Rathkeale Notes

CARDS
FIRST prize Irene Donovan and Eileen Griffin. 2nd Jim Langan and Peter Donovan. Table prizes: Sean Dolan and Sean McElligott, Billy O’Sullivan and Joe Sheridan.
Raffle: €40 Eileen Griffin. €20 Peter Donovan. €10 each Betty Kerins, Willie Keating and Vinnie Wrenn.

SYMPATHY
Sincere sympathy is extended to Brian and Lorraine Dunne and family, Orchard Avenue, on the death of Brian’s mother Dorothy recently. May she Rest in Peace.

BRIDGE CLUB RESULTS
1st prize Angela Hanlon and Kay Clarkin. 2nd Birdie Duggan and Eileen Fitzsimons. 3rd Greta Looney and Clare Hanratty. 4th Pat Neville and Moira Roche.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
The First Holy Communion Mass will be celebrated on Sunday, May 23 at 11am. We ask Jesus to bless the children on this special day.

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE
Led by Bishop Murray will be held from Sunday, June 21 to Friday, June 26 direct from Shannon Airport. Fare €695. (Hospital pilgrim €595). Contact Lourdes office 061-314111 Monday to Friday 10.30am-1pm and 2-4pm.

PLAYGROUP
Over the past 30-40 years Rathkeale and its people have been promised so much time and time again but year in year out the inevitable happens. We are let down again. The latest venture “The Playground” that the committee and the people had looked forward to for so long is put on the long finger until 2010 or 2011.
ST. BRIGID’S WELL
St. Brigid’s Well annual Mass will be held at 6am on Sunday, July 5.

RATHKEALE WORLDWIDE
Reminder: Internet blog site for Rathkeale brings news to people locally and around the world at http.//Rathkeale news.blogspot.com.

ST. JOSEPH’S CEMETERY
The people who are buried in our cemeteries and especially St. Joseph’s cemetery deserve respect and honour. Graveyards are not and have never been playgrounds for children. If you have a loved one buried there you do not need to find the grave desecrated and vandalised. A number of graves have been vandalised recently, this will not be tolerated under any condition.

ATHLETICS
The results from our recent Track and Field championships were very heartening. Our young girls won the first four sprints in a row at u/9 Sophie Meredith and Aoife Corbett 8th, u/10 Mary O’Connor from Shanagolden, u/11 Maeve Power and u/12 Eadaoinn Lyons with Tara Coleman 2nd and Sarah Enright 5th.
Our boys were just as impressive with three of them making their club debut, Andrew Meade an excellent second u/9 60m and likewise Micheál Mulcahy a very close third; Michael Shanahan was very unlucky to lose out on the medals finishing fourth in a tough 300m and also enjoying the ball throw and long jump as did Molly Gleeson, both of these young athletes only recently joined from Coolcappa.
Sophie in fact won the 60 and 300m.
Well done to all our athletes.
Training: Training continues on this Thursday evening and on Sunday morning at the usual times.
Best Wishes: Good luck to our three athletes off to Athlone for the National Community Games cross country finals, Christopher Mulcahy, ‘Bud’ White and Brian Meade, all will be making their debut for Limerick in this event. Also to club members Sarah Lanigan and Fiachra O’Gorman and to all the Limerick athletes and managers.
Singlets: If anyone has club singlets could they please drop them off at training.

WORKSHOPS
Arising from the meeting held recently in Rathkeale, regarding the future of Rathkeale and its people, workshops are being held on Sunday, May 24 at 2.30pm and Monday, May 25 at 8pm in the Community Centre. The hall was packed to capacity on the night of the meeting. A very positive feeling arose from the meeting and hopefully it will be expanded as time goes on.