Boyle v Ballinameen Fundraiser Seeks Your Support:
Boyle Club will join forces with neighbours Ballinameen on Sunday next 4th December with an attractive fundraiser in support of the Connolly-Keane fire tragedy, which will be held in the Abbey Park. It will commence with an Under 12 friendly between Boyle and Ballinameen at 1.30pm. This will be followed by a game involving the adult panels from both clubs at 2.30pm. Support will be appreciated for this very worthy cause.
The following were €20 winners at the Club Lotto draw which was held in Creighton’s recently;- Aiden Sheerin, Joe McDermott, Christy Grehan, Sharon Conroy, Maura McGann, Marie Murray, Dylan Mattimoe, Martin McGrath, Mandy Toolan and Mary Rooney. The house prize was won by John Burke. The numbers drawn were: 1/6/9/26. The jackpot wasn’t won and it will stand at €4,800 for Saturday night’s draw which will be held in Daly’s. Team D will be in charge.
The National Automation minor team may have their Division 1 League semi final on Saturday next-check fixtures.
The Club has arranged a special Mass in St Joseph’s Church, Boyle on Friday next 2nd December at 8.15pm, to be offered for a speedy recovery to good health of our popular playing member Kyle McLoughlin, who is currently undergoing medical treatment. All who know Kyle and the McLoughlin family are invited to come along. Refreshments will be provided in the Clubroom after Mass.
All Club members and those interested in GAA activities in Boyle are reminded that the Club AGM will be held in the Clubroom at 5pm on Sunday week the 11th of December.
Preparations are at an advanced stage for the Club’s annual Christmas Quiz and 2011 Club awards presentation night which will be held in St. Joseph’s Hall on 28th December.
Thanks are extended to all Club members and friends who responded to the request and participated in the Childline church gate collection at the weekend.
Ladies Club:
Training continues for U16 girls Wednesday and Friday evening at 7.00pm. Roscommon Ladies County Board AGM in Hannon’s Hotels Tuesday 1st December 2011 at 8.00pm.
Go raibh maith agaibh,
Martin Dolan
P.R.O. Boyle GAA Club
086 2413529

Wed. 11 am.

Special Notice From Boyle G.A.A. Club

A special Mass will be held in St Joseph's Church, Boyle at 8.15pm on Friday Night 2nd December for a speedy recovery to good health of Kyle McLoughlin. Kyle is a senior playing member with Boyle G.A.A club and is a former panelist on a number of Roscommon underage teams. He is son of Dessie, (a former Roscommon Minor Star and present day great Roscommon Supporter) and Margaret McLoughlin. Kyle is currently undergoing treatment for Leukaemia in U.C.H.G. We look forward to your presence at the mass and request all of you to remember Kyle and his family in your prayers. (Boyle GAA Executive and Club).

Mon. 12.30 am. The weekend brought the curtain down on the playing season for our adult teams with the McGovern Directional Drilling team losing by five points to St Barry’s in Tarmonbarry on Saturday in the North-West Championship.
The National Automation Limited U 21s’ also exited the Championship by virtue of results elsewhere.
The National Automation Limited Minors are our only team remaining with football to be played as they wait the fixing of their league semi-final.
Club members are asked to confirm their availability to the Secretary to form a roster for participation in the church gate collection for Childline next weekend.
The Club extends its best wishes for a speedy return to good health to our highly regarded playing member Kyle McLoughlin.
Members and those interested in the promotion of Gaelic Games in Boyle are reminded that the Club AGM will be held in the Clubroom on Sunday the 11th of December at 5pm.
The Annual Christmas Quiz and Club Awards night will be held in St Joseph's Hall on Wednesday the 28th of December.
Best wishes are extended to Des Newton, Nigel Dineen and Gareth Carroll on their appointment as County Senior, U21 and Minor Managers respectively and also to the Boyle connections, Jonathan Conroy, Barry Greaney and David Casey with those management teams.
Congratulations are extended to Boyle Musical Society on putting on yet another excellent show and to St Brigid’s on retaining their Connacht Senior Club crown in a very interesting and competitive game at Kiltoom on Sunday.
Congratulations also to Liam Conroy and Damien Tiernan on winning the inaugeral Boyle Labourers 'Duathlon' in Boyle on Sunday afternoon. The fact that Nigel Clancy's whellbarrow wheel was deflated, when he called it into play, is being investigated. Shades of Dana sabotage, perhaps! The word is that this might become an annual, expanded, event, perhaps during Arts Week.

