WINDGAP PARISH NEWSLETTER     30 MARCH 2014
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MASSES DURING THE WEEK
Monday & Friday in Dunamaggan at 9.30 a.m. First Friday mass in Windgap at 7.30 p.m.  
Wednesday & Thursday in St. Joseph’s Home, Kilmoganny at 12.10 p.m.
Tuesday in Windgap at 9.30 a.m. 
Saturday:  Kilmoganny at 7.00 p.m.; 
Sunday: Tullahought at 9.00 a.m.; Windgap at 10.00 a.m.; Dunamaggan at 11.00 a.m.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Nicholas’s Church, Windgap each Monday from 10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m.
Holy Hour each Wednesday from 3.00 - 4.00 p.m. St. Leonard’s Church, Dunamaggan. 
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ANNIVERSARIES: Alice (Lal) Power, Slatequarries, mass at 9.00 a.m. Sun.30th; Ryan Murray, Roscon, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun 30th; George Culleton, Raheenarran, mass at 9.00 a.m. Sun.30th. 
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Holy Week Ceremonies: Holy Thursday: Windgap at 7.00 p.m.; Dunamaggan at 8.00 p.m.; Good Friday: Windgap at 2.00 p.m.; Dunamaggan at 3.15 p.m.; Kilmoganny at 7.00 p.m. & Tullahought at 8.00 p.m. The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be celebrated during the ceremonies; Holy Saturday: Kilmoganny at 6.45 p.m.; Windgap at 7.45 p.m. & Dunamaggan at 9.00 p.m. (4) Palm Sunday Mass times: Tullahought at 9.00 a.m.; Windgap at 9.45 a.m.; Dunamaggan at11.00 a.m. (Celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation).
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PEACE IN CHRIST PARISH VIGIL will take place on Thursday 10th April at 8.00 p.m. For further details contact any of the promotors. 
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS in both Windgap &Tullahought at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday evenings. 
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KILKENNY COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY FORUM A.G.M. will take place in the Ormond Hotel, Kilkenny on Thursday 10th April at 8.00 p.m. Registration from 7.30 p.m. Representatives of all Community & Voluntary Groups in the City & County are invited to attend. The following topics will be addressed: (1)The Changes in Local Government and Community & Voluntary Involvement; (2) Leader & Social Inclusion Funding & Supports: (3) Sources of Bridging Finance and Funding Supports for Community Groups; (4) Value for money Insurance; (5) Kilkenny Community & Voluntary Forum, its activities and How you can get involved
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FULL IRISH BREAKFAST: A full Irish breakfast in aid of Community Projects and the provision of tables for the Community Centre takes place in Windgap Community Centre from 9.30 to 11.30am on Easter Sunday. Tickets are on sale throughout the parish and will also be available after Masses on Sunday next. Tickets cost €10 for adults and €3 for juveniles. A meeting to finalise the details will take place in the GAA Club on Tuesday evening at 8.00 p.m. All interested in assisting in any way are invited to attend. 
****************************************************************************************St Mary’s Cathedral Lenten Workshop: ‘Lord teach us to pray’ will take place in the Cathedral Chapter House on Saturday 5th April at 11.00 a.m. The Workshop will be led by Sr. Catherine of the Holy Family Sisters Newbridge.  All are welcome.
***************************************************************************************** MONTHLY HOLY HOUR for vocations with guided prayer and benediction will be held on Friday April 4th in the Blessed. Sacrament Chapel in St. Mary's Cathedral from 7.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. All welcome.
***************************************************************************************** ANNUAL SPRING CLEAL in Tullahought on Saturday 5th April, meet at the Church at 10.30 a.m. Bags, gloves and pickers will be provided. All help welcome.
***************************************************************************************** The “Windgap the Future” mouse race night attracted a large attendance in the Auld house Killamery on Saturday 27th of March 2014.  A crowd estimated around three hundred from around the parish and from neighbouring communities, enjoyed a great night of festivities, resulting in a tremendous profit on the night of just over €12,000.  The profits on the night will go towards Windgap community projects, with the playground likely to be first off the mark in terms of funding. The major prize on the night went to Eileen Hawe, with runners up Marie Landy and Sadie Bacon. The committee would like to thank the public for their tremendous generosity. They would also like to thank the volunteers involved in advance sales and for their work on the night, as well as sponsors and suppliers.
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GOLF LESSONS: A Series of Beginners golf lessons commencing in Callan Golf Club on Saturday 19th April For further details and registration Contact Margaret during office hours Mon - Fri Phone 056 - 7725136 

