MITCHELSTOWN GOLF CLUB

- Christmas party this Saturday -

There are still some tickets available for the club Christmas party, which will take place on this Saturday night. This promises to be a wonderful night for members and their friends. Tickets are priced at €20.

Plans for the night include a mulled wine reception at 7.30pm, a happy hour between 8pm and 9pm with all drinks priced at just €2, a meal which will be served at 9.30pm, loads of spot prizes and dancing to Pacific Blue till the early hours.

It is important to acknowledge the hard work put into the organisation of this night by the social committee. This group has been working like Trojans all year and this event wouldn’t be happening without the effort they have made. The clubhouse will be decorated specifically for the occasion.

Members have being asking for a Christmas party for the last couple of years. The club has responded with this event. Spot prizes will be drawn on the ticket numbers so remember to bring your ticket along with you on Saturday night. Don’t forget also that members can invite their friends along also to what promises to be a superb night.

Tickets are available through committee members, from Joanne in the office or from the bar staff. Your support for this event would be welcome.

As we head into our centenary year, the club will be looking at how well this event is supported when it will be planning events for 2010. These events will only prove successful if the members make the effort to support them. Don’t be the hurler on the ditch all your life!

If you are always whinging and whining about “the club not doing things”, well this is your chance to support something special.

If you don’t, and you have no other reason other than not wanting to support it, then isn’t it time for you to stop whinging and whining at the members of our club who make every effort at organising events like this for all the members.

MASS FOR OUR DECEASED MEMBERS

Mass for our deceased members will be held in the clubhouse this Thursday night, November 26 at 8pm. Everyone welcome to attend.

CHRISTMAS PRIZE COMPETITIONS

The weather has caused the cancellation of the Christmas hamper event over recent weeks. This event will be re-scheduled over the coming weeks and a new date will be advised in due course.

In the meantime the usual Christmas events will take place. Domestic cuts will apply for these events. Details posted on the notice board. These events are open to visitors.

SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS THIS CHRISTMAS

Mitchelstown Golf Club is very grateful to its numerous event sponsors during the year. sponsors are a vital asset to any club. Mitchelstown Golf Club is very thankful to all its sponsors and wish them all a prosperous and peaceful Christmas. Members are urged to support these generous sponsors as we head up to Christmas.

MITCHELSTOWN LADIES GOLF

LADIES AGM
Our annual general meeting was held on Friday, 20th November in the clubhouse with a large attendance. Hon Secretary, Mary Gorey, gave a comprehensive report of the club’s activates during 2009, followed by a detailed financial report from hon treasurer Margaret Ryan and all agreed that it was a very good performance in the current climate.

Our outgoing lady captain, Eithne Bermingham, addressed the meeting paying tribute to all the ladies teams especially the Duhallow and junior foursome, she thanked all her committee for their work during the year and also the support received from the men’s club and Jerry Riordan.

Eithne referred to the juniors as the foundation of the club and commended the great work of Mary Gorey and Kieran Clancy. She wished the Galtee Golden Girls every success and hoped they go from strength to strength. Eithne acknowledged some of the other achievements of the club during the year.

Philomena O’Sullivan winning the Munster seniors’ golf championship cup, Noreen Anderson’s outstanding score of 51pts and junior girls captain, Lorna Beston’s, hole in one. She thanked all the staff for their help and co-operation during the year and Margaret Ann Hanley for her work with the beginners.

Eithne thanked all those who helped with sponsorship during the year and encouraged all members where possible to support them. On a sad note Eithne remembered the late Cait O’Connor and acknowledged her great contribution to the club over the years.

Finally, Eithne wished the incoming captain Ann Kelleher and the new committee the very best for 2010. Our new lady captain, Ann Kelleher, took the chair and said it was an honour to take the position of lady captain of Mitchelstown Golf Club especially for the centenary year.

Ann was delighted to propose Delia McGrath as vice captain followed by the election of the following officers and committee for 2010: Lady Captain: Ann Kelleher. Vice Captain: Delia McGrath. Hon Treasurer: Margaret Ryan. Hon Secretary: Mary C Williams-Murphy. Handicap Secretary: Brid Seymour. Competition Secretary: Ita Luddy. Committee: Lisa Brenock, Orla Lee, Mary Gorey and Elizabeth Maher.

