30th July, 2024

Adamstown Parish Newsletter

Weekend of Sat 29th & Sunday 30th June  2024

Volume 24   Number 26

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ADAMSTOWN LOTTO RESULTS

The winning numbers in the Adamstown Lotto Draw on Monday 24th June were: 3 – 4 – 10 – 16. There was no Jackpot winners including online players. The following matched three numbers and each got €100.

Aidan & Bridget Thorpe, Bernie Conway online.

Please note the local Lotto is being paused for the moment, while the Soccer, Gaa & Parish Committees meet in the near future to discuss the viability of the Lotto going forward.

ADAMSTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB  NEWS

Well done to coach Chris in the Senior County Championships – 1st 200m, snatching the title on the line.

On Sunday last athletes were competing at county, national and international level – some achievements for our club –

Great results at the Community games, tailteann games and international  race walking, mixed relay Olympic qualifiers.

Community games results: u-8 girls Chloe 1st 80m;  Noah 2nd 80m; u10 Sarah 3rd 200m; u-12 Grace 1st 100m;  Lily 1st Ball throw; Martin 2nd long puck; Tadgh 2nd long jump, Ailleach 3rd u12 200m u14 Lily 2nd javelin.

At the National tailteann games – James 4th in shot putt – moviing up an age, mixed international relay – Ireland didn’t make the qualification for the Olympics but  Joe had  one of his best races so far.

County B Championships – U9 girls Ciara 1st 60m & 1st long jump; U10 girls Sarah 1st 300m & 1st Turbo jav, U11 girls – Holly 2nd;  U12 girls  – Ruby 2nd 80m.

To top off an exciting weekend, National Juvenile Track & Field – Grace 1st 60m sprint.

Well done to all athletes.

ADAMSTOWN GAA CLUB

Congratulations to Sean Galway who played for the Irish SFAI  team U14s over last weekend against Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Well done Sean.

Feile weekend got off to a great start last weekend as we welcomed the New York U15 team to Adamstown.

Thank you to everyone who helped out setting up & serving food in the evening. Great club spirit and very much appreciated. To the  host families, thank you for taking the lads.

ADAMSTOWN AFC

Well done to our ladies who finished off a great season on Wednesday with a 4 nil win over Cushinstown to complete the League and Cup double. Winners of Div 1 sees them back up to the Premier Division next season. They defeated Courtown Hibs 6 nil in the final of the Michelle Coleman Cup, and were runners up in the Premier One Shield to come up short of a treble. Well done to all involved.

75th Adamstown Agricultural Show

Saturday 6th July 2024

A fun filled Day for all the family – 

Kids go Free

Classes: Horse & Ponies, Sheep/Goats/ Dogs

Baking/ Horticulture/ Flowers

Arts & Crafts/ Photography/

Children’s  Classes

Other Attractions: Dancing With Declan

Trade Stands  / Vintage Display /

Most Appropriately Dressed for the Show.

Amusements.

Live broadcasting by South East Radio sponsored by McSorley’s Centra. Ballinaboola

Do come out and support your Local Show – a huge amount of hard work by many dedicated committee & volunteers goes into the staging of this show – please show your support.

ANCCR Area Development CLG  (CE Programme)

Brilliant opportunity to get back into the workforce/training

We have vacancies for the following positions:

• Community Employment Office Assistant in Raheen Family Resource Centre
• Community Employment General Operatives in Terrerath, Cushinstown.

Eligibility Criteria:

Applicants need to be over 21 years (in special circumstances 18 years) & in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment for 12 months

Ukrainians in receipt of  jobseekers payment for 9 months.

Dependant Qualifying Adults on Jobseekers.  Over 50’s singing for jobseekers benefit credits only or on jobseekers benefit and job seekers benefit credits  for 12 months.

For Further Information, please contact Kay or Ruth on

087 4144313

THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME

The Thursday night Card Game continues in the Community Centre each week at 8.30pm. Winners on Thursday 27th June were; Ger Sweeney, Tom Wickham, Matt O’Neill, John Hanley, Micksey and Breda Bolger, Ann Lawlor, Kathleen Whelan.

ADAMSTOWN NATIONAL SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOC.

Well done to our 6th class who had their graduation this week.

