Local NOTES 30th June & 1st July

GRANAGH UTD. F.C.


Lotto results:

There was no winner in the lotto draw this week. Next week's Jackpot € 7,450.

Numbers drawn were 5.14.21.22

Lucky dip winners of €20 each went to Gerard Noonan Knockfierna, Kathleen Dore Banogue, & Aisling Dore Banogue.

Next weeks draw takes place in The Rock Bar Granagh.

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

The July Lotto team of Tom Hickey & Richard O'Donoghue will be beginning their term of duty, although they will be minus one

as Jimmy Sheehy will be unable to travel. Hopefully they can replace him.!

Thanks to Pat Carroll for filling in for the month of June. Remember it is only fifty euro to join for the year and you are in automatically.

Awards Night: The Club held a very successful night of presentations last Thursday night in the Community Centre. Kevin Clifford,

club Secretary, welcomed all the parents and children and one very special guest, namely Jimmy Sheehy. Everyone was delighted to

see him and he is wished every success for the next stage of operations.

Earlier in the year Seamus Murphy( a Pool Supporter) told his team that if they happened to win out the League he would don a Man U jersey!.

So before Seamus presented capt Sam O'Sullivan and team members with their medals as League winners he had to put on the Jersey.

He congratulated them all for the great effort and the commitment they showed. He presented player of the year award to Shane Collins and top

goal scorer award to Gearoid Lynch. Once that was done, off came the jersey straight away.! Kevin also congratulated Shane Collins on receiving

the U8 Div 3 player of the year award from the Limerick Desmond School boys/girls League.

Next up, Kevin introduced the U10s led by capt Eoin Clifford. He congratulated the panel on their great achievement and a special mention for

Dean Kenny who won U10 Div 4 player of the year from the Desmond League. Player of the year was a difficult decision but he decided that

the goalie James McDermot deserved the award. Top goal scorer was a little easier, Dean Kenny could not be beaten.

Last but not least, it was the turn of the U12s led by capt. Seanie Cahill. With managers Timmy Cotter and Jimmy Sheehy they were a force to be

reckoned with. Training was tough, matches even tougher but they worked together and stayed focused. Kevin congratulated Kyle Cotter on

winning the U12 Inter League player of the year also. As well, four of the panel were included on the Limerick Desmond U12 Inter League side that

played DDSL in the All Ireland final - Kyle Cotter, Bradley Daly, Jack O'Donoghue and Edward Sheehy.

Player of the Year award was presented to Edward Sheehy and top goal scorer to Kyle Cotter.

Kevin made a special presentation to the girls - Rebecca Noonan and Aine Sheehy who have been with the club since they were eight, probably and are

finishing up this year.

Finally, a memento from the club was presented to Sam O'Sullivan who is leaving and heading to Galway. He was involved with two teams so Gearoid

presented him with a framed photo of the U8s and Eoin presented him with another of the U10s.

Overall it was a brilliant year for the club and Kevin thanked everyone who was involved, especially the managers who devote allot of time, between training and

going to matches, to their teams. He thanked the ladies who prepared the tea,sandwiches and hot food and the Development Association for the use of the

hall. Afterwards Pat Fitzgibbon got the disco going and gave a great send off to Sam. Luckily, they were getting holidays the following day.



Our A.G.M will be held in the community centre Granagh on Monday night the 12th of July @ 8pm sharp.



COMMUNITY GAMES:

ATHLETICS FINALS.

The weekend started with the Long Puck on Thursday evening. Ballingarry/Granagh have always had a great tradition of winning medals in the

Long Puck and Kevin Noonan didn’t disappoint us and won the Silver Medal. Well done to Kevin and all participants.



The athletics finals were on Saturday and Sunday. We had over thirty children from Ballingarry/Granagh participate with most children qualifying

for their semi finals and some went on to compete in very competitive finals on the Sunday. Overall we won 1 Silver medal and 3 fourth place

medals. Silver medal went to Darragh Casey for the U8, 80m sprint. Our three U/10 girls won 4th place medals for their respective events

Orla O Doherty in the Hurdles, Orla Lenihan in the 100m and Olivia Bennett in the 200m.



Our U5’s and U7’s took part in the parade and fun run and received medals and a bag of goodies to their delight.



Well done to all Cian O’Sullivan, Harry McCabe, Jane O’Connell, Molly O’Connell, Emily Flynn, Laura McMahon, Michael Russell, Eoin Lynch.

Others representing Ballingarry/Granagh over the two days were Ciara O’Connor, Ellen McMahon, David Bennett, Eoin Lynch, Luke Flynn,

Keith O’Kelly, Jeremy O’Connor, Sarah Condon, Rachel Anderson, Aoife McEnery, Stephanie Anderson, Cormac Snow, Stuart Keane,

Daire Rankin Hehir, Sean O’Connor, Peter Thompstone and Sean English.

Boys U/12 Soccer B:

Best of luck to our U/12 Boys Soccer B Team. They will meet Feenagh/Kilmeedy in the play offs for bronze medals Tuesday evening

29th June in Granagh Soccer Field at 7.00 pm.



Horse & Pony Races: Saturday 3rd July, 3.00pm in TimmyO'Gorman's Field. In aid of Ballingarry & Granagh National Schools.



Cheshire Homes: The Annual garden Fete will take place on this Sunday 4th July, opening at 1.00pm.