We take this opportunity to congratulate the outgoing captain and committee on a great year and thank them for all the hard work and wish Ann Kelleher the very best for 2010.

RESULTS AND FIXTURES

Wednesday, 18th November, fourteen hole stableford competition was won by Nellie Wiley (28) 33pts and 2nd Breda Murphy (28) 31pts. The winter league, second round, did not count, as the required two thirds of the league participants did not play.

26/11/2009 – Mass for deceased members. 28/11/2009 – Christmas party. 28th, 29th November, 1st and 2nd December – Annual Christmas cake sponsored by Eileen Finn. 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th December Bottle Day. 13/12/2009 Children’s party and Santa. 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th December Bonanza Day (bring and win). 18th December presentation of prizes, mulled wine and mince pies.

FERMOY ROWING CLUB

- Celebration night in honour of 125 years! -

FERMOY ROWING CLUB 1884-2009

125TH ANNIVERSARY

To mark the end of our 125th anniversary year. we are holding a celebration night on Saturday, November 28th which will take place at The Grand Hotel, Fermoy. The evening will commence at 7pm with the launch of Dr. Barry Connolly’s book, ‘Memories of 125 years of Rowing’.

This book is not a history of the club but contains stories from past member and member of the club. This will be followed by a meal at 8pm, after which a presentation of scrolls will be made to members to mark their commitment and involvement in the club over the last 25 years.

Tickets for this wonderful night of celebration will cost €30, including a meal and music in the bar afterwards.

Should you wish to attend this night, tickets are available from Patrick Granville, Etha Murphy, Jim Hackett or John Murphy. Tickets to this event are limited so booking is advised.

TABLE QUIZ

There are 3 more table quizzes to be held before Christmas. Next Monday, 30th November is in aid of Blackwater Day Group. Monday, 7th December is in aid of Friends of Chernobyl and the following week, 14th December is for Fermoy Rowing Club.

ON THE ROWING FRONT

Training has been seriously interrupted over the past number of weeks with high water levels. The land training is in full swing but crews need much more training on the water. The club hopes conditions will pick up over the coming weeks. Many head of the river time trials have been cancelled due to the bad weather.

KILWORTH JUVENILE G.A.A.

- Juvenile social fantastic -

Our annual juvenile social took place on Friday night last in The Firgrove Hotel, Mitchelstown. A very large crowd attended as expected of both juveniles and adults alike.

Proceedings got underway with a most delightful meal. Then our chairman John Sheehan spoke for a short while, he said he was delighted with the fine turnout and thanked everyone for coming. John thanked all his fellow officers for all the hard work put in throughout the past 12 months. It’s not easy but we do it, as to keep our juvenile club going.

He also thanked Michael Dunne and John Horgan of the handball club for all the fine coaching down through the year and yes we had a few good county wins and an All-Ireland win. So well done to all involved. As Michael Dunne was not present with us a presentation was made on his behalf and was accepted by one of his family.

Also John spoke of our vice president the late Bill Coughlan. Bill was always on hand to help in the pitch. At juvenile matches wherever. Then a minute’s silence was held as a mark of respect to the late Nora Dunne and Bill Coughlan. May they both rest in peace.

Tom Pierce spoke and said a very nice few encouraging words, also our special guest Elton Pierce spoke too, just telling the juveniles to keep up the training, keep listening to your coaches, saying you might not always win but it’s playing that matters.

Then it was down to business, presentation of medals. So with a lot of silverware on display a lot of medals had to be presented. Medals were presented to U8 and U10 (certificates) for ground hurling, U11, U12 hurling championship, U14 hurling championship plus U14 football league and U16 hurling championship.

Presentations were made to all coaches of winning teams plus to our special guests. Well done to all coaches and selectors of all teams in Kilworth over the last 12 months. Photos of all teams were taken out in the hotel lobby.

The chairman thanked The Firgrove Hotel and staff for the fine meal and then he handed over to the disco man The Bear who cared for the juveniles for the rest of the night. A raffle took place as the night went on.