A love for One Direction, Tractors and Wrestlers were amongst -the many interests captured when members created their own personalised Youth Club T- Shirts !  A lot of the boys chose some "interesting" slogans for their t shirts, however it was Sontae Jacksons creation that  the leaders really appreciated - Sontaes Slogan - "Keep Calm & Eat chocolate " !!! As  usual we enjoyed a number of games in the hall and the tennis courts ! We also welcomed 6 girls from Senior Club who have been trained recently as helpers for junior club... the girls had some great game ideas.... ...... well Laura says !!!  Big thank you to Jessica who made some beautiful easter decorations with some of the younger members .
 
Due to school holidays Junior Club will be held next Friday 4th April instead of Friday week.... We have a very
egg-ziting event planned with  an eggstraordinary surprise !!!!! Looking forward to seeing everyone there.  Pictured are some of our t-shirts

The first outing of Windgap Senior Youth Club occurred last night, Friday 28th March. The venue - K- Bowl Kilkenny.The event - a bowling competition between Ossory Youth Clubs. The night was a great success. A convoy of over 30 members and leaders left the village at 7.15. As we are affiliated to Ossory Youth, who did a brilliant job organising the night, we were selected to play in the second group. We were greeted with hot food and drinks, and at 9.15 we took over all lanes bar 2. Other clubs involved included Hugginstown and Johnswell. All our members did us proud, and had a lot of fun in the process. We returned home victorious, with 2 of our members, Nikita Watters and Sarah Cashin winning prizes on the night. All received a 10 euro voucher from K - Bowl. As leaders, we were very proud of the group, and look forward to our next outing with this great bunch of young people. After much research by Darragh Byrne,which was much appreciated, we are looking into the possibility of Paintballing in the future. This will not happen however, unless the members of the club think up and organise fundraising activities. Don't worry parents - the kids will be footing the bill next time! A final huge thanks to all who helped organise last night, to the drivers, but most especially to the members of Windgap Senior Youth Club.

FULL IRISH: A full Irish breakfast in aid of Community Projects and the provision of tables for the Community Centre takes place in Windgap Community Centre from 9.30 to 11.30 am on Easter Sunday. Tickets are on sale throughout the parish and will also be available after Masses on Sunday next. Tickets cost €10 for adults and €3 for juveniles. A meeting to finalise the details will take place in the GAA Club on Tuesday evening at 8pm. All interested in assisting in any way are invited to attend.

Fantastic Article !

" They don’t make them like Dan Phelan any more"  

