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sport@eastcorkjournal.ie East Cork Appeal


On behalf of Midle- ton GAA, Juvenile, La- dies Football & Camogie Clubs sincere thanks to all those who donated to our Christmas Food Ap- peal in aid of Midleton St Vincent de Paul.


Spe-


cial thanks to Ruth Walsh, Tracy Saunderson, Mary Quinn, Coleman Quirke and Shane Goulding for all their help. We hope that our donation will make a difference to many fami- lies in our community this Christmas. Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir.


St Stephens Night Entertainment Local band FLAKE the GANDER will play in the Club on St Stephens night supported by The Two Dans, Eoghan Hennessy and DJ Aaron Stanton, doors open at 7.30pm, tickets are only €15 and are available from Pat O Brien at 086/8118815 and 083/8406390.


Lotto (An Lató) Our Lotto Jackpot was €3,800, there was no win- ner, the Lucky Dip win-


ners were Maurice Harte, Tracy saunderson, Dan Aherne, Ann O Brien & Declan / Angela Ryan, next week’s Jackpot will be €4,000


Tickets are on sale at


the Club Bar, O‘Neills Bar, Linehan’s Bar, Maple Leaf Bar, O’ Farrell’s Butchers, Frank Murphy Butchers, Pat Walsh Paints, Chad- wicks, Teach Beag, Niall Mac’s Bar & Wallis’s Bar. Our Online Lotto is


now available, logon to the Club homepage www. midletongaa.com to pur- chase your ticket. BINGO each Friday at 8 pm, the €1,000 Jackpot this week is on 53 calls. Green Sheet is €1,200 on 5 numbers. Bingo will be run on 22nd cember


& 29th of De- ber 13th


Juvenile Red Cross Certified Training Course On Wednesday Decem- at Midleton GAA


Club, Ber Cotter, Health & Social Care Officer in Midleton/Carrigtwhoill Red Cross will provide a fully certified course to


our coaches and will train our attendees


in Adult


and Child CPR and use of defibrillator, treament for choking, stroke and heart attack. The course will run from 6-10pm. We wish to extend our sincere thanks to Ber Cotter for delivering such a valuable skill to our club coaches.


Juvenile Social for Fe10’s to Fe16’s Our Juvenile Social for


our Fe10 to Fe16 players took place in the hall on Saturday night last the 9th


of December at 7pm.


This night is a special night for the players and their families and marks the end of the playing year.


It’s


a night that provides the players an opportunity to gather together with their team mates, share a bite to eat, get their team photo- graphs taken and collect medals won during the year.


team photograph. Each age group from the


Fe11’s to the Fe16’s awards a most improved player for the year. The player is chosen by the Team Man- ager and coaches within that age group.


was very special for them on their last night attend- ing the Juvenile social to collect


two medals, one It is as


the award states the player who has shown the most improvement


from the


beginning of the year to the end. This years Most Improved Players for 2017 were awarded as follows; Fe11 Callum Mc Sweeney, Fe12 Adam Collins, Fe13 Michael Roe, Fe14 Adam Fay, Fe15 Luke Deane and Fe16 Dan O’ Sullivan. Congratulations to them all on their awards. A special mention was


given to our 12 Fe16 play- ers who attended the Ju- venile Social for their last time. They joined as un- der 6’s back in 2006 and now as young men move to the adult side


of Players were served


food and drinks on arrival and took to their seats at 7.30pm where each group from the Fe10’s to the Fe16’s were called up by their team manager and took to the stage for their


Eochaill Óg Eochaill Óg Christmas Party


Eochaill Óg, Camogie & Ladies Football club


the


Club and they were wished every success for next year as Minors and far beyond that as they move through the grades in the adult club. They are an incredi- ble bunch of hardworking and committed lads and it


hosted its annual Christ- mas party at Club Áras on Friday 8th which was a


December brilliant


success. With over 200


for the ‘big ball’ football and one for the ‘small ball’ hurling. Right by their side, all the way up through the 11 years of juvenile grades were Cormac Quirke & Alan Donegan. Cormac & Alan were thanked by the players and presented with framed photographs by way of thanks from all the players.


They were


also thanked by the par- ents of the 16’s and the parents of the 15’s who form part of that team, for their time, dedication and commitment shown to these lads and for instilling the love of the game and creating


a tremendous


team spirit in this team. It was also acknowledged that these weren’t the only coaching voices these lads heard over the years and thanks was given to all the coaches who helped develop and nurture these players. The addition of Kieran, Goldie & Pat this year added an energy and an enthusiasm to the pan- el and thanks was given to


kids and their parents in attendance there was a lovely seasonal atmos- phere as Santa arrived with presents for the


to them all.


Thursday, 14th


December 2017 Notes


them for their passion and encouragement shown to all the players this year. They are this year’s Fe16’s Premier 1 League Hurling Winners, just rewards for a great team of players and coaches.


As with any event


Congratulations it


takes considerable time to arrange and organise. The Juvenile Committee would like to thank all those who helped set-up the club ear- lier in the day, parents who assisted providing food to the players, taking in the Juvenile Christmas Draw tickets, Juvenile Draw, Raf- fle tickets and thank those that brought donations for our food appeal. Your help and support is greatly appreciated and makes a huge difference to all in- volved in putting on nights like these for our juvenile players. A special word of thanks to Andrew Foley for capturing these very spe- cial memories as always in his beautiful photographs and to Kelly Quirke for her


Christmas Magpie


Teddy for the team photos, thanks Kelly!


kids. There was also a games corner, nail bar, an arts and crafts table and music provided by DJ Chris.


Juvenile Christmas Draw


Our Juvenile took place Draw shortly after


9pm in the Club Lounge following the Juvenile So- cial. Thanks to Jim O’ Sullivan, Tracy Saunder- son & Coleman Quinn for overseeing


the draw.


Many of the prize winners were there on the night to collect their prizes, for those that weren’t


prizes


can be collected from the Club shop next Saturday morning between 10am and 11.30am. Congratu- lations to all our prize win- ners. We would ask all our members to please support the business who provid- ed prizes for our Juvenile Draw and thank everyone who bought or helped sell the tickets.


Club Shop (Siopa Clubanna) The Club Shop is open next Saturday 16th


to 11.30am and then will close until the 3rd


from 10 of Jan-


uary. Thanks to everyone for your support through- out the year, have a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year.


We wish all our mem-


bers and their families a magical Christmas.


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