Thanks to Elaine for pictures - And Enjoy the holiday !

​FUN RUN AND WALK: Windgap Hurling and Camogie Clubs are planning a run and walk fundraiser on Sun 10th April The route is from the hall in Windgap via the Barnabrack Butlerswood and back to the hall on the route of a little over 5.5km. The event commences at 11am, following registration in the club rooms at 10.30am. The initial contact person is Club secretary Noel Power on 087 2062262 with further details to follow next week.

1916 COMMERATION: A 1916 commemorative exhibition takes place in The League House in Windgap on May Day Sunday 1st. To make it a memorable event the organisers wish invite everybody to contribute by lending any memorabilia, photos, stories or artefacts you may have about the Easter Rising. The event celebrates our history and they plan on collating all this information. It will include the outstanding efforts of the pupils of Windgap School coached by their teachers and families. For further information, please contact Noreen Hayes or Kate Moloney.

CARD RESULTS: Winners at the Final Progressive Twenty Five Card drive of the season held in Guinans were 1st. Eamon Doyle and Laurence Foley, 2nd. Mary Moore and Mary Doyle. 20th Game Eddie and Anne Marie Hawe, Other winners were PJ Barron, John Kenny, Mary Doyle, Angela Vaughan, PJ Egan.

TIDY TOWNS FORUM: Representatives of the Windgap and Tullahought Tidy Towns attended the Community Centre Stoneyford on Monday evening on the theme  of two hour workshop on Building Volunteer Numbers and making the Tidy Town group more effective and attractive to volunteers. It was led by the facilitator Mike Holden. 

COMMUNITY DEVEOLPOMENT: The final design plans for the hall redevelopment will be displayed, to community groups on Wed the 20 April at 8 pm in the hall.  In preparation there will be a development company meeting in the Club Rooms on Wednesday 13th April at 8pm

LINGAUN VALLEY: Kilkenny LEADER Partnership is organising a meeting to explore the potential of developing the Lingaun Valley as a community tourism region utilizing the rich history, archaeology and natural resources. The meeting will take place in Tullahought Community Hall on Wednesday 13th April at 8.00pm. All local groups, residents and interested parties are welcome to attend. For further information please contact Fergus Horgan, Development Officer at 086-8528884.

CAMOGIE NEWS: Windgap Senior Camogie Team are playing in the first round of the League /Championship on Saturday 9th April at 6.30pm in Mullinavat against Mullinavat. All your Support is welcome. If you would like to be a Social Member of the Camogie Club Please contact any member.

TIMELESS NATURE: For many the change in time has brought another view on nature whose activities follow normal daylight hours all the year round. The arrival of darker mornings and longer evenings has moved the dawn and evening chorus for more to share as it continues without the requirement of the change of an hour on the clock. With the pheasant population pairing off, a scarce supply of cocks sees some of them accompanied by two hens as they follow their daily activities with calls.  The early mornings see rabbits, another arrival almost a thousand years ago, sit as if washing their paws in the morning dew and then cleaning their faces for a day that includes spells of hectic play in the sunshine. Following the dry spell, the recent rain was a welcome supply of water to the water filled tractor tyre tracks in a gap where hundreds of tadpoles have been born as the pool had begun to evaporate. Its arrival also brought a freshly washed look and the flush colour of new green growth to the landscape. Elsewhere the dark rain bearing clouds provide a dramatic constantly changing scene of grey’s, black and whites intersected by skeletal un-leafed trees. At evening time it was contrasted only by the blaze of furze or whin blossom, displays of wild primroses and the yellow sunset promising more rain, growth and variety for the following days.

SPRING CLEAN: The annual clean-up of the village in Windgap and its approach roads takes place on Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. On the day bags, gloves and pickers will be provided at the Lake. All help will be appreciated with residents invited in all areas to assist in cleaning up all of their local roads and ditches.      

HIVE OF ACTIVITY: With the pitch closed on Monday evening, owing to ground conditions, every inch of club space was a plethora of activity, as the amenity area, hurling wall, Gym and handball alley were used by all in the build up to the peak of the playing season. To have sufficient amenities on hand to cater for such occasions is a credit to the work of the club officers over many years.

LOTTO RESULTS: Numbers 3, 5, 8, 28 and bonus number 1 were drawn. Next week’s prize fund is €8,200. Tickets at €2 are available from any club member.

