Midleton GAA Club

25 November, 2019

Christmas Food Appeal

Midleton Gaa, Juvenile, Ladies Football and Camogie Clubs are once again running our Christmas Food appeal for St Vincent de Paul. All donations of non-perishable items would be greatly received and can be left at the Club Shop on Saturday mornings or can be donated at any of the Juvenile Socials (Nov 30th and Dec 7th), Ladies Football social (Nov 29th) and the Camogie social (Dec15th).

Christmas Trees for Sale

As part of our ongoing drive for raising funds for our New Development Midleton Gaa Club will be selling Christmas Trees this year. On December 7th and 8th from 10am to 5pm Trees will be for Sale on our Club Grounds. For an extra charge you may also have your tree delivered to your home. All support for this initiative would be very much appreciated. If you can give 1 hour to help on either day please text Tracy on 087-6625544.

Social Cards Evening

45 cards drive every Friday evening up to Christmas at 8.30pm. All welcome to come along. Congratulations to Doris who after being persuaded to take part to fill a table got through to the final and won in dramatic fashion with seasoned player Denis Fitzgerald. Well done Doris.

Cork Championship Draw 2020

On Tuesday evening last the draw for the 2020 Championship programme took place in Pairc Uí Chaoimh. Our Senior Hurling team are in group 1 with Sarsfield, Douglas and Ballyhea. Our Intermediate Hurling team are in group 3 with Cloughduv, Aghabullogue and Glen Rovers.

AGM Dates

Please note the following dates for the upcoming AGM’s of our Clubs:

Nov 27th – Adult Club

Dec 4th – Juvenile

Fixtures

U21 Premier 1 Hurling Championship Final Dec 21st. Time, Venue and Opposition TBC.

Lotto

Our Club Lotto was €4,400 and there was No Winner. Next Week’s Jackpot is €4,600. LuckY Dip winners were Declan McInerney, Irene Ahern, Pixie Jacobs, Jennifer McInerney, Tracy Walsh.

Tickets are available at the Club Bar, O’Neill’s Bar, Linehans Bar, Maple Leaf Bar, Niall Mac’s Bar, Wallis Bar, An Teach Beag, Frank Murphy Butchers, Pat Walsh Paints, Chadwick’s and O’Farrell’s Butchers. Why not play from the convenience of your home or workplace. Play your Lotto on –line for just €2. Log onto the Club Homepage - www.midletongaa.com to purchase your ticket. Receive a weekly reminder to your phone to play.

Bingo

Next Friday at 8pm is the night to give bingo a shot. Fabulous prizes on offer - on 55 calls the €1,000 jackpot is almost certain to be won. Also on offer at €500 each - Game 4, Blue sheet and Pink sheet. T & C apply. Plus FREE raffle for SuperValu vouchers totalling €200. Bring a friend, a neighbour or a work colleague, everybody welcome. 

Juvenile

Next Saturday Nov 30th our Fé6-9 Christmas social takes place from 3-5pm in the Gaa Club. All our players, Parents and siblings are welcome for an afternoon of Fun.

On Saturday Dec 7th our Christmas social for our Fé10-16 takes place. All players, Parents and siblings are welcome. We ask that players arrive at 6.45pm as we will begin at 7pm.

Presentation of medals won during the year and Player awards will be presented on the night. Our Christmas draw will take place in the lounge at 9pm and we will have Live Music to entertain us for the rest of the evening.

Please return all sold/unsold tickets for the Christmas draw to your social.

The Juvenile section are looking for help to “man” the ticket table in Market green on Sunday Dec1st and Saturday Dec 7th.  This fundraiser is vital to help run the Juvenile section for the year. All team managers have sent a text to Parents with your allocated time slot. If you can offer 1 hour of your time it would be very much appreciated.

Ladies Football

Last Tuesday the Ladies Football Club held their AGM. Many thanks to all those who came to support it. It was noted that it was a fantastic year for our Club and we would like to thank all our players, coaches and the Parents for your continued support.  All Officer positions for the year were filled on the night are they are as follows:

Chairperson: Paddy Corcoran

Vice Chairperson: Brian Sheedy

Secretary: Mairead Beausang

Treasurer: Carol Franklin

PRO: Tracy Saunderson

Registrar: Amy Quirke

East Cork Board Delegate: Deirdre Kenny

Children’s Officer: Ber Kelly

Our last training session for the U10, 12, and 14’s group will take place tomorrow on the side pitch for 6.30-7.30pm weather permitting.

Our U8’s will train from 6-7pm in the Community Centre.

Our end of year social takes place in the Club Lounge from 7 - 9pm on Friday Nov 30th. We welcome all our players from U6 to Junior, their Parents and siblings to celebrate what was a brilliant year. We look forward to seeing you on the night.

Camogie

Huge congratulations to Lucy Wallace and the Cork Minor Panel and management team, the All Ireland champions have now been crowned Munster Champions last Sunday 17th November after taking on Tipperary in Cappamore In Limerick. Final score was Cork 1-15 to Tipperary 1-11!

We are so proud of our U13 girls in Ahavine, Ballymacoda on Sunday last against a strong Sars side in the Cup final! Unfortunately things didn’t go our way but a huge achievement in getting so far in the competition! The girls were credited with a fantastic team effort and giving it their all until the final whistle! Well done girls and to your management team !

Lots of fun and games at our U6 training session on Friday night and again our future Camogie stars came along in big numbers!! We even got a rendition of ‘Up the Magpies’ and finished off the evening with a match where lots of goals got past our goalies Vivienne Gleeson and Chloe Garde!! Well done girls and to all your coaches !

Our U11 girls had an end of season event to celebrate the fantastic year that they had culminating in winning the County Title. The first of many trophies for this brilliant bunch of girls who are a pleasure to work with. Next up is the Christmas social night where the girls will be presented with their winners medals.

On Sunday the 15th December Midleton Camogie club would like to invite all our players and their families to our annual Christmas social from 5.30 to 8 pm. Last year we had two separate nights, one for the social and one for the medals presentation however this year based on feedback from members we are going to have one celebration. On this night our younger members will have a chance to celebrate with our older girls who have achieved great things on the pitch this year and are fantastic role models to the younger girls. There will be fun , games and celebrations along with some light refreshments. This event will close off 2019 for Midleton camogie club after which we will take a well earned break before coming back refreshed and energised in the new year. The more the merrier so please save the date!

Healthy Club

Many thanks to everyone who attended the Heart Foundation CPR training last Saturday. 77 people attended across the three sessions and they are now trained in how to administer CPR. Sincere thanks to Sean O’Sullivan of the Irish Heart Foundation who delivered the course #handsforlife @abbott @esbnetworks

The Barrs Healthy Club will hold a Gambling Awareness workshop on Saturday 7th December next 12pm to 2pm in St Finbarr’s GAA Club. The workshop will be delivered by Justin Campbell. Justin played with Galway for many years and he is very much aware of the pressures that players are under. Justin now works on the Croke Park National Health & Wellbeing Committee. This workshop is open to all…if you are interested in attending please text Mairéad Beausang 087-2412010 with your name.

Club Shop

Club Shop hours for the rest of the year are as follows:

30th Nov: 10 to 11-30am
07th Dec:  10 to 11-30am
14th Dec : 10 to 11-30am
18th Dec:  18-30 to 20-30pm
 

Please note shop will not be open 21/12/19