You know how clubs love to stick chests out, and boast about their longevity, their place in the historical evolution of the GAA, and how one of their brethren was present at that ground-breaking meeting in Hayes Hotel back in the days. Mind you if all the people purporting to be at that meeting were actually there, one feels that Semple Stadium would not have been large enough to hold the crowd. On the other hand many clubs were removed a goodly distance in time, and origins from such remarkable days, and this column felt that we should celebrate the courage, and dedication of men who are still among us responsible for instituting a GAA club in our time, and are still available to tell the story.
Last month, sixty years ago, Dan Phelan (dialectically pronounced Whaylan in Windgap speak) led the movement that evolved into the Windgap GAA club being formed. In that pioneering task, he was joined by Seamus Horgan, Ned Fitzpatrick, Geoff Butler, Jimmy Butler, and Seamus Fleming. All but Dan Phelan and Seamus Fleming have passed to their Eternal reward. Dan lives in the only house on the right between Delaneys (Slate Quarries) and Maloneys, and even though he lost his lovely wife, Mary, some fourteen years ago from the dreaded cancer, the fervour for his own National game has diminished not a whit in all of that time. Into his eighth decade we felt that the acknowledgement of the contribution made by Dan Phelan and Seamus Fleming should be recorded publically, if for no other reason than they are still hale and hearty, and still able to read without any difficulty. Personally I often think that we do not acknowledge the contributions of our peers when they are still among us. The defining difference between the remaining Godfathers of Windgap GAA club is that Dan Phelan still carries the torch for the club he helped to construct, and he has never lost his devotion, and love for the little club from the hills which has defied the odds to continually punch above its weight.
What and how was the birth of Windgap created. What if any was there of any form of hurling action in the Parish? “There was a hurling club in Tullahought which competed at junior level. Known as St.Josephs, that team went into decline in the very early 50s. Seamus Horgan and myself were chatting outside Shea’s one day, and we felt that we needed to organise a hurling team in Windgap. I was courting my wife Mary Moore, who was living at the time at the Tullahought end of the Parish. After my chat with Seamus, Mary told me that night when we met that the lads in Tullahought were thinking of re-organising the now defunct hurling club”.                                                           “But it was not hurling that was the core element of Gaelic games being played around this area Dan? I prompted. "Not at all. Football was the game around here, not only in the Parish in Lamogue, but there were strong teams in Kilmaganny, Cotterstown, Coolagh, the Slate Quarries, Knocktopher, Glenmore, Piltown, Callan, and even across the border in Mullinahone. So you are correct in stating that hurling in this area was secondary to football”, he informed. Back to hurling matters!                                                                        So who were the Tullahought men of a similar mind to yourself and Seamus?     “Ned Fitzpatrick, Jimmy and Geoff Butler, and Pierce Barry were very central to the “hurling for Tullahought” idea.  I was working for Watt Shea (Larry Shea’s father) at the time, and I would often be in and out of the Creamery (Seamus’s father was the Manager). I met with Seamus in the Creamery (euphemistically identified as the centre of local Government) and he asked me to organise a meeting with the Tullahought lads. We met in the lane alongside Shea’s pub on a cold February night. We didn’t get consensus that night, but we met again within the week, and there was no problem. We agreed that we should try to get a hurling team to represent the entire Parish up and running. A meeting was called subsequent to general approval, and the inaugural meeting of the Windgap club took place in a room of the Windgap card rooms. Mr.Horgan, and Tommy Brophy were the bosses of that building, and they facilitated us with the room”.                                                             This most amiable, and captivating of Windgap natives was now in full flow, with information, and observation. It was hard to stop him. But who would want to stop a subject as convivial, co-operative, and informed?   
Not I dear reader, not I.                                                                                       Some thirty interested Windgappian hurling heroes turned up for that meeting. you satisfied with the numbers Dan?                                                   “Why wouldn’t we be? We felt elated at the time, because you have to understand that we were in a very rural area, where families were scarce, and numbers were small. The population of the entire Parish at the time was scarcely 600. We elected the first Committee. I was elected Chairman, while the Secretary/Treasurer was Seamus Horgan, with Ned Fitz as vice-Chairman. Ned was also voted in as captain”.                                                                       That was a great night’s work Dan. Given the spread of the Parish, with two distinct centres- Windgap, and Tullahought- communication would have been a difficulty. Not too many had motor cars, and I’m sure nobody had a mobile phone or an I-pod?                                                                                                “Are you mad me man” he exploded with a laugh. “Motor cars? I’ll go even farther- not too many had bikes. But we managed, and the Creamery was a great place to get the news, or send out a message to lads”.                             Now Dan, ye had an organisation, with democratically elected Officers. There was no rancour, and an awful lot of goodwill. Did ye affiliate to the junior Championship that year, and if you did, where did ye get a field?                       “We had no money, so not only could we not go out and buy a field, we couldn’t afford to pay a rent for one. But to the undying credit of the Windgap people, there were plenty of very generous landowners, who bought into what we were trying to do. Paddy Walsh gave us the use of one of his fields which we used for a very long time. Dick Murray lent us a field too, as did Mikey Barry. And there was a man by the name of Brittain in Coolhill who came to our rescue often”.   You had a team, probably a couple (literally) of sliothars. Most of your players would have a pair of boots, with a wide variety of socks.  But you would obviously need a set of colours. For a club that had no financial reserves, and billeted in borrowed property, the procurement of a set of jerseys was more than problematic. A solution obviously was to be found.                                                                                                                    How did ye manage? “It was difficult  for the first few years. We registered our colours as red and white, and an alternative colour of blue and white.  There was a method in our planning in this regard really. Because we got much assistance from more established clubs on the peripheral of our Parish. For instance when the Carrick Davins were not playing they would never refuse us the loan of their red and white jerseys. Likewise with Kilmoganny football club, they also obliged with their blue and white jerseys. Those two clubs were extremely unselfish, and gave us any help that we needed and that they could muster”, said Dan Phelan.                                                                   In the naming of the new club, was their general agreement that it should be called Windgap, or was that a sticky wicket for some?                                          “There was not one dissenting voice heard when it was decided to call the club after the name of our Parish”, said the first Chairman. But your club could not survive on fresh air. At some stage early in your development, the dreaded lucre, or the need of it would present addressing. How did you all manage?  “Mr. Horgan (what indomitable respect) was an agent for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake – the Lotto of the time-, and he suggested that any ticket bought by a club member, or sold by a club member, he would pass on the sellers commission to the club”.                                                                   What kind of money are we talking here Dan?                                                      “I think the tickets were selling for half a crown (12 cents), and he agreed that the commission of 1/3 (7 cents) would go to the club. In those times we would collect a couple of coppers (cents) from the players to buy a sliothar. They cost about two bob (10 cent). We might use two of them in the year; it was all we could afford.  Everyone got their own hurl. Some would make their own. I often think now when I’m up in the field back to our time, and compare them to the present. Every young lad, and girl would have their own sliothar, and probably a few hurls. In our day, if we had more than two sliothars, we would have been considered well-off hurling snobs. I know it is expensive running clubs in the present climate, but God save us, we had nothing at all”. Did you have any other forms of fund-raising events Dan? “We started to run dances every so often in Shea’s Hall in the village, and they were immensely successful. We even became more entrepreneurial, when organising huge Ceilithe down in Ashgrove in Mooncoin, and they were even more lucrative. Then we progressed onto the Carnival Dancing Festivals, and the roads would be black with cars carrying people to the Windgap Carnival . So slowly but surely we got our little club up and noticed.”                               You obviously had a tremendous core of great volunteers to do all the things that were needed to be done? “God save us but there was terrific co-operation around the Parish. The idea of having our own GAA club, and all it entailed created a tremendous bond among our small Community. Without singling out anybody in particular, you couldn’t have better men with you than the likes of Jimmy Butler. He was an outstanding man. That man would leave his farm, where there was plenty to do on a Saturday after dinner, and come down and line the field. But he wasn’t alone in that regard. Our Secretary/Treasurer, Seamus Horgan, God Rest him was a brilliant administrator, making an enormous contribution in time, dedication, and monetary assistance when needed”, he said.                                                     I threw a curved ball towards the man, not wishing to embarrass, but just in the search of comment, and information.  I mean he is advancing in his eighty years!                                                                                                                   Do you remember the first Championship match Windgap played?                       Please read on. I just could not believe what I was listening to. “We played a second-string Hugginstown/Carrickshock junior team on the Fair Green in Callan. We beat them handy enough. We faced Inistioge (no Rower) in the second round, and took care of them as well, but Kilmacow beat us in the third round. But we were well pleased with our initial experience of Championship hurling. We had come a long way in a short time”, he smiled as the memories came tumbling back.                                                                     What about the players who togged out in that first historic meeting; can you remember some of the names?                “We had Jimmy butler on the goal. Then Willie Fitz, Phil Cronin and Seamus Horgan on the fullback line”.               My jaw was on its way to the floor!                                                                     “We had Paddy Houlihan, Thomas Murphy and Pake Aylward stretched across the half backline. Meself Dan Phelan and Bertie Norris manned the centerfield area, and on the half forward line we had Ned Fitz leading the line with the two Butlers, Geoff and Tommy flanking him. In along then we had Eddie Houlihan, John Norris and Chris Comerford working along the full forward line”.                                                                                                                      