10th November, 2024

Adamstown Parish  Newsletter

Sat 9th & Sun 10th November 2024

Volume 24.  Number 44

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ADAMSTOWN GAA

Congratulations to our U-16 Hurlers who took the Irish Independent Division 4 Championship title in the Halo Tiles Centre of Excellence last weekend. They defeated St. Patrick’s, Camolin 9-10 – 4.06. They played a brilliant game from start to finish and well done to players & mentors.

Team: Harry Whelan, Jack Murtagh, Aidan O’Callaghan, Ben Fitzgerald, Peadar Browne, Darragh Sinnott  (0.1); Killian Whelan, Michael Murtagh (capt, 0-2); Seán Doyle (0-1); Scott Sinnott (1-1); John Elmes (1-0); James Furlong (2-2); Patrick Dunleavy; Tadgh Furlong (4-0); Jack Furlong 1-3); Subs; Jessie Sullivan, Owen Purcell, Bobby O’Shea, Will Fortune, Aaron Kehoe, Seán Furlong.

COLÁISTE ABBÁIN NEWS

Delighted to have our 3rd year student Mikaela Kavanagh bring her U15  4 Wall  World Championship Handball medal into school. What  a remarkable achievement and we as a school are very proud of our world champion.

BT YOUNG SCIENTIST COMPETITION

Fiach Weber O’Cianain has successfully qualified for the finals of the upcoming 2025 BT Young Scientist Competition. It is a significant accomplishment to be one of the 550 selected projects from 2060 applications.He is completing “An Assessment of the Ecology of Tacumshin Lake and wetlands” In this project, Fiach will investigate the health of the ecosystem of the lake and wetlands, including the impacts of human activity e.g. pollution (lead and nitrates) and disturbance. He will travel to Dublin to present  his research to the Judges in January at the final exhibition. A huge well done to Fiach and his Biology teacher Mr. Conroy on this great achievement.

COMMUNITY CENTRE CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR

Only four weeks to go before the Adamstown Christmas Craft Fair on December 1st. Our raffle tickets now on sale with some amazing prizes in the pot this year. We have cash prizes and vouchers  to help with the Christmas shop, some to help keep you warm at home during the winter and others a treat for you and the  family over the holidays. Hampers & specially crafted pieces are also on the prize list. You can find more details of individual prizes on our Adamstown Community Centre Facebook page. This year all the raffle winners will be chosen throughout the morning & afternoon of the Christmas Fair.  We will also have a special guest visit, yes from the man himself “Santa Claus” arriving in style with Mrs Claus at 1.00m.  An “arrival” that is not to be missed!.

We would like to thank everyone again who donated prizes to this year’s Christmas raffle, all proceeds go towards the continued upkeep of your Community Centre.

PEELING IN THE YEARS – Mr. Tayto at 70.

Everybody’s heard of a jacket potato, but who’s ever heard of a potato in a jacket?. Nobody, it seemed, until October 1955 when Tayto’s beloved mascot reared his head for the first time, tucked away in the corner of a newspaper advertisement. This illustration was drawn by Terry Myler, she was handed a peeled potato and asked, “Can you do something to make this look alive? The evolution of Mr Tayto would become a collaborative effort over the next few years. He wore striped  trousers from the off, but eventually changed from a lab coat into a jacket which he accessorised with a dapper black bowler hat. He was commonly referred to as “The Tayto Man”. However, it was only in the late noughties that Mr. Tayto really came to life – all credit to Bertie Ahern, who was the then Taoiseach. In early 2007, Ray Coyle – who had bought the company – and his team were brainstorming new marketing strategies as Tayto had been losing around 2% of its market share a year. As they bandied about ideas towards the end of April, Ahern dissolved the Dáil, a general election was announced for May 24th and Coyle had a brainwave, Mr Tayto was going to run for election. A week later, Mr. Tayto launched his campaign outside Leinster House, flanked by his election agent Frank Kelly (of Fr. Ted fame) Mr Tayto claimed several hundred votes around the country as Pat Stacey of Dublin’s Evening Herald deemed him “the only truly credible candidate in this election”.  That June, Mr Tayto was Ireland’s most googled term and Tayto’s receding market share was reversed. In October 2009 Mr. Tayto capitalised on his growing fanbase and launched his own “autobiography” The Man Inside The Jacket. Maia Dunphy was hired to ghostwrite the mascot’s satirical life story, along with Ciaran Morrison, the puppeteer and Mick O’Hara. That Christmas, shop bookshelves were filled with tomes about the banking crisis and the demise of the Celtic Tiger, so Mr Tayto provided a welcome respite from all the doom and gloom. The book was available in over 1,000 outlets. The book sold over 50,000 copies and spent six weeks at the top of the non-fiction charts, and claimed the coveted Christmas number one spot in the process. After accidentally kick-starting Mr Tayto’s political career two years earlier, Ahern had resigned in 2008 before writing his autobiography – an eagerly awaited tell-all memoir that had been as good as guaranteed the top spot for Christmas. O’Hara said “A biography about a completely made up, suit-wearing potato man was the number one non-fiction book in Ireland. “Beating Bertie Ahern was another bit of joy”.

