23rd July, 2024

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Weekend of Saturday  22nd & Sunday 23rd June 2024

Volume 24   Number 25

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ADAMSTOWN LOTTO

The next draw in the Adamstown Lotto takes place this Monday 24th June in the Community Centre for a Jackpot of €2,400. Please leave books back in Cullen’s Gala by 8pm on draw night. Thanks for your continued support.

SCHOOL PART TIME CARETAKER POSITION

Part-time Caretaker wanted for Adamstown National School.

One 7-hour day per week. Successful applicants will be subject to Garda Vetting

Please contact the school on 053 9240694 or call into the school between  9.20am – 3.00pm if interested.

THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME

The weekly Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community Centre at 8.30pm each week.

Winners on Thursday 20th were: Matty Sullivan, Pat Murphy,

Tom Rochford, Chris Byrne, Bridie Dillon, Matt O’Neill, John Hanley.

ADAMSTOWN GAA CLUB – Nicky Stafford Memorial Cup

Many thanks to everyone who made our U12 Hurling tournament such a success. To Paul Cullen for supplying drinks for the boys, & Niki Dunphy for providing First Aid.

Well done to our U-12 team, who showed great spirit & teamwork

ADAMSTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB

Well done to our athletes who competed at Leinster Juvenile last weekend. U12 girls long jump Grace 4th, u13 girls walk Anna  3rd; u13 girls javelin Lily 4th; u14 girls high jump  Emma  3rd; u14 boys discus Will 3rd; javelin Will 3rd; u15 boys walk Sean 2nd; U17 boys discus James 1st, shot putt James 1st. Wonderful performances.

Adamstown Athletic Club are deeply saddened to hear of the sad passing of Pat O’Leary. Pat lived and loved athletics, his workload and plans were often changed in a flash to start a race. On race day in Adamstown, the first Church bell chime in the village , Pat’s whistle would sound and away the first race would go and that was the order of the day, race after race. – A raised your flag at the finish line and Pat had the next race under starter’s orders.We will miss Pat here in Adamstown AC,  his worldly advice over the cuppa tea & a bun, starting off with “what are ye at up here at all”

We would like to extend our sympathy to Pat’s wife Margaret, his children Seamus, Mary, Anne, Eamon and Patrick.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h’anam dílis.

A POEM ABOUT WHEN THE UK WAS

“FULL FOR US”

I wrote this little poem based on the stories I heard my Dad tell about the time when he worked in England in the mid 1940’s

The signs on the Birmingham boarding house

Back in the days long gone by

Hung in the window and bluntly said

‘No Irish  need apply’

My father moved from door to door

Frightened, lost and alone

Walking the streets in the bitter cold

Wishing he’d stayed back home.

Work was scarce in Ireland then

And a family had to be fed

My father found work in Birmingham

But ‘twas harder to find a bed.

As he trudged the streets on that winter’s night,

The full moon high in the sky

At every house and on every door

‘No Irish need apply’

It was fast approaching midnight

When a friendly face he found

A sign on the door said ‘Welcome in’

It felt like holy ground.

The landlady said sure you’re welcome here

And I’ll tell you the reason why

My father once met those same cruel signs

‘No Irish need apply’

(Frank Greally, – Letter’s Page  Sunday Independent 9th June)

ADAMSTOWN SHOW NOTICE

Adamstown Show Society are delighted to announce their 75th Adamstown Agricultural Show on Saturday 6th July

All the usual Classes: Horses & Ponies; Sheep / Goats/ Dogs

Baking. Horticulture / Flowers. Art & Crafts. PhotogrChildren’s Classes. Schedules are now available. Entries close, Thursday 27th June. A fun filled day for all the family – Kids go free.

Trade Stands: All enquiries to Eunan Flood on 087 614 3207

For more information contact adamstownshowsociety@gmail.com   Or

phone 353 (87) 616 6926 (7pm – 10pm only)

CONDOLENCES

Our  sympathy to the family of the late Christy Kiely, whose ashes were interred in St. Abban’s Cemetery on Thursday last, the anniversary of his passing.

Christy was a native of Tomgarrow and having returned to Ireland after many years he resided in Charleville, Co Cork with his wife Eileen, to whom we extend our sympathy, also his daughter Elizabeth, son Anthony, his brother Jimmy and the extended family. R.I.P.

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 22nd – Mary Thorpe, Newtown (A)

Sun 23rd – Vincent, David & Joan Power, The Leap (A)

Sat 29th – People of the Parish

Sun 30th – People of the Parish.

Monday 24th – 9.30am: Patrick Kiely, Glenour (A)

Pray for Mary Power, Kilmore who died during the week.

May they rest in peace.

Mass each week day morning at 9.30am

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Thursday from 10.00am – 1.00pm.

