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A married couple in their early 60s were out celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant. Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table and said, "For being such an exemplary married couple and for being faithful to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish. "Ooh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband." said the wife. The fairy moved her magic stick and - abracadabra! - two tickets for the new QM2 luxury liner appeared in her hands. Now it was the husbands turn. He thought for a moment and said: "Well this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this only occurs once in a lifetime, so, I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me." The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish... So the fairy made a circle with her magic stick and -abracadabra! - the husband became 92 years old. The moral of this story: "Fairies are female."
A tom cat and a tabby cat were courting on a back fence at night. The tom leaned over to the tabby with pent up passion and purred... "I'll die for you!" The tabby gazed at him from under lowered eye lids and asked, "How many times?"
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Local Tourism Aghaboe Abbey
Aghaboe is a town located at the foot of the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County Laois. To get there, take the R424 off the N7 between Borris-in-Ossory and Mountrath. One of the attractions of Aghaboe, is its ancient abbey.
centre of learning, commerce and agriculture, and for a time, became the site of the Bishop's see until under Norman influence in the twelfth century, the see was transferred from Aghaboe to Kilkenny.
Aghaboe Abbey was founded in the 6th century by St. Canice, an abbot, monastic founder, priest and missionary and is one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is traditionally credited with the elimination of the Druidic rule in ireland. The last Archdruid of Ireland had retired with his council to a mound in Kilkenny for safety. St. Canice led an army there and overcome them. He found a monastery near what is now the Church of Ireland's St. Canice's Cathedral. He spend a lot of time in Ossory where he had a good repute with the King, Colmann who gave him grants of land including Aghaboe (the field of the Ox), where he founded the Abbey and Monastery. It grew into a major
In 1346, Diamaid mac Giollaphadraig burned the town of Aghaboe and the church, completely destroying St. Canice's shrine and bones and relics. It was rebuilt as an Augustinian Priory and today a Church of Ireland dating from the 1700's stands where the priory once stood. There are the ruins of a Dominican Friary founded in 1382 by Finghan MacGillapatrick, Lord of Ossory also on the site. A tree-covered remains of a Norman Motte can also be seen. The Norman's would have built a wooden tower on top of the steep-sided mound of earth to store arms and keep watch for attack.
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Dorrie Killeen tells the story of the 100 year old Herbal Remedy In 1890, a young teacher, Annie Murray, whose family was from Rathmoylan Co. Meath took up a post in a south Co Roscommon national school a few miles west of Lough Ree. She later married a local man Thomas Feeley and Roscommon was to become her home for life near the shores of Lough Rea. She brought with her a recipe for a substance made from herbs, oils, and salts that had been used by her family for generations for the relief of muscular pains and aches. She kept this recipe and old traditional remedies made from herbs in her medical book titled ‘The Household Physician’ by J. McGregor-Robertson, with her name and the date on it (June 1893) which remained her medical bible all her long healthy life. In this book, treatments were mostly old traditional remedies usually made up at the local chemist known then as the apothecary. Some families had their own secret remedies that were handed down from generation to generation. She also had some recipes recorded in her book by a famous herbalist in New Zealand. James Neil, she got from a family member living in New Zealand. James Neil also had qualifications in medicine and surgery. Annie was my grandmother whom I loved dearly and had the privilege of looking after her in her later years. I remember her making up this old remedy. I used to rub it on her neck, shoulders, back and knees in her last years of life (1954-55). She was 91 years old. She always used to say to me you keep that book Dorrie.
those days water was got from spring wells and I remember our spring well it was beside our apple trees surrounded by a hedge of Whitethorn and Willow trees. Now we are importing Spring Willow Water from England. I am sure we could find those old wells and have our own Spring Willow Water. We have our spring well and it surrounded by willows and other large trees and ‘The Rub’ is made with this water and we use it for our drinking water.