Just to say a special thanks to all our sponsors. Also thanks to anyone who sponsored in any other way to make this night plain sailing. So thanks to our ticket sellers, people patrolling the doors and to anyone who helped in any way on the night or the days leading up to it.

So to our juveniles it was their night. They were so well behaved. Well what can you say, I know (hats off to them), you were just fantastic. You were a pleasure to work with. So a great night was had by each and everybody. Hopefully we will do it all again next year.

HANDBALL NEWS

Handball training on every Saturday at 11am, so boys and girls that’s the place to be each Saturday.

BEREAVEMENTS

The club would like to extend deepest sympathy to the Galvin family, Lacken, Conna, the O’Brien family, Sean, Ballyduff and the Hurley family, Garryanne, Conna on their recent bereavements. Rest in peace.

AGM TIME AGAIN

Our annual general meeting takes place on next Thursday, December 3, 2009 in the clubhouse at 8pm. As you know by now the club is run on a voluntary basis. A big number of juveniles involved during 2009, great success, thank God. So this takes a lot of training put in by teams, coaches and selectors. We are asking for more parent involvement during 2010.

So for our club to continue and be successful we need your presence at our (your) AGM on the night. Please make a big effort because it’s your children’s future on the playing fields. So we will see you there.

THREE COUNTIES MOTORCYCLE CLUB

- Very successful run for Chloe -

Saturday, 7th November saw us taking to the roads again. To say that the weather that morning was bad would have been an understatement.

As we set off for Galway from the Topaz Garage in Mitchelstown at 7.30am, we all knew in our hearts what a challenging day we were going to have ahead us but we also knew that the cause we were supporting was indeed a worthy one.

Getting into Galway around 10am and feeling the cold the first port of call for us would be to get some warm food into as we knew we hadn’t even started the run yet. 215 bikes left the Dunnes Stores on Briar Hill at 11.30am and headed out through the wonderful back roads of Co Galway to Murrisk where we had our lunch stop.

The soup and lunch went down a treat and was really appreciated. After a nice lunch break and all warmed up again we set off on our way for the second half of the run. This was to take in Westport and Castlebar before we took the N84 back down to Galway again.

We clocked up 380km on the day from Mitchelstown in what can only be described as the most challenging weather ever experienced on a charity run. We had a wonderful night in the Menlo Park Hotel where there were two live bands and a DJ to entertain us for the night.

Chloe’s father, Patrick Flaherty, did the raffle on the night and also wished to thank everyone for their support. I have been in touch with Patrick since and he asked me to thank the ten others that travelled up from this side to support his family on the day.

The run alone rose over €27,000 on the day for his very special girl.

CONGRATULATIONS

The club would like to congratulate Joe and Shirley Spillane on the recent birth of their baby boy Scott, the club would like to also wish Rita Murphy of Murphy’s Jewellers, Mitchelstown a very long and happy retirement and would wish to thank her for all the support she has shown to the club over the years.

CASTLEBRIDGE CELTIC F.C.

- U14s in National Cup -

On Sunday next our U14 team will travel the short journey over Strawhall to take on near neighbours Fermoy in the SFAI National Cup. This will be the biggest game our lads have played so far this season and will be a huge test for them.

Fermoy have a very strong underage structure and have a very large squad to choose from. Our lads know most of the Fermoy players from school and it will very much be a friendly rivalry between these two sides and we hope a very good game.

Joe Hartnett should have a full squad to pick from and all the lads are looking forward to the game. Kick off on Sunday is 11.45am in the Fermoy grounds, all our supporters are asked to try and get there to help the lads on.

UNDERAGE TRAINING

Underage training will continue this week as usual with U10s at 6pm on Wednesday and on Thursday with training for U11s, U12s at 6pm and U15s, U14s and U13s at 7pm in Bridesbridge.

Joe Hartnett will be looking for all players to attend training to get ready for the national cup game this Sunday. On Saturday there are U16 and U12 league games at home to Cappoquin so again all players should make the effort.

