Archive for category: Melvin Gaels

Games at Weekend – The under 17’s will be away to Glencar Manor on Saturday 24th at 12 o’clock. The under 13’s will be away to Dromahair on Sunday 25th at 12 o’clock

Good Win for Under17s – The Under 17s had to travel to Gortletterragh last weekend to play Rinn Gaels because Melvin park was unplayable but they came home with a great win. Final score was Rinn Gaels 3-7 Melvin Gaels 2-11. Well done to all.

Coaching Workshop – Leitrim G.A.A is hosting a coaching workshop at the centre of excellence Annaduff on Thursday 22nd Feb from 6.15 pm to 8.30 pm.  Armagh and Crossmaglen Rangers Legend Oisin McConville will give a lecture /introduction on  “effective forward play and decision making in front of goals “.  The cost for the session is only €5 and D.V.D’s are available.  Anyone wishing to register should contact Leitrim G.A.A G.P.O James Glancy on ( 086 ) 4082561 or email James.glancy.gaa.leitrim@gaa.ie or log on to https://www.leitrimgaa.ie/2018/02/Oisin.mcconville-coaching-workshop-on-thursday-february-22nd/
or contact Patsy either on ( 086 ) 3768700 or Email pmcgovern22@gmail.com

Senior Scór – Calling all local talent!! Scor Sinsir Liatroma will take place on Saturday March 3rd at 7.30pm. The Leirim quiz competition takes place on the same day at 6pm. It would be great to have people represent Melvin Gaels, particularly in the Solo Singing or Recitation section. Also, we hope to have a quiz team represent us this year. If you would like to take part, please contact Mary at (086) 1583114.

Lights On Weekly Walk Group – Melvin Gaels and Kinlough Community with the GAA, in partnership with RTÉ’s Operation Transformation) will continue with the walk each Monday evening at 7pm . Everyone is welcome Good Win for Under 17sto come along to the Community Centre and join in. A great crowd turned for the fifth week. Thanks to all who came along and hope to see everyone again next week.

50/50 Draw – Congratulations to Francis Gilbride, Rossinver who won €215 in last week’s 50/50 Draw. Get your ticket now for this week’s draw.
You can now play 5050 as a Direct Debit or Annual Ticket. Never miss out on buying your weekly ticket again!!! And if you are away from home, you can still support Melvin Gaels!
Either print out or get a copy of the mandate form from any committee member and fill out and return to Treasurer, Katherine Williams. You can also login to your own online banking and set it up using the bank details attached. Or you can set up a monthly credit card subscription here https://goo.gl/hjWcVrOR a one off annual ticket payment by credit card here https://goo.gl/ZgJyK2
Special Extra Prize Draw For Any Annual Tickets Purchased Before March 18th 2018 €250.The weekly 5050 draw is an integral part of keeping our club running! Please support

 

Registration – Registration morning for all club players (Boys & Girls), members and coaches takes place at 11am on Saturday, February 10th.
Have a cup of tea & meet committee & coaches. Senior players will be doing some drills and games with any kids attending. New members always welcome!  If not able to attend you can pay registration online also
http://www.melvingaels.com/pages/notices.aspx

Presentation of Medals – Presentation of under 13 and under 15 medals will take place in the community Centre at 8pm on Friday 9th of February.
The medals will be presented by Melvin Gaels and Leitrim county player Emlyn Mulligan. Everyone is welcome to come along and support the young Gaels.

Lights On Weekly Walk Group – Melvin Gaels and Kinlough Community with the GAA, in partnership with RTÉ’s Operation Transformation) will continue with the walk each Monday evening at 7pm . Everyone is welcome to come along to the Community Centre and join in. A great crowd turned for the second week. Thanks to all who came along.

Carlow v Leitrim – Good Luck to the Leitrim team when they take on Carlow on Saturday evening at 5pm . Special good luck to all the Gaels lads involved. Despite a great finish to the game on Sunday, with Gaels player Daragh Rooney scoring 2-1, Leitrim finished second best. Hopefully, they will have better luck next weekend.

National Club Draw – The National Club Draw tickets are now on sale. This Draw is an opportunity for our club to raise much-needed funds. Melvin Gaels will retain all the proceeds raised through the sale of our tickets and all national prizes are provided by Ard Chomhairle. There are now 20 amazing prizes on offer, with the top prize of a new car!
We will also have a local draw done in advance of the national draw for any tickets sold by Melvin Gaels. Local Prizes
1. Hamper worth €100
2. Fuel Voucher worth €50
3. Melvin Gaels Rain jacket worth €50
Tickets are €10 – Get in touch with any committee member, message us on here or contact 0872870086.