I was always interested in herbs or weeds as we called them as children but my grandmother used to say they are all there for a reason and God gave us the intelligence to find that reason. For every illness she used to say ‘a herb grows nearby’. Back in
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Does Your Tourism Business Need A Boost? Offaly Local Development Company is organising a training programme for Tourism Providers in County Offaly. The training is focusing on customers - knowing what they want and meeting their needs and of course making a profit by running a more effective and efficient tourism business. Programme content will include; marketing your business/destination, customer service, presenting your product, writing for business (brochures & business website), creating and managing your own website and developing networks. The course will also provide an insight into community & rural development, Offaly’s heritage, attractions and festivals and Offaly’s food and craft sectors. We will also explore the opportunities that all of these elements present for Offaly tourism businesses in the future. A number of site visits have also been planned to tourist destinations and attractions within Offaly and beyond. These visits will focus on increasing participants’ knowledge of Offaly’s heritage and attractions while visits outside the county will focus on best practice learning from other parts of the country. As part of the marketing and website development training participants will have access to a professional photographer and film maker to develop eye catching photographs and film to promote their business/destination. Offaly Local Development Company believes that now more than ever support and training to all in the
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Laois GAA Awards Night takes place in the Heritage Hotle on Friday 26th. November at 8pm sharp. Tickets €40 per person and are available for sale from Laois GAA Offices 057 8660674.
Senior Hurling - Liam Tynan Rathdowney Errill Intermediate Hurling - Thomas Dunphy Camross
Na Fianna GAA Football Club Club AGM The AGM of Na Fianna GAA Football Club will take place on Wednesday 17 November at 8:30pm in the Clubhouse in Geashill. All players, officials and members of the football club are asked to attend. Mentors Night Out Na Fianna GAA Football Club are organising a night out for the mentors of all the football teams and their respective partners on this Saturday (13th November) in High Chaparell, Geashill starting at 9pm. There will be plenty of
ceol agus craic on the night. So come along and enjoy a great night out. Congratulations Na Fianna GAA Football would like to congratulate Geashill School following their success in winning the Cumann na mBunscol Final last week. Sympathy Na Fianna GAA Football Club would like to extend deepest sympathy to former Na Fianna club secretary Eugene Hyland and family following the tragic death of his brother Billy in an accident last weekend. RIP
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Weekly Club Lotto Weekly Lotto 6-Nov-10. There was no winner of the weekly club Lotto jackpot. The winning numbers were 7-19-22-27. There were 5 match three winners. They were Stiofan O’Coinin, Tommy Browne, Nuala Connaughton, Liz Fleming and Adam Condron. Next weeks draw takes place in Baggots and the jackpot is 5750. Clara U12 Football Clara beat Rosemount in the Rosemount Tournament final on Sunday last 7/11/10.Played on a very heavy pitch the Clara lads won 1-9 to 1-5 in a very sporting game. It was a good end to the year for the lads. Panel: Wesley Johnson, Ciaran Doyle, Daryl O Brien, Thomas Dolan, Conor Egan, David Fasley ( capt)Nathan Bracken,Adam Owens,Mark Newman,Sean Tierney, Josh Fleming, Kieran Hartnett, Eoin Cowen, Seamus O Brien, Conor Murry, Gary Kelly, Paul Lanier,Mark Doorley, Alex Roe, Andrew Fitzpatrick Bowling Tournament Calling all clubs, groups, schools, families etc. Clara GAA Bord Na Nog Bowling Tournament. Bowling Fundraiser at Cosmic Bowl (Tullamore). Dates Tues 23rd, Wed “4th and Thurs 25th November 2010. Entry Fee per team 80 euro. (4 Bowlers per team, Best 3 scores to count) For entry forms and further details contact: Kevin Roe (087) 2238107.
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Free of Charge! Membership for walkers Membership for walkers is 20 euro. This can be paid to any member of the Clara GAA committee. Walkers with dogs at GAA Fields in Kilcoursey (Convent) must have dogs on a lead at all times. Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 4th December at 5.00pm in the GAA Headquarters (The Convent). All members are requested to attend. Sponsor a Sod Have you purchased your Sod. If not why not. Support your club. “Sponsor a Sod”- Clara GAA club would like to invite all current and past members (and anyone with any connection to the club, no matter how tenuous!) to be part of the launch of the new official Clara GAA Club website and the 'Sponsor a Sod' campaign. As part of our fund raising campaign to complete the new Championship pitch in Kilcoursey members and friends of the club are invited to sponsor a sod on the new pitch. Sponsors will receive a piece of the virtual pitch on a special page on our new website with each “sod” being added piece by piece to the page. Each “sod” can be purchased for €20 from any committee member .Log onto anclarach.com to see how our pitch is doing.