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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CONCERT A HUGE SUCCESS: The Windgap Tidy towns Good Friday concert was an unparalleled success, with a capacity crowd filling the local hall.  Entertainers of all types Musicians, balladeers and Seanachaí thronged the stage for a great traditional evening’s entertainment. The 1916 Commemoration was the popular theme in a venue that was made look surprisingly resplendent for the night. Well done to the committee, the performers and the people of Windgap and surrounding areas, who yet again produced a great Windgap event. May it be the first of many. The committee would like to thank all those who took part and helped out on the night, to all who helped transform the Community Centre and having it looking so well and not forgetting Mark Dwan from Camphill for supplying the stage for the night (Text complinments of the windgap.ie website).

REFLECTIONS ON THE NIGHT: In the afterglow of the concerts success, as the high winds roared amongst the tree tops on both sides of the gap in Windgap on Friday night, patrons exiting the Community Centre that nestled in a strange calmness reflected on the night’s entertainment. For the attendance that, spanned the generations from under tens to over eighties it was a recollection of the great concerts and dances going back almost seventy years when Shea’s Hall was the dancing mecca of the time. In Fr. Darcy years it was the fetes and marquees. For the next generation it was all about the Roadhouse that hosted all the top cabaret acts across the country and then the Community Centre for dances and ceillis when Fr. Garret Phelan noted it wouldn’t be a Parish community without a Hall. The recollections moved on, to the then young generation of the discos of the eighties and nineties, when the hall was a home away from home for the top radio DJ’s nationwide. Now the proud parents of teenagers who are the new generation heading out on the social scene. Unanimously on the night it was a hearty well done, for all involved in tackling all the hurdles in organising and innovatively staging the first concert in a generation and creating a popular wish list for more social entertainment for all ages,. Amongst the additional and welcome touches were the efforts of those who baked and served tea and refreshments, provided the slide show. Also and to those who were unable to attend and supported the Tidy Towns event run under the Development Committee Flagship in a true community spirit. The next event being run under Nicholas Hawe, John Ryan, Kate Moloney, Noel Smith and their team ……..  is eagerly awaited!

FUN RUN AND WALK: Windgap Hurling and Camogie Clubs are planning a run and walk fundraiser on Sun 10th April The route is from the hall in Windgap via the Barnabrack Butlerswood and back to the hall on the route of a little over 5.5km. The event commences at 11am, following registration in the club rooms at 10.30am. The initial contact person is Club secretary Noel Power on 087 2062262 with further details to follow next week.

NEXT UP FOR TIDY TOWNS: Windgap Tidy Towns plan a historic celebration, Litter pick up and await phase two the major renovation of the local Glanbia store that saw the replacement of some glass, repairs to doors and lighting in the past year. In Tullahought tree planting has continued as the wall building programme continues. It involves a new roadside project and the rebuilding of a breach in the community centre former school wall that has stood since its erection almost one hundred and forty years ago in the eighteen eighties.

LEINSTER LEAGUE: Owing to the team commitments Windgap Juniors were forced to withdraw from the quarter final of the Leinster League against Devlin in Westmeath on Saturday.

BUSY WEEKEND: Over the weekend the side played Kilmacow in the All County League in Windgap on Saturday at 3pm with their game against Danesfort in the 2nd team league on Sunday being postponed owing to the death of former referee and Danesfort pitch official Jim McGrath. In the Kilmacow game the side played against the strong first half breeze that and went down by 0-12 to 0-6 to the visitors.

LOTTO RESULTS: Numbers 2, 7, 12, 19 and bonus number 18 brought match three cheques to Mairead Comerford and Richard Barry. Next week’s prize fund is €8,200. Tickets at €2 are available from any club member.
SECOND WIN OF THE SEASON: On Saturday week Windgap Junior hurlers hosted Carraig Riverstown in the third round of the Leinster Club Hurling league. In the game a good win saw them qualify for the quarter final of the event.

FOOTBALL: Local player Gerard Purcell is a member of the County Squad who play London before the Leinster Senior Football Championship tie where the All Ireland Champions Dublin play the winners of Laois and Wicklow in Nowlan Park in early June.

CHARITY WALK: A 10km or 6km walk Charity Walk for South Tipperary Hospice is being hosted by Kickham Walkers and takes place in Mullinahone on Sunday 3rd April. It commences from the Community Hall starting at 2.30pm. All are welcome to support by donations on the day

BRIDGE RESULTS: Winners at the Killamery Bridge Club game in the Olde House were 1st. Elizabeth Lanigan and Rita Houlihan. Best Gross: Hickey and Rita Townsend. 2nd. Sarah Crowley and Rita Kenneally. 3rd Elizabeth Lanigan and Mary Joy.

CARERS: Kilkenny Carer Support Group, meet on Tuesday 5th April 2016, 4.00-5.30pm at The Village Day Centre (behind the Village Inn Pub). Information and support for past/present carers of people with Alzheimer's/Dementia, all welcome.

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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