waterford and 31 Cluain Garbhain, Dungarvan, was not in

attendance at last week’s Dungarvan District Court to answer charges of alleged criminal damage at 33 Congress Villas, Dungarvan, on 3rd January, 2014; alleged assault and two public order offences at Davitts Quay, Dungarvan, on 2nd February, 2014.

Solicitor Niall King said his client was in court that morning, but she left and took the 1.00 p.m. bus back to Waterford City to collect children from school.

Judge Terence Finn asked why the accused did not remain in court until her case was called. He pointed out that defendants have an obligation to be in court on time and await for their case to be called.

He issued a bench warrant for the accused’s arrest.

Judge refuses jurisdiction in case THE District Judge has refused jurisdiction in a case where an Abbeyside woman is accused of alleged assault.

Kenya Carty (21) with an address at 38 Cluain na Greine, Abbeyside,

Dungarvan, is accused of alleged assault causing harm at Davitt’s Quay, Dungarvan, on 29th June, 2014.

After hearing a summary of the allegations at last week’s Dungarvan

District Court, Judge Terence Finn refused jurisdiction in the case.

The matter was adjourned to 8th April, 2015, for service of a Book of Evidence.

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Celebrations for the local launch of the 8th West Waterford Festival of Food THERE was a celebratory atmosphere in the Tourist Information Office in Dungarvan on Friday, 6th March, as the full programme of events for this year’s West Waterford Festival of Food 2015 was launched locally.The festival takes place from Thursday 9th to Sunday, 12th April, making the sunny South East that little bit brighter by celebrating great food and drinks.

With over 70 guests in attendance it was the task of Louise Clark from Nude Food Café to give the group a taste of things to come in April with her delicious Barron’s Blaas canapés. There were craft beers from Dungarvan Brewing Company, refreshing G&T’s from Blackwater Gin, unusual combinations from Aurelia Cordials and the Wine Buff in Dungarvan made sure there was enough white and red to go around.

Guests listened to introductory words from Chairman of the Festival Donal Connolly, who welcomed Damien Geoghegan, Mayor of Dungarvan and Lismore Municipal District along with Waterford City and County Manager, Michael Walsh, both of whom

addressed the crowd which included Festival Directors, sponsors, supporters, Community Groups, volunteers, producers, chefs and local media.

The Festival’s CEO Éimhín Ní Chonchúir was on hand to give a brief overview of this year’s festival and invited everyone to share and enjoy the food stories of their favourite producers from Waterford and around the country, encouraging everyone in attendance to sample the range of produce which will be showcased over the festival weekend.

With various sponsors present including Mary Flahavan from Flahavan’s, Michael Keane from Glanbia, Gary Hanrahan from Dawn Meats along with new sponsor Jim Garvey of Garvey’s Supervalu and representatives from GSK, LEO Waterford, Be Green and Go Dungarvan, the theme of Generations in Irish Food was celebrated and the 2015 programme was well and truly launched!

Tickets for the 8th West Waterford Festival of Food are on sale now- for bookings and enquiries contact 086-0262017 or visit www.westwaterfordfestivaloffood.com

Jamie Moore from Waterford Comhairle na nOg, Barry Hannigan from West Waterford Festival of Food, Sinead Allen from sponsor GlaxoSmithKline, Donal Connolly from West Waterford Festival of Food, Caoimhe Coleman from Waterford Comhairle na nOg, Gillian Whelan from sponsor GlaxoSmithKline and Eimhin Ni Chonchuir from West Waterford Festival of Food pictured at the launch of the 2015 Festival Programme at the Dungarvan Tourist Office, Main Street, Dungarvan.

[David Clynch Photography]

Mary Houlihan, Tourism Officer pictured with Johnny Breathnach from the Waterford City and County Council and Brid Kirby, Waterford Harvest Festival at the launch of the West Waterford Festival of Food 2015 Programme at the Dungarvan Tourist Office, Main Street, Dungarvan.

Mary Ryan and Margo Sleator, both from Dungarvan Country Market pictured at the launch of the West Waterford Festival of Food 2015 Programme at the Dungarvan Tourist Office, Main Street, Dungarvan.

[David Clynch Photography]

[David Clynch Photography]

Marie Quinn from The Moorings Bar and Restaurant pictured with her son Tadhg Nolan at the launch of the West Waterford Festival of Food 2015 Programme at the Dungarvan Tourist [David Clynch Photography] Office, Main Street, Dungarvan.

Cathleen and Donal Connolly pictured with Catherine Kavanagh, all from Dungarvan at the launch of the West Waterford Festival of Food 2015 Programme at the Dungarvan Tourist Office, Main Street, Dungarvan.

[David Clynch Photography]

Lar Power from Waterford City and County Council pictured with Jenny Beresford from the Dungarvan and West Waterford Chamber at the launch of the West Waterford Festival of Food 2015 Programme at the Dungarvan Tourist Office, Main Street, Dungarvan.

[David Clynch Photography]

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The ‘Choir of Welcome’.

Trocaire - Ethiopian visit report by Mary Dee WITH only three weeks left in the Lenten campaign, I once again focus on another project that we visited during our Trocaire trip to Ethiopia last November.

On November 6th, we had a partner visit to HUNDEE, a livelihood enhancement programme of poor women in Jate. The location was Oromia region, Jate locality of Wuchale Woreda, 75 km from Addis Ababa, which was a 1.5 hour drive.

The project focuses on purchasing and distributions of improved breed of heifers to women-headed households who have demonstrated capability to manage livestock; the provision of different species of animal fodder, improved livestock breeds and animal health service. The project also

provides improved market access for the production of milk. Main outcomes: • Acquisition of new skills and knowledge on improved cattle management; • Enhanced self-esteem and capability to target women to access new opportunities; • New and strong relationships between the co-operative and other stakeholders relevant for dairy development; • Reduced incidences of water borne diseases of target communities to access new opportunities of portable water that will contribute for healthy community On arrival, we were met with a very big group of women, who were dressed in bright colours and were singing our welcome. This

was a wonderful experience. Their singing and welcome was so special – the real sound of Africa.

They took great pride in showing us their new water well. This was a great addition to their wellbeing and community.

After showing us the well, we then gathered in a specially erected tent for our visit, where the women told us their stories. One lady spoke about her heifer that was now expecting a calf. She was waiting patiently for the milk. The money that she will get from the milk will help her fund the education for the children. She told us of the ‘self help group’ that was formed. There are 25 in each group and the leadership of the group is rotated every few months, to encourage assertiveness

The Well among the women. They also use the ‘benefit in kind’ scheme where they sometimes swap a heifer for something else, depending on the family’s needs. They use a savings scheme where

they borrow and save all the time. One lady started off with one sheep and now she has three. She also bought an ox for ploughing. This showed me their spirit and determination to

Stillness and transformation meditation session this Sunday ARE you seeking to cultivate a deeper sense of stillness and ease in your everyday life?

Whether you are concerned with living your everyday life in a grounded, worry-free way; on the journey from trauma to transformation; or seeking spiritual awakening, a meditation session titled ‘Stillness and Transformation, Embodied Mindfulness’ will be held in the Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore, this

coming Sunday, 22nd March from 10.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m., which will be facilitated by meditation teacher and psychotherapist John Doyle; and Holistic Movement Therapist and Author, Lani O’Hanlon.

During the session, to help participants to rest, breathe, release and ground themselves, John and Lani will be using down-to-earth practices, meditation, along with gentle, stress release movement,

journaling and time in nature to still the mind, and bring you home to an instinctual body.

The session aims to support the participant to cultivate a deeper sense of stillness, mindfulness and ease in their everyday lives as an essential component to physical, emotional and mental well-being.

The meditation session will be held from 10.00 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. this Sunday, 22nd March, at the Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore.

The fee for the session is €65; or €94.50 for the session with a two course lunch in the Cliff House Bar Restaurant.

Special price of €110 for couples.

There will also be meditation sessions held at the same location on 26th April and 24th May, next.

For more information and to book your place, contact Mary Lys on 087-2970692; email marylyscarbery@gmail.com.

make a better life for themselves. This particular project again shows the difference that your contribution to the Trocaire Lenten campaign makes. Please do your very best with this year’s

Trocaire Box. Boxes are now available in your local Church.

To find out more about Trócaire’s Lenten campaign or to make a donation log on to trocaire.org/lent

Your facilitators …

John Doyle has a background in Philosophy and Theology, with an M.A. in Spirituality. He has trained in body-oriented psychotherapy, initially as a biodynamic Psychotherapist and more recently in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

He resently works in Waterford with the Men’s Development Network.

Lani O’Hanlon, Author of ‘Dancing the Rainbow - Holistic Well Being through Movement’, is a Movement Therapist and award-winning writer and poet. She worked as a teachertrainer with the DTR-Movement Practice for 25 years and internationally as a Group Leader, Director and Holistic Movement facilitator and is a member of International Dance First Association and the Laban Guild for Movement and Dance.

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Frank Colbert, co-writer of ‘The Forgotten Legends,’ writes from South Africa …

The Best (and worst) of George BEST MOVES TO AMERICA Between 1976 and 1981 he played in the National American Soccer League which contained several world stars in the very autumn of their careers like Pele, Beckenbauer, Eusebio, Cruyff and Neeskins. In his own words: ‘I was tired of being hounded by the British press and media. In America I could do normal things like walk down the street, take the dog for a walk or go to the local supermarket and not be recognised or hassled by the public. I made friends, not because of what I was but, because of who I was. I made more genuine friends in America than in England.

His clubs included Los Angeles Aztecs (61 games, 29 goals), Fort Lauderdale Strikers (33 games, 7 goals) and San Jose Earthquakes (56 games, 21 goals).

However, because this league extended over only six months during the summer season he simultaneously returned home to make appearances for second division Fulham in 1976 and 1977 together with Bobby Moore and Rodney Marsh and scored 12 goals in 47 games. Other clubs at a lower level which he played a few games for included English clubs Stockport County (3 games, 2 goals) and Bournemouth (5 games, 0 goals), plus Scottish team Hibernian (22 games, 3 goals) and League of Ireland club Cork Celtic (3 games, 2 goals), before finishing with 4 games in Australia for Brisbane Lions with no goals.

In January 1978 he married his first wife Angie McDonald, personal assistant to the world renowned singer Cher, in America and their son Callum was born in 1981. Earlier that year his mother Anne lost her ongo-

ing battle with alcoholism and died at the early age of 55.

In 1981 his playing days had finally ended but his penchant for attracting unsavoury headlines had not. Sadly, he had already launched himself down the slippery slope of late nights and drinking too much.

On one particular occasion Angie was driving home from the local shopping centre in Los Angeles when she spotted what looked like a hobo lying on the pavement next to a traffic lights. As she approached him she suddenly realised with shock that it was her totally inebriated husband, much the worse for wear!

Not surprisingly, their marriage eventually broke up in 1982.

During subsequent years he made several visits to clinics as well as Alcoholics Anonymous in a vain attempt to beat the booze.

He was declared bankrupt on one occasion and he served two months in jail after a drink-driving charge accelerated out of control.

He failed to turn up for the court hearing, then resisted arrest and was accused of assaulting a police officer.

BEST RETURNS TO ENGLAND In 1984 he received a three-month sentence for drunk driving, assaulting a police officer and failing to answer a bail. He spent Christmas 1984 behind bars at Ford Open Prison. His reaction to his solicitor after the sentencing was: “There goes my knighthood!” In February 2004 he was again convicted for drunken driving and banned for 20 months.

With his eventual retirement from the professional game in 1983 he returned permanently to London where he typically spent his days in a local pub in Chelsea’s West End, in between infrequent bouts as

a popular after-dinner speaker, while simultaneously working for Sky television as a pundit.

Despite all the bad publicity now surrounding him his estranged wife Angie stated in 2000: “George was always such an obliging guy and a special person. He played in at least 300 testimonial games before his eventual retirement.”

Footballer’s salaries during Best career were a fraction of those nowadays, nevertheless, with his pop star image and high celebrity status he earned a tidy fortune. Sadly, due to his lavish lifestyle he eventually became bankrupt.

When once asked what happened to all the money he had earned during his playing days he quipped: “I spent 80% of my money on booze, birds (women), gambling and fast cars. The rest I squandered.” On another occasion he said also with tongue in cheek: “In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life!”

After 1993 he was generally regarded as being an alcoholic and in 1995 he married his second wife Alex Pursey and they were divorced in 2004.

THE START OF THE END! In March 2000 he was diagnosed with severe liver damage as he continued to drink heavily.Two and a half years later he had a successful liver transplant in a London hospital, but the drinking continued.

On 3rd October, 2005, he was admitted to the intensive care unit at Cromwell Hospital in London suffering from a kidney infection caused by the side effects of immunesuppressive drugs which were used to prevent his body from rejecting his transplanted liver. Twentytwo days later, with close friends around his bedside,

Best teases World Cup winners George Cohen, Bobby Charlton and Jack Charlton.

Best in the early seventies. including Bobby Charlton and Denis Law, he died at the early age of 59 from lung infection and multiple organ failure.

Shortly afterwards tributes poured in from around the world, including from arguably the three greatest football players ever, Pele, Maradona and Johan Cruyff.The Premier League soon announced that a minute’s silence would be observed at all games the following week-end.

Where did it all go wrong? – Best ponders.

His subsequent funeral procession between Stormont and Roselawn Cemetery in Belfast was attended by approximately 100,000 rain-drenched mourners. In May 2006 Belfast Airport was renamed George Best Belfast City Airport as a tribute to him. On the first anniversary of his death Ulster Bank issued one million commemorative five pound notes which were sold out in five days, some of them for a maximum of 30 pounds.

In total he scored 137 goals in 360 games for

Manchester United, while playing predominantly as a winger and in one period he missed only 9 league games in 5 seasons despite the often crude tactics adopted by some defenders to curb him.

His influence on the United team for the most of eight years at the top was immense. Every second week he generally attracted approximately an extra 10,000 fans to Old Trafford for home games. Sadly, nevertheless, the club never decided to award him a benefit game as a show of appreciation. The only testimonial game which he ever received was at Windsor Park in 1988 from a specially convened committee of Northern Ireland fans.

PLAYING FOR NORTHERN IRELAND For most of his international career he was the only top class outfield player in the Northern Ireland team.

Three years after his debut as an 18 year old in Wales in April 1964 he was Man of the Match against a star-studded Scottish team in Belfast’s Windsor Park.

After the game his manager stated that: “In this my first game as manager he tore Scotland apart with one of the greatest solo performances ever seen in British football. After he had bamboozled the opposition defence for the umpteenth time, the only goal of the game came from his pass to Dave Clements.”

In the words of awardwinning journalist Malcolm Brodie, who had seen every Northern Ireland international since the war: ‘Without doubt it was the finest individual performance by any player ever to grace Windsor Park.

Scotland simply had no answer to George’s balance, his ability to dribble the ball at speed and his determination to take the game to them. Although still only 21 that game is remembered as The George Best International.

Scotland manager Bobby Brown recalled after the game that: “I thought it was George Best’s greatest game ever for Ireland, he was just unplayable.”

Later that year he scored a spectacular goal in Lusanne, Switzerland.

Having collected the ball just inside the opposition half he dribbled past four defenders before slotting it past the advancing goalkeeper.

In April 1970 he was sent off for throwing mud, and also spitting, at the referee while playing against Scotland at Windsor Park but was later cleared by the Irish FA. The following November he withdrew from a fixture with Spain at Windsor Park because of threats to his life at the height of the provinces’ political unrest.

Later in 1970 he failed to appear for an international game and once again fled to his favourite hide-out in Marbella.

In February 1971 he scored a memorable hattrick against Cyprus at Windsor Park. Three months later he scored the most famous “goal” of his career at Windsor Park against England. As goalkeeper Gordon Banks released the ball into the air to kick it upfield Best immediately flicked it with his boot over both their heads towards the open goalmouth. As he then outpaced a disconcerted Banks he headed the ball into the net. Unfortunately, the referee decided to disallow the goal on the basis that Best had raised his foot slightly too high.

In October 1972 he was sent off against Bulgaria in Sofia for kicking an opponent. Goalkeeper Pat Jennings reminds us that: “It seemed that the only Bulgarian tactic was to kick George at every opportunity, and it seemed that the Bulgarians were lining up to have a go at him.

Finally, he retaliated at a defender and was sent off but not a single Irish player blamed him afterwards.

His last international game was against Netherlands at Windsor October 1977 in a 1-0 defeat. A year earlier he also sparkled in a 2-2 draw in Rotterdam against a home side containing such stars as Cruyff and Neeskins. In the words of goalkeeper Pat Jennings: “During that second game he outshone everybody else on the field against a Dutch team which was generally regarded as the best in Europe and only lost to hosts Argentina in the final of the World Cup the following year.

In 1986 Northern Ireland manager considered bringing back the 40 year old Best to the international team for the World Cup finals in Spain, but changed his mind.Thus, ended Best’s last long-held hope of ever displaying his dazzling skills on the world stage.

Prior to then the Northern Ireland team contained only a few players from the top level in England and as a result never qualified for major international tournaments.

This was a source of continuing frustration for Best, who was denied the opportunity to produce his dazzling skills in a World Cup final tournament.

In total he scored 9 goals in 37 international games for an invariably second rate Northern Ireland team.

Continued next week.

A statue of the United Trinity (Best, Law and Charlton) outside Old Trafford.

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The Newsreader THE WEEK THAT WAS IN IT . . .

More milk – we can’t win!

OH the farmer and the cowman should be friends, so goes the line from the song in the musical, “Oklahoma”.

If Rodgers and Hammerstein were writing that song today they might well sing that the farmer and the environmentalist should be friends, or even can’t be friends!

That line would fit into a song about as well as those two sectors of our society manage not to merge today!

It was a very irritable column that Victoria White penned in the Irish Examiner last Thursday, criticising Ireland’s intention to increase milk production and our exports in the downstream products which we get from cow-juice. It was sometimes shrill and not particularly well thought-out.

Humour aside, Victoria was very critical of agricultural policy in this country, but she was incorrect in a number of claims she made to substantiate her argument that we will cause further environmental damage over the coming years.

Much of her argument was based on the fact that, with the discontinuation of the milk quotas, we expect to increase the national dairy herd by 300,000 animals.This, she claims, will generate further harmful emissions which the animals will create from increased slurry, methane gas and CO2.That was her first error, because while the dairy herd will increase very substantially, perhaps by almost a third of a million animals, she

did not take into account that the beef herd will be substantially reduced in parallel.

She also claimed on Countrywide, the RTE Saturday morning agricultural programme, that Ireland ‘has only the one piece of grass’ and seemed to suggest that we would not be able to produce any extra, citing the shortage of fodder last year as a case in point.

That is hardly correct on a number of counts. Remember all that ‘set-aside’ land which is producing nothing at the moment.

That could be brought into use and it is ridiculous to suggest that all the land available at the moment could not produce the additional grass required. Fodder was imported during the fifteen month winter because cows were inside far longer than in normal years and the ability to grow grass was seriously curtailed by cold and wet weather and delayed spring conditions.

There is a clear suggestion that by our ability and intention to increase our present production of about 15% of the world’s infant formula to further heights to satisfy a Chinese market, we are ruining the planet’s environment.

She also suggests that we may be enticing away thousands, if not millions from the culture of breast-feeding. This, however, is a choice of women and is not something imposed on them by the agricultural economy. Breast-feeding is a cheaper form of food for babies, yet women are departing

O C Planning Permission WATERFORD CITY AND COUNTY COUNCIL – We, The Board of Management of Scoil Mhuire, National School, intend to apply for planning permission for a single-storey Pre-School and all associated site works at Scoil Mhuire National School, Sheares Street, Abbeyside, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority (Menapia Building, The Mall, Waterford), during its public opening hours (9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.). A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the Planning Authority on payment of the prescribed fee (€20) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the application.

WATERFORD CITY AND COUNTY COUNCIL – I, Thomas O’Connell, wish to apply to the above Authority for full planning permission for the demolition of existing flat roof extension to the side of existing dwelling and replacing with a new single-storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling together with alterations to existing dwelling and ancillary site works at Ballynaparka, Aglish, Co. Waterford. The planning application may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority at Menapia Building, The Mall, Waterford, during it public opening hours 9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. Monday – Friday (excl. public holidays). A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the Planning Authority on payment of the prescribed fee (€20) within the period of five weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the application, and such submissions or observations will be considered by the Planning Authority in making a decision on the application. The Planning Authority may grant permission subject to or without conditions, or may refuse to grant permission.

WATERFORD CITY AND COUNTY COUNCIL – We, Thomas and Margaret Connolly, intend to apply to the above Authority for retention permission to retain indefinitely the, as constructed, domestic garage to the rear of our property at 25 Pinewood Drive, Clonmel, Co. Waterford. The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority (Menapia Building, The Mall, Waterford), during its public opening hours (9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.). A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the Planning Authority on payment of the prescribed fee (€20) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the application.

WATERFORD CITY AND COUNTY COUNCIL – We, John Keane and Noelle Byrne, intend to apply for permission for construction of a dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area and retention of existing agricultural shed and entrance and all ancillary site works at Ballymote Lower, Tallow, Co. Waterford. The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of the Planning Authority (Menapia Building, The Mall, Waterford), during its public opening hours (9.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.). A submission or observation in relation to the application may be made in writing to the Planning Authority on payment of the prescribed fee (€20) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the application.

from the practice in droves, not just in China, but all over the developed world. She can hardly blame Glanbia for that.

Much of the rest of her argument is based on environmental issues and the production of additional greenhouse gases, especially methane which is ‘28 times more powerful as a heat-trapping gas, per molecule, than CO2’. She is also critical of the EU which ‘softened their targets on emissions reductions from Irish agriculture, in October last year. Ireland put in a clause that ranked ‘food security’ equally with climate change in the consideration of agriculture.

She says that Ireland’s argument is that we can produce food that is among the least carbon-intensive in the world, and if we don’t produce it someone with a bigger carbon footprint will.

Short of convincing the world to move away from the practice of eating meat or consuming milk, whether as infant formula or otherwise, then we will chase the markets and turn out product to fill the market opportunity.

It would be foolhardy of Victoria to try to convince Americans to forego their steak for dinner, or the Irish their milk, or the Europeans their infant formula. Better managed farming and approach to the environment is the answer, or, perhaps, trying to convince industrial nations to stop belching out tone of carbon from their factory chimneys. Wonder if Victoria has done that?

Price up, odds down NOW that the Lotto has been privatised, we can look forward to a poorer service and less money going to charitable causes.We have experienced two occasions already where the computers have failed to operate and on one of those occasions the big draw had to be postponed from Friday to Saturday.

Now comes the second part of the equation, the increase in price and the adjustment of the chances of winning the big pile.

According to a report by Kelly O’Brien in the Irish Examiner last week, Lotto bosses are refusing to comment on claims that prices for National Lottery games will increase within the next few months and that more balls will be added to draws – decreasing the chances of winning.

“Representatives from Premier Lotteries Ireland (PLI), the new operators of the lottery licence, appeared before a finance committee in the Oireachtas yesterday,” the report states.

“Despite repeated questions from Sinn Féin TD Mary Lou

McDonald, PLI chief executive Dermot Griffin refused to say whether there are proposals to raise prices or add more numbers to draws.

“After asking the same question a number of times, the Sinn Féin deputy leader demanded a definitive answer: “I just want you to tell me yes or no. As we speak do you have something on the table of your board that plans to either increase numbers or increase price? That’s all I want to know.”

Mr. Griffin again refused to give a straight answer. “We will move to game development once we’re finished the transition process,” he said.

Apparently the first lesson a privatised service learns is how to stone-wall during questioning and the Lotto people seemed to have majored in that and got their Masters in the art as well.

If you play the Lottery, then prepare to dig deeper for your scratch-card or Lotto ticket. Not alone is there no free lunch, but the prices on the menu are going up as well.

Council to spend €10m on Capital Programme Additional €30m hoped to be secured from government and European sources WATERFORD City and County Council has passed a Capital Programme which will see the authority providing €10 million for various projects over the next three years.

However, the Council is hopeful that further funding will be secured from government / European / and possibly private sources to bump up the budget for the Capital Programme to €40m over the next three years.

Chief Executive Officer, Michael Walsh, told the March meeting of the local authority that along with the recently approved Development Contribution Scheme and Councilapproved borrowing requirements, the funding from those sources have crystalised the Council’s capacity for the next three years.

“What we, the management team, are trying to do is to maximise the return we can from the €10m of investment and we will be looking to attract money from national, and

other sources, which will enhance our capacity to invest in Waterford,” said Mr. Walsh.

Mr. Walsh said the Capital Programme outlines projects “which we believe we can achieve with government support”.

He said that while the programme does not include every project initially discussed with Councillors, it is representative of a very significant investment profile over three years.

Mr. Walsh pointed out that the Capital Programme is open to alterations and that it will be reviewed annually.

He said that while Dungarvan, Tramore and Waterford City will have focus as the main economic drivers, there is also scope for projects in more rural areas of the county.

Cllr. John Cummins drew attention to significant matching funding available under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) if the Council was able to increase its spend on the Capital

Programme by around €2m.

However, Mr.Walsh said ‘stretching the purse’ of the Council for an additional €2m was out of the question and an opportunity of matching funding from the ERDF was only an opportunity if the Council could afford it.

“The problem is we can’t afford it at the moment,” said Mr. Walsh.

He did indicate that if there was a significant pick up in development contribution charges, they could re-examine an opportunity of getting matching funds from the ERDF. “Right now, we want to be prudent in terms of what we can hope to do,” said Mr. Walsh.

“Can we make another €2.5m available to receive matching funds from the ERDF? The answer is we can’t,” he said.

The €10m to be provided by the Council in the Capital Programme will come from borrowing (€8m) and €2m (from the Council’s own resources).

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WATERFORD CIL CE PROJECT REQUIRES DRIVERS AND PERSONAL ASSISTANTS – To work with people with physical disabilities in the community. Tel. (086) 8613213.

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FRENCH SUMMER CAMP – Our Junior Summer Camp provides students with an opportunity to revise grammar, learn new vocabulary and practice their French with native speakers in a fun environment. Classes are structured around the Junior Cert curriculum and students take part in different fun activities in the afternoons, all through French. Classes run from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For: 1st and 2nd Year Students. Date: 8th June to 12th June. Day: Monday to Friday.

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Kilmeaden, Co. Waterford The family of the late Tom Kennedy would like to thank most sincerely all of those who sympathised with them on their recent sad loss; grateful thanks to those kind neighbours and to staff at the ICU Unit in Waterford Regional Hospital who went out of their way to assist us; to all those who sympathised, attended the removal, Funeral Mass and burial; those who sent Mass cards, floral tributes and messages of sympathy.

As it would be impossible to thank everyone individually, please accept this acknowledgement as a token of our appreciation.

Tom’s Month’s Mind Mass will be offered on Friday, 27th March, in All Saints Church in Newtown at 7.30 p.m.

† TOMMY (Snail) POWER The Orchid, Mitchell Street, Dungarvan The family of the late Tommy (Snail) Power, who died on 23rd March, 2014, wish to thank most sincerely all those who sympathised with us on our recent sad bereavement. Our thanks to all who called to the house; who travelled long distances to be with us; attended the removal, Mass and burial. Thanks also to those who sent Mass cards, floral tributes and letters of sympathy.

A special word of thanks to Dr. Eamonn Rogers, Fidelma and all the team at University Hospital, Galway, and the wonderful, caring staff at WRH. Fr. Cooney, O.S.A., and Fr. Condon, Fr. Kelleher and Fr. Enright who were a great support and comfort to us. Dr. Mahoney and his team and CareDoc for the care they gave Tom. Donnacha and Helena Gough, The Local, for their kind generosity throughout his illness and death. Pierce Flynn, Marie Quinn, Garvey’s and Morrissey’s Bar, Kilmacthomas, Quinlan’s Butcher’s, Conor Lannen, Mrs. Murray (Chemist) and Ray Kelly (Kelly’s Chemist) and the Palliative Care team for their care and support.

Donnachadh, Carthach McGrath and Dina Walshe for the wonderful music; John Mitchells for the guard of honour. Thanks to all those who came with food. To Tom Drohan and staff, Funeral Directors, for their professionalism and courtesy and also the gravediggers.

Tom’s wife, son and daughters cannot express their gratitude for what everyone has done for us over the past year; all the stories that have been told and the jokes from all Dad’s friends, relatives and family, our sincere thanks.

As it would be impossible to thank everyone individually, please accept this acknowledgement as a token of our sincere appreciation. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered for the intentions of all.

First Anniversary Mass will be celebrated for Tom at St. Mary’s Parish Church at 10.00 a.m. on Sunday, 22nd March, 2015.

DAVID KIELY MONUMENTAL WORKS KILADANGAN, DUNGARVAN Showroom at Kiladangan (near Radley’s Engineering Ltd.) over ONE HUNDRED headstones on display Telephone: (058) 42200. Mobile: (086) 2525663.

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Funeral Home Embalming & Cremations Arranged We attend to all the details: Church & Cemetery

Floral & Artificial Wreaths Supplied Obituary Notices

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ALLEN (11th anniversary) – In loving memory of Vera Allen (nee Murphy), late of Glenmore, Dungarvan, and Kinsalebeg, who died on 19th March, 2004. R.I.P. Anniversary Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, 28th March, in Piltown Church at 6.30 p.m.

Your smile was made of sunshine, Your heart was made of gold, Thanks for the precious years, And the memories that we hold.

We speak your name with love and pride, We smile through tears we try to hide, You left a space no one can fill, We love and miss you Vera and always will.

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DALTON (12th anniversaries) – In loving memory of our mam Mary Dalton, who died on 2nd February, 2003, and our dad Tom Dalton, who died on 18th March, 2003, late of Lackaroe, Youghal. R.I.P. You are not just a memory, Or part of the past, You are ours to remember, As long as life lasts.

Just as you were Mam and Dad, You will always be forever, Special in our memory.

–Sadly missed by sons, daughters and their families.

HOURIGAN (7th anniversary) – In loving memory of Paddy Hourigan, late of Old Parish, who died on 24th March, 2008.

Death leaves a heartache, No one can heal, Memories are treasures, No one can steal.

Some may forget you, Now that you are gone, But we will remember, No matter how long.

–Sadly missed by his loving wife Joan and all the family at home and abroad.

McGRATH (6th anniversary) – In loving memory of Richard McGrath, late of Grawn, Kilmacthomas, who died on 17th March, 2009.

R.I.P. Out of our lives you have gone, But in our hearts you still live on, One year comes, another goes, But the gates of memories never close.

Will those who think of Dad today, A little prayer to Jesus say.

–Always remembered, never forgotten, your sons Tony and Martin, Breda and grand-daughter Caoimhe.

DALTON (18th anniversary) – In loving memory of Willie Dalton, late of Currabaha, Dungarvan, who died on 23rd March, 1997. R.I.P. Mass offered.

You taught us love and kindness, You taught us how to care, You bound us all together, With love few families share.

You taught us many things in life, That we would have to do, But you never taught us how to cope, With the hurt of losing you.

–Sadly missed by Liam, Brigid, Sinead and James and their families.

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DUNGARVAN BRIDGE CLUB (5/3/2015) – 1st John Mansfield & Joan Mansfield; 2nd Colin Carthy & Kathleen Deasy; 3rd Justin Spratt & Tom Prendergast; 4th Ina Considine & Des O'Toole.

(12/3/2015) – 1st Nuala O'Donovan & Marianne Mulcahy; 2nd Tom Prendergast & Catherine Tuohy; 3rd Maeve Coghlan & John Mansfield; 4th Delia Smith & Ina Considine.

GLEESON (12th anniversary) – In loving memory of Bridget Gleeson, late of Ballybrusa, Grange, Ardmore, who died on 27th March, 2003. R.I.P.

We miss you from your fireside chair, Your loving smile and gentle air, Your vacant place no one can fill, We miss you Dad and always will.

Image the fuss in Heaven, Twelve years ago today, When God heard that Mam, Was on her way.

He rounded up his Angels, And told them where to go, Take care this one is precious, Through life she served me so.

This lady sounds remarkable, The Angels did reply, Won’t her family miss her, Surely God they’ll cry.

Oh yes, they will be sorry, Her family hold her dear, But all their love won’t ease her pain, So I’d rather she was here.

The Angels then departed, And settled by her bed, They asked Mam are you ready, And she gently shook her head.

–Always remembered by your loving wife Hannah; son Gerald; daughters Angela, Ann and Betty; daughter-in-law Tess; sonsin-law Jimmy, Pat and Paul; grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Anniversary Mass will be celebrated in the Friary Church on Wednesday, 18th March, at 10.00 a.m. and in Colligan Church on Friday, 20th March, at 7.30 p.m.

For Quick Results Use the Small Adverts. Section Call our Office or use your Credit or Debit Card by Phone Dungarvan Observer, Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

Tel. (058) 41205 / 42042.

Fax: (058) 41559.

–Dearly loved and never forgotten by your husband Liam; your sons Brian, Kieran and Damien; your daughter Ann; your daughters-in-law Claire, Louise and Grainne; your son-inlaw Michael; and your grandchildren Jane, SallyAnn, John, Cian, Luke, Rachel, Kate, Jack, Sarah and Harry.

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KILMACTHOMAS BRIDGE CLUB – 1st Catherine Power & Elayne Kirwan; 2nd Catherine M. Power & Maeve Coghlan; 3rd Anna Harney & David Kelly; 4th Shane Prendergast & Breda O'Sullivan; 5th Anna Ryan & Mary Flahavan.

A bouquet of beautiful memories, Sprayed with a million tears, Wishing God could have spared you, If just for a few more years.

A silent grief that’s in our hearts, No human eye can trace, For many a broken heart is hid, Beneath a smiling face.

RYAN (9th anniversary) – In loving memory of Bridie Ryan, late of Kilbrien, Ballinamult, who died on 19th March, 2006. R.I.P. Those we love don’t go away, They walk beside us every day, Unseen, unheard, but always near, Still loved, still missed, still very dear.

Will those who think of her today, A little prayer to Jesus say.

–Always remembered by your loving sons, daughters and families.

–Sadly missed by Noel, Eilis, Orla and Úna.

MURRAY (12th anniversary) – In loving memory of my dear sister Ann, late of Mount Odell, Dungarvan, who died on 24th March, 2003. R.I.P.

–Sadly missed by all your family at home and abroad.

FOLEY (17th anniversary) – In loving memory of Patrick (Patsy) Foley, late of 49 Caseyville, Dungarvan, who died on 13th March, 1998.

MURRAY (12th anniversary) – In loving memory of Ann Murray, late of Mount Odell, who died on 24th March, 2003. R.I.P. Anniversary Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, 21st March, in Piltown Church, at 6.30 p.m.

KIRWAN (5th anniversary) – In loving memory of Carmel Kirwan, late of Ballagoula, Leamybrien, whose Anniversary occurs on 14th March, 2014.

A day to remember, Sad to recall, Without farewell, You left us all.

Your name is often mentioned, Our thoughts are with you still, You haven’t been forgotten, What’s more you never will.

Anniversary Mass will be celebrated on Monday, 23rd March, in the Friary Church, Dungarvan, at 10.00 a.m.

–Always remembered by Steve, Breda, Sharon, Grace, Mary Lou, J. J. and Stevie.

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MORRISSEY (6th anniversary) – In loving memory of a dear Mam and Granny, Nellie Morrissey, late of Shanakill, Aglish, who died on 19th March, 2009. R.I.P. You taught us love and kindness, You showed us how to care, You bound us all together, With love few families share.

You taught us many things in life, That we would have to do, But you never taught us how to cope, With the hurt of losing you.

–Lovingly remembered and sadly missed by all the family.

You gave us all you had to give, Gifts both big and small, Most of all you gave us love, The greatest gift of all.

You should not wish for sadness, You never cared a fuss, Just to be remembered, And loved by all of us.

–Sadly missed and always remembered by Eileen, Tony, David and James.

MURRAY (12th anniversary) – In loving memory of Ann, late of Mount Odell, who died on 24th March, 2003. R.I.P. Memories are precious, They don’t fade away, We think of you always, Not just today.

–Sadly missed by Mam and all the family.

thanked her committee for the help and support over the past year. Anne also commended the club members for turning out in such great numbers throughout the year. She wished the incoming President Patricia Murray well in the year ahead.

DEISE BRIDGE CLUB (16/3/2015) – 1st Moira Ormonde & Pauline Dempsey; 2nd Brian O'Brien & Doreen Keane; 3rd Phil O'Brien & Sean De Paor; 4th Des O'Toole & Sadie Bean Ui Mhiachain; 5th Kathleen McNamara & Helen McCarthy.

You always had a smile to share, Time to give and time to care, Someone to talk to, kind and true, One in a million, that was you.

Thank you for the years we shared, The love you gave, the way you cared, Our wish is just a simple prayer, God bless and keep you in his care, Those we love don’t go away, They walk beside us day by day.

–Sadly missed by her daughters Mary, Eileen, Ally and sons Pat, James, Percy, Michael, Nicky, Paul and all your family at home and away.

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HARBOUR BRIDGE CLUB (President's Prize: 12/3/2015) – 1st Patricia Murray & Gemma Hickey; 2nd Lola Holmes & Mary Ashe; 3rd Declan O’Keeffe & Breda Cleary; 4th Maeve Morrissey & Mary Phelan; 5th Ann Fitzgerald & Margaret Moloney; 6th Marie Fives & Cait Christopher; 7th Ann M. Fitzgerald & Angela Buckley; 8th Nellie Moloney & Mary Navin; 9th Angela Freyne & Christine O’Keeffe; 10th Lorraine Vart & Ann Stack. President’s Prize night was held on Thursday, 12th March.

President Anne O’Sullivan

WALSH (25th anniversary) – In loving memory of our mother Alice Walsh, late of Briskey Upper, Kilrossanty, whose Anniversary occurs on 20th March.

Masses offered.

PRENDERGAST (95th anniversary) – In loving memory of Gunner 40313 Cornelius Prendergast, Royal Garrison Artillery, late of Barrack Street, Tallow, who died at Scotton Military Hospital, Catterick, Yorkshire, on 18th March, 1920, aged 26 years.

Interred in Tallow R.C. Cemetery.

–Remembered always with love and pride by his nieces and nephews and the extended family at home and abroad.

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Tel. (087) 2604048. (27-3) HAYLAGE FOR SALE – 4x4 Round Bales. Must collect. Aglish area. Tel. (087) 2226046.

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Specialising in tree felling, tree pruning and reducing, chipping and removal, landscaping and garden construction including grass and hedge cutting, lawn laying, gravel gardens, paving, decking and fencing Contact: Eamonn (085) 7784335.

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COMERAGH LANDSCAPING – The landscaping professionals. Garden design and layout.

Planting, water features, patios, stonework, kerbing, fencing, etc. Lawn laying turfed and seeded. For a professional and affordable service contact Paul Curran (087) 2908403. www.comeraghlandscaping.ie (ind.)

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SOCCER COACHING – Vinny Sullivan runs Just4Strikers Soccer Coaching School in Dungarvan every Sunday morning for Boys and Girls aged between 6–14 years old. For more information call Vinny on (087) 7501059.

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LOW COST COUNSELLING/PSYCHOTHERAPY, Dungarvan – Personal Counselling for Adults, Adolescents and Children. Member of IACP and PSI. Contact: Dr. Kay McKiernan (Psychology) 086-8578521 • email: kay@aonahouse.com (31-12)

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DECORATING SERVICE – All internal / external painting. New house spraying before second fix.

Tired old kitchen units hand-painted, hygiene coatings. Epoxy floor paint systems. Qualified local tradesmen. Free estimates.

Insurance work. Fully insured. VAT registered.

Call: Prodec Painters.

Padraig (087) 7730520.

Steve (086) 8410901.

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COMPUTER AND LAPTOP REPAIRS – On Site Repairs, Set-ups, Upgrades, Data Recovery and Training. Virus and pop-up removal. Qualified computer Engineer and Trainer.

20 years experience. Reasonable rates. House calls. Tel. Shane Deevy (087) 9872006. (ind.)

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PLUMBING & HEATING SERVICES – Renewable Energy, Solid Fuel, Gas and Oil Services. All work carried out to new builds.

Repairs also undertaken.

Fully insured. SEI and RGII registered. Call: Ivan on (085) 1345587.

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AIR COMPRESSORS – Sales / Service / Repairs.

New and Used Compressors. Air Tools / Sandblast Units / Aluminium Air Lines. Spray Guns / Air Line Hose and Fittings. Full After Service and Spare Parts. AIRCO COMPRESSED AIR SERVICE. Deelish, Dungarvan. Tel. (086) 8664555 / www.airco.ie (31-7)

MURRAY’S ROOFING DUNGARVAN – Re-roofing specialists. Slate/Tile • flatroofs • guttering/downpipes • chimney work • chimney cowls • ridge tiles • lead flashing lead valleys • supply fit roof velux windows • UPVC fascias/soffits • insurance work under-taken • all work holds a full written guarantee • all areas covered • For a free written quotation and emergency work call Paul on (058) 43992, mobile (086) 2109547. (ind.)

WALL’S CHIMNEY & BOILER SERVICE – Chimney & Boiler Services. Gutters and Drains Unblocked. Contact us on (087) 9931571.

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RE-UPHOLSTERY CARPETS, CURTAINS, FURNITURE – Free estimates in your own home.

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Sofas and Couches made to order. Curtains and Pelmets made to measure.

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Open Monday to Saturday incl. All work guaranteed.

Ned O’Connell, Seafield, Youghal. Tel. (024) 93106.

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MEDITATION – Helps to calm your mind, reduce stress and promote your health. Evening Meditation: Wednesday evenings, 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. €10 per evening.

Tea and coffee afterwards. Morning Meditation also available if interested! Tea and coffee afterwards. Join me for a wonderful hour of meditation.

Contact: Rosemary Phelan (087) 7083030 to book your place.

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Therapies: Bio Energy, Corrective Sounds, Living Threads.

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EASTER SUPERVISED STUDY – Now enrolling at Deise College. Flexible times and dates available.

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THE SUNFLOWER SHOP – Supporting Waterford Hospice City & County – Welcomes donations of Clothes, Brica-Brac, Furniture and Toys, etc., in good condition. We also recycle Old Clothes / Linen. House Clearances welcome. Happy to collect.

Call HELEN. We are located at Main Street, Kilmacthomas. Tel. (087) 2756576.

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(025) 36662 or (086) 8193202 / (087) 8193202. (ind.)

SUCLKER COWS FOR SALE – With Continental Bull Calves at foot. Also Continential Heifers, suitable for breeding. Tel. (058) 47183.

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PARADES Friday, 20th March, 2015

Sa i nt Patrick s m i l es on his Parades Sar’anne O'Rourke pictured at the Cappoquin St. Patrick's Day Parade with her canine friends.

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THERE were plenty of smiling happy faces enjoying the St. Patrick’s Day parades held yesterday (Tuesday) in Cappoquin and Dungarvan, which were blessed with plenty of sunshine.

First to kick off the celebrations of Ireland’s Patron Saint was Cappoquin, whose parade began at 12.30 p.m.

There was a record crowd attending the parade, with estimates of several thousand people lining the streets in Cappoquin to applaud the colourful spectacle, as it made its way from Lower Main Street up to Shanbally, and then back to the Square past the reviewing stand, and continue on to finish by Cappoquin Community Centre.

MC for the event was Aidan Walsh, who kept the crowd informed as the various floats and entrants passed the reviewing stand.

This is the seventh year of Cappoquin’s parade. There were plenty of entries and the parade was

well supported by clubs, community groups, businesses, etc., from around the West Waterford area and participants of all ages, from the Villierstown Ladybirds and Woodland Brownies to the Cappoquin Active Retirement Group, and all in between.

One of the main features of the parade was the local GAA Club, Cappoquin, with their cups following last year’s hurling success.

DUNGARVAN PARADE Brilliant sunshine and eleven degrees of heat brought record crowds onto the streets of the Dungarvan for the 39th St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

The dry, bright conditions were favourable for the usual thousands who responded by turning out to take part in or just watch the spectacle as it made its way through the streets of Dungarvan and Abbeyside.

Thankfully, the threatened rainshowers stayed away as the colourful cavalcade, which

was preceeded by vintage cars and tractors, made its way along the route to the applause and cheers of the green bedecked throngs behind the barriers.

First arrivals to the barriers came into Grattan Square as early as 1.15 p.m. to ensure their place in the heart of the action.

For the first time in its thirty-nine year history, the image of St. Patrick led the Parade which is held in his honour and to celebrate the National Day each year. The new banner bearing Patrick’s image in stained glass design was carried by students of the five local secondary schools who were joined by a number of Students of Mercyhurst University who are studying in the town presently.

The national flag was carried by Mercyhurst University student, Catherine Rainey; the RNLI flag was carried by Patrick Harty; and the American flag was carried by Mercyhurst University student, Marina Coletta.

Behind them came Dungarvan Brass Band, with the De La Salle Scout Pipe Band which came later in the parade. The brass band having escorted the cavalcade to Grattan Square, stopped in front of the Reviewing Stand. They resumed their lead up O’Connell Street and the circuitous route via Wolfe Tone Road where very few came to watch, preferring to be in the midst of the fun and celebration in the Town Centre.

Lively and informative commentary this year was given by John O’Shea of WLR FM. Among the colourful entries were representatives of sporting clubs, organisations and businesses, with many excellent displays and showcases along with some very entertaining entertainment by ‘The Mad Hatter’ and other ‘characters’.

Earlier in the day, Mayor Geoghegan and members of the Council attended Mass in St. Mary’s celebrated by Very Rev. William

Canon Ryan who spoke of the life and legacy of St. Patrick in this country. He quoted from the ‘Confessio’, Patrick’s Confessions, the story of his life.

The members of Comeraghs Comhaltas Branch, Cuil Cheoil played at the stage for the waiting crowds and the talented group of whom several are All Ireland or Munster Champions thrilled the crowds with their exciting and enjoyable display and kept feet tapping which might otherwise be chilled.

They had also entertained the large crowd on the Eve of the big day with a very enjoyable concert at the stage prior to the magnificent twelve minute fireworks display in the harbour. The entire harbour area from Abbeyside Church to the Castle was lined several rows deep and it was enjoyable even to watch the faces of the children as each star-burst and Disney burst produced its boom followed by the colourful shower.

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Marcel and Emil Renard.

De La Salle Scout Pipe Band, Waterford, following ‘The Mad Hatter’ during the Dungarvan St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

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Carrying the new St. Patrick’s banner: Saoirse Organ, Lydia O’Shea, Brenda Organ, Anna Regan, Daniel Drummy and Shauna Young.

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The Keane family, Villierstown.

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Amber Nevin and Caoimhe Whelan, Tallow.[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

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John Power pictured with his grand-daughters Clodagh, Kelly and Miss Kate. Also J. P. O’Hallahan and Gareth Mulcahy and Oisin Power.

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Anne and Clodagh Crawley, Dungarvan.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

Chairman of Dungarvan-Lismore District Council, Cllr. Damien Geoghegan presents Shamrock to Dr. David Grabelski, of Mercyhurst University, following the raising of the Irish and American flags at Dungarvan Civic Offices. Included are students from Mercyhurst University and Tom Keith, Dungarvan.

Mia Landers, Millie Nagle and Will Healy, Dungarvan.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

Liam Lynch, Ardmore.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

Canon William Ryan, who celebrated Mass on St. Patrick’s Day at St. Mary’s Parish Church, Dungarvan. Included are Chairman of Dungarvan-Lismore District Council, Cllr.

Damien Geoghegan; and Cllr. Pat Nugent; with students from Mercyhurst University, who are studying during a semester in Dungarvan.

[Tom Keith]

Sid Hanlon, Kilmacthomas.

Fireworks in Dungarvan Quay on Monday night last.

[Dylan Walsh]

Stephanie and Sophie Byrne with Belinda Noonan.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

Getting onto the Spirit of St. Patrick’s Day at John Foley’s Kilrush Service Station Ltd. From left: Staff members Brian Power, Laura Coward, Shelley McGrath, Willie Coward with John Foley, [Sean Byrne//Deise Media] Proprietor.

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Anne Moody, Marie and Bobby Moody and Bernie Landers pictured at the Cappoquin St. Patrick's Day Parade.

[Dan McGrath/Editorial Images] The Villierstown Ladybirds pictured at the Cappoquin St. Patrick's Day Parade.

[Dan McGrath/Editorial Images]

The Woodland Brownies pictured at the Cappoquin St. Patrick's Day Parade.

[Dan McGrath/Editorial Images]

Annie Uniacke, Abbie Uniacke O'Connor, Lily Fives and Sophia Uniacke pictured at the Cappoquin St. Patrick's Day Parade.

[Dan McGrath/Editorial Images]

Participants on the Melleray Community Group float pose for the camera.

[Dan McGrath/Editorial Images]

Rosie Wright, Rebecca Burke and Julie Whelan pictured at the Cappoquin St. Patrick's Day Parade. [Dan McGrath/Editorial Images]

Carmel and Danny Dalton with Sandra, Ciaran and Conor Reddy at the Cappoquin St. Patrick's [Dan McGrath/Editorial Images] Day Parade.

James Twomey entertains the crowd at the Cappoquin St. [Dan McGrath/Editorial Images] Patrick's Day Parade.

Mary Curran and son Morgan pictured at the Cappoquin St. [Dan McGrath/Editorial Images] Patrick's Day Parade.

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NEWSREEL …

Anxious or Depressed?

COME to our Support Group Meeting in Dungarvan.

Venue: Deise Day Care, Dungarvan, Community Centre, Mitchel Street. Date: Every Tuesday at 8.00 p.m. Helpline: 1890 303 302.You are not alone! (ind.)

Interested in volunteering with Dungarvan Citizens Information

WE offer you: • a rewarding and worthwhile experience • the chance to learn new skills • induction, training and ongoing support We ask you to: • share your time and skills • attend training as required Contact Dungarvan CIC, Scanlon’s Yard, Friary St., Dungarvan. Tel. 0761 07 6550. Closing date 6/2/15.

St. Michael’s Hall Ballyduff Upper Card Results 11/3/15 – 1st Divided: Hugh Geary & Michael Whelan, Pat O’Connor & Helen Morrissey. 4 out of 5: Bill Leddy & Helen O’Keeffe. Lucky Tables: Eileen O’Callaghan & Maura Lyndsey, Mary Fitzgerald & Joan Hannon, Sheila Lonergan & Pat Kirby. Raffle: S. Lonergan x 3, J. Hannon x 3, C. Higgins x 2, M. Lyndsey, M. Whelan, H. O’Keeffe, B. Leddy.

Dungarvan Mens Shed QUIET enough at the Shed at the start of the week, with some on holidays, some on courses and some just out of hospital (Chairman Nicky Sheehan is home and on the mend, mind yourself our glorious leader!).

In the garden and greenhouse things are really sprouting up, and it’s a credit to Ger Dalton and Tommy Butler, our groundsman and seed expert that the essence of Spring has arrived at the Shed. On the workshop front, plans are afoot for the production of planters and barrows, timber on the way and drills to be charged! Well done Geddy and his team of gnomes in the workshop. And don't forget the 21st of this month, a Saturday, for the visit of the Celtic Stickmakers for a demonstation and workshop.These guys have some talent.

Brideview Drama - ‘Portia Coughlan’ back by popular demand BRIDEVIEW Drama's 2015 festival production, 'Portia Coughlan' by Marina Carr, returns to Tallow for one night only this week. Having competed in the Kerry Drama Festival on Saturday 7th and the West Waterford Drama Festival on Tuesday 10th, word of mouth has got the local public calling for another chance to see this entrancing show. 'Portia Coughlan' will return to Tallow Community Centre on Thursday, 19th March.

Curtain 8.15 p.m. Over 18s. This will be your final chance to catch the show. Don't miss out. Kindly supported by Waterford City and County Council Arts.

Book Rental Scheme Fundraiser for St. Mary’s Touraneena Irish Night Rattle the Boards and special guest Des Dillon will be performing in the Community Centre,Touraneena, on Saturday, 21st March at 8.30 p.m. Doors open at 8.00 p.m. Tickets on sale at Beary's Cross, Post Office, Aine Hickey 087-1342940 or Catherine Cliffe 0831402413. A great nights entertainment guaranteed.

Funds raised will go towards the Book Rental Scheme for St. Mary's N.S., Touraneena.

Kill Montessori School who raised €320 for Autism Action Ireland by taking part in National Pyjama Day.

Kill KILL MONTESSORI SCHOOL Well done to all the boys and girls in Kill Montessori School who raised €320 for Autism Action Ireland by taking part in national pyjama day recently!

BIRTHDAY WISHES Best wishes to Michael Barry on your birthday this week – have a ball!

A very happy birthday also to Bernie O’Sullivan who is celebrating her birthday on Saturday, wishing you many more 21st birthdays to come!

GEALACH GORM THEATRE SINGER / SONGWRITER FESTIVAL 2015 Plans for this year’s Singer/Songwriter Festival are well underway – a fantastic line-up featuring the finest international singers and songwriters will entertain the audience again on 17th and 18th April – all details will be revealed next week, so watch this space!

KILL NATIONAL SCHOOL A big well done to all our pupils and all parents who took part in the Internet Safety programme

last week, the internet is such a vast space of information and possibilities for good as well as potentially harming actions, we can always add on to our knowledge, especially where our personal safety is concerned! We are now looking forward to our sponsored walk next week which will benefit the activities arranged for all the pupils not taking part in the upcoming swimming lessons. If you would like to sponsor a child for the walk, please feel free to do so.

GOOD LUCK! Best of luck to the Irish Number One Roisin Kirwan who travels to Scotland this weekend with the Irish Squash Under 13 team to play in the 5 Nations Championship. Her sister Niamh is travelling as a supporter and currently holds the first place in Ireland’s U-11.

Congratulations also to her brother Ciaran who delivered a Man of the Match performance in the All Ireland schools hurling semi final -best of luck to the St. Declan’s Team in the

All-Ireland!

COMMUNITY GAMES This year our Community Games Art & Handwriting competition will be held in Ballyduff Hall on the 21st March at 11.00 a.m. For further information, please visit our Mahon Valley Facebook page.

END OF YEAR PERFORMANCE The very best to all our drama students at the Gealach Gorm Theatre who have been working very hard (while having lots of fun!) for the upcoming end of year performance on Monday. Once again, it has been an amazing journey to see all the children develop and grow throughout the year, all of our pupils turned into brightly shining stars, we are very proud of you all! Break a leg everybody!

CIRCUIT TRAINING Anyone interested in our Circuit Training classes in Kill Community Centre which are suitable for all ages and all fitness levels, please contact Brian Cuddihy on 087-9817001 for more information.

Easter Egg Hunt FREE COMPETITION OPEN TO EVERYONE!!

Abbeyside Rangers and Leaders have decorated 20 Easter Eggs which will be displayed in various shop windows from March 30th to April 13th.

To enter get your application form from Dungarvan Tourist Office and fill in the location of each egg. Return completed forms to the Tourist Office.

All correct entries will go in to a draw for a great chocolate and voucher hamper.

Roisin Kirwan representing Ireland with her team in the 5 Nations Championship.

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COUNTY NEWS

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

Kilrossanty SYMPATHY Deepest sympathy to Ann Dee, Carrigeenageragh, on the death of her husband Joe who died on Saturday last. Also sympathy to his sons Mike and Maurice; daughter Katie; daughter-in-law Susan; grandchildren Maeve and Caoimhe; brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, niece, other relatives and his many friends.

Burial in Kilrossanty Cemetary. May he rest in peace.

21st BIRTHDAY Congratulations to Claire Whyte, Cutteen, who celebrated her 21st birthday

last Friday night in Crotty’s Inn with her family, relatives and many friends.

LOURDES There will be a Church Gate collection for the Lourdes Invalid Fund on this weekend of 21st and 22nd March. Please support.

DEISE DRAW Hope tickets are being purchased by people in the Parish, if you want to buy one for the coming series please contact Kevin, Jason or Mairead. First draw on 27th March in Stradbally.

Kilmacthomas KILMACTHOMAS / MAHON VALLEY INITIATIVE (KMVI) A reminder of a public meeting taking place this Thursday night, March 19th in the Rainbow Community Hall at 8.00 p.m.

All existing community groups and individuals are encouraged to attend and have input into forming a new committee re the development of the Mahon Valley area including Kilmacthomas town. The future is bright for the Mahon Valley, be part of this new initiative and lets work together and make things happen.

BIRTHDAY WISHES Congratulations to Tommy Fitzgerald, Hillview, Kilmacthomas on celebrating his 50th birthday with a surprise party in Kiersey’s Lounge on Saturday night last.

Tommy's family and many friends attended the special occasion FUNDRAISER The Irish Kidney Association will hold their annual “Forget-me-knot” fundraiser on Friday, 20th March. Centra Kilmacthomas is the local venue where you can purchase your "Forget-me-knot.

Please give your support to this worthy

cause.

COMMUNITY GAMES This year our Community Games Art & Handwriting competition will be held in Ballyduff Hall on Saturday, 21st March at 11.00 a.m. For more information please go to the Mahon Valley Facebook page.

LOTTO DRAW Results of the Kilmac AFC lotto draw for Saturday, 14th March. Letters drawn were I, J, Q and R. No jackpot winner, five winners of €20 each to Damien O’Reilly, c/o PPI; Ronan Mulcahy, Lemybrien; Trevor Whelan, c/o PPI; Helen Sutton, Hillside Crescent, Kilmac and Damien O’Reilly, c/o PPI. Next week’s jackpot €2,000, be in to win.

WHIST Ballylaneen Whist Club winners for Monday, 9th March - Rosie Keane, Agnes Thomas, Mary Walsh, Mary Blackmore, Mary B. Bowdren, Peggy Callaghan, Maureen Sullivan, Carrie Wilkins, Kathleen Foran, Breda Galvin and Peter Callaghan.

Raffle winners Mary B. Bowdren, Peter Callaghan, Peggy Callaghan, Eric Townsend and Stess Connolly.

Portlaw IRISH RED CROSS PORTLAW BRANCH Well done to our members who have commenced an Intermediate First Aid Course recently. The successful completion of this is a pre-requisite for the next level of the Emergency First Responder. We are looking forward to the next few weeks of training, practising and learning!

A big well done also to the organisers of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Portlaw. We were delighted to take part.

Here’s to many more!

Our members had a very informative day at the Respond 2015 national responder

network conference in Tullamore recently.

Thank you for representing our two CFR Groups in Portlaw and Kill and of course for bringing home all the information – regulations change so rapidly in the pre-hospital care sector that it is important to gather all relevant details as soon as they emerge. Great work.

Highly respected members of the medical community gave research based updates – amongst them Prof Douglas Chamberlain CBE, a British cardiologist who is credited with founding the first paramedic unit in Europe, revolutionising pre-hospital clinical care.

Antoinette Coffey, Prof. Douglas Chamberlain, Keith Norris and John Doyle.

Members of the Kill/Bonmahon Foróige Club with new high visibility vests supplied by the RSA – they will be put to good use for the upcoming activities!

Bonmahon BONMAHON COMMUNITY SOCIETY LOTTO Congratulations to last week’s Lucky Dip winners Caroline Power, Anne Concannon, Brendan Sheils and the McCarthy Family. The jackpot is still up for grabs, make sure to have your lucky numbers in this week for a staggering €8,650!

NEWS FROM KNOCKMAHON NS Congratulations to William Power and Dylan Mooney who celebrated their birthdays recently. Well done to our pupils who participated recently

in the Cumann na mBunscol MINI 7's competition.Thank you to all who are supporting us the Bonmahon Community Lotto.

BIRTHDAY WISHES Congratulations to Mary “Nana” Whelan, Ballinasisla, who celebrated her birthday recently.

KILL & BONMAHON FOROIGE CLUB Our club is going from strength to strength and continues to provide a wonderful outlet for our young people. If you would like to help out as adult volunteer, please contact Loretto

on 086-4545304.

CHILDREN’S SOCCER Soccer for Young Children continues each Saturday morning on the Astro Turf Pitch in Stradbally Soccer Club at 10.30 a.m. until 11.45 a.m.