Boyle Ladies Club;
The U16 girls panel train every Wednesday and Friday at 7pm in preparation for the upcoming championship which commences early in the New Year. New players are most welcome.

Go raibh maith agaibh,
Martin Dolan/T.C.
P.R.O. Dept. Boyle GAA Club
086 2413529.

Fri./Sat.am (late /early). I am not long after arriving home from a really spectacular Boyle musical, 'Beauty and the Beast'. If you read this, and have not been to see it, you really should go. It is probably the best show by B.M.S. yet. An added element is that kids should love it.

On my travels tonight/last night I was made aware of a fund-raising challenge which will take place on Sunday next, in Boyle, starting at 3.30 at the Abbey Bar. It is in aid of the Coombe Hospital Neo-Natal unit. Nigel Clancy, former Sligo full back, proprietor of the Abbey Bar, will compete with Boyle legend, Liam Conroy, in a kind of Irish construction worker's 'Duathlon' around a circuit of Boyle town. It will involve running from the Abbey Bar via Main St/Abbey Terrace/ Shop St. to the Royal Hotel where the final leg will involve taking a wheelbarrow with an individual in situ and ending at the Abbey Bar. Liam Conroy's second, in the wheelbarrow, will be, I am told, Damien Tiernan, while Nigel Clancy's will be Colin Garvin. It looks like a pretty even challenge at this point in time and I witnessed both principals in training in the Abbey Bar on Friday night. So if you see crowds assemble, on Sunday, at various elevated vantage points along the circuit, it is not a Formula One test but just an old fashioned Irish/Camden Town 'Duathlon'.
Goodnight. (American Papers please don't copy).

Fri. 4 pm.The McGovern Directional Drilling Intermediate team will play St Barry’s in the North-West Championship in Tarmonbarry on tomorrow Saturday at 2.30pm.
The big game on Sunday is St. Brigid's v Corofin in the Connacht Club Final. the weather is promised good so there should be a good crowd and atmosphere there.
Karl, I haven't heard from you in a while. Cen fath?
Kyle, if you are reading this, we wish you well with your recovery and to let you know that you are in the thoughts of all of us here in Boyle GAA.

Monday Nov. 14th, 10.30 am.
The following were €20 winners at the Boyle GAA Lotto which was held recently in Mattimoe's;- Mary and Cathal McGee, Gus Gannon, Vincent Grehan, Paul Simon, Eugene Halligan, Sean Carty, Sinéad Cummins, Laura Clarke, David Kelly and John Gallagher. The house prize was won by Vincent Brady. The numbers drawn were; 5/18/22/26. The jackpot wasn't won and it will stand at €4,700 for the next draw which will be held in Creightons on Saturday night next. Team ‘C’ will be in charge.
The National Automation Limited U21s’ lost to a more experienced Padraig Pearses in the last of their group games in the Division 1 Championship in Woodmount on Saturday last. Their future in the Championship is dependent on the outcome of the remaining game between Padraig Pearses and Strokestown.
The McGovern Directional Drilling intermediate team will play St Barry’s in the North West Championship in Tarmonbarry on Saturday at 2.30pm.
The National Automation Limited minors now know that their opposition will be Michael Glaveys in the Division 1 League Semi Final. This will be a re-run of the County Minor Championship Final and the date of the fixture is dependent on the respective outcomes of adult competitions involving teams from both clubs.
Plans are being advanced for the Club's annual quiz and presentation night which will be held in St Joseph's Hall on 28th December.
The Club is anxious to receive motions from Club members for discussion at the Club AGM which will be held in the Clubroom on Sunday 11th December at 5pm.
Thanks to Michael Brennan and Bernie Shannon for their excellent efforts in ensuring that the re-sealing of the dressing room floors was completed as planned last week.
The Club extends its best wishes to St. Brigids in the Connacht Final versus Corofin on Sunday next. Check fixtures for venue.
Boyle Ladies Club;
The Ladies Club wishes to thank all who supported the recent Halloween fundraiser in St Joseph's Hall. The U16 girls have resumed training as their championship will commence early in the New Year. Training takes place on Wednesdays and Fridays at 7pm. New players are welcome.

Go raibh maith agaibh,
Martin Dolan
P.R.O. Boyle GAA Club
086 2413529

Boyle GAA. Mon. Nov. 6th 7 p.m.

