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Be InSpired by our new lunch menuA Duleek family

was left distraughtas their paper fac-tory in Droghedawas burned downin a suspected arsonattack, but luckily,nobody was injuredin the blaze. Sincethen, a 17-year-oldboy has been ar-rested, with a 14-year-old arrestedearlier releasedwithout charge.The McEnteggartfamily, who employabout 22 people,suffered the blowon 12 Septemberwhen up to 12 firetenders from across Louthand Meath fought the blazeat Dawn Paper on theDonore Industrial Estate.Fire engines were drafted infrom miles around to helpdeal with the major blazewhich lit up the night skyand covered the area in ash.Fireman wearing breathingapparatus used hydraulicplatforms to hose down the

flames. The roof of thebuilding collapsed and theremains smouldered for anumber of days.Dawn Paper was establishedin 1988. The company man-ufactures industrial clean-ing paper and domestictissue paper products forthe Irish market. The own-ers have invested heavily inupgrading existing machin-ery, and now have two ultra

modern, fully automatic,paper converting linesbringing a range of highquality paper products tothe Irish market. Theirproducts are distributed toa range of customers includ-ing distributors servicing abroad range of industries,janitorial & hygiene suppli-ers, Cash & Carrys, super-markets, offices, factoriesand the hospitality industry.

F The scene at Dawn Paper as the fire raged

Pumpkin PatchGrowing 10,000 pumpkins for this year’s Halloween mar-ket is Kennedy’s Pumpkin Patch at Shallon, Julianstown.Husband and wife team, Terry and Angela, started out in2010 growing 50 pumpkins, but due to demand, theygrew 10,000 this year, which will be harvested and boughtby the public over the Bank Holiday weekend, 24-28 Oc-tober. Tea, coffee, cake and hot apple fritters will beserved on site. http://kennedyspumpkinpatch.com Pic-ture shows children having fun at the Pumpkin Patch.

Perform as a leader – the skills andstrategies to take you where youwant to go’ was launched by busi-nesswoman and now author, Or-laith Carmody recently. Her firstforay into publishing was well re-ceived at two launches – one inDublin and one in Drogheda. At thelocal launch, Irish Mirror editorJohn Kierans endorsed Orlaith’s‘can do’ attitude.The book is described as ‘an essen-tial read if you believe that you havethe potential to grow as a leader,manager, speaker, role model or

persuader’. A former newspaper,radio and television journalist, Or-laith now runs a communications,training and leadership consultancyalong with her husband.Orlaith, who lives in KilsharvanHouse, near Julianstown, is marriedto Dragon’s Den star, Gavin Duffy,and the couple has four children –Lorcan, Cormac, Cathal and Ais-linn. She is now an internationalkeynote speaker ,with the belief thatyou can indeed shake off those lim-iting obstacles and achieve yourdreams!

Fr Robert McCabe, curate in Stamullen parish and Chaplain to theDefence Forces has moved to become curate in Navan parish. Having spent 20 years in Stamullen as both curate and chaplain with theIrish Army, Fr Robert has built up a large number of friends, many ofwhom attended his final Mass in St Patrick’s Church, Stamullen. He hasnow departed for one more trip overseas with the Army and on his return,will take up his new position in Navan.Fr Robert is a native of Kinnegad, where he was ordained in 1994, afterwhich he was appointed to the staff of St Finian’s College, Mullingar asDean of Studies. Since his 1995 appointment as Curate in Stamullen andChaplain to the Forces at Gormanston Camp, he served with the UnitedNations on several missions including Lebanon (1997 & 1999), Kosovo(2003), Liberia (2005 & 2007), Chad (2009) and recently Syria (2013).Fr Robert McGivney was ordained last June in his native parish of Navan.He is currently assisting in Mornington parish and he will take up hisappointment at the Cathedral in Mullingar in December 2015.

Fr Robert moves to Navan

Orlaith pictured with husband Gavin and their children at her book launch

Fr Robert McCabe, CF, Chaplain to the Forces, pictured with thePresident of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, both making history as part ofthe 100th. anniversary ceremonies and grave addresses at the graveof Jeremiah O'Donovan-Rossa in Glasnevin Cemetery last August

A Bellewstown co-pilot was hailed asa hero as his British Airways jet burstinto flames on a Las Vegas runway inSeptember! And by coincidence, two

of the 172 onboard were also local!Along with Captain Chris Henkey,

Ian Callaghan (27) from Bellew-stown, brought the giant plane to ascreeching halt after its left enginecaught fire and ordered an immediateevacuation. All 172 aboard flightBA2276 were saved by the men'sskills during the aborted take-off. Iancan be heard calmly talking to thecontrol tower as the Boeing 777-200catches fire. Ian is the son of Katieand Paddy Callaghan of Nature’sBest.