This is an ideal way to introduce little ones to group play and to learn the basics of soccer. All children are welcome and so are their parents! The AstroTurf Pitch in Stradbally Soccer Club is available to hire. Contact Tadhg for time slot availability at 087 2306 841.

Dungarvan Flower & Garden Club Guest: Jimi Blake Wednesday, April 1st - 8.00 p.m. in The Park Hotel HUNTING Brook Gardens consists of five acres of amazing botanical herbaceous gardens and fifteen acres of wonderful woodland gardens and valley. Jimi Blake its creator collects plants from his foreign expeditions and sources rare seeds globally.

Using his palettes of assorted treasures he generates a unique fusion of tropical, prairie and woodland styles which are graced with expansive views over the Wicklow Mountains.

JIMI BLAKE trained in the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin as a horticulturist and was subsequently appointed Head Gardener at Airfield House in Dundrum, Dublin. He resuscitated a large Victorian garden to its former glory enabling the public to rediscover and enjoy a lost gem.

After twelve years at Airfield, Jimi sought a new challenge and having secured twenty acres of the family estate he established “Hunting Brook Gardens.”

He was now fulfilling his ambition of having his own garden, to grow and expand his plant collection and share his passion and knowledge with the public.

He envisaged using his garden as a classroom and a showcase to demonstrate the diverse range of designs he could develop.

Jimi has realised his dream of a dynamic and innovative garden and continues to develop his vision in new directions, always pushing the boundaries outwards. He continues to share his knowledge in a series of courses and workshops often engaging internationally renowned gardeners as guest speakers.

Hunting Brook is a perennially popular educational space for students, volunteers, allotment holders and visitors and is now known as Ireland’s most exciting and fascinating garden.

Jimi is a Gardening Consultant, Planting Designer and International

Lecturer giving talks and presentations all over the world.

THE TALK - The creation of Hunting Brook and a journey through the seasons: Jimi will talk about how he created Hunting

Brook from a green field to the spectacular garden it is today.

He also takes you through from the depths of winter through summer and to the last finale of the autumn.

Jimi Blake

COUNTY NEWS

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

DUNGARVAN 800 On 3rd July, 1215, King John issued a charter at Marlborough which granted the customs of Breteuil (in France) to Dungarvan. It freed the Burgesses in the town from tolls and customs owed to the Crown. The 800th anniversary of this important event takes place on 3rd July this year. It will be a weekend of celebration and a number of events have been planned to mark this occasion. Details of all the events will be issued at a later date.

DUNGARVAN 800CELEBRATION BANQUET AT CREW’S RESTAURANT One of the main events in the celebration of Dungarvan 800 will be a banquet held in the medieval section of the town at Crew’s Restaurant.

The Banquet which has been organised by the Dungarvan 800 Charter Committee will be held on Saturday, 4th July.

Tickets for this event will be available only from Waterford County Museum, Friary St. Dungarvan.

(Please book early as we expect this event to be very popular.)

UPCOMING EVENT “Waterford Food Fights”- An illustrated lecture by Joanne Rothwell – Food for eating and also for selling was vital for survival to many, so much so that they were prepared to fight for it. This talk will introduce some of the fights that occurred in Waterford. Fights were due to complaints against underselling brewers, overpriced butter tasters, substandard cabbages and the rioting in the streets for bread. The talk will take place on Wednesday, 25th March at 8.00 p.m. in the Green Room, Town Hall, Dungarvan. Admission is €5. All are welcome.

WATERFORD BUSINESS AWARDS 2014 On Friday, 6th March, over 200 guests attended the award ceremony at Dooley’s Hotel which was organised by Waterford Chamber and media partners WLRfm.

Waterford County Museum was short-listed in the Arts & Culture category.The other nominees in this category were, Spraoi and Garter Lane. We would like to congratulate Spraoi on winning the award and also congratulations to Dawn Meats in the Manufacturing & Industry category and who were also the overall winners on the night.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Dan McGrath of Dan McGrath Media for taking and producing photographs of the Museum to support our nomination for the Business Awards.

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP We would like to remind our members that the annual membership fee is now due for renewal. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Museum, the annual subscription is €15.

LOCAL HISTORY Two more significant dates relating to Dungarvan:1649: Oliver Cromwell in Dungarvan and General Michael Jones died in Church Street.

1689: James 11 granted a Charter to Dungarvan BOOK SALE We are now collecting books for our Annual Book Sale. Books can be handed into the Museum, Friary St., Dungarvan. No magazines, encloyopedias or school books accepted.

VISITING THE MUSEUM We welcome visits from schools, community groups, and local history societies.

Please contact us at 05845960 to arrange a visit. Let us know if you are interested in a particular subject and we will focus on that during the visit.

OPENING HOURS Monday to Friday 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Admission is free.

FIRST WORLD WAR WATERFORD CASUALTY LIST WEEK ENDING 20th MARCH Name: George Colthorpe; Service No. Rank: 6236 Sgt.; Service: Army; Unit: R.I. Reg. 1Bn; Where Born: Tramore,

Corbally; Death Category: Killed in Action; Date of Death: 3/16/15.

Name: Michael Cooke; Service No Rank: 16300 Pr.; Service: Army; Unit: R.I. Reg. 2Bn; Where Born: Waterford; Death Category: Killed in Action; Date of Death: 3/15/15.

Name: Denis Driscoll; Age: 22; Service No Rank: 22689 Pr.; Service: Army; Unit: R.I. Fus. 3 Res.Bn; Where Born: Waterford; Death Category: Died; Date of Death: 3/15/15.

Name: Michael Drohan; Age: 19; Service No. Rank: 4083 Pr.; Service: Army; Unit: R.I. Reg.1Bn; Where Born: Carrickbeg; Death Category: Killed in Action; Date of Death: 3/15/15.

Name: Patrick Murphy; Age 19; Service No. Rank: 10884 Pr.; Service: Army; Unit: Conn. Rang.1Bn; Where Born: Lismore; Death Category: Wounds; Date of Death: 3/18/15.

Name: James O’Toole; Service No. Rank: 10214 Pr.; Service: Army; Unit: R.I. Fus. 2Bn.;Where Born: Waterford; Death Category: Killed in Action; Date of Death: 3/14/15.

Name: Patrick Oswald; Service No. Rank: 77357 Pr.; Service: Army; Unit: Northumb. Fus. 2Bn; Where Born: India (Kirkee); Death Category: Died; Date of Death: 3/14/15.

Name: John Tobin; Service No. Rank: 7281 Pr.; Service: Army; Unit: R.I. Reg. 1Bn; Where Born: Ring; Death Category: Wounds; Date of Death: 3/18/15.

Name: James Whelan; Age 33; Service No. Rank: 4674 Pr.; Service: Army; Unit: R.I. Reg. 1Bn; Where Born: Portlaw; Death Category: Wounds; Date of Death: 3/15/15.

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Fr. Cullinan, Mr. Paddy Smith (Teacher), Ryan Feeney, Katie Meagher, Kieran Whelan and Ryan Bennett on their Confirmation Day. [Mary Glavin]

Ballysaggart 21 YEARS IN BUSINESS Congratulations to Sean Roche who is currently celebrating 21 years of running his successful Tyre Centre in Ballysaggart. Through good times and bad Sean has continued to work hard and build his business up to what it is today. Well done Sean and hope your success continues long into the future.

PILATES IN BALLYSAGGART The next four week session of Pilates Classes commenced on Monday March 16th in Ballysaggart Community Centre. The classes run from 7.15 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. and cost €32 for 4 sessions. It is never too late to join, new members are always welcome, for further information contact Helen O’Donovan at Dungarvan Pilates on facebook or by phone on 087 2396324.

COMMUNITY COUNCIL 45 CARDS RESULTS 1st: Phil Duffy and Viv Uniacke. 2nd: Bertie Neville and Sheila Lonergan. Lucky Tables: Mary Power and Sharon Power, Tom Cahill and Tess Hale.Tickets: Mary Whelan, Bertie Neville, Tom Cahill and Paddy Duffy.

CONDOLENCES Ballysaggart Community wish to extend our deepest Sympathies to the family of Patrick Fitzgerald, Glengarra Lismore. May he rest in peace.

Ballysaggart Village Improvement Works make steady progress, despite some weather delays Waterford City and County Council employees are working hard to keep the project on schedule.

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Ardmore LONGEST TRIP LONGEST DAY 2015 On Sunday, June 21st this year, the longest day of the year, two lifelong friends from Co. Waterford will travel by motorcycle from Mizen Head in Co. Cork to Malin Head in Co. Donegal; the longest single trip that one can take between two points on the island of Ireland. The distance that will be travelled on the day will be approximately 440 miles. Hence the moniker for the trip!

Gerry O’Mahony and John Whelan (postman for Ardmore village) have known each other since around 1968 when both their families moved to live in a then ‘new’ housing estate in Kinsalebeg, Co. Waterford. Both these men have had a lifelong love affair with motorcycles and on June 21st this year will undertake the Longest Trip on the Longest Day in aid of East Cork Rapid Response. Any donations received will be passed on directly to this organisation. Fuel costs, and all other associated costs for the trip are being covered by the riders themselves.

The aim of the East Cork Rapid Response is to deliver pre-hospital Emergency Medical Care to the victims of sudden illness or trauma such as road traffic accidents, industrial and farming accidents, heart attacks etc.

The ECRR service is provided by a specially trained and equipped doctor and advanced paramedics. The equipment they carry allows for full treatment at scene or roadside using specialised equipment. Funds raised from the Longest Trip Longest Day 2015 will go towards purchasing supplies and equipment for the organisation.

For more details on this adventure, or to make a donation, please contact Gerry O’Mahony on 086-3957962 or email ardmorenotes@gmail.com.

Any motorcyclist who feels they would like to become part of this please make contact at the above phone number or email for details on how you can join. Any other riders intending to take part in this trip please be aware that June 20th, 21st

and 22nd will have to be free in their calendar of events this year.

ARDMORE NS NEWS With Easter just around the corner what better time to organise a Cake Sale than right now!! So, with the help of 5th and 6th class, that's what the Parents Association are just about to do.

We would greatly appreciate if as many parents as possible (and of course anyone else who feels like it!!) could bake some delicious treats and drop them into the school on the morning of Friday, March 27th. Then at 11.30 am that same day, just before the school breaks up for the Easter Holidays, the kids of 5th and 6th class will open the doors of their 'cake shop' to the public and treat whoever comes along on the day to some scrumptious bargains.

So please stick the date in your diary and help out if you can. It was a wonderful event last year and we hope it will be just as good this time round.

AN GHAELTACHT / AIRD MHÓR AC An Ghaeltacht/Aird Mhór Athletic Club is resuming training in Ardmore shortly. As well as getting started again with our regular athletes, we are inviting new members to come along and have some fun while trying out the wonderful sport of athletics.

Since it was established in 2009, the Club’s purpose is to encourage all children to have fun, to develop skills in running, jumping, throwing, and participate safely in the spirit of fair play.

We have Athletics Association of Ireland (AAI) accredited coaches and we partake in both competitive athletics events and Fun Sports Days as well, so that everyone gets a chance to be a part of the world of athletics.

Whether you’re in it to compete or just to have fun and stay healthy by getting regular exercise, we cater for all ages and abilities from 7 years up. New prospective members are always welcome to attend on a trial basis to see if it’s for them.

Come along to any of our training sessions or we can be contacted on

087 6727377 if you have any questions. Also, we ALWAYS need new coaches or parents who are willing to help out at sessions.

The club will be training in Ardmore GAA Field every Wednesday night at 7pm from March 18th. So come along and join us – the more the merrier!

ARDMORE N.S. EASTER RAFFLE! Easter's just around the corner so make sure you pop in to Quinn's store over the next couple of weeks and enter our Easter Raffle to be in with a chance to win one of these two luxury Chocolate Eggs. They're both handmade here in Ireland by Caffrey's Chocolates, and the big one is seriously big (Just ignore the calorie count .... it's Easter and all that!!)

Lines can be bought at the counter for €2 each and all funds raised will as always go towards school activities.

Thanks to John and Ber Quinn for their support in allowing us to run this competition every year and thanks to Connie Kiersey for organising the prizes.

Winners will be announced on Easter Saturday - just in time to pick up the prizes for the big day!! Good luck everyone and thanks for supporting the PA. TIDY TOWNS DINNER DANCE Friday 27th March in An Tobar. €25 for a four course meal, music and as much dancing as you'd like to do.

So if you fancy a night of ceol, bia agus craic, book your place at a table with any one of the committee members.

CARD RESULTS "A Keane Sweep" – 1st Anne and Carol Keane; 2nd Brian and Willie Keane; 3rd Fr. Lucey and Billy Harty.

Best of last 5. Hugh Reilly and James Flavin. Last game. Biddy Power and Liz Reilly.

NAIL TECHNICIAN AND MAKE-UP ARTIST AVAILABLE At French’s Hair Salon, Main Street, Ardmore. Tel. (086) 1769088. Salon opening hours:Tuesday – Friday 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.

Pictured recently at the First Cut Youth Film Festival in Youghal were Jason O'Sullivan, Francesca Buckley, Brianán Buckley and [Gerry O'Mahony] Christopher Hughes.

Pictured recently at the First Cut Youth Film Festival in Youghal were Mary-Linehan Foley (Ind. Cllr.), Cllr. Alan Coleman (Cork City and County Mayor) and Sandra McClelland T.D. [Gerry O'Mahony]

Ardmore Tidy Towns JOHN FITZGERALD R.I.P. This week we bade farewell to one of the great Tidy Towns pioneers and leaders, not just in Ardmore, but in Ireland. Although not a founder member of Ardmore Tidy Towns, John joined the association in its infancy and through the years he held every office therein. He was Vice Chairman in 1973, then he became Secretary, later Treasurer and later again Chairman. When he retired from the chair he was unanimously installed as Honorary Life President.

A gentleman to his fingertips, John walked the Tidy Towns walk as well as talking the talk. It’s not so long ago that he was seen daily picking litter and watering window boxes. He was to the forefront of the organisation in its halcyon years when Ardmore was winning every year. Vice Chairman when we won the overall award and part of the delegation that planted ‘The Ardmore’ tree in The Phoenix Park and later entertained President Mary Robinson when she visited Ardmore. His contribution to Ardmore was truly enormous and we have but fond memories of him. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

DINNER DANCE MARCH 27th The Ardmore Tidy Towns Annual Dinner Dance takes place in An Tobar on Friday night, March 27th. This annual social night has been a permanent fixture on the Ardmore social calendar for years now – we’re not sure exactly when it started but it’s at least 30 years. What started out as a fundraising Tea Party has gradually become a full blown Dinner Dance with a fabulous 4 course hot meal all cooked by the ladies of Ardmore Tidy Towns. The same ladies who propagate, grow and water all the flowers and window boxes, the same ones (with the help of a few men) who during that approximate 30 years have planted and nurtured in excess of 1,000 trees and shrubs in our little village, the same people who have transformed An Sruthán from a filthy, overgrown drain to a clean stream beside a beautiful footpath with an amazing herb garden and fabulous nature habitat. The dinner dance is our principal fundraiser and we invite you all to attend.Tickets are available on a table basis – if you can muster a party of 8 or 10, contact one of the committee members this week and book your table. If you just want to come on your own

or with your partner or spouse then just contact any of the committee and we will allocate seats to you. But please do book as we will be unable to accommodate you if you just turn up on the night. Sincere thanks to all our businesses and farmers who sponsor our food and raffle, for which we have some brilliant prizes and also thanks in advance to all the helpers who come along each night to do decorations, set the tables, prepare the veg & food etc.

SPRING IS IN THE AIR It’s that time of year again when the Tidy Towns members, helpers, supporters as well as the great Fás and Tús staff are out cleaning, painting, cutting grass, picking rubbish etc. This year we will be contacting someone on your road to pass on the message to all residents of your area when we are coming to do a Spring Clean, so you can avail of the opportunity to come out and help us. Also Good Friday is fast approaching when we will be doing our major annual Spring Clean, so set aside a couple of hours that day. Want to get involved and have an input – come along you’ll be more than welcome.

TIPS ON WASTE Following on our public meeting on Waste Awareness held in The Round Tower Hotel last November committed to passing on tips on waste reduction.

60% is Avoidable food waste. Plate scrapings, leftovers, gone off fruit and veg, etc.

20% is Potentially Avoidable food waste – these are things like bread crusts, potato skins, etc.

20% is Unavoidable food waste – like general rubbish, some food waste is unavoidable. Examples are banana skins, chicken bones, etc.

In total in Ireland there is over one million tonnes of food waste disposed of each year. Around 1/3 of this comes from households. Food waste is a real problem and it is costing Irish householders an average of €700 each year.

BROWNIES GEM Browsing in St. Declan’s Hall recently I spotted the following gem on The Brownies notice board. Before you write or speak, text, facebook or tweet: THINK Is it True, is it Helpful, is it Inspiring, is it Necessary and is it Kind. Think. Well done Brownies Leaders.

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Comeraghs Rugged Hills WE often hear it said that there is a lot of history in our traditional songs. Of course this is true but there is much more to our songs and ballads. Recently on an unplanned stroll through Crough Wood (pronounced Crew) on the beautiful walk being developed by the community around Mahon Bridge and Kilrossanty, it was geographical questions that mostly arose.

Apart from the beautiful scenery and the as yet out of our line of sight Mahon Falls, it was the sound of the river in the valley and gorge that kept our attention. Crashing and dashing through the boulder-filled ravine this glistening mountain river must have a name we thought as we passed the ruins of the ancient mill.

There was one blank moment and then it came, the line from Pat Keating’s song.

“To view the Mahon’s silvery stream flowing by the ancient mill and its waters churning into foam by Comeraghs Rugged Hills”. A silent prayer for the poet and patriot whose spirit lives on in those hills and we stroll onwards.

Memories of schooldays are brought back as we pass the odd big boulder, an erratic and other features of the post glacial landscape. Pat Keating and that generation of poets and patriots loved this countryside.

Their inspiration is still with us and with the present generation who endeavour to keep our landscape open and free for generations yet unborn.

BRANCH MEETING At last week’s well attended branch committee meeting once again the enthusiasm of our members was very evident. With a busy few months behind us and a hectic schedule ahead, progress on the various projects was reported.

We had our plans for St Patrick’s festival which started for us at the County Board event on Sunday afternoon and continued on Monday evening with the stage entertainment before the fireworks and then our usual involvement in Grattan Square and our float in the parade. The plans to host the French group from Alsace on the last weekend in April will be finalised in the

next couple of weeks as well as the accommodation for the children and their teachers. We will be providing a number of workshops introducing them to Irish music and culture as well as some joint events with our own members. It was decided to have a registration evening for members who intend competing at Fleadh na nDéise.

This will be in Cuil na Sméar on Friday, March 27th during the music classes. Our branch will host one of five regional song concerts in Cúil na Sméar Hall on Saturday May 16th. This will be the Munster provincial concert with the other 4 based at venues in Connaught, Ulster, Leinster and Dublin.

This is part of the annual Bealtaine projects promoting activities for over 55s.

Details of participants will be available shortly. As we are hosting Fleadh na nDéise over the June Bank Holiday weekend details of entertainment, adjudicators and funding of the festival were discussed. The collecting of sponsorship for the Tradfest and the annual fundraising draw will commence shortly.

There was good news for the huge crowd who have booked tickets for the trip to Riverdance with a good final deal, thanks to Mary Jean Timmins, our Projects officer.

The revised price structure is being made known to members as we go to press.

CCE WATERFORD COUNTY BOARD TRAD SESSION A huge crowd turned up to the first ever County Board session. Members from our own branch, Ballyduff and Tramore as well as members from Húlaí na Rinne made up the bulk of the young performers.

Thanks to all who made it possible especially our own senior musicians Seán and Shannon Kearney, Claire Fennell, Sarah O’Gorman and Clodagh Kelly.

Along with members from Ballyduff they acted as the house band helping the younger ones as well as playing for sets and other dances. All in all it was a very successful day which could be repeated in the very near future.

Abbeyside and Ballygunner Ventures in Glenshelane.

Abbeyside Scouts OUR meeting started as normal with the Scout Prayer and subs. We then spend a lot of time working out bearings and route cards for our forthcoming hike in the Comeraghs, where the scouts will be using compasses to properly understand navigation from maps. This also works for our skills badge training, as mentioned previously we are working on awarding camping, hill walking and pioneering badges before Annual Camp. We also

did preparation for the parade on St. Patrick’s Day, where we will be marching with our cubs (and a very strange wooden structure, watch out on the day).

Our Ventures enjoyed a relaxing day and overnight in Glenshelane with Ventures from Ballygunner last weekend. Some work was done, but dinner and a movie took precedence. The weather worked well for us and a good time was had by all. They will meet

Villierstown Touraneena

RECOVERING WELL Mikey Hamill hope your recovering well after a recent nasty fall. Congratulations on your racing career your doing really well and putting the village on the map. Well done.

SYMPATHY Sympathy to the Cahill family, Dromana and O’Connell family, Aglish on the sudden death of Jimmy Cahill. Rest in Peace Jimmy.

CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Desmond Hall, Villierstown Quay who celebrated his 90th with family and friends.

Congratulations to Matty and Ann O’Brien on the christening of their little girl.

Congratulations also to Pamela and Nigel Aird on the christening of their little boy. We wish you all health and happiness for the years ahead.

Pictured recently at the First Cut Youth Film Festival in Youghal were Pobalscoil students Michelle Beausang, Kate O'Halloran, Ellen Kelly and Emma Murphy.

[Gerry O'Mahony]

TOURANEENA VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT It's that time of year again to get everywhere looking spick and span.

A village and approach roads clean up is organised for Saturday, 21st March, meeting at the Community Centre at 10.30 a.m.

Refreshments will be served afterwards. Looking forward to seeing you all on the day.

BOOK RENTAL SCHEME FUNDRAISER FOR ST. MARY’S N.S. TOURANEENA IRISH NIGHT Rattle the Boards and special guest Des Dillon will be performing in the Community Centre, Touraneena, on Saturday, 21st March at 8.30 p.m.

Doors open at 8.00 p.m.

Tickets on sale at Beary's Cross, Post Office, Aine

Hickey 087-1342940 or Catherine Cliffe 0831402413.Tickets can also be purchased on the night at the door. A great nights entertainment guaranteed.

Funds raised will go towards the Book Rental Scheme for St. Mary's N.S., Touraneena.

SLIABH gCUA LOTTO Week ending 15th March, 2015. Lotto jackpot €200. Winning numbers were 2, 9 and 22. No winner. Next week's jackpot is €300. As the jackpot wasn't won this week, the draw was held for the 5 x €20 prizes. The winners were Fiona Gleeson, Aine Walsh, Sean Condon, Sarah McCarthy and Sharon Cliffe. Promoter's prize of €20 - Mary Morrissey. The next draw will be held in Hanrahan's Bar, Ballinamult on Sunday night, 22nd March, 2015.

again at a County Ventures event in Duncannon Fort at the end of the month.

We finished the meeting with the Scout Prayer. The meeting next week will be mufti (but we expect to have seen lovely uniforms on parade for St. Patrick’s day!), and people should bring coats in case the weather is good. Venturers please remember that decision and booking for Isle of Man is due by the end of March.

Waiting for Spring Winter’s claustrophobic curtain Hangs a shadow down the days, And the fallow fields are shrouded In a freezing foggy haze.

The frosted hedgerows glisten In veils of virgin white, Like a thousand bells they tinkle, When the wind stirs them at night.

But the year is slowly turning Though winter twists the knife, And rocks of frustration fling Against the doors of life.

Sinuous smokey streamers Are snatched from the chimney stack, But hope still springs eternal For the swallows to come back.

Where the blackened leaves of winter To the clutching thorn briars cling, One shy and sheltered daffodil Is waiting for the Spring.

JOHN DALY

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Pupils from Bunscoil Bothar na Naomh, Lismore who were Confirmed in Lismore Church by Canon Brendan Crowley. Included are Fr. Michael Cullinan, P.P, and Paddy Smith, Class Teacher.

Lismore LISMORE MOCHUDA DEVELOPMENT GROUP Lismore Farmers Market will commence on Sunday, 22nd March next, in the Lismore Castle Avenue, with the kind permission of Lismore Estates. The Market will run every Sunday from 11.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. with everything from arts and crafts, hot food and beverages to delicious cakes and pastries. Any new stallholders are more than welcome to attend, please contact Helen Fitzgerald - 087-6234454 or aoifedunne@msn.com The Market on the 22nd March will coincide with Devonshire Day, organised by the Immrama Festival Committee and we would encourage everyone to support these fantastic local initiatives.

LISMORE MOCHUDA LOTTO DRAW RESULTS Date: March 10th, 2015 – Super Jackpot €10,350.

CORS. No winner. Bonus Jackpot €150. JRTX. No winner. Consolation prizes of €20 each: Johnny Roche, c/o The Classroom, Lismore; Terri McGrath, Main Street, Lismore; Siobhan O’Brien, Ballyea East, Lismore.

Next Draw - March 17th, 2015. Eamonn’s Place. Super Jackpot €10,500.

TIDY TOWNS Our working group was lucky that they got out on the morning of the 9th March as it was a dry Spring morning and got their intended work done because the weather deteriorated on the mornings of the following days. As it is intended to create a bee and butterfly gar-

den on the right hand side of the Grotto on West Street Monday's work concentrated on clearing the site in preparation for planting perennials. A number of shrubs when dug out had their rootballs intact so we replanted them in beds in the Millennium Park and at Townparks so we practised what we preach - REUSE WHERE POSSIBLE. The planters at the Main Street were also cleaned out and the raised bed at the fire station was weeded.

On the same Monday afternoon Mr. Pat Glasheen, Manager Kelleher's SuperValu, Cappoquin presented members of the Lismore Community Litter with hi vis vests. It is the intention of the Lismore Tidy Towns group to supply all members of the Community

Litter roster with hi vis vests.

We have made a start this year and have distributed over eighty vests to some members of the roster. There are areas where vests have not been distributed but we will be working on sourcing more over the next few months and by this time next year every one on the roster should have a hi vis vest promoting the work of tidy towns. The annual community litter roster started in the town on Monday 16th and a sincere thanks to all those people who have volunteered to get involved. As mentioned in last week's notes there are a few areas of the town where a roster does not operate and if you would like the assistance of Lismore Tidy Towns in setting one up then please contact 0871340083.

Devonshire Day at Lismore Castle THE annual ‘Devonshire Day’ at Lismore Castle will take place on March 22nd, 2015, guests to Lismore Castle on this day can take a unique opportunity to enjoy afternoon tea served by the Castle Butler in the Pugin Room and experience a tour of Lismore Castle’s Spring Gardens with the head gardener.

Tea and Tours take place at 11.30 a.m., 12.40 p.m., 1.50 p.m., 3.00 p.m. and 4.10 p.m.

Entrance is by ticket only, Children under 10 go free but must be pre-registered with the ticket office. Tickets are available from the Immrama office and Lismore Heritage Centre and cost €20.

Devonshire Day is a fundraiser organised by the ‘Immrama Festival of Travel Writing’ committee.

The Immrama Festival takes place this year for the 13th year in Lismore from June 11th to 14th, 2015.

Tickets on 058-53803, 058-54975 and 058-53365.

Parish of Lismore and Ballysaggart PART of our Lenten journey is our family commitment of Trocaire. Trocaire is the Church’s organised response to world hunger, and the aiding of projects to help poorer people develop their own independence. Trocaire boxes are available at the Church doors. You will have the privilege of personally taking your filled box up to the altar on Holy Thurday during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. It is a very moving and personal moment as we watch each other come up from our place in the church and lay our Lenten gift before the altar for Christ in the poor. Ideally we ought to do the same every Sunday instead of simply dropping our envelope into the collection basket as it is passed by the collectors. Thanks to the collectors for their cheerfulness and exactness in their task.

The collection during Mass is an act of solidarity with the community in response to the Word of God. This means the gifts are sacred, so those who seek to benefit from these gifts are privileged.

We had only to dip a little into the reserves to meet the costs of

running the parish in 2014.

Filling up the Accountancy Books takes time. These are managed by the finance committee. Then they are sent to Nicholson & Tilson. In turn then they are sent to P.WC. for Diocesan accounting. With the charities act it came too late for this year as no company can be obliged to fill in details in retrospect. Next year, we will have note the number of litres of heating oil in the tanks, the number of unsold ‘penny candles’, the number of bottles of cleaning agents etc.

MASS TIMETABLE Weekday Mass at 10.00 a.m.

Saturday, 21st March - Vigil Mass in Lismore at 6.15 p.m.

Sunday, 22nd March - Morning Mass in Ballysaggart at 9.30 a.m.

Sunday Mass in Lismore at 11.00 a.m.

PRO Pastoral Council Parish Radio Link 103.9FM

[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

Lismore Castle Arts Artifice LISMORE Castle Arts is delighted to present ARTIFICE 2015, which opens on Friday, 20th March and continues until Sunday, 29th March at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co.Waterford.The exhibition will officially be opened by Margaret Organ Arts Officer, Waterford City & County Council at 6.00 p.m. on 20th March.

ARTIFICE, now in its seventh year, is an annual exhibition which presents works of art crafted by Transition Year students from across Waterford which has been realised with the kind support of Waterford City and County Council's Art Office. Each year the participating schools are asked to respond to a theme – this year the theme is SENSATIONAL SIXTIES. Works in the exhibition bring to life the creative minds of young artists, with inspiration taken from the sixties era.

The seven schools in the exhibition this year are: Blackwater Community School (Lismore), Ard Scoil na nDéise

(Dungarvan), Meánscoil San Nioclás (An Rinn), Ardscoil Na Mara (Tramore), Christian Brothers School (Dungarvan) and two new Waterford City representatives, Waterpark College and Newtown School.

In total more than 200 students have contributed to the art work on display.

For further information on ARTIFICE or the Lismore Castle Arts education programme, please contact Jennifer Marshall, Education Co-ordinator, Lismore Castle Arts, by email education@lismorecastlearts.ie or by telephone 058-54061.

Lismore Castle Arts, a not-for-profit initiative, was founded in 2005 with the aim of presenting and promoting internationally significant contemporary art to audiences in Ireland and beyond.

It hosts exhibitions of international significance alongside a series of smaller exhibitions, projects and events as well as a comprehensive education programme.

Modeligo COMMUNITY NEWS A Committee meeting of the Community Council will be held at the Centre on Monday next, at the Centre at 8.00 p.m. All clubs to be represented.

CONDOLENCES Sincere sympathies are offered to nephews, nieces, extended family and many friends of the late Jim Landers, formerly of Newtown, Modeligo, who passed to his eternal reward recently.

Following Requiem Mass at Modeligo on Monday, March 9th the late Jim, who spent some of his earlier years in England as well as having spent some time employed

by Waterford county Council, was laid to rest in Modeligo Cemetery. Ar dheis Dé go raibh sé.

VICTORY BANQUET The eagerly-awaited GAA victory social is coming up this weekend: this Saturday

night at the Park Hotel, Dungarvan to be precise! A bumper crowd expected for this event; the organising committee have just a few tickets still available, costing €30 each, with the meal commencing at 7.30 p.m.

Later “The Buachaills” will providing the music for what no doubt will be a right good knees-up"!

CRANNCHUR AITIUL Due to the GAA Social going ahead on Saturday night next, sellers please note that this weekend’s Mini-Lotto draw will be held on Sunday night, March 22nd, for which the jackpot will be €2,000 (that's because there was no jackpot winner on Saturday last). The numbers drawn were 2, 8 and 10. Bhuaigh Susan Denn; Patricia Barry,Tourin; Ann Power, Redgate and Ena Doocey, Carrigaun, €25 an duine sa mhala séanmhar.

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POP-UP SHOP Items have been coming in steadily to Mary Murray’s as preparations are full steam ahead for the Civic Link pop-up shop, at Lynch’s in Lower Main Street, over March 26th to 29th. What a wonderful opportunity to offload any bric a brac and acquire some new collectibles for the home, garden, car or wherever. Last time out, we had a fantastic collection of books, CDs, ornaments, clothing and other goods on sale, and already this year’s event looks like it will be at least as full of bargain buys. Any and all profits from the shop will be split between Civic Link, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Tradfest.

THANKS TO OUR FIREMEN Chairman Mikle Coffey represented Civic Link at the presentation of money from the Christmas ladder climb and collection by our local fire service personnel.

We were delighted to

receive a cheque for not far off €600, which will be split between general Civic Link costs and the Christmas lighting fund. A huge thank you to Fintan and the lads for their generosity, on behalf of all the community causes they help every year.

MILES FOR SMILES – THE SEQUEL The sponsorship cards for the 2015 Trekkin’ Eejits 140 kilometre relay walk are now available from the Credit Union and members of the organising committee (aka Head Eejits). This year’s event is in aid of Cappoquin Day Centre and will ‘walk’ from 4.00 p.m. on Friday, 24th April, to roughly the same time the following day. The start and finish will be at the Square in Cappoquin, but participants can take their pick of any one or more of fourteen different legs. The first seven legs form a loop around Ballinameela, Modeligo and the Vee before coming back through Cappoquin and

then looping off again via Lismore, Ballyduff, Knockanore and Tourin.

Best wishes to all involved.

CAPPOQUIN ’78 The posters and fliers are out for the inaugural ‘Cappoquin 78 Cycle on Saturday, 18th July next.

This is a full Cycling Ireland recognised leisure cycle of 78 kilometres, organised by the new Cappoquin Cycling Club and Cappoquin Heritage Group.The twin aims are to help raise funds for the restoration of the Red Bridge across the Blackwater and to promote cycling and the quality of cycling routes around the locality. The route will see riders leave from Cappoquin on the Saturday morning and spin via Lismore, Knockanore and across the Blackwater at Youghal Bridge before taking in Clashmore (food stop), Dungarvan and back to Cappoquin where we will have food and shower facilities at the community centre.

Watch out for the lovely blue posters for full details about how to register. We would strongly urge anyone interested to also register with Cycling Ireland, as this will help to promote cycling and also give you a reduction on the entrance fee for this and other registered events.

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Children from Cappoquin Childcare Facility who held a Pyjama Day to raise money for Autism Action.

Cappoquin DEISE JIGS AND REELS FREESTYLE Jigs and Reels Freestyle which is being organized by Dungarvan Lions Club will be held in Cappoquin Community Centre on Saturday, 21st March. 14 couples from Waterford and West Waterford will compete for this very worthy cause, buy your ticket for this great event now, tickets selling fast.

Admission €15. Compere on the night will be Karen from WLRFM.

CAPPOQUIN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD. LOTTO Monday, 16th March, 2015 – Jackpot €5,000. No Winner.

Numbers drawn were 4, 9, 19 and 22.

Consolation Prizes: Mary Murray, Eily Mason, Michelle Kennerick, Breda Doherty, Niamh Coleman and Maureen Power.

Next Draw: Monday, 23rd March, 2015. All proceeds goes towards

Community Centre. Current Jackpot €5,100.

CAPPOQUIN CHILDCARE FACILITY Pyjama Day: Cappoquin Childcare Service held a Pyjama Day on Friday last, 13th March.The charity was Irish Autism Action.

The proceeds from this worthy fun event amounted to €115.70. Many thanks to parents and staff who assisted with this fundraiser.

Winnie Fennell Tradfest ALL roads lead to Cappoquin for the 9th Annual Winnie Fennell Tradfest 27th-29th March.

We are privileged to have yet again a great line up of Musicians, Singers & Dancers to take part in this hugely popular weekend.

Starting the weekend there is an Open Singing Session in Button’s Bar commencing at 9.30 p.m.

Conductor for the night will be the famous Joe Power.

Come along join in and sing a verse or two or just sing along and enjoy.

Saturday evening Winnie’s Trad Group will kick start tunes in The Toby Jug from 6.30 p.m. continuing with Dan Bruder (Accordion) and Angelina Carberry (Banjo). In the Central Bar from 9.30 p.m. world famous Rebecca McCarthy Kent (Fiddle) along with her sister Jana (Flute and Pipes) and Sean Byrne (Guitar) will entertain with their spectacular music.

Sunday afternoon in the

Sportsman’s Inn an open session will commence at 3.30 p.m. with the ever popular Martin Mannion, who will master this brilliant gathering of the youngest talent, with only a few notes, steps or verse to involving the more mature Musician’s, Singers and Dancers to express their talent with his encouragement.

Continuing at 8.00 p.m. we are delighted to have Paul Clesham (Concentina) Shane Keating (Uileann Pipes, Flute and Whistle) and Tony Corbett (Piano, Accordion and Singer).

The Grand Raffle will take place on Sunday Night in the Sportsman’s Inn and tickets are currently on sale at local outlets and members from now on, please support this fantastic weekend of Traditional Music, Song and Dance in your local area.

Put it in your Diary and we look forward to seeing one and all come along and enjoy this great weekend.

Cappoquin Firemen raise €3,200 Christmas 2014 Ladder Climb – Front row left to right: Denise Meaney (Bunscoil Gleann Sidheáin), Michael Coffey (Cappoquin Civic Link), F. Murray SO, presenting the cheque, Mary Coughlan (Cappoquin Tidy Towns), Ann Devine (Bunscoil Gleann Sidheáin), Noel Mason (Cappoquin Lourdes Invalid Fund). Back row left to right: J. Coffey FF, E. Coffey DM, S. McLaughlin FF, Patrick Morrissey FF, J. McGrath DM, J. Noonan SSO, N. O’Connor FF. Missing from photo is Kathleen Barron (Cappoquin Day Centre). Cappoquin Fire Brigade would most sincerely like to thank everyone who gave so generally to help raise €3,200.

Which will be used to great effect by the benefactors. Cappoquin Day Centre, Cappoquin Lourdes Invalid Fund and Cappoquin Civic Link, Bunscoil Gleann Sidheáin, also Cappoquin Tidy Towns.

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Nótaí na Gaeltachta le Comhlucht Forbartha na nDéise OÍCHE SCORAÍOCHTA SA SEAN PHOBAL Ar oíche Dé hAoine seo chughainn, an 20ú Márta, cuirfidh Coiste Forbartha an tSean Phobail oíche iontach ceoil agus drámaíochta i láthair in Halla Naomh Colmáin sa Sean-Phobal mar chuid d’imeachtaí Sheachtain na Gaeilge sa cheantar. Beidh idir cheoltóirí agus amhránaithe, rinceoirí agus scéalaithe ar ardán, na daltaí sin ó SN Bhaile Mhic Airt a ghlac páirt sa taispeántas, Coirm Gael, ina measc. Chomh maith leis sin, léireoidh Aisteoirí an tSean-Phobail an dráma ‘Éirí na Gealaí’ an oíche chéanna.

Aistriúchán é seo ar an mbunsaothar Béarla ‘The Rising of the Moon’, le Lady Gregory.

Rithfear crannchur, leis, ar an oíche ar mhaithe le SN Bhaile Mhic Airt. Cuirfear tús leis na himeachtaí ar fad ar a 7.30 i.n., agus beidh fíorchaoin fáilte roimh chách.

Cead isteach: €5. Bígí linn gan teip!

On Friday next, the 20th of March, Coiste Forbartha an tSean Phobail will present a fantastic night of music and drama in Halla Naomh Colmáin, An Sean-Phobal, to coincide with other events in the area marking Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Musicians, singers, dancers and storytellers will take to the stage, including pupils attending SN Bhaile Mic Airt with their recent presentation for the Coirm Gael initiative. Also on the night, Aisteoirí an tSeanPhobail will present the play ‘Éirí na Gealaí’, a translation of Lady Gregory’s ‘The Rising of the Moon’. A raffle, in aid of SN Bhaile Mhic Airt, will also take place. The night’s activities will commence at 7.30 p.m. and all are welcome.

Admission: €5. Bígí linn gan teip!!

COISTE LOURDES – AN RINN & AN SEAN PHOBAL TRATH NA gCEIST Tá Coiste Lourdes – An Rinn & An Sean Phobal an-buíoch do gach éinne a thug cabhair agus tacaíocht duinn do Tráth na gCeist ar na Aoine seo caite Bhí óiche go híontach. Míle buíochas.

The Lourdes Guild of Ring & Old Parish are very grateful to everyone who gave their help and support to the Table Quiz on Friday night last. It was a very successful evening. Míle buíochas SPRAOI Bhí bliain an-ghnóthach ag an ngrúpa Spraoí go dtí seo, le turas go dtí Cluain Fhia, an Aird Mhór agus go leor imeachtaí ceardaíochta. Chuireamar fáilte roimh Glynnis chughainn an Aoine seo caite agus bhí sí an-mhaith leis na páistí. Tá roinnt imeachtaí socruithe do na seachtainí atá romhainn amach – beidh turas ar an stáisiún dóiteáin, ceardaíocht do La ‘Le Pádraig agus The Great Irish Bake Off ar mhaithe le Ospidéal Temple Street ar an 17 Aibreán.

Míle fáilte roimh tuismitheoirí agus páistí a bheith linn gach Aoine i Halla Pobail na Rinne óna 10 – 12.

We have had a busy year so far in Spraoi, with two trips to the Playloft in Clonea, one trip to Ardmore Open Farm, a Teddy Bear's picnic and various Arts & Crafts. We were delighted to welcome Glynnis from SmallTalk to Spraoi last Friday February 27th, where she kept the kids entertained and showed us how easy it is to make playdough at home. Upcoming events include a trip to the firestation, arts & crafts for Là Fhéile Pádraig and The Great Irish Bake in aid of Temple Street Childrens Hospital on April 17th. Don’t forget to join us every Friday in the Halla Pobail from 10 am to 12 noon. All are welcome. Contact Bríd on 087-7479428 if you have any questions.

RANGANNA HATHA YOGA Go maith don chorp - neart agus aciaíocht, ar siúl gach maidin Dé Céadaoin i

Lios na Sióg, an Sean Phobal Tuilleadh eolais ó Claire - 087 0569907.

Hatha Yoga Classes - Gently improves flexibility and strength. Posture work, breath awareness and relaxation structured into the class. Classes taking place in Lios na Sióg every Wednesday. Further information from Claire at 087-0569907.

PEIL NA mBAN – CLÁRÚ / REGISTRATION Beidh oíche chlárúcháin ag Peil na mBan an tSean Phobail ar an Aoine, 27 Márta óna 6 – 8 sna seomraí gléasta ag Páirc Cholmáin sa Sean Phobal. Fáilte roimh baill nua i gcónaí.

A registration evening will take place for an Sean Phobal Ladies Football on Friday, 27th March from 6 – 8pm at the dressing rooms at Páirc Cholmáin sa Sean Phobal.

YOGA Bíonn Yoga Suain ar siúl gach Déardaoin i Halla Pobail na Rinne ó 8 – 9, fáilte roimh chách.

Yoga classes are held each Thursday from 8-9 in the Community Hall in an Rinn, further information from Mary on 0876977426.

CUIBHRINN / ALLOTMENTS Anois teacht an earraigh .... Tá deis iontach ann do dhaoine gur mhaith leo tosnú leis an garraíodóireacht. Más suim leat a bheith páirteach i ngrúpa beag daoine a bhíonn ag fás glasraí is bláthanna srl, in áit fíor álainn chuige sa Sean Phobal, cuir scéal dtí Míchéal ar 058-46664 nó cfdeise@gmail.com As the growing season approaches, we are looking for people to get involved in the allotment site in an Sean Phobal. People can grow their own vegetables in the community area or take a small plot of land. If interested, contact Míchéal on 058-46664 nó cfdeise@gmail.com.

LÁ OSCAILTE – SCOIL NA LEANAÍ Beidh lá oscailte do Scoil na Leanaí, Coláiste na Rinne ar siúl ar an Satharn, 21 Márta óna 2 – 5 sa tráthnóna.

An open day will be held for Scoil na Leanaí in Coláiste na Rinne on Saturday, 21st March from 2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.

SEIRBHÍS DOCHTÚRA Tá an Dr Gráinne Ní Fhoghlú thar n-ais ag feidhmiú ó Ionad Pobail na Rinne gach Máirt agus Déardaoin ó 9-11 ar maidin.

Dr Gráinne Ní Fhoghlú will be available for appointments in the Health Centre in Ionad Pobail na Rinne on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.

CUMANN NAOMH UINSEANN DE PÓL / SVP Má theastaíonn ó éinne teagmháil a dhéanamh le Cumann Naomh Uinseann de Pól sa cheantar, is féidir teacht orthu ag (058) 46125 nó 085-1422902.

The contact numbers for the An Rinn / An Sean Phobal branch of St Vincent de Paul are (058) 46125 nó 085-1422902.

MEÁIN SHÓISIALTA / TEAGMHÁIL / CONTACT Is féidir an nuacht is déanaí agus eolas faoi imeachtaí a bheidh ar siúl sa Rinn agus sa Seanphobal ar an leathnach Facebook atá ag an gComhlucht Forbartha – www.facebook.com/comhlucht.forbartha agus táimid ar fáil ar twitter anois chomh maith – @cfdeise.

If anybody has events / news to be included in Nótaí na Gaeltachta, seol iad chuig cfdeise@gmail.com nó 058-46664.

Michelle Clancy, Paula Dee, Ali Crowley and Ruth Crowley pictured with their class on National Pyjama Day 2015. It's A Child's Life Pre-school, Stradbally celebrated National Pyjama Day on Friday, 6th March. National Pyjama Day 2015 was in aid of Irish Autism Action. All the children looked fabulous in their pj's all cosy and excited for the days activities. Even some teddy bears couldn't resist coming along too. We are pleased to say €280 was raised. We would like to thank each parent and everyone who kindly donated.

Stradbally BIRTHDAY WISHES Wishing Claire Coleman, High Street, Stradbally a very happy birthday. Claire celebrated a special birthday with a party at Whelan’s Bar with family and friends on Saturday night last.

COMMUNITY GAMES This year, our Community Games art and handwriting competition will be held in Ballyduff Hall on the 21st March at 11 a.m. For more information please go to Mahon Valley Facebook page.

BARRON HALL NEWS Speech & Drama classes in the Barron Hall with Mairead D’Arcy each Monday from 5.15 to 6.15 p.m. The Tay & Mahon Valley Active retirees meet monthly on Mondays in the Barron Hall with guest speakers; tea, chat and convivial company. For more information on upcoming events contact Catherine or Tom Hickey at 087 938 6209.

Here’s a date for your diary, the Barron Hall will host a BBQ on May 31st

(the Sunday night of the June Bank Holiday). The usual great fun assured.

More details nearer to the time.

The Barron Hall is available for bookings currently, be it in the large hall or the smaller meeting room. The kitchen facilities, disabled toilet and outdoor green area included. Contact the booking officer Nicola at 087 716 0700.

LOCAL MARINE NOTICE The Waterford Grouped Towns and Village Sewerage Scheme regarding the Stradbally Waste Water Treatment Plant has given notice that work is due to commence on the 23rd March, 2015 at Stradbally Bridge Cove Bar to upgrade the existing outfall pipe and entail, placing gabion baskets to protect the bank from erosion with a completion date of 27th March and also at Ballyvooney to commence on the 23rd March, 2015 to construct outfall pipe to discharge treated effluent from the new Waste Water Treatment Plant to the sea.

The pipework will extend

from Ballyvooney Bridge to a discharge point approximately 150m off shore. The expected completion date is 30th April, 2015.

All works will be in accordance with the Foreshore Licence granted by the Department of Environment Community and Local Government.

PARISH DRAW There is only one week left to get your name on a card for the beginning of the Parish Draw. The draw begins on Monday, 23rd March, 2015 for twelve weeks. It costs €20 for the twelve weeks. With a top prize of €150 and five prizes of €25 and a promoter’s prize of €25.This is the one major fundraising event to maintain parish property for the year. There are plenty of promoter’s out there in the community with cards to fill and if you would like to help by becoming a promoter or to join the draw just drop in to any of the churches after Mass and Fr. Condon will be delighted with the support.

LOCAL SOCCER No joy for Stradbally on

Sunday as they succumbed to a 4-2 defeat versus Dunmore East. Ricky Power levelled proceedings before half-time and a Stephen Lawlor penalty conversion did likewise after the break, but two further scores for Dunmore sealed their fate.

There was no jackpot winner in the lotto draw in Whelan’s Bar. The numbers drawn were 12, 18, 19, 24. €20 went to A. O’Keeffe, Breda Cummins and Fr. Enright. The promoter’s prize winner was Ger McGrath. The next draw will take place in the Cove Bar on Sunday night and the jackpot will be €2,600.

Thanks to all who continue to support the lotto.

Academy and Little Dribblers continues on Saturday mornings at 10.30 a.m. All children and parents welcome. Astro Turf is available to hire. Contact Tadgh for the next time slot availability at 087 230 6841.

There is a limited amount of old stock club gear available in children’s sizes. Ideal birthday presents. Contact Gerry at 087 224 5712.

West Waterford Scór SCÓR NA bPÁISTÍ The first two rounds of Scór na bPáistí will take place this weekend, in Modeligo at 7.00 p.m. on Friday 20th and in an Rinn on Sunday 22nd at 6.30 pm. All entries are to be submitted to Rúnaí Moll Shields no later than 12.00 noon on Thursday - mollshields@hotmail.com or 087-

9526685.

The final qualifying round will be held in Knockanore on Friday 27th at 7.00 p.m.

(Please note that for the quiz, it is a team of 3 with no more than 3 teams per club allowed on any one night).

SCÓR SINSEAR Best of luck to the Waterford par-

ticipants taking part in the Munster Semi Final of Scór Sinsear in Cappamore, Co. Limerick this Saturday night. Sliabh gCua will represent Port Láirge in the figure dancing, solo singing and set dancing with Aird Mhór in the recitation. The Munster Final will be held Saturday week, 28th March in Ovens in Cork.

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Kilgobinet/Colligan/Kilbrien THE PARISH MIDWIVES - PART 4 NORRIE POWER If genes are destiny, then Norrie Fitzgerald Power was destined to be a midwife. Norrie was the granddaughter of local midwife Julie Ketch. Norrie's aunt was Rita Ketch Fraher, Julie's daughter and also a midwife.

Norrie took up the family trade when she enrolled for midwife training at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. The cost imposed a real burden on her mother and father. Nonetheless, Norrie always remembered gratefully the packages of food sent from home to tide her over - the biscuits and sweets that the adequate, but plain hospital diet failed to provide.

Norrie was always thankful for her training, but she maintained that her ultimate education came from "The University of Life."

And life was Norrie's business. She had no salary and was paid by the baby.

Norrie had to keep detailed registration books if she was going to receive any wages.

Looking back and counting, Norrie found that she had delivered well over 2,000 babies during her long career.

HOME TO HOSPITAL That career spanned the last years when home confinements were the norm and continued into the modern era when country women began to deliver their babies at hospitals.

Norrie was born in 1915 and she died at the age of 95 in 2010. Her time as a midwife started in the late

1930's and continued to 1980 when her husband died.

It was during Norrie's time that modern transport arrived. She began on a bicycle and graduated to an automobile. Her sister used to joke that, after her days bicycling through freezing rains and snow to reach women in labour, she was getting "spoiled" by all the luxury. Norrie married Jim Power from Clonea and he's the man who kept the vehicle in tip-top shape.

Happily, Jim was a car mechanic.

Norrie's service area was titanically huge, so she really needed that car. From Ardmore to Seskinan, from Old Parish to Cappagh, Norrie was on call to dozens of expectant mothers at any one time. Before the automobile cut travelling times, she sometimes didn't get to see her own children for a week at a time.

Because she provided so essential a service, the Power home was one of the first in Dungarvan Town to receive a telephone. Which meant that neighbours were sometimes lined up in Norrie's parlour to make their own important phone calls.

CHARITY WORK She saw desperate things, babies with rat bites, homes with no fuel and no food.

Norrie took joy from new life, but such scenes caused her anguish. That's when her children remember her describing her job as "tough". So, she began to work with the Parish Priest to get things done. With a

Norrie Power's family believes she delivered this child in the late 1930's in Dublin. The dresser or fireplace in the background holds a vase and a glass and perhaps the mother's rumpled bed is also in evidence. The newborn, if still alive, is now in their seventies.

Cameras were rare in Ireland back then and this photo of a newborn is fairly unique. Possibly the Dublin father took the picture and sent Norrie a copy?

small coterie of civic minded citizens, she did her best to get necessaries into the hands of the most needy.

She also could rely on the help of Dr. O'Connell in the Square, Dungarvan Town and she always "had lots of time for him."

In the 1970's, Norrie stopped travelling and joined the staff at the new maternity unit at St. Vincent's Hospital in Dungarvan. She never ceased to marvel that after this her pay was regular AND she had set hours to do her work. No more sudden wake up calls at three in the morning.

After her retirement, Norrie stayed active and alert and continued to serve on charity committees. She was still driving until she was nearly ninety.

THE MIDWIFE GENE Norrie's contribution to midwifery did not end with her retirement. Her daughter, Cora Power Fitzpatrick also became a midwife and now is a public health nurse. And niece Clare Fitzgerald is a midwife in the Coombe in Dublin.

That makes five generations of women, all closely related, who became midwives.

Perhaps genes are destiny.

KILBRIEN PARENT & TODDLERS 18th March,Wednesday Jacqui de Siún from Waterford Childcare Committee brings Scéalaíocht & Rannta (Storytelling and Rhymes) to the toddlers.

There will be more fun activities during the Easter Holidays. Call to Kilbrien Hall any Wednesday at 10.30 a.m. All are invited.

Or see Kilbrien Parent and Toddler group Facebook page for more information.

COMMUNITY EASTER 5th April, Easter Sunday - Easter Egg Hunt at Wooden Bridge in Colligan at 2.30 p.m. followed by a Duck Race in aid of the Community Group and local projects.

6th April, Easter Monday - The annual Easter Monday Clean-up. Meet at 10.00 a.m. at the Colligan wooden bridge, followed at 12.45 p.m. by a picnic. Bags, gloves and high visibility vests provided.

COMMUNITY WALK Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights Reminder: Meet at 7.30 p.m. at Coolnasmear Hall.

High visibility vests are provided.

INCLUDE YOUR INFO Scott Simons - greenhillsofireland@gmail.com

Dungarvan Enterprise Centre Coder Dojo - Anike Tyrrell, Local Enterprise Office who sponsored the Makey Makeys for the Coder Dojo. Included are Mags Durand-O'Connor, Dungarvan Enterprise Centre with Coder Dojo participants David Kenneally, Aisling Oakes, Alex Fitzgerald, Caoimhe Horgan and Ciaran Frisby.

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DEC Coder Dojo delighted to introduce Makey Makeys DEC Coder Dojo has been in operation since 2012 and currently welcomes an average of 16 kids to the free coding sessions every Saturday. The Coder Dojo, which is part of the global coder dojo movement, is staffed by volunteers and is focused on developing coding skills in kids aged 8-14.

Anike Tyrrell of the Local Enterprise Office very generously sponsored MaKey MaKeys for the coder dojo and presented them on Sat 7th March.

MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. It allows users to turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It's a simple Invention Kit that will give users at beginner and expert levels hours of fun and functionality.

Nicky McKenna of McKenna Computers also very generously donated a laptop to DEC Coder Dojo. As the coder dojo has grown in popularity, so too has the demand for inhouse laptops. “We are absolutely thrilled and overwhelmed with the generosity of Nicky McKenna, who donated a laptop for the use of the kids in DEC Coder Dojo,” says Mags Durand O’Connor of Dungarvan Enterprise Centre, “without the generosity of the local business community and the LEO we could not develop the coder dojo to meet the needs of the kids involved”.

“We have exciting plans to bring Raspberry Pis to the coder dojo, again generously sponsored by LEO,”

says Mags, “and we are also looking at bringing the kids involved on a road trip to Google HQ. By immersing kids in a world of technology, code and invention we are preparing them for successful careers in the future.”

Dungarvan Enterprise Centre is extremely grateful for the assistance given by volunteers to the coder dojo, there is always a need for more volunteers so if you have technical skills and could volunteer a few hours on Saturdays you would be very welcome at DEC Coder Dojo.

For more information about DEC Coder Dojo or to learn about Dungarvan Enterprise Centre’s Easter Coding Camp, contact Mags at 058 23598 / info@dungarvanec.com

Dungarvan Enterprise Centre Coder Dojo – Nicky McKenna of McKenna Computers, presents a sponsored Labtop to Stephen Power, Coder Dojo Co-ordinator.

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Dungarvan Enterprise Centre Coder Dojo – Anike Tyrrell, Local Enterprise Office presenting Makey Makeys to Stephen Power Coder Dojo Co-ordinator. Included is Mags Durand-O'Conor, Dungarvan [Sean Byrne//Deise Media] Enterprise Centre.

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Pupils from Clashmore NS who were confirmed in Clashmore Church by Monsignor Nicholas O'Mahony. Included are Fr. Maurice O'Gorman, P.P., Geraldine Shine, School Principal and Kathy Osborne Teacher.

West Waterford NAIL TECHNICIAN AND MAKE-UP ARTIST AVAILABLE At French’s Hair Salon, Main Street, Ardmore. Tel. (086) 1769088. Salon opening hours: Tuesday – Friday 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.

PARISH OF AGLISH – BALLINAMEELA – MOUNT STUART Trocaire Boxes – Please note Trocaire Boxes are sill available in all the Churches.

Lourdes Youth Project – Four girls from the Parish are putting in place a fundraising Project to help them on their way to Lourdes in June as part of the Diocesan Youth Group-- Tickets for a raffle will be available shortly your support will be very much appreciated.

Pastoral Council – Our Parish Pastoral Council invites new members to join them – if you feel you would like to contribute some of your time to your Parish, the Parish Pastoral Council would love to hear from you.

Do this in Memory Programme – We had the liturgy at the Vigil Mass in Ballinameela on Saturday last, March 7th. We thank all the parents for bringing the children.

First penance on Tuesday, March 24th, at 7.00 p.m. in Aglish Church.

On Saturday, March 28th, at Vigil mass we have the children involved in the procession of palms at 7.25 p.m.

On Holy Thursday at the 6.30 p.m. Mass in Aglish we have the children involved in the washing of

the feet.

Easter Reconciliation services – The Easter Reconcilation services times in the parish are as follows: Reconciliation Masses with confession – Monday, March 30th, at 7.15 p.m. in Aglish. Tuesday, March 31st, in Ballinameela at 7.15 p.m.

AGLISH FIT FOR LIFE Aglish Fit4Life and Couch to 5k every Tuesday & Thursday night at 7.15. New members always welcome. Only €2 per night with all proceeds to Children's Hospital Crumlin. All levels of fitness catered for. Walk, Jog, Run or Crawl a few k and improve your fitness and have some fun. You are welcome to join in at any time.

KINSALEBEG MACRA NOTES New members joining Macra before the end of March can now avail of our offer of an 18 month membership for the price of 12 months. So there has never been a better time to join our great organisation. If you would like to become a member of Kinsalebeg Macra, Find us on face book or just contact any of our members for further information.

AN GHAELTACHT / AIRD MHÓR AC The club will be training in Ardmore GAA Field every Wednesday night at 7.00 p.m. from March 18th. So come along and join us – the more the merrier!

Whether you’re in it to compete or just to have fun and stay healthy by getting regular exercise, we cater for all ages and abilities

from 7 years up. New prospective members are always welcome to attend on a trial basis to see if it’s for them. Come along to any of our training sessions or we can be contacted on 087 6727377 if you have any questions. Also, we ALWAYS need new coaches or parents who are willing to help out at sessions.

3rd AGLISH FUN RUN / WALK Easter Monday, 6th April The 3rd Aglish Fun Run / Walk takes place on Easter Monday, 6th April, in aid of Children's Hospital, Crumlin. Run 10k / 5k or Walk 5k. Registration costs €7 or a Donation. Sign on at Aglish Community Hall from 10.30 a.m., Walk at 11.30 and Run at 11.45.

Numerous Spot Prizes and light refreshments afterwards in Community Hall. Children are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

CLASHMORE COMMUNITY ALERT Clashmore Community Alert held a Public Meeting on Wednesday last, March 11th. The guest speaker on the night was Sergeant Brendan Roche (Crime prevention Officer for Co. Waterford). This meeting was well attended and after a very informative presentation on Home Security and Crime Prevention we had a lively question and answer session where Sergeant Roche dealt with any queries which were raised.

A big thank you to all who attended on the night and we look forward to your continued support.

