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Date 2012-02-06

DINNER  DANCE    The Dinner Dance in The Parkview Hotel, Newtown on Friday February 17th is now a mere 10 days away and “just can’t wait” time is at hand.  The event has always been a most enjoyable one and this year it promises to be more so as it will be offering the opportunity of rekindling the euphoria which attended on our Intermediate footballers’ county and Leinster successes.  The delight of the occasion will be further enhanced by the celebration of the huge contribution made by the Éire Óg ladies to Cill Manntáin’s victory in the Junior All-Ireland.  As in previous years the programme will be managed so as to ensure that ‘speecifying’ will be brief and to the point and the opportunity to ‘let it all hang out’ to the music of The Piano Man will be maximised.  
 IOMÁINT   The feeble but growing light of the 2012 season’s dawning is having difficulty stirring some of our hurlers from their comfortable inertia onto the icy wind-swept training pitch.  You have our sympathy lads but we beg to remind you that such self-pampering never won county championships!  Training is on Mondays and Wednesdays at 7.45pm sharp in preparation for the Leinster League which starts mid-March.  Meanwhile our Juniors are set for a cold-shower awakening to their competitive season – in Blessington on Saturday afternoon they play Kiltegan in the much refixed 2011 championship final.   
 PEIL  NA  MBAN     The ladies have been back in training for a few weeks now – the juveniles will hopefully be starting shortly.  Training is on Thursdays at 7.30pm and new members are very welcome.  
Wicklow ladies opened the 2012 League campaign with a nail-biting victory over neighbours Wexford in the beautifully appointed Starlights Sports Complex in Enniscorthy.  While the effects of the long winter lay-off were evident in the play, and mistakes abounded, the game was nevertheless quite entertaining and the closeness of the scoring kept interest alive to the final whistle.  Caoilfhionn Deeney, Laurie Ahern and Lorna Fusciardi were among the more prominent Wicklow players and Meadhbh Deeney came on as a replacement.
Cill Manntáin play All-Ireland Intermediate champions, Westmeath, in the next round in the Éire Óg grounds on Sunday afternoon.  
 DEA-GHUÍONNA  (best wishes) to the Wicklow Garda team in their quest for All-Ireland glory.  Having defeated a very strong Kerry team after a re-play they face Carlow-Kilkenny in the All-Ireland semi-final in Tullow this Wednesday.  The team is managed by John Gill aided by our own Gerry Walsh and Fergus O’Brien.  Two Éire Óg players, Timmy Stokes and Eoin McHugh, are members of the panel.    That patch of land which is adjacent to the clubhouse and which once was a dishevelled and depressing eyesore over which this pen spilled much polemical ink is now resplendent in a beautifully smooth and verdant coat which greatly enhances the environment.  Táimid buíoch to Comhairle Chill Manntáin for granting us a lease on the property.  For their part we hope that the council will derive from the environmental and social added value of the Éire Óg development that feeling of satisfaction which comes from having made a good decision in the matter.  
It is intended that the area will be devoted to u-10 training and Go-Games.  With sod development progressing as it is, it should be available for use when this group resumes training.
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