Details of Clonards participation in the Irish Community Games.
News Letter
27th February 2006
Here we go again! Another year of action is about to begin, and believe it or not we are starting our 5th season. This Newsletter is just to give you all an idea of what we are planning for the coming year.
Finance
Unfortunately nothing happens if we don’t have some money in the kitty; however we do have our affiliation and insurances paid to Meath Community Games so that is a good start. Our fund raisers for this year will be our 3 x 25’s card game night which has been a most enjoyable & successful fundraiser and Una Fleming has very bravely offered her services to do a parachute jump to raise funds. We will give you more details on these when dates etc. have been confirmed.
Up and Coming Events
Adult Quiz / U17
Anna & Ray Martin, Anna Mc Nevin & Liam Robinson will take part in this event in Baconstown old school on Friday 10th March 2006 @ 8pm and we wish them the very best of luck♣
Children’s U14 Quiz
This event took place in Summerhill Community Centre, Summerhill, Co Meath on Saturday 25th February 2006 @ 4pm. We had 2 teams going forward
1. Aaron Coughlin, Ciarán O’Donoghue, John & Peter Mc Nevin
2. David Boyd, Blane Moloney, David Geagan & Alan O’Donoghue
Both teams did us proud!!
Draughts U10, U12, U14
Training will be resuming shortly and teams picked.
Table Tennis Boy & Girls U13
This will be a new venture. We have put up posters and sent out flyers to see if any children are interested in this sport. Under the guidance of John Timmons we would be hopeful of putting two teams together, please contact John 087 – 2848079. We need to get started soon on this venture as games will be held in April, dates to be confirmed.
Indoor Soccer U13 Boys 5 aside panel of 7
Again this is a new venture for us. Declan Ward has kindly given of his time and we hope to hire a hall and have some training before they play in April. All relevant children will be contacted when details are finalised.
Cycling U12 & U14
We have been asked about this event and have three children in our area interested in competing. If any one wants any information about this sport please contact us.
Cross-Country U13 Sunday 12th March, Lough crew
Again we have been asked about this event. Please contact us for information.
Swimming
Are there any Swimmers out there? Please contact us!! The Meath finals on Saturday 13th May in Kells.
Athletics
Heats for this will be run before May. The Meath Finals are in Cushiontown on Saturday 27th May. If your children are not in the school and would like to take part please contact us.
Art & Model Making U8 U10, U12 U14 U16
The Art & Model Making Competition will be in Clonard Community Hall on Saturday 11th March @ 2pm, we will send a reminder out nearer the time. 1st & 2nd in each age category will go through to The Meath finals in Dunsaughlin on Saturday the 29th April
Solo Rbecitation / Dance / Song U14
This is a new event in the Community Games, so if there are any hidden talents out there we would love to hear from you and we will do our best to find out more about this event for you.
As you can see we are trying our best to facilitate as many interests as we can.
Please note: - Only children from the Clonard area can take part in Clonard Community Games, we realise that there are some children in the school who are not from the area, unfortunately there is nothing we can do, except advice them to contact their own local Community Games. The National Community Games are very strict on this and we must adhere to the rules set out by them.
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to say farewell to Marie Boyd our Secretary who resigned at our AGM on the 20th October and thank her for all her hard work over the last four years, Marie will still help us out when needed. We would also like to welcome Mary Hickey on to the committee as our new secretary, her work has already begun attending County meeting etc. we are very grateful to all those who attended our AGM, as they have all offered us great support for the coming year, and as a result we can venture into new events. (Many hands make light work!)
If any one out there has any queries, suggestions or ideas we would be delighted to hear from you.
Yours sincerely,
Chairperson: Laura O’Donoghue (044) 75632
Secretary: Mary Hickey (044) 75530
Treasurer: Una Fleming (044) 75087
