local notes 28th & 29th Apr

COMMUNITY  GAMES:

Table Quiz.

Ballingarry/Granagh Community Games will be holding a Table Quiz on Friday the 7th May 2010 in Condrons Bar commencing at 8.30 pm sharp

to raise funds to send 32 Children from the Parish to represent our area and Munster in Community Games National Finals in Athlone

on the 28th to 30th May 2010.  Your support on the night would be very much appreciated.  €20.00 per table of 4.  Raffle and Refreshments on the night.

 

Sports Day

Granagh Soccer Field is the venue for this years Sports Day.   This is a great day out for all the family young and old so come along to Granagh Soccer Field on Sunday the 9th May, 2010 first race starting at 6.00 pm.   Tuck shop on the day.  Admission €5.00 per family.

Gymnastics

Best of Luck to Harriett Cronin and Eve Higgins taking part in the County Finals of Gymnastics this Wednesday evening in Foynes.

 

 

GRANAGH  UTD. F.C:

Lotto results:

There was no winner in the lotto draw this week.   Next Week's Jackpot  €7,000.

Numbers drawn  were   3.10.21.29

Lucky dip winners of €20 each went to Sean O` Gorman Granagh, Seamus O` Brien Granagh, & Teresa O` Shaughnessy.

Next weeks draw takes place in Hickeys Bar Croom for a jackpot of €7,000.

Tickets available at O` Gorman,'s Foodstore Granagh, Hickeys Bar Croom, The Rock Bar Granagh, & Bennis' Bar Ballyagran.

Results 19/04/10

U10 League:   Granagh Utd 2 -  NCW, B 1

Scorers for Granagh Cian Cotter 1 & Liam McDermot 1.

Results 24/04/10

U10 League: Abbeyfeale Utd B 2 -   Granagh Utd 3.

Scorers for Granagh Dean Kenny 2, Darren Byrnes 1.

U14 League.

Granagh Utd 0  - Creeves Celtic 3

Junior League Cup Q/F.

Carrig Celtic 0 -   Granagh Utd 2

Scorers for Granagh were Patrick O` Donoghue 1, Pat Carroll 1.

U10s  Are  Champions:

Monday evening 19th our U10 team brought in the first piece of silver ware of the season for the club.   They played host to NCW B knowing that a victory would seal the League title for them, and they did not disappoint any of the supporters on the night with a fine display of football.    Having gone down a goal against the run of play after about ten minutes it was all to do for the home side.   The half time score read Granagh 0,  NCW B 1, but Cian Cotter had other things on his mind.   Eight minutes into the second half  he won possession of the ball wide on the left wing and fired a twenty yard shot high in to the roof of the net to level the account.   After this the game flowed from end to end with some great saves from both keepers.   With two minutes left on the clock Eoin Clifford worked very hard to gain possession of the ball just wide of the NCW goal and let go a blistering shot which the keeper did save but failed to hold on to, and Liam McDermot was on hand to tap the ball home to secure maximum points and wrap up the League title.  Well done to all the panel and thanks to Newcastle West B for a very sporting game of soccer.

HAITI  UPDATE:

Peter Kelly MD, President, Crudem Foundation Inc.   

    I just returned from Haiti and again was amazed at the many changes since my last visit, one month ago. We were  blessed to have over 70 volunteers on site which made me check to see our total number since the earthquake.  I was surprised to see that as of yesterday we have had 955 volunteers since the earthquake.

By the end of April it will be well over 1000!   What a great testimony to the Christian spirit .

  We now have 162 patients from the earthquake and 81 patients from our area in northern Haiti.  There are 40 patients that are anxiously awaiting discharge this week. When patients are ready for discharge we give them the option of settling in our area or returning to Port au Prince. The majority choose to return to Port au Prince where their families are located. We give them food, money and a tent when we discharge them and provide transportation by bus to Port au Prince.

  As we discharge patients we are using the tents for different purposes. The first tent has now become the outpatient clinic with 8 exam rooms and a triage area.

A canopy was built between the wall and the tent to create a waiting area for the 200+ outpatients that are seen every day. The second tent is used for post op patients which has allowed us to clear the hallways of the hospital of patients and increase the space for our inpatient medical and maternity patients.

Our hospital has returned to a unified staff of Haitians and volunteers working side by side.

   During my stay we were blessed to welcome Cardinal O'Malley to Crudem/Hopital Sacre Coeur.  There was a great celebration since it was the first time a Cardinal had ever come to the area.    He visited with the patients and volunteers and was visibly moved by the spirit of the children with amputations. He said Mass in front of the tents so all the patients could participate. There are some great pictures and a video of the visit on the Cardinal's blog: www.cardinalseansblog.org .

  As we move forward the number of our volunteers will decrease to 30 to 40 a week over the next 2 weeks and we have need for primary care physicians for late May and through the summer.  Our specialty surgical  teams have returned because the ORs are no longer needed on a regular basis for orthopedic surgery.

The first team to return was the Urology team led by Dale Peterson. They saw over 120 patients in their clinic the first day and have 2 weeks full of surgery scheduled.  In early May we will have a general surgery and ENT team arrive. I return the end of May with an Ophthalmology team and a plastic surgery team arrives in June.

  We are proceeding with our renovation and expansion plans.    The prosthetic lab outfitted with a donation from the American Association of Malta  will arrive next week and the donated new 6000 ft storage building called a sprung building will arrive in May.   When the storage building is assembled we will move all of our supplies to that building and will institute a bar code system so we can track our supplies and our needs thanks to a donation from the Federal Association of the Order of Malta.

  We are blessed with support from the 3 US associations of the Order of Malta and their many individual knights and dames as well as many other individual donors. In fact over 95% of our financial support comes from individual donors. We have been in existence for 24 years thanks to this support and plan to continue  providing care for at least another twenty four four years. We are proud that we are probably the only non government hospital in Haiti that is run by an all Haitian administration and staff.   We feel that Hopital Sacre Coeur is the perfect prototype for how medical care can be delivered in Haiti and are hopeful that it will be used as an example  in the rebuilding effort.   Thank you for making all of this possible and for your continued support of Crudem/Hopital Sacre Coeur.