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Windgap Parish Newsletter 16/17 Jan

31/1/2016

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Recent Death: Larry Meagher, Auckland, New Zealand, & Springmount
Anniversaries:   
Windgap: Nicholas and Mary O’Shea,
Mealoughmore; Joe Murray, Garrythomas; Lina Power and James Power, Knockroe; Sean Power, Knockroe; and Mrs Ann Gallagher (née Power), Edgeworthstown; George Hennessy, Seskin & Rossaneny; Mrs Angela Farrell, Johnstown.
Tullahought: Mary Moore, Birchwood; James Walsh, Kilmacoliver; Mary Walsh, Pollrone.
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Mass Times (weekend):
Windgap: Saturday,
7.30 p.m. Tullahought: Sunday, 10 a.m. Windgap:
Readers
: January: 2, Ann Foley; 9, Rita Phelan; 16, Caoimhe O’Shea; 23, Martin O’Shea; 30, Michelle O’Brien.
Eucharistic Ministers: January: 2, Liz Jackson; 5, Bridget Comerford; 9, Catherine Meagher, 16, Ann O’Shea; 23, Breda O’Shea; 30, Eileen O’Gorman; February: 6, Margaret Mackey; 13, Joan Watters.
Tullahought:       Eucharistic Ministers: January: 10, Mary Walsh; 17, Eileen Grace; 24, Leo Conalty; 31, Patricia Power; February: 7, Mary Walsh.
Windgap:            Weekday Mass: Tuesday, 9.30 am
Church Unity Week: 18 – 25 Jan: Each year at this time of year we focus on praying for unity among the different members of the Christian tradition.
World Day of Migrants and Refugees: As we prepare to celebrate the World Day for Migrants and Refugees on Sunday, 17 Jan. let us remember and pray for all those who have travelled far from their homeland in search of a better life – and for those refugees fleeing their homeland because of war and hunger – and who are travelling filled with hope and perhaps some trepidation for their futures.  The Gospel calls us to be ‘neighbours’ to the smallest and to the abandoned, (and) to give them a concrete hope. We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, wherever they live. Concern for fostering good relationships with others and the ability to overcome prejudice and fear are essential ingredients for promoting the culture of encounter, in which we are not only prepared to give, but also to receive.  At the heart of the Gospel of mercy the encounter with and the acceptance of others are intertwined with the encounter and acceptance of God himself.
Pilgrimage to Lourdes: Bookings are now being taken for the diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes from May 22 to 27. Contact Eleanor at 051 880414 or [email protected]  
Vocations: God brings us through difficult experiences and always leads us to life.  Depend on the Holy Spirit to guide you on the path of life. If you think God is calling you to priesthood, call Fr. Willie Purcell Ossory Vocations Director. 056 7770261 or email [email protected].  www.ossory/vocations
World Youth Day 2016, Kracow, Poland, July 2016. Pope Francis will attend. Ossory Diocese is inviting young people (over 18 years) to attend; contact [email protected] or Fr Richard Scriven ([email protected] / 087 2420033) or Derek Dooley (087 938 4242
Confirmation Commitment: Congratulations to the children who are preparing for Confirmation on 14 February and for the commitment they made in church last Saturday. Congratulations also to their families, sponsors, friends and teachers for their commitment to support their children who are preparing for this important step in their Christian lives.
Priests of Windgap: Patrick Phelan was a native of Sralee, Ballyragget, born about January 1841, the son of Michael Phelan and Mary Keoghan. His brother Richard became bishop of Pittsburg in the US. Fr Phelan studied in St. Kyran’s (1861-2) and in Carlow College (1863-67). In those years the seminary in Kilkenny was limping along, with most students for Ossory studying in Maynooth or Carlow. Patrick was ordained on 15 June 1867. Windgap was Fr Phelan’s first curacy. He served here for over five years, from August 1867 to the end of 1872. He was subsequently curate in Gowran (1872-76), chaplain in Kilkenny Workhouse (1876-79) and administrator of St. Mary’s (1879-86).  On 12 June 1886 he returned to the scene of his first curacy, this time as parish priest. He was made Canon of Blackrath in 1886, Canon Theologian early in 1893 and was a member of the Bishop’s Council from 1892. In 1895 he was appointed Vicar Forane of the southern deanery. His brother Richard visited him twice in Windgap. In June 1890 he celebrated Sunday Mass in Windgap and visited the boys and girls school schools in Windgap next day where he was presented with an address by one of the boys. P.J. Hawe was ordained in Waterford for the diocese of Pittsburg during this time. Fr Phelan spent almost thirteen years in Windgap.  He was involved in the founding of Windgap Co-operative and received the compliments of none other than Horace Plunkett who made a visit to the Co-op in 1894. He was moved to Slieverue in January 1898 and was succeeded in Windgap by Peter Doyle. He died as PP Slieverue on 26 July 1915. On the political front he was an active supporter of John Redmond and the Irish Party, and seems to have been a major figure in the southern deanery, both ecclesiastically and politically. It is most likely that it was he who had the extension built on to the parochial house. At any rate reducing the debt was one of the first cares of his successor Peter Doyle, as one can see from the following reports in the Munster Express.
Munster Express 1898: In August 1898 the tragic play, "Lord Edward Fitzgerald", was played by the young ladies of the Presentation Convent, Carrick-on-Suir, “in the spacious schoolroom at Windgap”.  The event was organised by the parish priest Fr Peter Doyle to help reduce the debt on what is described in the report as the “Parochial Mansion”.  The room was densely crowded for the play, so much so that several persons fainted, and had to be handed from shoulder to shoulder to the door or windows. A month or so later the same paper announced the date (18th October) for the holding of a race meeting at Cussane to raise funds for the parochial house.  The local co-op. also helped (that story awaits the reappearance of the minute books!).
Placenames: Bregaun - Bréagán: Canon Carrigan interprets it as ‘deceitful’. It could indicate ‘a deceitful place’ – a place that is other than it seems; fear bréige is a scarecrow (it resembles a man but is not); fianaise bhréige is false witness. Bregagh (the river in Kilkenny) = deceitful.
                                                                        Mercy
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d;
It blesses him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
the throned monarch better than his crown,
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings.
It is an attribute of God himself…”
(Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice).