What an amazing man!   What an amazing memory for a man who will not see 81 years of age again. Truly astonishing.                                                              Was there huge rivalry as you lifted your game, your prowess, your standing among the clubs in the immediate surrounds?                                                       “Initially I suppose, we were not rated, but as time progressed, people started to take notice. We had a healthy rivalry with teams like Dunnamaggan, Piltown and Callan. There was skin and hair flying when we would meet Knocktopher. They would have the Heaslips, the Goreys and the Cummins lads from Floodhall. We had plenty of fiery tussles with the likes of Kilmacow too”. I don’t suppose that you could afford the luxury of a bus to take your teams to games? “Are you codding me. Bicycles were the most pronounced mode of transport. Others would walk.  Pat Shea (Shop) had the only car around, and he would bring a share of the lads. A lad by the name of Pat Cahill (Kilmoganny) working in his bar who also had a car, and he would bust the car with as many bodies as would fit. The rest walked or biked it. On one occasion we travelled to a football match in Dunnamaggan where we played Thomastown. Many of us travelled in a dray horse and car. There were fifteen or sixteen on the dray. It took us about an hour to get there, and another hour to come home. It was a big pull up to Windgap from Dunnamaggan. Would you remember one of them yokes”, he asked.                                                     There were different times then Dan?                                                            “I always say that even though people had very little to live on, they were far happier. There was great nature in people, and everyone helped out everyone else. Nobody was going around with his hand out looking for payment. I mentioned Paddy Walsh earlier, and him giving us the field. Well I remember talking to him about the rent, and he often said that payment didn’t matter that much, but that if we had a few pound to spare at the end of the year, we could throw a few his way. But that was the way things were. People went to bed at night leaving the key in the door. There was nothing to worry about. Mikey Barry was the same. He gave us a field up there at the Cross of Lamogue. No demands then or ever”, he smiled.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It is a matter of public record that Dan Phelan, Founder member, installed as the first Chairman, continued in the office for eleven years. He trained the senior team s in the good years-late 60s, early 70s. As their star declined a little Dan at the behest of Eddie Kelly, and in the company of Kieran Purcell, and Eamonn Cronin decided that a Juvenile concept be created, and in 1979 Windgap Club formed their first Juvenile club with Dan as Chairman (again), Eddie Kelly as Secretary and the four acting as selectors.                                                                                                                                                                             Over to Dan!    “We formulated the plan that we needed an underage element to our club if it was to survive. We won the under-14 League and Championship that year, and the Féile Group Final as well. That was a great start, and thankfully that idea has maintained its momentum, and even though we have all long gone from the scene, there are many more great people taking up the challenge in the Windgap cause. And do you know Barrie, the numbers of girls playing camogie is terrific, and one must compliment all of the people over the years who nurtured the youth of our Parish, because without them, there is no club. That is as true for little Windgap as it is for the biggest clubs in our County”.    Dan brought back memories of great days when the club hurled in the Senior Championship. He recalled being beaten by the great Bennettsbridge in the Championship by a single point having led by eight with as many minutes remaining. He recalled a tremendous quarter-final joust with the Fenians of Johnstown too.                                                                                  
While people will always say Purcell, whenever the name of Windgap is mentioned, but there were others too? “Undoubtedly there were. There were great family hurling names here, who made enormous contributions to our club CV over the years”, said Dan. “One of the greatest men we ever had in the club was Tom Kenny. Thomas Meehan, Eamonn Meehan, and Joe O’Shea were equally great Windgap men.  Men like those would never short-change you. What you saw is what you got. Their dedication to Windgap was unconditional. The family names keep on repeating since those times. We had Kennys, Meehans, Purcells, Jackmans, O’Sheas, Doyles, Cronins, Hawes,  Walshes, Powers, Mackeys, Moores, and the importance of that was that their children came on after them to play for the club as well”.                          We spoke of Dan’s career as a highly-respected referee, a career which blossomed after his activities in his club faded.  He told how referees received £4 for a junior game, and he also told of a time when the late great iconic Secretary of the South Board, Joe Walsh gave him £28 to officiate at a South Final at the last minute.                                                                          He takes great pride in the fact that a Windgap man, Jimmy Walsh has risen to one of the most prestigious Offices in the County following in the shadows of such luminaries as Paddy Grace, Ted Carroll, and Ned Quinn. He spoke of his interest in Windgap Badminton, a club which won many National Titles, and how his children, Judith and Seamie were enormously involved.                                                                                                                                              Would he have changed any of it, and re-wrote the script.  With a moistening eye, and not too little emotion, he shook his head, and haltingly whispered   “Not one second”            