(Bobby Aherne – Life Magazine, Sunday Independent)

Seventy years later – Who doesn’t love a bag of Tayto !!!!

CHURCH NOTICES

IN MEMORIAM

Sat 9th – Kathleen Kid, Oldcourt (A)

Also – Paddy Connors, The Hill (A)

Sun 10th – Jimmy Colfer, The Leap (A)

Sat 16th – Joe & Peg Kelly, Coonogue (A)

Sun 17th – Mary Teresa & Michael Delaney, Brocurr (A)

May they rest in peace.

Mass each weekday morning at 9.30am.

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

READERS OF THE LITURGY

Sat 9th – Eoghan Greene..   Sun 10th – Neasa Cloney

Sat 16th – Liam Whelan.   Sun 17th – Ann Ryan

Sat 23rd – Cáit Bradley.   Sun 24th -Callie Doyle

Sat 1st Dec – Anthony McGee. Sun 2nd – Kathleen O’Connor

PRAYER GROUP

The Prayer Group will meet this Sunday night, 10th November in St. Abban’s Oratory at 7pm and all are welcome to attend.

NOVEMBER MASSES FOR THE HOLY SOULS

Mon Nov 25th – Tomgarrow, Misterin, Rathkyle, Adamstown,

                           & Coolnagree.

Tue Nov 26th – Oldcourt, Brocurra, Doononey, Woodview Dr.

Wed Nov 27th – Newtown, The Leap, Knockrigh, Coonogue

Thurs Nov 28th – Kellystown, Chapel, Raheenduff &

                            The Barracks

Fri Nov 29th –    Glenour, Ballyvergin, Rathsilla, Fairfields.

Sat Nov 30th –    For all who have died during the past year.

Each evening we will gather in St. Abban’s Oratory at 7.00pm

All present will receive a candle which will be left lighting before the Blessed Sacrament following Mass.

You are welcome to attend each night or any other night.

ADAMSTOWN PLAYGROUP –

Every Friday 9.30am – 11.00am Starting 8th November in Adamstown Community Centre. €2.00.

Connect with other parents and bring your little one for nursery rhymes, sensory play, books and more.

ARC Family Resource Centre.

THURSDAY NIGHT CARD GAME

The Thursday night Card Game continues in The Community Centre at 8pm each week. Winners on Thurs 7th were:

Kathleen Whelan, Josie Colfer, Micksy & Breda Bolger, Sammy & Owen Elmes, May Pender & Kay Whelan.

Adamstown Community Walking Track  6pm – 10pm.

Our walking track lights are set to come on that little bit earlier each night now that the evenings are that bit darker.

IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER – Patrick Kavanagh

 I do not think of you lying in the wet clay

Of a Monaghan graveyard, I see

You walking down a lane among the poplars

On your way to the station, or happily

Going to second Mass on a summer Sunday –

You meet me and you say:

‘Don’t forget to see about the cattle -’

Among your earthiest words the angels stray.

And I think of you walking along a headland

Of green oats in June,

So full of repose, so rich with life –

And I see us meeting at the end of a town

On a fair day by accident, after

The bargains are all made and we can walk

Together through the shops and stalls and markets

Free in the oriental streets of thought.

O you are not lying in the wet clay,

For it  is a harvest evening now and we

Are piling up the ricks against the moonlight

And you smile up at us – eternally.

SYMPATHY – Mary Dinan (née Sinnott) Taghmon.   R.I.P.

The death occurred on Sat 2nd Nov of Mary Dinan, we extend our deepest sympathy to Mary’s husband Gabriel, daughter Elizabeth, grandchildren, relatives and friends. Mary was a legend in Wexford camogie, being part of the Wexford team to win the first ever All Ireland Camogie Final in 1968, also on the team Cloughbawn/Adamstown players Bridget Doyle, Josie Kehoe & Bridget O’Connor, defeating Cork 4-2 to 2.5.

She was Wexford Player of the Year in 1965, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1980,  played for Leinster for 10 years,

She was also a fantastic Badminton player representing Ireland on 59 occasions, and a great golfer too.

She was a well-loved lady in all walks of life.

May her gentle soul rest in peace.

HEADSTONES AND INSCRIPTIONS – Fr. Martin Delaney

I noticed a picture online recently of a mother’s headstone. The family clearly had a sense of humour and the mother must have as well. The front of the headstone bore the usual details you would expect, name, date of birth and date of death with an invitation to pray. On the reverse of the headstone was one of the mother’s favourite recipes for bread. When people asked for it, she would reply: “over my dead body!”. That’s where the family placed it.

A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK –

Opponents are not always enemies.