27 February 2019

Borris-Ileigh Camogie – Club Notes

“Build the Borris Brick Wall” Fundraiser Night:

Our Build the Borris Brick Wall fundraiser took place in Stapleton’s Bar last Saturday night. The night was a roaring success with a great night had by all, especially Josephine Ryan who took away the fantastic €1000 grand prize.

We would sincerely like to thank one and all for their support for the fundraiser, including everyone that volunteered to sell the cards and the buyers of the bricks themselves, your generosity with your time and donations made this event the fantastic success it was. The Club would also like to thank the local businesses who are always so very supportive to the club and helped to sell many cards for the Club. We would also like to give a special thanks to all our committee who donated many of our for great spot prizes for the draw

We must also give a special mention to Pat Keane. This fundraiser was his brainchild and we would like to thank him for all his hard work in making his vision a reality. We’ll be expecting another great idea next year Pat, no pressure.

A very special word of thanks has to go to Bríd in Stapletons, providing great entertainment and finger food on the night. We were delighted to have Vincent O Connor our Honorary Club President present to help out with the draws.

Some photos from the night can be found on our Facebook and Instagram pages. You can find us on Facebook at “www.facebook.com/borrisileighC” and  on Instagram at “borrisileighcamogie”

Borris Abú!

Results of the Draw:

Winner: Josephine Ryan €1000

Card Seller: Josephine Ryan €100

Full Card Seller: Aoibhinn and Caoimhe Keane €100

Brick Buyer Spot Prizes:

Johnny Begley

Orla Kinnane

Louise Clarke

Declan Clarke

Nuala Ryan

Kathleen Ryan

Martin Maher

Cathal Kirby

Emma Kelly

Brendan O’Dwyer

Ger Troy

Helen Kiely Hayes

Sheila Kiely

Katie Mae McGrath

In-House Draw Winners:

John Walsh

Michael Ryan

John Keane

John Carroll

Owen Walsh

Breda Moore

Tipperary Camogie:

Well done to our Tipperary Senior Camogie panel members Megan Ryan, Julieanne Bourke and Nicole Walsh who were part of the victorious Tipp team who beat Wateford 1-11 to 0-10 in the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 1 Group 2 in De La Salle over the weekend.

Scór Notes

Katie Shanahan, Scór Sinsir County Champion in Solo Song

Matt in Brazil

Hello to all the Borrisoleigh website readers,

Just keeping you informed about  what I’m doing these times here in Brasil. The few photos that accompany these few words will give you some idea of how the money you donated to me is being applied, to improve the quality of life  for those in need in the area of housing.

I continue helping out families in different ways, but  especially students of poorer backgrounds who have difficulties  to continue on with their studies.  Some students we help out on a regular basis, to  others we only give something when things are really bad for them. At all cost we try to avoid them creating  dependency on the little we give.

Last Saturday Doutora Adina, a medical doctor, and her boyfriend Willan came to visit me and they gave me a generous donation. I had helped them through College   years ago, and now they asked me to pass their  donation onto other students who are going through what they went through, when I came to their rescue.  People occasionally come back  to offer help like that but the majority, while grateful for what we might have done, rarely come back to offer help to someone else. But maybe they help members  in their own families.

In any case it’s rewarding when someone shows up like that  to  express their gratitude, to maintain contact with us and to let us  see that what was done  has produced good results in the life of someone.

As you may know since the first of January we have a new  Brazilian President.  Unfortunately he doesn’t represent  much hope of improvements for the poorer population. One of the first measures he introduced was to facilitate the buying and selling of guns.  So more and more people will be going  around armed all the time.  You can imagine what will be the consequence of this measure in a violent society like Brasil.

The next big Project he has in mind is to curtail the possibility of any form of pensions for the poor, who have never had the opportunity to contribute to  social welfare, because they were never employed. So in short, things are going from bad to worse for the sick and the elderly poor,  with the election of this new man as President here.

In any case we keep going, trying to work out how we can help those in most need through simple gestures of support and solidarity. Thanks to you all. Matt in Brasil.

Progressive 45 Drive

Rearcross Community Council will hold a Progressive 45 Drive in the Community Centre Rearcross on Friday 8^th March 2019 @ 8.30pm – €500.00 in Prizes   –  Tickets €5 -Tea Served