50/50 Draw – Congratulations to James Bredin, Glenview, Kinlough who won €302 in last week’s 50/50 Draw. Get your ticket now for this week’s draw.  You can now play 5050 as a Direct Debit or Annual Ticket. Never miss out on buying your weekly ticket again!!! And if you are away from home, you can still support Melvin Gaels! Either print out or get a copy of the mandate form from any committee member and fill out and return to Treasurer, Katherine Williams. You can also login to your own online banking and set it up using the bank details attached. Or you can set up a monthly credit card subscription here https://goo.gl/hjWcVrOR a one-off annual ticket payment by credit card here https://goo.gl/ZgJyK2  Special Extra Prize Draw For Any Annual Tickets Purchased Before March 18th, 2018 f €250.The weekly 5050 draw is an integral part of keeping our club running! Please support

Lights On Weekly Walk Group – A great turnout for our first night of Ireland Lights Up – Operation on Monday night at Melvin Park, Kinlough for Transformation Official GAA! Thanks to all who walked. And thanks to Louise from Road Safety Authority Ireland who kitted everyone out so well! Hope to see you all next Monday again! New faces always welcome

Bord na nÓg Committee – A new Bord na nÓg Committee has been appointed the for the forthcoming year. Liam Freeburn  Chairman, Niall Clancy as Secretary and Marie Downey as Treasurer. We wish them the very best for 2018. We have huge underage numbers and we look forward to training starting for all age groups in the coming weeks.

We will have a Registration Day on Sat Feb 10th from 11am for all members.

We would also like to thank Anne McGloin, Catherine Regan and Annette Lipsett as the outgoing Bord na nOg committee for all their hard work this past year.

Girls Football – A new Girls Committee has been formed to progress getting our girls’ teams playing matches this year. Georgie Gallagher as Chairperson, Eloise McGinty as Secretary and Annette Lipsett as Treasurer. Congratulations to them and we wish them all the best. We had a huge interest last year in our Gaelic4Girls program and we hope to see them all back again in 2018!

We are planning starting girls training back this Wednesday 5.30-6.30 in the hall and would love for any girl (all ages) interested in playing football to come along.

National Club Draw – The National Club Draw tickets are now on sale. This Draw is an opportunity for our club to raise much-needed funds. Melvin Gaels will retain all the proceeds raised through the sale of our tickets and all national prizes are provided by Ard Chomhairle. There are now 20 amazing prizes on offer, with the top prize of a new car!

We will also have a local draw done in advance of the national draw for any tickets sold by Melvin Gaels. Local Prizes
1. Hamper worth €100
2. Fuel Voucher worth €50
3. Melvin Gaels Rain jacket worth €50

Tickets are €10 – Get in touch with any committee member, message us on here or contact 0872870086.

50/50 Draw – Congratulations to Maire Burns, Rossinver who won €280 in last week’s 50/50 Draw. Get your ticket now for this week’s draw.

You can now play 5050 as a Direct Debit or Annual Ticket. Never miss out on buying your weekly ticket again!!! And if you are away from home, you can still support Melvin Gaels!

Either print out or get a copy of the mandate form from any committee member and fill out and return to Treasurer, Katherine Williams. You can also login to your own online banking and set it up using the bank details attached. Or you can set up a monthly credit card subscription here https://goo.gl/hjWcVr or a one-off annual ticket payment by credit card here https://goo.gl/ZgJyK2

Special Extra Prize Draw For Any Annual Tickets Purchased Before March 18th 2018 f €250.The weekly 5050 draw is an integral part of keeping our club running! Please support.

Lights On Weekly Walk Group – Melvin Gaels and Kinlough Community will join with the GAA, in partnership with RTÉ’s Operation Transformation to bring together communities across the 32 counties to enjoy healthy walks in the safe, bright, environs of their GAA club. In a bid to make exercise more accessible on the dark winter nights, ‘Ireland Lights Up’ will see participating clubs turn on their floodlights/lighting systems between 7-pm-9pm each Monday for a six-week period (22nd January – 26th February, 2018) So everyone is welcome to come along to the Community Centre and join in.

National Club Draw – The National Club Draw tickets are now on sale. This Draw is an opportunity for our club to raise much-needed funds. Melvin Gaels will retain all the proceeds raised through the sale of our tickets and all national prizes are provided by Ard Chomhairle. There are now 20 amazing prizes on offer, with the top prize of a new car!

