19th November, 2023

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Weekend of Sat 18th & Sun 19th November 2023

Volume 23.  Number 43

ADAMSTOWN LOTTO RESULTS

The winning numbers in the Adamstown Lotto draw on

Monday13th November were: 9 -12 -13 – 24 There was no Jackpot winner including online players. Two players matched three numbers and each got €100.

Anne Doyle, 81 St. Aidan’s Villas & Jessica Reville, Harristown. The next draw is on Monday 27th November for a Jackpot of €15,000. Keep on buying the tickets – it will be won and it could be you.

ADAMSTOWN LADIES WIN JUNIOR ‘C’ FOOTBALL FINAL

Congratulations to the Adamstown Ladies Football team who

defeated Naomh Éanna, Gorey by the narrowest of margins 2-9 to 1-11 on Sunday last. The match scheduled to be played in Gorey had to be called off due to the pitch being unplayable and with no other venue available, it was back to Adamstown pitch with a 30-minute late start. It was a closely contested game with the score Adamstown 1-5 to 0-4 at half time. It was score for score coming up to full time with the game level one minute to go of normal time, Niamh Bates kicked her second point and Adamstown claimed the title.

Team was: Eadaoin Stafford, Jenny McGuinness, Katie Kelly (Capt); Phena Quigley, Kate Flood, Caoimhe Curtis; Sjoke Finn, Elaine Dunleavy, Aoife McCabe, Eva O’Gorman, Sinéad Roche (1-1); Niamh Bates (1-8); Brídín Quigley.

Subs: Molly Cloney, Gráinne English; Aine O’Brien, Clodagh Crean, Caoimhe Quigley, Laura McEvoy, Laura O’Gorman, Róisin Colfer, Ciara Wilson, Maeve Galway, Róisín Gill, Ellen Gill, Mya Siggins, Sarah O’Brien.

Well done to the ladies & mentors

COLÁISTE ABBÁIN NEWS

A big thank you to Gavin & Stuart Rothwell who facilitated a farm walk for our 1st year Agricultural students this week.

Students really enjoyed learning about dairy & sheep on the farm. A great hands on experience for our students.

Our Ag students were busy planting bulbs for spring and look forward to CA blooming with daffodils, tulips & crocuses in the coming months.

Job Vacancy:

 Bus  Escort (Part Time) – approx 10 hours per week.

Location Coláiste Abbáin. Please apply by email to

vacancies@wwetb.ie with a covering letter and up to date C.V. All details can be downloaded from our website https://wwetb.ie/about/organisation/humanresources/vacancies

THURSDAY NIGHT CARDS IN THE COMMUNITY CENTRE

The Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community Centre every Thursday night at 8,30pm. Card winners this week were: Matt O’Neill & John Hanley; Johnny Nolan & Seamus Joyce; Paddy Furlong & Tom Wickham; Phil Jackman & Tom Rochford; Matty Sullivan & Pat Murphy;

Christmas Ham Winners were: Nick Doyle & Trish Wickham.

All Card players welcome to come along any week.

PRESIDENT HIGGINS HONOURS WW11 HERO –

Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty at Vatican

Catherine O’Toole – Alive, November 2023.)

In a recent Vatican ceremony, President Michael D. Higgins paid tribute to Monsignor Hugh O’ Flaherty, an Irish priest who sheltered Italian Jews from the Nazis and went on to baptise the former head of the Gestapo in Rome. Monsignor O’Flaherty is known to many for the portrayal of his life in The Scarlet and the Black the Hollywood based film on the real-life Catholic hero who was honoured at the Vatican in late October. The ceremony marked the 60th anniversary of O’Flaherty’s death on 30th October 1963 and took place in the Vatican’s Teutonic Cemetery, where a plaque commemorates O’Flaherty as a “tireless defender of the weak and oppressed,” who saved more than 6,000 lives during World War 11. President Higgins praised the Irish priest for his “wonderful courageous work in the most terrible times….. it took great courage and took great commitment, and it was morally so striking that somebody did all that for those threatened” he told ETWN. When the Nazis occupied Rome for nine months following the fall of Mussolini, O’Flaherty created what came to be known as the “Rome Escape Line”. This line constituted a network of priests, diplomats, and expatriates in Rome who collaborated in hiding more than 6,000 escaped Allied POW’s and Jews in convents, monasteries, and residences.

Who Was Monsignor Hugh O’ Flaherty?

Hugh O’ Flaherty was born on 28th February 1898 in Lisrobin, Kiskeam, Co. Cork, and shortly afterwards the family moved to Killarney where his father was the steward of the Old Killarney Golf Club. In 1918 he enrolled at Mungret College, a Jesuit college in Limerick. His sponsor was the Bishop of Capetown, Cornelius O’Reilly, in whose diocese he would be posted after ordination, a major step for a young man who had never been outside of Munster. He was posted to Rome in 1922 to finish his studies and was ordained on 20th December 1925. He never joined his diocese, but remained in Rome to work for the Holy Sea. He was a skilled diplomat and served the Vatican, Egypt, Haiti, Santo Domingo and Czechoslovakia. In 1934 he was appointed a chamberlain with the title of Monsignor. He was also devoted to golf, from his early years playing in Killarney while in Italy he played regularly with Count Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law, and with the ex-king Alfonso of Spain. His high standing in the social life of Rome would stand him in good stead during the Nazi occupation of Rome. When Mussolini was removed from power in 1943, Monsignor Hugh did not wait for permission from his superiors, he recruited help from other priests and many other trusted people to help him with his network. By the end of the war he had helped over 6,500 Jews, Americans and British Soldiers to escape. He suffered a serious stroke in 1960 and returned to Ireland.  He died on 30th Oct 1963, aged 65.  He is buried in Cahersiveen. There is a monument to him in Killarney Town. His death was mourned throughout the world, including a front-page tribute in the New York Times.

