Ballybay Notes

There was no winner of last weeks Ballybay Pearse Brothers Blotto. Number drawn were as follows: 12, 14, 28, 32. The following people won €20:

Ronan McDonald, Ballybay

Kathleen Farrelly, Ballybay

Mary Cleary, 35 O’Duffy Tce

Eileen Flanagan, Clones

Pamela Fox, Newbliss

Next weeks jackpot is €1,400

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!

Results: On Saturday evening last the reserves suffered a bad defeat to near neighbours Aughnamullan. In very cold wet conditions Ballybay started the brighter on the two sides and where 1-2 to no score up after the opening exchanges, the goal coming from a brilliant effort from Daniel Brennan. Aughnamullan soon settled and took full control of the game from there on, dominating exchanges around the middle third of the field. Ballybay had to reshuffle the pack when they lost Hugh Malone through injury, his presence and strength a major loss to the side. The home side tried as best they could but the visitors always had the extra scores on the board and Ballybay could just never get close enough. Full time score Ballybay 2-4 Aughnamullan 3-11. Ballybay team: Brian McCabe, Niall Duffy, Evan Rutledge, Mark McArdle, Eoin McKearney, Michael Hannon, Cathal Mooney, Conor Hand, Danny Gorman, Patrick O’Neil, Hugh Malone, James Kerr, Conor Sherry, Cormac Duffy, Daniel Brennan, Darren Smyth, Barry Lennon & Mantas Pankinas.

Congratulations to Daniel Brennan who made his first senior start for the Ballybay senior setup on Saturday last, scoring the teams opening goal with a brilliant effort to the bottom corner.

The U12’s has a good result when they drew with Doohamlet after a good team display my all players involved. Final score Doohamlet 0-13 Ballybay 0-13.The St Pats U16 team suffered the narrowest of defeats when they travelled to Monaghan Harps on Thursday evening last. Final score Monaghan Harps 4-9 St Patricks 3-11.

Fixtures: This evening, Thursday the 7th of April the St Patrick’s U16 team are at home, in Drumhowan, to Inniskeen, throw in time is 6.30pm. On Saturday the 8th of April the U14 team travels to Corduff for their latest round of the league, throw in at 2pm. That evening the seniors host Clontibret in Pearse Park with a throw in time of 6.00pm, please note the change

of time. On Tuesday the 12th of April the St Patrick minor team take on Scotstown in Pearse Park for the next round of fixtures in the minor league. Throw in at 6.30pm.

Best of luck & well wishes to Dessie Ward to represented the county U21’s last night when they took on Tyrone in the Ulster final. We hope the result went to in the way Monaghan men.

Well done to senior team player Ryan Wylie on been selected as UCD’s player of the year for the 2016 season. This is remarkable achievement for Ryan as UCD won the Sigerson for the first time in 20 years and is another indication into the performance levels that Ryan is producing week in week out for club, county & third level.

Get voting: The Ballybay Community College would like you to vote for their “Junk Kouture” design Celtic Lady which has progressed to the national finals been held in the 3 Arena on the 14th of April. To vote you can go to the BOIstudents Faceback page and clink the link on the dress, you will have to scroll the page to find the Celtic Lady design. The online votes accounts for 10% of the overall mark and you can vote every 24hrs until the 8th of April. Best of luck to Eilis, Sarah & Aoife who designed the dress and congratulations on getting this far.

Ballybay Pearse Brothers Club membership for the 2016 season is now available. There are three options available this year.

Gold Membership – which consists of free entry into all senior & reserve home league fixtures, entry into the clubs Blotto each week, entry into the draw for tickets to this years All Ireland Final & general club membership for a fee of €240. (Payment via direct debit is available over a 12 month period)

Silver Membership – which consists of free entry into all senior & reserve home league fixtures, entry into the draw for tickets to this years All Ireland Final & general club membership for a fee of €100.

Bronze membership – which consists of free entry into the draw for tickets to this years All Ireland Final & general club membership for a fee of €30.

Current members will be approached in the hope of resigning as many as possible while continuing to build on previous numbers. So anyone who would like to become a club member please contact any committee member for additional information.

On-Line Blotto: The club’s blotto can now be purchased on-line. Please see the Ballybay Pearse Brothers facebook page for the link that’ll allow you to access the website for more details. Play now so that you don’t miss out on the chance to win the weekly jackpot.

Volunteers: The Field Committee would like to ask any volunteers that are available to give an hour from 6.30 – 8pm on Friday evening to help tidy up the carpark for the family using the centre on Saturday afternoon following confirmation. Please bring a shovel and brush with you if possible.