Passengers Wayne McGuinness(Drogheda) and Grace Monks (Sta-mullen) suffered minor injuries dur-ing the incident, and both admitted tobeing shaken by the occurrence. Theysuffered from small burns on theirbacks from jumping down the emer-gency slide. Grace had surprised herboyfriend with the trip to celebratehis 30th birthday! ‘I can’t believe we’re still alive. Inever thought anything like this couldhappen to us, freaked isn’t the word!’posted Wayne on his Facebook page

Duleek Fair Day calendar is now on sale at local outlets, fea-turing specially commissioned original works by local artists.Names of those interested in supplying works for the fundrais-ing calendar were drawn from a hat, and each produced a localscene for each month of 2016. And boy! Are they spectacular!12 local businesses sponsored the calendar, priced at just €10,which is now on sale in most local shops. Money raised will gotowards putting on another amazing Duleek Fair Day nextsummer. There’s an interactive side to the calendar too – manywill be sent abroad to relatives and friends from the area, andthey are asked to take a photo of themselves with the calendarat some well-known landmark in the country where they nowreside. Thus the organisers can see for themselves just how farthis local calendar has travelled! It’s a real taste of home forthose away from these shores.

Duleek Fair calendar

Ian Callaghan (co-pilot) pictured with hisfather PaddyGrace Monks (Stamullen) who was on the flight

Pat Bowens’ Car Servicing and Tyre Centre at Platin,Duleek, offers amazing prices for new and part worntyres. ‘We won’t be beaten on prices!’ says Pat Bowens,the biggest supplier of new tyres in the area.As well as tyre sales, the Tyre Centre offers 3D laser 4-wheel alignment using state-of-the-art technology. Witha recent investment of over €20,000 in the latestequipment, Pat and his team are the best to fit andcheck your tyres for safety and alignment with theirvehicle diagnostics.Derek Bowens is a tyre expert, having spent 10 yearsworking in this area. Not alone is he trained andqualified in tyre management and service, but was aformer instructor in this area, with certificates in

calibration and alignment. Pat himself is 34 years inthe car business.Qualified mechanic Gatis can be relied on to put yourcar through its paces at Car Servicing & Tyre Centre. Allmakes of cars, vans and jeeps can be serviced, and/orfitted with tyres, from budget to premium brands. Theyoffer pre-NCT and pre-VTN servicing. Car wash andvaleting is also available on site next to Kavanagh’sVTN (DOE) garage. They also offer a pick-up and drop-off service, and are fully certified and insured.Call Pat on 086-0890332 or Derek on 086-0392598 tobook your car in for car servicing or tyre upgrades atthe best prices around! ‘You’ve tried the rest – now trythe best!’ says Pat.

It was amazing! The marquee, the music, the setting, thefood, the weather and the company, craic and conver-sation – as well as the fundraising, of course! Over€2,000 was raised on the night!Fr John was on hand welcoming guests to the eventwhich took place in a marquee at the Parochial House.Music was by local girl Trudy Maguire from St Cianan’sVillas and Breifne Holohan, and the amazing (spon-sored) food and BBQ was served up by staff at The Spirerestaurant. Sponsors included Euro Farms, KeelaghanMeats, Horgans turkey and salads from Nature’s Best.Seamus O’Neill manned the bar, whilst Mairead Ger-aghty was pouring out the tea and coffee. Kevin Fingerwas on hand to take photos of everybody enjoying theirevening.‘Thanks to Sharon Keogan and Amanda Smith who or-ganised the successful garden party, and also thanks toThe Spire who organised the catering,’ said Fr John. ‘Fi-nally a big thank you to those who helped and supportedthe party. The event has raised €2,275 at the minutewith more money pending. This will help defray the costof the site for the new school.’

Well, I hope you have your fancy dress outfitready for Halloween! Halloween is on Saturday31 October and celebrations take place in Ju-lianstown Community Garden. Proceedingskick off at 6.30 pm which should give youngerfolk plenty of time to go trick or treating andthen off to the bonfire! There will be appledunking, toasted marshmallows, hot dogs andsome large cauldrons of soup made by friendlywitches! Admission €5 per family, which in-cludes a complementary drink and bun.

Halloween in Julianstown

Ardcath ICA were overall winners in the HomeIndustries Exhibition at the recent Trim Showwhere the theme was ‘Beautiful Meath. Judgingwas over four categories, the first was a photo-graph from the Royal County and the other dis-ciplines were Flower Arrangement, DecoratedCake and a Craft Item - all stemming from thephotograph which represented County Meath.Ardcath ICA were overall winners.

Ardcath ICA champions!

