Ballybay Club Notes

There was no winner of last weeks Ballybay Pearse Brothers Blotto. Number drawn were as follows: 3, 16, 20 & 28

The following people won €20:

Aoife Grant, Ballybay

Margaret Donaghy, Castleblayney

Stephen Rutledge, 15 O’Duffy Tce

Mickey & Pauline Duffy, Ballybay

Alice Ryburn, Sragh, Ballybay

Next weeks jackpot is €3,800

Results: On Saturday afternoon the senior team continued their good form in the Monaghan Credit Union Senior Football league with a good win over Carrickmacross. There wasn’t much between the teams in the finish with goals from the McGuiness brothers been the difference on the day. Management will be concerned with picking up a number of knock but will delighted with the spirit and heart shown by the team after the disappointment of the championship defeat the previous week. Full time score Ballybay 2-12 Carrickmacross 1-12. Ballybay team: Sean Gorman, Brent Wylie, Evan Rutledge, Ryan Wylie, Michael Hannon, Mark McArdle, Eoin McKearney, Ciaran Gallighan, Thomas O’Neil, Shane McQuillan, Cillian McAviney, Paul Finlay, Shane McGuiness, Christopher McGuiness, Thomas Kerr, Hugh Malone, Fergal McArdle, Colm Lennon, James Kerr.

Fixtures: The senior team take on Magheracloone on Sunday afternoon. Throw up in Ballybay Pearse Park at 12.30pm. Please come along and support the boys.

The winner of the early bird draw for two tickets to last Sunday’s All Ireland final between Dublin & Mayo was Jack Sullivan. The draw took place during the weekly bingo on Tuesday night. Raffle tickets are still available from any seller with €10,000 worth of prizes to be won so make sure your in the draw cos if your not in you cant win. Tickets are priced at €20 each or 3 for €50, with the draw taking place on the 28th of October in the club rooms

Sympathies: The club would like to extend its sincerest sympathies to the family and friends of the late Sheila McKearney, wife of Paddy, mother to John Joe & Brendan and grandmother to Eoin. Sheila was laid to rest on Tuesday last following funeral mass at the most holy rosary church Tullycrbet. May she rest in peace.

The winners of the members draw for the clubs All Ireland tickets which took place on Friday night was Dessie Ward & Marie McCabe. We hope you both enjoyed the game.

Best wishes to Cathal Hand who was appointed as part of the county minor back room team for the 2017 season. Hopefully Cathal along with the rest of the team set-up have a very successful year which will see silver ware coming back to the farney county.

Bingo: Just a quick note to remind everyone that the club’s weekly Bingo takes place every Tuesday night at 9pm in the clubhouse. The bingo is a great opportunity for the community to come together midweek and have a good night while maybe even winning a few bob. This is a fundamental part of the club’s fund raising for day-to-day costs and we would all really

appreciate if you, your friends or your family could support this if you can at all. And, don’t forget, there is transport available to the centre. Every week, our volunteers go to great efforts to keep this going so that all of the other voluntary members of the club have a good starting platform. Hope to see some new faces tomorrow night and over the coming weeks.

The next committee meeting takes place in the club house on Tuesday the 27th of October. Could all committee members please make a special effort to attend.

If you would like to get items into the club notes please contact Niall Duffy by 8pm on Monday evening and he’ll gladly include.