Around the Districts: Freemount and Kilbrin

Weekly 45 Drive

The weekly 45 Drive was well attended on Sunday night last. The following is a list of the lucky winners.

Top prize went to Mary Noonan, Freemount and Paddy O’Leary, Glash. Best Ladies team was Joan O’Leary, Castleishion and Eileen O’Sullivan, Kanturk. Best Gents team was Donal Mulcahy, Raheenagh and Pa Quilligan, Newcastle West. Best Mixed team was Hannah and Ben Cronin, Tullylease. Spot Prizes were won by: 1 Martin Fahy, Broadford and Hugh Murphy, Boherbue; 2 Esther Hayes, Kilbrin and John O’Riordan, Kanturk.

The following won raffle prizes: 1 Martin Fahy, Broadford; 2 Hugh Murphy, Boherbue; 3 Eileen O’Sullivan, Kanturk; 4 Richard O’Donoghue, Newcastle West; 5 Nellie Mai Foley, Glash; 6 Esther Hayes, Kilbrin; 7 Michael O’Callaghan, Freemount; 8 Pa Quilligan, Newcastle West; 9 Mai Wall, Shanagolden.

The 45 Drive continues every Sunday night at 8pm sharp. See you all then.

Social Dancing

Afternoon dancing continues every Sunday in Freemount Community Centre from 3pm to 5.30pm. All top bands are booked for the year ahead, so set your satnav (P56 P893) and head for Freemount and enjoy a great afternoon’s dancing this Sunday April 28th, with music being supplied by Teddy and Cathal Barry. Coming Sunday May 5th is P.J. Murrihy.

Comhaltas news

Fleadh Cheoil 2024 will be held in Douglas on 10th, 11th and 12th May. All perpetual trophies should be returned this week.

Used postage stamps

If you have used postage stamps you can hand them into The Heritage Centre any morning.

Parish Website

The parish website is up on the computer and you can get into this page by clicking freemountvillage.com and spend some time reminiscing!

Community Food Services

Duhallow Community Food Services provide a home delivery meal service for the elderly or housebound. Meals can be booked on a long or short term basis.

Dinner and desert €9.50 per day delivered to your door, Monday to Friday. Menu changes daily,and special diets are catered for. Chilled meals are also available for you to heat up at home when required. For further details contact Orlaith/Olive at 029-76375.

Thursday Club

Social Singing will continue on Monday next April 29th at 2.30pm in Cois Abhann.

Next get together in Cois Abhann will be this Thursday April 25th at 2pm. All are welcome. Some new faces would be very welcome. If you have a few hours free on the second and last Thursday of the month we would be delighted to see you.

St Michael’s Church, Freemount

Mass on Sunday morning at 10.30am Mass on Monday evening at 8pm. And on Tuesday morning at 9.30am.

You can now tune into all Masses in St.Michael’s Church by tuning into Freemount Church on your phone, computer or tablet, as new equipment has been installed. This is great news for all those unable to attend Mass in Church.

Mass on TV - Did you know that RTE broadcast Holy Mass every morning on the News Channel (21) at 10.30am, Monday to Friday.

G.A.A. Weekly lotto

Here are the results of the weekly Lottery draw for last weekend. Numbers drawn were 4-21-26-28. There was no Jackpot winner. Lucky Dip Winners were: 1. Kevin O’Dwyer, Knockough, Freemount. 2 Dave Nagle, Cappanagoul, Freemount. 3. Michael and Mary Hannon, Ballybahallow, Freemount. 4. Tina, Rachel and Eamon Morton, Knocknamuck, Freemount. 5. Amanda Walsh, Freemount. The Jackpot this weekend is €1,350. If you are not in, you can’t win!

Notes

Items for these notes should be with the correspondent each Monday night before 8pm. Email osullivanpj38@gmail.com

KILBRIN

Kilbrin GAA

Fixtures: Our Junior A Hurlers had a fine victory over neighbours Castlemagner last Friday night in the Duhallow Junior A Hurling league. They won on a scoreline of 1-18 to 1-11. A good first outing from the lads with some impressive performances across the team. Well done lads!

Our hurlers are fixed to play Millstreet and Freemount in the Junior A league the weekend of the May bank holiday. Keep an eye out on our social media pages for further updates regarding times, dates & venues.

Social Media: We are now on Instagram! Please follow us to help grow our page @KibrinGAAClub–as well as Facebook and X (formally Twitter) where we keep you up to date with match fixtures, club projects and local ongoings in the GAA club. You can contact us directly through all of these outlets.

Lotto: Our next lotto jackpot is €15,500! There was no winner of our last jackpot which was held on April 3rd. The numbers drawn were 2, 17, 21 and 29. Our lucky dip winners were Sean Kelly Ballydesmond, John Hourigan Ballymacpierce, Pat Drumm Clash, Marie Duane Clash, John Paul Murphy Kanturk, congratulations to all. Our next draw is May 1st. You can play our lotto online www.lottoraiser.ie/KilbrinGAA

Bingo

Please join us every Monday night in the Social club bar and hall for a great night of Bingo. It starts at 8.30 sharp. Everyone is most welcome to join. Bar/tea/coffee/sweets and treats available and all in a very comfortable warm environment. The jackpot is now at €1200 @47 calls!!! If your not In, you can’t win!!

Kilbrin Village Hub

Book your day for remote office working at Connectedhubs.ie and online payment available. We have 2 remote work stations with 500mb fibre broadband, tea/coffee facilities, fridge, free parking. Student rates available. Contact Paulina on 0864097267 for further details or kilbrincc@gmail.com

Kilbrin Social Club

Kilbrin Social Club is available for all functions and provides full kitchen, large hall and entertainment facilities. There is also an adjoining playground and astro turf all visible from inside the facility. So If you are planning a birthday party, private party, funeral afters or any special occasion the social club has it all. Why not come and see for yourself. Please contact 0838433168 or 087 7833636 for more information.