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Raheen GAA Club LOTTO The numbers drawn in last Monday [08th November] night’s Lotto were 07 15 22 24. There was no Jackpot Winner and 4 Match 3 Winners [Paddy Kaye C/O Eddie Kaye; Brigid Hinch C/O Dayna Hinch; Jim Lee C/O Dinny Shiels; Dympna White C/O Langton’s] [€50Each]. Next weeks Jackpot is €3,800 with the draw taking place in Direen’s, Cloneygowan on Monday 15th November.
CLUB AGM The Annual General Meeting of Raheen GAA Club will take place on Friday 03rd December in the Clubhouse, Geashill . ALL Players, Members & Officials are asked to attend. CONGRATULATIONS Raheen GAA would like to congratulate Geashill School following their success in winning the Cumann na mBunscol Final last week.
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Tullamore Rugby Report Team; 15.Mick Brazil,14.Alan Clarke,13. Chris Gethings,12. Seamus Todd, 11.Dermot Tullamore 14 Mullingar 10. Martin,10.Johnny Moloney,9. Ger This was always going to be a crunch match from the time the fix- Wynne, 1.Ger Molloy, 2. Nick Berry, 3.Darl Daly, 4.David Molyneux, tures were released and so it 5.Brian Geraghty, 6.Paul McNiff, proved to be on a wet Friday night 7.Alan Clarke, 8. Damien Egan. in Spollenstown. Last season this fixture in Mullingar was won by the Replacements used; Odhran McIntyre, Daniel Cronin, Simon Hensey, home side in a very physical game and Mullingar went on to reach the Tim Conway and Alan Rasoul. Youths Results; final of the competition. It started to rain as the players liter- U-19 Naas 21 Tullamore 00 U-17 Naas 18 Tullamore 12 ally ran on to the pitch and continued for the full game. This affected U-15 Tullamore 35 Naas 12. the Tullamore backline to a greater U-13 Tullamore 19 Naas 25Tullamore tries from Barry Bracken extent as they included two first (2) and Karl Coogan with 2 cons team players at 10 and 15 and from Samuel Burns. A brave perwould be more effective on a dry formance after going behind 19-00. evening. On the night it was the Great performances from Colin forwards who dominated the game with Ger Molloy, Paul McNiff and Heffernan, Conor Dunne, Barry Alan Clarke outstanding. Tullamore Bracken and Karl Coogan took the lead midway through the half when some quick ball was won Next Weekend and Danny Madden was put Tullamore v Cill Dara through for a try that Johnny Molo- SAT. ney converted from near the touch- Leinster League Div 1.A @ 5.00pm line. The same two repeated the feat Tullamore 2nds v Cill Dara just before half time to double the 2nds Leinster Seconds League @ score to 14-00. Mullingar had peri3pm ods of dominance during the half U-17 Guinness v Tullamore and it took some excellent defending to keep them from scoring a try. Friendly @ 11.00am Mullingar did kick a penalty fifteen U-19 Barnhall v Tullamore minutes into a second where TulLeinster Premier League lamore did more defending than @10.30am attacking. The home side always looked in control and it was in injury time that Mullingar got a converterd try to earn a losing bonus point that they deserved. This win should guarantee Tullamore a place in the semi-final of this league cup and do not be surprised to see these two teams meet again. Harry Gale U-21 League Cup.
Tullamore R.F.C. Reunion The club are hosting a reunion in early 2011 for the members of Cup and League winning teams of the multiple of 5 years. When the organisers started checking out the Pennants and photographs hanging in the clubhouse they were more than surprised with number of titles won; YEAR AND TITLE TORS
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35 years ago, 1976 Provincial Towns Cup, Paddy Galvin 30 years ago, 1981 Anderson J3 Cup, Chris Glennon 25 years ago, 1986 Anderson J3 Cup, Paddy Carragher 15 years ago, 1996 Leinster League Div 2, John Gleeson 1996 Leinster Provincial 3rds League, Tom Moloney 10 years ago, 2001 Culliton CupLeinster U-18, Arthur Halligan
2001, U-16 Leinster League, Jim Mollohan 2001, U-14 Leinster League & Cup, Tony Monaghan 5 years ago, 2006 Provincial Towns Cup, Donal Milne 2006, Culliton Cup- Leinster U-18, Phelim Kerin
Tullamore R.F.C. are calling on all players associated with these 10 teams to contact the co-ordinators for details of the Reunion Party on Saturday 22nd January 2011. The function follows the Leinster League match against Co Carlow and the Carlow Coach John Burns was on the 1996 League team. The club are publishing a souvenir booklet to mark the occasion which will outline the wins and no doubt bring back great memories,made even better with the passage of time.