Bernadette Fox -P h o t o g r a p h ,Catherine Moore- DecoratedCake, MarieWalsh - Craftitem and MaryBoylan FlowerArranging

GretaMcGuinness

sailing up theShannon onthe SS River

Run to LoughRee on Duleek

WomensForum trip

Womens’ Forum

Cllr. Sharon Keogan with John Ahern, MD Indaver and Cllr Tom Kelly

Olive and Tom Maher

It wasn’t quite ‘pistolsat dawn’ but maybe‘twinkle toes at twi-light’ in the Bellew-stown Inn for thelaunch ofDuleek/BellewstownGFC’s Strictly ComeDancing which takesplace in the TLT,Drogheda on 21 No-vember.There was a good turnout to see the contest-ants put through theirpaces, not in dancing,but being interviewed

by Strictly tutor andtrainer, Kym Keogh.She put the partici-p a n t sa tt h e i re a s e ,b a n -ishinga n ys t a g enerves.T h e nt h e yall en-j o y e ds o m e

finger food andmusic by ShaneMcGuinness.22 couples in totalare taking part in amassive fundraiserfor the GAA club.On Strictly Nightthe couples will per-form a solo danceand a group dance.So far, manyfundraisers have

been held, such as acar wash, tablequizzes, and even aslimathon! Don’tmiss out on yourtickets to this show

that promises to be areally enjoyable nightout!

Discretionary Fund allocationsAs part of Meath County Council’s DiscretionaryFund for each elected representative, Cllr SharonKeogan has announced the following as beneficiaries:Bellewstown Tidy Towns €250 - village enhancement.St Vincent's Gfc €500- Pitch development. DuleekWomen's Forum €250- Adult education for Women.Cloghertown United Soccer Club €500 - pitch devel-opment. Duleek School Boys & Girls Soccer Club€500- pitch development. Curragha Tennis Club€250 - coaching for school children. The MusicRooms €600- Music scholarship. Meath Mens Sheds- €500. St Cianan's Boxing Club €500- Sponsorship of Gavin Rafferty's Eu-ropean Championship in Russia. Donore Scouts €250- Team Building activi-ties. Duleek Foróige €500- Empowerment Youth Courses. Juilanstown TidyTowns €250- village enhancement. St Mary’s Gfc Donore €500- pitch devel-opment. St Mary’s Cottage Residents Association Donore €300- housing estateenhancement. Duleek Parish Fund €1,000- Help repay school land loan. Sta-mullen Tidy Towns €250 - Village enhancement.

Annual auctions for Senior CitizensSunday October 18 and Sunday 25 Oc-tober are the dates for Duleek SeniorCitizens’ annual fundraising autions inthe Parish Centre. There is free admis-sion and parking, with viewing from2pm each Sunday. The auction beginsat 3pm. Items are now being accepted for theauctions, such as furniture, children’sbicycles and tricycles, toys, gardenequipment, vegetables, small items offurniture and household equipment -but NO 3-piece suites!All auction items can be collected be-

forehand by contacting Paddy Connonon 087 2782925 or Paddy Cudden on086 2570441. All proceeds go towardsthe Duleek Senior Citizens’ ChristmasOuting which takes place on Sunday20 December. It’s always a great out-ing – thanks to the great people of thearea who both donate unwanted itemsfor auction and who buy items at thesale. Remember – one man’s rubbish isanother man’s treasure! So get up intothe attic and donate a few unusedpieces to this annual Christmas auctionon Sunday 18 and 25 October.

Strictly Come Dancing sub-committee. Back row L to R:Fergus Mc Ardle ,Donal Nolan,Tony Dowling,Liam OBrien,Shane Hartford and Oliver Cudden. Front Row L toR : Geraldine Collins ,Joan Lenehan ,Tom Callaghan andRobert Moore. Missing from the photo are Con Mc GinleySnr , Noel Mc Guiness and Sarah Lynch.

Sharon Keogan

It's Strictly car wash time!

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Christmas is coming!! And it will behere before we know it! Don’t buryyour head under the covers and ig-nore it – plan ahead and get things or-ganised. Book your Christmas partynight or festive lunch now and thensit back and enjoy it when Decembercomes!Take the fuss and bother out of or-ganising your own event, and book atany of a number of local venues forthe tops in seasonal celebrations!City North’s package offers welcom-ing cocktails on arrival, where Santais on hand to greet guests and a ma-gician will hold you spellbound. Anabsolute feast will be served up, fol-lowed by late night snacks later in theevening. There’s live music anddancing and plenty of spot prizes, aswell as a festive photo booth. Withplenty of parking, and the great priceof only €49, it’s certainly enticing.Bellewstown Inn is making a namefor itself for serving up tremendousfood in comfortable surroundings.

And the craic is always great! Evenmore so at Christmas – so book yourseasonal celebration “On the Hill”this year! Bookings now being taken.The Spire in Duleek has a reputationfor fine food and sophisticated at-mosphere in a church setting. There’sa special festive menu, starting withmulled wine on arrival, and a sump-tuous 4 course meal in a beautifulseasonally decorated restaurant forjust €28.50. The Spire is also run-ning festive lunches in the run up toChristmas, where you can relax withfriends earlier in the day.If you are getting together with fam-ily, friends, work colleagues, clubmembers or any other group or indi-viduals, make sure to book into aChristmas Party Night or festivelunch in local establishments who areproviding a great service all yearround, but particularly at Christmas.There’s plenty of cheer to go round,so join in and have a ball locally thisChristmas!