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 18th – Joe & Peg Kelly, Coonogue (A)

Sun 19t h – Mary Teresa & Michael Delaney, Brocurra (A)

Sat 25th – For all who died during the past year.

Sun 26th – James Power, Raheenduff (A)

Also – Mary Kate Sinnott, Dungarvan & Knockreigh and

Michael Lawlor, Knockreigh (A)

May they rest in peace.

Please Note: There will be no 9.30am Mass this week due to Mass for the Holy Souls every night at 7.30pm.

There will be no Adoration  this Thursday.

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 18th – T.J. McDonald… Sun 19th – Callie Doyle

Sat 25th – Anthony McGee.  Sun  26th – Ann Ryan

Sat 2nd Dec – Cait Bradley.  Sun 3rd – Kay Whelan

MARY’S MEALS QUIZ

This monthly online quiz will take place next Friday (November 24th) at 8pm. To take part

1) google play.myquiz.org and 2) put in the code for this month which is 866749.  We have now provided over 440,000 meals. Please help us to feed more hungry children at school by simply taking part for FREE. You are not visible and can use a nickname. For further information contact Martin Colfer on 087 2596159 – €5 is enough for 45 meals.

We also welcome loose change.  Thank you

COLÁISTE ABBÁIN CHRISTMAS HAMPER APPEAL

Our TY Community Care class and Ken Fenlon, 6th year, are working in conjunction with Raheen Resource Centre and their Christmas Hamper Appeal again this year. We are looking for New toys (for all age groups) and Dry foods. These items can be dropped to the school from now until the 6th December. Raheen FRC will set up hubs in our neighbouring parishes for collection by families in need this winter. Your contribution, however big or small, will be felt by young and old in our immediate locality.

Any queries to Ms. Rita Breen – Coláiste Abbáin.

ADAMSTOWN GAA CLUB NEWS

We celebrated the switching on of lights on our pitch & Astro turf this Saturday evening (12th) at 5.30pm. The project would not have been possible without the support of the local community & local businesses. We are holding a Cabaret in Brad Ogs tonight (Sat 12th) and you are welcome to join us.

WEXFORD PARISH CARE FOR THE EARTH GROUP

We may well be leaving to coming generations debris, desolation and filth. The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet’s capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world; the effects of the present imbalance can only be reduced by our decisive action, here and now. Pope Francis.

NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED SINCE LAST NOVEMBER

Fred O’Brien, Dublin

Bridie Deegan (née Lawlor) The City, Oldcourt

Aunty Campbell (née Lawlor) The City, Oldcourt

Mary Flood, Oldcourt

Pat Martin, Woodview Drive

Marie O’Gorman, Kellystown

Jimmy Roche, Woodview Drive

Cáit Fortune, Doononey

Jimmy O’Shea, Adamstown

Walter Flanagan, Templenacrow

Ephraim Cloney, Ballagh

Mary Galway, Misterin Lower

Kitty Byrne, Bree

Ned Buckley, Brocurra

Ellen Connors, Camross

Kaye Whelan, Glynn

Vincent Power, The Leap

Elizabeth Welbin, Dublin

Lena Doyle, Raheenkennedy & Adamstown

Francis Kent, Cleariestown & Adamstown

Tony Comerford, Waterford & Oldcourt

Michael Comerford, Carrick on Suir & Oldcourt

Mary Whelan, Junior, Kellystown

Margaret McDermott, (née Hayden) Knockreigh & Duncormick

Liam Roe, Ballyvergin.

Rest in Peace.

Those we love don’t go away,

They walk beside us every day.

Unseen, unheard but always near,

still loved, still missed and very dear.

A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK ­ – A Place for everyone

During the Millennium year, a Trust was established in Clare, to document the stories of Clare emigrants from Ireland who were scattered across the globe. It was the brainchild of Dermot McMahon. One Sunday morning he was walking with his wife Mary on the beach at Fanore in North Clare. With the Atlantic on one side and the stony Burren hills on the other, he was struck by the beauty of it all. He wrote: ‘How heartbreaking it must have been for people to have to leave all this behind, crossing the ocean to a strange country to make a new life. The pain of emigration must have been worse than a death in the family. As I read The Scattering – Images of Emigrants from an Irish County, with tear-filled eyes, I thought, God has a place for everyone in this world. There is an old myth that God has cut out a hole in the sky to fit the contours of each person’s body. That is our ‘resurrection place’. Life is a search for that ‘resurrection place’. When the time comes to die, we are meant to be drawn up into that Tír na Nóg, that Nirvana, prepared for us by God from the beginning of time.  (Martin Tierney – Veritas)

RELIGIOUS CALENDARS FOR 2024

Religious Calendars are now available in the Church Porch costing €2.00. (Please put money in Candelabra stand)