Bruree Notes 29/5/2011

Bruree Rockhill winners in the Limerick Community Games Arts Finals Charlie Gorey O’Neill, Tommy Cronnolly, Jack Murphy, Ciara Mullane, Matthew Howard, Darragh Sexton, Julia Wisniewska, Ellen Williams and Elaine McCarthy

BCR92.6FM On Air

Ballyhoura Community radio took to the airwaves last weekend for a very successful first broadcast. The station will continue to broadcast from it’s studios in Charleville to north Cork and south Limerick and will be heard on the 92.6FM wavelength. The station will broadcast a wide variety of programmes from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm on Saturday and Sunday. BCR92.6FM studios can be contacted on 063-30033.

St. Patrick’s National School
Award: St.Patrick's N.S., Bruree has achieved a Discover Primary Science & Maths, Award of Science & Maths Excellence for 2010/2011. Pupils from Junior Infants to Sixth Class contributed experiments and projects.
Oireachtas Rince na Scoil 2011: Over seventy pupils from the school will take part in the "Munsters" at the South Court Hotel, Limerick this Thursday.
Mackey Cup: Congratulations to Tommy Cronolly and Daragh O'Driscoll who represented the school on the South Limerick Mackey Cup team.

GAA
Fixtures: Sunday June 19th Senior Hurling Championship v Croom
Sunday July 17th Senior Hurling Championship v Na Piarsaigh

45 Drive
Winners of last week’s 45 Drive were Josephine Lynch and Noren hayes with ten games. Runners up with nine games were Fintan Stone and Mike O’Brien. Raffle prizes went to Fintan Stone, Gerry O’Sullivan (x2) and Anne Potter. The 45 Drive continues in the Community Centre every Tuesday night, starting at 8.30 pm sharp.

Pilgrimage
The pilgrimage to Knock on Saturday, June 4th, for All Ireland Rosary Rally Day is now full. Apologies to all those who could not secure a seat. The bus will pick up in Bruree at 7.30 am and you are asked to be outside the church at 7.15 am. The bus will head straight to Dromin Church. Be there on time as the bus will not wait.

Juvenile GAA
Under 13 Football versus Kilteely-Dromkeen in Bruree: The saying “what goes around comes around” was never more apt to describe our most recent Under 13 match. Two weeks after we had a comprehensive victory over Kilteely-Dromkeen in our Under 13 Hurling match, our visitors had their revenge with the big ball. The visitors started with real purpose and started to dominate in all sectors of the field. Despite this they struggled to pull away from Bruree and with Ciaran Sexton bringing off some great saves and the defence working overtime we succeeded in keeping the score down to a 4 point margin at halftime. The fluency which was a hallmark of the first game we played was missing on this occasion and while the team continued to fight hard in the second half Kilteely’s greater craft told in the end. On an evening where we struggled throughout the field, Daire O’Driscoll, Brian Sexton, David O’Connell, Sean Quirke and Tommy Cronnolly more than held their own.
We have a busy schedule coming up over the coming weeks with games moving to Monday evenings and occurring on a weekly basis. So it’s onto the next challenge and the chance to make amends for this game!
Summer Cul Camp: The Summer Camp will run this year from Monday July 4th to Friday July 8th inclusive. This year the camp will be a Cul Camp provided through the Limerick County GAA Board. We will have further details on this over the next few weeks.

Community Games
Congratulations to Rachel Williams who represented Bruree Rockhill and Limerick at the All Ireland finals in Athlone last weekend. Rachel won a silver medal coming second in all Ireland in the Under 12 art finals. Her brother Sam competed very well in the Under 10 handwriting competition in Athlone. Well done to Rachel and Sam and all those involved with community games in the parish.