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Boxes of toys are leavingthis area for distributionacross Eastern Europe todeserving children beforeChristmas, thanks to thelocal Team Hope represen-tative Marella Gallagher,who herself handed outthese much-valued gifts inUkraine in 2011.Organising the Shoeboxcollection for many yearsnow, Marella explained

that Team Hope is an IrishCharity that has sent aChristmas shoebox gift tomore than 3 million chil-dren in 21 countries overthe last 16 years.The simple shoe boxes arecovered with Christmaswrapping paper and filledwith small seasonal age-appropriate gifts such asas skipping ropes, cars,teddies, dolls, jigsaws,

sweets, copies, pens, pen-cils, hats, scarfs, gloves,soap, toothbrush, tooth-paste and suchlike. Coverthe box, don’t seal it, andtag it with the informationboy/girl, aged 2-4, 5-9, 10-14, and enclose €4 per boxtowards distribution costs.There has been such greatsupport from a number oflocal groups such as theBrownies and DuleekWomen’s Forum, but it ismainly individuals who fillboxes and drop them intothe Duleek depot. Fromhere they are transportedto the Kells depot fortransport to Eastern Eu-rope where they are dis-tributed.Closing date is Sunday 1stNovember. For further in-formation and a leaflet onhow to take part pleasecontact Angela or Marellaon 041 9823162.

Fr. Joe Garvey RIPThe death has occurred of Very Reverend JosephGarvey PE, retired Parish Priest of Curraha. FrJoe was ordained in 1971, he served in Lima(Peru), Northhampton (UK), Longwood, Eglish,Phoenix (USA) and Dunsany before his appoint-ment as parish priest of Curraha in 1989. He re-tired in September 2006.Although a somewhat shy man, Fr Garvey rekin-dled the Curraha Festival, recognising the needfor a community drive and spirit. He loved musicand choral singing, as well as horse racing! Andof course, his few smokes! He will be fondly re-membered by his former parishioners.

Children in Odessa Ukraine receiving their shoe-boxes from Marella Gallagher in January 2011with aTeam Hope distribution team

The late Joseph Garvey

People of Julianstown should be veryproud of their village!Julianstown Tidy Towns Committeepicked up 3 awards at the recentawards night for Meath Pride of Placein the Conyngham Arms Hotel, Slane.Awards were for A) Best approachroad. B) Best Youth Project - This was

where pupils from Whitecross NationalSchool visited the woods and wroteamazing poems about the trees and alsodrew some fabulous pictures. C) BestHeritage Project - this was for all theconservation work done in the woodsthus protecting it for future genera-tions!

Julianstown is a Tidy Town!

Indaver, leading the fi eld in sustainable waste management

Meath Waste-to-Energy Facility

Meath Waste-to-Energy

Congratuations to AaronA big congratulations to Duleek teenAaron Clifford who finished 2nd in theThe Adelaide Masters Supertwin Cham-pionships over the weekend in MondelloPark. The talented 16 year old is going togo far. Well done to Aaron!

Anthony(Bevis) DoonanMemorial cup

St Mary’s Park Donore hosted the inaugural An-thony (Bevis) Doonan Memorial Cup between StMary’s GFC and Duleek /Bellewstown GFC, withall proceeds on the night going to SOSAD. Hugecrowds gathered on a beautiful autumn evening toremember Anthony and twenty minutes beforethrow-in the ground was already full.Duleek were first to score, and saw the 1999 All-Ire-land winning captain Graham Geragthy line out atfull forward, but was well marshalled by ConorLenehan and Fergus Flood. The second half sawthe introduction of Meath All-Ireland winnersLiam Smith and Mickey McQuillan for St Mary’s.Despite Ciaran Higgins scoring a late and dubiouspenalty the comeback eluded St Mary’s asDuleek/Bellewstown ran out 3 point winners.

Later that night another huge crowd turned up inDaly’s where Duleek/Bellewstown captain ConallMc Ginley was presented with the Anthony (Bevis)Doonan Memorial cup by Ronan and Cormac Doo-nan. The evening continued with food, music andfun. Old friendships were renewed and new friend-ships formed. All in all a great night was had byeveryone in Anthony’s memory.Having played for both St Marys andDuleek/Bellewstown; this was a fitting way to hon-our Anthony’s memory. The turnout was testamentto Anthony’s popularity and passion for Gaelicfootball. The Doonan family would like to thankeveryone who helped make such a memorableevent; volunteers, Dalys, players, spectators andboth Clubs. Over €3,000 was raised for SOSAD.

Left; Meath Legends: M McQuillan, L Smith and G Geraghty. Middle: Team Captains: CMcGinley, S Bishop and right: Cormac Doonan, Conal McGinley, Ronan Doonan

St. Pats U-14 teamSenior Football ChampionshipCongrats to the Pat’s Seniorteam who retained their seniorstatus this year, having defeatedSeneschalstown in relegationplayoffs.