FIXTURES

Sat.; Nov 28: U12 League v Cappoquin, Bridesbridge KO 11am. Players be at dressing rooms for 10.30am. Sat.; Nov 28: U16 League v Cappoquin, Bridesbrdige, KO 12.20pm. Players to be at dressing rooms for 11.45am. Sun.; Nov 29: U14 National Cup v Fermoy, in Fermoy, KO 11.45am. Players to be at dressing rooms in Fermoy for 11am. No junior fixtures this weekend due to Oscar Traynor and youths inter leagues matches.

LOTTO

Thursday, Nov 19th: Draw held The Peddlar’s Rock. Numbers drawn: 39, 48 and 67. No winner. Match 2: Donal O’Connell. Next draw will be held on Nov 26th in Abbey Bar. Jackpot: €3,250. Tickets available from usual sellers.

CONGRATULATIONS

Best wishes to Conor and Breeda from all at Castlebridge on the birth of twin boys this week. We now have another two future Celtic players in the pipeline! Congratulations and a happy and healthy future for the two boys from all of us.

Castlebridge Celtic wish to thank all our weekly lotto members and in particular Frankie Shaw, James Ronayne, The Abbey Bar and The Peddlar’s Rock for their ongoing support.

GALBALLY RFC

- Laura leads Carraig girls to East Cork gold -

1ST AND 2NDS IN ACTION

Galbally 1sts beat Kanturk 18-13 in the league in Galbally last Sunday. Galbally remain unbeaten in the league after four games, in 2nd position three points behind the leaders with a game in hand.

Galbally had the assistance of a very strong wind in the first half and were three points ahead after 5 minutes from a penalty by Karl Bourke.

Shortly afterwards full back Niall McNamara kicked deep into the Kanturk half, which they failed to deal with. Steven Bourke was up quickly to collect the loose ball and run in for a try, which Karl Bourke converted.

Midway through the first half winger Des Lane used his pace to win the race to collect the ball in the corner and score a good try. Just before the break Karl Bourke added another penalty to leave the score 18-0 at halftime. Kanturk battled hard in the 2nd half scoring 2 penalties midway through the half.

Galbally defended very well against the strong wind but in the final minute Kanturk were rewarded with a converted penalty try to earn them a losing bonus point. The Galbally forwards were outstanding on the day with Brendan Childs and Steven Bourke competing well in the lineout.
The team lined out as follows: Niall McNamara, Karl Bourke, Jack Hedigan, James Stapleton, Des Lane, Liam Casey, Philip Moore, Martin Mulberry, Eoin Walsh, Timmy Casey, Willie Casey, Brendan Childs, Ian Ryan, James Taylor (capt) and Steven Bourke. Sub used: George Costello.

Galbally 2nds drew 17 all with Kilfeacle in Kilfeacle in the Gleeson league. Kilfeacle played with the strong wind in the 1st half and led 10-3 at the break. Galbally’s score coming from a penalty by outhalf Kevin Hickey.

At the start of the 2nd half Richard Stapleton scored a good individual try, which Kevin Hickey converted to tie the game at 10 all. Kilfeacle regained the lead midway through the half with a converted try.

In the final minutes scrumhalf Pakie Sheehan kicked a ball deep into the Kilfeacle half. Kevin Hickey was first up to collect the loose ball and score the try. Hickey added the conversion to leave the final score 17-17.

Manager Pat McGrath was delighted with the team performance and hailed the ball retention of the forwards, especially in the first half against the strong wind. The team lined out as follows: Frank Cussen, Pakie Sheehan, Wayne McCarthy, Richard Bourke, Denis Fraher, Kevin Hickey, Tom Davern, Brendan O’Halloran, Darragh Fitzgearald, Johan Gouws, Richard Stapleton, John Barry, Tom Coffey, Jamie Hedigan and Paddy O’Brien. Subs used: Derry Murphy, David Conway and Michael McGrath.

FIXTURES

This Sunday, Nov 29th Galbally 2nds play Clanwilliam 2nds in the Gleeson league in Clanwilliam at 12.00. Galbally 1sts play Newcastlewest in the league in Galbally at 2.30. All support will be hugely appreciated.