CHURCH NOTICES: Listed readers for this weekend November 19-20, The Last Sunday in Ordinary Time, and the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King, are as follows, Saturday at 7pm Eimear Foley, Sunday at 10am Sam Milburn, Sunday at 12noon Joanne Tierney. Eucharistic Ministers, Saturday at 7pm, Christy Murphy, Rita Madigan, Joe Tierney. Sunday at 10am, Noreen Murray, Eileen Nally, PJ O’Grady. Sunday at 12noon, Pat Kirby, Noreen Quinn, Birdie Enright. Please arrange a replacement if you are unable to fulfill any duty allocated to you. Weekday masses are at the usual time of 9-30 am Monday to Friday. The weekly prayer meeting takes place at 8 pm on Monday and all are welcome. There will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after the 10am mass on Sunday. Items for inclusion in the weekly Parish Newsletter should be handed into the sacristy by 9-30am on Friday or contact Fr. Muiris O’Connor on 353711 or 0866075628. Alternatively they can be emailed to muirisoc@eircom.net . Cemetery prayers will take place this Sunday after 12 o’clock mass.
EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS: The fiftieth International Eucharistic Congress will be held in Dublin next year, with the opening ceremony being celebrated on Sunday June 10, the Feast of Corpus Christi. The congress is now recruiting volunteers for a wide range of roles to assist with the running of the event. If anyone is interested in getting involved, visit the website at www.iec2012.ie/volunteer.
BLOOD DONORS: The Irish Blood Transfusion Service requires three thousand donations of blood every week, and donor clinics are being held at the following locations in the coming week; Scoil Mhuire agus Ide, Newcastlewest on Monday and Tuesday November 21 and 22 from 6 to 9pm, and at St. John's Pavilion, Mulgrave Street, on Wednesday November 23 from 5 to 8pm. You can visit any blood donor clinic as long as ninety days have elapsed since you last gave blood, and you are urged to please give regularly. There will be donor clinics in Castletroy the following week. For more information contact the Donor Information Line on 1850 731137, or their website.
TIDY TOWNS: The judges’ comments from the Limerick in Bloom competition are as follows; Superb roundabout with high display of flowers and grassed area, flower bed adjacent to roundabout is excellent, and provides a great introduction to the village. Grotto is very well presented, rich in landscaping, excellent displays across from the church, and raised up landscaping at entrance to Shannon Development. Marian Park Housing Estate is very well presented and colourful. School would benefit from some planting. These remarks are intended to assist us with our efforts and application next year. We were blessed with fine weather the last two weekends, which enabled us to carry out a few end of season jobs. The remaining flowers from the pots and tubs inside and outside of the shrine were removed and daffodil bulbs planted in their place. The planters on the roundabout, and the raised beds at the entrance to Shannon Development, are awaiting the arrival of winter flowering pansies and violas. The shrubs at the top end of the village opposite Lucey’s were trimmed and shaped, and the rose bed was also pruned. New daffodil bulbs ready for spring flowering have also been planted around the rose bed and in the grass triangle near the church.
HISTORICAL ANNIVERSARY: Special guest, Kevin Barry, will address a meeting at the Rathkeale House Hotel this Thursday November 17 at 8.30pm which should prove to be a most interesting evening followed by music, song, story and the usual cup of tea. Proceeds are in aid of Knockfierna Historical Society and Rathkeale Town Action Group. All are welcome. For further details contact Pat O’Donovan 087 9977340 or Marion Hanley 087 9741387 or any member of RTAG. Admission is €5.
SCHOOL PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION: Patrickswell National School Parents’ Association would like to thank you for your support at the Church Gate collection last weekend.
EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS: West Limerick Resources will be offering a short seminar on Employment Law for Community Groups in the Courtenay Lodge Hotel, Newcastle West on Thursday November 24 from 6.30-9.30pm.Delivered by Canavan Byrne, the seminar will cover a wide range of issues which community employers should be aware of in relation to personnel management, contracts and terms of employment. Admission free. Supported by West Limerick Resource under the Local and Community Development Programme. For further information contact Suzanne on 069 79114 or email srowley@wlr.ie
COMMUNITY WORK PLACEMENT SCHEME: West Limerick Resources is now accepting applications from community organisations who wish to be considered for inclusion in the TUS initiative, which is a community work placement scheme providing short-term working opportunities for unemployed people. Participants will work for 19½ hours a week and the placement lasts 12 months. The organisations must provide good quality work opportunities that are of benefit to the community,
and there is a possibility that the scheme could be available in Patrickswell, if sufficient interest from community groups is forthcoming. It maybe possible for two or three groups to come together to provide enough work for the scheme to go ahead. Organisations with a proposed work placement should submit an expression of interest form including a detailed proposal on type of work along with the number of participants required. Tel: 069 77752/77753. Email: tus@wlr.ie. For more information see: www.wlr.ie/tus-programme
ARD SCOIL MHUIRE: Ard Scoil Mhuire FCJ will close next summer, and a booklet is being produced. The committee would welcome articles, memories etc. from past pupils and staff associated with the school over the years. Articles to be submitted before December 31 2011. Contact asmcommemorationcommittee@
K.Casey 390150 / 0863255958 or E.Hickey 382474 / 0872892606
PARENT AND TODDLER GROUP: The Parent and Toddler group meets on Thursday morning from 9:30 – 11:00am in the Resource House. Open to parents and pre-school children, the mornings include tea, coffee and a chat for parents, and play and nursery rhymes for the children. Contact Irene in West Limerick Resources at 06962298 or call in on Thursday morning.
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