LGFAIn the U13 's league early gamessaw the girls up against Walter-stown & Oldcastle and a homewin over O'Mahoneys. U11'sgirls seen the girls away toDuleek/Bellewstown and Dun-boyne. U15 girls welcomedGaeil Colmcille to Stamullen.The U9's visited Duleek/Bellew-stown. In the Minors league rd 1St.Pats had a confortable winover Waltersotwn.

CamogieSt.Pat’s have a number of camo-gie players at U10, U8 andyounger and are trying to de-velop a team. If anyone is inter-ested in getting involved pleasecontact Hugh Reilly on0861602728

Hurling Street LeaguesThe finals of the inaugural Hurl-ing Street leagues took place inSeptember .Tteams were pickedacross age groups in different lo-calities, the idea being thatknowing other young hurlingneighbours will encourage more

play, and enjoy a puck about out-side of the club grounds. Teamswere Gormanston Dragons,Gracemeadow Hawks, Grace-meadow Tigers, Forgehill Foxes,Kilbreck & Orchard Sharks andStickmen. Well done to all thattook part in this event.

U10 Intercounty BlitzSt.Pats GAA underage sectionheld their first U10 IntercountyBlitz where visiting teams of NaFianna, Skerries Harps, Bally-mun Kickhams, Newry Sham-rocks, St.Colmcilles. Thanks toall teams, managers and men-tors, families, supporters andreferees, and especially to juve-nile chairperson Gavin Kirby.

LGFAA historic evening for the under-age section of St.Pat’s LGFA asthey fielded their first U8 girlsteam in a challenge matchagainst neighbours St.Colm-cille’s. A combination of currentU7/U8 players and a number ofthe U10 girls took part and intotal 16 girls from St.Pat’splayed 2 games. A great eveningof football was had by all.Thanks to Jackie and the Colm-cille’s mentors for organisationand hospitality. A return fixtureis on the cards.

Julianstown

Badminton clubJulianstown Badminton clubis looking for new membersover 16. They play Tuesdaysat 7.30pm in the communitycentre on Sandyhall Road,Julianstown. All standardsvery welcome. For more in-formation contact 087-6796634.

Match Day OutDuleek Sharks and Meteorsenjoyed a Match Day Out atthe Ireland V Georgia fix-ture at the Aviva Stadium.All the lads had a blast andenjoyed every minute of thematch and the atmosphere.

Bellewstown P & PCongratulationsto Wally Sheridanwho was 3rd inthe National Sen-iors finals lastSunday at the OldCounty Club inDublin. Wallywon this eventlast year and wasjust two shots be-hind the winnerthis year; welldone Wally.

Aviva for Duleek players

Duleek Sharks and Meteors enjoyeda Match Day Out at the Ireland VGeorgia fixture at the Aviva Stadium.All the lads had a blast and enjoyedevery minute of the match and theatmosphere

Silent Sidelines

Balrath FC supported the NDSL SilentSideline Weekend Initiative for the U8sand Under 10s home games.There wasno shouting, 'coaching from the side-lines' or any vocal interference at all –just clapping and applause. A totallydifferent approach to the game - wherekids can make decisions for themselves.

Indaver, leading the fi eld in sustainable waste management

Meath Waste-to-Energy Facility

Meath Waste-to-Energy

Anglers’ ClubResults of the recent Paddy MurrayMemorial Cup pike competition. 1stF. Dunne, 2nd S. Martin, 3rd B.O’Reilly. The junior winner was RyanMartin. For further details of compe-titions contact the club secretary on087 4153781.

Duleek soccer clubDuleek School Boys & Girls SoccerClub U12 teams are currently lookingfor a few additional players. Playersneed to be born in 2004 to be eligible.The club can be contacted on theirFace book page or call to the club onMonday at 5pm when the teams train.

White Collar BoxingCloghertown United’s highly antici-pated fight night takes place on Sun-day 25 October. In the rescheduledvenue of Tattersals – not DonamoreGFC as previously advertised. Watchboxers of all ages and experience lev-els compete in what promises to be ahuge night of fun and entertainment.Tickets €20 available from Doyne on0861035311 or contact anyone in-volved in the club. You do not want tomiss this one!

Fun Day RaffleResults

Thanks to all those whosupported DuleekBellewstown’s recentFamily Fun Day.Thanks to sponsors andthose who bought tick-ets. Sponsors included ahamper sponsored byFresh Start Milk, 4Meath jerseys sponsoredby O’Neill’s, 3 Lifestyle sports voucherssponsored by UlsterBank, €50 One for allvoucher, club gear do-nated by Duleek|Bellewstown Girls, bot-tles of wine andwhiskey, footballs,voucher for DuleekPharmacy sponsored byDuleek Pharmacy, vari-ous other small spotprizes, football socks,shorts, children’s nov-

elty dinner.Winners were: LaurenCrosby, Joan Lenehan,Robin Chubb, SennanMc Cornish, SherryBurke, Ann Duff, HopeDarcy, Tom Redmond,Imelda Kavanagh,Emily McGrail, JamesBoylan, Roisn Quinn,Morgan Mallon, JudithCullen, Sam Fitzpatrick,Ella May Heeney, An-nika Ward, Shane McCroary, Myra Reddy,Finn Harford, ElliotLenehan.

