Parish Notes

Birthday Greetings: Birthday Greetings to: Joe Power, Ann O’Shea, Jack O’Shea, James Kelleher, George Mullins, Ber Ryan, Michelle Guiney.

Church News

Parish Liturgy

Readers of the Word

Dromin Sat 17^th Moira O’Dea

Athlacca Sun 18^th Mary Daly

Ministers of the Eucharist

Dromin Sat 17^th Maria Kelleher

Athlacca Sun 18^th Alice McAuliffe & Karen Fox.

Vocation Sunday: Last weekend in the diocese we celebrated Vocation Sunday.  We ask you to remember in your prayers Aidan O’Rourke, a native of Dromin who is a student for the diocese studying at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth.  We also remember and pray for David Casey from St. Joseph’s Parish, Limerick City who is studying in Rome.  David will be ordained a priest in July of this year.  Thanks to all who supported the church door collection at the weekend.  The money collected will go towards the promotion of vocations in the diocese, and for the ongoing costs of educating students for the priesthood.  If you missed out on the collection last weekend and you would like to make a donation, put in an envelope marked “Vocations” and drop into the collection basket next weekend.  A short video entitled “Vocations – An Adventure of Life” is available on the diocesan website, www.limerickdiocese.org You can also view it on the diocesan Facebook page and on YouTube.  Bishop Brendan Leahy is inviting all parishioners to view this short video.  In a letter to the diocese on Sunday Bishop Brendan said “We all need to do our part to create a culture in church circles where we can help young people “hear” their calling, especially if it’s to a particular service of God’s family.”  Please remember to include a prayer for vocations in your prayers each day.

Recent Death: Your prayers are asked for the late Mrs Mary O’Shea RIP,  Kilcoleman, Ardagh, who died last weekend.  Mary is mother of Maria Kelleher, Clogher Dromin.  We extend our sympathy to Maria and her family.

Wedding Bells: Congratulations to Ann O’Shea, Dromin and Christopher Clarke, Drimnagh, Dublin who were married in Holy Trinity Church, Dromin last weekend.  The best wishes of all parishioners are extended to Ann and Christy.

Pastoral Council: The next meeting in the process of putting in place a new Pastoral Council for the parish will take place next Tuesday 20^th May in Dawn Court, Athlacca at 8.00pm  All are welcome to attend.  

Trinity Festival Fundraising Event 8^th June:  We are holding a 10k run and a 5k walk and run in aid of the Childrens Ark Unit of the Regional Hospital. Registration will take place at 12noon at Dromin Hall. Event will start at 12.30pm. Registration fee €10. Refreshments served after event, No Bicycles allowed. For More information contact Joe 0827283752 or John 0872730565

Trocaire Collection: Parishioners have until Friday 16^th May to donate to this year’s Trocaire Lenten Campaign.  All donations should be given in to Fr. Tony by 10.00a.m. on Friday 16^th May.  This is the last opportunity you will have to donate to Trocaire through the parish.

New Youth Ministry Magazine: “Youth of Limerick Online!”  The magazine can be viewed by clicking on the link below or you can access it from our Muintearas Íosa Facebook Page and from the Dioceasan website: www.limerickdiocese.org 

http://issuu.com/youthoflimerickdioceseonline/docs/yolo_issue_no_1

Diocese on Facebook: To log into the page go to 

http://www.facebook.com/dioceseoflimerick

Enrich Your Faith: Come to a day of Prayer at Knock Shrine Basilica, on the 31st of May, the Feast of the Visitation, 2014, 10.00am-5.00pm. The day includes Talks, Stations,  Rosary, and Holy Mass. Theme: Called to be a Light to the Nations. Talks will include: Ireland - Where to Now? Consecration - The Way Forward. Given by Fr. Kilian Byrne - Foyer of Charity. For more information & Buses, contact 086 1678027 or www.foyerofcharity.ie

Junior Infants: Pleae note that Athlacca National School will hold an Open Day on Wednesday may 28^th from 9.30am to 12noon for New Junior Infants wishing to begin school in September 2014.  Parents are asked to bring the following with them on the day. 1. Child’s birth certificate. 2 Your child’s PPS Number. £ Light Lunch.  For further details contact the school at 063-90978.  We ask you to make parents aware of this Open Day.