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Windgap Parish Newsletter 23/24 January

31/1/2016

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WINDGAP TULLAHOUGHT NOTES KIlkenny People 25th January 2016 

30/1/2016

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Looking Back in Time:
​Crib opening at John Walsh
's Forge in Windgap.
​Christmas Eve. 2015
TIDY TOWNS: A meeting of Tullahought Tidy Towns Committee will take place in the Community Centre on Wednesday evening at 8pm all are welcome.

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE: A meeting of the Windgap Community Development Committee will take place in the Club Rooms on this Wednesday evening at 8pm all are welcome.

CARD DRIVE: The next Hurling Club Progressive twenty five Card Drive will be held in Guinans on this Friday evening at 9pm all are welcome.

WILDLIFE DINNER: Tullahought & District Gun Club host the End of Year Wildlife Buffet Dinner in Powers of Tullahought on this Saturday 30th January in aid of Windgap GAA Club at 6pm. The buffet will include slow cooked venison, roast breast of pheasant, braised wild rabbit, seafood and duck with turnips. It will be followed by the awarding of prizes including the best mixed bag and the longest tail pheasant shot on the day. The night will finish with live music with Richie and John Joe. Admission is adults €10 and children €5. For tickets contact Power's or any club member. 

CLUB PARTNERSHIP: Windgap GAA Club has created a partnership with Morris Oil to free the wheels and Drive the Club smoothly into 2016. It involves the purchase of Oil, Agri and Road Diesel and runs until the end of April. For further details contact 086 8175668

BRIDGE RESULTS: Winners at the Killamery Bridge Club game held in the Olde House recently were 1st. Catherine Bourke, Helen Lanigan. 2nd Mary Lonergan, Kitty Meagher. 3rd. Finoula Walsh, Maureen Cantwell. 4th. Kathleen O’Shea, Mary Walsh. 5th. Mary Joy, Noreen Kenneally. Best Gross Annette Meagher, Moira Hickey. 

RACHELS QUIZ: Rachel's Fundraiser Fun Table Quiz for 'Callan Does Strictly' takes place on Sat 30th January in the Auld House, Killamery at 8 pm. It will be followed by and 80's Disco with 80's gear Optional!! Table of 4 €20

COOLAGH FUN RUN: Coolagh Residents taking part in 'Callan Does Strictly' are holding their fundraiser on Valentine’s Day Sun Feb 14th with a Family Fun run and Brunch"  in Callan Parish Hall. The run starts at 11 am following registration at 10.30 am.  Please come along and Support the Coolagh Dancers and their Fundraiser.

