St Stephen’s Day: Our annual Fancy Dress Charity Football Match will be held in St. Flannan’s Park this St. Stephen’s Day at 11am.  All proceeds raised at the match will go to Fighting Blindness, this year’s chosen Irish charity.  Please come along and support this worthy cause.  Donations can be made on the day, or can be given to any committee member over the Christmas period, and all contributions will be gratefully accepted. 

Golf Ball Race: Also on St. Stephen’s Day we will hold our Golf Ball Race club fundraiser.  This will take place at 1pm following the charity football match.  You can buy your golf ball for €10 and tickets are now on sale.  The owner of the winning golf ball will win a prize of €1000.

Medal Presentation: The Clonakenny/Moneygall Under 21 football team who won the Mid U21B football championship in 2012 will receive their medals at a presentation night in the Norebrook Lounge, Clonakenny this Saturday night.  Tickets for the event are €12.50 which includes a 3 course meal (buffet style), followed by music from Knee Deep.

Bórd na nÓg:  Congratulations to Stephen Kenny on his recent appointment as chairman of North Tipperary Bórd na nÓg, and best of luck to Stephen in his new role.

Lotto: Congratulations to Nell Crowley, Dunkerrin, who was presented with her jackpot prize of €6950 by lotto committee chairman Liam Greene at last week’s lotto night in Delaney’s Bar.

In his chairman’s address, Darragh Hayes firstly paid tribute to Club President Joe Donnelly who passed away last February, and acknowledged Joe’s huge contribution to the club over many decades.  The chairman thanked the club officers, committee, team mentors and coaches, juvenile committee, and lotto committee for all their work during 2013.   He thanked our sponsors Doherty Hardware for their ongoing support, as well as the volunteers who maintain the pitch and grounds, and those involved in the recent restoration work in the ball alley.

National Schools: Congratulations to the Moneygall N.S. Under 11 footballers who won the Cumann na mBunscol Roinn F County Final against Tankerstown N.S. on Friday last in Littleton.

AGM:  This year’s Annual General Meeting will take place in the clubhouse on Friday 6th December at 8pm.

Racquetball:  Racquetball leagues for both men and women are being organised for the winter months.  The leagues are open to everyone and many beginners have already signed up.  Any non-members who wish to take part will be asked to pay the club membership fee of €50, which will also give them full membership for 2014.  Anybody interested in taking part is asked to give their name to Darragh Hayes or Padhraic Greene by the deadline of this Friday, November 15th.

Raffle:  At our Social Dance Night during the recent Weekend of Welcomes in our parish the winners of the raffle prizes were as follows: Lamb donated by Dudley Maher – Paddy Connors, Moneygall; Food Hamper from Bernie’s Supervalu Roscrea – Seamus Doherty, Ballinakill; and €60 Voucher for Parker’s Restaurants – Kathleen Carroll, Cloneganna.  Congratulations to the prize winners and many thanks to all our sponsors for their generosity.

In the second half the teams shared seven goals, with Ciarán Quinlan scoring three for Moneygall/Clonakenny and Brian Teehan and John Joe Ryan also finding the net, to leave the final scoreline at 6-16 to 2-14.

Moneygall/Clonakenny scorers: Ciarán Quinlan 3-1, Bobby Bergin 1-4, John Joe Ryan 1-4 (0-3 frees), Brian Teehan 1-2, Sean Fogarty 0-2, Brendan Toohey 0-2 frees, Anthony Devereux 0-1.

Team: John O’Meara (C); Michael Coonan (M), Liam Mullally (C), Tomás Duane (M); Willie Costigan (C), Brendan Toohey (M), Paul Bergin (C); Eoin Greene (M), Michael John Carroll (C); Bobby Bergin (C), Sean Fogarty (M), Anthony Devereux (M); Brian Teehan (M), Ciarán Quinlan (M), John Joe Ryan (C).  Subs: Liam Carroll (M) for Michael Coonan, Alan Maher (M) for Anthony Devereux, Brian Shanahan (C) for Tomás Duane.