2001, U-16 All Ireland League, Brendan Milne &
Killavilla GAA Club AGM Killavilla GAA Club AGM is on Friday 26th November at 8.30pm in Killavilla Community Centre. Nominations for election to the Executive Committee and motions for consideration at the AGM must be returned to the Club Secretary Eoin Meagher before Friday 19th November. All are welcome to the meeting and especially new members.
Sympathy Killavilla GAA Club would like to offer our sympathy to the Cummins family, Roscrea on the death of Michael Cummins Killavilla GAA Club would also like to offer our sympathy to the Connor’s family Clareen on the death of Chris Connor
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VW Passat BlueMotion breaks world record, 1,527 miles on one tank! A standard Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion has covered a world record-breaking 1,527 miles on a single tank of fuel with the Guinness World Records Organisation officially recognising this as a world-beating distance! Driven on public roads in France and Britain by Sunday Times journalist Gavin Conway, the Volkswagen averaged 45mph and 89.83mpg over three days. The Passat Bluemotion’s official, combined economy figure is 64.2mpg. It cost just over six pence per mile to complete a distance equivalent to driving from London to Malaga. The Passat Bluemotion is a standard production car that has a stop and start technology, a 1.6-litre common rail diesel engine, a transmission geared for econo-
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Offaly Community Games Sees Revamped County Executive after 2010 AGM Offaly Community Games held their AGM on Tuesday 19th October last at The Bridge House Hotel Tullamore. All areas were represented on the night and the meeting was also attended by National Games Director Mr. Conal Duffy, National Youth Officer and Offaly native Kevin Doyle and HSE Community Games Development Officer Paul Friel, who will be playing a vital role in the development of Community Games and the re-establishment of areas within the county during the coming year.
having being absent from the county structure over the past year due to commitments at national level and work he was delighted to see such a large attendance at the meeting and particularly that of so many faces that he didn’t recognise. He said that this was evidence that a number of new people have come on board and these new volunteers working in partnership with some of the more seasoned personal would lead Offaly Community Games into a stronghold position on the Community Games Scene.
Chairperson Kieran D’Arcy opened the meeting and began by welcoming everyone in attendance. In his report addressing the performance of Offaly Community Games during the past year, Kieran paid tribute to the fantastic performances from all our representatives at provincial and national level. In addressing the meeting he acknowledged the children that took part at area and county level, he outlined that these children are the grass roots of the organisation and that the more children we have involved at this level the better games will be into the future.
The formalities of the night then got underway and the outgoing committee were thanked for their hard work and commitment over the past year.
National Games director Conal Duffy spoke briefly and reiterated the chairpersons sentiments in relation to getting children involved at area and county level. He also outlined that the structure of community games is currently being reviewed and encouraged everyone to embrace the change that lies ahead, which he hopes will help us to fully live up to the original ethos outlined by community games when it was set up all those years ago and to introduce children to sporting and cultural activities. In his address to the meeting National Youth Director Kevin Doyle noted that
The newly elected executive for the year 2010/2011 is as follows:
Chairperson: Kieran D'Arcy, Ferbane Parish Vice Chair: Breda Mann, Daingean Secretary: Catherine Barry, Birr
Youth Officer: Louise Gorman, Kilcormac/Killoughey Children's Officer: Bridgee Murphy, Gracefield/Walsh Island NEAC Delegate: Jude Feehan, Ferbane Parish Development Committee: Nicoal Lalor. Shinrone/Coolderry Ita Daly, Killeigh Carmel Doyle, Ferbane Parish Patricia Keegan, Gracefield/Walsh Island Paul Friel- HSE Community Games Development Officer
Delegates to national AGM- Jude Feehan, Bridgee Murphy, Mona O'Reilly Observers to National AGM- Kieran D'Arcy, Carmel Doyle Delegates to Leinster- Dominic Sheehy, Kieran D'Arcy
Asst. Secretary: Nicola Lalor, Shinrone/Coolderry Treasurer: Patricia Keegan, Gracefield/Walsh Island PRO: Carmel Doyle, Ferbane Parish Games Director: Anne Rawlinson Kilcormac/Killoughey Games Committee: Mona O'Reilly Robert Buckley, Rhode Jude Feehan, Ferbane Parish A.N.O.- Killeigh
This newly elected executive represents a mixture experience and enthusiasm. Through working together with the help of each area committee we can build on the fantastic foundations laid over the past year. We are asking that anyone who is interested in becoming involved in Community Games please feel free to contact us or visit our new Facebook page at
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Offaly Community Games Youth attend National Training and Development Weekend Youth members of Offaly Community Games attended a weekend of fun and training recently hosted by the national youth committee at Birr Outdoor Education Centre. With youth representatives from County’s Limerick, Wexford, Offaly, Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Cavan and Galway it saw a mixture of seasoned and new faces embrace on a weekend filled with challenge, excitement and team building. HSE Community Games Integration Officer Cathriona Reynolds had the youth volunteers up bright and early on the Saturday morning as she delivered an excellent course in relation to interculturalism with all in attendance participating fully. The afternoon session saw Eammon Murray deliver a hugely beneficial course in relation to safety and fire safety something which all volunteers need to be fully aware of and each county represented at the weekend can feel much safer as a result of one of their volunteers having taken part in this course.