Doubles Pool Tournament

This Thursday night at 9pm in the Social Club sees Jenny and Liam against Dave and Ronald in the 2nd round. Come on out, support and enjoy the craic!

Foroige

Foroige continues this Friday night as normal in the Social Club from 7.30 to 9pm. Don’t forget your €2.

Huge congratulations to Sarah Winkle and Anina-May Cremin who won the group talent show held in Conna last Friday night. The girls put on a massive performance mixing different styles of dance like hip-hop and country and Sarah showed off her amazing Irish dancing skills too! Fantastic girls..well done.

Badminton

Leinster Badminton Open - Huge congratulations to Zara Buckley (Banteer) and Mairéad O’Sullivan (Carrigaline club) who won the Leinster U13 Badminton Open in Baldoyle at the weekend.

The girls cruised through their quarter final game on Saturday. On Sunday morning they encountered Munster friends, Alexia Belova Flanagan (Listowel) and Doireann Moloney (An Droichead) in the doubles semi final and advanced on a scoreline of 21-6 and 21-16 with many well fought rallies.

They then encountered the Munster U13 Open champions–a Leinster pairing of Arshia Khungar and Madhu Smrithi Nelakuditi. They girls had lost to them in UL recently and the Leinster girls were strong favourites. Zara and Mairéad lost the first game 14-21 but fought back to win the 2nd game 21-19. The 3rd set was all to play for and they demonstrated great team work, determination and unbelievable shots to secure the game, winning 21-12. There was no stopping the Cork pair!

Mairéad also progressed to the singles final where she encountered Madhu Smrithi Nelakuditi from Leinster. She displayed great badminton skills and was unlucky to lose the first game 20-22. She lost the 2nd game 13-21 but never gave up although the impact of 3 semifinals in singles, doubles and mixed Sunday morning was evident in her last game. A great achievement to get a gold, silver and bronze in the Leinster U13 Open–well done Mairéad

U17 Doubles - Meanwhile, her sister Anna Lucey-O’Sullivan made the semi final of the U17 Doubles with partner Riya Prakas (Dublin). Despite game games they fell short to sisters Carol and Nicole Joy who won the Doubles title.

Congratulations girls–Cork Badminton and your community are so proud of you.

Basketball

Huge Congratulations to the 1st year Colaiste Treasa Basketball team who are through to the All Ireland Schools Basketball Semi-final/final on Thursday 25th April in Tallaght, Dublin.

They were playing on 18th April in the All Ireland Qualifiers in Colaiste Treasa against school teams from Tipperary, Dublin and Kerry! They won with confidence against Tipperary and Dublin which saw them through to the final against Dingle!

This game was neck and neck in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarter which brought it down to a nail biting 4th quarter. Each team were scoring basket for basket and with only 10 seconds to go and the score 39/39 Colaiste Treasa scored a basket putting them 2 points ahead...

But not over yet as with 1 second to go a foul was called and Dingle had 2 free shots!! Luckily for us they were missed, the buzzer went off and game over!! Final score 41/39 to Colaiste Treasa. What a game!Wishing you all the very best of luck in Dublin next Thursday.

Kilbrin Community Council

As we are celebrating 50 years since the founding of the Community Council, we are planning an upcoming community celebration weekend in September.

This is a celebration of everyone who has been a member of the committee or part of the community in any way over these last 50 years .

As a community without this voluntary committee we might be so fortunate to have the facilities we have. They work tirelessly securing grants and overseeing projects to ensure developments of the facilities. They have provided an astounding sports and social club where we have facilities to suit a wide range of community groups in our community hall, social club members bar, squash courts, meeting room, Kitchen facilities, Remote working space.

We host a variety of events here Weekly bingo, squash, pickleball, Irish dancing, Tir na Nog, Foroige, Darts, regular group meetings, parties, functions, dramas, performances.

We would be delighted if people could send in any old photos they may have to Kilbrincc@gmail,com or contact any member of the Community Council.

Community Council meetings

Just a reminder to everyone in the community that there are open monthly meetings held on the first Tuesday of every month at 8pm in the Kilbrin Social Club. Next Meeting Tuesday 7th May.

A great opportunity for you to come and hear about local events coming up, news and gain a general understanding of how we work and also to voice your own ideas, concerns or input to enhance and improve our locality.

Pickleball

Pickleballis played every Wednesday night from 7.30 come along and enjoy a game of pickleball for only €5. New members are always welcome.

Kilbrin National School

We are delighted to announce that we are holding a reading fundraiser in our school. It will be run on the readandraise.ie platform which is custom built to develop literacy levels in children while raising funds for the school.

Children can read whatever material they like we just want to see them reading and enjoying it as much as they can. A reading session can be any length of time and donations are all taken online. Our children would be delighted if you could sponsor them

The more books we read, the more money we raise! Any funds raised will be used to renovate our classrooms by upgrading the toilets and storage areas. We’ve received a grant to repair our roof so when this work will be carried out, we hope to improve our classrooms for our children as well. We would be delighted if any businesses would like to take out a digital ad on the fundraising platform.

Condolences

Sincere condolences to Helen & Paul and the extended Cahillane and O’Sullivan families on the sad passing of Helen’s sister Maureen, Killorglin.

To the Bill, Tom, Kay, Edel and the extended Cashman family on the passing of their mother Betty,

To Michael and Jeannette Dennehy and family on the passing of Michael’s sister Breda O’Connell, Liscarroll

May their souls Rest in eternal Peace.