BlitzWell done to DuleekBellewstown U10 play-ers, coaches and parentswho attended the blitz inDunganny in Septemberto mark the officialopening of the MeathCentre of Excellence inDunganny.

The Duleek Bellewstown team that played in the Anthony DoonanMemorial Match

The St. Marys team that played in the Anthony Doonan Memorial match

Bellewstown Golf Club

Larry McGrane accepts a cheque from Bellewstown Golf Club on behalf of IMNDA

Bellewstown Ladies Golf Club held aCharity Open in Aid of TheLouth/Meath branch of Motor NeuroneDisease Association during July. Theladies would like to sincerely thank allthe Tee sponsors and prize sponsors aslisted who were very generous in theirdonations. It was a great success raising

a total of €3,180. We would also like tothank all the lady members and otherladies clubs members who played on theday, it made it a very pleasant social oc-casion. Thanks also to Larry McGranewho came to our Club last week to ac-cept the cheque on behalf of theLouth/Meath branch of the IMNDA.

Captains Presentation Dinner

Bellewstown P&P clubCaptains Chrissie Travers andJohn Byrne Jnr held a successfulCaptains’ Day recently fol-lowed by a presentation dinnerin Bellewstown Inn, whereprizes were awarded before anight of dancing.Winner of the Lady Captains

Prize was Marie Black.Runner up; Chrissie Travers.

Best 18n Mon Byrne and Best18g Margaret Whyte.The Gents winner was Seamus

Byrne. Runner up; Peter Reilly.Charlie Sheridan won the 18nand Jim Brannigan the 18g.

Young Pitch& Putt

players atthe Juvenile

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Duleek Cardiac First Response group ismaking a positive contribution to thearea as they attend certain Emergencymedical Incidents, (cardiac arrests, chok-ing, stroke, and chest pain) Now with 24qualified responders and more waitingfor training, the group is delighted thattwo of them have now been trained as in-structors! Congrats Marella and Pauline!The National Ambulance Service Com-munity First Responder Initiative is notintended to replace any emergency med-ical provision but rather to complementand enhance the same When a 999 or 112call is made, the National EmergencyOperations Centre sends out an auto-matic text to a dedicated group phone, onreceipt of the text the group mobilizethemselves to the incident under strictadherence to the rules of the road. Feed-back from locals who have had to use

this service is very positive.Responder groups cater for calloutswithin a 5 km radius of their base, soDuleek covers Donore and Bellewstown.Currently there are no Donore respon-ders trained up (they would appreciatesome!) and there are two Bellewstownresponders about to come on stream.Training and ongoing refresher trainingis free – all that is asked is your commit-ment to being a responder. The long termaim of the group is to have at least oneperson in every household able to carryout CPR.All funds are raised by the group them-selves, so the recent Indaver grant andTesco tokens donation were much appre-ciated for purchase of new equipment.If you would like to join them and be-

come a responder emailduleekcfr@gmail.com for information.

Duleek Cardiac First Response Group

The Duleek & Bellew-stown Parish clothescollection for therefugees was a greatsuccess, with a truck-ful of bagged upclothing collected.The generosity of theparishioners was out-standing. Congratsand a big thanks to allthe volunteers fortheir hard work.

Refugee clothing collection

Could we ask you – our readers - to nominate Duleek & District News for the Not-for-Profit Organisation in the Meath Business & Tourism Awards 2015. We believe we providea very unique community reading experience for the residents in local towns and ruralareas. We cover events & news stories that sometimes get little or no coverage in the othermajor newspapers. We always like to keep it local. If you agree please nominate us, printout the form or apply online www.meathchronicle.ie . You can help make it happen!

Duleek & District news up for award

RDS exhibitionBernadette Fox is a Fibre & Mixed Media Artist from Ardcath,where her studio is located. She draws her inspiration from thebeautiful Boyne Valley and surrounding areas, making bespokeand commissioned pieces to suit any space.Her Fibre Art has been selected in the Top 50 new products atShowcase in the RDS Dublin, Ireland’s International CreativeExpo. Her artwork is stocked in many galleries throughout Ire-land, and she exhibits in Brú Na Bóinne every July. She is amember of Craft Council of Ireland, Louth Craft Designers Net-work, Felt Makers Ireland.Bernadette’s work will be on view at Art Source in the RDS inNovember Stand A61 http://www.artsource.ie/ from 13–15No-vember. It’s Ireland’s Premier Art Fair with over 100 contempo-rary artists and 30 Irish and international galleries gathered together to showcase painting,sculpture, photography, illustration, prints, textile and ceramic art. Boynevalleyart@gmail.com/ Boynevalleyart.com / 00353-86-8354000.