POTTERY CLASSES: Camphill Kyle is running pottery evening classes for children and adults. The Adult class commence on Wednesday 20th of January, 7:30-9:30pm, running for 8 weeks and the cost is €100 (all materials included). Children’s classes (1st-6th class) start Thursday the 21st of January, 6pm-7pm, running for 5weeks, € 40 (all materials included).  For more information and booking contact Sonja on 086-3050428

LOTTO RESULTS: The numbers drawn this week were 4, 7, 10, 12 and Bonus number 3. Next week’s prize fund is €5,550. Tickets at €2 are available from any member of the Hurling Club.

NUACHTLITIR: Information for the weekly Parish Bulletin at weekend Masses can be emailed to [email protected] or dropped into the Parochial House by Thursday evening. Fr. Fergal’s Mobile number is (085) 8830756.
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NOTES: Contributors and Clubs are invited to email items for publication with a name and contact number to [email protected] by Sunday evenings at 6pm. For all the local news and photos visit windgap.ie
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School Blog - Peace Proms

25/1/2016

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Peace Proms 2016         
Windgap N.S. has been busy the past few weeks preparing for the annual peace proms. 
Led by our teacher,  Mrs. Malone, ‘Peace Proms’ is an event that brings students from the North and South of Ireland together. It’s when all the school choirs gather into one place and sing and perform in front of a massive  audience. This year ‘Peace Proms’  is back in Cillín Hill, where it was previously staged. Previous  songlists have  included hits like ‘Grease Lightning’ and ‘World In Union’. 
This year we are singing different songs like ‘Together’, ‘Ireland’s Call’ and ‘Imagine’. These are only three of the 72 songs, we have to sing for Peace Proms. Not everyone is going but the people that are, will hopefully will have a spectacular time at the concert. I know I will.
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By Deon Smith and Aidan Hickey
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Windgap kids ate 2014 Peace Proms
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Windgap GAA partnership with Morris Oil 

23/1/2016

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Windgap GAA have formed a partnership with Morris Oil to enable the Club Drive, Warm and smoothly into 2016.
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School Clothes Collection

21/1/2016

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​Windgap N.S. Parents Association: 

​Clothes Collection will take place at the Community Hall between 9 am and 9:30 am on Tuesday Feb 2nd; black sacks may be used. If you have any queries, please contact Barbara Kelly at 051-648915 or 086-1712150.

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WINDGAP TULLAHOUGHT NOTES Kilkenny People 18th January 2016

21/1/2016

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Some Photos from the St.Stephens Day Opening of the Wonders of Windgap Historical and Bearna Breac Loop Walks
HISTORIC CLUB AGM: A new year and a new beginning takes on a different meeting at the Annual General Meeting of Windgap GAA club on Friday evening when it will see a change of club treasurer after almost thirty years. Having overseen the development of the club at all levels, the clubs longest serving officer Eamon Doyle is passing on the well-known note book and pen that organised and kept the finances in tip top shape. Currently the club caters for all ages from six to ninety six and is the foundation stone of the local GAA scene that provides a social and sporting outlet over a wide area through its Hurling, Football, and sister Camogie, Handball and Schools branches. With its own adult and juvenile committees and the Galmoy Windgap Club amalgamation at juvenile and under twenty one level a historic turn out of current and former players, members and officers is expected to mark the occasion.

THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG: An innovative reflection was made by grounds man Michael Micklas whilst cutting grass in the local hurling field on the 12th of January. Knowing that there was something wrong with the changing environment and Global warming that created the massive growth in the unseasonably mild weather.  As a result Michael took out the lawn mower to have the playing surface in the best possible condition when the on field training resumes, as the soft ground conditions did not allow the use of the tractor and mower after the unusually wet spell. As his thoughts turned to the best possible solution for the playing pitch, the need called for a futuristic "drone propelled mower" or a hover mower arrived. Elsewhere in preparation for the new season Simon Brophy cleared up the windblown winter debris from the surrounding trees as Pat Walsh, Adrian Landy, Nicky Hawe and their team moved the club into a new phase of development.