Seán Dunne Young Poets’ Award WATERFORD City and County Council’s Seán Dunne Young Poets’ Award is a long-term commemorative tribute to the memory of Waterford writer Seán Dunne. This award continues to promote the work and the vision of the poet, with emerging and aspiring young authors by recognizing their talents in the poetry genre.

The closing date for receipt of entries is this Friday, 20th March, 2015. See www.waterfordcouncil.ie to download the application form or contact the Arts Office on 05841416.

Injury Fundraiser to be held in Ballyduff Upper A TRACTOR run supporting an injury fundraiser will be held in Ballyduff Upper on Sunday, March 22nd next. Registration is from 12.00 noon in the Sports Hall, with tractors leaving at 1.00 p.m. Entry €20 per tractor. If you are a tractor owner or vintage tractor fan, please come along on the day and support this very worthy cause. Further details available locally.

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Just think of it!

THIS is a great time for people’s rights! Every day we seem to hear of somebody’s rights being asserted or protected. Children, migrants, parents, prisoners, travellers, workers – to put them in alphabetical order – and all sorts of other groups, all have their rights. And, of course, they have, and so have the rest of us also.

But wouldn’t it be reassuring if, from time to time, we heard a voice being raised on behalf of responsibilities also. Because the people who have rights also have responsibilities, but there isn’t much emphasis on responsibilities. And even when responsibilities are spoken about there is a certain feeling that one should apologise for raising a subject which might make a demand on someone else.

But the fact is that to protect people’s rights we need to fulfill our responsibilities.You can’t have one without the other.

The word “responsibility” comes from a Latin word that means, “to answer.” So responsibility means that one is answerable to someone else as to whether one has done some duty or fulfilled an obligation. And in a culture where so many people want to be a chief and very few are satisfied to be a mere Indian, then there is a real reluctance to acknowledge that one is answerable to someone else for the way one works or lives.

This problem is compounded when God has been eliminated from the lives of so many people.The idea that God gives us gifts which we are expected to use, especially if they would benefit others: such principles as these have no foundation for the man or woman for whom God does not exist.

The belief that we must one day give an account to God for the way we have lived is a powerful force in helping us to use properly what gifts we have. To know that in caring for others we are loving God is a wonderful incentive to be responsible for our lives.

Fr. Robert Arthure, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford.

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“Steel Magnolias� a huge success!

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD CUTBILL

The cast of Steel Magnolias with Director, Mary Kelly.

[Richard Cutbill]

Mary Kelly (Director Steel Magnolias) and Edgar Kirby.

Irina Duane, Michael Walsh and Karen Hickson-Walsh.

Teresa Fennell and Anne Power.

Margaret Cunningham, Mary Kelly (Director Steel Magnolias) and Paula Cunningham.

Bridget Walsh, Catherine Veale and Natanya Geoghegan.

Fidelma Meaney, Damien Geoghegan and Mary Kelly (Director Steel Magnolias).

Patricia Hennessy, Samantha Hayes and Clare Denmead.

Marie Mills, Philomena Veale and Ann Carroll.

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Lyre Heritage News

By Marie O’Shea “IN MEMORIAM” There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it.You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't.

Rae, my sister, died one year ago – 10th March. It may help to know that many people find death-date anniversaries difficult, since they serve as such potent reminders of all that we have lost. Keep in mind, however, that in many ways, this day will be no more (or less) difficult to get through than any other day you’ve had to face since your loved one died.

Anniversary dates are really no more than dates on a calendar, and they hold no more power over us than we are willing to give them. More often than not, many people find that the anticipation of the day is far worse than the actual day itself.

However, my feeling is that it is more important to celebrate the life of the departed rather than moaning about loss. As this first year since the passing of my eldest sister Rae drew to a close, I planned a memorial ritual. Her daughter Maura was coming back from England for the Anniversary.

Drawing on those familiar, comforting ceremonies and activities unique to our religion, culture, traditions, family

Danny

St. Patrick and way of life, I planned a day of doing the sort of things that Rae and I used to love to do together.

After the Mass in Stradbally we headed off to Clonmel.The day was the best of spring days.

The sun shone and we marvelled at the beauty of the countryside. The green fields, the little lambs jumping in the air for the sheer joy of life.The blue of the Knockmealdowns on one side and the Comeraghs on the other. The lovely Grotto near Ballymacarbry, with the sunlight at just the right angle to show it at its best. On to a place appropriate to the big feast day of this month, St. Patrick’s Well, which ancient place of worship must be among the most beautiful in Ireland. Maura is the proud possessor of a new camera and she found plenty to intrigue

her. The only sounds were the music of the waterfall at the far end of the magical lake of springs and the birdsong of the many birds that make this spot their nesting place. I spotted a pair of bullfinches in the white blossom of a tree above the path. “This place is full of birds,” said Danny, the “guardian” of the Well. He knows them all and the best places to spot them! He is a member of the Clonmel Heritage Group that keeps the shrine in good order and it’s a credit to him.

The Marlfield Bird Sanctuary was our next stop and then to Marlfield House to see the trees and the little chapel beside the Suir. I remember Rae saying “Couldn’t you just picture the gentry of Marlfield House in bygone days sauntering down the church avenue – the ladies

looking so elegant in their long dresses and bonnets escorted by top-hatted gentlemen tapping their canes alongside!”

Rae had a prodigious knowledge of plants and shrubs. She would enliven any journey with interesting titbits of useful information – how I wish I could remember it all now.

Hunger caught up with us.

Rae loved the Minella Hotel, so that is where we went for a delightful lunch.

The Confirmations are in full swing so we admired the fashion display of the mothers and daughters! Glencomeragh and the magnificent gardens there was our next port of call. Fr. Jimmy welcomed us in and Maura vowed she was going to return to sample the “Pods” on the hillside! The Labyrinth was also put on her to-do list! A short spell of retail therapy in the Dove Centre brought our day to a close – oh! apart that is from a detour to Clonea Power to view a memorial to her grandfather, John Whelan.

At the end of the day, we had honoured my sister in a way that fitted her remembrance. I used this ritual as a rite of passage through grieving to healing, to mark a shift in the way of mourning, or as an official end to this first year while understanding that we're never really finished with loss when someone significant leaves us.

This loss will resurface during key developmental periods for the rest of your life.

Sometimes a trivial thing like a piece of music or a familiar perfume will trigger it.You will have to face it again and again, not as the person you are today, but as the person you will have grown to be in two or five or twenty years from now. Each time you will face it on new terms, but it won't take as long and it won't be as difficult.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.

3 Ducks in a row

Spring in an old Churchyard

St. Patrick's Well

Louise Gleeson (right) with her finished chair.

Ardmore Pattern Festival turns shabby SHABBY to Chic that is! 2015 sees a lot of new events coming to Ardmore Pattern Festival and one such event centres around the global trend of upcycling. Recycling and upcycling un-used or damaged items has become very popular in recent years. The premise is to convert waste materials and repurpose or refurbish them. And of course, have a lot of fun into the bargain.

Bernie Geraghty from Shabby to Chic Cottage, O’Connell Street Dungarvan has teamed up with the Ardmore Pattern Festival to host two workshops over Saturday 25th and Sunday, 26th July that will allow 20 people to upcycle a chair from start to finish. By the end of the session you’ll take away a stunning new and unique piece of furniture.

Louise Gleeson took part in a Shabby to Chic Cottage Saturday morning workshop in January, she explained “I’ve always liked the shabby chic look and had a curiosity as to how to distress an item and give it a new lease of life. I haven’t done anything like this before and Bernie supplied absolutely everything. I’m delighted with chair, picked the colour and fabric myself, so exactly to my taste. Better still my daughter took ownership of it the minute it arrived home for her room!”

Louise added “It was a very relaxing morning spent in the workshop with Bernie, enjoying the chat and the laugh of course but the

feeling of accomplishing your own little creation is very rewarding and bringing it home to take pride of place in your home is fantastic.”

Places are strictly limited to 10 enthusiastic upcyclers per workshop and bookings must be made in advance. Sessions will run for a half day and you don’t need any previous experience to take part. The workshop fee of €95 includes everything you’ll need to create your personalised project. Arrive with a handful of creativity and leave with a brand new bespoke chair!

Bernie Geraghty, owner of Shabby to Chic Cottage is looking forward to the event “Being a qualified designer with vast experience and full of passion for upcycling I’m very excited to be part of the Pattern Festival 2015 and to offer lots of free tips, advice and ideas to all who attends my chair workshop using Annie Sloan’s TM Paint...you will really enjoy it. Chair provided, paint it, distress and wax and upholster your seat…and keep your unique masterpiece when finished.”

To reserve your place on this exciting Pattern Festival Shabby to Chic workshop call Bernie on 086 311 8583.

To learn more about Ardmore Pattern Festival visit www.ardmorepatternfestival.ie or find us on Facebook.

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Letter to the Editor …

Address Letters to: The Editor, Dungarvan Observer, Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

Fax: 058 41559. e-mail: news@dungarvanobserver.ie ALL letters MUST include your name, address and telephone number for authenticity purposes.

Dungarvan Historic Town Atlas Dear Editor, I am researching the Historic Town Atlas for Dungarvan, and I am looking for some help from your readers.

The Atlas, which is sponsored by the Waterford local authorities and which will be published by the Royal Irish Academy, aims to trace the growth of Dungarvan since the building of the castle around 1200 AD. After 1700 the town seems to have expanded following the wars and sieges of the previous century. I have come across several building leases dating from 1720 to 1750 in the Devonshire estate papers which identify the plots in question by reference to “the posted prints of the town”, i.e. early town maps showing numbered plots.

Unfortunately, the estate papers do not contain such maps, and this makes it difficult to identify the streets involved (but probably around Church Street / Main Street / St. Augustine Street, within the medieval town).

It’s a long shot, but would any of your readers know of the existence of any of these “posted prints of the town”?

If they still exist, they may form part of the title deeds of properties in the older part of Dungarvan, particularly the three streets mentioned above. I would just need to take a photo of the map, but it would be wonderful to reproduce a copy in the Atlas, if possible. I can be contacted at the address below, or at 01 2802692.

Yours sincerely, JOHN MARTIN The Lighthouse Breffni Road, Sandycove, Co. Dublin

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St. Mary’s Parish Church, Dungarvan Fifth Sunday of Lent: Jeremiah 31:31-34: I will make a new covenant and never call their sin to mind. Hebrews 5:79: He learnt to obey and became for all the source of eternal salvation. John 12:2030: If a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it yields a rich harvest.

The Story of Mahlet Continues: Mahlet loves school. She says “School is the centre of knowledge. If you are knowledgeable, you will grow.

I would like to study medicine to be a doctor and to help my family, and my country.” When Mahlet is hungry, it is difficult for her to concentrate at school. If she has water to drink, and to grow her crops, she is more likely to do well in school. Hopefully when she grows up, she will fulfil her wish and become a doctor.

Carmelite Monastery Tallow: Three evenings of celebration in the Carmelite Monastery,Tallow this week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. each evening.

Fr. Peter McVerry the well-known Jesuit will speak on Friday evening.

Please see the Parish newsletter for a fuller notice of the celebrations.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will take place in St. Mary’s Parish Church on Saturday next, March 21st from 11.30 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. It is part

of Pope Francis’ 24 hour initiative celebrating that God is rich in mercy, with emphasis on preparing to celebrate the Sacrament of Penance/Confession.

Prepare for Holy Week Taize Hour in Déise Day Care Centre on Wednesday, 25th March - 7.30 p.m. – 8.30 p.m.

Led by Sr. Angela and Sr. Eileen, Convent of Mercy.

Lenten Prayer: Lord, never let me feel that any sin of mine is greater than your love. No matter what the past has been I can begin again. Amen Lenten Programme in the Friary House for the Wednesdays of Lent, continuing next Wednesday, March 18th from 7.45 p.m. – 8.45 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Day Mass Times: St. Mary’s - Monday: 7.30 p.m. Vigil Mass; Tuesday: 10.00 a.m. and 12.00 noon.

The Friary: Monday: 6.15 p.m.

Vigil Mass; Tuesday: 9.00 a.m. & 11.00 a.m.

Parish Office: Located in St. Mary’s Church and is open Monday to Friday office hours.

If you want to book Masses or Baptisms call during these times. Phone 42374.

Daily Mass broadcast on 98.5 FM. Emergency Phone No: To contact Priest on duty: 086 233 4282 St. Vincent de Paul Helpline No. 087-7747870.

Dungarvan Enterprise Centre Coder Dojo – Anike Tyrrell, Local Enterprise Office presenting Makey Makeys to Stephen Power, Coder Dojo Co-ordinator. Included is Mags Durand-O'Connor, Dungarvan Enterprise Centre.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

Movie Reviews In association with SGC Dungarvan

The Diverent Series: Insurgent Opens 19th March THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT raises the stakes for Tris as she searches for allies and answers in the ruins of a futuristic Chicago. Tris (Woodley) and Four (James) are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine (Winslet), the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris's family sac-

rificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them.

Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past and ultimately the future of their world.

The Gunman - Opens 20th March A SNIPER on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the

Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.

Stars: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem.

Get Hard - Opens 27th March RELIGION. WHATS THAT ALL ABOUT? It’s all very well throwing up arguments like the Big Bang Theory or Darwin’s “Origin of the Species”, but what created the conditions for these phenomena to evolve.You can say that a supernatural entity, whoever he, she or it is, magically summoned the elements from nothing and created creation. This superior being could well be God, Nature, Doctor Who or Denis O'Brien.

Although I doubt if it’s Doctor Who. Debates for and against these possibilities are legion. Because we are human and limited in our perceptions, we organise our beliefs in neat packages called religion. Just like politics, industry, sport and entertainment etc., the reason we have so many diverse religions is because we can't agree who is in charge, or who is best served by it.

The basic teachings of most

religions is you are either good or bad. If you are good, you are promised everything you wish for. If you are bad you are damned to walk barefoot on sharp stones for eternity with a flea infested ogre on your back. That last bit could be open to interpretation, as indeed are a lot of ancient texts.

Through the centuries many of these ancient texts have either lost or gained something in translation.

These precious books or scrolls have passed through many political upheavals in their history and their message may have been hijacked by some unscrupulous empire builders.

It is highly unlikely that the original words and phrases have come down to us unchanged. Theres also the possibility that, what was relevant thousands of years ago may not have the same urgency nowadays. Camel rustling was never very big in Bonmahon.

Principles, however, never go out of fashion. Whether you need someone in a fancy dress costume to tell you what you should do, or not, the basic rules will always remain the same. Just ask yourself the question, is it right or wrong? Am I going to hurt someone or make them happy?

All the secular scribes, spiritual leaders and religious mystics can quote all the ancient pages of dusty philosophical books, but nothing will change the fact that there is just one choice. Right or Wrong?

You choose.

Ballinameela Creatives meet every Wednesday evening at Midi's place.

Say hello to us on Facebook, we wont bite.

Of the many good points made

by Mahatma Ghandi, this is the most profound. He said, “God has no religion”.

WHEN millionaire hedge fund manager James King (Will Ferrell) is nailed for fraud and bound for a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him 30 days to get his affairs in order. Desperate, he turns to Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart) to prep him for a life behind bars. But despite James’ one-percenter assump-

tions, Darnell is a hard-working small business owner who has never received a parking ticket, let alone been to prison.

Together, the two men do whatever it takes for James to “get hard” and, in the process, discover how wrong they were about a lot of things – including each other.

NT Live: A view from the Bridge Thursday, 26th March at 7.00 p.m.

FIND out more information. Don’t miss a stellar cast led by Mark Strong (The Imitation Game; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) in the Young Vic's 'magnetic, electrifying, astonishingly bold' production of A View from the Bridge – the Evening Standard, Guardian and Independent's top theatre pick of 2014.

The great Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian

cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. Eddie's jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret – one that drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal. The visionary Ivo van Hove directs this stunning production of Miller’s tragic masterpiece, broadcast from London’s West End by National Theatre Live.

Royal Opera - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogonny (Live) - Wednesday, 1st April at 7.15 JOHN Fulljames presents a new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's furiously impassioned satire on consumerism, starring Anne Sofie von Otter, Willard White and Christine Rice conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. Three criminals on the run find they can go no further and found a city - Mahagonny, city of gold.The destitute and the disenchanted flock to Mahagonny, among

them the prostitute Jenny and the lumberjack Jim Mahoney with his three friends. The city swells with debauchery.

Jim and Jenny try to escape, but find themselves still in Mahagonny. Jim is arrested and convicted of myriad crimes - chief among them a lack of money, punishable by death. He is executed and the city burns.

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BLACKWATER COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Keith wins BCS Factor CONGRATULATIONS to all our talented acts that performed in BCS Factor last Friday.

It was a brilliant afternoons entertainment and we applaud all the organisers of the event who made sure everything ran

smoothly.

This year the judges Becky McCloskey, John Ahern and James Lenane had a tough decision in deciding the winners of this years event such was the array of talent.

Third place went jointly

Under 14 hurlers celebrate after winning the Br. Anselm Cup in a hurling tournament last week.

Keith Burke accepts his winning prize from MC Brian Foley after last weeks BCS Factor.

to Jack Clough and Hazel O’Sullivan, with Celia Cullinane coming second and Keith Burke winning the event with his rendition of Rock & Roll Kids.

Well done to Claire O’Riordan who sang two songs from her recently released album.

CALCUTTA BOUND Best of luck to 9 students

from transition year who are travelling to Calcutta with the Hope Foundation this Thursday for 8 days.

This is a fantastic opportunity to see the great work done by the foundation for the street children in this city.

FIRST YEAR HURLING Last week the under 14

hurlers took part in the Br Anselm Cup tournament run by the De La Salle College.

After losing their first game to Kilkenny CBS our hurlers went on to draw with Thurles CBS and qualify for the shield semi final.

Here they faced St Colman’s of Fermoy and won through to face

Kilkenny in the final. BCS gained revenge on Kilkenny CBS by beating them to win the shield final.

PARENTS’ COUNCIL QUIZ A reminder that the annual Fun Table Quiz organised by the Parents’ Council takes place this Thursday night in Lismore House Hotel starting at

8.00 p.m.

UNDER 15½ WATERFORD COLLEGES On Monday the under 15½ hurlers played against Dungarvan CBS in the semi final of the Waterford Colleges hurling.

The final whistle saw BCS winning through on a score of 1-17 to 4-5.

ST. AUGUSTINE’S COLLEGE

Seachtain na Gaeilge AS part of the Seachtain na Gaeilge activities in St. Augustine’s College, Abairt an Lae (Phrase of the Day) was broadcast throughout the school on the PA system. This has proven a very popular practice in recent years.

Students from different classes volunteer to read proverbs or witty sayings in Irish and English in the mornings and again in the afternnons. Áine Uí Fhoghlú’s third year group did ‘Cluichí Focal’ while Transition Years played ‘Scrabble as Gaeilge’ during class periods. Other classes watched the popular teenage programme on TG4, Aifric. 5th year students enjoyed a quiz. Well done to our Irish department who marked this special week of culture for our students. Míle buíochas libh go léir.

ST. AUGUSTINE’S BOW OUT AT SEMI-FINAL STAGE St. Augustine’s College 1-13; St. Michael’s, Navan 3-14.

The Senior Ladies Football team travelled to Creyyard in Co. Laois to take on St. Michael’s on Navan in the All-Ireland semi-final on Saturday last.

The opponents got off to a better start taking advantage of the strong wind to their backs and registered 1-1 in the opening five minutes.The Friary girls came to life soon after and the impressive Kaeisha Tobin scored 1-1 to bring the game back level.

The game ebbed and flowed for the middle ten minutes with both teams exchanging points. Molly Curran, Liz Devine and Catherine Hahesy were successful in raising the while flag for St. Augustine’s.

The Navan outfit scored an impressive 5 points to our single point in the closing five minutes of the opening half

with 3 of these coming from frees despite the best efforts from the defensive unit. The score at half time was 1-10 to 1-5.

The Deise girls were calm and composed at half time as they seemed ready and up for the battle in the second half.

With the wind behind us we chased the game scoring some good points in the third quarter courtesy of Molly Curran, Chloe Fennel, Liz Devine and two from Bronagh Condon. The Lenister champions were able to stay in front registering two of their own which left three points between the schools and 15 minutes left on the clock. The backs worked hard to keep the opponents away from the danger area with Captain Sarah Keohan and Caoimhe McGrath leading the charges from the defence. St. Michaels were relentless in their play and took some good scoring opportunities to keep their noses in front.

With the game in the balance entering the quarter the Navan school showed no mercy and scored a goal before extending their lead right up to the final whistle with a further 1-2.

The West Waterford girls did not give up and tried their best right until the bitter end showing great heart and determination.

The final score was 3-14 to 1-13.

The full panel of players must be commended for their fantastic effort all year. It definitely will be a year to remember with the standout memory being the phenomenal win in the Munster final.Well done to all involved namely Ms Angela Walsh, Ms Lisa Hanrick and bro Patrick Lennon OSA.

Buaiteoirí Comórtas Postaer an Chéad Bhliain - Suzi Pléimeann, Máire Ní Rían, Sorcha Ní Fhaoláin & Áine Spratt.

St. Patrick's Day Wishes - Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of you from all of us at The Friary. Pictured is a group of First Year students with their personally designed St. Patrick's Day cards.

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ST. JOSEPH’S PRIMARY SCHOOL

Seachtain na Gaeilge TO celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge, each of our classes learned a poem and a song in Irish.

Last Thursday we held a whole-school performance in the hall. Each class took to the stage and performed their pieces for the rest of the pupils and staff.This was a wonderful celebration of our national culture and there were many highlights to admire.

Ms. McGrath's 3rd class were word-perfect and performed very expressive actions during their poem.

Ms. Coward's 4th class showed great musical talents in accompanying Tóg Amach Mé by Nathan Carter, with Darragh Healy on guitar and many of the boys playing percussion instruments.

Our rugby fanatic Ms. Saunderson was delighted with the Irish Haka performed by Ms. O'Brien's 5th class. The biggest hit of all was saved for last, as Ms. Shalloe's class performed a very accomplished version of the Cup Song as Gaeilge, complete with excellent cup-moving skills by Paddy Keenan, Luke Power and David Moynihan.

YOUNG GEOGRAPHER Thursday was a busy day in St. Joseph's, as we were also joined by Dr. Susan Pike, geography specialist from St. Patrick's College in Dublin, to judge projects submitted

in our Young Geographer competition. Many of the boys love carrying out this type of project work, whether alone or in collaborative groups, and the oral presentation to the judge and their classmates is the culmination of this learning experience.

Dr. Pike was again impressed with the range of skills shown by the boys, which included different research, mapmaking and illustrating techniques to bring their projects alive.

The winners in each class will receive medals at our annual awards ceremony in June.We are very grateful to Dr. Pike for giving us her time and for her encouragement and support of our geography efforts in St. Joseph's.

TABLE QUIZZES Our wonderful Parent's

Council have two fundraising efforts coming up in quick succession. Table quizzes are being held on Thursday, 19th March, for 3rd and 4th classes and on Thursday, 26th March, for 5th and 6th classes.

There will also be an Easter cake sale and raffle on Friday, 20th March, in the school hall. We are very grateful to the Parents' Council, especially Chairperson Carol Joyce, for all the support they provide to the school. They have recently purchased more literacy resources to support our literacy Power Hours in 4th and 5th classes. This pilot scheme is proving to be very successful and we plan to roll it out to the whole school for the 2015–2016 school year thanks to the resources provided by the Parents' Council.

St. Joseph’s Primary School – Pupils in 3rd class who dressed up for World Book Day.

St. Joseph’s Primary School – Pupils in 2nd class who dressed up for World Book Day. Seán Galvin and Maogeng Lin with the silhouette pictures created by 4th class.

St. Joseph’s Primary School – Pupils in 4th class who dressed up for World Book Day.

Pupils in Ms. Coward's during cycle training.

Ms. Shalloe's 2nd class performing the Cup Song in Irish for Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Adam Pabianiak from Ms. O'Brien's 5th class explaining his Young Geographer project on Poland.

6th class pupils Patryk Kubera, Callum Carroll and Tadhg Keegan explaining their Young Geographer project on Russia.

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Coláiste na Rinne secures €22,000 Prize from eircom Business Solutions Digital Boost Second Round of Digital Boost open for entries until the 31st March . . .

COLÁISTE na Rinne in Ring, Co. Waterford, has secured €22,250 worth of funding from eircom Business Solutions to boost its online presence. The prize includes digital marketing training courses, a website upgrade in association with Isobar, and an invitation to attend Google’s Start Up Lecturer Series.

The organisation was one of 17 companies to secure funding from Round I of eircom Business Solutions’ Digital Boost, a €250,000 seed fund designed to offer tangible assistance to the SME community in four key areas: business mobility; digital training; sales and marketing; and business productivity.

Established in 1905, Coláiste na Rinne is a notfor-profit educational institution, whose primary

objective is to promote Irish through the provision of language courses for all age groups.

In past years, Coláiste na Rinne has been successful in attracting learners to attend courses at its campus largely through word of mouth. However, the institution has identified the need to develop a digital strategy, from scratch, to drive further growth for the business.

Speaking on how eircom Business Solutions Digital Boost funding will benefit the college, Liam Suipéil, Bainisteoir an Choláiste said, “Word of mouth recommendations are important to our business but we realise that this approach is no longer enough to really build our business.

Our website is currently not an integral element of our marketing strategy and

David Walsh, Director of SME and Commercial, eircom Business Solutions, (r) Liam Suipéil, Bainisteoir an Choláiste, Coláiste na Rinne and students from 6th class in Coláiste na Rinne (l-r) Sibeal Ni She, Jeaic Mac Giolla Phadraigh, Tomas de Barra, Joe de Cuirteis, Leah Rickard and Eabha Ni Mhainnin.

[Dylan Vaughan] this has to change. With the Digital Boost funding we want to develop a strong digital presence that will appeal to the Coláiste’s young and digitally savvy target market to drive interest and boost attendance.

In recent years Coláiste na Rinne has also developed new courses in response to a growing interest in the Irish language amongst adult learners, both at home and abroad. A strong digital presence is

critical in delivering services to these new market segments.

We believe this will also benefit our boarding school as well as our summer school sessions which currently see over 1500 students of all ages annually.”

Commenting on the announcement on the outcome of the first round of Digital Boost, David Walsh, Director of SME and Commercial, eircom Business Solutions said: “It’s

encouraging to see that SMEs are realising the opportunities that the right digital presence can mean for their business and we have been very impressed with the ambition amongst the applicants in Round I of Digital Boost. This fund is a key pillar of our overall strategy to support the growth of Irish SMEs, and to help build digital expertise within those organisations. What is especially interesting is seeing tradi-

tional businesses, like Coláiste na Rinne, apply for funding with a whole new approach to marketing and communications.” eircom Business Solutions has partnered with Google, PayPal, Samsung, The Digital Marketing Institute, Isobar and Salesforce as part of this initiative to deliver a suite of digital funding to the 17 successful applicants in Round I. Round II of Digital

Boost is now open for entry until the 31st of March.

Open to all SMEs and midmarket enterprises, businesses can apply by uploading a short video or a five slide presentation to the Digital Boost website, eircom.ie/digitalboost, outlining their funding proposal and the fund area they require.

For more information and to apply to the Digital Boost fund visit eircom.ie/digitalboost

ST. DECLAN’S COMMUNITY COLLEGE

ÁRD SCOIL NA nDÉISE

CEIST Cookery Competition

Hockey League Match

THE first school round of the CEIST Bake Off competition was held recently. We had two very talented entrants from Transition Year; Muireann Walsh and Ailbhe Looby.

Muirean was very successful in being shortlisted for the final.

Only seven of the students that entered from around the country were shortlisted for the final on March 27th. We would like to congratulate Muireann on this marvellous achievement and wish her the very best in all her endeavours in the area of cookery in the future.

TY MONOPOLY On Monday the 9th of March, the TY C.B.S students were invited down to the Árd Scoil to join us in a competitive game of Monopoly. We all played against each other and I can safely say the game got pretty serious at some points.

There was a great atmosphere around the hall as everyone was raring to go and hopefully win the great prizes that were on display for all of us to see.

The game was surprisingly intense and everyone got involved. By the end of the two rounds some came out with those desired prizes, others empty handed. I feel everyone enjoyed the afternoon immensely and I think we’d enjoy a revisit from the boys for

THE first year hockey team played a league match against Loreto, Carlow, on 6th March.The game ended in a draw.

It was a great performance with both sides evenly matched.

It demonstrated the great potential we have in our new players who have only been playing since September.

Best of luck for the rest of the season!

ALL-IRELAND HURLING SEMI- FINAL ](U-18½) Congratulations to the under 18½ hurling team.

They beat St. Louis Grammer School, Ballymena in the AllIreland Hurling Semi-Final.

The match took place in Ashbourne on Saturday, 7th March.

It was a thrilling performance, with the match going to extra time. St. Declan's proved the stronger and were the deserving winners in the end.

Best of luck in the AllIreland!!

another occasion.

Sinead O’Donnell, 4th Year SEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE On Wednesday the 11th March the school’s football team celebrated Seachtain na Gaeilge by playing a fun match against the students of Meánscoil San Nioclás in Páirc Uí Síocháin, An Rinn. We left the school on the bus at 12:45 and there was a great sense of excitement as we set off.When we reached the football field the sun was high in the sky and the team changed into their gear and emerged from the dressing room in high spirits.

Kate McGrath from the Árd Scoil was refereeing the match and did a great job at keeping the game fair. There was great play from the Árd Scoil students throughout the match.

During the second half, changes were made to the team so that everyone got a chance to go out on the field. Luckily the weather was great for the day which made it even better.

Both teams had a great time at the game and the match was a success for everyone involved.

Thanks to Ms. Rochford and Ms. Flavin for arranging the day. Bhí an-craic ar fad againn!!!

Niamh Lenane, 4th Year CAIRDE GIRLS The 12th of March was the

day some T.Y Students travelled to Cork to partake in leader ship training in the Black Rock Scala centre. The weather was slightly against us as the rain was pouring down. Luckily for us, all the activities were being held indoors. The Cairde Girls are in charge of welcoming the incoming 1st year students, and being there for them throughout the year to make their transition from primary school to secondary easier.

When we arrived we were introduced to two volunteers, Natalia and Johannes, who would spend the day teaching us how to deal with incoming 1st year and what activities we can involve them in so they can make new friends. They showed us different ice-break-

ers and games that we can use and they taught us life skills that we can use every day.

We all enjoyed it and it was a great team bonding day for all of us to get to know each other as well learning new things. It was a great experience and I think the leadership train is something that should be taught regularly.

Sinead O’Donnell, 4th Year TY CÉILÍ Friday the 13th, for some it’s a day of bad luck, others believe in superstitions and conspiracy theories. For us Árd Scoil students it was a day of embracing our Irish culture and celebrating Seachtain na Geailge.

On this day us T.Y’s joined forces with the neighbouring C.B.S. to attempt the art of

Irish dancing. Comical would be a word I would use to describe this occasion. People were crashing into each other left, right and centre and I’m more than positive some people acquired a few injuries whilst trying to embrace their inner Michael Flatley.

The weather outside was surprisingly beautiful that day so we were all dripping with sweat by the end of the dance.

Our past teacher Mrs. Ashe came in to us to teach us some knows dances, e.g. Siege of Ennis, Waltz of Limerick and the Bridge of Athlone. It was a spectacular event and everyone, including the teachers, got a good laugh at our failed attempt of Irish dancing.

Sinead O’Donnell, 4th Year

TY students from the Ard Scoil and CBS enjoying a competitive game of monopoly.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE The musical performance that won the “Best Musical Number in Ireland” in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre will be performing on Swipe T.V. at the end of March.

The group comprised of Pippi Griffin and Ryan Houlihan (Vocals), Anna Johnson (Dancer) and Gearoid Murphy (Pianist) will perform their winning number “Say Something” 4th YEAR SHOW The annual 4th Year Show took place in the school gym on Thursday, 12th March.

The 4th Year’s performed all day for the entire student body.The show at night was for parents.

It demonstrated a wealth of talent and gave students an opportunity to showcase their talents.

It was definitely the highlight of transition year so far!!

Thanks to Ms. Mitchell, Ms. Hennessy and Ms. Morrissey for all their hard work.

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COLAISTE CHATHAIL NAOFA

Spikeball team in National Final THE CCN second year girls Spikeball team played in the national spikeball finals in Trinity College Dublin. The panel was Nicole Maher O’Duinn, Ally Tobin, Claddagh Power, Robyn Corby, Lucy Lenane, Leah Drummy, Serena Murray, Amber Kinghorn, Layla O’Brien and Natalia Chruslak.

Unfortunately, the girls were beaten in the All Ireland quarter final by Clonmel.

Well done to all.Three of our 5th year students were referees at the event. Daniel Drummy, Shauna Young and Christian O'Mahony were outstanding in all games that they refereed. Robyn Corby and Lucy Lenane also helped with officiating and score keeping at the event BOOK OF KELLS VISIT A group of students from 1st and 2nd year went on a trip to Dublin this week.

While the main aim of the day was to support our Spike-ball team we took the opportunity to visit local landmarks. The students visited Trinity College and were lucky enough to visit the Museum where the Book of Kells is located. The students were particularly taken by the size and design of the Long Room, and the thousands of books it holds.

J.C.S.P.-RANGANNA BODHRÁN The first and second year students are currently learn-

ing to play the bodhrán as part of a J.C.S.P. initiative.We are delighted to have Mattie Fahy back with us once again to teach the students the skill of playing the bodhrán.

Mattie teaches the students as Gaeilge agus as Béarla throughout the lesson. The students are currently participating in one music lesson each week. More students in the school will also have the opportunity to play the bodhrán during Seachtain na Gaeilge which the múinteoirí Gaeilge are planning at the moment.

Leanaigí oraibh ag seinnt!

Maith sibh!

OPEN DAY FOR FURTHER EDUCATION COURSES IN COLÁISTE CHATHAIL NAOFA Coláiste Chathail Naofa Dungarvan, College of Further Education, is holding their open day on 25th March, 2015 from 2.00 p.m. until 5.00 p.m. This is in preparation for college enrolment in September, interviews for which will be held in May. The prime aim of all the Further Education Courses run by Coláiste Chathail Naofa is to prepare students for entry to the workplace or to higher education and training. Coláiste Chathail Naofa aims to be a centre of excellence in education where all students are

encouraged to achieve their full potential in all aspects of their educational and personal development in a caring environment.

Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses are open to school-leavers and adult participants, offering a mixture of practical work, academic work and work experience.

The courses are full-time and last for one or two years.They are designed as a step towards skilled employment and, as such, they are closely linked to industry or students may earn a maximum of 400 points from their FETAC course for entry to third level colleges.

The Further Education Courses run by the college are either one year or two year full-time day courses, and include work experience in their chosen field. Please apply online at ccndungarvan.com.

At present Coláiste Chathail Naofa offers courses in:• Art College Portfolio Preparation • Art & Design – Level 6 • Accountancy • Administration / Secretarial • Beauty Therapy • Childcare • Community Care • Engineering • Sports, Exercise & Coaching • Nursing Studies / Healthcare Support

CCN 2nd year girls Spikeball team played in the National Spikeball Finals in Trinity College Dublin. Nicole Maher O’Duinn, Ally Tobin, Claddagh Power, Robyn Corby, Lucy Lenane, Leah Drummy, Serena Murray, Amber Kinghorn, Layla O’Brien, Natalia Chruslak.

Book of Kells Visit – Students who visited Trinity College and were lucky enough to visit the Museum where the Book of Kells is located.

Pictured above are the first and second year students learning to play the bodhrán as part of a J.C.S.P. initiative.

Group of second year student waiting to receive their student achievement medals in University College Cork.

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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

Pupils from Stradbally and Seafield Schools who made their Confirmation at Saint Anne's Church, Ballylaneen.

Garranbane NS World Book Day WORLD Book Day was celebrated in style by the pupils at Garranbane N.S.The children got an opportunity to dress up as their favourite character from their favourite book or novel. We would like to thank Easons for donating prizes on the day.

[Michael Faulkner]

Pyjama Day at Le Cheile ON Friday last, 6th March, Le Cheile was delighted once again to host a “Pyjama Day” in conjunction with Early Childhood Ireland and in support of Irish Autism

Action.

Everyone was so excited to come to crèche and Pre-school in their pyjamas and a great day was had by children and staff alike!

Thank you to everyone that contributed to the fundraiser.

Please feel free to view our facility at our Open Day on Saturday morning, March 21st.

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

SCHOOLS

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Pupils from Scoil Mhuire, Abbeyside who were confirmed by The Most Reverend Dr. William Lee, Bishop of Waterford & Lismore in St. Augustine's Church, Abbeyside. Included are Fr. Ned Hassett, Fr. Doherty, Ruadhri De Paor, School Principal and Paddy O'Dea, Class Teacher.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Media]

Scoil Mhuire Abbeyside Parents’ Association LAST Tuesday week saw the last of our very successful Children’s Table Quiz Nights with 5th and 6th Classes battling it out! There was a great buzz in the school hall and everyone enjoyed the challenging questions – even the quiz master himself, principal, Ruaidhri de Paor.

The winners were: 5th class winners; Glenbeg School; Sarah Nyhan, Emma Burns, Eoin McGrath.

5th Class 2nd place; Scoil Garabhan; Kelly Whelan, Ellen Power, Cian Keith, Hannah O’Donoghue.

5th class 3rd place; Coolnasmear; John David White, Tommy Condon, Grace Power, Corinne Toft.

6th class winners; Scoil Mhire, Abbeyside; Niall Twomey, Roisin Hurney, Jenny Power.

6th Class 2nd place; Scoil Mhuire, Abbeyside; Sean Og Flynn, Tadhg Collins, Josh Cosgrave, Ciaran Frisby.

6th Class 3rd place; Meghan O’Riordan, Caoimhe Power, Taylor McCormack, Alannah Kelly.

6th Class 2nd place; Scoil Mhuire, Abbeyside - Sean Og Flynn, Tadhg Collins, Josh Cosgrave, Ciaran Frisby.

5th class winners; Glenbeg School - Sarah Nyhan, Emma Burns, Eoin McGrath.

5th class 3rd place; Coolnasmear - John David White, Tommy Condon, Grace Power, Corinne Toft.

6th class winners; Scoil Mhire, Abbeyside - Niall Twomey, Roisin Hurney, Jenny Power.

5th Class 2nd place; Scoil Garabhan - Kelly Whelan, Ellen Power, Cian Keith, Hannah O’Donoghue.

6th Class 3rd place; Meghan O’Riordan, Caoimhe Power, Taylor McCormack, Alannah Kelly.

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LETTERS / OBITUARY JIM LANDERS Newtown, Modeligo

Deep sadness was expressed with the passing of Jim Landers on Saturday, 7th March, at CareChoice Nursing Home. A native of Modeligo and in his 90th year, Jim is predeceased by his parents, brothers John and Michael, sisters Ciss and Maura.

Like so many others in the 1950s Jim emigrated to England and after a duration he returned to Ireland, working in the forestry and also with Waterford County Council. He had a great love of horse racing and also followed the fortunes of the Déise hurlers noting their progress with keen interest.The essence of good company Jim enjoyed a social drink and a chat with his many friends. In failing health for the past fifteen years, Jim spent some years in St. Carthage’s Rest Home, Lismore, and CareChoice Nursing Home, Abbeyside. We express our sincere condolences to Tommy and Seán, his many nephews and nieces, other relatives and friends.

Jim lay in repose at the Kiely Funeral Home on Sunday, 8th March, where the Rosary was recited. Fr. J. Kiely, P.P., led Funeral Prayers on Monday morning before the removal took place to Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Modeligo. Requiem Mass was celebrated by Fr. J. Kiely, P.P. Afterwards Jim was laid to rest in the adjoining cemetery in the presence of a large concourse of mourners. Ar dheis Dé go raibh sé.

(Funeral arrangements by James Kiely & Sons, Funeral Directors, Dungarvan).

Letters to the Editor …

Address Letters to: The Editor, Dungarvan Observer, Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

Fax: 058 41559. e-mail: news@dungarvanobserver.ie ALL letters MUST include your name, address and telephone number for authenticity purposes.

Barry’s Stores history at a glance Dear Editor, Your feature article on Barry’s Stores on 6/3/’15 brought this old Dub back down memory lane. I have very fond memories and of those who worked there. Not only as your feature writer said “it stood beside the Leather factory” it was in fact an integral part of Dickens Leather and Dungarvan’s Leather for well nigh fifty years from the 1930s to the 1980s.

The ground floor housed the pickled pelt sorting and storage area.

Sorters of the calibre of Paddy Donohue and Jimmy Earley were priceless, their skill and endeavours accompanied by the mellifluous whistling or singing of a few bars of some popular opera or operetta

by Harry O’Brien.

The first floor was mainly a leather storage area, to be transported through a loading bay opposite Merry’s onto Lal Power’s lorries for shipping from Belferry in Waterford to the UK and other European destinations.

The second floor contained the stores (mechanical) spare parts for machines, etc., which was controlled in latter years with meticulous care by Eugene Collins.

The top floor was the skiver department drying and sorting area where in the early sixties, Pat McGovern,Willie Rossiter, Councillor Noel Hackett and others plied their skills. Skivers were manufactured from horizontally split pickled sheepskin pelts, the lower half were called fleshers and would be converted into chamois leather, the grain or upper portion was tanned into a skiver dyed and finished (usually pigment sprayed) and would be mainly used for book binding.

Stories abound from the night watchmen of that era, John Joe Fraher (of the highly polished wellingtons) and Paddy Lyons, of sightings of Michael Barry doing his own rounds of the stores and to this day it is said a strange face can make an appearance at some of the windows at the bewitching hour!

Also missing from the feature article was one of the current occupants of the store, the now nationally famous Tannery Restaurant, owned by Paul and Maire Flynn, of which Dungarvan can be justly proud.

Thanks for reviving some lovely memories and to any of the remaining “old skinners” here’s wishing them good health and good luck and as they say in Dublin “IT WOULD TAKE A LOT OF THAT TO FILL A PINT”.

Yours most sincerely, TOM BOOTH

JAMES (Jimmy) MURPHY Born 6th October, 1918 Died 17th February, 2015 It is with deep regret and sadness that we record the passing of Jimmy Murphy which occurred at his home in Clonea Upper in the company of family and friends who cared for him. Jimmy enjoyed a long life, dying in his 97th year, which is all the more remarkable as he was sent home from the Irish Army in his twenties to die from TB. He lay sick for 6 months at home and was cured by the care of his parents and the local Doctor. He was not sick again in his life until the age of 89 when he had to be hospitalised during a holiday in Cyprus. He bore his recent illness with great dignity, never complaining.

Like so many men and women of his time, he left for work in England a part of the requisition of labour during the Second World War.Whilst there he continued to court his beloved Kitty Cashin from The Burgery, who he had met while studying at Ring College, and finally won her heart. They married and had four children, Edward, Sheila, Angela and Kieran, and built a life in England with James working in the Civil Service until retirement. He was a devoted husband and a wonderful father.

Jimmy was always proud of his excellent education in Garranbane School where he was taught by Tom McHugh and was able to quote from all aspects of literature which enabled him to help his children with their English studies. He never forgot where he was from, returning home every year and being a devoted and dutiful son, sending money home too.

Following retirement, he returned to his native Clonea Upper and with Kitty set up home beside his brother John (affectionately called ‘The Squire, Jimmy was’ the lad’) and his wife Maev, continuing the great times they had enjoyed together in London. He loved nothing more than the school holidays and the arrival of his grandchildren, Anna and Miles, who he shared his love of the country with and taught them to swim at the beach as well as to cycle. He loved nothing more than to set out on a cycle to Stradbally and the surrounding areas with them. He was very lonely after Kitty died in 2001.

He set about the renovation of the cottage with gusto at the age of 90 years. In continuing Kitty’s tradition, there was always a welcome in the cottage, which became known as ‘Club C’ locally. He loved to sing and entertain. He was also a man of great wisdom and good counsel and many benefitted from his sound advice over the years.

We are indebted to those who cared for him, Bernie and Geraldine, the Nurses from West Waterford Hospice; Orla and Patricia from the local community; Doctor Higgins and his wonderful Professor Mulcahy whom he adored. A special mention must go to Lorraine Troy, his number 1 Carer, who was always there for him.

He will be greatly missed by those who mourn him, his family and wide circle of friends and neighbours. He remains in our hearts, ‘the legend on the hill’.

Reposing at home Rosary and prayers were recited on Wednesday, 18th February, by Fr. Richard Doherty. Removal took place to Garranbane Chuch on Thursday, 19th February, where they were received by Fr. Ned Hassett. Funeral Mass on Friday, 20th February, and burial in the adjoining cemetery were by Fr. Ned and Fr. Richard Doherty. Coffin was dressed by Bernie Troy, Lorraine Troy, Alice Raher and Marion Burke (neighbours and friends). Prayers of the Faithful were read by Grainne Murphy (niece). Offertory Gifts were presented

by Angela Cashin and Catherine Dunphy (nieces). The Eulogy was given by his daughter Angela Murphy.

Jimmy was shouldered to his resting place by his son Kieran Murphy; nephews Chris Walsh, Mike Rowesome and Paddy Cashin; friends Tom Burke and Owen McAuley.

Deepest sympathy to his loving daughters Angela and Sheila; sons Edward and Kieran; sisters Kitty Potter, Nora and Hannah Walsh; nieces, nephews, relatives, neighbours and friends.

Month’s Mind Mass will be celebrated on Sunday, 22nd March, at 11.00 a.m. Garranbane Chuch.

(Funeral arrangements were by Tom Drohan, Funeral Directors, Dungarvan).

EILEEN WALSH Southfields, London, and formerly of Mount Odell and Clonea, Dungarvan We record with sadness the passing of Eileen Walsh on Friday, 13th March, 2015, in London. Eileen was only recently predeceased by her sister Kathleen a few short weeks ago.

We express our deepest sympathy to her sister-in-law Hannah; nephews, nieces, other relatives and friends. Kathleen is predeceased by her parents Patrick and Margaret Walsh; her brothers Paddy, Michael, Tom and Joe; and by her sisters Hannah, Mary, Margaret, Annie, Alice and Kathleen. May Eileen rest in peace.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

(Funeral arrangements by James Kiely & Sons, Funeral Directors, Dungarvan).

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

MICHAEL NUGENT Knockanore, Co. Waterford With profound sorrow and deep regret we record the passing of Michael Nugent, Knockanore, Co. Waterford, husband of the late Mary Ciss (nee Flynn), which sad event occurred peacefully at Dungarvan Community Hospital on 11th March, 2015.

Reposing at Walsh’s Funeral Home, Cappoquin, Rosary and funeral prayers were recited on Friday evening by Rev. Fr. P. Condon, P.P., in the presence of his loving family, relatives, neighbours and friends, before removal took place to The Church Of the Scared Heart, Knockanore. On arrival his remains were received and blessed by Rev. Fr. P. Condon, P.P. On Saturday morning Funeral Mass was celebrated by Rev. Fr. P. Condon, P.P., and was assisted by Rev. Fr. P. Fitzgerald, P.E. During Mass readings were recited by Michael’s grandchildren Martin Nugent and Kelly Shalloe. Prayers of the Faithful were read by his grandchildren Tracey and Kelly Shalloe, Michelle and Méabh Nugent. A lovely selection of hymns and music during the Mass was provided by Mairead Cullinane and family. The Offertory Gifts were presented to the Altar by grandchildren Triona Nugent and Mark Shalloe.

Following Funeral Mass burial took place in the adjoining cemetery. Rev. Fr. P. Condon, P.P., officiated the graveside prayers and assisted by Rev. Fr. P. Fitzgerald, P.E., where Michael was laid to rest in the presence of his loving family, relatives, neighbours and many friends.

May he rest in peace.

We extend our deepest sympathy to his loving sons Michael and James; daughter Mary Shalloe; daughters-in-law Jean and Imelda; sonin-law Tony Shalloe; sister-in-law Margaret (Dot) Lombard; nephews, nieces, grandchildren, relatives, neighbours and friends.

(Funeral arrangements by Aidan Walsh & Sons, Funeral Directors, Cappoquin & Tallow).

MAURA HARTREY (nee Keating) Tivoli Terrace, Cappoquin With sorrow and regret we record the passing of Maura Hartrey (nee Keating), Tivoli Terrace, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, wife of the late John, which sad and event occurred peacefully on 8th March, 2015, at Marymount Hospice, Cork.

Lying in repose at Aidan Walsh & Sons Funeral Home Cappoquin, Rosary was recited on Sunday evening by Rosary Committee member Pat Denn in the presence of her loving relatives, neighbours and many friends.

On Monday evening Rev. Fr. Arthure, P.E., recited funeral prayers in the presence of her loving relatives and friends before removal took place to St. Mary’s Church, Cappoquin, on arrival her remains were received and blessed by Rev. Fr. Arthure, P.E. Funeral Mass was celebrated on Tuesday morning by Rev. Fr. J. Kiely, P.P. Readings were recited by Pat Denn and Eamonn Cahill. A lovely selection of music and hymns was provided during the Mass

by Andree Cunningham, soloist, and Mairead Cullinane, organist.

Prayers of the Faithful were recited by Chrissie Denn, Carol Cahill, Miriam Coughlan, Joan Williams and Michéal Cahill.

Following Funeral Mass burial took place in St. Declan’s Cemetery, Cappoquin. Rev. Fr. J. Kiely, P.P., officiated the graveside prayers in the presence of her loving relatives, neighbours and many friends.

May she rest in peace.

We extend our deepest sympathy to her loving relatives, neighbours and a large circle of friends.

(Funeral arrangements by Aidan Walsh & Sons, Funeral Directors, Cappoquin & Tallow).

JOHNNY O’BRIEN Curraheen, Aglish The passing of Johnny O’Brien at University Hospital Waterford on Sunday, 15th March, 2015, was the source of much sorrow.

We extend our sympathy to Johnny’s sister Margaret Tobin; nephews John and Matthew Tobin; niece Cathy Tobin; other relatives and friends.

Prayers were recited on Monday evening at Johnny’s residence in Curraheen by Fr. G. O’Connor, P.P. Removal took place on Tuesday morning to Aglish Church where on arrival Fr. G. O’Connor, P.P., celebrated Requiem Mass in thanksgiving for Johnny’s life. Afterwards Johnny was laid to rest in the adjoining cemetery. May he rest in peace.

(Funeral arrangements by James Kiely & Sons, Funeral Directors, Dungarvan).

JIM POWER 29 Springfield, Dungarvan With profound sorrow we record the passing of Jim Power which sad event occurred on Wednesday, 11th March, 2015.

Removal was from his residence on Saturday morning to St. Mary’s Parish Church. Following Funeral Mass on arrival burial took place in the adjoining cemetery.

To his family and relatives we extend our deepest sympathy.

Full obituary next issue.

(Funeral arrangements were by Tom Drohan, Funeral Directors, Dungarvan).

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

JOHNNY TOBIN Reanadampaun, Ballymacarbry With profound sorrow and deep regret we record the passing of Johnny Tobin, Reanadampaun, Ballymacarbry, Co. Waterford, loving husband of the late May (nee Walsh), loving father of the late Tom, which sad event occurred unexpectedly on 8th March, 2015, at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Clonmel, surrounded by his loving family.

Lying in repose at Aidan Walsh & Sons, Funeral Home, Cappoquin, Rosary was recited on Monday evening by Rev. Fr. C. Kelleher, P.P., in the presence of his loving family, relatives, neighbours and many friends.

On Tuesday evening Rev. Fr. C. Kelleher, P.P., recited Rosary and funeral prayers in the presence of Johnny’s loving family, relatives and many friends before removal took place to St. Mary’s Church, Touraneena. On arrival his remains were received and blessed by Rev. Fr. C. Kelleher, P.P. On Wednesday morning Funeral Mass was celebrated by Rev. Fr. C. Kelleher, P.P., and was assisted by Fr. M. Collender, O.S.A., and Fr. G. Horan, O.S.A. Readings were recited by daughter Kate and daughter-in-law Mary Tobin. Prayers of the Faithful were read by Johnny’s grandchildren Chloe Lawlor, Sinead Tobin, Dayna Lawlor, Ava-Mai Tobin, Sorcha Tobin, grand-nephew Eoin Breathnach and niece Collette Martin. Touraneena Parish Choir provided a lovely selection of music and hymns during Mass. Symbols representing Johnny’s life were presented to the Altar by Imelda Glesson – Lottery ticket; Tony Power – a dehorner; Mags Tobin – picture of Johnny’s dog; Brian Canty – a chainsaw; Mush Keane – a drainage pipe; John Flynn – 80th birthday cards;William O’Grady – a gadget; Pat Walsh – half dozen of eggs; Ann Crotty – the water; Biddy Tobin – the wine. These were narrated by Kelly Canty. Following Communion,Thomas Flynn sang the song Sliabh Geal gCua na Féile. Johnny’s son Brendan delivered a fitting tribute to his father which summed up feelings of loss and happy memories that were shared throughout their family life.

Following Funeral Mass burial took place in the adjoining cemetery. Rev. Fr. C. Kelleher, P.P., officiated the graveside prayers and was assisted by Fr. M. Collender, O.S.A., and Fr. G. Horan, O.S.A., where Johnny was laid to rest in the presence of his loving family, relatives and many friends.

May he rest in peace.

May we extend our deepest sympathy to his loving sons Padge and Brendan; daughters Helen, Kate and Kelly; sisters Kathleen Fitzgerald (USA) and Biddy Flynn (Colligan); daughters-in-law Joanne, Mary and Mags; sons-in-law Gerard Martin, Mush Keane and Brian Canty; brothers-in-law John Walsh, Paddy Flynn and John Fraher; sister-inlaw Ann Crotty; nephews, nieces, grandchildren Dermot,Tom, Conor, Ava-Mai, Chloe, Dayna, Sinéad, Aisling, Danny, Sorcha and Fintan; great-grandchildren Aimee and Conan (Fitzsimmons); relatives, neighbours and friends.

(Funeral arrangements by Aidan Walsh & Sons, Funeral Directors, Cappoquin & Tallow).

PADDY HALLY Murphy Place, Abbeyside Deep sadness was expressed with the passing of Paddy Hally on Sunday, 15th March, 2015, at Dungarvan Community Hospital.

We express our sincere sympathy to Paddy’s wife Betty; daughters Jane, Alison and Liz; sons-in-law Eddie Walsh,Tom Barron and Bobby Ross; brother Tommy; sister Maureen Moloney; brother-in-law Michael Power; sister-in-law Bernie Clancy; grandchildren Aoife, Tony, Aine, Jamie, Brian, Stephanie and Niamh; other relatives and friends.

Paddy lay in repose at the Kiely Funeral Home, Dungarvan, on Monday, March 16th, where the Rosary was recited. Removal took place on Tuesday evening to St. Augustine's Church, Abbeyside.

Requiem Mass will be celebrated today Wednesday, March 18th, at 11.00 a.m. with the interment afterwards in St. Mary’s Parish Cemetery, Dungarvan. May Paddy rest in peace.

(Funeral arrangements by James Kiely & Sons, Funeral Directors, Dungarvan).

JOE DEE Carrigeenageragh, Kilrossanty We learned with profound sorrow of the passing of Joe Dee on Sunday, 15th March, 2015 at Dungarvan Community Hospital.

Well known and highly respected we express our heartfelt condolences to Joe’s wife Ann; sons Mike and Maurice; daughter Katie; daughter-in-law Susan; grandchildren Maeve and Caoimhe; nephews, nieces, other relatives and friends.

Joe lay in repose at his residence in Carrigeenageragh on Monday where the Rosary was recited. Removal took place on Tuesday morning (St. Patrick’s Day) to St. Brigid’s Church, Kilrossanty, for Requiem Mass which was celebrated by Fr. J. Delaney, P.P. Afterwards Joe was laid to rest in the adjoining cemetery in the presence of a huge concourse of mourners who had come to pay their respects and console the bereaved. May Joe rest in peace.

(Funeral arrangements by James Kiely & Sons, Funeral Directors, Dungarvan).

OBITUARY THOMAS (Tom) O’BRIEN Chapel Street, Tallow, Co. Waterford It is with profound sorrow and deep regret that we record the passing of Tom O'Brien, Chapel Street,Tallow, Co. Waterford, on 18th February, surrounded by his loving family at his home in Tallow. Tom was aged 88.

Tom, son of the late John and Bridget O'Brien, was originally from Glenatore, Conna, Co. Cork. He was educated at Curraglass Primary School. Both of Tom’s parents died when he was of a young age. Tom was one of three children and was the last surviving sibling.

After moving from Glenatore after his parents died, he lived with sister Eily and her young family in Ahearn, Conna. He went on to work and live with his uncle John Joe O'Connor in Knockanore, and later worked at Carrs in Curraglass. Tom moved to England to work in Leicester in 1958, but returned home after a year. After returning to Ireland, Tom farmed his land successfully and worked with his brother Johnny in agricultural contracting, where he remained until retiring.

In 1964, Tom met Mary O'Connell at a coursing meeting in Cappoquin.They married in 1966 and set up home in Chapel Street, Tallow, where they had three children together, Eddie, Tom and Margaret. Not only was Tom an extremely loving husband to Mary, he was also a very proud and loving father and grandfather. His passing is deeply regretted by his family. May he now be reunited with his loved ones in Heaven.

Tom would have been well known throughout the East Cork and West Waterford regions for his agricultural machinery contracting work on farms. He loved working the land and would have been a familiar face at all tillage related activities throughout the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. He was a jovial man with a work ethic, which was unsurpassed. A familiar phrase heard at his wake was that “his likes will not be seen again”.

Reposing at his home in Chapel Street, Tallow, in the presence of his loving family, relatives and friends, the Rosary and funeral prayers were recited on Thursday evening, 19th February, by Rev. Fr. Pat Condon, P.P. Reposing at Aidan Walsh and Sons, Funeral Home,Tallow, on Friday evening, 20th February, funeral prayers were recited by Parish Council member Eddie Cunningham, surrounded by family, neighbours and friends. Removal took place immediately afterwards to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Tallow. He was shouldered from his home to the Church.

On arrival, his remains were received and blessed by Rev. Fr. G. McNamara, P.P. The Funeral Mass was celebrated on Saturday morning (21st February) by Rev. Fr. G. McNamara, P.P., assisted by Rev. Fr. P. Condon, P.P., and Rev. F. Lloyd, P.E. Symbols representing his life were presented to the Altar by his grandchildren: Thomas Farrell brought a photo of Tom with all his family, which was his primary reason for living; Laura O'Brien carried Tom's wellingtons, representing a long working life; and Sean O'Brien presented a picture of Tom's MG car, a symbol of his love of motor cars. These were narrated by his son Eddie.

Readings during the Mass were recited by his grandchildren Anna O'Brien and Sean O'Brien, and the Psalm was recited by granddaughter Cata O'Brien.The Prayers of the Faithful were read by grandchildren Laura O'Brien, Katie Farrell, Isabella O'Brien and Thomas Farrell.The Tallow Parish Choir provided a lovely selection of hymns during the Mass, and Tom's grandnieces Theresa Hegarty-O'Brien and Breda Geoghegan-O'Brien sang the ‘Old Rugged Cross’ as the exit hymn. The offertory gifts were presented to the Altar by Isabella O'Brien and Katie Farrell.

Following Communion, his son Tom delivered a moving Eulogy in praise of his father's life. Burial took place in the adjoining cemetery after the Funeral Mass. Rev. Fr. G. McNamara, P.P., officiated for the graveside prayers, assisted by Rev. Fr. P. Condon, P.P., and Rev. Fr. F. Lloyd, P.E. Tom was laid to rest in the presence of his loving family, neighbours and many friends.

May he rest in peace.

We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife Mary (née O'Connell); sons Eddie and Tom; daughter Margaret; grandchildren Cata, Anna, Sean, Laura, Isabella, Katie and Thomas; in-laws, niece, nephews, neighbours and friends.

The Month's Mind Mass will be celebrated on Sunday, 29th March, at 9.00 a.m. in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Tallow.

(Funeral arrangements by Aidan Walsh and Sons, Funeral Directors, Cappoquin and Tallow).

