St Patrick’s Day Parades
Our Grattan’s Float will be in full swing this year, firstly we will be in the Carrickmacross Parade at 3pm on Sunday and then in the Inniskeen Parade up in the village at 1pm on Monday. Come along to cheers us on.
Happy St Patrick’s day to you and all from everyone here involved with the Grattans.
Lotto Results:
There was no Jackpot winner this week; the draw took place Monday 11/03/2013.
The numbers drawn where: 8: 13: 15: 21 next week’s Jackpot is €3,700.
€20 Lucky dip winners were:
Tom Mc Grath, Ballycallan, Co. Kilkenny (John Boyle)
Majella Hatzer, Cullaville, (Joey Byrne)
Marie Fitzpatrick, Magoney ( Tommy McKenna)
PAT Shanahan, Limerick (John Boyle)
John Moyne, Kilkenny (John Boyle )
Next draw takes place Tuesday 19th of March.
Thank you for the support
Lotto Rota:
Next Months Rota is as follows:
April: JJ Smith, Padraig Curtis, Tarry Lennon & Peter Cassidy
Inniskeen Country fest 2013
Following the huge success of last year event, the Grattan’s are glad to announce the following line up of this year’s May bank holiday country music festival:
Friday 3rd May: Declan Nerney,
Saturday 4th May: Setanta,
& Sunday 5th May: Mike Denver.
To wrap up the weekend, during the day Monday we are holding Family activity day (in the field) along with a Traditional Music Session in the Marquee.
Weekend tickets are now available for only €25.
They are at a limited availability this year so book them early to avoid disappointment.
More detailed information will be announced closer to the date.
Tickets can be obtained from any of our committee members or by calling 087 943 4176.
Committee Meeting
Our next committee meeting has been moved to 9th April.
Grattan’s Presentation Night
We are holding a Joint event with the ladies this year on Friday the 22nd of March in the Inniskeen Social hall.
Doors open at 8.30.
All are welcome to come and enjoy a goods night’s crack of music and entertainment.
Admission prices 2013
Following a county board meeting last Monday night, the decision was made to set all senior fixtures (football & Hurling) for 2013 at €5. This includes both Senior and reserves matches in both codes.
2013 Membership ***time running out****:
We are now collecting Annual memberships for 2013 as follows:
Adult €30, Couple €50, Underage €20.
Please make contact with any committee member to organize payment.
Your payments and continued support to the Grattan’s is much appreciated.
Deadline for this year’s membership is March 31st
Gaeltacht Scholarships
Interviews for Gaeltacht Scholarships to Coláiste Bhríde, Rann Na Feirste will be held in GAA Administration Office Cloghan on Saturday 20th April 2013.
Interviews for students who are pre Junior Cert will start at 10am, while interviews for post Junior Cert and Leaving Cert students will begin at 11.30am.
No pre booking is required
Bereavement:
We extend our sincere sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of John Loftus who resided in the UK. John was uncle of Grattan players Seamus & Oisin Loftus.
Ar dheis lamh De go raibh a anam dilis.
Grattan Online Archive Gallery, “If you have them we will scan them”
We are getting a great response to the request for old photos and memorabilia of the Inniskeen Grattan’s.
As previously outlined our aim is to create an online Museum Gallery free for anyone who wants to take a trip down memory lane.
Please feel free to contact me on 0879004463 if you have any old photos that we can use as we need them all, no matter how old or modern.
All pictures will be carefully treated and returned in the same condition received.
Fantasy Football GAA League
Our prediction league is now in full swing and is providing great entertainment.
Thank you for all who logged in and registered to support the club.
Well done so far to JJ Smith, who is leading our internal leader board but more importantly is also flying high on the national leader board in 3rd position out of thousands.
Results
Monaghan County Hurlers Suffered defeat to Fingal last Saturday in Pairc Grattan by a scorline of 1-09 to 2-10.
Minor Friendly vs. Derrynoose was cancelled due to poor weather conditions
Upcoming Fixtures
Minor football Friendly Vs. St Pats (Ballybay & Drumhowan) on Tues 19th March at Pairc Grattan at 7.30pm.
U 16 Football Friendly Vs Crossmaglen at 7.15 on Friday 15th March at Pairc Grattan
U 14 footballers are at Home Vrs Emyvale on Saturday 23rd of March
U 14 hurlers are away Vrs Cootehill on Monday 25th of March
U 12 A’s @ B ’footballers are at home Vrs Latton on Saturday 16th of March
Camogie Notes
All County Blitz
The All County Blitz moved to Clontibret last Sunday instead of Inniskeen, due to the National League Hurling match being played in Grattan Park along with the difficulty for clubs to start the blitz at the earlier time of 11am.
The Blitz is the first outing of the year for the Camogs of Monaghan and certainly the focus for the Inniskeen cailini was to shake off cobwebs of the long winter break and get back into the saddle.
With 3 games played the girls made a good account of themselves considering it was Mother’s Day and many of our players were unable to attend as they were being treated to breakfast in bed and lunch outings!
Well done to new captain for the year Linda Callan and her team mates Louise McArdle, Bernie McGahon, Karen Croftan, Julianne Finnegan, Alice McGahon, Sharon McGahon, Lorraine Lynch, Dearbhla Crawley, Gillian Hamill and Cathy Deery. Also thanks to David who managed the team on the day and to Michelle – his able assistant!
Training
Camogie Skills Training will take place on Wednesdays now at 7.15pm with David (not on Mondays as previously stated) and then players can join with the ladies footballers for fitness training at 8pm. All new and past players are always welcome to join.
By michael Wed 13th Mar
