Athea GAA

Awards Night for Minor Footballers

Our successful minor team were presented with their medals at the Top of the Town on Sunday 21^st December.

Newly appointed County Board Officer Seamus McNamara from Abbeyfeale [originally Athea] made the presentations on the night.

Presentations were also made to Manager Noel Barry and Selector Denis Collins.

 Club Draw Results held at Top of Town Sunday 21^st December

 Prize     Value     Ticket Nr.             Name

1st           € 500      058         Donncha & Thomas Barrett, Lower Dirreen

2nd         € 250      070         Jerry Flynn, Markievicz Park

3rd          € 150      353         Michael Wrenn, Carlow

4th          € 150      179         Billy McKenna (snr), Upper Athea

5th          € 150      020         Conor Mullane, Templeathea

Hamper 1 – Nora McCarthy, Templeathea

Hamper 2 – William & Rita, Galeside

Hamper 3 – John Geoghegan, Gortnagross

Intermediate Players Meeting

A players meeting, with management will take place this Saturday night, January 19th, at the meeting rooms at 8pm. All players interested in playing intermediate football this year are asked to attend.

Athea United Soccer

Division 1 League (January 13th)
Kilcornan A  (1) 1
Athea Utd B  (1) 2      Gerard Ahern (2)
Team: Ryan Carroll, Padraig Reidy, Mathew Tierney, Tom Collins, Joe Vaughan, Conor Mullane, Darren Murphy, Gerard Ahern, Ger Collins, Jamie Collins, Cillian O’Connor.
Subs used Kevin Murphy, John Cotter, Mike Reidy.
Referee Paul O’Brien.

ATHEA UTD FIXTURE
Sunday, January 13th
Junior As home to Askeaton in the league at 2.30pm

ATHEA UTD TRAINING TIMES
All players check with respective managers for confirmation of training times.

LAST MAN STANDING
The new Last Man Standing Competition got underway on the weekend of December 29th and which is being sponsored Tom O’Grady, Brown Joe’s Bar and the club would like to thank Tom O’Grady for his sponsorship.
Already we have had a few fallers at the first hurdle with a good number going for the then in form Stoke City while we lost over 100 when Chelsea lost 1-0 at home to QPR. Last weekend we lost a big number again thus leaving just 23 people left standing. Best of luck to all for next weekends fixtures.

CLOTHES BANK
Athea Utd this week installed a clothes bank at our grounds at The Vales and which accept clothes as well as other items. The clothes bank will benefit The Street Children of Calcutta as well as providing a very useful service for the people of the parish and its environs.
The clothes bank can accept the following items – (1) Clothes. (2)Sheets. (3) (Blankets. (4) Towels. (5) Shoes. (6) Curtains

THE CLOTHES BANK WILL BE OPEN AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES –
Mondays 10am to 3pm. Wednesdays 10am to 3pm. Fridays 10am to 3pm.
Monday – Friday nights from 7pm to 9.30pm.
Saturday and Sundays 10am to 2am.

ATHEA UTD / ADRENALIN SPORTS
Athea Utd AFC in conjunction with Adrenalin Sport are pleased to announce details of some news that will be of interest to all the players in the club. Currently we are distributing Discount Cards from Adrenalin Sports to all our players. The Discount Cards allows you to a 15% reduction off all regular stock at any of its outlets in Abbeyfeale (Main Street) or in Newcastle West (Upper Maiden Street or Lower Maiden Street). In addition the Discount Card allows you a 10%
reduction on any sale stock in either outlets. So we would urge
players that are looking to at purchasing any sports attire to support the local Adrenalin Sports outlets.

ATHEA UTD LOTTERY RESULTS FOR
JANUARY 14th
The results of our weekly lottery draw held on Monday, January 14th at
JP’s are as follows –
Jackpot was €7000. Numbers drawn 8, 23, 27, 28. No jackpot winner.
Lucky dips to the following – Andrew O’Riordan, Dirreen, Athea. Mai McCarthy, Listowel. C Mulvihill, Athea. Helen O’Connor, Village Living, Athea. The Fitzgerald Family, Beenanaspig
Sellers Agatha & Joe Vaughan.
New jackpot will be €7100 next Monday night, January 21st at The Top of the Town.