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55 EILEEN PRENDERGAST (nee Farrell) Bridane Lower, Lismore, Co. Waterford It is with deep regret that we record the passing of Eileen Prendergast (nee Farrell), Bridane Lower, Lismore, Co. Waterford, on Friday, 20th February, 2015, in the tender loving care of the staff in Padre Pio Nursing Home, Cappoquin. Eileen was the beloved wife of the late Paddy Prendergast who predeceased her in 2003.

Born Eileen Farrell in Derra, Modeligo, on the 11th of June, 1926, Eileen was one of six children and was the last living member of the Farrell family.

She attended National School in Modeligo and continued her education at the Tech in Cappoquin. Upon completing her schooling, she went on to work as a cook in the Bons Secours Hospital, Cork. Eileen often spoke fondly of her time in Cork and enjoyed the social aspect that came with working in the city. Later she moved closer to home to take up a cooking position at the Hospital in Lismore.

It was while working in Lismore that she met Paddy Prendergast of Bridane. They were married in October 1963 and from this time onwards they were inseparable and did everything together, be it milking cows, making hay, trips away or playing a game of 45.They enjoyed life to the full.

Eileen was a natural homemaker and there was always a warm welcome and those who visited were always sure to be full when leaving Bridane. Eileen loved cooking and baking and she made the nicest apple tarts ever. She was an excellent jam maker and even grew her own fruit, which she made into mouth-watering jam every year that often made its way to New York. Eileen loved gardening and while Bridane was always in bloom, nothing pleased her more than getting a bunch of flowers.

In January 2003, Eileen lost Paddy and while this left a big void in Eileen’s life, she continued to live in Bridane and rose to the challenge of living on her own which was lessened by the companionship of her pets. She was a popular lady, who enjoyed catching up with people and this was reflected by the number of visitors that called to see her.

Eileen was a regular in town on Tuesdays, Fridays and for Mass on Sundays and while these days were routine, she enjoyed nothing better than her frequent visits to Dungarvan to get her ‘hair and toes’ done followed by lunch in The Shamrock. These outings continued until her health failed, at which time she moved into Padre Pio in Cappoquin. She loved it there and more often than not she would be the first one on the bus if there was a trip to be had. She took part in every activity that was on; be it art, bingo, puzzles or just watching TV. It was wonderful to see her so happy and she made many good friends there.

Eileen will be sadly missed by everyone who knew her but especially by Marie, Declan, Rita, Aaron and Audrey Doocey, the O’Donnell and Prendergast families, the residents and staff of Padre Pio and her many neighbours and friends in Lismore and Modeligo.

Family Rosary was held in Padre Pio on Friday evening, 20th February. Rosary was recited by Rev. Fr. J. Kiely, Eileen’s cousin, as well as close friends and residents of Padre Pio. Removal took place from St. Carthage’s Mortuary on Saturday, 21st February, to St. Carthage’s Church. Funeral Mass was celebrated by Rev. Fr. M. Cullinan, P.P., on Sunday, 22nd February, and burial took place in St. Carthage’s Cemetery where Rev. Fr. J. Kiely officiated the graveside prayers and was accompanied by Rev. Fr. M. Cullinan, P.P. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

(Funeral arrangements were by Aidan Walsh & Sons, Funeral Directors, Cappoquin & Tallow).

CAPT. TOM MORGAN, R.A. M.F.H. Hunter’s Lodge, Bishopstown, Lismore With great sadness and regret that we record the passing of Capt.

Tom Morgan, R.A. M.F.H., Hunter’s Lodge, Bishopstown, Lismore, Co. Waterford, husband of the late Elsie Edith M.F.H. (nee Preston), which sad event occurred peacefully at his home on 15th March, 2015.

Lying in repose at Aidan Walsh & Sons, Funeral Home, Tallow, on Monday, 23rd March, 2015, from 4.30 p.m. with funeral prayers at 6.30 p.m. followed by removal to St. Luke’s Church, Knockmourne, Conna, arriving at 7.00 p.m. approx.

Funeral service on Tuesday, 24th March, 2015, at 2.30 p.m. Followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery.

In Heavenly love abiding.

May we extend our deepest sympathy to his loving nephew Ewart Richards and his wife Barbara; grand-nephew Nigel and his wife Toni; great-great-grandnephews James and Dominic; relatives, neighbours and friends.

Peace perfect peace.

(Funeral arrangements by Aidan Walsh & Sons, Funeral Directors, Cappoquin & Tallow).

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FARMING

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 12 September, 2014

FARMING

Round-up …

Opening of TAMS II must now be the priority of Minister Coveney

Pictured at the launch of a joint campaign between IFA, Crimestoppers, and Gardai to combat the levels of livestock theft, Assistant Garda Commissioner Derek Byrne, Tim Dalton, Chairman Crimestoppers and IFA President Eddie Downey. A reward of €10,000 is available for significant information and a confidential hotline is available at 1800250025.

Farmers urged to combat livestock theft via confidential hotline • Reward fund of €10,000 available for significant information • Joint campaign launched by Crimestoppers, IFA and Gardai A NEW campaign was launched recently to combat the problem of livestock theft.

Jointly organised by Crimestoppers, the Irish Farmers Association and an Garda Siochana, the campaign is calling on members of the public and in particular those in the farming community with information on the theft of cattle and sheep to come forward with information. Information can be given anonymously to the Crimestoppers confidential telephone service by calling 1800 25 00 25.

Alternatively, information can be provided to your local Garda station.

Theft of both cattle and sheep is an issue that affects all regions of Ireland, causing significant problems for the farmers who fall victim to the criminals. In one incident during 2014, one farmer had 17 of his 18 calves stolen by thieves, causing significant financial loss.

Tim Dalton, Chairman, Crimestoppers said, “Crimestoppers provides a fully confidential means for every citizen to report crime, without fear of recrimination. The call is free and the information is given completely anonymously. The service has consistently proved very valuable in eliciting information to assist investigations in both urban and rural Ireland. We hope this campaign will prove similarly successful in tackling livestock theft.”

IFA President Eddie Downey said, “The theft of cattle and sheep is a real issue for farmers. Apart from the financial loss, the trauma inflicted on farm families leaves them very vulnerable and stressed. This is something that comes up repeatedly at IFA County Executives around the country.”

He continued, “We are taking this initiative with the Gardai and Crimestoppers and putting up a

reward of €10,000, to get significant information that will lead to the arrest and charge of individuals in connection with livestock theft.”

Derek Byrne, Assistant Commissioner, An Garda Siochana said, “Livestock theft is a problem that can be tackled if enough information is provided. I am appealing for members of the public, and in particular any member of the farming community, who have noticed or heard about suspicious activity around farms in their locality to come forward to either An Garda Siochana or to the confidential Crimestoppers 1850250025 number.”

If you have any information in relation to livestock theft, you can contact your local Garda Station or Crimestoppers on 1800 25 00 25.Your call to Crimestoppers is free and anonymous and you might receive a reward for information.

Kilmacthomas Macra na Feirme

By Mark Hayes INTERESTED in meeting new people, trying new things and taking to the open roads to where ever adventure takes you? If this sounds like you, look no further than Macra where there is always something to do and a great time to be had. If you are aged 17-35 and looking for something new, fun and exciting to do whether its sports, travel, drama or getting involved with your local community Kilmacthomas Macra has something for all.

We are always on the lookout for new members, so don’t be shy join today, Macra is an allinclusive organisation which boasts a wide spectrum of members coming from all walks of life with a variety of

interests. It really is the ultimate social club allowing you to get involved with as much or as little as you like. To become a member drop us a line on the Kilmacthomas Macra’s Facebook page or contact Mark on 0879566678. Alternatively just turn up to our next event/meeting all events and club meetings are posted on our Facebook page.

Kilmacthomas Macra would like to thank all those who took part in the county round of the basketball competition. It’s great to see a competition such as this making a strong revival and even better still to be represented. Unfortunately, however the Kilmac club will go no further as we lost out to Rathgormack on the score-

line of two, one and so our congratulations go to Rathgormack who along with Waterford city Macra ladies team now go forward to represent the county at national level in Limerick next month. Last Friday night we had our club night out at the bowling alley which was a huge success and would not have been so without the efforts of Kiva Stanley who did a great job in organising the night. So on behalf of the club a huge thank you is extended to Kiva.

UPCOMING EVENTS Friday, March 20th sees the county round of the impromptu debating going ahead in Lawlors Hotel Dungarvan. All interested parties are advised to let your interest be known to any club

committee member a.s.a.p.

March 27th is pencilled in to be the night where we decide who’s to go forward to represent the county at national level for various different title races which is due to go ahead in Dungarvan.

Finally, Sunday 29th is volleyball night where the entire county come together to battle it out for the right to go forward and represent the county at national level. Such is the interest in the club for this competition it is proposed that for the next few weeks in the lead into the county round, the club partake in weekly practise which is open to all including new members. So if volleyball tickles your fancy please come along and join in on the fun.

IFA Rural Development Chairman Flor McCarthy has said that the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney must immediately open the TAMS II scheme to support the investment plans of farmers.

Speaking following a meeting with the Department of Agriculture in Athlone this week, Flor McCarthy said the details of the scheme, which are now emerging, must be available to farmers without delay.

Flor McCarthy said that when the scheme opens, the priority for support in the initial stages will be for Young Farmers (farmers less than 40 years of age), dairy equipment, low emissions slurry equipment, specialised pig and poultry investment. At a later stage, grant aid will be available for all sectors for animal and nutrient storage, as well as for farm safety.

The grant aid for Young Farmers who are setting up for the first time will be 60% on an investment limit of €80,000.

The general grant aid for other farmers will be 40% up to €80,000 investment limit. In partnerships, this can be doubled in the event of two partners and trebled in the case of three partners. The Young Farmer element of the partnership will qualify for the higher grant for the €80,000.

The IFA Rural Development Chairman said that the TAMS II has an allocation of €395m in the Rural Development Plan. It is important that the scheme opens immediately and additional items can be added to ensure a full uptake of this allocation.The tranche system of allocation of funding, which applied in TAMS I, needs to be more flexible, so as to allow more farmers into the scheme at the early stages following its opening. This will give farmers more time to complete their work and will ensure a full utilisation of funding.

IFA calls on Department to address eligible land issue IFA President Eddie Downey has said the Department of Agriculture meetings on CAP implementation and the 2015 Area Aid Application, currently taking place around the country, must address the issue of eligible land and assist farmers by providing practical guidance before they submit their applications.

Eddie Downey said during the recent meetings on the Charter of Rights for farmers it was agreed that the Department of Agriculture would send out a booklet on eligible land to all applicants at this time. “There is a lot of confusion around the eligible land issue and there is a responsibility on the Department to give practical guidance to farmers that avoid an over-zealous interpretation, which would unfairly penalise farmers. The Department booklet on the issue should be made available to all farmers without delay.”

The IFA President said that some

farmers are being left in a precarious situation due to uncertainty over the eligibility status of some of their land.

Eddie Downey said it is very important that farmers are allowed to maximise their payments under the new Basic Payment scheme, Greening, ANC’s and GLAS in this critical first year of the implementation of the new CAP. Eddie Downey said farmers who have concerns in relation to eligibility on any of their land area need to take advice from their planner/advisor to ensure that all of the land claimed on this year is eligible, and avoid any penalties on ineligibility in the future.

IFA callls on all stakeholders to support the Irish Seed Potato Industry SPEAKING at a recent Seed Potato Workshop, IFA Potato Chairman Eddie Doyle called on all stakeholders to support and revive the Irish seed potato industry.The workshop was organised by IFA, Teagasc and Bord Bia. “In the past, Ireland had a thriving seed potato export industry but today this has deteriorated to the point that Ireland imports much of the potato seed we currently plant,” said Mr. Doyle.

“This is reflected in the area of certified seed planted in the country, which has halved in five years falling from 483ha in 2010 to 218ha in 2014. Ireland has the potential to rejuvenate this sector much like Scotland, which produces 50,000 tonnes of seed per year, much of which is exported. To achieve this, all stakeholders much create an environment and structure where the sector can thrive,” said the IFA Chairman.

The workshop addressed the important aspects of seed potato production in Ireland and was addressed by Dr. Barry O’Reilly, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, who spoke on the new EU regulations governing seed certification and the standards seed must pass to qualify in each seed category and grade.

Dr. Jan van der Wolf, an international expert on the potato disease Blackleg from Wageningen University outlined the importance of Blackleg in an Irish context and gave solid recommendations to help farmers deal with the disease.

“Blackleg is a huge problem when producing seed potatoes and the wetter climate in Ireland suits its development,” said Dr. van der Wolf. “Eradication is impossible but careful management in field and storage is essential,” he added.

Dr. Denis Griffin, Teagasc, Oak Park outlined how growers should focus on specialised seed potato production, rather than dual cropping, and outlined the major steps to achieving this. The workshop allowed ample time for discussion and to interact with Teagasc staff from Oak Park who presented the latest research findings in virus and potato cyst nematode.

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IDB Index increase shows markets have come up to meet current milk price for February

Glanbia Farmer Representatives at the opening of the new Nutritional Ingredients facility at Belview, from left John Murphy, Glanbia; Pat Coady, Glanbia; Pat Kelly, Carrick-on-Suir; Seamus Power, Dunhill; Ken Murphy, Carrick-on-Suir and Glanbia Director, Brendan Hayes, Carrick-on-Suir.

[Dylan Vaughan]

Cattle Traceability System A central core support to the entire industry THE Irish cattle identification and tracing system is based on EU Regulations (EC) No 1760/2000 and 1082/2003 which have been transposed into Irish legislation via SI No. 77 of 2009 – European Communities (Identification of Bovines) Regulations 2009.

This system has four component parts: • Tagging; • passports; • on-farm bovine herd register which can be in an electronic format; and • a computerised database (Animal Identification and Movement database - AIM).

IMPORTANCE OF THE CATTLE TRACEABILITY SYSTEM The traceability system traces the location of all Irish bovine animals from birth to slaughter. It records all births, movements and disposals. The system captures details of all animal movements and this information is used to verify the origin, identity and life history of cattle moving between farms, entering the food chain or being exported.

Ireland places a strong reliance on an effective cattle traceability system in the context of the heavy dependence of the Irish beef and dairying sectors on gaining and maintaining a strong foothold in high value export markets. Traceability from farm to fork is the bedrock of all of the demanding standards required by customers. Accurate bovine traceability is essential to provide consumer confidence and assurances about the quality of Irish beef on the domestic and export markets. An accurate traceability system is also of major importance in the event of a major disease outbreak to enable the Department to trace the movements of cattle and identify the source and the scale of the outbreak.

Customers and potential customers of Irish cattle and beef products audit the AIM database, maintained by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, regularly to satisfy themselves about the security of traceability.

OBLIGATIONS OF FARMERS Farmers and the information they supply form the bedrock of bovine

traceability. The main obligations of owners / keepers of bovine animals under EU and national legislation are as follows: • Tag calves in both ears with approved matching tags within 20 days of birth (or earlier before the calf leaves the holding).

• All new tag sets now contain a tissue sampling tag and all calves born on or after 1 January 2013 cannot be sold or moved to another farm unless tested negative for BVD. • Register calf births with the Calf Birth Registration Agency within 7 days of tagging.

• Check and sign passports received from the Calf Birth Registration Agency.

• Ensure that cattle moving onto the holding have correct ear tags and check that the passports received match the animals, enter name and address details of origin and sign passports. If cattle are coming directly from another farm, check that the compliance certificate matches the animal.

• Ensure that cattle moving off the holding are tagged correctly and accompanied by the correct passports and, if moving directly to another farm, that the animal has a compliance certificate to demonstrate to the new keeper that the animal is compliant with identification requirements and eligible to move from your holding.

• Notify all movements on and off the holding promptly, including onfarm deaths, in accordance with national legislation, to the AIM database via the Cattle Movement Notification Agency or online at www.agfood.ie • Keep herd register up to date by entering births, on-farm deaths, outward and inward movements in the herd register within 7 days of the event (either on paper or electronic).

• Replace passports immediately if lost, incomplete, defaced or there is no more space to enter tests, movement or keeper details.

• Replace any lost tag immediately after the loss is observed.

Compliance with these requirements is essential to ensure that the integrity of the AIM database is maintained to the highest possible level.

Failure to comply with these requirements may result in the application of

a penalty on direct payments made to farmers. Farmers should ensure that they register their calves on time and that the details (date of birth, dam, sire breed etc) are accurate.

The traceability system is only as strong as its weakest link and therefore it is important that each and every farmer plays his/her part to support their own industry.

ELECTRONIC HERD REGISTER FOR CATTLE The number of farmers notifying calf registrations electronically is showing a steady growth pattern with over one in four farmers notifying calf registrations electronically last year. In 2014, over 1 million calves were registered electronically representing almost 50% of the 2.1 million calves registered.

Farmers that register calves electronically can avail of an electronic herd register that is linked directly to the Animal Identification and Movement system known as AIM. Furthermore a number of farm management software packages are approved as an electronic herd register.

The electronic herd register provides the farmer with a unique opportunity to dispense with the requirement to maintain the on-farm herd register section of the blue book.

A farmer availing of the electronic herd register must both register calves electronically and notify AIM electronically to move animals from his holding to another holding [to obtain Certificates of Compliance to demonstrate that an animal is identified properly and eligible to move].

A farmer can avail of the electronic herd register facility by completing an online application form at www.agfood.ie to use the AIM database as an electronic herd register and agree to abide by the terms and conditions of use.

ADVANTAGES OF THE ELECTRONIC HERD REGISTER • Farmers are exempted from using the herd register section of the “blue book” • Significant reductions in error levels • Reduces the amount of paperwork for farmers • Reduces the risk of financial

penalties arising at cross compliance inspections.

MANUAL The Department has provided a very useful manual on the electronic herd register which is available on the Department’s website at www.agriculture.gov.ie under “Animal Identification and Movement” at “Cattle”. The manual provides detailed instructions on registration for the Department’s online facilities as well as providing screenshots covering all the main AIM facilities.

AGENTS Agents can submit calf birth registrations and movements electronically on behalf of farmers to AIM and such farmers can avail of the electronic herd register.

The Agent/Agency can be: • a Teagasc adviser; • an agricultural consultant; • the local vet; • a family member or • any third party nominated by the keeper.

Farmers can download the relevant application forms from the Department’s website at www.agriculture.gov.ie under Animal Identification and Movement.

DEPARTMENT’S ONLINE SERVICES Farmers that sign up to AIM on the Department’s online services at www.agfood.ie can • Use the Online herd register facility to replace the herd register section of the blue book • Register calf births online • Obtain a Certificate of Compliance (required to move cattle from their holding directly to another holding) • View details of animals currently in their herd according to the AIM system • View herd profiles for dates in the past • View details of movements into and out of their herd • View the most recent TB and Brucellosis test dates.

Any farmer wishing to obtain more information on the Department’s online services may log directly onto www.agfood.ie or contact the Department’s Online Helpdesk on 1890 252 118 to register over the telephone.

SPEAKING from Brussels, where he was attending a COPA dairy meeting this week, IFA National Dairy Committee Chairman Sean O’Leary said the announcement of a 4.5 points increase in the Feb IDB PPI to 97.5 points meant that the returns now available to Irish co-ops had come back into line with current milk prices of around 30c/l incl.VAT. He said that this was further evidence of markets coming back into balance, confirming the trends established in recent GDT auctions and in EU average market price reports.

“Friesland Campina have increased their milk price twice this spring, with their March price now at €34/100kgs for milk at 3.47% protein and 4.41% fat, and 4.51% lactose,” he said.

“Irish farmers will welcome these signals of market improvements and look forward to milk prices being at least held for the short term,” he concluded.

READER’S QUERIES Question: I have had 30 hectares taken from a neighbour for the past 5 years with entitlements. My neighbour also farms 10 hectares and wishes for me to continue the arrangement for the next 5 years and activate his entitlements and use them under a private contract clause. I have no problem with this arrangement, however, I have the feeling it has gone wrong somewhere along the line. Last year I fed my entitlements and land into an internet based calculator and I was facing a fair cut in my payment over the next 5 years however I received a statement in the post last week and it would seem that I am now going to lose little or nothing. The thing caught my eye was the proposed number of entitlements, there were 67 as opposed to 37. It was as if my neighbours land has been included in error. Can you please advise?

Answer: It would appear that there is no error. This is going to come as quite a shock to many who farmed some land and let out more with entitlements as they are going to feel the full force of the 2013/2015 rule. It had been generally accepted that land leased in or out with entitlements would be stand-alone but this according to the DAFM is not to be the case.The lessee, (you in this case) is the one who had the land in 2013 and therefore was given the credit for the additional 30 hectares against your entitlements. If you can continue with this land or its equivalent area for the period 20152019 then you will lose little or nothing under BPS. On the other hand your neighbour will have the 30 entitlements let out to you along with his other 10 all stacked back on his 10 hectares, therefore facing a huge cut in BPS over the next 5 years with convergence.

As the rule is the lesser of land declared in either 2013 or 2015, putting back in all of his land this year would make no difference. With this in mind going forward it would seem that there is no need for a PCC in your case as the 30 entitlements that had been let out are now taken care of as they are now part of your neighbours 10 hectares. You would be best advised to seek further clarification as it was impossible to pin any two DAFM personnel who could give me the same answer at the time of going to print. Someone won’t be best pleased.

I trust this should clear things up for you.

Tip of the Week: GLAS, National Reserve,YFS and BPS 2015 are now open for applications.

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Teagasc News . . .

CATTLE Completing the first rotation The first grazing rotation of the year has a big effect on the amount of grass grown in the following rotations, and on the quality of grass grown throughout April and May.There are three scenarios you need to avoid: 1. Too many cattle turned out too early: e.g., a lot turned out in February; and, first rotation ends too early, e.g., middle of March. If there is poor growth there will be very little grass ahead in the second rotation – the danger is that cattle may have to be rehoused.

2.Too few cattle turned out too late: e.g., a lot turned out in late March/early April; and, first rotation does not end until late April or even early May. The last fields to be grazed will be very heavy. If they are grazed, they will be very poor quality and, if they are taken out, you will be very quickly back to the first fields grazed.

3. Too many cattle turned out late: e.g., a lot turned out from the middle of March and, first rotation ends in early to mid-April. Back on first grazed fields within 20-25 days.Very little regrowth if weather is poor.

To avoid these three scenarios, you need to have set targets for your first rotation. The two aims are: to end the first rotation when the farm is growing enough grass to meet all the demand

for grass.This is called ‘Magic Day’ and is normally in early April in this part of the country and to have enough of a re-growth period on the first grazed fields/paddocks when the second rotation starts.

Example plan Target turnout of first cattle = February 18th.

Target end of first rotation = April 10th.

Grazing area (grazing and silage fields) = 40ha Using the Teagasc Spring Rotation Planner, the targets that are set for this farm are as follows: 30% grazed by: March 9th, - 12ha 50% grazed by: March 23rd, - 20ha 100% grazed by: April 10th, - 40ha As can be seen from the example plan there is no mention of numbers of cattle at turnout. The only targets that are set are the areas to be grazed by certain dates. By grazing a proportion of the farm early it will have enough regrowth for the second rotation. By sticking to such a plan you cannot run out of grass early. If you have too few cattle turned out to meet the targets turn out more stock and graze lighter covers before heavier covers. If too many cattle have been turned out and you are ahead of target, turn out less stock than originally planned; supplement with silage at grass; re-house some stock; introduce more land; or,

graze silage ground a second time?

Do you need to reseed?

There are many advantages to carrying out reseeding of grassland especially at high stocking rates. These include: • Increase grass dry matter output per ha • Improve response to fertiliser, especially Nitrogen • Extend the grazing season in Spring and Autumn • Improve animal performance Assessing Swards Early Spring (March/April) is a very good time to assess if grassland needs to be reseeded or not. Ryegrass should be prominent at that time. Most of the common weed grasses are more prominent later in the season. Both the grazing and cutting areas should be assessed. Factors to bear in mind include: • Percentage of ryegrass • Percentage of open ground • Percentage of other grasses and weeds When the sward is very open and the percentage of weed grasses and broadleaved weeds is higher than desirable production from the sward will be adversely affected. This will be particularly noticeable early in Spring.

Stock bull fitness test 80% of calves born in Irish suckler herds are from stock bulls. Purchasing and keeping a beef bull is a big invest-

ment on any farm and this investment needs to be protected, especially if he is producing good quality calves.There are many reasons why some bulls do not make it to the second or third breeding season and some of them are definitely health related. The breeding season will begin shortly in a lot of herds. Now is the time on these farms to make sure that your bull will be in the best of health (feet, etc.) by the time he is expected to work. Any stock bull that is purchased also needs careful attention for the first couple of months after arrival.

Health and Safety Message The key issues to prevent are: crushing or entanglement with tractors or machinery; livestock attacks, particularly by bulls; slurry drowning; falls, particularly from ladders; and, crushing by collapsing loads. Think safety and take action.

IMPORTANT EVENTS Boom sprayer pesticide application course All persons who use pesticides in the course of their professional activities, including farmers, operators, technicians, employees and self-employed people, both in the farming and other sectors Must register with the Dept. of Agriculture by November 26th, 2015.

Before registration you must have completed a recognised Pesticide Application course.

A Boom Sprayer Pesticide Application Course will commence in Kildalton College on Monday, March 23rd, 2015. This is a Teagasc/QQI approved course. The course fee is €350 and includes tuition, books, certification and one to one practical assessment. Further courses will be offered subject to demand. For further details and to book a place telephone Kildalton College at 051-644400.

BETTER BEEF farm walk A Teagasc/Farmers Journal BETTER BEEF farm walk will take place on the farm of Patrick Drohan, Scrahan, Kilmacthomas on Tuesday, March 24th commencing at 1.00 p.m. and again at 4.00 p.m. Patrick Drohan has been participating in the BETTER BEEF farm programme for the last 2 years. The focus of the farm walk will be showcasing how Patrick has increased his output of beef on a grass based system and the importance of breeding efficiencies in the suckler cow. Teagasc speakers will discuss the Drohan farm including profit monitor and the farm plan. Soil fertility, grassland management, reseeding, suckler cow breeding performance and replacement strategy will also be discussed.

Access will be from the back road from Kilmacthomas to Carroll’s Cross road. All are welcome.

IFA calls on Department of Transport to agree package of measures to facilitate the development of Greenways IFA President Eddie Downey has called on Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe to work with IFA and develop a voluntary package of measures that facilitates the development of proposed Greenway projects while protecting farmers’ rights.

He said,“The Government plans to develop over 330km of Greenway tracks across the country over

the next number of years. These projects have the potential to attract tourists and economic development to many rural areas”.

However, the IFA President said they will also significantly impact on farmers and may in some instances divide farm holdings. “This is leading to landowners firmly opposing the use of CPOs,

which may have a negative impact on the longterm success of the Greenways initiative.Therefore, it is essential that a robust package of measures is put in place which recognises the inconvenience, severance and injurious affection caused and goodwill required.”

Eddie Downey has also called on local authori-

ties to engage in this process with the Department of Transport and to reconsider plans to impose CPOs on landowners for non-critical infrastructure such as Greenways and cycle tracks. “All sides must work towards delivering these Greenways based on voluntary agreements with farmers, similar to the successful walkway scheme,” he said.

TEAGASC/GLANBIA MONITOR FARM FOCUS Week Ending: 16/3/’15 Milk Kg/Day Fat % Protein % Milk Solids/Day KG Meal KG/Cow/Day Average Farm Cover Cover Per Cow Pre Grazing Yield KG DM Demand KG DM HA Growth KG DM HA

Grange, Waterford 25.4 4.43 3.15 1.93 3 467 213 1,100 17 7

Kilmacow, Kilkenny

Comments: Grange, Waterford

Glanbia Farmer Representatives at the opening of the new Nutritional Ingredients facility at Belview, from left Pat Coady, Glanbia; Ken Murphy, Carrick-on-Suir; Pascal O'Connell, Carrick-on-Suir; Liam Herlihy, Glanbia Chairman; Michael Hahesy, Carrick-on-Suir and Denis Cullinan, Rathgormack.

[Dylan Vaughan]

• 56% of the farm grazed on 16th March • 88% of herd calved to date.

• Planning to spread 2nd round of fertiliser later this week. Aiming to have 70 units N/Ac spread before end of March.

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Very Fertile Silage Ground Mobile App for farmers, Herdwatch, is named Emerging New Business Winner at the SFA National Small Business Awards 2015 (Wednesday, 4th March). Pictured are from left to right: AJ Noonan, Chairman, SFA; Richard Bruton TD, Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation; Emerging New Business Winner, Fabien Peyaud, from Herdwatch with David Curtin, CEO IE Domain Registry, sponsor of the Emerging New Business category. www.herdwatch.ie.

Dungarvan Macra crowned All-Ireland soccer champions HUGE congratulations to John Tobin, Ray Landers, Jack Aherne, Stephen Aherne, Tom Landers and Michael Barry who were crowned All-Ireland NDC Men’s Indoor Soccer champions.

The Dungarvan team beat a strong Fermoy side 4-1 in the final held on March 1st in Gormanston College, Co. Meath. The team showed great commitment all year by holding weekly practice sessions and this showed on the day when true grit and team work were needed to secure the win.

Well done to all of the other players who attended training sessions and contributed to the success of

this team. Dungarvan Macra last won this competition in 2006 and has an excellent track record which we hope will continue for many years to come.

QUESTION TIME FINAL Well done to Fiona O’Brien, Rosemary Murphy, John Tobin and Angela Byrne from Dungarvan Macra who came fourth in the Kerrygold Club Question Time All-Ireland final held in The Boyne Valley Hotel, Drogheda, on February 28th. 23 teams from all over the country took part in this challenging quiz which comprises over 100 questions on topics such as cur-

rent affairs, sport, film, T.V. and music. A mere one point separated the top four teams, with Millstreet Macra eventually claiming the top prize.

MOCK WEDDING OF THE MIDLANDS On Saturday, March 14th, members of Dungarvan Marca na Feirme travelled to Abbeyleix Manor Hotel for the Mock Wedding of the Midlands in aid of Embrace Farm and Cuisle Centre.

Following the hilarious mock ceremony involving a runaway groom, a delicious four course meal was served. Entertainment was provided by Abbeyfolk and DJ til late. A great time was had by all and lots of new

friendships were made. A big thanks to Rathdowney Marca na Feirme for organising the event.

CAPERS AWARDS NIGHT On Saturday, March 7th, the red carpet was laid out at the Tudor Bar for members of the Waterford Rainbow Group who took part in this year’s Capers competition.

Nominees awaited the announcement of the winners in each category with baited breathe.

M.C. for the night was Maria Foley with Grainne Murphy directing proceedings and presenting individual awards to highlight the contribution of each nominee.

A great night was had by all and nobody was left empty handed as the winners continued to the Anchor Bar for postceremony refreshments.

Well done to the girls for organising such a great night.

UPCOMING EVENTS IMPROMPTU DEBATING Dungarvan Macra na Feirme will be hosting the county round of the impromptu debating this Friday, March 20th, in Lawlors Hotel at 7.30 p.m.

There will be a number of teams from around the county entering including

Dungarvan Macra.

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in joining Dungarvan Macra na Feirme to meet current members and get a feel for the types of activities we are involved in.

TITLES NIGHT Dungarvan Macra will host the County Titles’ night on Friday, March 27th.The venue is yet to be confirmed so keep an eye on our Facebook page.

Interviews will be held for the titles of Mr. Personality, Queen of the Land, Miss Macra and Miss Blue Jeans.The winners will go forward to the final of each competition.

VOLLEYBALL The county round of the volleyball competition will take place on Sunday, March 29th, in Cappoquin Community Centre. Time yet to be confirmed.

INTERESTED IN JOINING? Anyone interest in joining Dungarvan Macra na Feirme may contact us through our Facebook page. Just search Dungarvan Macra. Alternatively you are welcome to attend any of our events where you can meet our members. No matter what your interests, we’ll have something for you! And remember Macra is not just for farmers!

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Dungarvan Mart SAMPLE PRICES BULLOCK SECTION 1 B. B. 730 kgs. made €1,600.

6 Lim. 620 kgs. made €1,320.

4 Her. 610 kgs. made €1,310.

6 Her. 607 kgs. made €1,290.

HEIFER SECTION 1 Char. 670 kgs. made €1,410.

1 Fr. 655 kgs. made €1,270.

3 Char. 478 kgs. made €1,000.

1 Char. €390 kgs. made €920.

DRY COW 1 Char. 795 kgs. made €1,480.

1 Fr. 795 kgs. made €1,290.

1 Fr. 770 kgs. made €1,210.

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€1,080 to €1,430.

CALVES Fr. Bulls made from €70 to €100 with up to €170 for strong Fr. Bulls.

Aberdeen Angus Bulls made from €280 to €360.

Her. Bulls made from €240 to €385.

Cont. Bulls made from €300 to €440.

Heifer Calves sold from €200 to €280 with up to €350 for quality Cont. Heifer Calves.

Cattle Sales in 2015 will commence at 11.30 a.m. sharp.

Friesian Bull Calves wanted for export. Must be over 14 days old.

Wanted for further feeding Continental Heifers and bulls 300 to 450 kgs.

Contact Dungarvan Mart on 058 41611.

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First Piano Recital for Daniel Kearney ON March 1st, Daniel Kearney held the first piano recital Dungarvan has seen in St. Mary’s National Church of Ireland.

Tickets sold out within a week of selling tickets; Daniel is very grateful to Kelly’s Pharmacy, Abbeyside; David Walsh’s and all those who helped in the selling of tickets. This contributed hugely to the donations of €1,000 towards the church repair funds.

Daniel welcomed all who attended the piano recital first with a big smile and then with Bach Partita

in C minor and Kapustin Etude Op 40 No 6. Daniel shared the limelight with special guests VoiceOver, Dungarvan-based Ladies Choir who performed in public for the first time in the picturesque venue.

Founder Mary Lawless outlined the exciting journey the choir had been on since forming in October 2014 and thanked all those who supported them along the way especially Daniel their accompanist.

Under the guidance of Cordelia Burke (Musical Co-Ordinator) the choir

serenaded the audience with a variety of music including; Think of Me, Gershwin For Girls, Count on Me and One Voice.

The audience were loud in their appreciation for the Choir and all present agreed that VoiceOver is a choir to watch out for in the future.

There was a huge sense of admiration of the attendees towards Daniel.

At just 21 years of age, it is clear to everyone that the talent that Daniel has is raw.

Dedication and passion was heard at each articulation.

Daniel ended the recital with Debussy Lisle Joyeuse

and Beethoven Sonata 109 and an encore of Pucks Dance by Debussy.

As everyone walked from the church after the piano recital, there was a silence

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Daniel with his brother Stephen supporting Daniel on the first piano recital held in Dungarvan.

Paramount Pictures in Association with TG4 Announce ‘SpongeBob an Scannán: Spúinse as Uisce’

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and one of the attendees acknowledged the silence was a silence in awe of Daniel. It was a stunning event; Daniel received many standing ovations.

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OMEONE close means well when they ask you to get your act together. Do not be offended.

It s time to take stock and make some decisions especially where work is concerned.

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OME life is giving you a boost this week, and spending time in your home will bring a lot of pleasure. Don t forget to keep an eye on the purse strings however don t go too wild!

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PRING has sprung and it s important now to take the initiative with a close friendship or relationship. Sometimes others appreciate your guidance and now is the time.

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PEAKING your mind may bring rewards in your love life, as your strong opinions on one subject will impress an admirer. Standing up for yourself has never been more attractive.

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LAY your cards right Virgo and this could be an exciting week for you! People around you have reminded you that life s too short, so grab this chance with both hands!

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EACH for a dream Libra and you ll be flying along in 2015. This will be a very positive year for you, and this week you can start laying the foundations.

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Step back and try to be objective.

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goes against your better judgement. Maybe November you should try and think of a way to soften the 22nd December 21st blow, this will ease your conscience.

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FRIEND has been making unnecessary demands of your time, and until now you ve kept quiet. Have a word before you lose your temper and the friendship is damaged.

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IFE has a funny way of surprising us and recently things have been going a little too smoothly. Be prepared for some ups and down over the coming days.

PARAMOUNT Pictures Ireland, in association with TG4, are delighted to announce that The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water will be available for the first time through the Irish language in Irish cinemas nationwide. Dubbing production has begun in Dublin on this local project by Macalla Teoranta, the team who dub the popular SpongeBob Squarepants TV series that is broadcast on TG4.

The first-of-its-kind movie will be released in both Irish and English on March 27th.

Based on the highly acclaimed Nickelodeon TV series, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies, sees SpongeBob Squarepants, the world’s favourite sea dwelling invertebrate, come ashore to our world for his most super-heroic adventure yet.

The movie, which has already grossed over $125m in the US, stars Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence and Mr. Lawrence. It is produced by Paul Tibbitt and Mary Parent. Based on the series “SpongeBob SquarePants” created by Stephen Hillenburg, with a story by Stephen Hillenburg & Paul Tibbitt and a screenplay by Glenn Berger & Jonathan Aibel and Paul Tibbitt. The film is directed by Paul Tibbitt. It is the first release

by Paramount Animation, the animation division of

Paramount Pictures.

Speaking about the unique project, Niamh McCaul the General Manager of Paramount Pictures in Ireland said: “We are delighted to have this opportunity to work with TG4 and release The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water in our national language. A first for a Hollywood studio, I hope Irish audiences will support this initiative in March when we celebrate all things Irish.”

The popular TV series SpongeBob Squarepants has been broadcast in English since 1999 and on TG4 through the Irish language since 2000. The timing of the movie release through Irish is particularly appropriate. March is a fantastic period of national celebration, with St. Patrick’s Festival and Seachtain na Gaeilge both taking place during the month.

Lís Ní Dhálaigh Acquisitions & Output Director in TG4 said: “TG4 has been SpongeBob’s home in Ireland since 2000

and the series has been a prominent element of our kids’ schedule since then.

For thousands of young people in Ireland, the characters in SpongeBob are Irish speakers! This firstever nationwide theatrical release of a major kids movie in the Irish language illustrates TG4’s mission to provide an entertaining, engaging point of contact with the Irish language for kids everywhere. Tá muid ag súil go mór leis.”

Jane Farley from Macalla Teoranta adds: "We're delighted to be giving SpongeBob and his gang a voice 'as gaeilge' on the big screen. We have a well established and experienced cast of actors who have voiced many hours of SpongeBob and are relishing this project. We've had fun dubbing the television series over the years but a cinema release in 3D is a new dimension!"

Spongebob an Scannán: Spúinse as Uisce will be released in participating cinemas on March 27th.

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Down: 1 Tot up, 2 Belgravia, 4 Off, 5 On the go, 6 Gape, 7 Gravity, 8 Monty Python, 13 Brusquely, 14 Ferrero, 16 Eyeball, 19 Title, 20 Gaza, 22 Pug.

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Dungarvan Drama Club brings New York to Dungarvan!

THE town may have been green white and gold for St. Patrick’s Day but the star spangled banner will be flying high at Dungarvan Town Hall Theatre this week.

A trojan team, expertly led by Ned Cullinan, checked in at the Town Hall Theatre at the weekend and worked day and night to transform it into a plush hotel suite - Suite 719 Plaza Hotel, New York!

Join DDC on Opening Night Wednesday, 18th March for Prosecco and Pretzels at the Plaza!

Opening night is in support of The Lions Club Jigs & Reels event which takes place on Saturday, 21st

March at the Cappoquin Community Centre. Club member Ruaidhri de Paor is taking part in Jigs & Reels and DDC is delighted to support the Lions Club and the wonderful service it provides to so many people in our community.

'Plaza Suite' tells the tale of three couples successively occupying one hotel suite Suite 719 Plaza Hotel, New York. Three different couples, three dififferent stories.

Our 'dexterous director' Siobhan Buckley has skillfully brought together familiar and accomplished DDC faces Margaret Dennehy, Con O'Sullivan and Orla Glascott with new

club members. Along with our friends from Mercyhurst College, Matt Vendeville and Emily Francis, the club is delighted to introduce Marina Kilduff, Aaron Cowming, Jess McGovern and Louise Bradley all on their first outing treading the boards with DDC! Before joining DDC Marina would have likely been found showcasing her sporting prowess in the Handball alley or on the Gaelic Football field. 'Plaza Suite' marks Marina's first foray into acting. Aaron is no stranger to the stage. He took part in various school plays and in Tops of the Town with Dungarvan

The Visitors to Suite 719 – Marina Kilduff, Con O'Sullivan, Joe Kelly, Aaron Cowming, Jess McGovern, Margaret Dennehy, Louise Bradley and Orla Glascott.

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Siobhan Buckley who directs 'Plaza Suite'.

[Dave Zannis] Youth Club which they won in 1986. He is thrilled to be involved with DDC and can't wait to see what comes next! Jess hails from Doolin, Co. Clare and is very excited to join DDC and become a part of the Dungarvan madness!

Louise is delighted to be playing Muriel Tate in 'Plaza Suite'. She loves to act but has had a big break from the stage and is excited to be back!

'Plaza Suite' is a stupendous comedy by Neil Simon and will "set the town laughing". It will be staged at Dungarvan Town Hall Theatre from Wednesday 18th to Saturday, 21st March.

Performance is at 8.00 p.m. nightly. Opening night is in support the Lions Club Jigs & Reels Fundraiser. Tickets €12 are on sale at The Wine Buff, Grattan Square (05824523), Kelly’s Pharmacy, Abbeyside (058-44433) and the DDC Booking Line (086-3244175). Not to be Missed!

St. Mary’s Church, Cappoquin hosts liturgical drama - “Lament” LAMENT! Singing Our Sufferings At The Foot Of The Cross With Easter fast approaching, St. Mary’s Church, Cappoquin is hosting a liturgical drama on the theme of lamentation.

Entitled, ‘Lament! Singing Our Sufferings At The Foot Of The Cross’, it

Christina O’Flynn, (Mezzo Soprano).

features singers Christina O’Flynn (Mezzo Soprano), John O’Flynn (Bass) & Brazilian pianist Rafael Calesso.

The evening invites people to enter into the experience of Christ on the cross in a powerful way, through music, scripture and poetry and promises to be a compelling and intimate portrayal of the cry of the human heart.

Entry is free. Donations will be accepted at the end of the night towards aiding UNICEF Ireland’s Syrian Campaign for the millions of children left orphaned by the war.

Thursday, 26th March.

Duration: 1 hour. St. Mary’s Church, Cappoquin.

Entry to the concert is free.

Rattle the Boards

Touraneena hosts big Irish Night TOURANEENA Community Hall will host a big Irish Night on Saturday, March 21st at 8.30 p.m. with Rattle the Boards and Friends featuring local box player Benny McCarthy alongside bandmates Pat Ryan (Fiddle/Banjo), John Nugent (Guitar) and John T. Egan (Vocals).

Visual Artist and Puppeteer Des Dillon will be a very special guest on the night.

People might recall Des Dillon and Rattle the boards 2003 appearance on RTE's 'The Late Late Show' with some sketches from their hugely successful theatre show 'Teac a Bloc'.

Profits from this night will all go towards a school book rental scheme for Touraneena N.S. which is being organized by a local committee.

Doors are at 8.00 p.m. with concert kicking off at 8.30 p.m., March 21st, Touraneena Community Hall.

Tickets €15 (€10 for kids) are on sale at Beary's Cross Shop, Touraneena Post Office and from Aine Hickey (087) 1342940 or Catherine Cliffe (083) 140 2413.

Seating is limited so early booking is advised.

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John Fulljames presents a new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's furiously impassioned satire on consumerism, starring Anne Sofie von Otter, Willard White and Christine Rice conducted by Mark Wigglesworth. Three criminals on the run find they can go no further and found a city – Mahagonny, city of gold. The destitute and the disenchanted flock to Mahagonny, among them the prostitute Jenny and the lumberjack Jim Mahoney with his three friends. The city swells with debauchery. Jim and Jenny try to escape, but find themselves still in Mahagonny. Jim is arrested and convicted of myriad crimes - chief among them a lack of money, punishable by death. He is executed and the city burns.

The Dungarvan Observer, in association with SGC Dungarvan, has a pair of tickets to give away to the lucky winner of our competition. All you have to do is answer the following question and post your entries into Royal Opera Competition, Dungarvan Observer, Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, on or before 12 noon on Tuesday, 24th March. Editor’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

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Don’t miss a stellar cast led by Mark Strong (The Imitation Game; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) in the Young Vic's 'magnetic, electrifying, astonishingly bold' production of A View from the Bridge – the Evening Standard, Guardian and Independent's top theatre pick of 2014. The great Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. Eddie's jealous mistrust exposes a deep, unspeakable secret – one that drives him to commit the ultimate betrayal. The visionary Ivo van Hove directs this stunning production of Miller’s tragic masterpiece, broadcast from London’s West End by National Theatre Live.

The Dungarvan Observer, in association with SGC Dungarvan, has a pair of tickets to give away to the lucky winner of our competition. All you have to do is answer the following question and post your entries into NT Live Competition, Dungarvan Observer, Shandon, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, on or before 12 noon on Tuesday, 24th March. Editor’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

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St. Patrick’s Day – a world event THE troubled history of Ireland up to less than a century ago guaranteed that there would be little in the line of celebration of St. Patrick’s Day and certainly, with opposition from our rulers from across the sea, the concept of a St. Patrick’s Day Parade was well nigh impossible.

St Patrick’s place on the Calendar of Irish Saints was reserved for him by an Irish Priest, Fr. Luke Wadding who, due to his devotion to St. Patrick, had our National Saint’s name inserted in the Liturgical Calendar, allocating to him the Feast Day of 17th March.

Fr. Wadding was one of the great scholars of 17th Century Europe, spending most of his years in Rome producing a corpus of work which could have earned him an influential place in the Curia or the head of his Franciscan Order.

However, Fr. Wadding preferred to remain a humble priest devoid of titles.

He was born in Waterford City in 1588 and at the age of fourteen he lost both parents.

His brother sent him to Lisbon where he was educated and ordained as a Franciscan priest. After a period teaching, he was brought to Rome with the Superior of his Order to promote the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. He wrote many books, collected records and recorded

much of the history of the Franciscans. He also promoted the Irish cause in whatever way he could. Descendants of Luke Wadding’s Family still live in the County and City of Waterford today.

In the White House, the President of the day will hold the compulsory bowl of shamrock for the thirty seconds it takes the cameras to record the moment and then it is diplomatically set aside.

The Shamrock, which was revived as an Irish symbol in America a century and a half ago, is still popular there.

New York has always been one of the great centres of Irish emigrant population in the United States.This year, the Parade Committee chose His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan to be the 254th Parade Grand Master to lead the world’s oldest and largest parade up Fifth Avenue on Tuesday, March 17th. The event has not been without its controversies, but has endured all hardships and mishaps over its two and a half centuries.

The second oldest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the world is in Savannah, Georgia where their 191st Parade will be held this year. According to their publicity, all who have seen it say it is ‘the grandest in the world’!

In South Boston, traditional home of some of Irish / America’s most influential families, a St.

Patrick’s Day Parade is held in conjunction with the Allied War Veteran’s Council (AWVC) Commemoration. The Parade is listed as the second largest in the country, being viewed by nearly 600,000 to one million people every year; in addition to having the entire parade seen on Live TV. In the State of Pennsylvania, there are fourteen Parades, held mainly on the Saturday before the 17th. Among them is that of Dungarvan’s Sister City of Erie, where the tradition has been maintained for many decades and which gets much of the population out onto State Street, the route of the lengthy parade. This was held last Saturday.

On Saturday morning, the Bishop and Clergy, the cultural organisations, the Irish dancers, the Knights and Ladies of St. Patrick and a host of people revelling in their Irish heritage, all troop after their band and Members of the City Council. The Mayor, Joe Sinnott, of proud Irish stock, usually honours one of the emergency services by riding on their vehicle.

It is said that in America, half of the population can claim to be of Irish descent and the other half would like to be. Across the world, most people who know of us like to be a little Irish on Patrick’s Day, the rest will just have to wait their turn.

An Irish Cultural Group in Erie, Pennsylvania, Dungarvan's Sister City enjoy their Parade. Inset: Statue of Fr. Luke Wadding at Greyfriars, Waterford.

Dungarvan’s Canadian connection?

THE sixth Celebration of the Irish Tricolour took place as usual in Waterford last Sunday week and, even though conditions were cold, as they usually are, the drama and pageantry of the occasion kept everyone’s attention rapt on the action. Among those who attended was the Mayor of Dungarvan and Lismore Municipal District, Cllr.

Damien Geoghegan who conveyed the welcome and good wishes of the people of Dungarvan and the West to the new Canadian Ambassador, His Excellency, Kevin Vickers.

People will remember him as the Master at Arms of the Canadian Parliament who thwarted an attempt by an armed intruder to harm the Members of Parliament who were present at the time. Shortly after, he

was appointed his country’s Ambassador to Ireland.

In conversation with the Ambassador, a very interesting story emerged and Damien, who has an inherited ear for a good tale, was taken by what the Ambassador told him.

This story is part of the Canadian folklore and likewise an interesting tale which more than likely has its roots in Dungarvan.

The story is the inspiration for a lengthy ballad – it is 108 lines long – and is interesting for it is set on the banks of the Dungarvon River, a tributary of the Renous River in New Brunswick, Canada, the Ambassador’s home province. The title of the poem is ‘The Dungarvon Whooper’, a 19th Century tale of

murder and haunting.

The story revolves around a young Irish cook, often referred to by the name of Ryan. The young Irishman moves to a lumber camp located somewhere along, or very near to, the Dungarvon River, bringing all of his possessions with him, including a money belt.

While the lumberjacks are out, Ryan is left alone with the boss of the camp, who decides to murder and rob the young cook. When the crew returns, the boss explains that the cook had taken sick and died suddenly. They then bury the body in the forest some distance from the camp. However, a terrible "whooping" sound keeps the group from falling asleep that night, presumably the ghost of Ryan crying out against

the crime of which he was the victim. Scared, the men flee the camp the next morning.

The story, which was handed down to lumberers working in New Brunswick throughout the 20th century, is well known in local culture. It was taken seriously enough by the turn of the century that Rev. Edward Murdoch, a Roman Catholic priest from Renous, performed an exorcism at the professed gravesite at Whooper Spring. One verse of the narrative reads: When the crew returned that night, What a sad scene met their sight, There lay the young cook silent, cold and dead, Death was in his curling hair,

In his young face pale and fair, While his knapsack formed a pillow for his head.

From the belt about his waist All his money was misplaced, Which made the men suspect some serious wrong, Was it murder cold and dread, That befell the fair young dead Where the dark and deep Dungarvon rolls along?

By the way, the Mayor also met and welcomed the French Ambassador, His Excellency, JeanPierre Thébault who told him that, in his opinion, Ireland's finest export comes from our town! He loves "Dungarvan Bay Oysters!" ‘the best in the world’ he reckons!

“Obviously,” says Damien,“a man of impeccable taste.”

The Mayor of Dungarvan and Lismore Municipal District, Cllr. Damien Geoghegan with the new Canadian Ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency, Kevin Vickers.

A kind deed forty years ago still remembered IT is St. Patrick’s week after all and inevitably thoughts turn to America where most of our diaspora are resident and where for almost two centuries seven generations of economic and voluntary emigrants have found a home, some more successfully than others. Many of their descendants yearn to return to the motherland and some manage to cross the Atlantic in the opposite direction to their forebears.

One such family visited Dungarvan just ten years ago this week, having attended the Parade in Dublin and visited other locations around the country.

Tim and Diane Madden and their family arrived in Dungarvan and were greeted by the Mayor, the late Cllr. Michael O’Riordan, mem-

bers of the Council and our Journalist Paul Mooney.

As he graciously accepted the welcome and hospitality of the Council,Tim Madden told the story of why he wished so fervently to return to our town. He is so proud of it that it is on his company’s website. This is his tale: “When Tim and Diane Madden were first searching for a name for their fledgling organization in 1975, they knew more what they did not want than what they felt would really fit. They knew that they did not want names like, “Happy Place”, “Caring Arms”, or “Brighter Day”.

What they settled on resulted from an experience Tim had during his travels as a college student in the early 1970’s. Here is his story:

“Having come from an Irish heritage, I was travelling in Ireland with a backpack and a skinny budget. I was attempting to reach the old Madden castle, which was some distance from the coast where I had arrived. My only means of travel was by “thumbing”. The days had been cold and rainy and I found myself in a particular town where I sat wet and shivering, and with little moving traffic, it seemed hopeless that I would get a ride. A policeman, who noticed my plight, offered to put me on a bus to my intended location. While on the bus, I had a chance to warm up, dry out, and get some sleep.

The policeman’s thoughtful act of kindness is something that I will never forget, and because this all

occurred in the town of Dungarvan, it provided the inspiration for the name that now is the masthead of our organization. Not knowing if we needed permission to use the name, we decided to change the spelling to Dungarvin.

Upon our fifteenth anniversary, we received a congratulatory letter from the Mayor of Dungarvan, inviting us back so that we may further enjoy their hospitality.

Attached was a note that encouraged us to review our training in… spelling.

When Dungarvin reached its thirty year milestone, we decided to accept the mayor’s invitation and we returned to our namesake in Ireland (albeit spelled Dungarvan) and was once again overwhelmed with their

kindness and hospitality.”

Dungarvin Inc. is a national organization of privately owned companies that are dedicated to providing high quality, communitybased supports to people with varying support needs.

Founded in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1976, Dungarvin has grown to employ approximately 3,000 people who currently provide supports to over 2,100 individuals across 13 States. Dungarvin provides a variety of individually tailored services and supports and additionally, provide services in several small homes licensed as Intermediate Care Facilities/Mental Retardation (ICF/MR) in Indiana.

The Late Cllr. Ml. O’Riordan, then Mayor of Dungarvan welcomes Tim Madden, Minnesota, USA in the Council Chamber in 2005.

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sport@dungarvanobserver.ie Waterford's Michael Walsh in action with Antrim's Ryan McCambridge during their Div 2 National Hurling League match in Walsh Park.

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Hurlers coast to victory See Page 3 THIRD SUCCESSIVE DEFEAT FOR FOOTBALLERS Page 2

JOE GOUGH WINS THREE GOLD MEDALS AT MASTERS

MOON RACER CONTINUES UNBEATEN RUN AT CHELTENHAM

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ALLIANZ NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIVISION 4 – ROUND 5

Third successive narrow defeat for footballers Antrim ……………….. 0-15; Waterford ………….... 0-13.

TWO point defeats by Carlow, Longford and now Antrim last Sunday in Walsh Park has left Waterford footballers at the bottom end of Division 4 in the Allianz National Football league with games to come against London and Leitrim, both away from home.

All three games could have been won and especially last Sunday’s one in Walsh Park against Antrim when we created goal scoring chances in both halves including a last minute penalty kick following a foul on substitute Liam O Lonain.

However, Waterford never led in this game and anytime that Tom McGlinchey’s players came close to the Saffron County on the scoreboard, it was the visitors who rallied with the next score to keep daylight between the teams.

Following the heavy defeat by their hurlers, the Antrim Board will be happy to take something away from Walsh Park as they faced the long journey back home.

The winners led at halftime by 0-9 to 0-7 with the second half ending level at 0-6 apiece. Waterford played their best football in the second half and in the latter stages of it and they deserved at the very least a draw here.

As predicted previously, black cards are currently reserved for the final minutes of games in many cases and this was the story here with one each being distributed to the teams after the 67th minute. They didn’t affect the result in any way here in a

generally free ridden contest with 21 frees being awarded to Antrim and 20 to the home team.

Corner forward C. J. McGourty stood out for the winners with his positive results from placed balls with his left leg, converting 0-6 and adding a further 0-3 from play.

Full forward Michael Pollock kicked over two right legged frees and overall the winners scored less from play than they did from frees and the same from play as Waterford.

Paul Whyte will be disappointed with his last minute penalty wide but he was by far his team’s main scoring threat for goals and for points, ending the game with 0-8 of the home team’s scoring tally.

Team management made a number of changes from the Longford game with Shane Briggs starting at midfield instead of the out-ofbounds Shane Aherne and the Kilrossanty pair of Niall Walsh and Joey Veale on the edge of the square at opposite ends of the field.

On a bitterly cold day more than half the attendance left Walsh Park after the hurling game and playing against the wind, it was Antrim who started the brighter with a brace of pointed frees by McGourty in the 2nd and in the 6th minutes.

Antrim’s Tony Scullion picked up a yellow card which could have been black in the seventh minute before Paul Whyte opened the home account with a pointed free one minute later.

McGourty and Whyte exchanged scores from play in the 11th minute before the winners enjoyed a spell of dominance resulting in three

further pointed frees by the Antrim sharp shooter and a similar score by his full forward Michael Pollock.

Waterford’s only return in this period of the game was a fine point by J. J. Hutchinson as Antrim led by 0-7 to 0-3 with 25 minutes on the clock and this was one of a number of match occasions that Waterford left themselves with a mountain to climb.

Two quick points brought the home team back into the fray with Paul Whyte adding a left legged pointed free to his earlier right legged one followed by a good effort from Patrick Hurney who played well throughout.

Antrim kicked two wides before C. J. McGourty extended the winners advantage to 0-8 to 0-5 in the 31st minute. Waterford were almost in for a goal one minute later when Patrick Hurney placed Paul Whyte to the left of the post but his kick was diverted for a ‘45’ by Chris Kerr which Whyte then converted. On the stroke of 35 minutes, Joey Veale placed Whyte for another goal attempt but the half remained without a green flag being raised and Michael Pollock and Shane Briggs ended the scoring with points from play in time added on, 09 to 0-7 in favour of the Antrim team.

Tadhg Ó hUallachain replaced Niall Walsh on the restart but for the fifth of eight occasions Antrim extended their lead to 0-3 via a Michael Pollock pointed free. Paul Whyte reduced the deficit to the minimum by the 45th minute with a left legged score from play and a right legged one from a free.

However, back came Antrim, as was the norm throughout, and Declan Lynch placed McGourty for a 49th minute score and wing forward Conor Murray added another point, 0-12 to 0-9.

Paul Whyte was again in on goal from a Joey Veale pass but once again Chris Kerr saved at the expense of another ‘45’ which Whyte converted for a second time.

J. J. Hutchinson placed Patrick Hurney for his second score in the 55th minute, 0-12 to 0-11 but again Antrim teased the home team with a brace of points by McGourty and then Michael Pollock in the 62th minute.

This looked to be the final blow for Waterford but they actually played their best football, with great determination from here on in and Paul Whyte gave the Waterford attendance renewed hope with a 64th minute pointed free.

One minute of normal time remaining and substitute Paddy McAleer gives Antrim what looks like the assurance point at 0-15 to 0-12 but midfielders Tommy Prendergast and Shane Briggs surged forward with the size 5 and offloaded to Liam O Lonain, who was unceremoniously taken down, giving the referee no hesitation to award a penalty.

After giving a Man of the Match performance, Paul Whyte didn’t deserve to miss such a crucial penalty but at such a late stage with tiredness having settled in, this is what happened and Antrim were left off the hook.

Credit Waterford, they came back up the field again late into injury time and

Waterford's Senior Footballers who lost to Antrim during their Div 4 National Football league match in Walsh Park.

Waterford's Paul Whyte in action with Antrim's Martin Kane during their Div 4 National Football league match in Walsh Park.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport] Patrick Hurney kicked his third point from play which he deserved giving his performance overall.

Antrim took home the two National League points but Waterford deserved at the very least a share of the spoils from this game.

Antrim’s Top Three: C. J. McGearty, Michael Pollock, Chris Kerr.

Waterford’s Top Three: Paul Whyte, Dean Crowley, Patrick Hurney.

Observer’s Man of the Match: Paul Whyte.

Number of Scorers: Antrim 4; Waterford 4.

Scores from Play: Antrim 0-7; Waterford 0-7.

Frees For: Antrim 21; Waterford 20.

Wides: Antrim 8; Waterford 5.

Score of the Match: Paul Whyte’s 64th minute pointed free from the far side of the field near the sideline.

Scorers: Waterford: P. Whyte 0-8, P. Hurney 0-3, S. Briggs, J. J. Hutchinson (0-1) each.

Antrim: C. J. McGourty 0-9, M. Pollock 0-4, C. Murray, P. McAleer (0-1) each.

