Congratulations to Brown Joe O’Connor pictured celebrating his 90th birthday recently with his family Joan O’Connor, Johnny O’Connor, Jeremiah O’Connor, Joesph O’Connor, & Anne Reidy Congratulations to Brown Joe O’Connor pictured celebrating his 90th birthday recently with his family Joan O’Connor, Johnny O’Connor, Jeremiah O’Connor, Joesph O’Connor, & Anne Reidy
Athea Drama Group Present
“Lovely Leitrim”
Unfortunately last Sunday’s night’s performance had to be stopped when Domhnall de Barra became unwell on stage. Glad to report that Domhnall is well and home from the hospital. We wish him well.
The play will be staged again on this Thurs. 1st, Sat. 3rd & Sun. 4th March in the Con Colbert Memorial Hall starting at 8pm
This play is written by Leitrim man John McDwyer who also wrote “Unforgiven” which was staged by this group a couple of years ago.
It moves between a farmhouse and pub in Leitrim to an Irish pub in London where exiles meet after a match between Leitrim and London. Set in modern times it uncovers the pain of separation from home and the land and could easily be about this part of the country.
A cast of ten men and two women have been rehearsing for a few months and it should be well worth a visit. Don’t miss it!
Boxercise Classes
Boxercise Classes are taking place in the Con Colbert Memorial Hall every Thursday morning from 10.00am to 11.20am. This is an excellent way to burn fat and tone up. All are welcome. For more information call Martina on 087-6628417
Athea Community First Responders
Church Gate Collection
This weekend Saturday 3rd / Sunday 4th March at all Masses. Your support would be very much appreciated for this very hard working group of people. It is a vital service to have in our parish. See page 7 for more information on the C.F.R’s
Listowel Community College
Open Evening for Adult Learners
Listowel Community College will be holding its Open Evening for Adult Learners on Thursday March 1st from 4pm-7pm.
A large number of Post Leaving Certificate courses are on offer from Childcare, Business, Secretarial, Sport, Recreation, Hairdressing, Furniture Making, Journalism, Horticulture, Cultural Heritage, Music, Community Care and many others .
We have a VTOS programme for adults who have been out of education and wish to return to complete their leaving certificate or to participate in a PLC course.
Enrolment for Post Primary will also take place Thursday March 1st 4pm-7pm
All staff will be available to answer all questions in relation to all programmes. You can contact the school at 068 61023 or e mail [email protected].
Parish of Templeglantine
International Eucharistic Congress
Dublin June 10th – 17th 2012
A bus will travel from our Pastoral Area on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of the Eucharistic Congress week to the RDS.
Those interested should give their names and contact tel no. To the following as soon as possible: Fr. Bowen 087-6532482, Mike Hayes 087-7751386, Pat Higgins 087-2034626. The cost is €35 approx including bus and entry to the RDS.
The Principal Mass of the Eucharistic Congress will be celebrated in Croke Park on June 17th. There are 18 tickets allocated to each parish. Tickets €10 each. Anybody who is interested in going should hand in their name immediately as we need to know how many are interested. We will have to have a lottery if there are more than 18 names. Those who attend the Mass will be asked to fill in a simple health and safety form for the IEC Head Office. These forms have to be in the Limerick Office by March 9th.
Anyone who registers for three consecutive days of events during the week will be guaranteed a ticket for the closing Mass in Croke Park. There are 30,000 tickets for the closing ceremony set aside for those who attend the RDS events. Therefore anyone wishing to secure a ticket for Croke Park can register for three consecutive day’s events for €60 even if they do not attend these events. These bookings can be done online at www.iec2012.ie or try IEC Dublin.
There will be a day conference, open to everybody, in Limerick, in preparation for the International conference on Sat. March 10th. in the Halla, Mary Immaculate College from 10.30 to 4.00 Cost €30 including lunch, payable on the day.
“Communion with Christ and with One Another” a talks series in preparation for the Eucharistic Conference, in Newcastlw West Pastoral Centre on March 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th from 8 – 9.30pm
Four Generations: Sister and Brother Alma Finucane and Owen O'Connor celebrated a joint christening with their sons Rory and Oscar, on Saturday 18th in St. Bartholomew’s Church. They celebrated with all four generations including Joe O'Connor, Marian and Jeremiah O'Connor and Mary Dalton.
Athea Foróige Youth Club
On Wednesday the 15th of February, we held our pancake fundraiser, it was a great success and we raised €260. The pupils from the National school came over to try our pancakes. We really enjoyed cooking for and serving our customers. We would like to thank everyone for their generous donations and our leaders Natalie Thornton and Aggie Barrett for helping to organise the event. Recently, we attended an interclub disco held by Cappamore Foròige. We enjoyed the bopping tunes and making new friends. We are excited to be attending a Foròige fundraising day in Curragh Chase on the 14th of April. On the day, we will be orienteering, camping, going to a local disco and enjoying a barbeque with other clubs. On Saturday the 3rd of March will be heading to Newcastle West youth café for a chill out afternoon with the local club. Ben Thornton will be the DJ on the day to keep thing lively. In May, we will be travelling to Longford for a youth festival called “Hype” organised by Foròige. There will be tents, stalls, performers and musical entertainment. We enclose some photographs from our pancake day and we hope to see you at our next event in the village.
