Wishing all of the super boys and girls in Barntown NS  and their families a fantastic Confirmation day tomorrow Saturday 25th of March. Here’s hoping for sunshine and great memories for all of those involved. 

Glynn Barntown GAA Club would like to welcome Dermot Rafter on board as our new Health and Well being Officer. Dermot is a Behaviour Support Specialist living in Killurin with strong ties to the club. Dermot has over 25 years experience working on individual support and organisation development with qualifications and competencies in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS); Person Centred Practice (PCP); Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA); and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).

He is also a trained instructor in non-violent verbal and physical intervention strategies. He has devised many other programmes in the areas of teenage behavioural support; mindfulness; and youth leadership. Dermot is a fantastic new addition to this area in our club and we are thrilled to have somebody of his calibre as part of our team. Dermot can be contacted on 0872879183.

Over 100 club boys, girls, mentors and officers donned the blue and green to march in the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Wexford on Friday March 17th along with club Senior heroes Michael Doyle, John Leacy, Pádraig Donnelly and Michael O Regan.  The youngsters were each a credit to their club and great ambassadors for the parish. Bhíomar an bródúil astu!☘

Our First Feile Fundraiser is on Sunday 19th March.
A Coffee Morning will take place at the Clubhouse from 10:30am-12:00pm. Donations of buns and cakes will be greatly appreciated and accepted from 9:45 on the day.
Hoping we will have everyones support as Feile 2017 is a big weekend for our u14 Boys and Girls
Let the memories begin….

 DATE FOR YOUR DIARY!
The clubhouse bar is open this Saturday March 18th at 3.30pm.
The main events are:-
On the field at 2.30pm we have
Glynn/Barntown v Castletown in Senior Football league followed closely by Ballyboden St.Endas v Gowran in the Leinster Hurling league at 3pm.
On our 2 screens we have Rugby Ireland v England & football with Kerry v Dublin.
All teams playing in Killurin on Saturday are joining in the craic so come along and support- Everybody welcome!
2 BOTTLES & A CURRY €10. Contact Tony on 087 9197865 to book your curry!!

CLUB PERSON OF THE YEAR
Glynn Barntown ladies Catherine Carley and Celestine Fox were very worthy joint recipients of this years Glynn Barntown “Clubperson of the Year” award at a Wexford District reception held in the Riverbank House Hotel on Saturday evening. Both ladies have given decades of service to the club in a variety of ways and we are most proud to see them honoured for this. We offer them both our congratulations and a heartfelt thanks for their dedication and hard work. Pictured L-R Tossy Ryan, Catheribe Carley, James Flood and Lorraine Fox who accepted the award on Cel’s behalf.

 Congratulations to our Senior footballers who defeated the Shelmaliers on Friday night in the opening round of the league 1-10 to 0-7 with scores from Rioghan Crosbie 0-2 , Barry Doyle 0-2, Fionn Cooney 0-1, Daniel Carroll 0-4 & Aaron Kehoe 1-1.

Hard luck to Matt Doyle, James Stafford and Stephen Lyne and the Wexford u21 football team who were defeated in the #eirgrid U-21 Football Quarter Final by a goal. Final score 1-6 to 0-6 to Offaly.
  
Well done to Mark Fanning, Gary Moore and the Wexford senior hurlers who had an impressive win over Kerry in Innovate Wexford Park on Sunday.
 The Wexford Senior footballers undefeated league run also continued on Sunday with a win over Wicklow. Well done to James Stafford, Michael O’Regan, Rob Tierney and John Leacy.

 We had another great come back in the Leinster hurling league against Naas on Saturday afternoon and this time it was our u15s. The boys showed plenty of hurling ability with Tim Gilhooly scoring probably the club’s point of the year so far, running down the sideline with no intention of crossing over it and straight over the bar! Jake Travers’ goal at the end gave us a one point victory 4:8 to 2:13 to set us up for an away game to Myshall in Carlow in 2 weeks time.

 Our 14 camogie girls had a great day out in Croke Park on Sunday for the camogie All Ireland finals. We were one of 36 teams drawn to attend from 240 entries in the “Road to Croker” draw.