Pieta House: A SEA of yellow t-shirts and thousands of flickering candles shone out in the darkness as thousands of people in the city walked at dawn in memory of loved ones and friends who have died by suicide. There were emotional scenes in particular as people signed a Banner of Hope and wrote personal messages in memory of those who have died, as some 8,500 congregated for the Darkness into Light walk in Limerick city.  It has been estimated that over 11,000 people took part.  Thank you to everyone who took part and contributed in some way. 

Midwest Simon *URGENT APPEAL*: Donation of Men’s, Women’s and Children’s clothes, shoes, bags, toys and bric a brac needed for our charity shop.   Drop off points at our Limerick Office, 1 Lower Shannon St. Phone: 061-608 980 (9.30am- 5.30pm Mon - Fri) or our Ennis Office/Shop Woodquay, Phone: 065-6820 133 Shop Opening Hours: 10am to 5.30 pm Tue to Fri; 10am to 4pm Saturday; Closed Sunday & Monday.  Collection can also be arranged by phoning 061 608980.

Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes:  The Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will take place from 21st - 26th June 2014.  You can book for this pilgrimage at the Limerick Pilgrimage Office, Limerick Social Service Centre, Henry St., Limerick.  For further information and booking forms contact 061-314111.  If you are interested in travelling with the diocesan pilgrimage it is essential that you book in with them by the end of this week.

Limerick Mental Health Association's Green Ribbon Event: In May See Change, the National Stigma Reduction Partnership is rolling out a month long national green ribbon campaign to get people talking openly about mental health problems. Limerick Mental Health Association are holding a Green Ribbon Event on Sunday May 18th in Limerick Milk Market, with information stalls, music & children’s entertainment. LMHA feels it is so important to promote open conversation of mental health which in turn challenges the stigma of mental health problems.

Pope Francis the man and his Message: A conference exploring the life and ministry of Pope Francis will be held at Mayr Immaculate College, Limerick beginning on Friday, may 23^rd at 7.00pm and continuing on Saturday 24^th, finishing at 4.00pm.  the Conference will examine how his vision has been shaped by his Jesuit formation and earlier experiences in leadership, as well a exploring some of the significant themes that are emerging in his efforts to renew the Church and its mission.  Among the speakers is Paul Valley, on of the Pope’s biographers.  For details contact: Deirdre Franklin, 061204507 or Deirdre.franklin@mic.ul.ie

Cards

Results of 45 Drive in Athlacca May 9th

Winners with 9 games - Mary Mgt. Noonan & Pat Donovan, Nicholas & Nicholas Carroll, D.J. Ryan & Denis Walsh.

Table Prizes - Alick Burke & Mick Maume, Eddie O'Dea & Dolores Barry, Eugene Grant & Joe Carey, Martin Troy & Sean Madden.

Raffle - €50 Anne Potter €30 Betty Lynch €20 Willie O'Rourke €10 each to Nicholas Carroll, Betty Lynch x 2, Anne Potter, Mary O'Connor.

GAA News:

GAA Lotto Results

NO WINNER, Numbers- 5-6-10-13

Lucky Dips-

€40 – Ged Sheerin

€20 – Pat Rabbitt

€20 – Andrew Kelleher

Fixtures

Junior B - Thursday the 15^th at 7pm. Dromin/Athlacca Vs Camogue Rovers in Meanus.

Junior B – Saturday the 17^th at 7:15pm. Dromin/Athlacca Vs Blackrock in Kilfinane.

Intermediate South Championship semi final – Sunday the 18^th at 3pm. Dromin/Athlacca Vs Croom in Hospital

Results

Dromin/Athlacca 10 points Bruff 15 points.

Sunday the 11^th Dromin/Athlacca took on Bruff in Kilmallock. Refed by Johnny Murphy.

There will always be rivalry between two teams when they meet on the field but it’s different when it’s a neighbouring team. Bruree was the first battle to over come and this week it was a battle against Bruff.

The game started off well with a point from Eoin O’Leary, but it was Bruff that followed up with a point to level the game after six minutes.

It wasn’t long until it was a free for Dromin/Athlacca and David Reidy stood up to take the shot at goal but it was securely stopped by bruff to clear it out of their goals into the Dromin/Athlacca territory but it was Ger Kelleher that stopped the threat of another score with an excellent clearance. For a while into the game it was point for point between both teams but Bruff started to take the lead going into half time.