Bernadette Fox

Volunteers sorting out clothes and blankets from DuleekBellewstown area for refugees:(L-R): Maeve HowardJackie Lyons, Liz Lynch, Ann Gogarty and Aileen Quinn

Cheerios Childline Breakfast was held inDuleek recently, with local Foróige club mem-

bers busy serving up the brekkie! Membersand leaders were kept on their toes all morn-ing, at what they claim, was their most suc-cessful year to date, their 5th time hosting theevent!As well as freshly made breakfast, there wasface painting, colouring corner and balloonmaking to keep the youngsters happy.A total of €416.55 was made at the event inDuleek parish hall. A big thanks to all theirsponsors and volunteers, including AdrianMurray, Kevin Campbell and the Old Post Of-fice. Well done! All proceeds go to Childline.

Foróige breakfast

Foróige members preparing for theCheerios Childline breakfast

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to You AllI'm committed to the people of my area to deliver a secondary schoolfor this district. We have the numbers with the primary schools inthis area to justify this. I know of a site, currently owned by St.Finian's Diocesan Trust in Duleek that could be made available to theDepartment of Education in Duleek, zoned community/education.This school will allow primary school children from Duleek, Donore,Bellewstown, Knockcommon, Cushenstown, Ardcath, Clonalvy &Mounthanover. Kentstown, Yellowfurze & Julianstown to accesssecond level education nearer to where they live. All of these schoolsare within a 10km radius of Duleek. This secondary school will bedelivered by Keogan. TRUST ME.

l Cllr. Sharon Keogan

Sharon Keogan is a business woman in Duleek. She is also a Peace Commissioner for your area.

This service is available free to you – why not use it.

PleaSe Call Sharon anytime.Sharon Can be ContaCteD on

041-9880523/mobile 087-6773800or Facebook: Keogan4meath

e-mail: sharonkeogan@eircom.net

Cloghertown United’s highly antici-pated fight night takes place on Sunday25 October. In the rescheduled venue ofTattersals – not Donamore GFC as pre-viously advertised.Watch boxers of all ages and experience

levels compete in what promises to bea huge night of fun and entertainment.Tickets €20 available from Doyne on0861035311 or contact anyone involvedin the club. You do not want to miss thisone!

Cloghertown Utd’s fightnight in Tatterstall, Ratoath

Happy birthday to Eileen Andrews, Duleek, who celebrated her66th birthday recently in the company of family and friends.

Halloween in MeathThe Spirits of Meath Halloween Festival fromFriday 16 October – Sunday 1 November, withdozens of exciting and scarey events happeningacross the county, fromdrive-in horror moviesto haunted houses and from children's activitiesto a murder mystery dinner, fancy dress parties,storytelling, torch-lit processions, cookeryclasses and the chance to pick your own pump-kin - there truly is something to suit everyone.Find more information and some great valueaccommodation offers and download the Fes-tival Brochure at www.spiritsofmeath.co

Stamullenfloral displayNice work being cared out by local manJason Gough at Goughs Corner, Sta-mullen, Jason has maintained the grassverges in this area, as well as planting andlooking after plants and flowers. Since therecent road re-alignment, Jason has posi-tioned to beautiful wooden half-barrelsfull of flowers there, and is reputedlypreparing some others! It’s a welcomesight in Stamullen.

ArdcathMacranewsArdcath Macra thankstheir out-going club of-ficers for the year pastand wishes the verybest of luck to the newofficers who look overfor the Macra yearahead. There’s an ex-citing year planned,starting with ‘Knowyour Neighbour’ out-side Ardcath Churchlast Saturday eveningafter Mass whereMacra membersserved tea and coffeeand encouraged a chat.It worked out very welland they were blessedwith the weather. Newmembers always wel-come. Further news onFacebook.

OCTOBERl Sat 10 & Sun 11. TheMuse Of Yeats weekend fes-tival at Rossnaree House,hosted by Aisling Law, thegreat granddaughter ofMaud Gonne.Saturday 10. 12 noon. Magicshow in Duleek Parish Hall.Adm €5.l Saturday 10. 8pm. WhiteCollar boxing in Car-ranstown Lodge, Duleek.Tickets €15.l Friday 16. Donore Parish‘Come Dine With Me’ TheThatch, Donore Road.l Friday 16-Sunday 1 Nov.Spirits of Meath HalloweenFestivall Sunday 18. 3pm. Auctionin Duleek Parish Centrel Sunday 18. 7.30pm. CityNorth Hotel ‘Faulty Towers,Dining Experience'l Wednesday 21. Half pricefood in Mario’s, Duleek tocelebrate 33 years in villagel Sat 24-Wed 28. Halloweenmarket is Kennedy’s Pump-kin Patch at Shallon, Ju-lianstown.l Sunday 25. 3pm. Auctionin Duleek Parish Centrel Sunday 25 CloghertownUtd White-Collar boxingevent in Tatterstalls,Rathoathl Sunday 25. 1pm. ArdcathClonalvy cross country runstarting at Donnellys ofCloghertown at 1pm. All lev-els welcome. Contact 087-7699663l Saturday 31. 6.30pm Hal-loween celebrations at Ju-lianstown CommunityGarden. Adm €5.