The past weekend was the first, for a considerable length of time, in which there was no activity on the playing fields, by the Club. Action will resume this coming weekend. The National Automation U21s’ will meet Padraig Pearse's, in the last of the group games in the Division 1 County Championship, in Knockcroghery on Saturday next, November 12th, at 2pm.
The McGovern Directional Drilling team expects to play St Barrys in the Nort West Championship on the weekend of 18th November.
The National Automation Limited minors are still awaiting news of their league semi final game.
All team managers-adult, minor and ladies- are advised that the new dressing rooms will be closed from Friday the 11th to Tuesday 15th November to allow re-sealing work to be done on the floors.
Preparations are under way for the social event of the year, the Christmas quiz, presentation night and social, all wrapped up in one this year, which will be held in St Joseph's Hall on Wednesday the 28th of December. So note that in your Christmas schedule.
Well done to the Ladies Club on their very enjoyable Halloween Social which they held in St Joseph's Hall on Sunday night last.
Another date for the diaries is the Senior Club's AGM which is scheduled for Sunday the 11th of December at 5pm in the Clubroom. Any member, with ideas regarding the club’s activities, should submit same, on the nomination papers which will be circulated closer to the date.
Congratulations to St Brigid’s on their fine victory in the Connacht Senior Club Semi Final over Tourlestrane at Sligo on Sunday last. It was refreshing to attend a good game in fine weather conditions. Certainly St. Brigid’s are in good shape to be real contenders against this year. They had many fine performances on Sunday with Senan Kilbride getting the ‘Man of the Match’ award and Frankie Dolan giving an exhibition of fine pass delivery/distribution The Connacht Club final is against Corofin at Kiltoom which should be a really good contest. Commiserations to Padraig Pearses on their loss in the Connacht Intermediate Final on Saturday.
I (T.C.) caught up on some reading last evening/night and there is always something interesting in the week end papers. Eamon Sweeney’s column, on the back page of the Indo. Sport’s section, is always worthy of attention with a varied, sometimes quirky, subject matter. Recently there were the comic book heroes of his youth, Sunday Oct. 30th the atmosphere in a small club area when their team gets to a county final and so on. In a sense Eamon has inherited the mantle of Tom Humphrey as a very interesting sports writer of real merit. Indeed sport's writing is a whole genre of literature where the Americans prevail. The French writer Camus said once that: ‘All I ever learned about life I learned from sport’. Camus was a soccer goalkeeper for a time.
Sport got little attention from the Presidential election candidates as outlined by John O’Brien in an interesting and informative piece in the Indo. Sunday Sport, page 4, Oct. 30th headlined ‘Our GAA President a hard act to follow’. I turned into the piece thinking it was the GAA President Christy Cooney that was involved and the headline would thus surprise me. However it was the understanding and supportive attitude of President Mary McAleese to the sport and recreational voluntary providers that he regarded and the lack of reference to sport during the election. This is though Ml. D. is President of Galway United and Mary Davis is a member of the Rooney clan of Mayo GAA background. Sporting grants and funding is getting hammered now and I suppose is an easy target for cuts. Of course there are a lot of clubs struggling with debt and current financing costs et al.
Go raibh maith agaibh,Martin Dolan/T.C.P.R.O. Dept. Boyle GAA Club086 2413529

Friday 1 p.m.
Boyle U 21s' will play Pearses on Saturday the 12th at Knockcrogery (as of now) at 2pm.
After the club meeting last Tuesday night (poorly attended!) the club will be putting forward motions to the County Board Convention on a couple of items. They are: 1. That the introduction of a clock/timing system as per Ladies football for the timing of games be explored.
2. That the All-Ireland hurling and football finals be played two weeks earlier to allow, essentially, for the possibility of holding important county club games at a more sympathetic time of year in terms of weather and conditions and also giving more space for the playing of club games at a more approriate time of year.

There may be other considerations such as the football final being less a victim of late September weather also. Another plus consideration would be the playing of the All-Irelands during the late summer period alowing more of a wide -world visitor attendance possibility.
If people have views on these motions please let us know. Apparently there is a similar motion going before the Dublin Convention.

The club's Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday December the 11th at 5 p.m. The County convention is on Wednesday, December the 14th in Kilglass Centre.
The main item for discussion, laqst Tuesday night, was the County Board's radical (punitive) proposals regarding the input of club's in financing the Board in terms of levies/draws etc. This is the bane of clubs, many of which are indebted themselves and who are really stretched to finance current club activity and meeting expenses in terms of insurance/registration fees/team preparation expenses/grounds maintainance and the myriad of other expenses which means that running a club now costs circa €50,000 per annum. The worrrying state of the County Boards finances has its origins in mismangement or whatever from a number of years ago. As Vincent Browne might say; "Wouldn't that do your head in'.

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