Waterford: S. Enright; D. Crowley, N. Walsh, M. O’Gorman; R. O Ceallaigh, L. Lawlor, T. O’Gorman; S. Briggs, T. Prendergast; J. J.

Hutchinson, M. Curry, P. Hurney; M. Ferncombe, J. Veale, P. Whyte. Subs: T. O hUallachain for Walsh; L. O Lonain for Ferncombe; C. Phelan for Veale; D. Hallahan for T. O’Gorman.

Antrim: C. Kerr; M. Kane, S. McVeigh, D. Lynch; J. Laverty, J. Crozier, T. Scullion; M. McCann, B. Hasson; C. Murray, O. Gallagher, P. McBride; R. Murray, M. Pollock, C. J. McGourty.

Subs: R. Johnston for Kane; J. Carron for Gallagher; P. McAleer for McVeigh; M. Fitzpatrick for R. Murray; N. O’Neill for McBride.

Referee: N. Ward (Westmeath).

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ALLIANZ NATIONAL HURLING LEAGUE DIVISION 1B ROUND 4

Hurlers coast to victory Waterford …………….4-30; Antrim ……………….. 0-10.

IT was a long and soul searching trip back to Antrim last Sunday evening for Kevin Ryan’s charges after their 032 defeat by Waterford at a bitterly cold Walsh Park.

Waterford were clinical on the scoreboard all day, accumulating their highest scoring tally in living memory but there will be nobody getting carried away as Antrim were very poor opposition and this game was well over as a contest by half-time on a 1-13 to 0-5 scoreline in favour of the home team.

Despite the inadequate opposition, there was some encouraging and welcome positives to be taken from the game such as the performances of the returning Stephen Bennett and Maurice Shanahan, who between them, at different times on the field, accounted for 3-9 0f their team’s winning tally. Noel Connors gave a Man of the Match display at corner back, Pauric Mahony was once again a scoring machine from place balls and from play and Colin Dunford and Michael Walsh were a thorn in the Antrim defence all afternoon.

Apart from the first seventeen minutes of the game, which was the only period that was contested, the home support in the announced attendance of 1,558 were comfortable in the knowledge that their favourites would top the Group table after Limerick’s unexpected defeat at home to Offaly the previous night.

While such a dominant display is always welcome, though, it will not have done

Derek McGrath’s charges any favours for the crunch game this Sunday away to Wexford which will decide which of these two teams will by plying their trade in the top tier of hurling in 2016.

The late Jim Nelson is a legendary name in Antrim GAA and before the throw-in at Walsh Park, there was a minutes silence observed in his memory and that of other Gaels Paddy ‘Moremiles’ Murphy, Johnny Tobin, Tom Kennedy and John Doyle, all of whom died recently. There was a nice touch included on the scoreboard when the names of all the deceased were featured during the minute’s silence.

Antrim were a big team and for the first seventeen minutes of the game, with the aid of the stiff breeze, they looked to be formidable opposition only for to flatter to deceive. Their top scorer, freetaker Paul Shiels opened the games scoring after just 36 seconds and he added two further pointed frees as his team trailed by 0-5 to 0-3 before the scoring floodgates opened against them.

Despite missing a few early attempts, Pauric Mahony soon found his range with 0-3 (2f) and scores by Kevin Moran and Stephen Bennett had the home team in front.

Despite playing with the wind, Antrim withdrew one of their forwards out the field so any ball coming near the home defence was adequately dealth with by the Deise backline and Philip Mahony, in particular, who was the extra player there. A searching run by Colin Dunford in the 18th minute found Stephen Bennett in

front of goal and no better player than the Ballysaggart man to raise a green flag from such a position, 1-5 to 0-3. Antrim were confined to two further scores before the short whistle from Paul Shiels (f) and Sub Conor Johnston, his team’s only first half score from play in the 27th minute.

Waterford took the game by the scruff of the neck, firing over a further 0-8 after some very impressive team play with Pauric Mahony 0-4 (1f), Stephen Bennett, 0-2, Colin Dunford and Jake Dillon raising the white flags.

Following the half-time Go Games between Ballygunner and De La Salle, Antrim resumed with two replacements, Eoghan Campbell and Conor McCann but the one-way traffic started in earnest now and within ten minutes, Waterford led by 1-17 to 0-7.

Conor Johnstone’s second point from play and a score from a placed ball were all that Antrim could muster while Pauric Mahony (f), Stephen Bennett, Michael Walsh and the now introduced Maurice Shanahan all contributed to the home side’s tally.

Referee Diarmuid Kirwan could have blown the final whistle at this stage as what followed was exhibition hurling from the winners, who added a further 0-7 by the 58th minute from Maurice Shanahan, Pauric Mahony, Michael Walsh, Shane O’Sullivan and Jake Dillon.

The home support yearned for a change of colour from white to green and they weren’t disappointed when Michael Walsh and Tom Devine set up Maurice Shanahan in the 59th minute,

Devine himself goaled in the 65th minute and Shanahan scored his second goal three minutes later.

Substitute Paudie Prendergast got in on the scoring act with two fine long distance points and this brought to nine the number of Deise scorers on the day.

Antrim managed to reach double figures with points from Paul Shiels and Ciaran Johnson (2) but their tally of just 0-4 from play overall tells the story of a poor display by the Glensmen.

All roads lead to Wexford this Sunday for what should be a real test for this Deise side that will tell us more about their current well being.

Waterford’s Top Three: Noel Connors, Stephen Bennett, Colin Dunford.

Antrim’s Top Three: Paul Shiels, Conor Johnson, Ciaran Johnson.

Observer’s Man of the Match: Noel Connors.

Number of Scorers: Waterford 10; Antrim 4.

Scores from Play: Waterford 4-24; Antrim 0-4.

Frees For: Waterford 14.

Antrim 10.

Wides: Waterford 11; Antrim 3.

Score of the Match: Waterford’s 59th minute goal engineered by Michael Walsh and Tom Devine and executed by Maurice Shanahan.

Scorers – Waterford: Pauric Mahony 0-11(6f), Maurice Shanahan 2-5, Stephen Bennett 1-4, Tom Devine 1-0, Michael Walsh 03, Jake Dillon and Paudie Prendergast 0-2 each, Colin Dunford, Kevin Moran and Shane O’Sullivan 0-1 each.

Antrim: Paul Shiels 0-5 (4f), Conor Johnson 0-2, Ciaran

Waterford's Senior Hurlers who defeated Antrim 4-30 to 0-10 in their Div. 2 National Hurling League match in Walsh Park.

Waterford's Jake Dillon with the sliotar against Antrim's Nial McKenna and Tomas MaCann during their Div 2 National Hurling League match in Walsh Park.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport] Johnson 0-2 (1f), Shane McNaughton 0-1f.

Waterford: Ian O’Regan; Shane Fives, Barry Coughlan, Noel Connors; Philip Mahony, Tadhg Bourke, Kevin Moran; Jamie Barron, Martin O’Neill; Colin Dunford, Pauric Mahony, Jake Dillon; Brian O’Halloran, Michael Walsh, Stephen Bennett.

Subs: Mauric Shanahan and Tom Devine (both 42), Shane O’Sullivan (45), Shane McNulty (56), Paudie Prendergast (60).

Antrim: Chris O’Connell;

Ryan McCambridge, Neal McAuley, Aaron Graffin; Simon McCrory, Conor McKinley, Michael Bradley; Ciaran Johnson, Jackson McGreevy; Niall McKenna, Tomas McCann, Shane McNaughton; Ciaran Clarke,

Neil McManus, P. J. O’Connell. Subs: Matthew Donnelly and Conor Johnson (both 23), Eoghan Campbell and Conor McCann (both half time), Tomas O Ciarain (46).

Referee: Diarmuid Kirwan (Cork).

ALLIANZ HURLING LEAGUE TABLES DIVISION 1B P W D L F A Pts. Waterford 4 3 1 0 9-91 6-52 7 Wexford 4 3 0 1 11-79 6-73 6 Limerick 4 2 1 1 6-76 5-73 5 Offaly 4 2 0 2 3-71 4-77 4 Laois 4 1 0 3 1-78 10-81 2 Antrim 4 0 0 4 7-56 6-95 0

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Town and Country League U-12 Fixtures SPONSORED BY GER WYLEY SPORTS U-12 HURLING DIVISION 1 Round 1: Friday, 10th April 6.30 p.m.

Dungarvan v Youghal at Dungarvan Abbeyside v Cappoquin at Abbeyside Naomh Brid v St. Patrick's at Modeligo Naomh Carthaigh v Cois Bhride at Lismore Round 2: Friday, 24th April 6.30 p.m.

Cappoquin v Naomh Carthaigh at Cappoquin Youghal v Naomh Brid at Youghal Cois Bhride v Dungarvan at Tallow St Patrick's v Abbeyside at Kilgobinet Round 3: Friday, 8th May 6.30 p.m.

Naomh Brid v Cois Bhride at Modeligo Dungarvan v Cappoquin at Dungarvan St Patrick's v Youghal at Kilgobinet Abbeyside v Naomh Carthaigh at Abbeyside Round 4: Friday, 22nd May 6.30 p.m.

Cappoquin v Naomh Brid at Cappoquin Cois Bhride v St Patrick's at Tallow Youghal v Abbeyside at Youghal Naomh Carthaigh v Dungarvan at Lismore Round 5: Friday, 5th June 6.30 p.m.

Youghal v Cois Bhride at Youghal Abbeyside v Dungarvan at Abbeyside Naomh Brid v Naomh Carthaigh Modeligo St Patrick's v Cappoquin at Kilgobinet Round 6: Friday, 19th June 6.30 p.m.

Dungarvan v Naomh Brid at Dungarvan Cois Bhride v Abbeyside at Tallow Naomh Carthaigh v St Patrick's at Lismore Cappoquin v Youghal at Cappoquin Round 7: Friday, 3rd July 6.30 p.m.

Abbeyside v Naomh Brid at Abbeyside Youghal v Naomh Carthaigh at Youghal St Patrick's v Dungarvan at Kilgobinet Cois Bhride v Cappoquinat Tallow Gala Day – Friday 17/Saturday, 18th July TOWN & COUNTRY U-12 HURLING SPONSORED BY GER WYLEY SPORTS DIVISION 2 Round 1: Friday, 10th April 6.30 p.m.

Ballyduff Upper v Stradbally at Ballyduff Upper Ardmore v Brickey Rangers at Ardmore Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v Kilrossanty at Clashmore An Ghaeltacht v Fourmilewater at An Rinn Round 2: Friday, 24th

April 6.30 pm Brickey Rangers v An Ghaeltacht at Bushy Park Stradbally v Clashmore/ Kinsalebeg at Stradbally Fourmilewater v Ballyduff Upper at Ballymacarbry Kilrossanty v Ardmore at Leamybrien Round 3: Friday, 8th May 6.30 pm Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v Fourmilewater at Clashmore Ballyduff Upper v Brickey Rangers at Ballyduff Upper Kilrossanty v Stradbally at Leamybrien Ardmore v An Ghaeltacht at Ardmore Round 4: Friday, 22nd May 6.30 p.m.

Brickey Rangers v Clashmore/Kinsalebeg at Bushy Park Fourmilewater v Kilrossanty at Ballymacarbry Stradbally v Ardmore at Stradbally An Ghaeltacht v Ballyduff Upper at An Rinn Round 5: Friday, 5th June 6.30 p.m.

Stradbally v Fourmilewater at Stradbally Ardmore v Ballyduff Upper at Ardmore Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v An Ghaeltacht at Clashmore Kilrossanty v Brickey Rangers at Leamybrien Round 6: Friday, 19th June 6.30 p.m.

Ballyduff Upper v Clashmore Kinsalebeg at Ballyduff Upper Fourmilewater v Ardmore at Ballymacarbry An Ghaeltacht v Kilrossanty at An Rinn Brickey Rangers v Stradbally at Bushy Park Round 7: Friday, 3rd July 6.30 p.m.

Ardmore v Clashmore/ Kinsalebeg at Ardmore Stradbally v An Ghaeltacht at Stradbally Kilrossanty v Ballyduff Upper at Leamybrien Fourmilewater v Brickey Rangers at Ballymacarbry Gala Day – Friday 17th/Saturday, 18th July.

TOWN & COUNTRY U-12 GAELIC FOOTBALL SPONSORED BY GER WYLEY SPORTS DIVISION 1 Round 1: Tuesday, 11th Aug 6.30 p.m.

Naomh Brid BYE Stradbally v Dungarvan at Stradbally Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v St Patrick's at Clashmore Rathgormack v Ballinacourty a t Rathgormack Kilrossanty v Youghal at Leamybrien Round 2: Monday, 17th Aug 6.30 p.m.

St Patrick's BYE Ballinacourty v Kilrossanty at Abbeyside Youghal v Stradbally at Youghal Naomh Brid v Rathgormack at Modeligo Dungarvan v Clashmore/

Kinsalebeg at Dungarvan Round 3: Thursday, 20th Aug. 6.30 p.m.

St Patrick's v Dungarvan at Kilgobinet Rathgormack BYE Stradbally v Ballinacourty at Stradbally Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v Youghal at Clashmore Kilrossanty v Naomh Brid at Leamybrien Round 4: Monday, 31st Aug. 6.30 p.m.

Dungarvan BYE Rathgormack v Kilrossanty at Rathgormack Ballinacourty v Clashmore/ Kinsalebeg at Abbeyside Naomh Brid v Stradbally at Modeligo Youghal v St Patrick's at Youghal Round 5 Friday, 4th Sept. 6.30 p.m.

Kilrossanty BYE Stradbally v Rathgormack at Stradbally Dungarvan v Youghal at Dungarvan Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v Naomh Brid at Clashmore St Patrick's v Ballinacourty at Kilgobinet Round 6: Friday, 18th Sept 6 p.m.

Ballinacourty v Dungarvanat Abbeyside Youghal BYE Rathgormack v Clashmore Kinsalebeg at Rathgormack Kilrossanty v Stradbally at Leamybrien Naomh Brid v St Patrick's at Modeligo Round 7: Monday, 21st Sept 6 p.m.

Stradbally BYE St. Patrick's v Rathgormack at Kilgobinet Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v Kilrossanty at Clashmore Dungarvan v Naomh Brid at Dungarvan Youghal v Ballinacourty at Youghal Round 8: Friday, 2nd Oct. 6 p.m.

Naomh Brid v Youghal at Modeligo Kilrossanty v St Patrick's at Leamybrien Rathgormack v Dungarvan at Rathgormack Stradbally v Clashmore/ Kinsalebeg at Stradbally Ballinacourty BYE Round 9: Friday, 16th Oct. 6 p.m.

St Patrick's v Stradbally at Kilgobinet Ballinacourty v Naomh Brid at Abbeyside Dungarvan v Kilrossanty at Dungarvan Youghal v Rathgormack at Youghal

Clashmore/Kinsalebeg BYE TOWN & COUNTRY U-12 GAELIC FOOTBALL SPONSORED BY GER WYLEY SPORTS DIVISION 2 Round 1: Monday, 17th Aug. 6.30p.m.

An Ghaeltacht v Brickey Rangers at An Rinn Naomh Carthaigh v Cois Bhride at Lismore Cappoquin v Ardmore at Cappoquin Ballyduff Upper v The Nire at Ballyduff Upper Round 2: Thursday, 20th Aug. 6.30 p.m.

Cois Bhride v Ballyduff Upper at Tallow Brickey Rangers v Cappoquin at Bushy Park The Nire v An Ghaeltacht at Ballymacarbry Ardmore v Naomh Carthaigh at Ardmore Round 3: Monday, 31st Aug. 6.30 p.m.

Cappoquin v The Nire at Cappoquin An Ghaeltacht v Cois Bhride at An Rinn Ardmore v Brickey Rangers at Ardmore Naomh Carthaigh v Ballyduff Upper at Lismore Round 4: Friday 4th Sept. 6.30 p.m.

Cois Bhride v Cappoquin at Tallow The Nire v Ardmore at Ballymacarbry Brickey Rangers v Naomh Carthaigh at Bushy Park Ballyduff Upper v An Ghaeltacht at Ballyduff Upper Round 5: Friday, 18th Sept. 6 p.m.

Brickey Rangers v The Nire at Bushy Park Naomh Carthaigh v An Ghaeltacht at Lismore Cappoquin v Ballyduff Upper at Cappoquin Ardmore v Cois Bhride at Ardmore Round 6: Friday, 2nd Oct. 6 p.m.

An Ghaeltacht v Cappoquin at An Rinn The Nire v Naomh Carthaigh at Ballymacarbry Ballyduff Upper v Ardmore at Ballyduff Upper Cois Bhride v Brickey Rangers at Tallow Round 7: Fri 16th Oct 6pm Naomh Carthaigh v Cappoquin at Lismore Brickey Rangers v Ballyduff Upper at Bushy Park Ardmore v An Ghaeltacht at Ardmore The Nire v Cois Bhride at Ballymacarbry

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Cappoquin Under 8 Football Team who played in the Under 8 Tournament in Carriganore on Saturday last and won all three of their matches. (L-R) Back Row: Jack Twomey, Nathan Mason, Colin Coffey, Ronan Uniacke, T. J. Ormonde, John Twomey (trainer). (L-R) Front Row: Ryan Maher, Eoin Rooney, Shane Coffey, Andrew Cunningham. Missing from picture is Sean Buckley.

Waterford Intermediate ladies continue unbeaten run WATERFORD LADIES FOOTBALL Waterford …………… 5-6; Roscommon ………… 2-9.

WATERFORD Intermediate ladies continued their unbeaten run in the Tesco Homegrown Division 3 National Football league with a laboured win over a spirited Roscommon. On the back of a number of impressive performances to date in the division, last year’s Division 4 champions took the game to Waterford from the word go and ably led by sharpshooter Jenny Downey who contributed four unanswered points in the first 18 minutes left the Roscommon girls well in front.

Matters got worse for the Waterford girls when Sheila Brady got the Westerners first goal in the 19th minute. Aoife Dunne opened Waterford’s account in the 20th minute with a good point but Roscommon raised another green flag courtesy of Siobhán Tully in the 29th minute to leave nine points between the teams.

Sinead Ryan converted a Waterford free on the stroke of half-time to leave the score Roscommon 2-4; Waterford 0-2.

Manager Pat Sullivan rang the changes at half-time making six substitutions and within minutes the Deise girls were making up for a very inept first half performance.

The game was turned on its head in the space of nine minutes with what could only be called the Sinead Ryan show. Sinead pointed in the 33 minute and then struck twice for goals in the 36th minute and the 38th minute and levelled matters with a point in the 39th minute to leave it all square at 2-4 apiece.

Five minutes later Aileen Wall was on hand to score a wonderful goal to put Waterford ahead for the first time in the game and give them a lead that they would not relinquish.

Emma Murray got in on the scoring act, starting a move deep in her own full

back line with a well taken goal in the 45th minute and her sister Aoife was on hand three minutes later to stretch Waterford’s lead to six points with a point from a difficult angle.

Roscommon’s Jenny Downey got her fifth point of the match in the 50th minute but this was quickly replied to by a Maria Delahunty free.

Jenny Downey kicked yet another Roscommon point in the 54th minute and Laura McLoone got her name on the score sheet with a point in the 55th minute before Aoife Murray finished off a brilliant move started way back in the backs by her sister Emma to put the game well out of Roscommon’s reach.

To be fair to the Western girls they never gave up and Rachel Ryan and Jenny Downey were rewarded with two points in the closing minutes to leave the final score Waterford 5-6 Roscommon 2-9.

This win leaves Waterford top of the league table undefeated in five matches and the only team with a 100% record. It also ensures that Waterford should they beat or draw with Longford in their next game will have qualified for the semi-final. This game is due to be played in Fraher Field in two weeks time 29th March.

Waterford lined-out as follows: Katie Hannon, Nora Dunphy, Michelle McGrath, Mary Foley, Kate McGrath, Karen McGrath, Caoimhe McGrath, Mairead Power, Nicola Fennell, Dede Fahey, Maria Delahunty (0-1), Grainne Kenneally, Ciara Hurley, Sinéad Ryan(2-3) and Aoife Dunne (0-1) Subs used: Emma Murray (1-0), Megan Dunford, Elaine Power, Mairead Wall, Aileen Wall (1-0), Aoife Murray (1-1), Michelle Ryan, Linda Wall, Lauren McGregor, Liz Devine, Shauna Dunphy, Emer Scanlon and Mary Kate Morrissey.

WATERFORD UNDER 16’S GET OFF TO A WINNING START The Waterford under 16

ladies team travelled to Martinstown, Limerick on Sunday last to play the home county in the first round of the Munster under 16 championship. This was a hard fought game played at a very fast tempo between two eager teams.

Both teams took some time to settle down and traded points but Waterford got two goals in the dying moments of the first half, the first from Hannah Power (Old Parish) and the second from Kate Cliffe.

Waterford opened the second half brightly with two goals from Kaiesha Tobin and the Abbie Dunphy.

Limerick got on top after this and it took some heroic defending and two great saves by goalie Rosie Landers to keep the Deise girls in front. The game ebbed and flowed with some very good football being played by both teams.

Kaiesha and Abbie goaled for Waterford late on in the game to put a gloss on the scoreline and leave the final score Waterford 6-5; Limerick 1-8.

This was a good win for the girls but it was not as comprehensive as the score would suggest, Limerick battled hard and will have a big say yet in the destination of honours in the Munster championship.

Next up for the girls is a game with Clare in two weeks time. The management would like to thank the large Waterford contingent of supporters who travelled to the game WATERFORD UNDER 14’s Our under 14 girls team were due to play Clare at the weekend, but this game was cancelled as a mark of respect to the late Johnny Hayes (R.I.P.) vice chairman of the Clare Ladies Football County who died suddenly during the week.

All at Waterford Ladies offer our sympathies to his wife and children at this sad time.

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Gaelic Jottings GAA Workshops change of dates PLEASE note the change of Dates for the following Two Workshops.

U-11 & U-12 Mentor Workshop Venue: Lawlors Hotel Time: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Date: Thursday, March 26th Referees Workshop: ie, Referees who wish to do Town & Country & City League games.

Venue: Lawlors Hotel Date: Thursday, 19th March Time: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Western Board Championship Dates announced FOLLOWING a meeting of the Divisional Board C.C.C.C. the dates and venues for the opening two rounds of the junior and football championships have been announced. They are as follows: Saturday, April 11th - at Fraher Field at 6 p.m. - An Sean Phobal v. Modeligo.

At Ballyduff, at 7.30 p.m. - Affane v.

Tallow; at Clashmore at 7.30 p.m. Emmetts v. Shamrocks.

Saturday, April 18th - at Ballyduff at 7.30 p.m. - Shamrocks v. Tallow; at Bushy Park, at 7.30 p.m. - An Sean Phobal v. Affane.

Sunday, April 19th - at Fraher Field at 2 p.m. - Emmetts v. Modeligo.

Lawlors Hotel (Intermediate Attached) JFC Friday, April 17th - at Colligan Melleray v. Kilgobinet; at Lismore Ballysaggart v. Geraldines; at Bushy Park - Ballinacourty v. Emmetts.

Radley Engineering IFC Saturday, April 11th at 7.30 p.m. - at Fraher Field - Ballinameela v.

Geraldines.

Sunday, April 12th At Colligan at 7 p.m. - Ballinacourty v.

Ballyduff; at Bushy Park, at 7 p.m. Sliabh gCua v. Dungarvan.

Saturday, April 18th at 7.30 p.m. - at Bushy Park - Ballinameela v.

Ballinacourty; at Colligan - Ballyduff v.

Dungarvan.

Sunday, April 19th at 3 p.m. - at Fraher Field - Geraldines v. Sliabh gCua.

Scór Sinsir BEST wishes to Stephen Coffey (solo singing), along with the Sliabh gCua figure and set dancers in the Munster Scór Sinsir semi-final in Cappamore, Co. Limerick on Saturday night next, March 21st commencing at 6.30 p.m. It would be great to see all three Waterford representatives advance to the Provincial finals in Ovens, Co. Cork on Saturday, March 28th.

Deise Draw THE first draw in the 2015 Deise Draw will take place on Friday, March 27th in Stradbally GAA Centre at 9 p.m. This year there will be 8 monthly draws at a cost of €10 per month. Tickets are now on sale from clubs throughout the county and the draw is a major fundraiser for clubs who receive a 70% return from all tickets sold. The prize fund is €15,000 per month with a first

prize of €10,000, with a second prize of €3,000. The third prize is €1,500 along with 8 prizes of €250 each. Support the draw and by doing so you are also supporting your local club.

All-Ireland Colleges SHC ST. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny has advanced to the semi-finals of the Masita All-Ireland Colleges Senior (A) hurling championship following their 2-11 to 0-11 win at Fraher Field on Saturday last. Their opponents St. Francis College, Rochestown (Cork) were left to rue two missed goal scoring opportunities in the opening half. The Kilkenny side led at the break by 1-5 to 0-5 after the Cork College had dominated long periods of the opening 30 minutes.

Munster U-21 FC THERE was no joy for the Waterford U-21 footballers in Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare on Wednesday night. They lost out to Clare in the opening round of the Munster championship on a 2-11 to 0-3 scoreline. The winners led by 1-4 to 0-2 at half-time with the concession of the goal just before half-time a killer blow.

Clare was the better team on the night but the final scoreline did not do Waterford justice. Having to travel to West Clare for a match on a Wednesday night in ludicrous to say the least. Players left home at mid-day on Wednesday and did not return until the early hours of Thursday morning. Full credit to the players for the effort they put into preparing for this game and the management team of Ger Power, John Cummins, Brian Looney and Liam Curtain for their efforts.

West U-21 FC BALLINACOURTY proved too strong for their arch rivals Dungarvan in the quarter-final of the Kearney Catering Divisional U-21 (A) football championship at Fraher Field on Friday evening last. The winners led by 4 points, 0-6 to 0-2, at the break and were totally on top in the second half out-scoring the Blues by 6 points to 2 to run out 0-15 to 0-4 winners.

In the Albert McGrath Newsagents (B) championship, Ardmore advanced to the semi-finals with a 4-12 to 0-8 win over An Ghaeltacht at Abbeyside. The semi-final pairings are as follows: (A) - Ballinacourty v. Comeragh Gaels with Nire v. St. Olivers. (B) - Ardmore v.

Stradbally and Brickey Rangers v. Cois Bhride. All 4 games were due to be played on St. Patrick’s Day.

Sargent Cup THE opening round of games in the Sargent Cup County senior hurling league will commence on Saturday, March 28th with a total of 6 games down for decision.

The fixtures are as follows: Group 1 - Ballygunner v. De La Salle; Passage v. Roanmore; Tallow v.

Cappoquin.

Group 2 - Abbeyside v. Dungarvan; Fourmilewater v. Mt. Sion; Lismore v.

Ballyduff.

First named team have home venue and games will throw-in at 3 p.m.

The Irish Examiner O’Connor Cup was launched today at Croke Park. The competition will see colleges compete for the biggest prize in third level Ladies Gaelic Football over two days at the Cork Institute of Technology on Friday, March 20th and 21st. The Irish Examiner were also announced as the first ever sponsors for the third level ladies Gaelic football competition. Pictured with the Lynch Cup at the launch are, from left, Emma Farmer, Cork Institute of Technology, Maureen King, Chairperson Higher Education Committee, Amy Ring, Dublin Institute of Technology, Jackie Cahill representing the Irish Examiner, Aisling Murphy and Clara Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology, Fiona O'Sullivan, Dublin City University, Marie Hickey, President, Ladies Gaelic Football Association, and Jess O'Shea, Cork Institute of Technology. Launch of the O’Connor Cup, Croke Park, Dublin.

[Paul Mohan / SPORTSFILE]

Scór na Seachtaine Colleges All-Ireland MAURICE Shanahan’s goal in the 59th Semi-Final minute of Waterford’s NHL game against Antrim last Sunday in Walsh Park.

Sympathy SINCERE sympathy is extended to Brendan Tobin, Waterford’s delegate on Munster Council on the recent death of his father Johnny Tobin, Reanadampaun, Ballymacarbry.

Sympathy also to son Padge; daughters Helen, Kate and Kelly; sisters Kathleen and Biddy; daughters-in-law Joanne, Mary and Mags; sons-in-law Gerard Martin, Mush Keane and Brian Canty and the extended Tobin family.

The Observer extends sympathy to husband Laurence; sons Peter and Martin; daughters Lucy and Tess; mother Kathleen; mother-in-law Sheila and father-in-law Martin; brothers Bernard, Liam, Tom and Declan; sisters Frances, Kate and Maud along with the extended Curran and Cunningham families on the death of Mary Curran (nee Cunningham, Ballyin, Lismore), Ballyknock, Kilgobinet, Dungarvan.

Sympathy is extended to Michael Leamy, Ballyduff and the extended Leamy family on the death of their uncle John Leamy, Glanworth, Co. Cork.

May they rest in peace.

The Observer extends its sincere sympathy to the family of the late Jim Power, Silversprings and Carrick-on-Suir who died last week.

Jim was well known in local GAA circles through his AA Security Company.

THE WIT complex in Carriganore will on tommorrow (Thursday) afternoon host the All-Ireland Colleges Senior (A) Hurling Championship semi-final. In opposition will be Harty Cup champions Thurles CBS and Leinster Colleges runners-up St. Peters College of Wexford.

Throw-in will be at 2.00 p.m. Should be a very interesting contest and a good game of hurling.

East U-21 Football Champions ST. Mary’s were crowned Eastern U-21 (B) Football Champions at Carriganore on Monday night where they proved too strong for St. Declan’s Thoir. St. Mary’s now await the winners of the Western title in the County decider.

Scór na bPáistí THE opening round of Scór na bPáistí will be staged in Modeligo Community Centre on Friday, March 20th at 7 p.m.

There will be further first rounds in An Rinn Community Centre on Sunday, March 22nd at 6 p.m. in Knockanore Community Centre on Friday, March 27th at 7 p.m. The finals will be held in Cappoquin Community Centre on Saturday, April 11th commencing at 6 p.m. Scor na bPaisti is confined to children attending primary school.

Further details from County Oifigeach na Gaeilge agus Cultur, Ml. O Drisleain on 087 793 8709.

Phelan Cup THE second round of games in the Phelan Cup county senior football league took place last weekend with the following results: Group 1 - Rathgormack 2-13; Kilrossanty 2-4. Clashmore /Kinsalebeg w/o; ardmore scr.

Group 2 - Gaultier 2-9; St. Saviours 0-7. Ballinacourty 0-12; De La Salle 1-6.

Nire 5-6; Brickey Rangers 1-7.

LEAGUE TABLES Group 1 P W Rathgormack 2 2 Stradbally 2 1 Clashmore/Kinsalebeg 2 1 Ardmore 2 1 An Rinn 2 0 Kilrossanty 2 0 GROUP 2 P W Ballinacourty 2 2 Nire 2 2 Gaultier 2 1 Brickey Rangers 2 1 St. Saviours 2 0 De La Salle 2 0

D 0 1 1 0 0 0

L 0 0 0 1 2 2

Pts. 4 3 3 2 0 0

D 0 0 0 0 0 0

L 0 0 1 1 2 2

Pts. 4 4 2 2 0 0

Round 3 of the league will be played on Saturday next, March 21st with a total of 6 games down for decision. The fixtures are: Division 1 Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v. Rathgormack; An Rinn v. Kilrossanty; Stradbally v.

Ardmore.

Group 2 - St. Saviours v. De La Salle; Ballinacourty v. Nire; Brickey Rangers v.

Gaultier.

All games will throw-in at 3 p.m.

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Waterford County Camogie

Economical Déise secure third consecutive win Waterford ……………. 2-14; Meath …………………1-13.

WATERFORD maintained their unbeaten run in Division 2 of the Irish Daily Star National League by taking the scalp of Meath on Sunday in Ratoath.

The home side made a positive start and points from play from Sinead Hackett, Jane Dolan and Aoife Minogue (2) and Megan Thynne in the opening ten minutes signalled their intent, with the Waterford only yielding two pointed frees from Trish Jackman in that period.

Despite Meath exerting heavy early pressure, Waterford began to come to term with the physical nature of the game, with Jenny McCarthy and Clare Murphy

changing defence into attack impressively.

In the 11th minute, Beth Carton found space before being pulled down to set up a free in front of the posts.

Jackman struck the back of the net with the resulting free, and further points from Dawn Power and Jackman, after an incisive pass from Molly Curran, saw Waterford take a two-point lead.

Meath struck back immediately with aplomb and a long delivery inside was not dealt with and Aoife Minogue punished the defence, finishing to the back of the net from a narrow angle to nudge the Royals back in to the lead, 1-5 to 1-4.

The impressive Power responded with a levelling

point before Kristina Troy plucked the sliotar from the air at the other end and bisected the posts in the 22nd minute.

This was to be the last score for the Royal county in the opening half as Claire Whyte and Emma Hannon came to the fore in the fullback line.

At the other end, Carton registered her opening point of the game in the 30th minute, before Jackman pushed Waterford ahead in the second minute of injury team with another free, 1-7 to 1-6.

The lead for Waterford was shortlived however as the impressive Minogue cut through for the opening point of the second-half after 22

seconds. Jackman again showed her accuracy from placed balls, raising three white flags inside the opening eight minutes, with Meath’s sole score coming from a Dolan place ball.

Waterford continued to pose a threat going forward and Carton was unlucky to see a shot whistle past the bottom of the left upright before slotting her second point of the game in the 10th minute.

Two consecutive points from Sinead Hackett brought Meath back on par with their opponents at 1-11 apiece, but Waterford’s efficiency in front of goal was to prove critical in the closing quarter.

Jackman and Dolan again exchanged frees before

Clare Murphy set up Jackman for the lead point in the 50th minute.

Indeed, it was Waterfords accuracy in front of goal that arguably paved the way for victory as the eventual winners were wide of the target on three occasions in comparisons to 13 wide balls by the hosts.

Carton and Dolan exchanged frees and as the clock whittled down, Waterford continued to defend their narrow lead, with Brianna O’Regan marshalling her defence confidently throughout. With thirty seconds of normal-time remaining, a puckout by O’Regan was caught by centre-forward Valerie O’Brien who was fouled.

The resulting free landed on the edge of the square where Nicola Morrissey was the quickest to react and cleverly palmed the ball to the back of the net to give Waterford a four-point cushion as injury-time approached. Soon after referee Eamon Cassidy called time on proceedings as Waterford ran out 2-14 to 1-13 winners.

Overall, Waterford will be content with their third consecutive win, and the team will now be looking forward to facing Kilkenny on Sunday in Carraiganore in what is now a top of the table clash in Group 1 of Division 2.

In 2014, Kilkenny reached the All-Ireland final at Intermediate level and will

provide a stern test to the developing Waterford team on Sunday.

Waterford: Brianna O’Regan, Vikki Falconer, Claire Whyte, Emma Hannon, Clare Murphy, Jennie Simpson, Jenny McCarthy, Trish Jackman (1-9, 1-7f), Lorraine Bray, Dawn Power (0-2), Valerie O’Brien, Beth Carton (0-3 – 1f), Molly Curran, Catriona McGlone, Aisling Power, Nicola Morrissey, Kate McMahon, Deirdre Brennan, Becky Kavanagh, Saoirse Bonner, Sibeal Harney, Orla Flynn.

Meath: Emily Mangan, Grace Coleman, Claire Coffey, Fiona O’Neill, Aine Keogh, Laura Maguire, Emma Coffey, Jane Dolan (0-4, 3f), Kristina Troy, (0-1), Edel Guy, Aoife Maguire (1-3), Cheyanne O’Brien (0-1), Katie Hackett, Sinead Hackett (0-3), Megan Thynne (0-1).

Referee: Eamon Cassidy

The Waterford Intermediate camogie team who defeated Meath on Sunday last in Rathoat to maintain their unbeaten run in the league.

County Bord na nÓg U-16 Football Championship

Nire U-8 team who played in a football blitz last Saturday in Carriganore.

(SPONSORED BY: COMBINED WATERFORD CITY CREDIT UNIONS) THE action returned on Sunday morning last (March 15th) with games across all three divisions. The second series of matches in Division 1 saw wins for Naomh Bríd, De La Salle and Gaultier.

Naomh Bríd (their first game of the campaign following their first round game being postponed) recorded an impressive win over Ballinacourty at the Modeligo venue.

Goals proved crucial as De La Salle eked out a narrow one point win to a gallant Clashmore/Kinsalebeg outfit while Gaultier made it two wins from two as they got the better of Dungarvan.

In Division 2 (Round 5), The Nire and Portlaw couldn’t be separated in an exciting and high scoring contest at Ballymacarbry (the sides finishing all square).

The game between Kilrossanty and

Tramore was postponed due to bereavement. Elsewhere, Brickey Rangers recorded another impressive victory as they eased past Clan na Gael in Dunhill.

Rathgormack scored a hard earned win over An Ghaeltacht.

No result to hand from the game between St. Oliver’s and Ardmore (please see respective club notes or check out www.waterfordgaa.ie).

Division 3 saw St. Saviours maintain their unbeaten record with a comfortable win away to Ballyduff Upper.

St. Mary’s continued their impressive form as they edged out Cois Bhride in a well contested affair at the Tallow venue; Stradbally received two points as Affane have withdrawn from the Championship, no result from Naomh Deaglán Thoir and St. Molleran’s.

The RESULTS from last Sunday (15/3/2015) were as follows: Division 1, Round 2: Naomh Bríd 2-8; Ballinacourty 2-5. De La Salle 4-2;

Clashmore/Kinsalebeg 0-13. Gaultier 1-13; Dungarvan 0-8.

Division 2, Round 4: The Nire 6-5; Portlaw 6-5. Kilrossanty P-P Tramore.

Brickey Rangers 3-13; Clan na Gael 0-2. Rathgormack 1-11; An Ghaeltacht 2-1.

Division 3, Round 4: St. Mary’s 2-8; Cois Bhride 2-5. St. Saviour’s 3-8; Ballyduff Upper 0-1.

The next set of games in this particular Championship take place on Sunday week (March 29th) at 11:00 a.m.

For all the latest fixtures, results and league tables please check out the Waterford GAA web site.

SYMPATHY Bord na nOg Portláirge would like to extend our sincere sympathy to Brendan Tobin (who did a huge amount of work and gave great service to Bord na nOg over the years) on the sad passing of his father Johnny recently. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anim.

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KEARNEY’S CATERING WESTERN UNDER 21 FOOTBALL LOSERS GROUP FINAL

Ballinacourty controls local derby Ballinacourty ……..…0-15; Dungarvan ………….…0-4.

FOUR points each from a trio of Ballinacourty players, David Looby, Michael Maher and Stephen Cliffe and their remaining three scores from effective substitutes Neil Montgomery and Cormac Dwyer sent the winners comfortably into the semi-final proper of the Wester Under 21 Football championship at the expense of local rivals Dungarvan at the Fraher Field last Friday evening.

This was a well contested and sporting game overall, yet Ballinacourty had a much better scoring potential throughout and but for two goal line saves by Blues custodian Craig Barry and Patrick Curran, they would have ended the hour even more dominant winners.

The first half was even enough with just a point between the sides in ‘Courty’s favour in the 19th minute at 0-3 to 0-2 and the half-time score reading 0-6 to 0-2 but as in their previous match against Clashmore/ Kinsalebeg, the winners opened up on the scoring board in a second moiety that they won by 0-9 to 0-2.

David Looby operened the scoring from a placed ball in the first minute and Michael Kiely provided for Gavin Power to level the sides one minute later.

Two impressive ‘Courty scores followed in the 8th and in the 9th minutes with Stephen Cliffe converting a fine individual effort and Michael Maher raising a white flag at the end of a good team move. The following ten minute were evenly contested with Dungarvan having some scoring opportunities but their sole return was a Gavin Power point from a quick free by Patrick Curran.

Ballinacourty finished the half the stronger with two left legged points from frees by Stephen Cliffe and Maher’s second point from play after good work by substitute Neil Montgomery.

Dungarvan started the second half brightly with a Cathal Curran pointed free in the 34th minute but Ballinacourty’s greater football knowhow saw them take control on the scoreboard and they kicked five unanswered scores to lead by 011 to 0-3 with 50 minutes on the clock.

A second David Looby pointed free started this spell

of scoring dominance followed by 0-2 by Neil Montgomery and one each from Michael Maher and Cormac Dwyer, the latter after being introduced just two minutes earlier.

Joe Allen placed Patrick Curran for Dungarvan’s final score in the 51st minute as the winners finished out the game strongly with more points by David Looby, from a

‘45’, (56 mins), Michael Maher (56), David Looby, (f), (58) and Stephen Cliffe (60).

There was no disputing the best team here who were due to play Comeragh Gaels earlier this week on St. Patrick’s Day in the championship proper with the winners meeting the pick of St. Olivers v Nire in the Divisional Final.

Ballinacourty’s Top Three: Michael Maher,

Stephen Cliffe, David Looby.

Dungarvan’s Top Three: Kieran Power, Cathal Curran, Patrick Curran.

Observer’s Man of the Match: Michael Maher.

Number of Scorers: Ballinacourty 5. Dungarvan 3.

Scores from Play: Ballinacourty 9. Dungarvan 3.

Frees For: Ballinacourty 12; Dungarvan 26.

Wides: Ballinacourty 5;

Dungarvan 7.

Score of the Match: Stephen Cliffe’s 8th minute point from play.

Scorers – Ballinacourty: Michael Maher 0-4, Stephen Cliffe 0-4, (2f), David Looby (3f, 1 ‘45’), Neil Montgomery 0-2, Cormac Dwyer 0-1.

Dungarvan: Gavin Power 0-2, Cathal Curran (f), and Patrick Curran 0-1 each.

Ballinacourty: Kevin

Dwane; Jack Duggan, Brian Looby, Shane O’Gorman; Conor McCarthy (B), Eoghan Bergin, Conor McCarthy (A); Conor Prunty, John Elsted; David Looby, Michael Maher, David Sweeney; Laurence Power, Stephen Cliffe, Mikey Coleman.

Subs: Neil Montgomery, Cormac Dwyer, Ruairi Conway, Stephen O’Connor, Eoin Kiely.

Dungarvan: Craig Barry; John Havens, Darragh Fitzgerald, Jack Lacey; Aidan Kirwan, Kieran Power, Lee Donnolly; Cathal Curran, Joe Allen; Gavin Power, Michael Kiely, Fionn Hallahan; Patrick Curran, Rian Crotty, Glen Power.

Subs: Eamonn Ryan, Mark Power, Luke Rossiter.

Referee: Tommy O’Sullivan (Affane).

Ballinacourty who defeated Dungarvan in the U-21A football. Back row left to right: Cormac Dwyer, Tadgh Prendergast, David Looby, Stephen O’Connor, Conor McCarthy, David Sweeney, Kevin Dwane, Michael Maher, Laurence Power, Eoghan Bergin, John Elsted, Jack Duggan, Conor Brennan. Front row left to right: Brian Looby, Neil Montgomery, Stephen Cliffe, Eoin KIely, Mikey Coleman, Shane O’Gorman, Conor McCarthy, Conor Prunty, Ruairí Conway.

Dungarvan U-21A team who were defeated by Ballinacourty. Back row left to right: Michael Kiely, Patrick Curran, Joe Allen, Lee Donnelly, Kieran Power, Glen Power, Craig Barry, John Havens. Front row left to right: Rian Crotty, Aidan Kirwan, Cathal Curran, Gavin Power, Darragh Fitzgerald, Jack Lacey.

ALBERT McGRATH’S NEWSAGENTS WESTERN UNDER 21 ‘B’ FOOTBALL QUARTER-FINAL

Ardmore too strong for An Ghaeltacht Ardmore ……………..…………….. 4-12; An Ghaeltacht ……………………... 0-8.

REIGNING County champions, Ardmore proved too strong for An Ghaeltacht in this Western ‘B’ Under 21 football quarter final at Abbeyside last Friday evening under lights.

The winners were well on top at the interval when they led by 2-7 to 0-3 and they almost repeated this score in the

second half with An Ghaeltacht offering just token resistance.

Ardmore’s goals were the big scores here, two in each half and they were kicked

by David Gartland (2), his brother John one and the fourth from sub Eoghan O’Shea.

Feargal O Cuirrin was An Ghaeltacht’s top scorer with 0-4 (2f) to his credit while Feargal O Ceallaigh, Conor O Cuirrin, Bryan Frinnseach and Conor Mac

Diarmada raised one white flag each.

John and David Gartland kicked 0-6 (4f) and 0-2 respectively for the winners with their other scores coming from the boots of Seamus Keating (2), Michael O’Neill and Stephen Keating. Ardmore were due to play Stradbally in the Western semi final on St. Patrick’s Day. Ardmore: James Veale; Joe Murphy, Thomas Conway, Declan Fitzgerald;

Michael Cronin, Gavin Williams, Tom Power; Seamus Keating, Eoin Conway; Charlie Bryan, John Gartland, James Kennedy; Stephen Keating, David Gartland, Christopher Power.

Subs: Eoghan O’Shea, Michael O’Neill, Mark Humphries, Danny Ryan.

An Ghaeltacht: P. J. O Domhnaill; Cormac Mac Murchu, Christy Breathnach, Aodhan Mac Gearailt; Conor O Cuirrin,

Lucas O Cuirrin, Aaron O Crotaigh; Darach O Cathasaigh, Jamie De Baruin; Bryan Frinnseach, Fearghal O Cuirrin, Nioclas O Conduin; Paraic O Lonain, Fearghal O Ceallaigh, Conor Mac Diarmada.

Fir Ionaid: Oisin Mac Siomoin. Brian De Baruin, Seanai Mac Craith.

Reiteoir: Thomas Walsh (Modeligo).

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At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Sean O'Regan and Aoife Mooney.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

KILL GAA VICTORY SOCIAL

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Anna Fennell and Conor Hennessy.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Conor, Ray, Niall and Sinead Hennessy.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Maria and Aoife Mooney with Louise Murphy.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Anthony Whelan and Sharon Keane.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel was Ben Gallagher and Alice Raher.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Mick Mooney and Peter Kirwan.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Seamus Cleere and Martin Kennedy.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Paudi Raher, Barbara Kinsella, Geraldine and Niall Hennessy.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Joan Power, Sinead Murphy, Allison O'Brien, Yvonne Power, Shelly Murphy and Mags Hennessy.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Gerard Mooney, Shannon O'Donoghue, Lorena [Sean Byrne//Deise Sport] Mooney and Corey Kennedy.

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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

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PHELAN CUP / COUNTY SENIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE ROUND 2

Lacey's goals secure win for Rathgormack GROUP I Rathgormack………... 2-13; Kilrossanty ………….... 2-4.

RATHGORMACK claimed the league points in this local derby played at Curry Park.

Kilrossanty had to line out without a good few regulars due to County commitments and injures. J. Curry opened the scoring after 5 mins with a well taken free and this was followed up by a Seanie Lacey point inside the opening 10 mins. Lacey struck for his first goal after a well work move to leave 1-3 up after 15 mins.

Kilrossanty opened their account after 17 mins with a well taken Eoin Cummins score. Rathgormack who were dominating the midfield area replied with another goal from Lacey and further points

by Curry and Conor Murray stretched Rathgormack’s advantage. With the game heading into first half injury time Killrosanty’s best forward

Eoin Cummins found the Rathgormack net to leave the half time score Rathgormack 2-8; Kilrossanty 1-2.

Kilrossanty began the second half with a lot more urgency and another Cummins point reduced the deficit. Stephen Prendergast was now dominating the midfield area but the Rathgormack defence was able to snuff out several promising attacks for Kilrossanty which then led to Rathgormack counter attacking and Murray and Paul Drohan kicked some good scores. Kilrossanty kept attacking and where rewarded with a well taken second goal. Rathgormack completed the scoring in injury time through Ronan Crotty to leave the full time score Rathgormack 2-13; Kilrossanty 2-4.

Best for Rathgormack: Conor Walsh, Seanie Lacey and Conor Murray.

Best for Kilrossanty: Stephan Prengergast and Eoin Cummins.

Kilrossanty: Darren Mulhearne; Killian Whelan, Mark Prendergast, Barry Prendergast; James Whyte, Seamus Veale, Michael Hassett; Stephen Prendergast, Pat Whyte; Paul Keating, Eoin Cummins, Donal Fitzgerald; Willie Brazil, Alan Quinn, David Power.

Subs: Kenny Houlihan, Eoin Houlihan, Dean Fennell.

GAME CONCEDED Ardmore gave a walkover in their local derby game against Clashmore/ Kinsalebeg.

GROUP 2 BALLINACOURTY BEAT DE LA SALLE Ballinacourty ………0-12; De La Salle …………… 0-9.

BALLINACOURTY’S point scoring ability was the difference between the teams in this evenly contested second round game in the De La

Salle grounds last Saturday morning.

Ballinacourty: Stephen Enrigh; Martin Lavan, Diarmuid Henley, Gavin Breen; Maurice Power, Jamie Ryan David Collins; Sean O’Hare, Conor Moloney; Richie Ryan, Shane O’Donovan, Colm Kindregan; Gary Hurney, Mark Gorman, Colin Ryan.

Sub: Tiernan Murray.

De La Salle: David Dennison; Martin Sheehan, Thomas Kearney, Christopher Sheehan; Stephen Dalton, Colm Clancy, David Kennedy; David Greene, Stephen Walsh; Lee Hayes, Patrick Fitzgerald, Jamie Coad; Ian Cantwell, Patrick Flynn, Mitchel Casey. Subs: Michael Kavanagh, Craig Dowling, James Grogan, Colm Morris.

Referee: Dessie O’Leary (Erins Own).

BIG WIN FOR NIRE Nire …………………...5-16;

Brickey Rangers ……. 1-7.

COUNTY champions Nire scored a big win over Brickeys in this Round 2 Phelan Cup game which was played under lights at Bushy Park last Friday night. Nire led comfortably by 3-9 to 1-4 at the short whistle and they extended their advantage further on the restart.

Nire: Tom Wall; Aidan Condon, Shane Lawlor, Dermot Ryan; Diarmuid Wall, Darren Guiry, Seamus Lalor; Shane Walsh, Michael Moore; Gearoid Hearne, Alan Lawlor, Kenny Brazil; Shane Ryan, Michael O’Gorman, Keith Guiry. Subs: David Meehan, Johnny Hannigan, Liam Cooney, Dermot Ryan, Dylan Guiry, Sean Ryan.

Brickeys: Michael O’Dwyer; Darragh O’Grady, Philip Walsh, Ian Walsh; Cormac Curran, Mark Cummins, Shane Nugent; Diarmuid Tobin, John Morrissey; Jamie Kiely,

Conor McGrath, Carthach Shalloe; Conor Morrissey, Emmett Gaffney, Cormac O’Grady.

Referee: Timmy Organ (Abbeyside/ Ballinacourty).

OTHER RESULT Gaultier 2-9; St. Saviours 0-7.

THIS WEEKEND’S ROUND 3 FIXTURES GROUP 1 Clashmore/ Kinsalebeg v

Rathgormack. An Rinn v Kilrossanty. Stradbally v Ardmore.

GROUP 2 St. Saviours v De La Salle.

Ballinacourty v Nire. Brickeys v Gaultier.

First named team has home advantage.

All games originally scheduled for this Saturday, March 21st at 3 p.m.

PHELAN CUP COUNTY FOOTBALL LEAGUE - GROUP 1 p w d l for againt dif pts Rathgormack 2 2 0 0 32 22 10 4 Stradbally 2 1 1 0 20 19 1 3 Clashmore Kinsalebeg 2 1 1 0 11 11 0 3 Deuglán Naofa 2 1 0 1 13 11 2 2 An Rinn 2 0 0 2 20 22 -2 0 Kilrossanty 2 0 0 2 21 32 -11 0 PHELAN CUP COUNTY FOOTBALL LEAGUE - GROUP 2 p w d l for againt dif pts The Nire 2 2 0 0 44 18 26 4 Ballinacourty 2 2 0 0 12 9 3 4 Gaultier 2 1 0 1 15 7 8 2 Brickey Rangers 2 1 0 1 31 44 -13 2 De La Salle 2 0 0 2 17 25 -8 0 St Saviour's 2 0 0 2 20 36 -16 0

Scéalta na Seachtaine Seo Wexford – Strong in attack Stephen Bennett wins and suspect in defence Fitzgibbon Cup medal DIVISION 1B HURLING DECIDER WATERFORD V WEXFORD Innovate Wexford Park Sunday, March 22nd at 2 p.m.

IN order, the four qualifying places in Division 1 of the Allianz NHL are occupied by Waterford, Wexford, Limerick and Offaly.

This Sunday’s Round 5 and final games will decide their lasting order for this year and there is nothing to suggest from this weekend’s fixtures that the four teams listed will not qualify for the League proper quarter- finals.

Limerick got a rude awaking at the hurleys of Offaly last Saturday night are they should not be caught napping a second time in the space of a week when they play Laois at home.

Promotion to the top tier for 2016 rests between Waterford

and their hosts on this Sunday, Wexford. The model county finished Waterford’s hopes in the All Ireland qualifiers last summer and this fixture affords the opportunity to atone for that defeat somewhat. Of more importance of course is winning for its own merits and a successful conclusion to an unbeaten run in this year’s league.

Of the top four teams in Division 1B, Wexford have the best goal scoring record with eleven green flags to their credit and the worst defending one, having conceded six goals in four games. If Derek McGrath’s charges can target their defence from the outset, then Deise followers may well be heading home happy from Wexford Park on Sunday evening. On the other hand, Liam Dunne’s men have found the net eleven times, although last week’s game

against Laois put a glossier look on their stats when they fired five goals past Laois.

Waterford are top of the table on merit alone and they currently have a 0-36 better scoring difference than Wexford.

The Deise side has scored 9-91 in four outings, averaging 2-23 per game, one point more than Wexford and they have conceded just 3-52, averaging 0-15 per game compared to Wexford’s 6-73 which reads 1-20 in each match.

On the above figures, both sides are equal in attack but it is in defence that Wexford looks to have more worries than the current league leaders.

Sunday will confirm or disprove this opinion but one thing is sure, there should be a fine attendance from both counties in Wexford Park to see how this much anticipated game goes.

IT wasn’t all doom and gloom in WIT’s loss to UL from a Waterford perspective in Pairc Ui Rinn in last Wednesday evening’s Fitzgibbon Cup Hurling replay. In deservingly winning by 2-18 to 1-14, UL led by 2-17 to 0-10 with 50 minutes on the clock and with the Clare pair of David McInerny and Tony Kelly truly outstanding there was no question of the eventual outcome.

Ballysaggart’s Stephen Bennett was introduced in UL’s two previous matches, scoring a goal on each occasion and he came on here again after 50 minutes to share in his University’s fifth Fitzgibbon Cup victory. The 2013 Young Hurler of the year was Waterford’s only Fitzgibbon Cup medal winner from both sides on the field of play and, considering his ongoing injury problems, this will be a welcome boost for a key member of the All Ireland minor hurling winning team of two years ago.

Austin Gleeson’s injury sustained in the County’s Allianz NHL game in Tullamore four days earlier allowed him only two minutes on the field in Pairc Ui Rinn as he was in obvious discomfort and he had to be replaced. There were seven Waterford players on the WIT team in total, Jerome Maher, Martin O Neill, Stephen Roche, Pauric Mahony, Austin Gleeson, Gavin O Brien and team captain Jake Dillon. UL led by 1-9 to 0-6 at the short whistle and they won the second half by 1-9 to 1-8.

Stephen Bennett

‘We have made progress’ Minor Football Fixtures … Ger Power DESPITE the County’s under 21 footballers losing out heavily to a strong Clare fifteen in Miltown Malby last Wednesday evening, team manager Ger Power knows that progress has been made this year. ‘We prepared well over the past three months, including playing many challenge games and the players are a better group now than when we started first’.

The outcome was not as we expected, we defended well with Stephen Dalton, Conor Walsh, Jamie De Baruin and Stephen Ryan outstanding but we weren’t scoring up front and we were struggling against a stronger and quicker opposition’.

Rathgormack clubman Power, said he would like to continue to work and make further progress

with the panel next season.

‘Twenty of the thirty one players are under age for 2016 and we will be on the look out for more players to join the panel. I would like to thank our management team of John Cummins, Liam O Cuirrin, Brian Looney and Phsio Emer Enright for their commitment over the last three months’ concluded the manager.

Division 1 22/03/2015 at 11.30 a.m.

De La Salle vs Tramore at Gracedieu Dungarvan vs Kilmacthomas at Dungarvan Gaultier vs Ballinacourty at Gaultier 05/04/2015 at 11.30 a.m.

Kilmacthomas vs De La Salleat Kilmacthomas The Nire vs Ballinacourty at Ballymacarbry Tramore vs Gaultier at Tramore More J J Kavanagh & Sons Minor Football Division 2 Group 1 20/03/2015 7.00 p.m.

St Saviour's vs Stradbally at Stradbally 22/03/2015 at 11.30 a.m.

An Ghaeltacht vs Naomh Brid at An Rinn 05/04/2015 at 11.30 a.m.

Naomh Brid vs St Saviour's at Colligan Rathgormack vs An Ghaeltacht at Rathgormack J J Kavanagh & Sons Minor Football _ Division 2 - Group 2 22/03/2015 at 11.30 a.m.

Brickey Rangers vs Clashmore Kinsalebeg at Bushy Park Deuglán Naofa vs Cois Bhride at Ardmore 05/04/2015 11:30 a.m.

Cois Bhride vs Brickey Rangers at Knocanore St Oliver's vs Deuglán Naofa at St Oliver's

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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

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FROM THE FILES OF THE DUNGARVAN OBSERVER A DECADE AGO Wednesday, 30th November 2005

Rinn Ua gCuanach battle back to win County Intermediate title

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were former greats, sitting Nicky Whelan, Jimmy Thorpey and Martin Power. Standing Micky Kelly, Ger Mooney, Martin Kennedy and Liam Whelan.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

Town and Country League Fixtures SPONSORED BY GER WYLEY SPORTS U-11 HURLING DIVISION 1 Round 1: Friday, 3rd April at 6.30 p.m.

Dungarvan v Naomh Carthaigh at Dungarvan.

An Ghaeltacht BYE Fourmilewater v Brickey Rangers at Ballymacarbry Youghal v Abbeyside at Youghal Round 2: Friday, 17th April at 6.30 p.m.

Abbeyside v Fourmilewater at Abbeyside Naomh Carthaigh v Youghal at Lismore Dungarvan BYE Brickey Rangers v An Ghaeltacht at Bushy Park Round 3: Friday, 1st May 6.30 p.m.

Brickey Rangers BYE Fourmilewater v Naomh Carthaigh at Ballymacarbry An Ghaeltacht v Abbeyside at A n Rinn Youghal v Dungarvan at Youghal Round 4: Friday, 15th May 6.30 p.m.

Dungarvan v Fourmilewater at Dungarvan Naomh Carthaigh v An Ghaeltacht at Lismore Abbeyside v Brickey Rangers at Abbeyside Youghal BYE Round 5: Fri 29th May 6.30pm Abbeyside BYE Fourmilewater v Youghal at Ballymacarbry Brickey Rangers v Naomh Carthaigh at Bushy Park An Ghaeltacht v Dungarvan at An Rinn Round 6: Fri 12th June 6.30pm Fourmilewater BYE Naomh Carthaigh v Abbeyside at Lismore Dungarvan v Brickey Rangers at Dungarvan Youghal v An Ghaeltacht at Youghal Round 7: Fri 26th June 6.30pm Abbeyside v Dungarvan at Abbeyside Brickey Rangers v Youghal at Bushy Park Naomh Carthaigh BYE An Ghaeltacht v

Fourmilewater at An Rinn Gala Day – Friday 24th/Saturday, 25th July.

U-11 HURLING DIVISION 2 Round 1: Friday 3rd April 6.30pm Cois Bhride v St. Patrick's at Tallow Ardmore v Kilrossanty at Ardmore Naomh Brid v Cappoquin at Modeligo St. Oliver's v Ballyduff Upper at St. Oliver's Round 2: Fri 17th April 6.30pm Kilrossanty v St. Oliver's at Leamybrien St. Patrick's v Naomh Brid at Kilgobinet Ballyduff Upper v Cois Bhride at Ballyduff Upper Cappoquin v Ardmore at Cappoquin Round 3: Friday, 1st May 6.30 p.m.