NOVEMBERl Sunday 1. Halloween Fairin Sage & Stone Duleek.Fancy DressSunday 1. Shoebox appealfinal day for drop off.Marella 041-9823162l Friday 6. 5.30pm. BridalCharity Ball. Station HouseKilmessan in aid of TempleSt Hospitall Friday 13. 8pm. DroghedaMale Voice Choir in DuleekChurch. Tickets €15.l Saturday 21. 8pm. Duleek-

Bellewstown GFC Strictlycome Dancing in the TLTl Sundays. Duleek SeniorCitizens annual auctions.

ONGOING EVENTSl Duleek Parent & ToddlerGroup meets WednesdayDuleek parish centre from10–12 pm. €3 per week. Allwelcome.l Bennetts of Ardcath holda whist drive every Mondaynight at 8.30pm.l Pudden Hill Parent andToddler morning includingplaytime and Arts andCrafts on Thursdays10.30am. €5 child. €3 peradd child.l Irish dancing classes withScoil Rince Orla Nic Conu-ladh ADCRG BG in Bellew-stown parish Hall from4.30-6.00. All levels, boys andgirls from age 4. Orla 086-3619169.l Céilí Classes run inDuleek parish centre onThursdays from 8pm to9pm. New members wel-come.l Irish dancing classes inDonore Parish Hall Wednes-days at 8.15pm. ContactShay 087 2886306Duleek Bridge Club meetson Wednesdays at 8pm inCarranstown Lodge /Toll-stone. New members verywelcome.l Kentstown & Seneschal-stown Accordion Band areaccepting new members onWednesdays in KentstownHall for anyone over 7 inter-ested in learning the accor-dion or drums.l Rosary is recited inDuleek church at 9.45am be-fore Mass. All welcome tojoin in for prayers.l Bowls in Duleek parishcentre every Tuesday 2.30pmwith Active RetirementGroup. New members wel-come.l Duleek Youth Café has re-opened. Daily 5.30-7.30pmfor 9-13 years and 7.30-9.30pm for 13 years and upl Bingo every Thursday @9.30 in Bellewstown Inn.Everyone welcome

Beginners’ Irish classesClasses for those wishing to learn Irish and to speaka ‘Cúpla Focal’ can come along to an Irish conver-sation class in Whytes pub, Stamullen in the com-ing weeks. If you are interested in attending theseclasses please email brianograinne@gmail.com.Míle buíochas, Múinteoir - Brian Ó Gráinne.

Drogheda Male Voice ChoirDuleek Fair Committee presents an evening withDrogheda Male Voice Choir with guests on Friday13 November at 8pm in St Cianan’s Church,Duleek. Tickets cost €15 and are available to buyfrom any member of Duleek Fair Committee. Itpromises to be a wonderful night of entertainmentfor people of all ages. Proceeds from the night go toDuleek Fair Day and the new school site repay-ments fund.

Sage & Stone Halloween FairDuleek Fair Committee presents an evening withDrogheda Male Voice Choir with guests on Friday13 November at 8pm in St Cianan’s Church,Duleek. Tickets cost €15 and are available to buyfrom any member of Duleek Fair Committee. Itpromises to be a wonderful night of entertainmentfor people of all ages. Proceeds from the night go toDuleek Fair Day and the new school site repay-ments fund.

Land of Legends

Six brave souls from Duleek recently took partin a gruelling charity race with a difference,overcame fears and got soaked to the skin in theprocess!! Laura Donoghue, Dáire McDevitt Ludlow,Maria Ludlow, Ruairí and Maria Nestor and LizCarolan took part in the gruelling but hugely en-tertaining Land of Legends 8K Obstacle Coursein Clogherhead. In aid of the Gary Kelly CancerSupport Centre, the course placed many naturaland man-made obstacles in the way of competi-tors, including; crawling through a flood undera camouflage net; scaling walls; avoid strategi-cally placed electric fences; scaling bales of hay;manouvering through mountains of tyres; stay-ing upright while getting soaked by fire hoses!! For most competitors, however, the biggest chal-lenge was having to dive into Clogherhead har-bour, swim between piers, and haul yourself,dripping wet, up a 30ft ladder on the other end!Many phobias, including fear of heights, waterand electric shocks were faced and overcome onthe day! Well done to ‘Team Duleek’!

Duleek participants at Land of Legends

MARCH 2016l Wednesday 9. 11am. Confirmation in Curraha.l 9-12. Duleek Drama Group in Droichead Arts Centre.

MAY 2016l Wednesday 9. 11am. Confirmation in Curraha.