 They don’t make them like Dan Phelan any more.  

via Jimmy

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A bye in the All Co. League saw the juniors travel to Kilmacthomas as the Nat. Schools prepares to play Tullaroan away in the Allianz league

The Hurling Season begins when Kilmacow visit Windgap for the JJ Kavanagh All Co. Jun. Hurling Lge. tie on Sat. at 3pm. All support welcome

The “Windgap the Future” mouse race night attracted a large attendance in the Auld house Killamery on Saturday 27th of March 2014.  
A crowd estimated around three hundred from around the parish and from neighbouring communities, enjoyed a great night of festivities, resulting in a tremendous profit on the night of just over €12,000.  
The profits on the night will go towards Windgap community projects, with the playground likely to be first off the mark in terms of funding. 
The major prize on the night went to Eileen Hawe, with runners up Marie Landy and Sadie Bacon. 
The committee would like to thank the public for their tremendous generosity. They would also like to thank the volunteers involved in advance sales and for their work on the night, as well as sponsors and suppliers.

Kilmoganny Golf Society are holding their AGM this Thursday, 27th March, 2014, at 9.00pm in St Eoghan's Centre, Kilmoganny. This will be a quick meeting to review the year just gone and to agree the society outings for the coming year. The society is made up of golfers from Kilmoganny, Dunnamaggin, Windgap and further afield, of all ages and abilities. The outings are as much social events as golf competitions where members can get together for a chat and a coffee as well as enjoy different golf courses. We are always looking for new members to join us contact either Dermot O'Shea (087)4193229 or Peter Moran, Moran's Shop, Kilmoganny). This years outings include Ballykisteen, Dundrum, Rathsallagh, Mitchelstown, Mount Wolseley, Gold Coast and Faithlegg Golf Clubs. We will start at the end of April with one outing roughly every month until October.

 WINDGAP PARISH NEWSLETTER     23 MARCH 2014
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MASSES DURING THE WEEK
Monday & Friday in Dunamaggan at 9.30 a.m. First Friday mass in Windgap at 7.30 p.m.  
Wednesday & Thursday in St. Joseph’s Home, Kilmoganny at 12.10 p.m.
Tuesday in Windgap at 9.30 a.m. 
Saturday:  Kilmoganny at 7.00 p.m.; 
Sunday: Tullahought at 9.00 a.m.; Windgap at 10.00 a.m.; Dunamaggan at 11.00 a.m.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Nicholas’s Church, Windgap each Monday from 10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m.
Holy Hour each Wednesday from 3.00 - 4.00 p.m. St. Leonard’s Church, Dunamaggan. 
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ANNIVERSARIES: Alice (Lal) Power, Slatequarries, mass at 9.00 a.m. Sun.30th; Ryan Murray, Roscon, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun 30th.
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Holy Week Ceremonies: Holy Thursday: Windgap at 7.00 p.m.; Dunamaggan at 8.00 p.m.; Good Friday: Windgap at 2.00 p.m.; Dunamaggan at 3.15 p.m.; Kilmoganny at 7.00 p.m. & Tullahought at 8.00 p.m. The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be celebrated during the ceremonies; Holy Saturday: Kilmoganny at 6.45 p.m.; Windgap at 7.45 p.m. & Dunamaggan at 9.00 p.m. (4) Palm Sunday Mass times: Tullahought at 9.00 a.m.; Windgap at 9.45 a.m.; Dunamaggan at11.00 a.m. (Celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation).
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PROGRESSIVE 25’S: The monthly Progressive Twenty Five Card Drive in aid of Windgap Hurling Club will take place in Guinan’s in Windgap on Friday 28th March at 9.00 p.m. sharp. All are welcome. 
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STATIONS OF THE CROSS in both Windgap &Tullahought at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday evenings. 
***************************************************************************************MM ASS FOR CHILDREN who will receive their First Holy Communion next May will be celebrated this Sunday 23rd March at 9.00 a.m. in St. Nicholas’ Church, Tullahought.
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EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: Additional Eucharistic Ministers are always welcome. If you would like to be a Eucharistic Minister or know of someone who is suitable please contact any member of the Parish Council or Rev. Nicholas Flavin. The dates of the courses are as follows: St. Patrick’s Centre, Kilkenny: Tuesday 11th; Wednesday 12th; Thursday 13th March; Ferrybank Parish Centre: Tuesday 25th; Wednesday 26th & Thursday 27th March.
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LENTEN MATERIAL: (1) Lent Text Message: To receive a daily Lent Text Message text your mobile number to Ossory Adult Faith Development Group at 085 – 8313100 or e mail [email protected] or ‘phone 056 – 7753624: (2) Thought for the Day Booklet is available from Ossory Adult Faith Development at 056 0 7753624 or e mail [email protected]. The price is €3. (3) Leaflets at back of church.
***************************************************************************************** South Kilkenny Historical Society lecture: The Waterford-New Ross Railway Line by Mr Ernie Shepherd on Thursday, March 27th in The Rhu Glenn Hotel at 8.00 p.m. Admission: €5 (members free) All welcome
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GOLF LESSONS: A Series of Beginners golf lessons commencing in Callan Golf Club on Saturday 19th April For further details and registration Contact Margaret during office hours Mon - Fri Phone 056 - 7725136 
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The Under 14 & 16 camogie seasons begins on Saturday next 29th March at 4.30pm in Windgap GAA grounds under the management of Pat Foley and Tony Dunphy, assisted by Alison Walsh.
Any outstanding membership can also be paid on the day, queries contact Elaine Purcell 086 1024897.
WCC are also looking for any good quality books/comics or bric a brac for an upcoming event, these can also be dropped in at any training session, contact Kathleen Purcell.
Senior matches and underage matches coming up shortly...so watch this space.

Helen W.