Rathkeale News

COMMUNITY CARDS
RESULTS: 1st prize, Denis O’Keeffe, Maureen
O’Shea; John and Peg Mulvihill.
Table prizes: Sean McElligott, John Dolan;
Sean McElligott, John Dolan.
Raffle: b40 Marie Wrenn, b20 Jim Langan,
b10 Mike Kerins, b10 Tom Hogan, b10 Mike
Kerins.

SYMPATHY
Sincere sympathy is extended to mother May,
brothers Michael and Jason, sisters Linda,
Sharon, Tracey, Rachel, Georgina, aunts,
uncles, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends
on the untimely death of James Dowling, St.
Mary’s Park. May he rest in peace.

HALLOWEEN
Do you know where your child will be on
Halloween night? Who will they be with or
what will they be up to? Over the past number
of Halloween nights there has been a serious
amount of vandalism in the town. The powers
that be want to see a quiet peaceful
Halloween this year.

HALLOWEEN DISCO – FANCY
DRESS
On Sunday, October 25, a Halloween Disco,
Fancy Dress, Benefit Night will be held in
Davy Mann’s Hotel. b10 admission at the
door. Strictly over 18s. This is for a fantastic
cause and your support will be appreciated.

JOBSEEKERS PROGRAMME
Two day intensive
jobseekers programme. West Limerick
Resources will be offering a free two day
intensive job seekers programme in
Patrickswell on November 4 and 5. Course will
cover all aspects of job seeking skills and is
open to long term and short term unemployed
people. If interested in attending for
more information please contact Liam or
Helen at the Jobs Club. 069 77664 or 069
77668 or email: jobsclub@email.com

CEMETERY PRAYERS
Cemetery prayers will be held on November
25 after 11.30am.

OLDER PEOPLE’S NETWORK
West Limerick Resources aims to establish a
network for older peoples groups to help
inform the company’s strategy in relation to
future initiatives in the area. The first meeting
will be held in Newcastle west on
Thursday, October 22, 2.30pm to 4.30pm.
Here West Limerick Resources will provide an
overview of the variety of supports currently
available in the community. For information
or to register interest in attending contact
Suzanne 069 79114.

SYMPATHY
Sincere sympathy is extended to mother May,
brothers Michael and Jason, sisters Linda,
Sharon, Tracey, Rachel and Georgina, uncles,
aunts, relatives and friends on the untimely
death of James Dowling, St. Mary’s Park. May
he rest in peace.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Rathkeale and District Historical Society. The
next meeting of Rathkeale and District
Historical Society will be held at the Sheltered
Housing Complex, meeting room, on Friday,
October 23, at 8.30pm – Enniscouch.
Edward Walsh, folklorist, teacher and
O’Connellite, Fr J.J. O’Riordan C.S.S.R., all are
welcome to attend and admission is free.

SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE
ISANDS, the Irish Stillbirth and Neonatal
Death Society, will be holding a Service of
Remembrance called “A Time to Remember”
in Holy Trinity Church, Adare on Sunday,
October 25 at 3pm. This special service is for
all parents, family members and friends who
have had to cope with the tragic and untimely
death of their infant, child, teenager or adult
son or daughter.

WINTER TIME
REMINDER
Please note that Winter Time begins
this weekend. The clock will go back
one hour from 1am on Sunday morning,
October 25.

GET WELL
Get well wishes are extended to
Johnny Mooney, who is at present in
hospital in Cork, after a sojourn in
the Regional Hospital, Limerick as a
result of an accident whilst playing
soccer. To his delight the nurses are
dancing to his every whim. All the
staff at EuroSpar, Rathkeale, miss
him and are hoping to see him back
soon.

ATHLETICS SUCCESS
Dungarvan in Co. Waterford, was the
venue on Sunday last for the
Munster even age cross country
championships and the St. Mary’s
A.C., Boys U-16 team were making
their annual pilgrimage to that most
demanding of events. This time the
distance was a formidable 3,000m,
over a rather flat course with one
long gradual incline but it would suit
the sprinters/track athletes more
than the real cross country runner.
A healthy sixty athletes or more
lined up at the start and after the
usual hectic sprint the real race
developed. It was obvious from the
beginning that race favourites
Togher A.C., were well in command
with four athletes in the top twelve
but our boys ‘packed’ well in real
cross country style with Ciaran
English striving very hard to catch up
to Darren Jones who was motoring
well inside the top twenty.
Declan Mullane too was moving well
keeping his companions in sight
while at the halfway stage Martin
Roche was our fourth and scoring
runner but a little encouragement
from the sideline was enough to get
Steve O’Reilly into a longer stride
and he gave chase to close the gap
on Martin as did young Mark Mullane
a little further back. The quality of
athletes in this particular age group
has been very strong all the way up
along since U-10 and it was evident
that all these boys had trained really
hard for the distance and there
would be no hand medals on offer on
the day (nor did we expect any). The
race finished with Darren Jones a
very creditable 16th closely followed
by Ciaran (17th), Declan (28th), Steve
(30th) and Martin and Mark just
behind these boys.
With only four to score it would be
very easy to opt out and let some
other four do the hard work but tactically
it was one of the best races
ever for all these boys as a team
with each and every one of them
fighting to make the scoring four and
putting pressure and offering
encouragement to each other. In the
end it paid off when the results
showed that the team finished third
in such a high quality entry, beaten
by a brilliant team from Togher and
a very good Clonmel A.C. team.
Considering that these boys have
never finished outside of the top
three teams in Munster cross country
in the last five years over distances
that have increased steadily
from 800m to 3,000m, then that is a
considerable achievement, one that
each one of them should be very
proud of. Our training has been hampered
with injury over the last
month as all of them expect Darren
have suffered at one time or another
so hopefully we will get an injury
free ‘run’ for the next month in our
training for the All Ireland which will
be on in Westmeath on November 22
(they will be contesting their sixth in
a row).
Finally on behalf of the team I would
like to wish a speedy recovery to
Eoin O’Donnell who has been out of
action for the last two weeks but he
still travelled on Sunday to cheer on
his team and hopefully we will have
him back for the national final. Well
done also to the parents that travelled
as always with this team, long
may it continue.