Congratulations: Gerard Mc Caffrey who made his debut in goals for the Monaghan senior team in their game against St Marys University in the Kenna Cup on Sunday.

AIB GAA Football All Ireland Junior Club Championship Semi Final: We play Two Mile House the Leinster and Kildare Champions on Sunday the 26^th in Pearse Park, Longford at 2:00pm.

Emyvale GAA Juvenile Club AGM: will be held on Tuesday 28^th January 2014 at 8.30pm in Tully, All welcome. All members are encouraged to come along and support our young players. They are our future.

Membership: Membership is now due for renewal.

Mouth guards: Gaelic footballers at all grades must wear mouth guards from Jan 1st 2014. It is the responsibility of each individual player to use a mouth guard.

Handball: Congratulations to Lucy Mc Donald on winning the County U15 Championship Singles Title recently when she defeated Niamh Fullen from St. Mellan’s Handball Club. Lucy now goes forward to represent her club & county in Ulster so we wish her the best of luck. Welcome back to two of our emigrants Barry Mc Guirk & Colin Donnelly who are back playing handball with the club again.

Bingo: Tonight Thursday in the Emyvale Leisure Centre at 9.00pm. Jackpot €1,000 on 45 calls or less and Mini Jackpot € 500 on 49 calls. Cleaning Rota: TBC

Emylott: Nos. drawn 12^th Jan.:- 15, 19, 25, 28.  One ‘Match 3’ winner (€150):- Brian McKenna, Dernalossett.  Promoter’s Prize:- Mickey McCarron & Kevin McQuillan. Yearly Promoter’s prize:- Padraig Treanor & Enda Clerkin.  Next week’s Jackpot:- €4,700.

Ulster GAA Coaching Conference: The O’Neill’s Ulster GAA Coaching Conference 2014 will be held in the Hilton Hotel, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim on Saturday 1st February 2014. The theme for 2014 is ’20/20 Vision for 2020 Clubs’ and will have a particular resonance with those coaches working within schools, clubs, academies and county squads in urban settings. Guest speaker will be Brian Mullins, former Dublin Manager. Anybody interested please contact Patrick Mc Carron.

Centenary Year: Emyvale GAA Club celebrates the centenary of its formation this year so we have decided to publish some snippets of the history of the club over the coming weeks. Emyvale is very fortunate to have club member & historian Seamus Mc Cluskey who has written “Emyvale GAA Club, A History” which covers the period from the founding of the club up until the 1980’s. Since then he has kept scrap books of all the newspapers cuttings for each year & these are stored in the clubhouse in Tully so the history of the club will always be recorded. There were no records in those early years but Seamus states in his book that it was Master Flood of Innisdevlin who taught in Edenmore National School that got the young lads of the district together in a field near the Blue Bridge in 1914 and here the  Emyvale GAA club was born. They played teams from Bragan, Tydavnet, Middletown & Clogher. Some of those who played on that early team were: Paddy Mohan, Derilla; Johnnie Mc Carron, Knockronaghan;  John (Paddy Brian) Treanor, Golan;  James Mc Quillan, Tonneyfinnegan; Frank Treanor (Phil Sheamuis); Owenie (Briney) Treanor; James Mc Kenna, Killacorn; Jemmie (Pheadar) Mc Kenna, Tamlet; Mc Carrons & Mc Kennas.  Paddy Mohan, Derilla recalled some great memories of this team & could remember playing games at Innishdevlin, Derrykinnighbeg, Drumberrin, Tydavnet & Edenmore.  Indeed Paddy was the first man from the parish to play for the Monaghan County Senior Team when he came on as a sub in 1915 & scored 1 – 5 to help Monaghan to victory against Leitrim & following this brilliant performance he was referred to “The Skipper”.  The earliest official record is a minute in the report of the Ulster Council meeting in 1918 where Emyvale put in a request for the use of two players, Francis Treanor & Peter Gorman from Aghaloo to play for Emyvale & this request was granted.

Centenary Year: As mentioned already the club will be celebrating its 100th year in existence in 2014. We hope to mark the occasion in a special way. We would welcome any ideas on what would be appropriate for the occasion. A small sub – committee will be set up shortly to oversee the project.

Notes: If you want to have something included in the notes in 2014 can you please contact 087-4103569 or email pro.emyvale.monaghan@gaa.ie