Patrickswell news for w/e June 18th

CHURCH NOTICES

Listed readers for this weekend June 19-20, The Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, are as follows; Saturday at 7pm Eileen O’Brien, Sunday at 10am James McCarthy, Sunday at 12noon Joe Tierney. Eucharistic Ministers, Saturday at 7pm M.Houlihan, J.Collopy, M.Bucke. Sunday at 10am, K.Enright, R.Kelliher. Sunday at 12noon M.McDermott, E.O’Shea, R.Fitzgerald. Please arrange a replacement if you are unable to fulfill any duty allocated to you. Weekday masses are at 9-30 am Monday to Friday. The weekly prayer meeting takes place on Monday at 8pm and all are welcome. The new rota for readers is now available from the sacristy.



PARISH NEWSLETTER

Items for inclusion in the weekly Parish Newsletter should be handed into the sacristy by 9-30am each Friday, or contact Fr. Muiris O’Connor on 353711 or 0866075628. Alternatively they can be emailed to muirisoc@eircom.net



SOLEMN NOVENA

The Solemn Novena in honour of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, commences at Mount St. Alphonsus this Friday June 18 until Saturday June 26, with the theme, “Our Church, Our Hope”. Leaflets are available with details of times, support services and special events taking place during the nine day festival of prayer and devotion and also at www.novena.ie



FATHERS’ DAY

Happy Fathers’ Day to all fathers for this Sunday June 20.



GRANDPARENTS

The annual Grandparents Pilgrimage to Knock which has become the largest pilgrimage of its type in the world, will take place on Sunday September 12 commencing at 2pm.More details are available on www.CatholicGrandparentsAssociation.com or Tel. 098-24877.



CREDIT UNION

MPCC, your local Credit Union, operates savings schemes in the local primary schools including Patrickswell, Crecora, St. Nessan’s, St. Paul’s, Ballybrown and Educate Together in Mungret. We would like to thank the children, their parents, guardians, the teaching staff and management in each of the schools for their support throughout the year. Educating young people to take responsibility for their own savings and to reap the benefits of saving with the Credit Union is an important issue for the Credit Union movement. With the summer holidays almost upon us, we now wish to remind all school Credit Union members that you can continue to save during the holidays by calling directly to any office of MPCC Credit Union during our opening hours, which are available on our website www.mpcccreditunion.ie. Thanks again to all the children who save in their school savings scheme and we look forward to seeing you all again in September when the school Credit Union re-opens. New members are always welcome to join the school Credit Union. For those of you lucky enough to be heading off to sunnier climes during the holidays and in need of foreign currencies, we remind you that MPCC Credit Union offers foreign exchange facilities to its members with low commission and competitive exchange rates.



HEALTHY COOKING

A Healthy Cooking Course is being held in the Community Resource Centre on Saturday June 26 from 10am to 4pm. The cost of the class is €60, contact Teresa on 061-320303 to book your place.



PILGRIMAGE

A seven night pilgrimage from September 8-15 to San Giovanni, visiting Loreto, Cascia and Assisi. Cost €945. Contact Joan Bourke on 061-600951.



BLOOD DONORS

Monday of this week was World Blood Donor Day and IBTS would like to say thank you to all its donors. Three thousand donations are required each week and donor clinics are being held at the following locations; Greenhills Hotel, Ennis Road, Monday June 21 from 6 to 9pm, and The Dunraven Arms Hotel, Adare, Co.Limerick, Tuesday June 22 also from 6 to 9pm. You can visit any blood donor clinic as long as ninety days have elapsed since you last gave blood. There will be donor clinics in Raheen and Abbeyfeale next week. For more information contact the Donor Information Line on 1850 731137, or www.ibts.ie



TIDY TOWNS

Another busy week saw the completion of repairs to the wall which is a major enhancement to the village. The standard of work carried out has been the talking point all week, and is a credit to those involved. We are indebted to Mick O’Dea for undertaking the project. We would also like to pass on our thanks to Dermot Lamb and his team from the Croom Area Office of Limerick County Council who have reinstated the area where a new street light was recently erected. Planting is almost complete, and one more shrubbery needs to be finished with a stone surround. The large shrubbery, or “The Big Bed”, has been laid with weed block and new bark mulch, and we are grateful to Vince Doherty and Mike McSweeney for their assistance with that particular job.



GOLF CLASSIC

Patrickswell G.A.A. club held a most successful fund raiser in the form of a golf classic in Adare Manor last Friday. We would like to thank all the people who took part in the event and most especially those who sponsored teams and tee boxes on the day. In these financially constrained times every euro that the club can make is most appreciated so once again thanks to everyone who contributed. The course was in tremendous condition with very slick greens making for birdies and pars hard to come by. The format was a team of four with two to score at every hole and three to score on the 9th and 18th.The results were as follows. The sponsor’s names of the winning teams are in brackets.

1st Sean Carey, Kevin Carey, Damien Gillane and Nijel Carey 102pts.

2nd Sharon Bulfin, Tom Allen, Paul Allen and Seoirse Bulfin (Mike Murphy Frozen Foods) 100pts. 3rd Stephen Moloney, John Chawke, John Carsy and Kevin Cagney (Donie Daffey) 99pts.B9. 4th Kieran Carroll, Pat O’Brien, Michael Cregan and Joe Roiune (Adare Manor) 99pts. 5th Greg Moran, Liam Cooney, Pa Dundon and Darragh Bennis (Darragh Bennis) 97pts. 6th Tony Carroll, Teddy Hanlon, Tim Mc.Carthy and Tony Heelan (Limerick Prison Service) 97pts.7th. Tom Dundon, Pat Barry, Mike Fitzgerald and Jimmy O’Rahilly (Nolan Motor Factors) 97 pts. 8th Aaron Moore, Nijel Mann, Frank Geary and John Long (Duggan Systems) 97pts. 9th John J. Brown, Jimmy Mc. Carthy, Sheila Joyce andCarmel Lenihan (Michael Joyce) 97pts.

We had a total of 41 teams taking part in the classic and mother nature was very kind to us by having the sun shine down on proceedings.



WORLD DAYS

This Sunday June 20 is World Refugee Day which is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout the world. From June 18 to 20 the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) commemorates World Refugee Day in Washington, DC, in order to draw the public's attention to the millions of refugees worldwide who are forced to flee their homes each year.