Local Notes

CARDS
FIRST prize John Dolan and Sean McElligott.
2nd prize John Mulvihill and Peg Mulvihill.
Table prizes: Vinnie Wren and Joan
Fitzgibbon, Brid Guerin and Peggie Lynch.
Raffle: Season Ticket, Irene Donovan and
Maureen O’Shea. b20 Sean McElligott. b10
each to Mike Robinson and Sean McElligott.

POKER CLASSIC
Don’t forget the poker classic on Saturday,
October 17 next at 9pm sharp in Rathkeale
House Hotel.
Proceeds to the Respite Unit, St. Ita’s
Community Hospital, Newcastlewest. b50 to
play, meal served. Side games to suit all players.
Donations or spot prizes from non players
gratefully accepted and officially acknowledged.
Please note early start. See you there.
Enquiries to Mick Neville 087-6567352.

MASS
There will be no 9.30am Mass this Thursday.
There will be 7.30pm Mass Thursday evening
instead.

YOUNG PRIESTS SOCIETY
The monthly meeting of St. Joseph’s Young
Priests Society will be held in St. Anne’s
Convent, on Thursday, October 15 at 8pm.

RATHKEALE PASTORAL
COUNCIL
Pastoral Council meeting will be held on
Monday, at 7.30pm in Rathkeale House Hotel.
All members requested to attend.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
A grant has become available for the purchasing
of personal alarms through the St.
Vincent de Paul. Anyone living alone or anyone
who feels they need one, should leave
their names and addresses into the St.
Vincent de Paul shop by October 16.

ARTS GROUP
A concert with the Irish Chamber Orchestra in
Rathkeale Community Centre on Sunday,
October 25 at 8pm. Tickets b15 or two for
b25. Supervised parking, doors close at 8pm.
Tickets available from library, John Dinnage
or Carmel Wilmot.

MISSION SUNDAY
Next Sunday is Mission Sunday, it marks the
annual worldwide Catholic Celebration of
Mission Sunday, the theme for which is Reach
Out. Our prayers and donations on Mission
Sunday help to support mission projects and
allow Catholic communities worldwide to
become self sufficient and progress according
to their needs and traditions.
A special collection will be taken up next
Sunday by the Society for the Propagation of
the Faith in aid of church’s mission activities.

BEST WISHES
Best wishes to Orla Ryan who celebrated her
birthday with family and friends last
Saturday.

PHONE RECYCLING
Your local Primary School St. Anne’s has
joined www.phonesforboards.com mobile
phone recycling campaign.
This is in an effort to raise awareness of, and
funds for the Jack and Jill Foundation and is
providing, free of charge, new equipment for
our school. We will receive a free Promothean
Interactive Whiteboard for every 300 mobile
phones collected.

UNDER-10 GIRLS SHIELD
The U10 girls played their second game
against Holly Cross on Sunday.
The team lined out with Emma Harnett in
goals, Zoe Mulcair in the backs with Kelly
Naughton in midfield. We had Casey
O’Riordan, Rachel, Chloe Cunningham and up
front was Katie Brennan and Maeve Power.
The game started well for the girls and had a
lot of pressure on and it paid off after seven
minutes when Maeve Power scored a great
goal with her left foot. At this stage you
would have thought they would go on and win
handy enough but bad decision making in the
backs allowed a soft goal in to make it one
all.
The girls picked it up again and went two one
up again from a goal from Katie Brennan and
then went three one up, another goal from
Katie.
The game was nearing half time and with the
girls well on top gave away another goal to
make it three two at half time.
The second half started brightly again for the
home side and within five minutes Maeve got
her second and at this stage Emily Hogg
replaced Kelly and Emily got straight in to it
and cleared a lot of ball from the backs.
The midfield of Casey Rachel and Chloe
worked hard and were well on top, Chloe
doing a good job on marking Holly Cross, best
player.
At this stage it was all Rathkeale and they
should have had another few goals. Jesse
Williams came on for Casey for her first under
ten game and played well. With time running
out it was left to Maeve to complete her hat
trick with another well taken goal to leave the
score 5-2. It was great to see these girls put in
a better performance than two weeks ago but
they will have tougher games ahead.

PIONEERS
Annual dinner dance will be held in Rathkeale
House Hotel on Friday, October 16 at 8pm.
Music by Peter Burke. Tickets b25 each, available
from Joe Downes, Bishop Street,
Newcastle West, 069-62209.

ROSARY
Reminder: The Holy Rosary is being prayed
every evening during the month of October at
7pm, at the Marian Shrine, Church Street.
Everyone is welcome.

CONQUER CANCER
THE annual church gate collection in aid of
Conquer Cancer is being taken up at all
Masses this weekend, October 17 and 18.

BRIDGE CLUB RESULTS
First prize: Marjorie O’Connell, Sean Hanratty.
2nd prize: Pat Neville, Richard Langford. 3rd
prize: Gretta Looney, Clare Hanratty, Lucy
Noonan, Mary Kennedy.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The following is the schedule of talks for the
Rathkeale and District Historical Society for
the 2009-2010 season. All meetings will be
held at the Sheltered Housing meeting room,
Enniscouch, Rathkeale at 8.30pm with the
exception of the AGM which will be held in
Rathkeale House Hotel.
October 23: “Edward Walsh, Folklorist,
Teacher and O’Connellite” – Fr. J.J. Riordan,
CSSR, Limerick.
November 13: “The Munster Fusilier” – Dr.
Tadhg Moloney.
November 27: “The War of Independence in
Co. Limerick - with particular reference to
West Limerick” – Tom Twomey, local
historian.
January 29, 2010: This evening is scheduled
for our series of local talks. An invitation is
extended to anyone who is researching
aspects of local history in the locality and is
prepared to give a talk of approximately 15
minutes duration on their topic of study. A
question and answer session will be held at
the end of the night.
If you are interested in giving a talk, please
contact Patrick Coleman 087-9342937 advising
as to the prepared topic and possible
duration of your presentation.
February 12, 2010: “Places, Names and
Mythology – including the origins of people
and places” – Dr. Ruairi O’Hilligin NUIM.
February 26, 2010: “Early Church Sites and
Doon Place Names in Co. Limerick” – Dr.
Brendan Curtin.
March 12, 2010: “Irish Migrants in Early
France, C. 1600 – C. 1800” – Liam Chambers
UL.
March 26, 2010: “Religion, Politics and
Culture on Post-Independence Ireland, Some
Reflections” – Louise Fuller NUIM.

SYMPATHY
Sincere sympathy is extended to wife Helen,
daughter Susan, sons Paul, David, Peter, sister
Marie, brothers Liam and Pa, nephews,
nieces, relatives and friends on the untimely
death of Micho Dunne recently. May he Rest
in Peace.

BIRTHDAY
Best wishes to Olga Frawley-O’Halloran who
celebrated her big 40 in Mann’s Hotel,
Rathkeale on Saturday last with family and
friends