Naomh Brid v Ballyduff Upper at Modeligo Cois Bhride v Kilrossanty at Tallow Cappoquin v St. Patrick's at Cappoquin Ardmore v St. Oliver's at Ardmore Round 4: Friday, 15th May 6.30 p.m.

Kilrossanty v Naomh Brid at Leamybrien Ballyduff Upper v Cappoquin at Ballyduff Upper St. Patrick's v Ardmore at Kilgobinet St. Oliver's v Cois Bhride at St. Oliver's Round 5: Friday, 29th May 6.30 p.m.

St. Patrick's v Ballyduff Upper at Kilgobinet Ardmore v Cois Bhride at Ardmore Naomh Brid v St. Oliver's at Modeligo Cappoquin v Kilrossanty at Cappoquin Round 6: Friday, 12th June 6.30 p.m.

Cois Bhride v Naomh Brid at Tallow Ballyduff Upper v Ardmore at Ballyduff Upper St. Oliver's v Cappoquin at St. Oliver's Kilrossanty v St. Patrick's

at Leamybrien Round 7: Friday, 26th June 6.30pm Ardmore v Naomh Brid at Ardmore St. Patrick's v St. Oliver's at Kilgobinet Cappoquin v Cois Bhride at Cappoquin Ballyduff Upper v Kilrossanty a t Ballyduff Upper Gala Day – Friday 24th/Saturday, 25th July.

U-11 GAELIC FOOTBALL DIVISION 1 Round 1: Friday, 14th Aug 6.30pm Gaultier v Dungarvan at Gaultier The Nire v Ballinacourty at Ballymacarbry Youghal v An Ghaeltacht at Youghal Round 2: Friday, 28th Aug 6.30pm Dungarvan v The Nire at Dungarvan An Ghaeltacht v Gaultier at An Rinn Ballinacourty v Youghal at Abbeyside Round 3 Fri 11th Sept 6.30pm An Ghaeltacht v The Nire at An Rinn Gaultier v Youghal a t Gaultier Dungarvan v Ballinacourty at Dungarvan Round 4: Friday, 25th Sept. 6 p.m.

Youghal v Dungarvan at Youghal The Nire v Gaultier at Ballymacarbry Ballinacourty v An Ghaeltacht a t Abbeyside Round 5: Friday, 9th Oct. 6 p.m.

Youghal v The Nire at Youghal Gaultier v Ballinacourty at Gaultier An Ghaeltacht v Dungarvan at An Rinn U-11 GAELIC FOOTBALL DIVISION 2 Round 1: Friday, 14th Aug. 6.30 p.m.

Naomh Brid v Naomh at Carthaigh at Modeligo Cois Bhride v Ardmore at

Tallow St. Patrick's v St. Oliver's at Kilgobinet Kilrossanty v Cappoquin at Leamybrien Round 2: Friday, 28th Aug. 6.30pm Ardmore v Kilrossanty at Ardmore Naomh Carthaigh v St. Patrick's at Lismore Cappoquin v Naomh Brid at Cappoquin St. Oliver's v Cois Bhride at St. Oliver's Round 3: Monday, 7th Sept. 6.30 p.m.

St. Patrick's v Cappoquin at Kilgobinet Naomh Brid v Ardmore at Modeligo St. Oliver's v Naomh Carthaigh at St Oliver's Cois Bhride v Kilrossanty at Tallow Round 4: Friday, 11th Sept. 6.30 p.m.

Ardmore v St. Patrick's at Ardmore Cappoquin v St. Oliver's at Cappoquin Naomh Carthaigh v Cois Bhride at Lismore Kilrossanty v Naomh Brid at Leamybrien Round 5: Friday, 25th Sept. 6 p.m.

Naomh Carthaigh v Cappoquin at Lismore Cois Bhride v Naomh Brid at Tallow St. Patrick's v Kilrossanty at Kilgobinet St. Oliver's v Ardmore at St Oliver's Round 6: Friday, 28th Sept. 6 p.m.

Naomh Brid v St. Patrick's at Modeligo Cappoquin v Cois Bhride at Cappoquin Kilrossanty v St. Oliver's at Leamybrien Ardmore v Naomh Carthaigh at Ardmore Round 7: Friday, 9th Oct. 6 p.m.

Cois Bhride v St Patrick's at Tallow Naomh Carthaigh v Kilrossanty at Lismore St. Oliver's v Naomh Brid at St. Oliver's Cappoquin v Ardmore at Cappoquin

Rinn Ua gCuanach 0-10; De La Salle 1-6.

RINN Ua gCuanach Intermediate Footballers delighted their faithful followers at the Fraher Field on Sunday afternoon last when they staged a wonderful comeback at a stage when all seemed lost. A harmless looking shot from Minor player, Kevin Moran, had skidded past keeper Tom Ó Cadhla in the 36th minute and when the same player added a point in the 40th minute to put the City team four points to the good (1-5 to 0-4), all appeared to be lost for the Gaeltacht side, who had lost the services of their sterling full-forward, Liam Ó Cuirrín, due to a hand injury in the 9th minute of the game.

Over those final 20 plus minutes, the Western champions came charging back into the fray as Liam Ó Cuirrín was reintroduced at centre half forward and had a key role in their thrilling comeback and when referee, Tim Byrne sounded the final whistle, their supporters swarmed onto the pitch to claim their favourites on a day which will be long recalled in the annals of the Gaeltacht Club.

Mike Tóibín, who played a stormer throughout before being forced off due to an injury picked up in time added on at the end of the game, pointed frees in the third and fourth minutes and, overall, they got off to a bright start - yet, the fact that they shot a total of six first-half wides must have been a cause for concern.

At that stage De La Salle led by 0-4 to 0-2 as Mitchell Casey (15th minute); Lee Hayes (24th minute) and Conan Watt (26th minute), who had a great hour here and Kevin Moran (28th minute) were all on target as the City side had the better of matters in the second quarter. Add on the loss of Liam Ó Cuirrín and the Gaeltacht men were now

facing an uphill battle.

On the resumption the bitterly cold breeze had, if anything, strengthened in An Rinn’s favour. Mike Tóibín pointed a 32nd minute free and Liam Ó Lonáin, who came much more into the frame in the second half, to telling affect, had their first point from play in the 35th minute, to level up the scores for the second time at 0-4 each.

The teams were back on level terms in the 46th minute, as firstly Pádraig Ó Murchadha proved his worth as he scored a vital point and then Liam Ó Lonáin drove over - 1-5 to 0-8.

In the 55th minute Séimi Mac Craich set up Mike Tóibín, who scored a wonderful long-range point (0-10 to 1-6), which was to prove to be the winner.

Darach Breathnach was rock-solid at fullback. He was well supported by goalkeeper, Tomás Ó Cadhla, who effected some great saves; in defence by Eanna de Faoite, Noel Ó Murchadha and Eoin Breathnach, while Lorcán Ó Muirí, Eamon Ó Crotaigh and substitute, Séamus Ó hAodha, while in addition to those already mentioned, Gearóid Breathnach and Ciarán Ó Manacháin put in much valuable work up front, along with substitute, Seán Ó hArtaigh, while Michéal Seán Ó Murchú also came on to share in the glory.

For De La Salle, Thomas Kearney, David Whittle, Cillian McBride, William Kavanagh, Kevin Moran, Lee Hayes, Jason Ryan, Conan Watt and Mitchell Casey achieved most.

Scorers - An Rinn: M. Tóibín 0-5; L. Ó Lonáin 0-2; S. Mac Craith 0-2; P. Ó Murchadha 0-1.

De La Salle: K. Moran 1-2; M. Casey, L. Hayes, C. Watt, J. Ryan 0-1 each.

Rinn Ua gCuanach:- Tom Ó Cadhla, Lorcán Ó Muirí, Darach Breathnach, Éanna de Faoite, Noel Ó Murchadha, Eoin Breathnach, Eamon Ó Crotaigh, Shane Ó Ceallaigh, Liam Ó Lonáin, Mike Tóibín, Gearóid Breathnach, Ciarán Ó Manacháin, Séimí Mac Craith, Liam Ó Cuirrín, Pádraig Ó Murchadha. Subs. used:- Michéal Seán Ó Murchú, Séamus Ó hAodha, Seán Ó hArtaigh.

De La Salle: David Dennison, Austin Dunne, Thomas Kearney, Michael Doherty, Kevin Whittle, David Whittle (C), Cillian McBride, William Kavanagh, Jason Ryan, Ian Cantwell, Lee Hayes, Conan Watt, Barry Freyne, Kevin Moran, Mitchell Casey. Sub. used:- Mick O’Sullivan.

Referee: Tim Byrne (Erin’s Own).

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Teams of Times Gone By WATERFORD JUNIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS Year: 2005. Team: Portlaw. Date: Sunday, December 4th. Venue: Fraher Field. Team Captain: Pat Nolan. Referee: Dessie O’Leary (Erin’s Own). Half-Time Score: Portlaw 1-3; Stradbally 0-5. Full-Time Score: Portlaw 1-7; Stradbally 0-9.

Tyrone Power; Pat Nolan, Darren Long, Kenny Reade; Garry Monahan, Edmund Rockett, P.J. O’Gorman; John Hartley, Andrew Kirwan; Michael Hartley, Frank Galvin, Michael Donnolly; Mark Monahan, Edmund Fogarty, Tom Walsh Sub: Darren Power.

Scorers: Michael Donnolly 0-4, Mark Monahan 1-0, Frank Galvin, Edmund Fogarty, John Hartley.

Forde’s

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FORDE’S DAYBREAK FORECAST CORNER Last Week’s Forecasts: 17 Forecasts. 12 Correct. 5 Incorrect. Success Rate: 70.5%.

Best To Date: 81.8%.

This Week’s Forecasts: Allianz NHL DIVISION 1A: Kilkenny v (Clare), Dublin v (Galway), Cork v (Tipperary).

Allianz NHL Division 1B: Waterford v (Wexford), Limerick v (Laois), Offaly v (Antrim).

West under 21 Football: Nire v (St. Olivers). Brickeys v (Cois Bhride), Ardmore v (Stradbally) County MFC: Division 1: Ballinacourty v (Gaultier), Kilmacthomas v (Dungarvan), Tramore v (De La Salle).

Division 2, Group 1: St. Saviours v (Stradbally), Naomh Brid v (An Ghaeltacht).

Division 2: Clashmore/Kinsalebeg v (Brickeys), Cois Bhride v (Ardmore).

Division 3: Na Gaeil v (Affane), St. Mary’s v (Portlaw), Ballyduff Upper v (Ferrybank), Kilrossanty v (Sacred Heart).

To Date: 106 Forecasts. 68 Correct. 35 Incorrect. 6 Drawn. Success Rate: 64.1%.

GAA CLUB NOTES

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

Fourmilewater SENIOR HURLING The Senior hurlers play the County Waterford U-21 team this evening. The venue has yet to be confirmed, it will be either Fraher field or Abbeyside. Please check Facebook page for confirmation of venue and throw-in time.

BRAIN OF BALLYMACARBRY The annual brain of Ballymacarbry table quiz in aid of our club funds takes place on Holy Thursday night (April 2nd) at 9 pm in Docceys Bar. Table of four is €20 and there will of course be prizes on the night. We would ask that as many of you to try and come and support the quiz for what is a vital fundraiser for the club. Come and enjoy what is always a very enjoyable night.

As always the Quizmaster is Michael Ryan.

WEEKLY LOTTO RESULT The Weekly lotto draw took place in Doocey's Bar last Saturday evening. No winner. Five by €30 winners: Patricia Ryan, Greg Aird, Connie Power, Donal Fraher (twice). Numbers drawn 5, 6, 10. Jackpot next week €900.

The weekly lotto draw takes place every Saturday in Dooceys Bar at 9:30. Tickets are always available and who knows, you may be a winner. As well as having a chance of winning the top prize you are also contributing funds to your club.

DIRECT DEBIT MEMBERSHIP One sure way of ensuring that you will be included for 52 weeks in both the Fourmilewater GAA and Nire GAA weekly lotto draws is by availing of both clubs Direct Debit Membership scheme.

Nire/FMW Direct Debit Membership 2015 • Cost €250 per year • Payment by Direct Debit or Cheque for €250 for full year.

OR • Monthly for €20.80 • Weekly for €4.81 What you receive by signing up: • Weekly Nire Lotto Ticket - yearly value = €78 • Weekly FMW Lotto Ticket – Yearly value = €78 • 1 Annual Deise Draw Ticket – value = €80 • 1 Croke Park Draw Ticket – value = €10 FREE MEMBERSHIP TO NIRE AND FMW CLUBS 45 CARD RESULT Winners: Mary Doyle & Eileen Kelly; Oliver O’Hara & James Gough; Philly Freaney & Con O’Dwyer; Michael Ahern & Chris Noonan; Jim Phelan & Larry Ryan; Jim Wall & Niall Carroll; Jim Queally & Eileen Ryan. Lucky Tables: Ger Hennebry & Patsy O’Halloran; John Mangan & Mem Murphy.

DEISE DRAW The Deise Draw will be commencing on March 27th. There will be 8 draws over 8 months. Every Months Draw includes: 1st Prize €10,000; 2nd Prize €3,000; 3rd Prize €1,500; 4th to 11th Prize €200. Also, everyone who joins the Deise draw will receive a 15% discount when you spend €100 in Elverys Sportswear. The voucher will be available on request from the club. Please remember that 70% of all money raised will be returned to the club. If interested please contact any member of the committee.

DEISE DAY 2015 Tickets are now on sale for the Deise Day corporate event at Punchestown on Saturday May 2nd. A table of 10 costs €1,500. The package includes free admission, a free race card, 4 course meal and live entertainment. Local band Newfoundland are lined up for the event.

Proceeds to be split 50/50 between Waterford GAA and the Waterford Ladies development fund. If you are interested in coming along with a group of friends, work colleagues, family etc please contact any of the following Committee Members: Pat Grant 083 1056545, Crohan McGregor 086 0763918, Sean O' Regan 083 1019884, David Walsh 058 42786, Lisa Cronin 087 6210103, John Jackson 087 9833905 or Pat Sullivan 087 8533900.

NIRE/FOURMILEWATER JUVENILES U-13 Football: Our U -13 football team started the Paddy O’Grady cup (Western Football Championship) with a trip to Abbeyside last Saturday and recorded a fine victory. Well done to everyone involved.

U-16 Football: Our U-16s played out a 6-5 to 6-5 draw at home to Portlaw last Sunday morning. Great credit is due to both sides for producing such an exciting contest. On another day luck might have been kinder to us and resulted in a victory for the Nire. Well done to Mike, Dick and all the players.

U-8 Football: Our U-8s were in action in Carriganore last Saturday morning, we played three games in total against Stradbally, Gaultier, and Ballinacourty. Well done to all, the hard training appears to be working. Thanks to all the parents who drove to the Waterford City venue.

Support: We are always very grateful for the support we receive from everyone in the community. We would love to see more people come along to our games and really get behind the team, the various teams and mentors put a lot of hard work into the teams and come match day, it would be great if more supporters came along to the games. That support could be and often is the

difference between winning and losing.

Gum Shields: Just a reminder to all parents that Gum Shields are obligatory for Gaelic Football when playing or training for Gaelic Football. None of us want to prevent any child from participating in our teams but we cannot allow any child play hurling without a helmet or football without a Gum Shield.

Training – U-12's: Our U-11/12 training continues every Tuesday between 7 pm and 8 pm in the community centre €3.

U-10/U-11 Training: Our U-10/11's training continues every Monday evening in the Community Centre at 6 pm €3.

U-8/U-9: Our U-8/9's training continues on Thursdays between 5 pm and 6 pm in the Community Centre €3.

U-6's/U-7's: Our U-6's/U-9's training continues every Monday between 7 pm and 8 pm in the Community Centre €3 Club Notes: If you would like anything included in the Club notes, Facebook or Twitter updates, please contact Muiris Walsh at 0868159136 or at baronpark20@gmail.com Respect: Respect your teammates, Respect your opponents, Respect your coaches, Respect officials and Respect the games. Ar agaidh an Uidhir agus An Caislean Cuanach.

NIRE / FMW PLAYER PROFILE Name: Padraic Byrne Age: 8 Favourite Sport: Football, Soccer, hurling Favourite GAA Player: Michael O’Gorman Favourite Food: Chicken Curry Favourite TV Show: Bear Grylls, Born Survivor Favourite Song: All about the Bass- Megan Traynor Favourite Soccer Teams: Chelsea & Barcelona What famous person would you invite to dinner? Willian If you won the lotto, what would you buy? A Lamborghini and a Theme Park NIRE / FMW PLAYER PROFILE Name: Gerald Nugent Age: 9 Favourite Sport: Football, Soccer, hurling Favourite GAA Player: Jamie Barron Favourite Food: Stuffed Steak Favourite TV Show: The Simpsons Favourite Band/ Singer: Martin Murray (Banjo) Favourite Soccer Teams: Manchester Utd. What famous person would you invite to dinner? Neymar If you won the lotto, what would you buy? A Football stadium and a Farm.

Clonea Clonea CLONEA 100 CYCLE The Club will hold a Cycle on Sunday 12th April in association with Waterford Hospice.

There will be a 100km and a 40lm cycle. Both cycles start at 11am and the entry fee is €25. On Saturday, 11th April, there will be a family cycle over 20km. Cost is €40 per family.

INDOOR CAMOGIE Indoor Camogie every Wednesday for girls born in the years 2009 to 2005 as follows:Born in 2009 and 2010 – 6 pm to 6.30 pm Born in 2008 and 2007 - 6.30 pm to 7.15 pm.

Born in 2006 and 2005 – 7.15 pm to 8 pm.

Cost is €3 per session. Bring a Hurley, Helmet and a Drink. Any queries contact Roisin on 0872472007 JUNIOR CAMOGIE Training for new Clonea Junior Camogie team will commence this Friday, March 20th at 7.30pm in Clonea.

MEMBERSHIP RATES 2015 Membership is due for all players and MUST BE PAID before 31st March 2015 to comply with insurance regulations. Membership is as follows:Juvenile Players up to age 16 - €15 Minor and Under 21 Players - €30 All other Adult Players - €60 Non Playing Adults - €30 Family Membership (2 Adults) - €50 CLONEA JUVENILE CLUB Juvenile Blotto: Next Blotto Draw is Sunday, 29th March, 2015. Jackpot is now €5,300. We appreciate your support.

Indoor Hurling: Indoor Hurling continues every Friday in the Hiking Centre, Rathgormack at the following times:Born in 2009 and 2008 – 6.30pm to 7.15pm Born in 2007 and 2006 – 7.15pm to 8pm.

Cost is €3 per session. Bring a Helmet and a Drink. Indoor Hurleys will be provided at each session. Any queries contact Kevin on 0862215401.

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Shamrocks captain Jason Ahearne being presented with the Deug Ahearne Cup by Kieran and Joe Ahearne.

Duck Race: The Juvenile Clubs Annual Duck Race will be held on Monday, 6th April (Easter Monday) at 4 pm in Clonea. Ducks are €5 each or 5 Ducks for €20 and are on sale now.

Membership: Membership for all Juvenile players, €15 each, is now due. Players must be fully paid up and registered members to train or play.

Ballyduff Upper Ballyduff Upper Main Sponsor Kenneally Steel Fabrication SENIOR HURLING Our senior hurlers took on last year’s Cork Intermediate Premier Hurling Champions Ballyhea in the Fitzgerald Cup in Ballyduff on last Saturday night. Ballyduff lead by a single point at the break 0-10 to 0-9. The second half started with a brace of goals from Kevin Casey while Jamie Kearney got in the action finishing off a nice team move to goal late on to seal the win.

The final score was 3-14 to 1-15.

The next game up for the seniors is against Waterford U-21s on Monday next, 23rd March at 19.45 in Fraher Field.

MEMBERSHIP Club membership is now due for 2015.

Membership remains the same price as the last few years at €50 for adults and €15 for students.

Minors and younger players must pay their membership to the juvenile club. Membership can be paid to membership officer Eugene Flynn or any club officer.

Congratulations to our senior hurling selector Pa Molumphy and his wife Noelle on the birth of their son Oisin.

FIELD DEVELOPMENT Anyone who has been over in the field recently will have seen that work on replacing the ball stop netting at the top side of the field is well under way and should be complete in the next week or two. The field committee also plan to have the spectator railing along the stand side of the pitch erected before the end of April.

DEISE DRAW AND ANNUAL LOTTO TICKETS This year’s Deise Draw starts on Friday, 27th March and runs monthly until October. The annual club lotto tickets are due for renewal on 7th April. The Deise Draw and club lotto are a vital source of income for the club and over the years has provided funding for all the facility improvements in the field. Should anyone like to subscribe to Deise Draw or Club Lotto please contact Eugene Flynn or any club officer for more details.

Geraldines MEMBERSHIP Thanks to everyone who has paid their Membership in the last few weeks, this takes a lot of financial pressure off the club. However, there are still some payments outstanding so if you are interested in playing and want to be guaranteed a team to play on; pay your membership to Johnny Healy now. All playing members are asked to have their membership paid to the club by 31st March. Membership also has to be paid by non-players if they wish to avail of tickets to inter-county games. We appreciate your co-operation.

LEAGUE FIXTURE Our first competitive fixture for 2015 is in the western hurling league. We play Ballinameela on Sunday, 29th March in Ballinameela at 11:30.

CHALLENGE GAMES The lads have started playing challenge games in the last few weeks against St.

Catherine’s of Conna and John Mitchells from Kilmacthomas. These were both football matches and were good competitive games to prepare them for the Ballinameela game in the intermediate football championship which is fast approaching.

DEISE DRAW Deise Draw tickets are available from committee members. If you are interested in buying Deise Draw tickets then contact Declan Sheridan on 087-2128366 or Dave Cullinane on 0879676665. Thanks again for your support.

TRAINING Training continues again tonight Wednesday at 7:30. Challenge game on Friday night in Aglish for intermediates. Junior match also scheduled for this weekend as well.

FITZGIBBON CUP A Star studded WIT went down to an equally star-studded UL: team in the Fitzgibbon Cup Replay played in Pairc Ui Rinn last Wednesday night by 2-18 to 1-14. Well done to Jerome Maher on making the WIT team but tough luck on the result.

If there is anything that you would like to have included in the notes, please contact me on 0872180299 or pm the Geraldines Facebook Page.

Shamrocks Shamrocks CLUB LOTTO The numbers drawn in last Saturday night's lotto draw were 3-6-18-22, and there was no winner. €20 winners were Carl O'Connor, Sylvia Allen, Rebecca O'Keeffe, Anne Tobin, Colum O'Keeffe. Next week's lotto draw takes place on Sunday night 22nd March in Lombard's Pub, Glendine, and the jackpot will be €5,550.

DEAG AHEARNE CUP The inaugural Deug Ahearne tournament took place last Saturday in John F. Kennedy Park, Knockanore, between Shamrocks and Erin's Own, from Waterford. The cup was presented by the Ahearne family in memory of a great Shamrocks man, Deug Ahearne, and fittingly we were treated to a very enjoyable game of hurling which was eventually won by the Shamrocks.

Very appropriately it was presented to Shamrock's captain, Jason Ahearne, who happens to be Deug's grandson, and Shane Roche was awarded the man of the match award. ViceChairman James Tobin welcomed Erin's Own to Knockanore, and he said it was appropriate that they should be invited to play as they also played an exhibition match against Blackrock of Cork the day the pitch was opened over sixty years ago.

Earlier our u-14 Cois Bhride hurlers defeated Fr. O'Neill’s in the annual Tobin Cup, once again we were treated to a great match. So a proud and successful day's hurling in Knockanore last Saturday.

MIKE NUGENT R.I.P. The Shamrocks would like to sympathise with the family and friends of Mike Nugent, Knockanore, who passed away last week. His sons Michael and Jimmy both donned the green and white of the Shamrocks. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

JIGS AND REELS Best of luck to club stalwart Tom O’Donovan who is competing in the 'Jigs and Reels' which is in aid of local charities this coming Saturday night in the Cappoquin Community Centre. Always knew you were handy on your feet Tom! Best of luck from all in the Shamrocks.

SCOR NA bPÁISTÍ We would like to wish the following children the very best of luck this weekend who will be representing the Shamrocks GAA club in Scor.

On Friday night in Modeligo our mixed set will compete in the 1st qualifying round, our dancers are Adam McSweeney, Emma Roche, Stephen Roche, Abbey Morrissey, Sean Kenneally, Roisin Hunt, Danny Power and Siun Hurley. The ballad group who will be competing in Modeligo are Caoimhe Casey, Doireann Ormonde, Jessica McSweeney, Aobhla Motherway and Cathal Hunt.

On Sunday night in Ring another of our sets compete in the second qualifying round, best of luck to Cathal Hunt, Caoimhe Casey, Rachel Roche, Aobhla Motherway, Joanne Lonergan, Catherine Hynes, Doireann Ormonde and Jessica McSweeney. We will have more children competing in Knockanore on Friday March 27th and we will have details on them next week.

Knockanore Set Dancers would also like to wish the very best of luck to Carleen Casey and Cllr John Pratt who are competing in Jigs and reels this Saturday night in Cappoquin Community Centre.

Stradbally DEISE DRAW Deise Draw tickets are now on sale from any committee member. This year we have 8 draws at €10 each. First prize every month will be €10,000, second prize €3,000 and third prize €1,500, and eight prizes of €250. Funds raised with this draw are vital for the running of the club, without the Deise Draw this club would not exist.

Please be generous again this year, your contribution is greatly appreciated. Money and tickets to be in to Breda Kiely by Saturday, 21st March.

SEASON TICKETS All ticket holders should present themselves at one of these activation sessions as a digital image shall be taken regardless of whether you are a new or existing ticket holder. Club season tickets shall also be available for purchase during these times. Commencing Thursday 19th February and running until 28th March.

Walsh Park - Every Thursday 3-7 pm.

Fraher Field - Every Friday 4-6.30 pm, and every Saturday 10.30 am-12.30 pm.

WINTER PARISH LEAGUES Winter Leagues were cancelled last Thursday night due to bad weather, they will take place next Thursday night.

Round 3 is on Thursday evening 19th at 6.45 pm.

Kerry V Cork; Meath V Roscommon; Waterford V Down.

LUCKY WINNER A lucky member of a Dungarvan syndicate was local man Stewart Fee who had a nice little win in the national lottery last week, it is nice to see somebody local winning, well done Stewart.

ON COUNTY DUTY Well done to Jack Mullaney who played in Miltown Malbay last week against Clare for Waterford in U-21, also Michael ‘Brick’ Walsh who played against Antrim last Sunday in Walsh Park in the hurling league.

PLEDGE FOR KIKO Well done to Kiko Casey who lost Twenty One and a half pounds in the Stradbally Operation Transformation. Anyone that pledged money to Kiko for every pound he lost, please contact Breda Kiely on 087-6291930. Again thanks to Kiko for the wonderful effort he put in over the last two months.

MEMBERSHIP Membership is now well overdue, players that have not paid their membership must do so immediately. Contact Breda Kiely on 0876291930.

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GAA CLUB NOTES

Tramore Tramore SYMPATHY Sincere sympathy to the Kiely family, Carrigavantry, Tramore on the recent death of their beloved mother Pauline Kiely. May the Lord have mercy on her gentle soul.

MEMBERSHIP If people still haven’t paid their membership it is now due for both Adult and Juvenile members.

Everyone knows how important it is to the well being of the Club to get the membership fees in early as insurances and affiliations are now due.

Contact our Registrar Ann Bohan or Assistant Registrar David Acheson to register.

Juveniles can also Register with Tom Murray who is Registrar for the Juvenile Club.

FIXTURES THIS WEEK Sunday, 22nd March East U-14 Football Division 1 Tramore vs Gaultier at 11.00 am in Tramore.

East U-14 Football Division 3 Tramore vs St. Saviours time and venue to be confirmed.

County Minor Football Division 1 Tramore vs De La Salle at 11.30 am in De La Salle Gracedieu Pitch. All support greatly appreciated for these matches.

U-13 DIV 3 FOOTBALL We had a good win over Sacred Heart at home Saturday last. The lads applied themselves well and put in a great effort on a pleasant day for football. Everyone played well against a good Sacred Heart team. Our next outing will be 28th March for both teams look out for texts.

EASTER CAMP There will be an Easter camp in Tramore for boys born in 2001 and 2002 from Tuesday, April 7th to Thursday, April 9th. This will be open to local Clubs as well as Tramore.

BAG PACK IN QUISHS' SUPERVALU Thanks to everyone who took part in our Juvenile bag pack in Quishs' Supervalu and to everyone who contributed and especially to Quishs' Supervalu for their generosity in letting us hold the bag pack in their store.

Congratulations to the winner of the Easter Hamper, Jimmy O'Loughlin.

CLUB NOTES If any person in the club wants to include news or photos etc in the weekly notes please send an email to Club Pro. The email address is pro.tramore.waterford@gaa.ie.

JUVENILE CLUB HURLING AND FOOTBALL TRAINING TIMES Astroturf: U-6 - U-8 Hurling Monday 6-7 pm. U-14 Hurling Monday 5-6.30 pm. U-16 Football Tuesday 8-9 pm.

U-13 Hurling Wednesday 7-8 pm. U-13 Football Thursday 6-7 pm. U-12 Hurling Monday 7-8 pm U-10/11 Hurling, Saturday 10.30 to 11.30 am and Wednesday 6-7 pm.

UNDERAGE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING U-13 Hurling- Open to all Development Training in Carriganore every 2nd week Fridays at 7-8 pm, on this Friday 20th.

U-12 -16 Hurling- Open to All Development Training in Carriganore every Friday at 6-7 pm.

ASTROTURF & HALL Open to Clubs and Children's Parties, for further information, contact our Sports and Social Manager, Charlie Ryan at 086-8232021.

BINGO In the Club every Monday at 8 pm. All are welcome. Congratulations to Anna Cowman, Moonloun who has been selected to be the Grand Marshal for the St Patrick's Day Parade.

A well deserved honour for Anna, who with her late husband, Dan and others, have organised the hugely popular parade for many years.

CAMOGIE Training on Wednesday evenings U-8 to U-12, 6 - 7 pm.

Training now on Wednesday Evenings for U-14 to U-18 from 8 - 9 pm.

CIRCUIT TRAINING AND CORE PILATES Circuits with John Frost on Wednesday at 7.30 pm. Pilates with Davy Wade on Thursday at 7.30 pm. €5 for each class and all are welcome.

Great to see the mix of people attending these classes every week.

DEISE DRAW The 2015 draw will commence on Friday, 27th March and continue monthly, for 8 months, up to Friday, 30 October.Top prize will be €10,000 while the second prize increases to €3,000 and the third prize will be €1,500 with many more cash prizes to be won.

In addition, there is a 15% discount available for Deise Draw members from Elvery's Sports, Michael Street, Waterford. For further information, contact your promoter, Pat Cullen or Anne Bohan.

LOTTO The next draw takes place this Wednesday, 25 March, when the Jackpot will be €4,300.

Tickets €2 each are on sale in the usual outlets.

There was no winner of the €4,200 Jackpot in last Wednesday's draw.

The numbers drawn were 7, 16, 18 and 20.

Lucky Dip winners of €40 each were: Tina Flanagan, Ballykinsella, John O'Gorman, c/o GAA Club and David Sheridan, c/o GAA Club.

Thanks to all who support the Lotto.

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

CARDS NIGHT Eamonn McCormack, Jack O'Brien and Ted Crowley beat Mary Halley, Nicky Power and Liz Halley in last weeks final. Cards every Friday at 9.30 pm and all are welcome. Winners in the Friday draw were Jack O'Brien and Michael Power. Recent Bonus winners were Vanessa Power and Marie Pierce.

St.Mary’s Mary’s Juveniles St. Juveniles U-14 FOOTBALL Were the visitors to Kill last Sunday morning, 8th March, as our u-14s took to the field to play for their first game of the year, Division 1 & 2 are mixed for the league section and to our cost we found the comeragh boys way too strong for us on this ocassion as they ran out comprehensive winners.

CONGRATS Once again congrats are in order to St. Declan’s Secondary School on their great achievement in reaching the All Ireland 'C' Colleges final last weekend. St. Mary’s are represented by Ciaran Kirwan (who turned in a man of the match performance) and Geoff Halley, and we wish both lads all the best in the upcoming final on Saturday, 28th March.

REPRESENTITIVES ON COUNTY U-21S The club had two players on the Waterford U-21 football panel last Wednesday night (11th March) when they took on Clare in the scenic surrounds of Miltown Malbay in the Munster championship. Jona Fenton lined out at wing back, while Niall Queally was a sub as Clare ran out comfortable winners, and so the lads and Waterfords involvement ends.

EASTERN U-21 FINAL By the time you read these notes our U-21 footballers will hopefully have retained their u-21 crown, as they take on St. Declan’s (Kilmac/Ballyduff) in Carriganore on Monday night, 16th March in the Eastern Final. Full report next week.

U-16 FOOTBALL Our U-16's maintained their unbeaten record in the championship last Sunday morning, 15th March when they just edged out Cois Brid on a 2-8 to 2-5 scoreline in Tallow. Well done to the players and management who now have 3 wins from 3.

Naomh Brid REGISTRATION DAY Please note that it is compulsory for all players to be registered so that they are insured for training and playing games during the coming season. To facilitate this, the club will hold a Registration Day in Modeligo pitch on Sunday, March 29th. The day will include some challenge games beginning at 11am followed by registration and then our annual ball run. The fees this year are as follows – Under 10 will be €10 max of €10 per family, Over 10 will be €20 up to a max of €40 per family. More details next week.

OUTDOOR TRAINING Out door training for all groups will begin as soon as the clocks change on March 29. This year training for all groups under 12 years of age will be in Touraneena, on Tuesday evenings from 6.30 to 7.30 p.m. Friday evening training at hurling wall in Touraneena is now finished for this season.

LEAGUES The under 13 fotballers played St. Oliver’s on Sunday afternoon and won on a scoreline of 3-7 to 1-1.The Under 14 team are due to play away to Stradbally next weekend, date is to be confirmed.

The Under 16 footballers also won this weekend, beating Ballinacourty by three points.

Under 11 and Under 12 hurling leagues will start on Friday, April 3rd and will run on alternative Fridays after that.

CLUB NOTES If any person or group in the club wants to include match news, fixtures or photos etc in the weekly notes please send email to the club PRO. Email address is (nb-pro@outlook.ie) These need to be received by Sunday evening at 6pm for inclusion that week.

Kill CLUB LOTTO There was no winner of the jackpot worth €9,650 at last Monday night’s draw (9th March) in Kirwans bar. We had a solitary ' match 3' and that went to Davin & Keith c/o Kirwans Bar (a home win) and so they get €50. Our next draw is in Dunphy’s and once again we would like to thank all those who support our lotto. For the record the numbers drawn on this occasion were 14, 19, 21 & 30.

DEISE DRAW A reminder to all our promoters on the upcoming March Draw (27th) to please get their tickets into Hannah Power by Sunday evening, 22nd March or before this date please.

MEMBERSHIP With championship just around the corner for our intermediates and juniors we need to have all

At the Kill GAA Victory Social in the Park Hotel were Kevin Burns, Emma Gallagher, Club Secretary; Paddy Joe Ryan, Chairman Co. GAA Board and Martin Kennedy.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport]

our players paid up for insurance reasons. So If you haven’t paid, please do so A.S.A.P.

Ballinameela UPCOMING FIXTURES Intermediate Hurling League: Round 1 – Ballinameela v The Geraldines, Sunday, 29th of March, 11:30 am, Ballinameela Intermediate Football Championship: Round 1 – Ballinameela v The Geraldines, Saturday, 11th of April at 7:30 pm, Fraher Field.

Round 2 – Ballinameela v Ballinacourty, Saturday, 18th of April at 7:30 pm, Bushy Park DÉISE DRAW Tickets for the Déise Draw are currently on sale in the club. There are 8 monthly draws held with a top prize of €10,000 each month. Owning a ticket entitles the bearer to a 15% discount in Elvery’s Sports (vouchers for which will be available through Ballinameela GAA Club), the closest of which are in Clonmel and Waterford City.

Tickets are available from club members John Harrington (0876915838), Stephen McGrath (0872709344) and Kealan Looby (0877499214).

The first draw will take place on the 27th of March.

FIRST AID The club are currently searching for a first aid person to help out with games during the coming year. We encourage anyone available to please contact Terry McCarthy on 0879088781.

John John Mitchells Mitchels INTERMEDIATE FOOTBALL We play St. Mollerans at 5 pm on 28th March.

Currently game is fixed for Portlaw.

UNDERAGE Our U8's took part in a blitz at Carriganore on Saturday last. On a cold morning our boys and girl played really well in all games. The skill levels and understanding of the game is really impressive from these young players. Thanks also to the parents that bring their children to these games.

It makes it all the more special.

DEISE DRAW It's almost the end of March so if you haven't bought your ticket yet now is the time. With a €10,000 first prize it is really worth entering.

Tickets are €80 or €10 per month.

LAST MAN STANDING Slowly put surely entrants are being eliminated each week. Well done to those that are still involved. A text to remaining players will be sent before next round of fixtures.

Rathgormack U-21 EASTERN SEMI FINAL We take on De La Salle in the semi-final of the u-21 Eastern Championship in Dunhill on Tuesday, 17th March at 12 noon. Please get out

and show your support for the lads in this big game.

SENIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE Our Seniors took on Kilrossanty in the second round of the County league / Phelan Cup on Saturday afternoon last. We got a good start with a 2-8 to 1-2 lead at half time. Both teams were short a couple of players, but we eventually ran out winners on a scoreline of 2-13 to 2-4. Well done lads. We play Clashmore away on Saturday, 21st March in the third round.

MEMBERSHIP Membership dues €60 for adult members. €30 for under 21s, €10 for under 18s and €30 for non-playing members. Payable to Michael Crotty ASAP or team managers.

NaomhChartaigh Chartaigh Juveniles Naomh Juveniles (Lismore / Ballysaggart Juvenile GAA) U-14 PADDY WHELAN TOURNAMENT Our annual U-14 Paddy Whelan tournament has been fixed for Saturday, 28th March.

U-9s Our U-9s played an indoor blitz in Ballyduff on Saturday last against some local teams. Great fun was had by all players. Thanks to all who are involved with this age group.

U-8s, 10, 11, 12s There was a great turn out for the first outdoor training session on Saturday last. Texts with regarding matches and training this weekend to follow during the week.

MEMBERSHIP For those yet to pay membership €30 per family, it can be paid at the training sessions. To those who have paid up, thank you.

TABLE QUIZ Date for diary Thursday April 3rd, which is the night we’re holding our Annual Table Quiz in the Ballyvera Inn, in Ballysaggart. Time 9ish. Tables of four €40.

SYMPATHY The Juvenile GAA Club would like to offer their sympathy to the family and relatives of Paddy Fitzgerald, Glengarra, Lismore whose death occurred at the weekend.

Ballysaggart CLUB LOTTO Draw Tuesday, 3rd March: Numbers drawn were 3, 12, 22 and 23. No Jackpot winner.

Winners of €20 each: P. J. O’Donnell, Jennifer Meagher and Michael Ryan.

Draw – Tuesday, 10th March: Numbers drawn were 1, 14, 18 and 21. No Jackpot winner.

Winners of €20 each: Patrick Higgins, Iarlaith Meagher and Tom Walsh, Seemacudda. Next Lotto draw on Tuesday, March 17th – Jackpot €7,125.

FITZGIBBON CUP Well done to UL and club player Stephen

Bennett and his team-mates who were victorious in the Fitzgibbon Cup final reply last Wednesday in Cork.

WATERFORD TRIUMPH OVER ANTRIM The Waterford senior hurlers were against Antrim in Walsh Park last Sunday and had a resounding win in the latest round of the 1B hurling league. Well done to Stephen Bennett who with a score of 1-4 played a big part in their success. Next they face Wexford away this Sunday with a win seeing them back in the 1A rank next season.

LADIES FOOTBALL NOTES U-14 CHAMPIONSHIP Congratulations to Waterford who beat Tipperary by 4 pts. in the first round of the championship. The club is delighted to have club player Leanne Landers on the panel.

U-16 CHAMPIONSHIP Again Congratulations to the U-16 Waterford team who were successful on Sunday when they beat Limerick in the first round of the Championship. The match finished on a scoreline of 6-6 to 1-8.

Again the club is proud of club player Shona O’Regan who’s on the panel. We wish Shona and Leanne all the best in the rest of the Championship.

U-16 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP The girls have been training hard over the past number of weeks with the first round of the championship scheduled for next weekend.

Date, time and venue to be confirmed. Please contact any club officer for further information on the match schedule.

CONFIRMATION Congratulations to all our girls in the club who recently received the Holy Sacrament of Confirmation.

CONGRATULATIONS The club would like to congratulate local business Roche’s on being 21 years in the tyre business. Roches are kind sponsors of the Ladies Junior Football Club. The club would like to wish them continued success, health and happiness in the future.

Lismore (KINDLY SPONSORED BY EAMONN'S PLACE) SYMPATHY Lismore GAA Club offer their sympathy to the family and extended relations of Paddy Fitzgerald whose death took place over the weekend. May he rest in peace.

LISMORE CLUB LOTTO Due to notes being sent in early to the editors of the local papers we are not able to make available to the public, the lotto numbers drawn on Monday evening. However, they will be printed on next week’s notes.

SOCIAL EVENING March 16th, 2015, we held our social evening in Eamonn’s Place, again there will be a write up next week, so stay tuned.

Kilmacthomas Kilmacthomas UNDER 21 FOOTBALL EASTERN SEMI-FINAL Last Monday night, we played Portlaw in the semi-final of the under 21 football championship in Kilmacthomas under lights. We were slow to start as Portlaw are not a bad team. In the second half, we found our scoring range and came away with a win on a score of Kilmacthomas 2-12 to Portlaw 1-11.

CLOTHES COLLECTION We are still collecting any unwanted clothes.

They can be left into the field. Thanks again for your support.

ST. DECLAN’S COLLEGE Well done to St. Declan’s hurling team in getting into the All-Ireland final as they beat Ballymena School last Saturday in extra time.

This was a great team effort. Well done to the Ballyduff Lower players. Also on the panel were Johnny Long and Alan Fitzsimmons.

DEISE DRAW The Deise Draw will be in full swing again this month. Myself and the rest of the committee will be asking everyone in the club to buy a ticket this year. It is a great way to make funds for their club and a chance to win big money. So, lads don’t be shy, it is only €10 a month, you won’t miss it, think of the club.

MEMBERSHIP We are calling on all players to pay their membership as soon as possible. It is most important for the insurance. Remember no pay no play.

CHALLENGE MATCH Last week we had a very good challenging match against a Kill/Fenor team. It was a very close game and very sporting. We had a lot of young players on the night who did themselves justice. We will be having a few more challenge games in the coming weeks in the build-up to the championship as we will be playing Bonmahon in the first round, who have a very good team this year.

UNDER 16 FOOTBALL We had a great win in the under 16 football championship against St. Mollerans last week.

We had some outstanding players on the day but every player and substitute gave it their all.

Mickie Fitzgerald got a peach of a goal.

UNDER 21 FOOTBALL EASTERN FINAL On Monday, the 16th March we play St. Mary’s in the Eastern final in Waterford starting time 7.30 p.m. We are expecting to have a very strong team for the game. We know St. Mary’s will be favourites for the final. We will give it a right good go and hope for the best. The club wishes you all the best of luck on the night. I hope we will have the right result. Up the village!

KILMACTHOMAS JUVENILE UNDER 8 GO GAMES FOOTBALL Our under 8's took part in the Go Games football blitz at Carriganore on Saturday morning. We played against Na Gaeil, Cappoquin and Ballinacourty. Well done to all the team - they had great fun. Training continues on Monday evenings at 5 pm in the Rainbow Hall.

Brickey Rangers Brickey CAMOGIE NOTES Under 14 and under 16 training has now moved outdoors. All players to be togged out and meet at the hurling wall at 6.15 p.m. New players welcome, and any parent who wishes to give a hand even if it's just for one hour do let the coaches know.

JUVENILE NOTES UNDER 8 The under 8's will start their coaching season this Saturday at 10.30 a.m. New players welcome. The boys and girls train until 12 noon. We ask that each child brings a drink, gumshield, we would like to see all children wear shin-guards for both codes, and if they have a Hurley and helmet bring them along also. The training session is divided into two, football for 45 minutes and hurling for 45 minutes. Parents please mark all your child's gear and equipment clearly with their names.

UNDER 10 Training each Friday at 6.15 p.m. in Bushy Park.

UNDER 12 &14 Training each Monday and Friday at 6.45 p.m.

UNDER 13 CHAMPIONSHIP We played Stradbally in the first round of this championship on Sunday last in Bushy Park.

Some of these boys had never played championship previously and all of them stepped up to the mark. The home team came away with a victory. Well done to all.

UNDER 16 CHAMPIONSHIP After a few false starts on the previous two Sundays due to the poor weather, it was a relief to get a bit of dry weather to ensure that the game away to Clann Na nGael would go ahead. The boys played well and came out with a win. Well done to all.

COACHING On Wednesday, 18th March in Kilrossanty an under 12 and 14 Gaelic football play and tactical session will be hosted by the Games Development. All are welcome to attend and

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The games development will also host a hurling coaching session on Saturday, 21st March in Fraher field at 11 am. As with previous no booking necessary. We would encourage all coaches to attend.

HELMET ORDER An order for helmets at a subsidised rate is being placed this week. All those who have placed their orders will get first preference.

Please let Joanie know on 0872310220 if you wish to place an order.

LOTTO The lotto draw with a jackpot of €2,800 too place last Thursday in the Local Bar. There was no winner on the night. The €25 winners were Jamie Tobin, Kate Lenane, Kieran Mulligan and Teresa Daly. This week’s draw will take place in the Enterprise Bar with a jackpot of €2,950.

SYMPATHY The sympathy of the club is extended to Mary Shalloe and family, Ballintaylor on the death of her father Michael Nugent and to Grace Scanlan and family, Coolahest on the death of her father, Pat O'Malley. May they rest in peace.

An Coilligean/Na h-Emmetigh CLUB LOTTO There was no winner of the “Black & Amber” club lotto held in Quills Master McGrath Bar on Monday 9/3/2015. The Numbers drawn were 1, 2, 16 & 20. The €20 lucky ticket winners were as follows: Pa & Eibhlin Drohan, Biddy Foley, Eileen Keane, Michael McKenna. Last Monday (16/3) night’s jackpot was worth €3,700.

WESTERN INTERMEDIATE HURLING LEAGUE FIXTURE Our first competitive hurling game of the year will an opening round league game away to Shamrocks. Fixture details are as follows: Please Note official Notice Fixture For Your Club Iomaint Idirmheanach League: Na Seamroga V An Coillegaein at Knockanore 11.30 a.m.

Sunday, 29th March. Other teams in our group include, Ballinameela, Geraldines, Ballysaggart and Brickey Rangers.

FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES The first lot of Football Championship fixtures were released by the Western Board over the course of the last week. We will be fielding two football teams this year, one in Junior (Premier) and one in the Junior (Intermediate Attached) section, the details are as follows: Please note Official Notice Fixture For Your Club Peil Soisear Premier (Round 1) Na h-Emmetaigh V Na Seamroga at Claismhor 7.30 pm Saturday, 11th April. Please Note Official Notice Fixture For Your Club Peil Soisear Intermediate Attached: Baile Na Cuirte V Na h-Emmetaigh at Bushy Park 7.30 pm Friday, 17th April.

Please Note Official Notice Fixture for Your Club Peil Soisear Premier (Round 2): Na hEmmetaigh v Madh dheilge at Pairc Ui Fhearichair 2 pm Sunday, 19th April.

MINOR FOOTBALL Naomh Bríd Minor footballers (assisted by St. Pats) return to action this weekend as they face An Ghaeltacht (away) in their penultimate group game. This game is scheduled for Sunday morning next (that’s March 22nd), but is most likely to change to Saturday, please check elsewhere in this issue for details, or else check out the St. Pats Juvenile GAA Club Facebook page. Our remaining group game will be at home to St. Saviour’s on Sunday, April 5th at 11:30 am in Colligan.

INTER-COUNTY ACTIVITY Well done to our own clubman Colin Dunford who had another impressive game as Waterford senior hurlers maintained their unbeaten record in Division 1(B) of the Allianz NHL following a facile win over Antrim at Walsh Park last Sunday afternoon. All roads lead to Wexford Park this Sunday as Waterford and Wexford will battle it out to see who earns promotion to the top flight for next season, throw-in is at 2.00 p.m. Here’s wishing Colin and all involved the best of luck for this vital game.

UNDERAGE ACTIVITY Naomh Bríd (assisted by St. Pat’s) had two teams in action on Sunday last at the Modeligo venue. The U-16 Footballers put in a powerful display to overcome a much fancied Ballinacourty outfit by 2-8 to 2-5 in the Division 1 Championship clash. This was a great results considering the lads first game was postponed.

Next up is another home tie against Dungarvan on Sunday, March 29th at 11.00 a.m. Elsewhere the U-13 footballers began their Division 2 Championship campaign with a good win against St. Oliver’s.

Glenrovers Melleray Glenrovers Melleray ANNUAL CLOTHES COLLECTION The annual clothes collection will take place on Saturday, 21st March. This is a very valuable fundraiser for the club so we would be grateful of any contribution. We had a fantastic response

The successful Cois Bhride U-14 team that beat Fr. O’Neills in Knockanore in The Tobin Cup.

last year and would be hoping for something similar this year. We will accept many items including clothing, footwear (in pairs only)curtains, bed clothes, mobile phones, laptops, etc.

So get busy, have that clean out you have been avoiding for so long and fill those bags … if for any reason that you cannot make the Collection point in St. Mary’s Community Hall in Melleray between 1.00 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. Prior arrangements can be made with any committee member to arrange collection from your home; thanking you all in advance.

DEISE DRAW TICKETS These tickets are now available for purchase from the club, priced at €10 for monthly draw or €80. Prizes include 1st prize: €10,000; 2nd prize €3,000; 3rd prize €1,500; Prizes 4 – 11: €250 each. Tickets can be purchased from any committee member. First Draw will take place on Friday, 27th March, 2015.

TRAINING/FIXTURES Football challenge v. Geraldines in Aglish on Sunday morning at 12.00 noon. Players to meet in Cappoquin G.A.A Grounds on Sunday at 11.00 a.m., full attendance is expected.

Peil Soisear Intermediate Attached Round 1: Melleray Glenrovers v. Kilgobinet in Colligan at 7.30 p.m. Friday, 17th April.

Training times will be communicated to players during this coming week.

The Annual Golf Classic will be taking place shortly, dates to be confirmed in the coming weeks, this was a fantastic success last year and we would hope to have great support this year also, details to follow….

Abbeyside/Ballinacourty Abbeyside/Ballinacourty JACK THE JOKER Our ever popular Jack the Joker fundraiser continues this Sunday night in Alice O’Connor’s Bar where the jackpot is €5,400. On Sunday night last Elaine Mulcahy was drawn out and chose card number 35 which wasn’t the Joker although he did win €50. Pat Walsh and Nora Tobin won €25 each. As well as our group of ticket sellers tickets can be purchased from Convinience Store Ballinroad, Village Flowers, Spar, Mousies Takeaway, Minnies Bar and Crotty’s Corner Bar. UNDER 21 FOOTBALL Our under 21 footballers defeated Dungarvan in the Western Championship on Friday night last in Fraher Field which qualified them for the Western Semi-Final against Comeragh Gaels.

This game took place on St.Patrick’s Day and we will have a report on it for next week’s notes.

Team: K. DWANE, J. DUGGAN, B. LOOBY, S. O’GORMAN, C. McCARTHY, E. BERGIN, C. McCARTHY, C. PRUNTY, J. ELSTEAD, D. LOOBY, M. MAHER, D. SWEENEY, M. COLEMAN, S. CLIFFE, L. POWER. Subs: N. MONTGOMERY, C. DWYER, R. CONWAY, E. KIELY, S. O’CONNOR SENIOR FOOTBALL On Saturday our Senior Footballers played De la Salle in the County League in De la Salle where they recorded a three point win. This Saturday they play The Nire in Abbeyside at 3 pm.

DEISE DEVELOPMENT DRAW AND CLUB DEVELOPMENT FUND Tickets for the 2015 Deise Development Draw are currently on sale throughout the parish and we once again appeal to all our loyal supporters to please come on board and support the draw as not only do you have the opportunity to win some wonderful prizes but the draw is also a source of vital income for the club. Tickets can be obtained from any Committee member and we will be calling to the houses of the parish over the next number of weeks promoting the draw.

Also the club are continuing on with our Development Fund the Club 300 initiative. This was a wonderful success for the last 5 years and we hope that it will get the same great support this year. The money raised over the last 5 years enabled us to carry out all the Development work that has taken place in the field and we hope to be in a position to carry on with further development work in the not too distant future. In order to do this we require the support of the community and we appeal to all those of you who are position to join the 300 Club to do so and help us to provide the very best facilities for our Juvenile and Adult Players in the years to come.

MEMBERSHIP We would ask all players to please make an effort to get their membership fees paid as soon as possible as any player who suffers an injury in training or matches is not covered by insurance unless they have paid their membership.

Membership can be paid to Kevin Tobin or Pa Enright.

BOOKING OF FIELDS With a number of teams starting back training we would like to remind all team managers to please ensure that they book the field with Michael O’Donovan prior to training.

CLUB BINGO Our Club Bingo will continue this Sunday night in the CBS Hall where the jackpot is €1,150.

JUVENILE SECTION Outdoor hurling: Our outdoor hurling sessions continue again on Saturday morning, the 21st March at our club grounds. These sessions will include under 6, 7 and 8s and will run from 10.30 to 11.30. Our under 9 team will train between the time of 11.30 and 12.30 at our wall ball. All are welcome to attend and it would be great to see some new faces. Helmets will be available to buy at a discounted rate at these sessions.

Under 10, 11 and 12: The under 10 team will train between the time of 6 and 7 on a Friday evening at the wall ball and the under 11 team between 7 and 8 on a Friday night. Our under 12 team will train between 7 and 8 on a Wednesday night again at the wall ball. Again all are welcome to attend.

Membership: Just to let everyone know that membership for the current year is now due.

Mentors for each group of players now have membership forms and there also available if needed from Niamh Enright. We ask all players that this membership is paid as soon as possible for insurance reasons.

Recycling: There will be a clothing recycling drive in aid of Abbeyside/Ballinacourty Juvenile Club for the next two Saturdays. Please drop off all items at the clubhouse between 10.00 am to 12.30 pm on Saturday, March 21st. They can be

dropped at the clubhouse between 10.00 am and 3.30 pm on Saturday March 28th also. Please donate all your clean unwanted clothes also bed linen, towels, curtains, shoes, bags, belts and soft toys. Wearable clothes will be recycled and reused and other items will be recycled for items, such as, industrial wipes or soundproofing.

Laptops (must be intact with lead) also mobile phones are accepted but please keep separate.

No household bric a brac. If you cannot make it to the clubhouse on the day, please contact Audrey (087-6987388) or email (clonea@me.com) before the 28th March to make arrangements for collection of items.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FINAL DAY OF THIS FUNDRAISING DRIVE WILL BE SATURDAY, 28th MARCH and all items donated would be gratefully accepted.

Under 13 and 14: We kicked off the season for the under 14 football team on Sunday morning the 8th March with a good display against Ring. We played some good open football and ended up deserving winners. Our next game in this competition is against Clashmore. We all wish D. J. Kiely a speedy recovery as he broke his wrist during this game.

Meanwhile our under13 football side played their first game of the championship over the weekend going down in a close match to a stronger Nire team.

Under 16: Our under16 football team played their second game of the county championship on Sunday morning last against St. Pat’s. On the day our team never really got going and lost out to a stronger more determined St. Pat’s side on the day.

Minor Football: This Sunday morning we play Gaultier in Abbeyside at 11 am in the County Championship.

The Cois Bhride U-14 winning Captain Dean Beecher accepting The Tobin Cup from Billy Tobin.

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Cois Bhride KINDLY SPONSORED BY CUNNINGHAM'S HARDWARE, TALLOW Last Saturday, 14th March, our U-14 hurlers were in Knockanore to take on Fr. O’Neill’s in the Tobin Cup, an annual event held by The Shamrocks club and our lads were delighted to be involved this year, so much so, that they were on top form for the day!! After a great display of hurling they came out on top with an emphatic win over their Cork rivals, with a final score of Cois Bhride 5-4; Fr. O’Neill’s 0-7. Well done to all involved.

Our U-10 footballers had a game in Tallow the same evening and despite playing very well, they just lost out to Ballyduff. Knockanore NS were in action last Tuesday, 10th in Lismore, against Garranbane NS and came out on top to win the Schools Mini 7’s Western Title. This was a huge achievement as it’s the first time in the history of the school that they have won this, and they are now in The County Final on Friday, 20th, so best of luck to everyone there!

UPCOMING FIXTURES, SUNDAY 22nd MARCH Ardmore at 11:30 am, Minor Football (Div. 2/Group 2) Deuglan Naofa V Cois Bhride.

Tallow at 11 am, West U-14 Football (Div. 2) Cois Bhride V Naomh Carthaigh Abbeyside at 11 am, U-10 Football Abbeyside V Cois Bhride.

Clais Mhór/Cionn Mhór/Cionn Clais tSáile Beag tSáile MINOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Our Minor Footballers are due to play their last game in the Division 2 championship on this Sunday morning when they square up to Brickey Rangers at Bushy Park at 11.30 p.m. which is a must-win game if they are to have any hope of progressing to the knockout stages of this competition. So we urge as many of our supporters as possible to go along to cheer our players over the line in this one and the very best of luck to players and backroom team in this match.

COUNTY FOOTBALL LEAGUE Our Senior Footballers were due to play St. Declan's, Ardmore on Saturday last in the County Football League but unfortunately the opposition conceded a walkover in this game which is a shame because everyone needs as much game time as possible at this time of year. The next round of this competition is due to be played on Saturday when our lads are pencilled in to take on Rathgormack at Clashmore at 3.00 p.m. so hopefully they can pick up some points here but please keep an eye on our Facebook page in case of fixture changes.

DEISE DEVELOPMENT DRAW The Deise Development Draw for 2015 is almost upon us with the first draw due to take place on Friday week, March 27th, so not much time to get signed up for this year's draw. There have been some changes made to the draw with the cost of entry now being reduced to €80 and the prizes have also been improved dramatically this year with a total prize fund of €16,500 every month, including a 1st prize of €10,000, a second prize of €3,000 and a third prize of €1,500! For anyone interested in signing up this year you can expect your usual draw promoters to be calling on you during the week or alternatively you can contact Billy O'Halloran on 087-2671090 or Tim Bourke on 086-8565600 to get signed up. Also we can cater for anyone who wishes to pay on a monthly basis or indeed anyone who would prefer to set up a monthly direct debit so whatever your payment preference we can look after you.

For those that have signed up already we thank you sincerely for your fantastic support of the club.

Modeligo Modeligo MODELIGO GAA CLUB'S VICTORY SOCIAL All roads lead to Dungarvan on Saturday night next, March 21st for our Victory Social, which will take place in The Park Hotel. Music for the occasion will be provided by up and coming band "The Buachaill's", with dinner serving and the night’s events starting at 7.30 pm sharp.

However, please be advised that tickets are moving fast and are down to the last remaining few as there has been a big demand following the success of the hurling and football campaigns of 2014.

And of course, following on from that success, the feature of the night will be the presentation of the medals for both the Western Intermediate Hurling League and Western Junior Premier Football League, along with the Western, County and Munster Junior Hurling Championship medals to all the players who were part of our squad. It really promises to be a brilliant night so be sure not to miss out on what is going to be another great occasion for this club.

As I said, tickets are getting scarce, but are still available priced at €30 but only by ordering and paying on collection from the following; .....

Tom O'Byrne (086) 3605202.

John Fitzgerald (087) 7696510.

Dolores Reddy (087) 6504774.