BADMINTON:  On Sunday Jack O’Shea, Evan Doyle, Shane Lomax, Eoin Byrne, Eoin O’Shea, Darragh Doyle, Nathania Jackson, Sarah Cullen, Orlaith O’Shea, Abby Nolan, Ciara O Shea Sarah McCoy, Eleanor Hayes and Laura Doyle all took part in under twelve county blitzes in the Watershed in Kilkenny. All played excellently with most of them making their debut at this level of competition.

BRIDGE RESULTS: Winners at the Killamery Bridge Club game held in the Olde House recently were 1st. Rita Houlihan, Kitty Meagher. 2nd Helen Lanigan, Catherine Bourke. 3rd. Stella Tenneyson and Rita Townsend. Best Gross Peggy Vaughan, Moira Hickey.

HALL DEVELOPMENT: Windgap Community Development Committee presented their proposals drawn up by Aidan Lavelle for the upgrading of the Parish Hall to the Windgap Parochial Finance Committee on Tuesday last. Part of the Development Committees many stranded long term plans for the area, it received a major boost after the public meeting hosted by Fr. Nicholas Flavin when it was placed high on the Planning for the Future wish list. The first step involves the sorting out of the Land Registry deeds for the site of the Parish Hall.

CARD DRIVE: Winners at the Hurling Club Card Drive held in Guinans on Friday evening were sharing first prize with ten games: Dean Madden, Pat Power, Lar Foley, Eddie Hawe, Eamon Doyle and Pat Moore. The winner of the 20th game was Tom and Mary O’Connor. Other winners were Angela Vaughan, Brian Lanigan, Patrick Foley, Adrian Landy and Paddy Barron. The next game takes place on Friday 29th. At 9pm.

WILDLIFE BUFFET: Tullahought & District Gun Club host the End of Year Wildlife Buffet Dinner in Powers of Tullahought on Saturday 30th January in aid of Windgap GAA Club at 6pm. Adults €10 and children €5 For tickets contact Power's or any club member 

POTTERY CLASSES: Camphill Kyle is running pottery evening classes for children and adults. The Adult class commence on Wednesday 20th of January, 7:30-9:30pm, running for 8 weeks and the cost is €100 (all materials included). Children’s classes (1st-6th class) start Thursday the 21st of January, 6pm-7pm, running for 5weeks, € 40 (all materials included).  For more information and booking contact Sonja on 086-3050428

WALSH CUP: Club player Niall Walsh a student Dublin was a member of the county under twenty one side that played D.I.T. in the Walsh Cup in Dunmore. The game was the first inter county tie played at the County’s MW Hire Training Centre. In the tie that the visitors won Niall was a second half substitute in the forwards.

LOTTO RESULTS: The numbers drawn this week were 6, 13, 15, 20 and Bonus number 7. Next week’s prize fund is €5,650. Tickets at €2 are available from any member of the Hurling Club.

NUACHTLITIR: Information for the weekly Parish Bulletin at weekend Masses can be emailed to [email protected] or dropped into the Parochial House by Thursday evening. Fr. Fergal’s Mobile number is (085) 8830756.
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NOTES: Contributors and Clubs are invited to email items for publication with a name and contact number to [email protected] by Sunday evenings at 6pm. For all the local news and photos visit windgap.ie
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Tullahought & District Gun Club Wildlife Buffet Dinner for WIndgap GAA

19/1/2016

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​Notice from Windgap GAA Club:
Tullahought & District Gun Club host the End of Year Wildlife Buffet Dinner in Power's of Tullahought on Saturday 30th January 2016in aid of Windgap GAA Club at 6pm .  Adults €10 and children €5
For tickets contact Power's or any club member ​
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Parish Newsletter 

17/1/2016

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Bearna na Gaoithe: Sagart Paróiste: Fearghus Ó Fearghail
Féile Bhaiste ár dTiarna, 9/10 Eanair 2016

Anniversaries:       
​Windgap: Members of the Morrissey family,
Knockroe.
Tullahought: Jim Kenny, Ballinalinagh, Month’s Mind; Mary and Ned  Costelloe, Ballinalinagh.