With the intense course work completed the “youth” then participated in activities including a blindfolded night trail and dawned their wet suits early on Sunday morning before abseiling off the side of a cliff at Cadamstown before gorge walking their way back to dry land. This is only a brief outline of some of the activities engaged in but it is safe to say that all in attendance had a lot of fun and learned a lot that can be taken back to area and county level.
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disruptive to a relationship, but not necessarily destructive. The death may sharpen previous differences between parents if any existed. The emotional emptiness and loss of energy can lead to a decrease in sexual intimacy. The same decrease may not be similar in the case of both parents and this can lead to disharmony. Sometimes the grief of parents is so great that it affects their ability to parent their other children. If parents find any type of distress difficult, they may not have the resources to look after their other children and cope with their own needs. Sometimes parents give the name of the dead child to a new baby and this can hinder the new child from forging their own identity. Replacement expectation simply adds to the pain of the bereavement. Every child is unique and irreplaceable. A further reason for different grief responses is the type of child death. For example, a child may be an adult and I have seen aged parents mourning the sudden death of their 50-year-old son. Such parents may feel that they have lost a friend as well as a child. At the other end of the scale there are cot deaths, miscarriages, stillbirths, and abortions. With regard to infant/cot death, the unique grieving experience is complicated by the suddenness of an apparently healthy infant dying and by the possible guilt and blame arising from the fact that the cause of such deaths may be unknown. This can lead to prolonged search for the reason of the death. Parents may be conscious of suspicion within the family, or among neighbours, of neglect on their part. Infant death evokes much sympathy from society but a miscarriage, and perhaps a stillbirth, is less noticed, so that a
By Jim O’Shea mother may experience a sense of isolation that sharpens her grief. She may experience worries about future pregnancies, a sense of failure, anger at herself and, perhaps, anger at her partner. A miscarriage is a shattering of the expectation of birth itself and the lack of a ritual, e.g. a funeral, can add to the isolation. Some mothers are not even hospitalised for a miscarriage and this can diminish the loss and add to the grief. It is important to remember that a mother bonds with their unborn child in the first stages of pregnancy. It is equally important to remember that both parents grieve at this loss. There are a great range of emotions arising from a miscarriage, with grief complications arising from the fusion of the experiences of birth and death. Parents may search for the dead child’s identity and they are faced with the difficult task of mourning someone they did not know, but who is such an intimate part of them. Finally there is the question of an abortion. One of the important points to remember is that a failure to mourn an abortion loss may give rise to delayed grieving in the context of a later loss. Failure to grieve an abortion loss is very much an individual response and may be influenced by such aspects as relationship with parents, culture and religious upbringing. Some women simply put it out of their minds and get on with life, experiencing a surface feeling of relief. (continued in next issue) Jim O’Shea works as a counsellor from Furze, Thurles. Ph. 087 8211009 www.jimoshea.net . JimO’Shea’s book ‘When a child dies. Footsteps of a Grieving Family’ is published by Veritas. The royalties from this book will go tosthe Children’s Hospital in Crumlin.
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