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 22nd – Anthony McGee.   Sun 23rd – Sheelagh Delaney

Sat 29th – Annette English.    Sun 30th – Neasa Cloney

Sat 6th July – Cáit Bradley.    Sun 7th – Amelia Swierczynska

Sat 13th – T.J. McDonald.      Sun 14th – Kathleen O’Connor

Sat 20th – Liam Whelan         Sun 21st – Betty O’Shea

MARY’S  MEALS

The monthly Online Quiz to support Mary’s Meals takes place next Friday (June 28th) at 8pm. To enter (for FREE) go to play.myquiz.org and enter the code for this month which is

883033. It’s fun and you’re not visible on the screen. €2 feeds a child for almost a month of school days. We’ve just taken on a school in Zambia with 273 pupils. to donate go to

www.bit.lyquizforMM or contact Martin Colfer on

087 2596159.   Thank you..

SYMPATHY

Pray for the happy response of the soul of Tom Doyle, Wilkinstown, Whitechurch, Glynn,  whose funeral Mass took place in St. Garvan’s Church, Caroreigh on Monday 17th June. Our sympathy to his wife Rose, his son Fintan Doyle, Fairfield Close and all the family, relatives and friends.

May he rest in peace.

SYMPATHY – Mary Power, Bridgetown R.I.P.

We extend our deepest sympathy to Callie and Seamus Doyle, Knockreigh and all the family on the death of Callie’s  sister Mary Power, The Lake, Bridgetown on Wednesday 19th June. Her funeral Mass was celebrated this Saturday 22nd June at St. David’s Church, Mulrankin followed by burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Kilmore.

May her gentle soul rest in peace.

2024 RALLY FOR LIFE – BUS FROM WEXFORD

Saturday 6th July is the Annual Rally for Life that takes place in Dublin, gathering in Parnell Square at 1.30pm.

There is a bus travelling from Clonard Church that leaves at 9am. To book a place on the bus, please call Elizabeth on 087-7922637 or Carmel on 087-9683914.

Together standing up for life.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK (Beau Taplin)

Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness, yet still become something beautiful.

FERNS & KILLALOE DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO KNOCK

SHRINE – Sunday 7th July 2024

Schedule of Ceremonies: 2pm Rosary; 2.30pm Anointing of the sick at Knock Basilica, 3.00pm Concelebrated Mass at Knock Basilica followed by Benediction & Rosary Procession.

Cost including 2 meals €70. To book your place contact

Sean Kinsella on 053-9123819 or Neil Foley 087-9740120

CORPUS CHRISTI – The Mystical and the inexplicable

This extraordinary series of events began at Mass in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the summer of 1996. During the distribution of Communion, a host fell on a dirty floor. The priest decided to put the host in a glass of water to dissolve.

He placed the glass in the tabernacle. Five days later the host had not dissolved but instead there were red blood stains in the glass. The priest contacted his local bishop (now Pope Francis). The bishop contacted a specialist doctor, Caston Gomez to investigate. The doctor sent samples from the glass of water to a laboratory in California for further testing but did not disclose the origin of the sample. The scientists in California presented the following findings: “The tissue was muscle tissue from the left ventricle of a human heart”.

Dr. Gomez further consulted an expert cardiologist in New York, Dr. Frederick Zugibe. Again, he was not told that tissue he was examining was from a sacred host. His conclusion was “The person with this heart must have been very wounded. Under examination this tissue shows the heart would have been under great strain and stress. They were subjected to prolonged torture…. but how is it that as  I was studying the sample it was moving? How did you remove the heart of a dead man and bring it alive to me here in New York?   Dr. Gomez relates the utter shock of his colleague in New York when he was told the  origin of the tissue he was examining.

I find it fitting and very consoling that the Eucharist would appear under the guise of the human heart, that part of all of us where love grows and is given from.

(Fr. Martin Delaney, Irish Catholic May 30th 2024)

ADAMSTOWN NATIONAL SCHOOL 75th ANNIVERSARY

On Thursday 13th June Adamstown National School celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the opening of the School in April 1949. The weather unfortunately didn’t favour the occasion, non the less following Mass the children all marched down the street of Adamstown as the first children did on that April day in 1949. On reaching the school all present were treated to a lovely sing along with songs from the 40’s era. This was followed by a beautiful exhibition of school photos – old and new, and the Roll Books were on display, which were a ‘big hit’ as people took pictures of their parents & grandparents details in the Roll books.

Later on visits to the various classrooms were facilitated, and tea/coffee and refreshments were on offer. A big thanks to Principal Mrs. Claire Kickham, the staff and children who put in such an effort to celebrate this wonderful occasion.

A lovely memory for everyone who attended on the day.

Wishing every success to  Adamstown N. S. and staff going forward.