St. John’s G.A.A Club united in grief
It was a sense of great sadness
when news came filtering through last Friday of the unexpected and untimely
death of Michael “Mick” Galvin son of our club President Paddy and founder of
St. John’s G.A.A. Club in 1987. Michael packed more into his short 46 years of
life than most of us would in two lifetimes.
His family and G.A.A were his life and where he was happiest. Michael’s
early playing days was spent with St. John’s before becoming a member of the
St. Mary’s club winning a number of underage titles and a County Senior
Football Championship in 1996
The following year he was
appointed Sligo senior football captain by Mickey Moran but missed out leading
the County out in the Provincial final against Mayo later that year due to
injury.
Later in 2008 he led the Sligo
hurlers to their first ever Nicky Rackard title in Croke Park.
He also played and acted as
mentor to the Calraigh Naomh Iosef hurling teams and in more recent times
managed Glencar-Manor to win their first ever Leitrim hurling titles.
The St. John’s G.A.A. club members travelled en masse with heavy hearts
to the removal last Saturday evening to Manorhamilton. Despite the monsoon like
conditions members provided a guard of honour bravely fighting the elements
heads bowed, shoulders slumped against the driving sheet like rain standing
together silently, wearing black armbands as the cortege inched its way slowly
from his home and up the steep entrance to St. Clare’s Church. Following the
cortege family, relatives friends, sympathisers all huddled closely under a
myriad of umbrellas providing protection from a dark unremarkable &
miserable winters like evening in Manorhamilton. His coffin gently carried by
members of the Glencar Hurling G.A.A. Club.
Inside Fr Oliver Kelly P.P.
glowingly praised Mick for his involvement in the G.A.A and his devotion to his
family and work as Sergeant in Ballyshannon Garda Station. The following day
hundreds more thronged the church on the hill united in grief for the funeral
mass and burial in St.Clare’s Churchyard.
Today, the clouds over Carraroe are not the
same not the bright sky blue colours of the Parish Club that his father Paddy
proudly founded but a more misty grey monochrome texture.
We extend our deepest sympathy to
his wife Colette and his children, Conor, Kate and Emma. Also in our thoughts
at this sad time are his father Paddy; his sisters Helen, Patricia and
Geraldine and his brothers Peter and John.
May the Leitrim sod rest lay
lightly over him.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dilis
St. John’s G.A.A. Club
St. John’s secure win
St John’s under 12B team put in a
thrilling display to defeat Shamrock Gaels at Shamrock Gaels Park on Tuesday
evening last. With weather conditions ideal both teams gave incredible displays
of football.
With just one point separating
the sides in the first quarter. St. John’s were well served with good scores
from free kicks and sideline balls from Ciaran Quinn together with fine scores
from play by Liam Lee & Ray McCarney.
At the heart of the St. John’s
defence was the rock solid Ronan Hegarty & Brendan Korniychuk who stymied
and shackled the Shamrock Gaels forwards throughout .
St. John’s pulled well clear in
the second quarter with the excellent James Derwin to the fore and with an
incredible strike rate from John Hanbury, Josh Davey & David Elliott the
Carraroe boys were soon out of sight.
In the final two quarters the
team management rung the changes bringing on the players of the calibre Ryan
McLoughlin , Reece Wallace & Aine Gorman all excelled when coming on.
The St.John’s starlets drove on
and ran out deserving winners in the end by 0-17 to 0-6
Best for St John’s on the night
were Liam Lee, Marc Lyttle and Ronan Hegarty.
The team is progressing well and
with skills shown & being perfected by the young boys & girls just
eleven years of age it augurs well for the club’s future success.
Sligo’s singing priest returns to Carraroe
Sligo’s singing priest Fr. Kevin
Fallon returns to his native Carraroe on Thursday 11th June for a special
evening of musical entertainment all in aid of St. John’s Hospital Patient
Comfort Fund. Molly Fultons Pub & Restaurent will be the setting for the
eclectic musical mix. Special guests for the evening will also include Taby
Callaghan of X-Factor fame. Together with Tony Marren, Padraig Fox and a host
of other music stars giving their time free for this worthy cause.
Fr. Fallon is the Parish Priest
in Kilglass Co. Roscommon since 2011 and serves three churches in the one
parish Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Rooskey, Sacred Heart Church Kilglass
and St. Anne’s Church Slatta.
The Carraroe native recorded a CD
entitled “Twice the Catch” in the studio of Paul Gurney Longford last January.
The album is titled 'Twice the Catch', coming from Fr. Kevin's dual role on the
CD. He plays the flute on five tracks, and sings with the guitar on the other
seven tracks.
Anyone who listens to the CD gets
to hear him twice hence the title of the CD “twice the catch”
There are five sets of
traditional songs, while the remainder range from Irish ballads to gospel music
and country and western music.
There is no admission fee and the
CD will be on sale at €10 each. All proceeds will go towards the St. John’s
Hospital Patient Comfort Fund & Kilglass Parish Churches.
The show begins at 9.30 p.m A
raffle will take place and light refreshments will be served.
Yours support will be very much
appreciated.
IRISH TV look set to be in
attendance.
Supervalu Kits for Kids Promotion
Please support St. John's GAA
Kits for Kids. Collection Boxes in Whitesides Supervalue Ballisodare. For every
€40 spent a voucher will be given to the St. John's Club and just drop into the
Club collection box in store. Closing date is July 5th. We need 2,000 vouchers.
Please support
Upcoming fixtures:
Tuesday 2nd June in Cleveragh at
7.00 p.m.
U-12 Fl Div 4 Rd 5: St. John’s v
Tourlestrane
Friday 5th June in Cleveragh at
7.00 p.m.
U-14 Fl Lg D2 Grp 2 Rd 7: St.
John’s v Calry St. Joseph’s