Please note that there will be NO TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE NIGHT ITSELF and MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE !!!

DEISE DRAW 2015 The club now have tickets available for the 2015 series of Déise Draws, which were launched by the County Board recently. The draws have been restructured to see the monthly prizes now up for grabs over eight draws; that's eight draws over eight months at just €10 per month, but the list of prizes is just as enticing as ever! ● First prize each month is €10,000! ● Second prize is €3,000. ● Third prize is €1,500. ● There are then eight monthly cash prizes of €250, as well as Special and Bonus prizes along the way.

The Déise Draw has been a huge success in this county for many years now and it is not surprising that it is always so well supported since 70% of sales made are returned to your local club. So not only are you giving yourself a chance of winning a fantastic prize each month, but you are also supporting our own local GAA Club in the process. All members of the club committee have tickets available for sale, or alternatively, contact any of the player's and they will point you in the right direction. However, the first draw takes place on Friday night, March 27th so secure your tickets as soon as possible!

MODELIGO 2014 HIGHLIGHTS DVD The club still has a few copies of the brilliant DVD, "Modeligo 2014" which captures all of the Key moments on our Journey to becoming Western, County and Munster Junior Hurling Champions. The DVD also includes pre and post Munster Final commentary from key club personnel and players who share their thoughts on the greatest year in the history of the club as well as footage of the Modeligo National School Children singing their song “The Best Team Ever.” Copies of the DVD are still available at a cost of €20 from Club Treasurer, John Fitzgerald on (087)7696510 or alternatively by contacting any of our players or committee members. The DVD is a once only opportunity to obtain a fantastic keepsake of the club's achievements so if you haven't already done so, get yourself a copy and do not miss out as there will be no further orders taken once they are gone.

MUNSTER UNDER 21 FOOTBALL Commiserations to the Waterford U-21 footballers as they were heavily beaten in the Munster Championship on Wednesday night last (11/3/15) away to Clare in Miltown Malbay.

Modeligo had two lads involved with the Deise squad, namely Michael Troy and Tom Devine.

COMERAGH GAELS U21 FOOTBALL The Under 21 footballers of Comeragh Gaels will next be in action on St. Patrick’s morning when they play Ballinacourty in the Western "A" championship Semi-Final. The Gaels, consists of lads drawn from the Colligan; Kilgobinet; Modeligo and Sliabh gCua adult clubs, advanced to a Semi-final courtesy of a four point win and an all round good display in the opening round against Dungarvan. Best wishes to everyone involved with the squad.

Clashmore/Kinsalebeg Clashmore/Kinsalebeg Juveniles Juveniles U-16 FOOTBALLERS DEFEATED IN FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Our U-16 footballers put in a fantastic display in defeat to De La Salle last Sunday morning in Gracedieu. The lads got some great scores and only conceded six scores in the entire game.

Sadly, four of those scores were goals and they were to prove our undoing in the end as we lost by a point, 4-02 to 0-13.

So a gut wrenching defeat but the lads should be proud of their efforts and should remain confident of getting results down the line to hopefully qualify us for the knockout stages. We play Gaultier at home on Sunday March 29th and we will be hoping to get a result in this game.

Squad: Finn O'Sullivan, Niall Kenefick, Danny O'Mahony, Jack Ryan, Sam Fitzgerald, Isaac O'Sullivan, Eoin O'Halloran, Kyle Roche, Dean Russell, Caelin Rooney, Luke Seward, Cuan Ryan, Brian Lynch, Simon Lombard, Jim Scanlon, Tom Fleming, Ciarán Tompkins, Luke Coughlan, Adam Lombard, Ruairí Hynes.

CHILD PROTECTION AWARENESS COURSE - MONDAY, MARCH 23RD The club will be running a Child Protection Awareness course in conjunction with Waterford Coaching and Games next Monday 23rd in the Clubhouse at 7.00 p.m. This course is essential for anyone working with juveniles and minors in any capacity in the club and is well worth doing.

Places have to be booked in advance so for more information please contact Mary O'Halloran on 085-7237948 or John Foley on 087-7404589.

COACHING WORKSHOPS Waterford Coaching and Games are running a number of free coaching workshops over the next few weeks and these are sure to be popular with anyone involved with juvenile teams. These workshops begin tonight (Wednesday 18th) with

a session covering Gaelic Football - U12/14 Play and Tactical Prowess which takes place in Kilrossanty GAA club and will be run by Brian Lotty, a highly respected coach from Cork.

Then this Saturday 21st in Fraher Field at 11.00 a.m., Kilkenny All-Ireland winner and St. Kierans College coach Michael Rice will take a practical session covering Hurling Games Based Coaching for U13-16's. Both of these will be excellent chances for coaches to develop their skills and are completely free of charge thanks to Waterford C&GD. Any club members interested please just come along on the day/night.

Dungarvan UNDER 21 FOOTBALL BALLINACOURTY 0-15; DUNGARVAN 0-4.

Our under 21 footballers’ interest in this year’s Western under 21 championship was terminated by local rivals Ballinacourty at the Fraher Field last Friday evening. We contested the game well in the first half trailing by just 0-6 to 0-2 at the break but Ballinacourty dominated the second half to run out deserving winners and qualify for the championship semi-final. Our scorers on the night were Gavin Power 0-2, and Patrick and Cathal Curran 0-1 each.

Team : Craig Barry; John Havens, Darragh Fitzgerald, Jack Lacey; Aidan Kirwan, Kieran Power, Lee Donnolly; Cathal Curran, Joe Allen; Gavin Power, Michael Kiely, Fionn Hallahan; Glen Power, Rian Crotty, Patrick Curran. Subs: Eamonn Ryan, Luke Rossiter, Mark Power.

UNDER 16 FOOTBALL GAULTIER 1-13; DUNGARVAN 0-8 Played at home last Sunday morning we were well in contention until the last quarter when Gaultier got a late goal and some points to deservingly win this Round 2 game. Our next game is away to Naomh Brid on Sunday, March 29th.

Team: Daniel Kiely; Conor Duggan, Gary Donnolly, Dion Keohan; Colm O’Shea, Mick Devine, Kealan Daly; Shaun Murray, Luke O’Callaghan; John Devine, Brendan Cullinane, Conor Sheehan, Willie John O’Shea, Ronan Geoghegan, John Power. Subs: Jonathon Houlihan, Seanie McGrath.

MINOR FOOTBALL Our minor footballers play their fourth game in the championship this Sunday, March 22nd at home to Kilmacthomas at 11.30 a.m.

SARGENT CUP Our first game in the Sargent Cup/ County Senior hurling league will be away to Abbeyside on Saturday, March 28th at 3 p.m.

TRAINING IN FIELD The club’s instructions not to do shuttle runs training on pitch fell on deaf ears by one group last week and the field was left in a terrible state after all the rain on Thursday, which necessitated a Bord Na nOg game being called off the following day. This is a total lack of respect for our fields and the responsibility is with everyone to ensure that this type of disrespect for our facilities does not happen.

MEMBERSHIP March is drawing to a close and all members are reminded that the end of the month is the cutoff point with Croke Park for official membership for the year. Club membership can be given to Eileen Murphy, Mary Fitzgerald, Oran Curran and team managements.

DEISE DRAW The March Deise Draw is only one week away and your support for this important fundraiser for the club is earnestly requested.

Tickets can be purchased from our draw co-ordinator Catherine Lyons or any member of the committee.

HAPPY EVENT Congratulations to Trish and Ger Silke, The Paddock, Kilrush on the birth of their baby boy Ronan recently.

SYMPATHY The club extends its sincere sympathy to Cathy Roche, Silversprings on the death of Jim Power last week. Jim was our AA Security man in the club grounds and both Alex and Luke have played with us. A minutes silence was observed as a mark of respect before our under 21 football game against Ballinacourty and the flags were flown at half mast in our club grounds last weekend.

LOTTO This week’s numbers are 11, 13, 20 and 29.

The jackpot was not won. Next week’s lotto is worth €7,400. The winner of the €100 was Heather Sheehan c/o Bingo. Thanks to everybody who buys and sells the lotto.

SliabhgCua/St. gCua/ Sliabh St. Mary's Mary's CONGRATULATIONS TO DENIS & ANNA The club would like to send their extreme congratulations to Denis, Anna and Grace Coffey on the birth of their son/brother Cormac during the week. The Coffeys have always been a major stronghold of the Sliabh gCua/St. Mary’s GAA Club and we’re delighted to see a new generation come on board. We would like to wish Cormac &

Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015 family, all the happiness and good fortune they deserve for the future.

CLUB NOTES/FACEBOOK/TWITTER UPDATES Please note that if anyone would like news/information included in our Club Notes/Facebook/Twitter Updates, they can do so by: Tel/Txt: 087 9634993, E-mailing - sliabhgcuapro@hotmail.com or by private message through facebook DEISE DRAW The first Deise draw of 2015 commences this month. It is vital to the club that you support the draw as its one of the club’s biggest forms of income each year. From March–October, you can be in with a chance of claiming top prize of €10,000 each month. Second prize is €3,000, third prize is €1,500. There will be eight further prizes of €200. Total prize money is €16,100. Also to anyone who joins this year, you will receive a 15% discount at any Elvery’s Sports Stores, redeemable with your ticket receipt. This is a fantastic opportunity for all sports fans. Tickets are available from all committee members. Your entry can now be made easier via the direct debit scheme, should you want to pay your €10 via direct debit, have no hesitation in contacting Tom Condon (087) 4161773 or Brendan Tobin (087) 2701947.

SLIABH gCUA LOTTO The Sliabh gCua lotto was won on successive weeks recently. Conor O’Mahoney claimed a tidy €2,100 on week ending March 1st, and Tom Foley was the lucky winner of €200 the following draw. We would like to congratulate Conor & Tom on their good fortune.

Tickets can be purchased at all local retail outlets or from any GAA committee member for €2.

We along with the Community Centre appreciate your support.

THE LATE JOHNNY TOBIN A shadow of gloom was cast over the Sliabh gCua area last Sunday when news of the unexpected death of Johnny Tobin, Reanadampaun filtered through the parish. On the eve of Johnny’s death, he had spent it celebrating his 80th birthday with his family and friends. Having worked hard all his life, Johnny was renowned for his farming and building skills where some of his techniques were unique. A legend has been taken from us, but memories of Johnny will never be forgotten by those who knew him. We would like to offer our extreme condolences to Padge, Brendan, Helen, Kate, Kelly and the broadened Tobin family whom are highly respected on the GAA front.

Brendan is current Chairman of the Sliabh gCua/St. Mary’s GAA Club and also Port Lairge delegate of the Munster Council. Kate has acted as secretary of our “Friends of Sliabh gCua” committee for the previous two years. Johnny’s grandsons, Dermot, Tom & Conor are permanent fixtures on our club’s team sheet, Conor being Sliabh gCua 2015 captain. Our deepest sympathies to the Tobin family at this sad time.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anam.

U-21 COUNTY DUTY Tom Tobin and Eoin Kearns have been part of the U-21 Waterford hurling trial panel that have been playing senior clubs in challenges recently.

The club is proud to be represented and we wish you the best of luck here-on.

ST. MARYS NATIONAL SCHOOL “BOOK RENTAL SCHEME” FUNDRAISER We would like to urge everyone to come along to Touraneena Community Centre this Saturday night in support of the “Book Scheme” for Touraneena National School. Local band ‘Rattle the Boards’ will perform with the acclaimed Des Dillon also in attendance. Like every GAA club, it all begins at primary level so we will appeal for your generous support towards the Book fund.

Tickets for the highly anticipated night are €15 adult/€10 children and are available at Beary’s Cross stores or Touraneena Post Office. Tickets are also available from Aine Hickey at 087 1342940 & Catherine Cliffe at 083 1402413.

Doors open at 8pm.

INTERMEDIATE HURLING LEAGUE This year’s intermediate hurling league group sees us paired with Modeligo, Ardmore, Tourin & Clashmore/Kinsalebeg. Round 1 begins on the weekend of 27/29th March where we have a bye.

This round will pair Ardmore V Modeligo and Tourin V Clashmore/Kinsalebeg. Round 2 will see St. Mary’s take on neighbours Modeligo in Kirwan Park. The fixture is currently pencilled in for the weekend 24/26th April.

WATERFORD DESTROYS ANTRIM IN WALSH PARK – DIVISION 1B A game that was dominated by Maurice Shanahan and Stephen Bennett’s sharpshooting saw Waterford claim a 4-30 to 0-10 point win over the northern side. Remarkably Shanahan replaced Bennett on ‘42 and went on to score an incredible 2-5 in 28 minutes. Of ‘The Deise’s’ side 4-30, Pauric Mahony pointed six frees in his 0-11 tally, leaving the remaining 4-24 come from open play. Waterford are now in pole position, but will need to be 100% focused on next Sundays clash with Wexford. We would urge you to make the effort to travel to Innovate Wexford Park for a 2.00 p.m. throw-in to support Derek McGrath’s men.

Scorers for Waterford: Pauric Mahony 0-11 (6f); M. Shanahan 2-5; S. Bennett 1-4; T. Devine 1-0; M. Walsh 0-3; P. Prendergast 0-2, J. Dillon

0-2, C. Dunford 0-1, K. Moran 0-1, S. O’Sullivan 0-1.

SLIABH GCUA CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES Peil Idirmheanach: Roinn1: Sliabh gCua V Dungarbhan in Bushy Park at 7.00 p.m. on Sunday, 12th April.

Roinn 2: Sliabh Gcua V Na Geraltaigh in Pairc Ui Fhearichair at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday 19th April.

Please support Sliabh gCua’s intermediate footballers during their campaign.

ABBIE AND BRONAGH STAR IN U-16 WATERFORD VICTORY Congratulations to Abbie Dalton and Bronagh Condon who helped Waterford U-16 footballers to a comprehensive championship win over Limerick on Sunday afternoon. In a 6-6 to 1-8 victory, Waterford already look to be certain contenders for Munster and All-Ireland titles. Well done girls!!

CONGRATS NAOMH BRID/ST. PAT’S In the U-16 football county championship, Naomh Brid came out with a hard earned 2-8 to 2-5 victory over Ballinacourty on Sunday morning. This young team showed huge determination and will no doubt shine throughout the year.

Congrats lads. Likewise, the U-13’s had a convincing win over St. Oliver’s also on Sunday afternoon. A fine performance saw them easy victors on a 3-7 to 1-1 scoreline. Well done lads, great result!!

MINOR FOOTBALL Naomh Brid/St. Pats minor footballers make the short trip to Ring this Sunday morning (March 22nd) where they will take on An Ghaeltacht in championship. Naomh Brid already have two victories from two and will be determined to maintain their winning ways. Throw-in is at 11.30 a.m. in Ring. Please support this inspirational team.

SPRING CLEAN UP The village improvements committee are holding their annual ‘Spring Clean’ this coming Saturday morning (March 21st). All roads leading to Touraneena village will be cleaned of all rubbish. We meet in Touraneena Community Centre at 10.00 until approximately 1 pm and would appreciate your help for any amount of time.

Affane/Cappoquin Affane/Cappoquin CLUB LOTTO The numbers drawn in our Club Lotto for the jackpot prize of €6,600 on Monday, March 9th, were 6, 11,13 and 26. There was no winner. The five €20 consolation prize winners were Frank/Kevin McCarthy, Allen St.; Sham/Sheila Denn, Bawnfoun; Tony McCarthy, Ballinameela; Shane Denn, Modeligo and Claire Meaney, Tourin.This week’s draw was held on Monday, March 16th and the results will appear here next week.

COUNTY SENIOR HURLING C'SHIP FIXTURES Round 1 - Ceapach Chuinn V Liosmhor at An Baile Dubh - 7.00 p.m. - Sunday, 3rd May. Round 2 - Ceapach Chuinn V Cnoc Sion at Pairc Ui Fhearichair - 3.30 p.m. - Sunday, 10th May. THREE TO ANSWER 1. What is the name of Anthony Daly's autobiography?

2. Name the three clubs to be All-Ireland club senior hurling winners?

3. Who was the first Footballer of the year back in 1958?

LAST WEEKS ANSWERS 1. De La Salle were the first Waterford club hurling side to play in Croke Park on St. Patrick’s Day 2009.

2. Pat Spillane, Kerry received nine all star awards.

3. Tony Wall, Tipperary, became the first hurler of the year in 1958.

JUNIOR FOOTBALL FIXTURES Round 1 - Ath Meadhan V Tulach An Iarainn at An Baile Dubh - 7.30 p.m. - Saturday, 11th April.

Round 2 - An Sean Phobal V Ath Meadhan at Bushy Park - 6.00 p.m. - Saturday, 18th April.

WEST U-14 FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES This Sunday, March 22nd, Affane U-14 footballers will play Ballyduff in Ballyduff at 11.00 a.m.

Transport will leave the Sportsfield at 10.00 a.m.

SARGENT CUP FIXTURE Tulach An iarainn V Ceapach Chuinn at Tulach An Iarainn - 3.00 p.m. - Saturday, 28th March.

Tallow LOTTO 7, 11, 20 & 28. No Winner. Consolations: William Kenneally, Denis Martin, Ailish McCarthy, Kathleen Sice. Promoter: Donna Buckley. Next draw Ted’s, March 23rd. Jackpot €2,200.

U-16 FOOTBALL Cois Bhride 2-5; St. Mary’s 2-8.

Our under 16 footballers lost their match against St. Mary’s in Tallow on Sunday morning last. Our next game is Sunday week, 29th March, in Dunhill against Na Gaeil.

Team: Mark Stewart, Charlie Murphy, Ben Aherne, Cian Ryan, Robby Geary, Kieran Crawford, Ian Beecher, Billy Hynes (capt.), Ivan O’Neill, Darragh Buckley, Eoin McGrath, Ciaran Hunt, Liam Motherway, Sean Henley, Padraig Hynes, Michael Condon, Willian Cunningham and Ciaran McCarthy.

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Waterford Camogie Club LISMORE CAMOGIE CLUB Juvenile Presentation night: After a very successful year at under age in 2014 the medal presentation for members of the clubs underage teams will be presented at a function in Rose’s Lounge on this Saturday night March 21st at 7 pm sharp.

Teams being presented on the night are: U-12B Co. Champs, U-14 B Co. Runnersup, U-16B and U-18B Co. Champs.

There will be light food and refreshments with some music on the night. Parents of all children are requested to attend.

Medals presented by the clubs All-Ireland captain Shona Curran. Proceeds starts at 7 pm sharp.

Camogie at the Castle Gardens: Our younger members are invited to play camogie at the Castle Gardens on Easter Saturday, April 2nd at 11 am. All Children playing indoor in Junior/Senior Classes with trainers (Nicola Morrissey and Aoife Hannon) and 1st and 2nd classes with trainers (Emily Heneghan and Olivia Flynn) are invited to play. Parents of all children are expected to attend to watch and support our younger stars. This group of players were invited to play last year and had a great time.

Registration Reminder: Registration for all our members who are in training and playing on the various Co. Teams is now over due and is not covered by insurance due to the new registration system.

Payments to be made to our Treasurer Una Walsh at the Credit Union Tuesday to Thursday or any committee member or trainers.

PORTLAW CAMOGIE We are delighted to be walking in Portlaw St Patricks day parade this year. It is the first time in a number of years that Portlaw have held a parade, the organisers got a great response from all the different organisations in the village to which I'm sure will make it a great day.

Registration due now for all members of club please get it in straight away.

Training times U-6's, U-8's, U-10's & U-12's - Monday evenings 6-7 pm U-14's - Thursdays 6-7 pm U-16 & Juniors Wednesdays 7-8 pm & Saturday mornings 11-12 noon

All new players welcome at any group level.

ROANMORE CAMOGIE CLUB St. Patrick's Day Parade: We wish all our members a happy St. Patrick's day and wish to thank all the girls that walked in the parade with us this year.

Mother’s Day: We would like to take this opportunity to wish all the mothers of our players a belated happy mothers day and thanks for all the help throughout the year.

Adult Team: A big thank you to Rachael Sinnott who was the Roanmore representative at the special presentation by AIB of all last year's championship winners. Hopefully, we can keep up the good work this year. The league is scheduled to commence on early April.

Dates for your diary: The U-14 Championship commences on 14th April.

The U-12 Go Game blitzes commence on Saturday, 18th April.

The U-8 and U-10 Go Game blitzes start on Saturday, 9th May. Encouraging Young Girls to play Camogie: Being involved in sport has many benficial outcomes, from the physical health benefits, higher selfesteem as well as improved school performance due to academic aspirations. Girls who join organised team sports at a young age are more likely to stay physically active as they get older. Roanmore camogie is a well established local club that offers a sporting outlet for girls from ages five to adult.

Our academy for our U10s is a mixture of fun activity based games while teaching the skills of camogie. New members (of all ages) are welcome and over the next few months our girls will be playing fun go-game blitzes against other local clubs.

If you want to find out more about camogie and the Roanmore club then please contact Tim on 086-3053984 for further information or have a look at our Facebook page for information.

DE LA SALLE CAMOGIE CLUB Training: U-8 & 10: On Weds., 18th March at 7 pm indoors in the Presentation Secondary School Hall.

U12 & 14: On Weds., 18th March at 6pm sharp in the WIT Sports Campus Carriganore on

the Astroturf pitch.

U-16,18 & Adult: On Thurs., 19th March at 7 pm indoors in Gracedieu. Week 5 "Aerobic Session". Please bring your towel & water.

Newcomers are always welcome to join in any of our sessions.

Club registration forms to be returned to mentors asap please.

County: Well done to the Waterford Ladies Senior Camogie Squad who played Meath away in Rathoath Co. Meath on Sunday, 15th March in round 3 of the Div 2 National League. Waterford emerged victorious by 4 points on a scoreline of 2-14 to 1-13. Our club girls Beth Carton played half forward and Brianna O’Regan, Goalkeeper. 3 wins from 3 games for this squad.

Next up on Sunday, 22nd March in Round 4 is Kilkenny at home, time & venue tbc. Both teams have won all 3 group games so far, please come along & support our girls.

Fixture: U-18 A Championship round 3 game Waterford V Limerick on Sat., 21st March, time & home venue tbc. Best of luck to our club girls Courtney Healy, Beth Carton & Brianna O Regan who are members of this squad.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone.

Follow all our latest Camogie Club updates on our Facebook & Twitter club pages or on delasallegaa.ie.

GAULTIER CAMOGIE CLUB NOTES Training: Training has recommenced for this season with great success – training times are as follows: U-6, U-7’s and U-8’s – Saturday Mornings at 9.30 am U-9, U-10, U-11 and U-12 – Thursday evenings at 6.15 pm St. Patrick’s Day Parade: All club members who wish to walk in St. Patrick’s Day Parade should meet at The Forum at 11.50 am – parents must sign in their child – please wear club gear if possible.

Charity Blitz: We will host a Charity Blitz next Saturday, 21st March in Ballygunner HC – this is in aid of The Oncology Ward in WRH. We would urge parents of All club members to support this blitz by contributing to the Cake Sale.

Western Board Results Kearney Catering U21 A Football Losers Group Final: Ballinacourty 0-15; Dungarvan 0-4.

Albert McGrath Newsagents U-21 B Football Quarter-Final: Ardmore 4-12; An Ghaeltacht 0-8.

Waterford GAA Results Phelan Cup County Football League Group 1 Rathgormack 2-13; Kilrossanty 2-4 Clashmore Kinsalebeg W/O Ardmore Phelan Cup County Football League Group 2: Gaultier 2-9; St Saviours 0-7 The Nire 5-16; Brickey Rangers 1-7 Ballinacourty 0-12; De La Salle 1-6 John J. Murphy East Under 21 B Football Championship: Kilmacthomas 2-12; Portlaw 1-11 County U-16 Gaelic Football Division 1 Waterford Credit Unions: Gaultier 1-13; Dungarvan 0-8 De La Salle 4-2; Clashmore/Kinsalebeg 0-13 Naomh Brid 2-8; Ballinacourty 2-5 County U16 Gaelic Football Division 2 Waterford Credit Unions:

Brickey Rangers 3-13; Clan na nGael 0-2 County U-16 Gaelic Football Division 3 Waterford Credit Unions: Stradbally W/O Affane St. Mary's Juvenile 2-8; Cois Bhride 2-5 East U-13 Gaelic Football Division 1 & 2 Group 1: Gaultier 5-10; De La Salle 1-1 East U-13 Gaelic Football Division 3: Tramore 4-5; Sacred Heart 0-3 Albert McGrath Western U-21 B Football Championship Knockout: Ardmore 4-12; An Ghaeltacht 0-8 Western U-21 A Football Championship Knockout: Ballinacourty 0-15; Dungarvan 0-4

Nire U-13 team who defeated Ballinacourty in the Western Championship last Saturday evening.

GAA Coaching & Games Development U-14 GAELIC FOOTBALL TRIAL An under 14 football trial will take place on Saturday, 28th March at 11 a.m. in the Fraher Field. All players born in 2001 are welcome to attend. Please send the names of those in your club that will attend, to John Quinn

by Tuesday, 24th March.

REFEREES WORKSHOP A workshop for all existing Referees who wish to referee City League/Town & Country matches will take place on Thursday, 19th March in Lawlor’s. This workshop will go through the main rules and guidelines of City League/Town & Country. All existing referees are requested to attend the workshop which will run from 7 pm-8 pm.

U-11/U-12 MENTOR INFORMATION NIGHTS Information Nights for U11/U-12 Hurling & Gaelic Football mentors will take place in the coming weeks.

These workshops will go through the Respect Programme and guidelines

for mentors and coaches.

Workshops will last 1 hour Tuesday, 24th March Carriganore 7 pm-8 pm Thursday, 26th March Lawlor’s Hotel 7 pm-8 pm CARRIGANORE U-10 GO GAMES 28th MARCH The next Go Games Blitz will take place on Saturday, 28th March. This is an U-10 Gaelic Football Blitz. Clubs wishing to play are asked to confirm entries by Monday, 23rd March. Blitz will start at 11 a.m.

NEW COACHING BOOKLET AVAILABLE Last week we published a coaching booklet that will be very useful to all coaches of children up to 12 years of age including teachers, club / school coaches and club coaches. The booklet contains coaching programmes for skill development and warm ups/movement exercises. The booklet can be purchased for €5 from C&GD staff members.

COACH EDUCATION WORKSHOPS Wed., 18th March Gaelic

Football Team U12-14 Play/Tactical Prowess 6.30pm Kilrossanty, Brian Lotty GAA Tutor Trainer & Cork U-14/15 Manager.

Sat., 21st March Hurling Games Based Coaching U13-U16 Age 11 am Fraher Field, Michael Rice Kilkenny All-Ireland Winner & Coach in St. Kieran’s College.

Sat., 18th April Hurling Games Based Coaching U13-U-16 Age 2 pm Walsh Park, Michael Rice Kilkenny All-Ireland Winner & Coach in St Kieran’s College.

TBC April Gaelic Football Team U-16-Minor Play / Tactical Prowess Bushy Park TBC. All workshops are funded

by Munster Council and Waterford C&GD. There is no cost to coaches to attend these workshops. All club and school coaches welcome to attend.

SUPER GAMES CENTRE The Super Games Centre is up and running again and will take place every Friday in Carriganore from 6-7 p.m.

The Super Games is open to all boys aged 12-16 is run as a Hurling Centre as part of 10 Super Games Centre running across the country. There is no cost to attend please feel free to come along.

GAA COACH EDUCATION WEBSITE The GAA Coach Education website is a very useful resource for all coaches. Information on coaching courses, workshops, presentations from conferences along with session planning templates are all available. The website address is www.learning.gaa.ie & http://learning.gaa.ie/planner/ for the session planners FACEBOOK & TWITTER Don’t forget to join us on Facebook to see all the news and pictures from our latest events. www.facebook.com/waterfordcoaching.

Waterford C&GD is now on Twitter @WaterfordGAACG for all the latest happenings.

Cappoquin Snooker and Billiards Club FITZGERALD IS WILLIE GALLAGHER MEMORIAL CHAMPION Pat Fitzgerald has taken one of the most prestigious tournaments within the club when he was crowned Willie Gallagher champion last week after an fine 4-2 win over Ben O’Keeffe. This was a fine game of snooker with both lads playing some super snooker.

Clubman Rhiney Walsh then said a few words about the man who was Willie Gallagher and told those present about the influence the man had on snooker within the club and his love of seeing the hall full most nights.

Chairman Martin Reddy then congratulated both lads on a fine game before making the presentations to our runner up Ben and then our 2015 champion Pat Fitzgerald with the cup before Pat suitably replied.

This brought to an end another well contested tournament and we congratulate all involved.

O’KEEFFE IS LEAGUE CHAMPION Ben O’Keeffe put the disappointment of losing the Willie Gallagher final behind him when he was in top form in the final of

our MC Strength & Conditioning league decider against Brendan Walsh last week. From the off Ben put down his marker and was soon into his stride as he took the opening frame in fine style and eventually was a deserving 3-0 winner.

FITZGERALD IS BILLIARDS CHAMPION Pat Fitzgerald has claimed our Jack McCarthy Memorial cup for this season after a comprehensive win over Killian O’Sullivan in last week’s final.

After the match Kevin McCarthy Congratulated both lads on a fine game and presented the cup in memory of his late Father to our champion for 2015 Pat Fitzgerald.

AA FIRE SAFETY SCRATCH CUP The draw for this seasons scratch cup took place on Mon night last and again has thrown up some interesting ties. Ben O’Keeffe will be trying for five titles in a row and will face tough opposition on the way. The full draw is as follows Martin McCarthy V Killian O’Sullivan Darren Mason V Brendan Walsh

Winners of both these matches will meet in the first quarter final. The rest of the quarter final draw will see Martin Reddy V John McGrath; Michael Casey V Ben O’Keeffe; Rhiney Walsh V Pat Fitzgerald.

RED BRIDGE BILLIARDS LEAGUE (Sponsored by Aidan Walsh & Sons) We have six entered for our Billiards league which will have a different format this season as we will run it all off on the one

evening. This has always been a very popular tournament with last seasons champion Darren Mason sure to have a big say in the destination of the title again this year. We will hope to run this off within the next two weeks.

NIGHT DUTY Monday, 23rd March, Brendan Walsh/Ben O’Keeffe.

Tuesday 24th: John & Donnacha McGrath Wednesday 25th: David Mason/Jamie Corcoran.

Cappoquin Snooker Club McConnell Fitness Snooker League: Brendan Walsh (Runner-up), Mark McConnell (Sponsor), Ben O'Keeffe (Winner).

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Mason’s Mortgages and Financial Services Colligan League Bridget Roche presents Tom Leahy who finished 1st in Division 2 of the Michael Roche Carpets Series of road races with his prize. Included are Michael, David and Fearghal Roche.

Feargheal Roche presents Mossie Keogh winner of Division 3 in the Michael Roche Carpets Series with his prize.Included are Michael Bridget and David Roche.

David Roche presents divisional winner Catriona Kiely with her prize after the the Michael Roche Carpets Series of road races. Included are Michael, Bridget and Fearghal Roche.

The Shalloe's Mark, Treacy and Triona pictured enjoying the mystery tour night in Doocey's Bar, Ballymacarbry.

THE Mason’s Mortgages and Financial Services Colligan league kicks off Wednesday, 25th March in Colligan wood at 6.30 p.m. It will be the first round of this four week league. Once again Mark Mason of Mason’s Mortgages and Financial Services Cappoquin has come on board as sponsor again this year and the club would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Mark and his family for their generous sponsorship.

Mark has sponsored this league over the past number of years and has always been a most supportive and generous sponsor and we are delighted to be once again be associated with Mark for 2015.

This league is perfect for all in that it caters for every kind of runner and non-runner. You don’t need to be a regular runner to join up, many newcomers start at this league each year and again this year we expect the same trend to follow.

There are three different routes to choose from so we really do cater for everyone.

We guarantee you will surprise yourself with what can be achieved in a short few weeks, and you will never

know what you can achieve unless you come along, so please do give it a go. It’s just €2 each night to enter, you can of course come along any week to partake if you can't make it the first evening and hi don't forget to Bring a friend don’t keep it to yourself.

ROUTE 1 Route 1 is the 2 lap league, this league is recommended for beginners and is all on the flat, and basically you start at the wooden bridge and do 2 loops of the road-wood circuit. All beginners are encouraged to walk and jog a bit and then walk and jog again and before you know it you will have the 2 laps done. The 2 laps is 4km which is roughly 2.5 miles and you will find that as the weeks go by you will be able to run this distance no bother, come on give it a go.

ROUTE 2 The 5 mile league on the flat (as we call it) runners will start in the same place as the Colligan Cup race which is just down from the stone bridge. The runners in the other 2 leagues will start at the wooden bridge and when the whistle goes for those at the wooden bridge the runners will run towards the stone bridge and one person

will be designated to tell the runners for the 5 mile league when to start. The 5 mile runners will then run through the wood and when they get to the wooden bridge they will then have 3 full laps left to do.

The 5 mile league is quite popular and is open to seasoned runners as well as beginners. It might be an idea if you were running the short course at the recently finished Winter league you might consider upping the distance that little bit and giving this routes a bash.

ROUTE 3 For those that feel they want more of a challenge they may opt for the hill route which is also 5 miles in distance but which takes in one hill through the wood and a second hill on the other side of the road from the wooden bridge. This is quite challenging but one which really helps to make you strong and certainly helps to build endurance and stamina.

Runners will start at the wooden bridge, head towards the stone bridge, run through the wood, taking the first hill to you left keeping to the right all the way around you will come back down the hill to the wooded bridge and then head across the bridge over

towards the car park and then up the second hill. The second hill isn’t as steep you’ll be glad to hear and when you are down off the hill its back to the stone bridge and one final lap of the wood which will bring you to the finish. See you on the bridge at 6.30 p.m. on next Wednesday evening.

FORMAT OF THE LEAGUE Over the course of the 4 week’s of the league we will keep a record of each person’s finishing position. If you finish first you get one point, fifth place will earn you 5 points and so on. All runners will be put in to divisions of 5 and after the four weeks the winner of each Division will receive a prize. Prizes will be awarded to those in each route and the divisions make it fun and interesting and all the more enjoyable. The overall winner of the hill league will also receive the Veale Family Perpetual Shield.

DATES OF THE LEAGUE Round 1: March 25th at 6.30 p.m.

Round 2: April 1st at 6.30 p.m.

Round 3: April 8th at 6.30 p.m.

Round 4: April 15th at 6.30 p.m.

"Jacinta's Gang" pictured with sponsor of the 21st Annual Allrounder Sports Winter League Pearse Moloney at the club’s recent Mystery tour night.

Jim and Geraldine Barry pictured at the mystery tour night where the Winter League prizes were awarded.

Margaret Conway, Fiona Ormond and Geraldine Barry pictured at the club’s mystery tour night.

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WEST WATERFORD ATHLETIC CLUB OF THE YEAR 2014

Yevgeniy Chizhikov by a whisker

Overall winner of the club’s athlete of the year competition for 2014 Yevgeniy Chizhikov is presented with his prize by club committee member Liam O’Donnell.

AT the end of a great year of club activities in 2014 the Athlete of the Year competition came down to the wire, it was the closes finish in the history of the competition as only 12 points separated the top 12 club athletes after 12 months of competition. The top three finishers were separated by 3 points that's how close it all was.

The four seasonal winners were Spring Ray Hahesy who finished 2nd overall with 53 points, Summer went to Tom Leahy, Tom finished up 5th overall on the final league table on 46 points with Paschal Proctor taking the Winter season finishing 17th overall with 36 points.

The Autumn season was won by

Yev Chizhikov who also took the overall title as club athlete for the year 2014, Yev finished his year on 54 points just one ahead of Ray Hahesy 53 and Sharon Higgins took 3rd on 52 points.

The popular Yev was a deserving winner in many respects as he has been knocking on the door in this competition for many years now and finally he has taken the crown for 2014.

Yevgeniy Chizhikov 54 Ray Hahesy 53 Sharon Higgins 52 Onra Power 49 Tom Leahy 46 Una Mulligan 43 Ted O'Leary 43

Ann Dunford 42 Liam Kavanagh 42 WEST WATERFORD AC ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 2015 The club’s Athlete of the Year competition for this year which was stated on January 1st is open to all fully paid up members of the club only. This year again as last year we will have quarterly winners, with the first winner being announced after the months of January February and March - Spring quarter 2 will be April, May and June Summer Quarter 3rd July August and September Autumn and quarter 4 October November and December Winter. A Prize will be awarded to the athlete who accumulates the most points in the particular quarter; an

athlete can only win one quarter in a given year. The overall winner of Athlete of the Year will be announced at the end of December this will be the athlete who has accumulated the most points over the entire year of competition, The points system used is one point will be awarded to an athlete who competes for the club in a club organised race and 2 points will be awarded to an athlete who competes for the club in a championship event. Races outside of West Waterford AC club organised races will not count, only club organised races, but of course championships races will count for 2 points no matter where there they take place. Best of luck to all.

Another Marathon down for Eddie CLUB member Eddie Doran has almost reached the half way point in his quest of collecting a finishers race medal from every county in the country, last month he ran a race in Offaly and this Sunday he completed the Tralee marathon in a time of 4.01. One more medal and he will have reached the 16 counties mark and half way in his medal collection challenge.

P.B. for Ted in Tralee Ray Hahesy winner of the Spring quarter of the club’s athlete of the year competition for 2014 is presented with his prize by Liam O'Donnell.

BIG congratulations to club member Ted O'Leary on a massive personal best of 3.22 for the marathon in Tralee last Sunday. Ted one of the clubs prolific marathon runners is in improving with almost every outing over the distance, this was Ted's 3rd marathon in 2015 already and his impressive splits read 1.42.00 and 1.40.30. Well done Ted.

Mallow 10 on next Sunday

Liam O’Donnell presents Paschal Proctor with his prize for winning the Winter quarter of the club’s athlete of the year competition for 2014.

MANY of our athletes will be making the journey to the Mallow 10 which takes place on next Sunday, March 22nd at 12.30 p.m. Online entry is now closed with no entries accepted on race day. Best of luck to all.

Running Quote DO it for yourself, don't listen to anyone's opinion but your own. If you want to do it, do it.

If you don't want to do it, don't.

Nothing can stop you but yourself.

Sympathy

Tony Ferncombe congratulates Tom Leahy who won the Summer quarter of our athlete of the year competition for 2014 athlete of the year competition.

WEST Waterford athletic club extend sincere sympathy to the families and friends of Patrick O'Malley, Boston Park, The Lough, Cork and Michael Nugent Knockanore Co Waterford who passed to their eternal reward recently.

May they rest in peace.

Joe Gough, West Waterford AC, on his way to winning the Men's over 60 800m event, during the GloHealth National Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships in Athlone. Joe bagged three gold medals over 60 at the last Sunday.

[Tomás Greally / SPORTSFILE]

Pictured is Ray Hahessy over 50 who knocked 15 seconds off his best time over 3000 metres at the Glohealth National Masters Indoor Championships last Sunday at Athlone Arena.

Pictured is Harry O’Brien who took gold in the 1,500 metres over 50 at the Glohealth National Masters Indoor Championships last Sunday at Athlone Arena.

Pictured is Terri Gough who brought home 4 gold medals over 65 at the Glohealth National Masters Indoor Championships last Sunday at Athlone Arena.

Success for West Waterford Masters at weekend’s Glohealth National Indoors THE Glohealth national master indoor track and field championships were held last Sunday at Athlone arena and the club had great success on the day.

Terri Gough competing over 70 once again showed how versatile an athlete she is over many disciplines when she took a brilliant 3 gold medals and 2 silver in the 60m in a time of 13.30 collecting a silver, and gold with a time of 49.00 in the 200m, 1.54.51 in the 400m, 4.20.84 in the 800m and 5.96 in the shot for silver again.

The other Gough, Joe this time was also in terrific form competing in the over 65 category when taking 3 gold medals

with ease in the 200m 27.94, 400m in a time of 59.80 and 800m in 2.17.18.

Ray Hahessy in the over 50 ran a very good race to record a new personal of 10.33.17 finishing 8th over 3,000m knocking a huge 15 seconds off his previous best time for this distance.

Des Feeney running in the over 40 category finished 10th in the 800m with a time of 2.11.39. Harry O'Brien struck gold over 50 in the 1,500 metres in an excellent time of 4.36.14.

Yev Chizhikov over 40 was 14th placed finisher in a large field in the 800m in 2.19.77 and in the 200m he finished 12th in 28.92.

Gregory Fitzgerald competed in both the 200m finishing 6th in 26.38 and 400m he clocked 62.55 to take 10th place over 40 among very stiff opposition on the day was outside the medals on this occasion.

Great to see Brendan Moran back to full fitness at these championships, competing in 200 metres Brendan was 4th in a time of 28.17 and in the 60 metres over 55 he went to on to take bronze in 8.27.

A huge congratulations to all and thanks to our track and field co-ordinator Orla Bannon for her work in organising and entering these athletes for the championships.

Meet and Train Group ANOTHER great turn-out for last week's Meet and Train group. Last Tuesday's session was an exercise in pacing and a great opportunity to get a feel for what steady and 10 mile pace feels like without relying on a watch to tell you what pace you are running.

One of our groups were fortunate enough to have the human metronome Ray Burke pacing and he did a superb job without the use of

a GPS, good man Ray well done. For the record 8 minute mile pace is 34 sec's per 100m.

This week's session introduced mixed intervals to the group. Same arrangements each week, meet at the hockey pitch in the Friary.

Registration from 6.10 p.m. and warm-up starts at 6.30 pm sharp.

At this stage everyone who has requested a training

plan has been sent on the details. If you have not received your email please text Irene your email address on 086 8242348 and she will resend it to you.

Can we just remind everyone that for insurance purposes you MUST sign in every evening.

Club Insurance will cover you to try out 3 sessions and then it's time to make the best investment in your health this year

and join the club.

Membership forms are available to download from http://www.westwaterfordathletics.org and can be returned at training next week. Great to see so many enthusiastic runners out on the track on a spring evening. Well done everyone. It's not too late to join us if you have your sights set on a few pbs in the Summer Series just come along next Tuesday

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West Waterford Golf & Country Club Telephone: 058-43216. Fax: 058-44343.

E-mail: info@westwaterfordgolf.com Website: www.westwaterfordgolf.com RESULTS Weekend Club Competition 16 Hole Sfd. 14th/15th March 1st. Max Quinn (13) – 39 pts, 2nd.

Don Downey (19) – 37 pts.

Bonus Draw Prize Winner: Damian O’Donovan.

Tuesday Special Competition – Tuesday, 10th March Cat.1 Malcolm Ashby (20) 19 pts. Cat 2.

Kieran Foley (14) 18 pts.

Cat 3 Stephen Phelan (18) 21 pts.

South East League Results – West Waterford Sunday, 15th March.

Dungarvan 11, Mahon 1.

Youghal 7, Castlemartyr 5.

South East Junior Alliance President’s Prize – Mr. Frank North 1st Liam Brennan 40 pts Callan, 2nd Pat Phelan 40 pts Dungarvan, 3rd. Richard Power 40pts Clonmel, 4th Jim Harty 39 pts Dungarvan, 5th Billy Kennedy 38 pts Ck on Suir, 6th. Jimmy Dunne 38 pts Callan, 7th Dick Lonergan 38 pts Ck-on-Suir, Past President. Jack Elstead 42 pts Dungarvan, Back 9. Pat

Cunningham 21 pts Callan.

Old Still Golf Society 1st.

Vinnie Coonan – 40 pts, 2nd. Robbie Deady – 38 pts, 3rd. Tony Mansfield – 38 pts.

FIXTURES Tuesday, 17th March – Tuesday Special 9 hole – open to all.

Wednesday, 18th March – Open Singles Ladies and Gents Saturday/Sunday March 21st/22nd Club Competition.

Monday, 16th March – Sunday, 22nd March – Winter Lg semi-final matches.

Comeragh Oil Winter League Semi-Finals: Killeagh vs Ballyguiry.

Carrig vs Kinsalebeg.

Matches must be completed by Sunday, March 22nd.

SOUTH EAST SENIOR ALLIANCE CAPTAIN’S PRIZE Congratulations to TW Murphy (pro) who won the Gross with a 73 at Kilkenny GC on March 8th. West Waterford 5 handicapper

You can contact us by phoning 058-44055 Our email address is: goldcoastgolf@cablesurf.com.

Our website is: www.goldcoastgolfclub.com RESULTS Tuesday, 10th March: Open Seniors, CSS 40 pts.

1st: Brendan O’Callaghan (22) 39 pts Fermoy. 2nd: Peter Byrne (22) 39 pts Williamstown. 1st Lady: Miriam Halley (15) 31 pts Cahir Park.

FIXTURES Tuesday, 17th March: Open Seniors, 50+, Ladies and Gents.

Friday, 20th March: Open 18 Holes Stableford.

Saturday, 21st March: Open 3 Man Waltz.

Sunday, 22nd March: Open 3 Man Waltz.

Tuesday, 24th March: Open Seniors, 50+, Ladies and Gents.

Friday, 13th March: 18 Holes Stableford, CSS 40 pts 1st: Micheal White (5) 39 pts Saturday 14th/Sunday, 15th March, Champagne Scramble: 1st: Micheal White (5), Shane Casey (10), John W Walsh (14) 81 pts.

PREMIER BUTCHERS WINTER LEAGUE FINAL The final took place on Sunday last and as always it

was very close and exciting and as the closing stages were reached it got even closer with many matches going down to the 18th hole.

In one particular match both players went round in under par and with both players level after 17 holes. The match was eventually won on the 18th where the players finished with a birdie and an eagle. There was a great buzz among the people watching as the end came closer and with just 2 matches on the course Ballinacourty needed to win both to win the league. There were so many twists and turns in the final that nobody was predicting who was going to win right up to the end. Both matches were on the 18th hole when Tom White sank the winning putt to give the title back to Dunhill. Congratulations to Dunhill and also well done to Ballinacourty who contributed much to a very enjoyable final. Following the final both teams had lunch in the Gold Coast Sports Hotel and this was followed by the presentation of prizes.

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Darragh Herlihy was pipped for Golfer of the Year as hehad to give way to Tony O’Sullivan, Tipperary.

HUGELY SUCCESSFUL WINTER LEAGUE DRAWS TO A CLOSE Hard to believe it’s now been eleven weeks since the Comeragh Oil winter league got underway on December 29th, 2014.

Twenty three teams comprised of 184 golfers set out in quest of the Cole Memorial Trophy and the title of Winter League Champions 2015. After eight weeks of singles qualifying competitions, followed by three weeks of matchplay, the field has now whittled down to the final four teams. The semi-finals will be completed by Sunday, 22nd March with the final scheduled for Sunday, 12th April. Thanks to a mild winter, an excellent course and the cooperation of our loyal members, all rounds to date have been completed on schedule. Comeragh Oil have continued to sponsor the competition down the years and their participation has contributed in no small way to the success of the event. The winter league committee wish to thank the course staff, the team captains and most of all you the players for your continued support. We hope you have enjoyed the experience and look forward to seeing you all at our upcoming Sunshine Classic. To the four semi finalists we say well done

and may the best team prevail in the final.

MOYNIHAN AND HURLEY LEAD IRISH HOPES IN ARGENTINA Four Irish players will travel to Argentina for the Argentine Men’s Stroke Play, which gets underway this Thursday (19th March) at Tortugas Country Club.

“We want a winner. If we get two of them in the top 10, we’ll be doing well,” says Ireland captain Tony Goode, who is understandably bullish about Irish prospects after Gavin Moynihan and Gary Hurley came so close to victory on recent trips to South Africa and Spain.

West Waterford’s Gary Hurley, who lost out on the final green of an epic 36-hole final at the Spanish Amateur at the start of March, will be hoping to go one step further in Argentina. Hurley is now ranked 39th in the world and is the third of three Irish players currently ranked inside the world’s top 50.

Naas’ Jack Hume, 32nd in the world, is also playing in Argentina along with reigning Irish Close Champion John Ross Galbraith.

While in Argentina, the four Irish players will also compete at the Southern Cross Invitational, which takes place at Nordelta from 26th-29th March.

DUNGARVAN SENIOR PAIRS CLASSIC 2015 This highly popular tournament will be played over the three local courses,

Dungarvan, Gold Coast, and West Waterford on April 14th,15th and 16th.

Three different formats in use over the three days – Two Person Rumble, Fourball Betterball and 2 Person Dixie. For more information contact the office at 058 43216.

SUNSHINE CLASSIC MARCH 28TH – APRIL 5TH 2015. – EASTER WEEKEND Easter is fast approaching and so is our annual Sunshine Classic at West Waterford Golf Club. You could be flying to Portugal when you play in our annual fundraising Classic at West Waterford golf club. Once again first prize is a 6 day/5 night holiday in sunny Portugal with golf and B&B included. There are many other valuable prizes including up to 7 visitors winning a full year’s membership to West Waterford golf club. Sixteen teams will qualify for the Grand Final on Saturday, 11th April.

Those who have supported us in previous years will be aware of the West Waterford Welcome and we look forward to seeing you again. To the first timers we invite you to enjoy the experience of playing our course and sample the renowned welcome which has become our trademark.

Time sheets are now posted in the clubhouse or you can book your time by ringing 058 43216.

SUNSHINE RAFFLE In conjunction with our

Classic we are running a raffle in which first prize is a trip for 2 people to the Algarve for 5 nights B&B. The prize includes a €200 voucher towards your travel. If you fancy a week in the sun this is your chance. Many other valuable prizes to be won.

Tickets are now on sale at the club and from classic committee members.

TUESDAY TREAT AT WEST WATERFORD Tuesday golf proved very popular during the Spring/Summer season in 2014. The good news is that we are back with a bigger and better program for 2015. The 13 hole competition is open to members and visitors and we welcome former members and golfers who are presently not members of a club to come along and enjoy a game in friendly surroundings.

It is hoped to add an Open Seniors to our Tuesday program in early April. We look forward to seeing you at West Waterford in the near future.

WEDNESDAY OPEN SINGLES In the lead up to our annual Al Eile qualifier we are holding an Open Singles each Wednesday from 25th February to 25th March. Ladies and Gents welcome. Book online or ring 058 43216 for your reservation.

J. B. CARR TOURNAMENT Manager Sean Wade

wishes to remind eligible 60 plus golfers that there are still a few spaces left on the sign up sheet. Practice for the upcoming first round will commence shortly.

RULES NIGHT AT WEST WATERFORD – APRIL 8th 2015 You are reminded that the GUI Roadshow Rules of Golf night takes place at West Waterford on April 8th.

Open to ladies and gents, members of Dungarvan and Gold Coast are invited to attend.

EASTER CHALLENGE CUP Torpey moves to the top.

Robert Torpey (GSK Sports & Social) moves into the lead by 2 pts on 28 pts.

Former great Karl Duggan holds 2nd position on 26 pts. Dungarvan Soccer player Michael Byrne is in 3rd position on 24 pts.

Dinger holds a good “each way bet” sponsored by the Flynn Group in 4th position on 23 pts.

Full leaderboard on Facebook.

The best two 13 hole cards all the way to Easter Monday.

Easter Run – Month of March Best 2 Cards over 13 Holes, 1st March to Easter Sunday, 5th April.

JUNIOR NOTES Easter Golf Camps: Camp 1: March 31st-April 3rd. Camp 2: 4th-7th April.

Contact Tim 086 3521070 to book your place.

Dunhill: Tom White, Captain, and Nicholas Power, John White, Michael Kavanagh, Micheal White, John W Walsh, Brian Dunbar, Johnny Ryan, Derek Power, Willie Moore, John Queally, Tom Moore and Willie Flavin, Ballinacourty: Bob O’Brien, Donal Coughlan, Mark Lenihan, Lee Crotty, Michael Lenihan, Paddy Walsh, Jerome Maye, Seanie Lenihan, John Hughes, Diarmuid Henley, Pat Murray, Alan Landers and Benny Kiely.

JIMMY BRUEN The Gold Coast are down to play Waterford Castle in a preliminary round match in the Jimmy Bruen Shield and this will take place in West Waterford on Saturday, 25th April at 12.30 p.m. Derek Power is the manager of this team and any wishing to be part of the panel should contact Derek as soon as possible.

RULES NIGHT: The GUI Rules Roadshow is in West Waterford on Wednesday, 8th April at 8 p.m. and all members of the Gold Coast are invited to attend. Last year we hosted the event and for all present it proved to be very beneficial and everyone present learned something new about the rules.

The show is presented by Barry Lynch and Tommy Donnelly, two very experienced referees, and they

present it in a way that simplifies the rules with demonstrations on greens, fairways, roughs and bunkers.

JB CARR TROPHY On Wednesday, 1st April Gold Coast will play West Waterford in the first round of the JB Carr Trophy at the Gold Coast.

SOUTH EAST LEAGUE Last Saturday Gold Coast played Fermoy in East Cork in the second round of the South-East League and once again came out 1 on the 1 wrong side of a 4 ⁄2 to 1 ⁄2 Result. Representing the Gold Coast were the following: Conor Clancy, Dermot Ahern, Declan Kiely, Roy Ware, Brian O’Connor, Brian Fahey, Andy Travers, Austin Kiely Jnr, Austin Kiely, David Mulvihill, Jimmy Beresford, Michael Whelan.

The team was managed

by Derek Power and Brian O’Connor. Next weekend is a break for the Gold Coast as we host the event and clubs do not play on their home course.

JUNIOR VICTORY During the midterm break the three local clubs set up a new competition for juniors where teams of three players had to play over the three courses on three successive days.

Each team included a foursome’s pair and a singles player and each player on the team had to play one singles game and two four-

some’s games.

The format was stroke play and after the three days the top two teams went through to the final.

The final was played in Dungarvan Golf Club which was the neutral venue and was contested by West Waterford and Gold Coast.

Representing the Gold Coast in the foursomes were Michael Lenihan and Lee Crotty and in the singles, Seanie Lenihan.

Eventually the Gold Coast came out on top and claimed the first victory in this new competition. Hopefully it will become an annual event as the feedback from all the players was that they really enjoyed it and they want it continued.

GOLF INSURANCE Just a reminder that golf insurance is available to all members. Talk to Brendan or Mark for more details.

THANK YOU Our thanks to all players who have paid their membership for 2015 and to those who have signed up for direct debits. To all other we ask that you start contributing as soon as possible.

lowed by Rosie Murphy’s team.

Congratulations to all the weekly prize winners, and well done to all who participated and who were so committed every week.

We are very grateful again to Maria and the Moorings Bar and Restaurant for the very generous sponsorship.

Easter Lamb Competition: Our Easter Lamb competition is now in full swing for this year, as always this is confined to 15 entries per competition.

As Easter is early this year, get your skates on and procure a delicious leg of spring lamb for your Sunday lunch!!

Waterford Castle 18 hole 2 card Competition: This competition commences on Monday, 16th March and runs till the end of April, now is your chance to win green fees to play this stunning course all for a €5 entry fee!!

Irish Daily mail F o u r s o m e s : Congratulations to Rosie and Elaine who took the honours against a tough Lismore pairing on Saturday, 14th March in the Gold Coast GC, their next match will be posted in these notes next week – stay tuned!!

Easter Egg Competition: This year, we are having an 18 holes scramble on Sunday, 29th March, names to be posted on sheet in kiosk before Friday 27th to facilitate draw

for partners.

It is proposed that everybody bring an Easter egg, chocolates or wine for the prizes, this is a fun day and not to be missed!!

Lady Captains Outing: It is proposed that our outing this year will be to Lahinch GC on Sunday, 5th July, tee available from 1.30pm, if you wish to travel please add your name to sheet in kiosk.

Charity Head Shave: Our treasurer Ruth has decided to go beyond the call of duty and have her golden locks shaved for charity, this is something she always wanted to do, and now has plucked up the courage in aid of SERT and Bru Columbanus.

Her personal hairdresser Richard Hannigan (cousin) is coming from Waterford to do the honours, and the date is Friday, 10th April in the Gold Coast, sponsorship cards are in circulation and Ruth would appreciate any contribution made.

Golf Insurance: Just to remind you ladies, golf insurance is available to you at a nominal fee per year, talk to Bob or Mark for more details.

Golf Subscription: Our thanks to all ladies who have paid their membership for 2015 and to those who have signed up for direct debits.

Please be aware that membership fees are due in November each year, and we would appreciate your contribution as soon as possible.

LADIES NOTES Moorings Winter League: Winter league is now finished, and presentation of prizes took place on Sunday, 15th March, well done to Esther McGuckian and her team who passed the winning post with a superb score, closely fol-

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DUNGARVAN GOLF CLUB Tel. Office 058-43310, Fax. 058-44113, Pro Shop 058-44707.

Website: www.dungarvangolfclub.com; Email: dungarvangc@eircom.net

SPRING LEAGUE A busy week at the club despite the poor weather.

The Spring League semifinals took centre stage and maybe Cheltenham had a bearing on the matches. The hotly fancied Stenson team were surprisingly defeated with one prominent Stenson player overseas at the races.

Adam Scott and Graeme McDowell teams prevailled to set up an interesting final.

The final will take place on Sunday, 22nd March with the first match teeing off at 11 a.m. The format is straight matchplay. Every match will be crucial and it looks too close to call. Donal Williams leads off the McDowell team against Jimmy O’Donnell.

Tom Considine plays Noel Hackett, Conor O’Brien v Tony Keane, Nicky Norris v Dermot McGrath, Maurice Cliffe v Jim Moroney, Victor Mullins v Jim Kiersey, Pat Buckley v Denis O’Brien and the last match is Colm Bannon v James Power. Best of luck to all competitors and many thanks to our sponsor David Hayes PGA. In other news our South East league teams were in action at West Waterford at the weekend and produced some great golf to beat Mahon and secure 11 out of 12 points. Next week we take on the defending champions West Waterford in Youghal at 12 noon.

GOLFER OF THE WEEK My Golfer of the week award goes to our President Liam Carroll. Liam took the honours in the club competition shooting a brilliant 45

points before teaming up with Anthony Lynch to secure a six and five win in the South East League.

CUPS AND SHIELDS In other news the managers have been selected for the Irish Cup and Shields teams and are posted in the locker room. It’s a great honour to represent your club, it’s hugely enjoyable and it will improve your game. So when the manager comes calling please consider playing your part for the club. We have been knocking on the door for several years and it’s only a matter of time before we win a pennant. Wouldn’t be nice if you were on that team.

VOLUNTEERS Our volunteer workers continue to be active around the clubhouse and course.

Keep up the great work lads.

The ProShop continues to be a hive of activity with many members taking advantage of the demo clubs and free custom fitting. David has announced a Callaway Demo Day on the 30th March which offers the chance to be custom fitted by a Callaway technician using the latest in Trackman technology. Places are limited so call the ProShop to arrange your free appointment. David has been very busy altering and gripping clubs as members get ready for the start of the season. If you are unsure about your weapons, call to David and get his free professional advice.

David is also offering special reductions on winter items to coincide with the Spring League. He is also offering free custom fitting on

Lismore Golf Club Phone 058-54026.

Email: lismoregolfclub@eircom.net Website: www.lismoregolf.org MEN’S RESULTS Monday 9th to Sunday, 15th March – 12 Hole Stableford kindly sponsored

by Neil Twomey, Solicitor, Lismore / ¼ Final of Round of Dermot O’Leary Agri Spring League – 1st John Foley (21) 31 pts. L6; 2nd Richard Beausang (20) 31 pts.; 3rd Eamon Costin (21) 30 pts.

L6.

FOLEY TAKES THE HONOURS Cometh the hour, cometh the man! When the chips are down and a semi-final place is at stake. John Foley came up trumps with a superb 31 points for his team captain John McGrath and help secure passage to the semifinals (albeit a few decent scores from his team mates

also!).

This is the first time John has featured in the prizes and he chose a great time to do it.

Four pars and a finishing birdie on 12 secured first on a count back and a place in the winner’s circle for this new member.

Second is another relatively new member in Richard Beausang who again played some superb golf for a 31 point total. Four pars as well for Richard and a birdie on the 10th was great shooting and was unlucky to be beaten into second. This score helped his team progress in the Plate section of the competition and will keep Richie Ormonde and company playing for another week.