We will also have a local draw done in advance of the national draw for any tickets sold by Melvin Gaels. Local Prizes
1. Hamper worth €100
2. Fuel Voucher worth €50
3. Melvin Gaels Rain jacket worth €50

Tickets are €10 – Get in touch with any committee member, message us on here or contact 0872870086.

50/50 Draw – Congratulations to Angela Gaye, Bundoran who won  €245 in last week’s 50/50 Draw. Get your ticket now for this week’s draw. You can now play 5050 as a Direct Debit or Annual Ticket. Never miss out on buying your weekly ticket again!!! And if you are away from home, you can still support Melvin Gaels!

Either print out or get a copy of the mandate form from any committee member and fill out and return to Treasurer, Katherine Williams. You can also login to your own online banking and set it up using the bank details attached. Or you can set up a monthly credit card subscription here https://goo.gl/hjWcVrOR a one off annual ticket payment by credit card here https://goo.gl/ZgJyK2

Special Extra Prize Draw For Any Annual Tickets Purchased Before March 18th 2018 f €250.The weekly 5050 draw is an integral part of keeping our club running! Please support.

Community “Stroll” in Aid of St Vincent de Paul – At 11am on St Stephen’s Day everyone is invited Run, Walk or Stroll from the Community Centre, Kinlough around the  Barr Road and return to the Centre. All players, young and not so young and all club members are as asked to come along and join in. Proceeds in aid of the Local Vincent de Paul. Suggested donation €5. Refreshments afterwards.

Scór na nÓg – Well Done and a big “Thank You” to Hannah Feeley who represented Melvin Gaels in Scor na nOg in Ballinamore. Hannah did a lovely recitation of Ireland’s Child. Thank you to all who offered to participate and hopefully next year we will have more Melvin Gaels representatives.

Club Merchandise – Club merchandise is available from Club Treasurer, Katherine Williams. Kids jerseys, Adult jerseys and Rain Jackets.   Gloves are also available. Contact Katherine at 0872870086.

National Club Draw – The National Club Draw tickets are now on sale. This Draw is an opportunity for our club to raise much-needed funds. Melvin Gaels will retain all the proceeds raised through the sale of our tickets and all national prizes are provided by Ard Chomhairle. There are now 20 amazing prizes on offer, with the top prize of a new car!

We will also have a local draw done in advance of the national draw for any tickets sold by Melvin Gaels.

Local Prizes
1. Hamper worth €100
2. Fuel Voucher worth €50
3. Melvin Gaels Rain jacket worth €50

Tickets are €10 – Get in touch with any committee member, message us on here or contact 0872870086.

50/50 Draw – Congratulations to Hugh Quinn, Cliffoney who won €302 in last week’s 50/50   Draw. Get your ticket now for this week’s draw.

Club AGM – There was a large attendance at the Club’s Annual General Meeting in the Community Centre on Sunday evening. The outgoing officers were re-elected as follows, Chairman Dessie Sheridan, Secretary. Mark Cleary and Treasurer, Katherine. Pat Gallagher has been elected as vice chairman, Larry Maxwell assistant treasurer and Helen Warnock PRO. The Chairman Dessie Sheridan gave a detailed report on the Club’s activities over 2017 and thanked everyone who helped the Club in any way.  He said a major development of Melvin Park is planned and that the Kinlough Development Company would be working along with the club in this venture. Kinlough Community Development Company having secured funds towards the improvement of Melvin Park in order to start the work. The Born na nOg secretary Catherine Regan gave a report on the work that has been done for the Underage boys and girls over the year. The Coaching Officer also gave on the progress of coaching over the year. Thanks to all who came along and good luck to all in 2018.

Senior Manager – The position of Senior Melvin Gaels team manager has become vacant. The Club is asking anyone interested in taking over the job to please contact the Club Secretary, Mark Cleary at 0863576413 or email markcleary48@gmail.com before Sunday, December 10th.

Cake Sale – The Club would like to thank everyone who supported the Cake Sale at Kinlough and Glenade last Sunday.

Scór na nÓg – Leitrim County Final Scór na nOg (Under 17) takes place on Sunday 10th December 2017 at 2.00pm. Venue to be confirmed.
Calling all Solo Singers, Instrumental groups, Recitation, Ballad Group, Figure Dancing, Set Dancing or Léiriú Stairiuil (Stage Presentation). If you would like to find out more and are talented in any of the above, contact Mary (086) 1583114.

50/50 Draw – Congratulations to Rita Fergus, Buckode, Kinlough who won €243 in last week’s 50/50   Draw. Get your ticket now for this week’s draw