Half time score was Dromin/Athlacca 6 points Bruff 7 points.

Hoping the second half would be different it was Bruff that got the first score. Dromin/Athlacca winning a free though with Paul Neenan sailing the ball over the bar minimising the score to one point. Everytime the men in Blue and White got a score it was quickly changed by bruff getting two more points to keep a gap between the two team. The two Reidy brothers not giving up though putting a point over each. Not long left in the game it looked like Dromin/Athlacca were making their come back into the game but wasn’t long hushed by Bruff getting three more scores.

David Reidy was taking on the Bruff back line but his shot at goal was refused three times surely rattling the Bruff defence at this stage. Maybe one more chance and it would make a difference in the score of the game but sadly it wasn’t long until Johnny Murphy blew up the full time whistle ending the game Dromin Athlacca 10points, Bruff 15points.

Team:

David Breen, Derek Kenny, Brian Kelleher, Ger Kelleher, Gearoid O’Leary, Peter Ryan, David Mullins, Patrick O’Donoghue, Dvid Reidy(5points), Eoin O’Connell, Paul Neenan(2points), Michael Reidy(2point), Jason Lenihan, Eoin O’Leary (1point), James Kelleher.

Subs:

Mark Moynihan, Andrew Barron, Tiernan Ryan(Went on for Jason Lenihan), Chris Riordan(Went on for Eoin O’Connell), Donal Walsh, Killian Liston, Oisin Liston.

Junior B Results

Our Junior B’s were meant to play Castletown Ballyagran in Athlacca Monday night but Ballyagran failed to field a team so the game was called off.

Results

Note: Membership must be paid.

For anyone who intends to play this year all membership needs to be paid. Only paid up members and paid up lotto members are able to have their names put in for the Intercounty match tickets draw. €20 for Adults and €10 for students.

Scrap Metal Collection: Dromin/Athlacca are having a Scrap Metal Collection again. For more information contact Mike Geaney 0876494841

A little poem.

This weeks poem is coming from Cork.  Louis de Paor was born in Cork in 1961, and has been involved with the contemporary renaissance of poetry in Irish since 1980 when he was first published in the poetry journal Innti (which he subsequently edited for a time). A four-time winner of the Seán Ó Ríordáin/Oireachtas Award, the premier award for a new collection of poems in Irish, he lived in Australia from 1987 to 1996. His first bilingual collection, Aimsir Bhreicneach/Freckled Weather, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for Literary Translation. He was also granted a Writer’s Fellowship by the Australia Council in 1995. He is the recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award 2000, the first poet in Irish to achieve that distinction. His collection agus rud eile de,published by Coiscéim in December 2002, was awarded the Oireachtas prize for the best collection of poems in Irish in 2003. A bilingual collection, Ag greadadh bas sa reilig/Clapping in the cemetery,was published by Cló Iar-Chonnachta in 2005. The Gaelic Hit Factory,a collection of songs and poems in Irish composed and recorded with longtime collaborator John Spillane, was released in 2006. His latest collection is Cúpla Siamach an Ama (The Siamese Twins of Time), published by Coiscéim in 2006.

Iascaire is ea m’athair le ceart
Conas ná raibh a fhios againn cheana
agus diamhair na mara
chomh glé sin ina shúil?
Lá an adhlactha, iompraíonn sé
doircheacht mhoch na maidine
ar an trá sin a shíneann
ó dhoras an tséipéil
go dtí bruach an tsaoil.
Siúlann thar an slua
atá bailithe sa chlós,
a chois báite sa ghaineamh
gan cabhair a iarraidh
ó éinne dá chlann mhór mhac.
Ní thuigimid an fharraige fós,
dar leis, a cneastacht ná a racht.
Tá naomhóg an bhróin
bun os cionn ar a ghualainn
chomh dubh le fuil théachta,
an fharraige ag fiuchadh
le deora goirt
a loiscfeadh súil na gréine.
Scarann tonn na sochraide roimis
is cuireann sé a dheartháir
sa pholl atá tochailte
aige féin is an ngealaigh
ó aréir. Nuair a shiúlann
ón uaigh ar ais,
tá gile na dtonn
is uaigneas an domhain i ngleic
i súil ghlas mo shinsir.