Tuesday 25th September

6pm Irish Dancing; 7pm to 9pm Bridging the Divide (8 to 12 years) for young people who are new to the area or have english as their second language ‘buddying up’ with someone who is from the area;

Wednesday 26th September

11am Men’s Shed; 3pm to 3.45pm Grange PS coaching; 7pm u6 Camogie; 7pm Ladies of Mourne; 7pm to 9pm (1st year+) All Together Now inclusion night for young people with and without a disability; Youth Culture & ME, raising awareness around discrimination, bullying, identity and gender; 7.30pm Senior Gaelic

Thursday 27th September

6.30pm to 8.30pm aged 4 to 7 years boys/girls activity based; 7pm to 9pm Girls Night for aged 8 to11;

6.30pm u11 Gaelic; 7pm u8 Camogie; 7.30pm Camogie committee meeting.

Friday 28th September

11am Men’s Shed; 2.30pm to 3.30pm St Colmans PS coaching; Drop-in Night 6.30pm to 8pm for Primary School age and 8pm to 9.30pm for High School age; avail of our games room, sports hall and new music room or just come in for a chat or hang out;.30pm Senior Gaelic;

Saturday 29th September

u12 Football Croke Park Day; 11am P1 & P2 Gaelic; 12pm P3/P4 Gaelic; 1pm Birthday Party; ‘Night at the Races’ in aid of club funds and Diabetes NI, first race 9pm.

Sunday 30th September

10.30am Breakfast; 11am u11 Gaelic Saval v An Riocht; 12.30pm u13 Gaelic Shamrocks v An Riocht; 2pm Birthday Party; 2.30pm Band practice; 8pm Bingo.

Monday 1st October

11am Men’s Shed; 6.45pm u13 Gaelic for those born in 2005/2006; 7pm to 9pm Me, Myself & I, Self Defence for 1st year +; 9pm Lotto

Tuesday 2nd October

6pm Irish Dancing; 7pm to 9pm Bridging the Divide (8 to 12 years) for young people who are new to the area or have english as their second language ‘buddying up’ with someone who is from the area; 7.30p An Riocht Executive committee meeting

 

Aedin, Beth, Carolina and Rory completed the two-day PIPS ASIST workshop at Dunavil, well done.

 

In the u16 Camogie Kilclief did not travel.

 

At the Scor na nOg Registration Night, there was only a small attendance but its not too late to get involved. We intend to hold a club cultural concert in October, so if interested in dancing, singing, rectitation, playing instruments, quizes or drama then get in touch.

 

The Ulster GAA Grounds Inspection took place on Friday when Peter Quinn former GAA President and Liam Ross Ulster GAA accompanied Down GAA Ulster Delegate Maureen O’Higgins on a tour of the facilities at Dunavil.

 

Gaelic coaching with St Colmans PS began on Friday at Dunavil and will continue weekly.

 

The u12 Gaelic tournament in Rostrevor did not take place.

 

An Riocht took part in the P5/P6 Gaelic tournament in Colmcilles, Meath on Saturday.

 

The P3 & P4 Gaelic tournament in Rostrevor was postponed.

 

At the u8 & u10 Camogie tournaments in Killeavy, An Riocht enjoyed games with Granemor, Killeavy and Shamrocks at each age group.

 

Three young Camogs, Bobbi-Jo, Cerys and Kelcie are practicing away every weekend with Down u13s.

 

The Senior footballers secured a playoff with a one-point win over Bryansford 2-12 to 2-11 at Dunavil on Saturday. We now have four weeks to prepare for the next match.

 

The u11 Gaelic in Rostrevor was postponed.

 

An Riocht attended the u12 Camogie Ellen Finnegan tournament in Castlewellan.

 

In the Senior Camogie Championship semi-final in Liatroim, despite leading at half time 1-7 to 0-8, An Riocht lost out to Portaferry.

 

Home Bingo Week 7 (Orange) £200 Jackpot winner was Deborah Morgan; Week 8 (Green) Bingo on sale now.

 

An Riocht Annual Awards Night will take place on Saturday 17th November in the Balmoral Hotel.

 

Young People can no longer be left off at the club at night when there is no activity arranged for them. The youth work staff and volunteers can only cater with the organised activities. If there is an activity any young person wants to happen, all they need do is tell a youth support worker & we will do our best to make it happen. Also at the end of activities, parents must collect the young people inside the club; it is too dark and there is too much traffic in the car park for young people to be running about outside late at night waiting on lifts which are late.

 

The next stage of the award-winning Kingdom Camogie Academy gets underway on Monday 1st October, an eight-week autumn programme in furtherance of its core aim of ‘practice all year round focusing on the development of technical skills & later incorporating lifestyle, diet & nutritional advice for young players in line with the Camogie Long-Term Player Pathway.’ Details are Mondays 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd October; 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th November at 6.30pm P3&P4; at 7.30pm P5&P6; at 8.30pm u14 (born 05/06) and Wednesdays 3rd,10th, 17th & 24th October; 7th,14th,21st,28th November 6.30pm P1&P2; 7.30pm u12 (born 07/08). Come out & give it a try, £1 per session.

 

Six delegates from the Kingdom Men’s Shed travelled by train to Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork last week to join 500 ‘shedders’ from all over Ireland at the world’s biggest gathering of Men’s Sheds. There they were joined by delegates from as far away as Australia, USA, Iceland, Denmark, Scotland, Wales and England. Also, there were our neighbours, Rostrevor Men’s Shed, who had in their company one ‘Big O’. Turned out Oliver was part of the entertainment, which also included choirs from Men’s Sheds in Dundalk, Cork and Kilcock, that Wednesday night at the gala dinner in the Rochestown Hotel. Altogether there were 500 people in Cork’s new 48,000 capacity stadium on the banks of the River Lee. Tom Cunningham, John Magee, Gerard McConville, Felix Higgins, Daniel Small and Peter McAlinden  were there to hear and meet some famous Irish sportsmen like David Gillick, a former Olympic athlete, as well as former Ireland and Munster rugby favourite, Donnacha O’Callaghan.

Originating in Australia in 1980s as a means of getting men to take an interest in their own health and wellbeing, the Men’s Sheds movement is now a global phenomenon. The Irish Men’s Shed Association, who put the Gathering together was founded in 2011 and now boasts 10,000 members with 420 sheds across the island of Ireland. Ireland was the first country in the northern hemisphere to set up Men’s Sheds.

On Thursday morning before catching the train back to home the Kingdom Shedders joined 35 other delegates on a trip to Clonakilty in West Cork.

 

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