Mass Times (weekend): Windgap: Saturday, 7.30 p.m. Tullahought: Sunday, 10 a.m.
Windgap: Readers: January: 2, Ann Foley; 9, Rita Phelan; 16, Caoimhe O’Shea; 23, Martin O’Shea; 30, Michelle O’Brien.
Eucharistic Ministers: January: 2, Liz Jackson; 5, Bridget Comerford; 9, Catherine Meagher.
Tullahought: Eucharistic Ministers: January: 10, Mary Walsh; 17, Eileen Grace; 24, Leo Conalty; 31, Patricia Power; February: 7, Mary Walsh; 14.
Windgap:            Weekday Mass: Tuesday, 9.30 am
New Year: “May this new year be a year of many blessings where new vision will transform the paralysed places of lonely hearts; where we will discover the hidden beauty of each soul, all who cross our pathways and if we meet with sorrow may we find an inner light to guide us to the bright place in the company of friends and family” (Fr Liam Lawton).
Church Unity Week: 18 – 25 Jan: Each year at this time of year we focus on praying for unity among the different members of the Christian tradition.
Vocations:  Like Jesus, you are called God’s beloved.  Renew your baptismal commitment and pray for those discerning a call to priesthood or religious life.  If you think God is calling you to priesthood, call Fr Willie Purcell Ossory Vocations Director. 056 7770261 or email [email protected].  www.ossory/vocations.
Progressive 25 Cards, Guinan’s, Friday, 15 January, at 9 pm. for Windgap Hurling Club:
World Youth Day 2016, Kracow, Poland, July 2016. Pope Francis will attend. Ossory Diocese is inviting young people (over 18 years) to attend; contact [email protected] or Fr Richard Scriven ([email protected] / 087 2420033) or Derek Dooley (087 938 4242
The Crib: The shepherds, angels and manger are found in Luke’s gospel, the wise men, the star and Herod in Matthew’s – but the crib as we know it is the product of a long process. The animals appear early on in Christian iconography. On the panel of a 4th century Roman sarcophagus now in Milan there is a scene depicting the Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger with the ox at his head and the donkey at his feet.

The Ivory front book cover of the Lorsch Gospel Book (c. 810 AD) shows the child Jesus with Joseph, Mary, the two animals, the angel and the shepherds. The back cover shows the three wise men and Herod and the wise men offering their gifts in Bethlehem.

The tradition of the presence of the animals at the birth of Jesus is found in a 9th cent. Apocryphal gospel, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew. The account is clearly indebted to the works of the prophets Isaiah and Habakkuk. In  ch. 14 we read
And on the third day after the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, the most blessed Mary went forth out of the cave, and entering a stable, placed the child in the stall, and the ox and the ass adored Him. Then was fulfilled that which was said by Isaiah the prophet, saying: The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib. The very animals, therefore, the ox and the ass, having Him in their midst, incessantly adored Him. Then was fulfilled that which was said by Habakkuk the prophet, saying:  Between two animals thou art made manifest.
St. Francis of Assisi is the "father” of the crib as we know it. At Christmas 1223 he created a nativity scene in a cave near Greccio in Italy using people and animals - a living crib (Pope Francis visited Greccio recently). St. Bonaventure in his Life of Francis (1260), wrote:
Now three years before his death it befell that he was minded, at the town of Greccio, to celebrate the memory of the Birth of the Child Jesus, with all the added solemnity that he might, for the kindling of devotion ... he sought and obtained license from the Supreme Pontiff, and then made ready a manger, and bade hay, together with an ox and an ass, be brought unto the spot. The Brethren were called together, the folk assembled, the wood echoed with their voices, and that august night was made radiant and solemn with many bright lights, and with tuneful and sonorous praises. The man of God, filled with tender love, stood before the manger, bathed in tears, and overflowing with joy. Solemn Masses were celebrated over the manger, Francis, the Levite of Christ, chanting the Holy Gospel. Then he preached unto the folk standing round of the Birth of the King in poverty.
There is a alabaster crib in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome made in 1289 by Arnolfo di Cambio.  The very colourful Neapolitan cribs date from the 15th century.
Priests of Windgap: William Maher was born in Blackmill St., in Kilkenny, and baptised in St. Canice’s church on 16 April 1811, the youngest, it seems, in a family of six boys. His parents were William Maher & Elizabeth Brian (married 23 June 1797 in St. Mary’s Cathedral). He studied classics in nearby Burrell’s Hall and in September 1833 began to study for the priesthood in Birchfield. After his ordination by Bishop Kinsella in 1838 he was CC Urlingford (1838-1840), Aghaboe (April-Oct. 1840), Clough (1840-42), Camross (1842-43), Castletown (1843-47), Muckalee (1847-54) and Callan (1854-Oct. 1862). He was appointed PP Tullaroan in October 1862. In March 1863 he was transferred to Windgap where he was to spend the next twenty-three years. In 1883 he was appointed Canon of Killamery.  It was during his pastorate that the chapel of Tullahought was built, replacing an earlier chapel built about 1817. In this he was greatly assisted by the curate James Brennan about whom more anon. He must have been a good singer as he was chanter at the office and high mass for the month’s mind of Bishop Walsh in Sept. 1872.  Fr Maher died after an illness of a few days on 24 April 1886. He is buried in the church of Tullahought but no inscription marks his resting place.
Butlerswood Field Names: Bán Crusha or Bán na Croise means the bawn of the crossroads (a lined chamber was found here); Buaile (cattle-fold, summer pasture), Cnoicín or Criceens (little hill/hills), Leacht na méar (cairn of the fingers), a mound where tradition states robbers cut off a lady’s fingers to remove her rings (O’Kelly), and a well - Tobar an Chuilinn, well of the holly. What field names are in your townland? 