You sure are a great bunch and the best buddies the Junior infants could have asked for. We will miss you, and we wish you good luck.Thanks to the parents for providing the snacks and cakes, and the school and teachers for providing the food, gifts, and decorations, and all the other classes for the lovely cards they made.

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 29th – People of the Parish

Sun 30 – People of the Parish

Sat 6th July – Willie Whitty, Ballagh (A)

Also        Robert & Bob Barron, The Leap (A)

Also   Liam Booth, Woodview Drive (Month’s Mind)

Also – Katie Delaney, Oldcourt (A)

Sun 7th – Betty McGrath, Adamstown (A)

Also –   Dick Fortune,Doononey (A)

Pray for Jay Roche, Ballyshannon (A)

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

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

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

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

Sat 27th – Eoghan Greene       Sun 28th – Ann Ryan

CHURCH & ALTARS DECORATION FOR 2024/2025

The draw for the coming year took place at Mass on Sunday last. The following are the areas for each month.

JULY –                   Doononey / Rathkyle

AUGUST-             Raheenduff

SEPTEMBER-      Tomgarrow

OCTOBER –         Misterin

NOVEMBER –      Knockreigh

DECEMBER –       Oldcourt

2025

JANUARY-           Newtown/The Leap

FEBRUARY –       Adamstown

MARCH –              Brocurra

APRIL –                 Ballyvergin / Glenour / Rathsilla

MAY –                    Coonogue

JUNE –                  Kellystown

A sincere thanks to all those who faithfully each month look after St.Abban’s Church Altars. Thank you all.

LOUGH DERG – YOU STAND ON  HOLY GROUND

(John Harris, O.P. Irish Catholic)

All that being said, it is wonderful to put one’s shoes back on and get on the boat home. A few days without shoes, sleep and food does make one more grateful for the ordinary delights of life, like shoes, milk in you tea, butter on your toast, but it also leaves you with a renewed awareness of how blessed we are to be believers, to have faith, to experience the awesome love of God and the real community of fellow worshippers. You realise you are not alone on the journey of faith and that we live our faith in the midst of many good and holy people.

CONTRADICTIONS!

Husband: In the 28 years we have been married,  you have contradicted everything I said.

Wife: 29 years!!!

THE HEART OF THE HOME (Editor St. Martin Magazine)

A few years ago, I was giving a Parish Mission in the west of Ireland and during the visit to the housebound in the Parish, we entered a typical Irish cottage on a boreen. The last surviving family member had died a few years previously and the  house lay abandoned.

The parish priest wanted to show me something which he felt was worthy of  a sermon. The house was damp and cold;  time stood still; shoes at the door, an apron hanging, and spiders had taken advantage of the freedom to spread their lace hangings back and forth from ceiling to chair. On the wall hung black and white family wedding photos, a picture of John F. Kennedy, and in the midst of the peeling floral wallpaper, the Sacred Heart. The little glowing crucifix in the bulb before the sacred image was still flickering. The family had gone, but the light lived on. I could not but think of the many years that picture of Christ’s love had consoled the occupants. The evening Rosary, the prayers in time of childbirth, sickness and need and the priest who came to administer the last rites.

St. Paul reminded the Romans that “Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, neither death  nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow – not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.” The Heart of Jesus in a home is a reminder that God loves us with a human  heart in all situations and that he “stands in our way, he haunts us with a love that runs after us, pulls us out of the pit, casts aside our chains, and places us in the freedom of divine and now even human love”

(Hans Urs von Balthasar )

IRISH PROVERB

Ar scratch a chéile a mhaireann na daoine

People live under each other’s protection.

English – No man is an island.

A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

Do not keep anything for a special occasion,

because every day that you live IS a special occasion.

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK  – A Prayer for Our World

Lord, in this time of tribulation, hear the prayer we offer

For our suffering world.

May we be united in hope, for the future destiny of our world.

That together we can strive to make it a better place,

Where our human family can live in harmony and peace.

Inspire our political leaders to find just solutions,

To the terrors that beset us.

Shine in our darkness, like a candle.

So that in spite of all the uncertainties in our world today

We  may hold fast to our trust in you. Amen.

(The Prayer Trust)