Third was the well deco-

clubs to ensure you have the correct equipment in your bag. Using a newly acquired Launch Monitor, David has the Callaway, Ping and Wilson fitting carts as well as several other demos available to allow you to choose the most suitable equipment.

You can follow the Special Offers on David’s website at www.davidhayesgolf.com.

You can follow all the club news and results on the club website or on the club app.

The club app can be downloaded at: clubapplive.com/dungarvangc If you are having trouble downloading the app, just ask a kid or drop into David in the ProShop.

Any newsworthy gossip can be forwarded to David in the ProShop. We love a juicy story. Please drop a line to golfpro@eircom.net. We can change the names to avoid embarrassment but we probably won’t.

GENTS RESULTS Mon. 9th Open Seniors Singles: Winner George Walsh (15) 37 pts.

Wed/Thurs. 11/12th 18 Holes Singles Winner: Tom Considine (9) 39 pts.

Fri./Sat. 13/14th 18 Holes Singles Winner: Liam Carroll (17) 45 pts, 2nd Conor Carroll (13) 43 pts, Gross Peter Mullaney 36 pts, 3rd John Norris 42 pts, 4th Pat Stack 41 pts.

Sun. 15th 18 Holes Singles Winner: Paul Vart (23) 44 pts, 2nd Paudie Flynn (14) 42 pts, Gross Kevin Stack 38 pts, 3rd Denis Ryan (16) 42 pts.

LADIES RESULTS Tues. 10th 11 Holes Singles: Winner: Ann Morrissey (24) 26 pts, 2nd Maeve Fitzgerald (24) 22 pts, 3rd Teresa Keane (23) 22 pts, 4th Francis Mellerick (30) 22 pts.

Sat. 14th 16 Holes Singles: Winner Delia Smith (31) 37 pts, 2nd Fidelma Fitzgerald (23) 37 pts, 3rd June James (22) 37 pts.

HOME ALLIANCE CAPTAINS DAY

SATURDAY, MARCH 28th This competition is open to all members of the home alliance. Book on-line in the assigned time slot when booking opens on Thursday, March 12th. The draw for playing partners in categories takes place on Thursday, March 26th at 5.30 pm.

Check on line for your time slot. Entry costs €5 and will be taken upstairs in the bar.

You must also enter the club competition on the day.

We will have a separate score card and entry box for this competition on the day.

Penalties accrued to date will not apply on the day. A fantastic array of prizes await the winners so we would encourage as many as possible to play in what has become the highlight of the home alliance year.

UPCOMING LADIES & GENTS FIXTURES Tues. 17th Ladies & Gents 18 Holes Open Singles.

Wed., 18th Youngones at 11.30, Sixty.Com at 2 pm, Thurs., 19th Gents Open Singles, Fri., 20th Gents Singles Sat., 21st Gents 18 Holes Monthly Medal Singles, Ladies 18 Holes Singles; Sun., 22nd Gents 18 Holes Ballinacourty Cup Singles & Spring LeagueFinal SIXTY.COM Our Sixty.Com outing to Rosslare is scheduled for the end of March. Every year its great fun and this year won’t be the exception. Tom and Ann are offering two games of golf, two nights B&B, and two evening meals. Places are limited so get your name on the list ASAP. Results Wed., 11th Winner: Mossie Walsh (6) 19 pts, Best Lady Cathie Connolly (30) 12 pts, Best Gent Donal Verling (18) 16 pts.

CLUB RAFFLE This year again Dungarvan Golf Club is running a Club Raffle for a fantastic array of prizes. Do you fancy a holiday abroad in magnificent Cannes, a free

rated Eamon Costin. There were a few 30 point scores in this week but Eamon rocked in late on Sunday evening with the best of them to put a gloss on his weekend.

Eamon brushed off the challengers with no fewer than seven 3 pointers on his card, fine scoring indeed. This score no doubt ensured his team progressed to the league semi-finals and Liam Feeney’s men will hope to construct some sort of challenge for the title from this.

DERMOT O’LEARY AGRI LTD. SPRING LEAGUE The quarter finals are complete and we have now separated the wheat from the chaff to use a phrase the O’Leary Agri would use!

The four teams qualified in the league are: Ted O’Leary, Denis Galvin, John McGrath and Liam Feeney The plate section qualifiers are: Richard Ormonde, John Whelan, Eamon O’Shea and Sean Buckley.

The semi-finals are this weekend and the best of luck to all teams involved.

LISMORE GOLF CLUB MEN’S FIXTURES Monday 16th to Sunday, 22nd March – 12 Hole Stableford kindly sponsored

by Willie Roche Tiles, Lismore.

Semi-final of Dermot O’Leary Agri Spring League.

SYMPATHIES The club would like to offer our condolences to the Beausang family on the recent family bereavement.

MEMBERSHIP Still a lot of membership due to be paid by our members so please try and get the paid up as soon as possible please.

LISMORE LADIES GOLF PRESSURE GOLF With only 3 points separating the top three teams and a one chance only first 18 holes of the year the decider, the final week of our East Cork Oil Sponsored Spring League involved some presure golf for a number of ladies.

Two ladies who have played some super golf so far in the league remained unpreturbed however playing together on their last league outing and managed to claim

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At the Waterford Cheltenham Preview Golf outing at West Waterford Golf & Country Club were: David Condon, Club Captain; Vincent O'Connor, Mary Dennehy, Frank Tracey and Pat Murray, Club President.

[Sean Byrne//Deise Sport] membership, or a relaxing getaway break in a luxury Irish Hotel? To be in with a chance to win these and other superb prizes, enter the Dungarvan Golf Club’s big raffle! Tickets are just €2 each or a book of 6 tickets for €10. The club would be grateful of members and visitors support buying or selling tickets. Fundraising initiatives such as these are becoming an increasingly important part of the clubs revenue and your continued support is very much appreciated. The grand draw will take place on the night of the Presidents Prize 9th August 2015. Tickets are on sale in the clubhouse. *1st Prize: (Value €1,000) ONE WEEK HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION IN STUDIO APT. IN CANNES Including €300 Travel Voucher 2nd Prize: Free 2015/2016 Membership Subscription (Value €685) 3rd Prize: *2 Nights B&B + 1 Dinner for 2 at McWilliam

Park Hotel, Claremorris (Value €500) 4th Prize: *Watercolour Painting (Value €350) 5th Prize: *2 Nights B&B + 1 Dinner for 2 in a choice of Flynn Hotels (Value €300).

6th Prize: *Canteen of Belleek Cutlery (Value €225).

7th Prize: *Voucher for O’Reillys Butchers, Kilmacthomas (Value €100).

Draw will take place on Sun. 9th August in Clubhouse. *Prizes Kindly Sponsored by Club Members.

TICKETS €2 Each, BOOK OF 6 for €10 Permit Granted.

PROGRESSIVE 45 Results for 12th March WINNERS: Tom Cummins & Ann Ryan Michael Fitzgerald & Tom Phelan LAST 5:Michael Kelly & Pat McGovern LUCKY TABLE Tom Melody & Michael Kelleher. Progressive 45 in the Clubhouse every Thursday Evening.

All Welcome JUNIOR NOTES Tuition for our beginners and Pre Juniors continues

next Saturday, 21st March at 3 pm under the watchful eye of Club Professional and Waterford County Coach, David Hayes.

We had a great turnout again with AJ and Megan proving to be the stars.

Tuition is open to non members so bring a friend. All equipment is provided. Cost is €2 per child.

Our Elite junior squad has completed its Winter training at Tinhalla but we are continuing at the club on Wednesday evenings at 6pm for Short Game work.

Adult members are welcome to attend and you might learn something.

Any enquiries relating to junior activities can be directed to club Professional David. David can be contacted at 058-44707 or email at golfpro@eircom.net.

You can also follow junior activities on Facebook or on the Club app.

You can download the Club app at the following link https://clubapplive.com/dungarvangc

1st and 2nd place with JoJo Tobin’s 37 pts capturing not only this week’s no 1 but also the individual league no 1 spot.

Fiona Howard was 1 point behind with the best 36 pts which gave her 2nd place this week but unfortunately when the sums were added up was not enough to keep her team in the prizes.

First time in the prizes and coming into form with the season ahead of her Mag Morrissey took 3rd place with her 36 pts.

Betty Joyce’s team B all scored well again this week and gained enough points to edge out Fiona Howard’s team A and take second place at the end of a very hard fought contest.

Pride of place this week however goes to our Lady Captain Amanda Power’s team C who dovetailed very well throughout the league and encouraged by some very supportive texts finished very strongly to take the most enjoyable 2015 East Cork Oil Sponsored Spring League Title.

Thanks to our Sponsors

East Cork Oil and to all you ladies who battled a variety of elements on behalf of your teams for the last six weeks.

RESULTS Sunday, 8th – Saturday, 14th March Rd 6 East Cork Oil Sponsored Spring League, 18 Holes S/ford, Members Prizes.

1st Jojo Tobin (20) 37 pts; 2nd Fiona Howard (6) 36 pts B9; 3rd Margaret Morrissey (23) 36 pts.

Team placings 1st place Team (C) Amanda Power, Capt, Jojo Tobin, Mary Beecher, Chrissie Denn, Laoise Ni Chonchubhair, Joan Geary.

586 pts.

2nd place Team (B) Betty Joyce Capt, Katherine Moynihan, Mary M. Murphy, Esther Hornibrook, Mary Aherne, Erin O'Keeffe. 577 pts.

Individual Winner JoJo Tobin 155 pts DAILY MAIL Hard luck to our Daily Mail representatives Betty Joyce and Hannah Lucas who lost out on the 18th hole against the Gold Coast in the Gold Coast on Saturday last.

FIXTURES Sunday, 15th to 21st March 12 Hole 2 Ball Champagne Scramble, 1 score to count - Re-entry allowed (and encouraged).

Entry €4, Re-entry €2 per person.

Sunday, 22nd to Saturday, 28th 12Hole s/ford "SECRET TEAM COMPETITION" format is play with whoever you like, cards will be teamed with other cards to make up a team total, most points wins, give it a go should be fun.

Play as often as you want Entry €4, Re-entry €2 Sunday, 8th – Saturday, 28th March 9 Hole ongoing, re-entry Sunday, 29th March & Wednesday, 1st April, 18Hole Stableford, Easter Prizes kindly sponsored by Riordan’s Supervalu, Fermoy.

No Re-entry.

Please Note March 26th Alliance have course booked from 10.30 to 11.30.

MEMBERSHIP Membership is now overdue ladies, please talk to registrar Martin Power asap if you have not already done so.

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Dungarvan United FC

Kilmacthomas FC UNDER 11 Boh's .................................. 0; Kilmac ................................ 2.

WE finished off our league campagain on Saturday and kept our unbeaten run in-tact.

We took some time to settle and on 15 minutes Ben drove the ball home to settle the nerves. A good cross from Alex on the right saw Ben double our lead when he rose above everyone on in the box to head home.

We were comfortable after the second goal and but failed to add to the score. We would like to thank Craig and Stephen of First Class Castles for sponsoring a beautiful set of jersey's for the team, we wish the boys con-

tinued success in their business.

We now await the results of the Southend fixtures which will determine the league. Our thanks to alll the parents who suported the team during the season and we look forward to a good run in the cup competition.

ACADEMY Our academy is in full swing after a short break. All boys and girls are welcome and our Little Dribblers are in full flight every Saturday at 2 p.m.

Our under 10 age group have developed very well and we look forward to some games in the near furture and to their league in August.

UNDER 15 Boh's .................................. 3; Kilmac ................................ 0.

We slipped up badly on a day when the leaders were beaten, some sloppy defending saw us well beaten on the day. The league is still there to be won, so we look forward to our next match.

DIVISION 2 A Carrick ............................... 1; Kilmac ................................ 0.

One lapse of concentration saw us conceed a soft goal in the first half and despite dominating the second half we could not breach the Carrick defence. With two more games to go we have to make sure we don't drop any points.

Waterford Schoolboys’ Football League Fixtures & Results RESULTS U-13A Ferrybank A 3; Dungarvan Utd 1 U-13C Bohemians B 1; W. Crystal 3 U-11A Dungarvan Utd A 0; Carrick Utd A 4 U-11B Johnville 0; Portlaw Utd A 2 Villa B 2; Park Rangers A 1 U-11C Ballinroad B 0; Southend Utd B 3 Bohemians B 0; Kilmacthomas 2 Tramore B 1; De La Salle B 4 U-11D Kilmacow 0; Villa C 2 St. Pauls 4; Piltown B 0 U-11E Bohemians C 3; Villa D 0 Dungarvan Utd B 2; Carrick Utd C 1 Ferrybank C 6; De La Salle C 3 Park Rangers B 2; Tramore C 7 U-13A Piltown A 2; Johnville 0 Tramore A 2; Southend Utd 6 Villa A 1; Dungarvan Utd 2 U-13B Park Rangers 2; Portlaw Utd 0 U-13C Bohemians B 0; Kilmacow 4 Tramore B 3; Carrick Utd B 2 Villa B 0; Piltown B 0 W. Crystal 3; Ballyduff 1 Saturday March 14th Under 15 League U-15A Ballinroad A 1; Ferrybank A 0 Dungarvan Utd 0; Villa A 2 U-15B Bohemians A 3; Kilmacthomas 0 Kilmacow 2; Piltown 1 Southend Utd 4; Ballinroad B 2 U-15C Seaview Celtic 1; Ferrybank B 0 Tramore B 3; Villa C 1

FIXTURES Thursday, March 19th Under 15 League (Kick off 7.00 p.m. unless otherwise stated): U-15B Bohemians B v Seaview Celtic (Kilmacow) Ferrybank B v Tramore B (Mooncoin) Villa C v De La Salle B (St. Saviours) Saturday, March 21st Under 12 League (Kick off 10.30 a.m. unless oth-

erwise stated): U-12A Carrick Utd v Johnville (Portlaw) 2.30 pm De La Salle v Tramore A (Park Rangers) Southend Utd A v Ferrybank A (Ballyduff) Villa A v Ballinroad A (Kilmacow) U-12B Bohemians A v Piltown A (W. Crystal) 3.15 pm Park Rangers v Carrick Utd B (Johnville) Portlaw Utd v Mooncoin Celtic (Carrick Utd) Saturday, March 21st Under 12C The Joe Delaney Cup Railway Athletic v Ferrybank B (Stradbally) 11.00 am W. Crystal v Southend B (Villa) Ballinroad B v Kilmacthomas (Dungarvan) Saturday, March 21st Under 14 League (Kick off 12.15 p.m. unless otherwise stated): U-14A Carrick Utd A v Bohemians A (Portlaw) Southend Utd v Kilmacow (Tramore) Villa A v Tramore A (Ferrybank) 10.30 am U-14B Johnville v Kilmacthomas (Bohemians) Park Rangers v Ballinroad (St. Pauls) Piltown v Ferrybank B (Mooncoin) Portlaw Utd v St. Pauls (Piltown) U-14C Carrick Utd B v Bohemians B(Piltown) 10.30 am De La Salle v Mooncoin Celtic (St. Saviours) Ferrybank C v Railway Athletic (Kilmacow) Villa B v Dungarvan Utd B (Ferrybank) Saturday, March 21st Under 16 League (Kick off 2.30 p.m. unless otherwise stated): U-16A Dungarvan Utd A v Ferrybank A (Railway Ath) Villa A v Tramore A (Carrick Utd) Villa B v Bohemians (Seaview) 2.30 pm U-16B Piltown v Villa C (Park Rangers) Portlaw Utd v Tramore B (Southend) Railway Athletic v Kilmacow (Ballinroad)

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FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON FOR U-11B On a lovely Saturday morning our U-11B side played against Carrick Utd. U11B at home. Dungarvan started the game very slowly and found themselves a goal down within 5 minutes after some sloppy defending of a corner.

The ball popped out and a Carrick player pounced onto the loose ball and drove it into the roof of the net. This however seemed to spur the young Blues into action and the lads started to play some great soccer. Dungarvan went in search of an equaliser but unfortunately for us the Carrick keeper was having a great day in the goal. Halftime 0-1 to Carrick.

Dungarvan changed tactics at half-time and within five minutes were on level terms after Dale scored a beauty of a goal. Dungarvan continued to attack but the Carrick keeper just kept getting something on the ball to prevent us from scoring, it was beginning to look like lady luck would never look down on us to secure our first ever win.

With five minutes remaining Mark Loftus broke down the right and played the ball into Dylan Ahearne for him to tap the ball in for his first ever goal for the team.

The last five minutes were the most intense five minutes for the players, coaches and parent's who had turned up on numbers to support this team. Lady luck finally smiled at us as Gearoid (smallest player on our team) rose four feet in the air to stop a shot heading into the top right hand corner, and the sound of a final whistle never sounded so good.

Well done to all the players, it's great to see improvement every week and to the parents, your encouragement and presence were very much appreciated.

Next match 28th March home to De La Salle, kick-off 10.30 a.m.

KIRBY SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS All involved in Dungarvan United wish to congratulate our resident artist Edgar Kirby on the success of both his Kirby Kidz and Adultz performances at last week’s charity talent show. Best of luck to Ed and his dance partner Orla in this weekend’s Deise Jigs & Reels SYMPATHY All in the club were saddened to hear of the passing

of Jim Power. Jim's son Luke and nephews Sam and Charlie are academy players and his brother in law Pat Roche is a valued club coach. As a mark of respect the academy was cancelled on Saturday. Thank you to the members and players who attended the guard of honour at the funeral. May he rest in peace.

FIXTURES Saturday 21.3.15: U-14C Away to Villa 12.15 pm U-16A Home to Ferrybank 2.30 pm (Main pitch) 2A Home to Seaview Celtic 4.15 pm (Glass pitch) 3rd Away to Johnville 7.00 pm Sunday 22.3.15 U-18 B Home to Ballinroad 2.00 pm (Glass pitch).

BLUES BOW OUT OF CUP AFTER HEROIC DISPLAY Munster Cup 1/4 Final Result Dungarvan United 0-0 Newmarket Celtic (AET) (Newmarket won 3-0 on Penalties) LAST Sunday our 1A side faced Newmarket Celtic in the last 8 of the Munster Junior cup. The Blues came into this game on the back of a good win against Portlaw in the league.

Dungarvan started the game the better of the two sides. Both teams eyed each other up for the first 10 minutes to see what each other was like.

We had a great chance to take the lead 15 minutes in when Gavin Crotty caught the Newmarket keeper flat footed but put the ball the wrong side of the post. On the 35th minute Dungarvan were reduced to 10 men when Kevin Walsh got sent off. This made our chance very slim but we still battled on and took the game level going into half time.

We played the better of the two sides despite being down to 10 men. We battled on throughout the second half.

Heroic displays from Christy Ross Power and Shane Lannon in midfield really showed the true spirit and passion within the side.

After 90 minutes of play we brought Newmarket to extra time and the players got a standing ovation from the crowd for the display of football that they saw.

In extra time we looked like the team that were going to win the game as we dominated. Lee Hyslop’s shot was scooped off the line in the

dying seconds off extra time to bring the game to penalties.

Penalties is like the lottery, you either score them or you don't. It's pure luck on the day as Newmarket had the luck and advanced to the last four of the Munster Cup and the better team were knocked out.

This was a magnificent display of football that the Dungarvan lads put on in front of a massive crowd in Kilrush.

Everyone of the players did themselves and the club proud on the day. This game shows the level which the club is at the moment, and this game will no doubt be the driving force in which our club will keep on improving as we want more days like this.

Our lads now turn their attention to the league which they have only two games left against Abbeyside and Bohemians. It would be great to see a big support for these two vital games for the lads.

Well done and hard luck to all the players and coaches on a magnificent display.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered on the day to help out in any which way.

YOUNG BLUES PUT CHAMPIONS TO THE SWORD U13A League Result Villa FC 1-2 Dungarvan United Last Saturday our U.13A side travelled down to St. Otterans to play the current league champions Villa. We expected a very tough test in this game and knew we had to be at our very best to beat Villa.

We started off the game the better of the two sides playing some good possession football on a very bad pitch. We did not create any clear cut chance despite all of our possession but our chance came on the 15th minute through the boot of Kacper Zajac, who got square with the defender and buried the ball into the roof of the net to brake the deadlock.

After this Villa started to see a bit of the ball and near half-time they looked like they were going to score the equaliser, but Jack Donnelly stopped them from doing so as he tracked back when the villa striker found himself 1 on 1 with Dylan Cliffe and made a heroic tackle to deny them of a goal. We went into the interval 1-0 up.

We again started as the better team and were hungry to see out the game. Words said at half time by the man-

ager "If we get an early goal in the 2nd half Villa will fold" and so they did as within five minutes of the 2nd half we doubled our lead, as Kacper again came up with the goods when his strike from inside the box assisted by Jack O'Flionn flew into the bottom corner.

We even nearly grabbed a third from an Artur Trziack effort which just skimmed the post. 15 minutes from time and Villa grabbed one back which meant that we had to hold on tight to take the three points.

Two magnificent displays

by Nioclas Breathnach and Ben Kavanagh in midfield held back the Villa onslaught.

These two lads put their bodies on the line and played with pride for the famous blue jersey as did the rest of the squad to make sure that we left Otterans with a well earned win. The game finished 2-1 to the Blues.

Man Of The Match: To single out one person who played outstanding was very hard as the whole squad were great, but Nioclas Breathnach got the award for his outstanding display in midfield especially in the last 10 minutes when we had to dig deep to secure the win.

This was a great victory for the young Blues. The lads on Saturday all but ended any chance that Villa had of winning the league this season, which was the icing on the cake to go along with the three points. Many a team went down to Otterans and often came away with nothing, but last Saturday it was Dungarvan United's day and we savoured every last second. We now look forward to our next League game on the 28th of March at home to Tramore, and then we have a Cup Quarter Final against Carrick United two weeks later. Well done to all the players and coaches on a great win.

Squad: Dylan Cliffe, Cameron McGuire, Aaron Ryan (captain), Jack Donnelly, Kyle O'Donnell, Jack O'Flionn, Ben Kavanagh, Nioclas Breathnach, Sam Uniacke, Kacper Zajac, Artur Trziack, Michael Power, Martin McDonagh, Molly Schrubb, Adam Ashraf.

LOTTO Winning Numbers 34 2 40.

No jackpot winner. €100 goes to Fishy O'Rourke. Part of our 1A management team and a weekly contributor to the lotto.

Well done Fishy!

Stradbally FC DEFEATED No joy for Stradbally on Sunday as they succumbed to a 4-2 defeat versus Dunmore East.

Ricky Power levelled proceedings before half-time and a Stephen Lawlor penalty conversion did likewise after the break.

However, the visitors scored two more goals to seal their fate.

Team: Pa Collins, Damien Sheehan, Alan D'Arcy, Philip Curran, Nicky Connors, Stephen Lawlor, Emmet Cummins, John O'Shea, Christopher Casey, Ricky Power, Johnny Lally.

Subs: Rob Finn, Diarmuid Crowley.

LOTTO Lotto Draw takes place in The Cove Bar on Sunday night. Jackpot prize on offer will be €2,600. Thanks to all who continue to support our Lotto.

ACADEMY Academy & Little Dribblers continues on Saturday mornings at 10.30 a.m. This is an ideal way to introduce little ones to group play and to learn the basics of soccer. All children are welcome and so are their parents!

ASTRO TURF AstroTurf Pitch is available to hire.

Contact Tadhg for time slot availability at 087 2306841.

CLUB KITS There are a limited number of old stock club kits for children still available.

Ideal birthday presents. Sizes: 5/6, 7/8, 9/10. Contact Gerry at 087 2245712.

TABLE QUIZ Stradbally Soccer Club will hold a Table Quiz in The Cove Bar on Friday, March 27th.

Fun and Conundrums assured.

Please support our fund raising event and all are welcome.

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Ballinroad FC CLOTHES DROP After the success of our last Clothes Collection, we have arranged another date for this month. We will be collecting clothes in the old shop in Ballinroad beside Lord Maguire’s on Saturday the 21st March from 10 am to 4 pm. So now is the time to gather any unwanted clothes and support our cause.

YOUTH B St Saviours 0; Ballinroad 8 Ballinroad’s youth side continued in their quest for the title on Sunday last with an away trip to St. Saviour’s facing them. From the outset Ballinroad controlled the game, and ran out easy win-

ners.

The goals were scored by Gavin Joyce (4), Michael Sweeney (2), Micheál O’Neill (1) and Michael O’Riordan (1).

They now have two remaining fixtures, a tough away tie against local rivals Dungarvan Utd and a possible title decider against fellow table toppers Park Rangers.

THE NEW ASTRO TURF On Friday last, committee members met with the company who will be building this new facility. We were very encouraged with what they had to say. Plans are well in progress and we hope to

have our new astro turf up and running by the start of next season.

This will be a fantastic asset to the club and the wider community of Ballinroad, particularly for our younger members as it will provide a training facility that will be available for use all year round.

Our main fundraiser for our new Astro Turf will take place in the coming months in the form of a Cow Drop. Each player in the club has been asked to sell a book of tickets.

Tickets are now available and are priced at €5 a ticket. We encourage each member to support this cause.

Ballinlough team with Causeway Tennis Club Grade 5 team - Michelle Finneagan, Liam Fitzgerald, Sarah Feeney and Ruaidhrí de Paor.

Causeway Tennis & Bowls Club Winter League

Ballinroad U-13A players who made their Confirmation recently enjoying training last Tuesday night. Jack Riordan, Tony Dwyer, Sean O’Sullivan, Tadhg Collins, Eoin Flynn, Daire Slevin.

Manchester United Supporters Club - Waterford Branch SPURS VICTORY A REVELATION It was with some trepidation ALL United fans welcomed highscoring Spurs and the hottest English striker this season in free scoring Harry Kane.

The match as a contest was over within 20 pulsating minutes of football when United played with renewed freedom as if the shackles were off and more importantly the valuable three points secured following on from Arsenal's victory on Saturday.

That Arsenal victory put them 4 points ahead of United while victory for United has now opened up a gap of 6 points back to Spurs. In Marouanne Fellaini everyone has been on his case as just a target for the long ball approach. However, when Carrick set him free to neatly slot home he proved he has other facits to his game.

Indeed his close control has improved and his confidence of getting a steady run in the team has paid off albeit not as quickly as we would have liked.

Carrick added the second from a corner when Spurs were all at sea and he headed calmly to put United 2-0 up.

The third and killer goal was scored by Wayne Rooney who pounced on a bad blunder to score a fine

individual goal. It was refreshing to hear on match of the day two on Sunday night that it was a team talk given by Wayne Rooney on Saturday night that galvanised the team unity that was displayed on Sunday as he highlighted the importance of Champions league football to the squad.

THE PREMIERSHIP "EL CLASSICO" On Sunday next United make the short journey to Anfield for what the headline suggests the premiership "El Classico" between United and bitter rivals Liverpool.

Some few weeks ago I mentioned that Liverpool were a live threat to the four champions league spots. Not over a few games, but this is their second season on the bounce when they can be deemed as strong candidates for those positions. A United win is vital to create the buffer between the clubs as we did by beating Spurs. It is a 1.30 p.m. kick-off live on Sky Sports.

If you don't have the channel feel free to join us in Dillon's bar for the best atmosphere outside of being there LIVE !!!

MEMBERSHIP EASY PAY SCHEME As we have to hound members every Summer to renew their OFFICIAL MEMBERSHIP we have decided to make life easier for anyone

interested in availing of an easy payment scheme whereby you can pay €10 a week throughout the month of May and not have to have the renewal in one swoop.

Any member wishing to avail of this courtesy please contact the secretary on 087 1940089 or attend Friday night’s meeting.

MEETING THIS FRIDAY There will be a General Meeting on this Friday night, 20th March in Lawlors Hotel at 7.15 pm sharp. It will be preceded by a short committee meeting at 7 pm sharp. A full attendance is requested at both meetings please. As previously stated these meetings are designed to keep members abrest of all things United i.e trips, travel, match applications and also are open to new intending members who would also be more than welcome.

We have had contact from various people over the last few months regarding tickets/access cards and this request can only be sorted by people joining the branch as official members.

KEY OF THE DOOR A special birthday wish to member Jennifer Moore who celebrates her 21st birthday party in Dillon's bar on Saturday night next at 8 pm.

ALL MEMBERS ARE INVITED!!

So see you there.

HUGE congratulations to the Grade 5 team of Sarah Feeney, Michelle Finnegan, Liam Fitzgerald and Ruaidhrí de Paor who have progressed to the final of the Munster Winter League!

The team encountered some tough opposition along the way, but the determination and commitment of the Causeway team held firm.

Dungarvan had home advantage for the semi-finals against Ballinlough, Limerick on Sunday March 15th.

To the members who came down to show their support - a big thank you! On paper it looked like an easy win for the Causeway, however the reality was something quite different.

While the doubles were won by the home team in 2 sets, in less than an hour, the mixed proved to be the more formidable opposition.

Nevertheless, both Causeway teams won the day in 3 long and arduous sets. A very well deserved victory!

The final is due to be held in St. Anne’s in Waterford on Sunday, 12th April. If you

would like to go along to support, contact 087 3201737 and car pooling will be organised.

CLUB NIGHT Wednesday night is Club Night! The first Club Night will be on Wednesday March 25th, starting at 7.40 sharp.

Everyone welcome - especially beginners and new members.

A great way to meet other members and play against different people.

Partners are chosen at random, and half way through, swapped. Players retire to the clubhouse at 9 pm for a well earned cup of tea/coffee and some sweet treats.

Entry costs €2, which covers lights and refreshments.

No need to sign up, just come ready to play.

AGM The Annual General Meeting of the Causeway Tennis and Bowls Club was held at 8 pm in the clubhouse on Tuesday, 24th February. It was a well attended meeting where a lot of ground was covered in a short period of time. A new committee was

elected under the presidentship of Clodagh Carthy, Treasurer - Liam Fitzgerald, Secretary - Julianne Veale, Committee Denis O’Donovan, Emma Rhys Thomas and Dave Mahony.

Tributes were paid to the many people who have worked hard to ensure the smooth running of the club over the last 12 months Richie Duggan, Solas workers, past presidents.

Lots of tournaments planned over the next year American Tournaments running on the last Friday of every month, and, of course, the annuals - Senior Open Week starting June bank holiday weekend, Veterans Weekend 21-23rd August, and the Inter-Firms in October.

The Bowls Club had a successful year with great fundraising ideas, including hosting demonstrations to schools, special needs bowling classes and even the odd hen party activity. Don’t forget the monthly lunch - come along and have a wonderful meal at a great price, and help a local club!

Dungarvan RFC under 11's and supporters pictured at Musgrave Park.

The junior membership has gone from strength to strength - all thanks to the trojan effort put in by our resident coach - Shelly Mernin.

There is supervised tennis planned over the weekends for parents and children, and upcoming camps for the kids!

Shelly plans to run more blitzes over the next few months to encourage the kids down to the club outside of coaching sessions.

EASTER CAMPS The two types of Easter tennis camps, there is a 1day camp for junior and senior infants on each Monday of the Easter holidays - March 30th and April 6th and a 3day camp for 1st-6th classes.

The 3-day camps run Tuesday-Thursday, March 31-April 2nd and April 7-9th inclusive, from 10am til 2pm, €40 per camp. A great experience for the kids which improves co-ordination while having tons of fun. A host of games and activities are planned, from tennis (of course) to football, obstacle courses to tug-of-war. These camps tend to sell out quickly, so book your place now!

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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 20 March, 2015

Cunnigar Pitch and Putt HOSTS OF GENTS ALL-IRELAND STROKEPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 MAJOR FIXTURES FOR THE COMING YEAR Ladies National Day – April 18th.

Cunnigar Scratch Cup – May 9th.

County Board Strokeplay – May 24th – 10.00 a.m.

President’s Day (Patsy Hackett) – June 14th.

All Ireland Gents Strokeplay – July 25th+26th.

Butcher’s Block – August 8th.

So everyone get practising.

FIXTURES THAT NEED TO BE SENT AWAY Munster Ladies and Gents Match Play – Closing date 25th March.

Ladies National Social Day – Closing date 25th March.

Inter Club Competition – Closing date 26th March.

National Ladies and Gents Match Play – Closing date 8th April.

PUBS LEAGUE SPONSORED BY THE ANCHOR BAR This was a huge success last year and it will be starting again in April. Posters are now around the pubs.

This competition is open to the general public. Anyone can make up a team of three and their names can be handed into the clubhouse.

On any team there can only be one registered member of the PPUI IF playing.

It is NOT a necessity to have a member of the PPUI as this is a fun tournament for everyone to play in.

The names are to be in for 9th April and the draw will take place on the 10th April in The Anchor Bar. So get your teams ready for this great fun game.

CLUB DAY OUT On Saturday, 7th March, we had our day out to Fermoy, there was a great turnout as we played a 36 hole scramble in the morning and after a welcome cup of tea and sandwiches we played another 18 holes. a great day was had by all and hopefully we shall have more club outings soon.

Winners of the morning session were – Nett: Breda Foley, Stella Kinsella, Liam Simms. Gross: Ann Wall, Jacinta O'Mahoney, Aiden O'Rourke.

Afternoon session winners were – Nett: Jacinta O'Mahoney, Breda Foley, Liam Simms. Gross: Kathleen Foran, Mary Daly, Aiden O'Rourke.

Breda O'Donnell had a hole in one.

MEN’S SUNDAY MATCHPLAY LEAGUE Our men’s matchplay league will be commencing soon. Closing date is 22nd March.

Contact Paddy Noonan, more details to follow soon.

WEDNESDAY TOURNAMENTS Names to be in for 10.00 a.m. Tee off 10.30 a.m. 4th March – Nett: Marie Forde, Breda O'Donnell. Gross: Cait Mulcahy, Ann Wall.

SATURDAY TOURNAMENT Names to be in by 1.00 p.m. tee off 1.30

p.m. Nett: Cait Mulcahy, Marie Forde, Aiden Murray. Gross: Bridget Walsh, Kathleen Foran, Patsy Hackett.

From now on with saturday games please note:– The inexperienced player on each team will now mark the card (this is to get used to marking cards).

JUVENILE COMPETITIONS Juvenile competitions will commence on Sundays at 1.30 p.m., weather permitting. All members are welcome to come along.

HOLE IN ONE Last year we held a Hole in one competition, so will continue with a prize for the most hole in ones during the club competition season this year as it proved very popular.

To date Patsy Hackett (3), Michael Ahearne, Liam Simms each have one each.

Breda O'Donnell (2) and Jacinta O'Mahoney now has a hole in one for the womens section.

BONUS NUMBER Bonus number 35. The winner this week was Mary Hackett.

COMMITTEE MEETING Our next committee meeting is on 30th March at 7.00 p.m.

PITCH MARKS Leaving Pitch Marks when playing destroys the greens, it takes a lot of care and attention to keep them in pristine condition. So all members and green fees are asked to repair them and use the correct repairer when doing so.

Also do not use the club head to take balls out of holes on greens as this damages the hole.

If anyone has an hour or two Mondays to Fridays to spare to give a hand helping on the course you would be very welcome.

DID YOU KNOW? If a ball comes to rest against the boundary fence the player may play it as it lies or drop the ball within 2 club lengths not nearer the hole under a penalty of 1 shot.

MEMBERSHIP FEES As of 1st March anyone who has not paid membership for 2015 will be paying greenfees. Adults €80; Family €150; Over 60s €50; Juveniles €45; Life Members €30.

Club jumpers, tee shirts and caps and gloves are for sale in clubhouse.

Cunnigar Scratch Cup

Lucia Queally, Terra Nua Building Contractors, presents a cheque for Terra Nua's sponsorship of the Dungarvan's Boxing Club's Peter Crotty Tournament to Killian Walsh, who accepted it on behalf of the Boxing Club.

[Dan McGrath/Editorial Images]

Group 4 pictured passing through Kill on last Sunday's spin.

JOHN HODGE 2nd IN BLARNEY It's been a fantastic couple of weeks for the powerhouse that is John Hodge. After a terrific 4th place in Ras Luimni the week before John took 2nd in the Donal Crowley Memorial in Blarney last Sunday, behind Paidi O'Brien. He is well and truly mixing it amongst the top riders in the country over the last few week’s and this result secures his A1 licence; from A4 to A1 in 362 days according to his coach and Ras team mate, Marc Flavin.

Fantastic stuff sham. Well done.

We expect a big contingent from the club to make the short trip to Carrick for the annual St. Patrick's day racing, too late for these notes but expect a full report next week, and hopefully more good news.

WEEKEND SPINS The cold, easterly wind at the weekend meant the coast road saw most of the action, and also prevented the returning Canarians from showing off their tans.

Saturday's spin went to Bunmahon, Kill, and Carroll's Cross.

Group 1 and 2 joined forces again this week with 14 riders. A major mechanical for the group captain outside Bunmahon, quickly fixed by Mark Power, led to a slight route change. Some went straight home at Kilmac while the others went up to Carrick and back by Mahonbridge to find out how hard Tuesday's race is going to be. 15 in group 3 took the main road to Kilmeaden, turning for Tramore at Orchardstown, and coming home the Coast Road. Group 4 got off to a slow start with a puncture at Sea Park. However, a very enjoyable spin was had, with an extra special effort by everyone from Bunmahon to Kill - well done to all! Also well done to Pat & Ciaran who joined the group to Seafield.

Thanks to Sharon for deputising in Declan's absence. 9 Group 5 riders took a break from the usual Lismore circuit and headed to Stradbally and Mahonbridge, with coffee in Lemybrien. Good riding on a hilly circuit with an average speed of just over 20kph.

To be informed of Sunday’s routes please check the Facebook page on Saturdays or send an email to updates@dungarvancc.com

requesting to be added to the list to receive the routes.

Club spins leave at 9:30 a.m., from John Foley’s Kilrush on Saturdays, and The Square on Sundays.

Membership and insurance is still due from a number of riders turning up at the club's weekend spins. As both are now overdue, those riders are being asked not to attend any club spins until such time as they are insured and out of respect for those members who are insured.

This does not apply to try-itout cyclists until after their three free spins. (DCC Committee) CYCLESPORTS GRAND PRIX SUNDAY, 29TH MARCH, 2015 Excitement is building within Dungarvan Cycling Club in advance of the 2015 Cyclesports Grand Prix on Sunday, March 29th. This is our flagship racing event of the year and will attract the very best cyclists from Munster and beyond. Much behind-the-scenes work is being done to ensure that we will have a memorable event.

There will be a full schedule of races as follows: A1 & A2 combined, A3 & Junior combined, and A4. Equally importantly, there will be Under 12, 14, and 16 races, attracting a wide range of underage talented riders to Dungarvan.

DCC wishes to place on record its appreciation to Cyclesports for continued support, for the fifth year running. The generous sponsorship is a vital part of the success of the Open Race.

DCC is grateful also to the committee of Dungarvan AFC, for use of its grounds and premises as race headquarters. They have at all times been good friends to us, and we very much appreciate their generosity. Sign-on will be open at 9am at the Clubhouse, Kilrush.

Volunteers: This event requires DCC to ensure that safety is paramount, and in this context the club requests that all members who are able would make themselves available to assist with the various tasks needed on the day. There will also be a large number of members racing, and your support for them on will be very much appreciated. Please indicate to Pa Power, Beanie Byrne or John Coleman if you are able to help out, from 9 am until

approx. 3 pm. (or even part of) There will be no club spins organized for the 29th.

DETAILS: Sign-on opens on the morning at 9am at Dungarvan Soccer Club, Kilrush Racing distances and times: Under 12: 10.7km starting at 11.00 Under 14: 18km starting at 11.05 Under 16: 35.5km starting at 11.00 (Millstreet Route, 1 lap of 35.5km) A1 & A2 combined 3 laps of 35.5km (107km) starting at 12.00 noon A3 & junior combined 3 laps of 35.5km (107km) starting at 12.10 A4: 2 laps of 35.5km (71km) starting at 12.15 Note to riders: One-day licences will be available.

Parking will be available at Dungarvan Soccer Club and at Cyclesports, Kilrush.

Route maps are available on the club website dungarvancc.com.

Clubs or individuals interested in taking part in the race should contact the Race Director, John Coleman, john.coleman@dungarvancc.com in the event that the information you require is not available on our website.

GRAN CANARIA 2015 25 riders spent a week in the sunshine and on the climbs of Gran Canaria last week. We had a poignant spin on day 1 as all rode

together to the viewing point above Maspalomas to release balloons and observe a minute's silence in memory of Niall O Manachain who had so enjoyed the trip last year but unfortunately lost his life last summer.

Muchas Gracias once again to Dusty for his hard work with the planning so that all anyone has to do is turn up on time. Highlights included the climb to Pico (2,000 metres above sea level), and the conquering of the notorious VOTT (Valley Of The Tears). Martin Sandford not alone conquered it but flattened its ego when he wondered when it was going to start (already halfway up it). It wasn't all misery and gears.

There was plenty of Toblerone cheesecake in Puerto Mogan, coffee and rolls in San Bartolome, and sweating over T-bone steaks.

However, the most welcome food was probably the orange slices at the top of the Serenity climb. A chance meeting with a Czech friend at the top of Serenity secured the quick recovery of a mislaid phone back at the bottom of the climb.

Thank you Tomas. After nearly 600kms ridden, 14,000 metres climbed, and 30 degree heat all were sad to see a great week come to an end.

CYCLING QUOTE “The hill isn’t in the way – it is the way.”

Paddy Morrissey of CycleSports, sponsors of the upcoming Dungarvan CC Grand Prix.

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Talking Horses Upcoming Fixtures Thurles – Thursday, 19th March (First Race 2.15) Dundalk – Friday, 20th March (First Race 6.05) Gowran Park – Saturday, 21st March (First Race 2.20) Downpatrick – Sunday, 22nd March (First Race 2.10)

Townend dominates at Navan on Sunday HAVING enjoyed three winners at the Cheltenham Festival, former champion jockey Paul Townend went one better at Navan on Sunday where he dominated the card.

He won the 2m handicap hurdle on the Tom Mullinstrained Grand Partner and followed up for trainers Willie Mullins, Tony Martin and Terence O’Brien with Vedettariat, Heathfield and Ibetellingyoualie respectively. Oliver McKiernan saddled 5/4 favourite Call Me PJ to win the opening maiden hurdle under Mark Enright.

Jessica Harrington saw her High Stratos and Barry Geraghty comfortably win the 2m4f maiden while the final winner of the afternoon was Art Of Security who won the bumper for Sandra Hughes and Johnny King.

Vroum Vroum Mag Lands Limerick Grade 2 Chase in style NOT everything went Willie Mullins’ way at Limerick on Sunday but one of his star mares, Vroum Vroum Mag, ran out the impressive winner of the Grade 2 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Dawn Run Mares Novice Chase under Ruby Walsh.

The six-year-old was foot perfect as she justified her short odds and she will be a contender when she steps up to the highest level either this season or next.

Mullins and Walsh suffered a reversal when 1/3 favourite Lyrical Theatre was comfortably beaten into second place by the Jessica Harrington-trained Keppols Queen in the Grade 3 Kerry Foods EBF Shannon Spray Mares Novice Hurdle. Gordon Elliott sent out Chatham House Rule to win the opening 2m maiden hurdle under Davy Condon.

David Mullins made all the running on the Eugene O’Sullivan-trained The Mad Well to win the 2m5f handicap hurdle. Another claimer to land a winner was Ryan Treacy who took the beginners’ chase on John Ryan’s Draycott Place who comfortably saw off the well-supported Lord Adare to win. Danny Mullins took the 3m handicap chase on Moss Grove, the 10/1 chance winning for Dunmanway trainer Eamonn Fehily.

Cheltenham winning jockeys on the mark at Limerick on Saturday CHELTENHAM winning jockeys Davy Russell and Nina Carberry and trainer Willie Mullins were all on the score sheet at Limerick on Saturday. Russell took the honours with a double with Why Not Thistle, trained by Daniel Murphy in Midleton, coming from off the pace to win the mares’ maiden hurdle and the Eddie Hales-trained On Fiddlers Green in the 2m3f maiden hurdle. Nina Carberry won the Foxhunters’ Chase at Cheltenham and she was on board newcomer Vinciaettis who won the four-year-old bumper for restricted trainer Charlie Swan.

Willie Mullins landed the mares’ bumper with Kate Appleby Shoes who scored a 28-length win under Katie Walsh. Jim Dreaper enjoyed a memorable day and his Venitien De Mai battled well to win the 2m5f maiden hurdle under Andrew Lynch.

Kevin Sexton went close to Cheltenham success in the conditional riders’ hurdle at Cheltenham and scored a welcome success in the 3m handicap hurdle on the Aengus King-trained Change The Rules. Jonathan Moore and County Wexford-trainer Felim O’Dowd combined to win the 2m handicap hurdle with Occidental Lady.

Goonyella lands another big cross-channel prize for Jim Dreaper NO stranger to success in Britain, Jim Dreaper landed the Betfred Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter on Sunday with Goonyella, owned by Ann and Alan Potts and ridden by 18-year-old Jonathan Burke.

Michael Ronayne and family, Coolcormack Stud, Dungarvan former owners of Moon Racer with the horse after he won the Weatherby's Champion Bumper (Grade 1) on Wednesday last at Cheltenham.

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Moon Racer continues unbeaten run at Cheltenham DAVID Pipe's Moon Racer won the concluding bumper on Wednesday last at the Cheltenham Festival.

Although not getting the best position after a failed first attempt start by the field, Moon Racer made light of this to retain his unbeaten record under Tom Scudamore.

David Pipe stated after the race: “There is no

reason why he can’t come back here next year as a novice hurdler.

Moon Racer, when owned by Michael Ronayne won a bumper on his debut at Fairyhouse last Easter.

The fairytale story of Moon Racer began when as a yearling he was unsold at €250 and ended up fetching £225,000.

He was bred by Kilbragh Stud in Fethard, County Tipperary. Consigned to the Tattersalls August Sale as a four year old by F. Jordan, Moon Racer was bought by Michael Ronayne of Coolcormack Stud, Dungarvan for €5,000.

After landing a 50/1 shock debut at Fairyhouse last Easter he was sold five days later at the Brightwells Cheltenham Sale for £225,000.

Significant Irish success at Cheltenham bodes well for the future THE 2015 Cheltenham Festival was one to remember for Irish trainers with a final tally of 13 Irish-trained winners. It was a personal triumph for champion trainer Willie Mullins who set a new record with eight winners over the four days bringing his total number of winners at the Festival to 41.

Mullins set the pace on the opening afternoon, winning four of the first five races on the card. He became the first trainer to send out the first three horses home in the Stan James Champion Hurdle with the Ruby Walsh-ridden Faugheen, Arctic Fire and Hurricane Fly completing a clean sweep for Ireland. That success followed wins for Mullins and Walsh with Douvan in the Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and Un De

Sceaux in the Racing Post Arkle Chase and later Glens Melody, with Paul Townend in the saddle, took advantage of the fall of Annie Power at the final flight to win the OLBG Mares’ Hurdle. Gordon Elliott was also among the day one winners as Cause Of Causes won the Listed National Hunt Chase in the hands of champion point-to-point rider Jamie Codd.

Wednesday also started well for the Irish with Windsor Park taking the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle for Dermot Weld and Davy Russell. Mullins was on the mark with the exciting Don Poli who won the RSA Chase under Bryan Cooper. Tony Martin supplied Davy Russell with a second winner as Rivage D’or came out on top in an

eventful Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase.

In the only Irish-trained success on the third day of the Festival, Vautour stole the show with a masterful display in the JLT Novices’ Chase for Mullins and Ruby Walsh, who ended the week as the leading jockey with four winners.

Paul Townend added to his opening day double with victory on the Willie Mullins-trained Wicklow Brave in the Vincent O’Brien County Handicap Hurdle on day four. Mags Mullins and Adrian Heskin gained their first Festival success when Martello Tower battled to win the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle and Nina Carberry notched up her fifth career victory at Cheltenham with a win on Enda Bolger’s On The Fringe

in the St. James’s Place Foxhunter Chase. Having opened the meeting with a winner, it was fitting the Willie Mullins was responsible for Ireland’s final winner of the week as Killultagh Vic took the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle, giving 18year-old Luke Dempsey his first Cheltenham Festival winner.

Brian Kavanagh, CEO of Horse Racing Ireland, said: “To have 13 Irish-trained winners at Cheltenham this week is a great achievement and Irish National Hunt Racing has much to look forward to with the likes of Douvan, Un De Sceaux, Faugheen, Don Poli, Vautour and Windsor Park in the ranks. This is the perfect leadin to the major Irish Spring festivals at Fairyhouse and Punchestown in the coming weeks.”

Double for King at Dundalk on Friday FORMER champion apprentice Connor King landed an opening race double at Dundalk on Friday where a number of familiar names were among the winners. King took the opening 2m maiden on the Terence O’Brien-trained Viaduct Joey and followed up on David Marnane’s

Almadaa in the 6f handicap.

Wychwood Warrior ran in Meydan as recently as two weeks ago and he landed his second course success when taking the 7f race under Shane Foley.

The Denis Hogan-trained Burren View Lady landed quite a gamble

when winning the 7f handicap in the hands of Leigh Roche, the 11/4 favourite coming home a neck to the good over Moss Nation.

County Wexford prevailed by the same margin in the 1m handicap when scoring for trainer Jim Bolger and Daniel Redmond and another to

win by a neck was Cristy’s Call who won the 10f handicap for Gavin Cromwell and Ronan Whelan. Pivot Bridge won the 12f handicap for Ado McGuinness, the Declan McDonogh-ridden seven-year-old winning from Gordon Elliott’s Moonmeister.

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Waterford Sports Partnership MAYOR'S HEALTH WEEK 2015 - GET INVOLVED 11th TO 16th MAY Living a healthier life doesn't have to mean big changes. This year during Mayor’s Health Week Waterford Healthy City and Mayor Lola O'Sullivan want to encourage you to make a positive change and take up a new habit for health. We are inviting all organisations based in the Waterford Metropolitan Area to get involved by: • Organising an event for Mayor’s Health Week that supports more of our ‘habits for health & wellbeing’ • Use the opportunity to promote events already taking place • Support everyone connected to your organisation to take up a ‘habit for health & wellbeing’ during Mayors Health Week.

This is a great opportunity for your organisation to encourage positive change and get involved in promoting health and wellbeing in Waterford!

CLICK ON THE LINK TO FIND OUT MORE http://waterfordsportspartnership.blogspot.ie/2015/03/ mayors-health-week-2015get-involved.html ATTENTION SPORTS CLUBS PLANNING CAPITAL DEVELOPMENTS! THE CLOSING DATE

FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS IS 5 PM ON FRIDAY, 24th APRIL 2015.

NB - REGISTER FIRST

BY FRIDAY, 10th APRIL Any organisation that wishes to make an application must first register at w w w. s p o r t s c a p i t a l p r o gramme.ie A separate guide is available to the registration process at http://www.dttas.ie/sites/de fault/files/corporate/guideregistering-scp-online.pdf. on Friday, 24 April, 2015 The Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring TD, is pleased to announce the opening of the 2015 Sports Capital Programme for applications.

A fund of €40 million is available for development of sports facilities and the purchasing of sports equipment.

Applications are now sought from sports clubs, voluntary and community groups, national governing bodies of sport and local authorities.

Third level colleges, Education and Training Boards and schools may only apply for funding jointly with sports clubs.

Application can only be made online at www.sportscapitalprogramme.ie.

THE CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS IS 5 p.m. ON FRIDAY, 24th APRIL, 2015.

Ballyduff Upper Badminton Club LAST Thursday evening Waterford Badminton Association held the County finals night in Cappoquin.

This year we were lucky enough to be competing in 6 of the 30 finals. Before travelling we were gauranteed a county title coming back to the club with Breeda and Donna taking on Lisa and Mag in the H ladies doubles final.

Philip started the winning streak for us by claiming the men's H singles after a hard fought game against Jamie from Kilmacthomas BC. Then it was the showdown of Ballyduff v Ballyduff in the ladies H final. This game went down to the wire and was a hard fought game but by the narrowest of margins Lisa and Mag came out victorious. After trying all they could to overcome the strong partnership of Patrick and Jamie from Kilmac BC, Philip and Fergus unfortunately got beaten in the mens H doubles.

Jamie Kearney gave us a great game to watch, after losing the first set he fought hard in the 2nd set to get it and bring the game to a 3rd set. Jamie never gave up and it was that attitude and determination that got him that step ahead of Kilmacthomas’ Cian and earned him the title of Mens Novice single county champion.

Donna and Fergus were the last of the clubs pairings out. They were up against the young but talented duo of Jennifer and Ben from Lady Lane. Donna and Fergus settled into the game very fast and won themselves the title of H mixed doubles county champs.

From here we go on the represent Waterford in the Munsters. The singles are on the 29th of March in Clonlara Co. Limerick.

The doubles and mixed will be played two weeks later in UL. Best of luck to all club members taking part.

In juvenile news Emily Casey and Sarah O'Brien recently took part in the under 11 Division 1 Munster competition in UL. They were both beaten in the semi-finals of the singles but managed to make the final in the doubles. After a very hard fought game to a strong Cork duo the girls unfortunately got beaten.

It was still a great achievemnet to get to where they got, well done girls!!

Wednesday, the 18th, Sarah is bringing 20 of the juveniles to the schools competition in Balldoyle in Dublin.

This is a great opportunity for these young players to play in a renowned badminton centre. Best of luck to all participating!!

GAIN Horse Feeds and Alltech to sponsor Camphire International Horse Trials CIC*** 2015. Pictured at the launch at Camphire House are Mary Houlihan, Tourism Officer Waterford City & County Council; Mary Delaney, Head of Equine Gain Horse Feeds; Allen Brady, Camphire International Horse Trials; Michael Phillips, Business Manager Gain Horse Feeds; Paul Beecher on 'Loughnatousa Eric'; Paul Brady, Camphire International Horse Trials; Fergal McAdam, Regional Sales Manager ALLTECH; Joanne Hurley, Irish Equine Country Manager Gain Horse Feeds and Timothy Beecher, Loughnatousa Stud.

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GAIN Horse Feeds and Alltech to sponsor Camphire International Horse Trials CIC*** 2015 GAIN Horse Feeds and Alltech have announced their sponsorship of Camphire International Horse Trials CIC*** 2015.

Camphire International Horse Trials & Country Fair runs seven international classes on the spectacular grounds of Camphire House and the Browne family farm on the Blackwater River in County Waterford.

The event will take place from the 22nd to 26th July 2015. Horse trials are like an “equestrian triathlon”, involving three phases: dressage, cross-country jumping, and show jumping.

The sport has its roots in a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding, and is sometimes called the ultimate test of horsemanship.

Cllr.

James Tobin, Cathaoirleach, Waterford City & County Council, says

“Camphire International Horse Trials & Country Fair is a very important event in the annual Waterford Calendar of Festivals & Events.

As well as attracting a large Irish audience, the horse trials attracts hundreds of overseas visitors, with competitors travelling from all over the world. This event, which is growing annually, is making a significant contribution to the economy of West Waterford. It also presents a wonderful opportunity to showcase the beauty and attractions of the region.”

The GAIN/Alltech CIC*** is Camphire’s showcase class.

With a cross-country course designed by Mike Etherington-Smith, who regularly designs at CCI 4**** level for events such as the Olympics and the World Equestrian Games, the class attracts a great deal of international interest.

The CIC*** class last year drew 42 entries, including 19 international entries from Qatar, Sweden, the USA, and others. Competitors included Lucy Wiegersma of Great Britain, Olympian Lucinda Fredericks of Australia, and Irish Olympian and GAIN Horse Feeds customer Joseph Murphy.

“It’s a super class at a super event”, says Murphy.

“The facilities are top-notch and the setting around Camphire House on the Blackwater River is stunning.

It’s a great combination for competitors and spectators.”

GAIN and Alltech are longtime major sponsors of several equine events including the Autumn Grand Prix showjumping league in Ireland.

They are very excited to collaborate with Camphire as they have more and more customers in the eventing

sector, and the sponsorship of an event such as Camphire is GAIN and Alltech’s way of supporting the sector.

“GAIN and Alltech have been wonderful supporters of equestrian sport and of Camphire for a long time”, says Event Organiser Paul Brady.

“We are absolutely delighted they have come onboard with us at this level.

Camphire has become one of Ireland’s top trial and development venues and with the support of GAIN and Alltech we hope to be better than ever.

We have lots of plans for improvements for competitors, spectators, and our wonderful volunteers - thanks to our partners we’re looking forward to seeing these plans come to fruition.”

Mary Delaney, Head of Equine with GAIN Horse

Feeds, says, “GAIN are delighted to join forces with Alltech in sponsoring the fantastic Camphire CIC*** class.

We are official feed consultants to Team Ireland Equestrian and with the recent addition of event riders Joseph Murphy and Aoife Clarke as GAIN ambassadors, we are very excited about what lies ahead for the eventers and Camphire in 2015.”

Fergal McAdam, regional sales manager at Alltech, says, “Alltech is delighted to be sponsoring Camphire this year in partnership with GAIN Horse Feeds with whom we work very closely. Camphire is a fantastic and unique event and we are delighted to continue our support of equestrian sport in Ireland following on from the success of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy last year.”

Dungarvan Rugby Club MINIS BLITZ A HUGE SUCCESS What a difference between our Blitz last Saturday and the one two weeks ago. The conditions were perfect for rugby and the turn-out reflected that.

Youghal and Fermoy were the visiting teams and they provided us with some very stiff competition.

Our tackling abilities were a great positive for us at all levels of minis.

There is always room for improvement as we were exposed and let down with our passing.

Well done to all the mini age groups for some fantastic team and individual performances.

Thanks again to all parents for their generosity and support on the day.

Our final blitz of the season is on next Saturday when we travel to Youghal. On the pitch for 10.15 am and again car pool where you can.

Just to remind everyone of our last day of the season, the following Saturday, with our "Fun Day". This starts at usual time of 10.30 am.

Parents are invited to stay and join in the fun.

UNDER 15'S The Dungarvan Under 15's played Waterpark in a friendly last Saturday at Ballyrandle. The visitors crossed for a well taken try after 9 minutes which was converted by their impressive out half Ben Daly. Despite a good effort, the Waterpark fly half added two further tries before the interval, when Dungarvan's inexperience allowed gaps to appear and they were punished.

Dungarvan spread the ball really well at times and should have scored at least one try before the interval.

After the break, Waterpark added two more tries but Dungarvan played much better as a team and gave as good as they got, except on the scoreboard. They almost got over the line on three separate occasions but the visitors experience told and denied the 15's a score.

There were a number of good individual performances and the players will have learned from the outing.

Squad: Conor Scanlon, Mike Walsh, Dermot Lannen, Padraig Dee, Jack Hickey, Jack Lombard, Matthew Healy-White, Ted Kelly, Adam Power, Kieran Lannen, Luke Power, Robbie Mc Grath, Michael Kiely, Kieran Keating, Eoin Bohane, Oisin O’Mahoney, James Kiely, Matthew Hickey, Jack Hickey, Thomas Ahern, Eoin Ahearne, Sean Lennon and Paul Lannen.

NEXT FIXTURE As Kilfeacle beat Nenagh, the East Munster Development league final is now between Kilfeacle and Dungarvan. Provisionally scheduled for 11.00 am in Clonmel next Sunday (22nd).

Although Dungarvan won all of their league games, the last match versus Kilfeacle was a close run affair at 5-3.

So we know this is going to be a humdinger of a match with two opposing styles of play. Having failed narrowly to make Pan Munster, we set our sights at winning this league.

Next Sunday, we get the opportunity

to make this ambition come true!

Supporters at match welcome!

All players requested to train hard Wednesdays 7.30 pm and Saturdays 10.30 am.

IRELAND The Irish mens team's hopes of a Grand Slam came to an end on Saturday in Cardiff. They were met with a fired-up home side who tore into the Irish team from kick-off.

When Ireland settled into the pace of the game, they were playing catchup to the hosts. Too many players didn't perform on the day and were exposed for their limitations. At least, a Championship is still on the cards and it should go down to points difference at the weekend.

The good news is that the Women's team led by our own Niamh Briggs won at the weekend.

A surprise result in Italy threw the championship open and with England playing France on Saturday, Ireland will know what they require on Sunday in Scotland to lift the six Nations Trophy.