The collection for the parish clerks in both Rockhill and Bruree will be held this weekend. The collection will be held in Rockhill on Saturday, February 7th, and in Bruree on Sunday, February 8th. Your generosity to both ladies would be greatly appreciated and a mark of appreciation for the work they do on your behalf.
GAA
The Bruree Junior B Hurling team which won the Munster semi-final against Lisgoold at Knocklong on Sunday last
Social: The Bruree GAA Victory Social will be held at Bulgaden Castle on this Saturday night, February 7th. The meal will be served at 9.00 pm sharp and patrons are asked to co-operate with the committee and the venue by turning up on time. Music will be provided by Terminal 11 and we hope that everyone will make the effort to attend to celebrate a successful year for the club. Last minute tickets at just €30 each are available today (Thursday) from members of the committee.
Membership: All members are reminded that their membership fee is now overdue. This is €10 for adults and €2 for juvenile members. The club will be stricter than ever on the payment of membership this year so please co-operate by paying yours immediately.
Oral History: The GAA Oral History Project aims to record the fullest possible picture of what the GAA has meant to the Irish people, in their own words. A questionnaire has been designed to gather as much information as possible and this questionnaire will be preserved as a permanent resource on the history of the GAA and Irish society. This document will be accessible to the public, with the exception of your contact details. Among the topics covered in the questionnaire are the respondent’s memories of the GAA, their own and their family’s involvement in the association and the affect of that involvement in their life. It also addresses the changes which have happened in the GAA and the role, involvement and influences of the Church, politics, the Irish language, women, and volunteers in the GAA. Anyone interested in participating in this collecting of the oral history of the GAA can contact Elaine Horgan or John Harrold to obtain a copy of the questionnaire.
Fixture: Bruree’s Junior hurling county champions Munster semi-final against Lisgoold at Newtown on last Sunday, January 25th, was postponed.
All Stars: Congratulations to James V. O’Brien, Paul Fitzgerald and Jim O’Brien who all received South All Stars awards at the awards banquet on Saturday night last. Jim received his award as a member of the All Ireland winning Limerick team of 1973 while his son, James received the Senior Hurling award. Paul Fitzgerald received the Junior B Hurling award. Well done to all.
Indoor Hurling: This year’s competition will start on Monday next, February 9th, and will finish on Thursday, March 12th. It will run every Monday for Under 10s and 8s and Thursday night for Under 12s between these dates. We ask that all players please attend only the nights that they are playing. Full details will be issued to parents through the School. This Competition is only open to children attending National Schools only. Anyone from the parish who has a child attending a National School outside the parish and would like to attend, a membership form is available from any member of Bruree GAA Club.
Bruree In Munster Final: Bruree’s Junior B hurlers qualified for the Munster final when they narrowly defeated Cork side, Lisgoold, at Knocklong on Sunday. This was a tough, close encounter played on a bitterly cold day. It may have been cold on the sideline but on the pitch the temperature was warm as both sides gave their all to secure the coveted Munster final place. Bruree gave the Cork champions little room for open hurling as Bruree closed them down at every opportunity. Scoring was low with the strong wind but Bruree made more use of the opportunities available. Free taker Donal Deady was on form, converting four placed balls for Bruree’s only scores of the opening half, two early in the half and two towards the end. The referee credited Lisgoold with four points in the opening half but the sideline scorekeepers could only register three, two from frees and one from play. Five minutes into the second half, Lisgoold added another point from play. Ten minutes into the half came what were probably the turning points of the game. A speculative shot from Bruree’s Michael Brouder looked to have been dealt with by the goalkeeper but he dropped it into the net for a fortuitous Bruree goal. From the puckout, Lisgoold were awarde a penalty at the other end. An attempt at goal was saved by Eamon Sexton and the ball was cleared. Lisgoold had a number of scoreable chances in the remaining twenty minutes but could only manage appoint from a free and another from a sixty five. Donal Deady stepped up to convert a Bruree free midway through the half, Bruree final score of the game. Bruree defended all through the field and gave Lisgoold no space to open up the game and, after what seemed an eternity of injury time, the final whistle saw Bruree one (or two!) point victors. The final score was officially Bruree 1-5 Lisgoold 0-7.
45 DRIVE
Winners of the 45 Drive last week with ten games were Ann Potter and Jim Murphy. Runners up with nine games were and Mary Noonan and Martin Carroll. Table prizes went to Mary O’Leary and John Sheehan and Sean Blake and Katherine O’Regan. Raffle prizes went to Nora May Donworth (x2), Sean Healy and Jim Murphy. The 45 Drive continues in the Community Centre every Tuesday night, starting at 8.30 pm sharp.
SYMPATHY
We extend our sincere sympathy to the family, relatives and friends of Richie Boyce, Ballyagran, John Carroll, Croom, Bridget Sheehan, Templeglantine, Goretti Neville, Croagh, and Jackie Chawke, Granagh, who died recently.
PEG GALLIGAN RIP
Bruree lost its oldest citizen last week with the death at St. Camillus Hospital of Peg Galligan of Water Street. A member of a well known Bruree sporting family (members of which won great acclaim on sports fields at home and abroad) Peg was born on Tuesday, July 23rd, 1907. Peg was an Irish speaker and proudly wore her fáinne. There was always a warm welcome at the front door of her home beside the bridge and the river in Bruree. An accomplished Irish dancer and blessed with a good voice, Peg could always be relied on to dance a hornpipe or sing a song at social gatherings. One of Bruree’s ever dwindling population of characters, she was a straight talker and had a great sense of humour. Peg was a hard worker and lived a temperate lifestyle, neither drinking nor smoking. Like all her generation, Peg lived on plain food and baked her own bread and apple tarts. She lived through the troubled times in Ireland from the 1916 Rising to the War of Independence and the Black and Tans and the Civil War and saw many of the events which changed Ireland during the twentieth century. Peg was there for the many visits of Bruree’s favourite son, Eamon de Valera, to the village. She hit the headlines in 1974 when, along with the late John Joe Carey, she rescued an eight year old boy from the flood swollen river Maigue at Bruree. The certificate of bravery Peg received for her part in the rescue was displayed by her bed at St. Camillus. Back in July 2007, a large group of family and friends and neighbours from Bruree gathered at St. Camillus (where Peg had resided since 2001) to help celebrate Peg’s hundredth birthday, with Mass celebrated by Fr. Des McAuliffe, P.P., Rockhill-Bruree and Fr. Richard Crowe, Chaplain, St. Camillus.
Friends and neighbours gathered at Hawes Funeral Home in Charleville, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Bruree and at the graveside in Kilmallock to bid a fond farewell to Peg. We extend our sympathy to her family, relatives and friends.
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