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WINDGAP TULLAHOUGHT NOTES 11th Jan. 2016

14/1/2016

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CLUB AGM: The Annual General Meeting of Windgap GAA club takes place Friday week the 22nd January in the club rooms at 8pm. All nominations and proposals for officer’s etc. are to be returned to the Club Secretary Noel Power by Friday next 15th of January.

BRIDGE RESULTS: Winners at the Killamery Bridge Club game held in the Olde House recently were 1st. Rita Houlihan, Kitty Meagher. 2nd Catherine Burke, Helen Lanigan. 3rd. Sarah Crowley, Elizabeth Lanigan. Best Gross Moira Hickey, Peggy Vaughan.

HALL DEVELOPMENT: Windgap Community Development Proposals for the upgrading of the Parish Hall will be presented to the Windgap Parochial Finance Committee over the coming days. The feedback will then be taken by the delegation to a full meeting of the Development group and a public meeting. Formerly O’Sheas Hall and more recently the home of Tullahought Badminton Club and Windgap Youth Club, it also hosts indoor hurling over the winter months. Once the home of popular and well attended Dances, Ceillis, its recent dancing activities were Discos that were hosted by the top RTE DJ’s. Over the years its use as a community facility has decreased. The site is one of a large portfolio of Parish properties that includes churches, halls, graveyards, car parks, and league house, grotto and amenity areas.

CARD DRIVE: The next Hurling Club Card Drive will be held in Guinans on Friday evening at 9pm sharp and all are welcome.

POTTERY CLASSES: Camphill Kyle is running pottery evening classes for children and adults. The Adult class commence on Wednesday 20th of January, 7:30-9:30pm, running for 8 weeks and the cost is €100 (all materials included). Children’s classes (1st-6th class) start Thursday the 21st of January, 6pm-7pm, running for 5weeks, € 40 (all materials included).  For more information and booking contact Sonja on 086-3050428

HARRIERS MEET: Kilmoganny Harriers held their annual meeting Tullahought recently. This year it was held as a midweek event.

CAMOGIE: The local Camogie club used the holiday season when many club members were around home to hold a social evening in Powers of Tullahought recently. Part of the event was to make plans for the year ahead.

NEW TRAINER: Best wishes are extended to club player Alan Hearne has been appointed as the trainer of the junior hurling side for 2016. Alan replaces former player Pat Walsh who has been involved with training the team for many years. Both players are amongst the short list of All Ireland medal holders in the parish.

HEALTHY AND FIT 2016! ​10 days to go before we start our first Men's Running Group! This program commences Mon 11th January & will run for 4 weeks & 5 Monday nights. Meeting in Piltown GAA Complex. You will do two homework sessions within each week also. Our goal is to build up your running endurance to reach 5km! All fitness levels very welcome!. With only a few places left, we look forward to hearing from you & we do promise that there'll be no pink running tops involved! Please contact Emer on 0863743763.

NUACHTLITIR: Information for the weekly Parish Bulletin at weekend Masses can be emailed to [email protected] or dropped into the Parochial House by Thursday evening. Fr. Fergal’s Mobile number is (085) 8830756.

NOTES: Contributors and Clubs are invited to email items for publication with a name and contact number to [email protected] by Sunday evenings at 6pm. For all the local news and photos visit 
windgap.ie
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