Scór na nÓg: First rounds of Scór na nÓg will be held on 11th, 12th, and 13th November. Cornafean will participate on Sunday 13th November in Killeshandra Community Hall at 3pm. Any children between 7 and 17 years of age from the Cornafean Club who would like to take part in dancing, music, singing, recitation, acting please contact Marie 087 9435933 or Geraldine 087 1266980 before Friday 30th September.

Craft and gift fair, Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, Sunday 2nd October, 12noon - 5pm, free admission. For more information please ring 049 436 4877 or see www.downland-crafts.com

Ladies GFC Clothing Collection - Saturday 8th October - you can leave  bags of clothes, shoes, handbags, belts in the old kitchen at the Sports Hall any Saturday between 10-11 or any Tuesday evening between 6-7 p.m.  Bin for quality items will be given to the Clutterbug Chartiy Shop, Arva.  Thanks for your support.

The 13th annual Gallant 5km/10km Challenge in aid of St Christopher's Hospice Cavan takes place Saturday 29th October 2016. This years event will start and finish at Mc Seains Bar Cornafean and will be marked out and stewarded along the route to guide you along the way to whichever distance you decide to participate in. Main sponsors are MacManus Pharmacies Cavan, O'Neill's Pub and Shop in Redhills and Garry Smith from Smith's Catering in Ballyconnell. Over the previous 12 years the Challenge has been an outstanding success raising 342,000 euro for this wonderful cause. There will be loads of surprises and craic on the day and it will be a fantastic day for the family.

Sponsorship cards are available from St Christopher's Hospice 049-4332999, Ciaran Weir 086-0753309, William Hughes on 086-3584700 and Village Foodstore in Crossdoney. Please support this worthy cause.

 

Whist - The next Cornafean Whist drive takes place in McSeains on Monday week the 3rd of October at 9 p.m. sharp New card players are always welcome with supper served.

Googlebox Stars - Well done to locals Fergal and Neal Tully on their appearance on TV3's new reality show Gogglebox which is aired onThursday nights over the next number of weeks.  The lads have to be commended on their bravery as they put themselves in front of the TV cameras to watch and analyzse various programmes and last weeks viewing figures were near two hundred thousand people tuning in to watch the show.  The twins who are close regularly have discussions on everything going on in the world from sport to politics and current affairs and their performance has won them rave reviews on many radio shows and all social media sites.  Particularly funny and admirable were the lads discussion on what biscuits to have with their tea and when they stood up in their living room for the National Anthem prior to the All Ireland as the rest of the famiies remained on their sofas.  Best of luck to Neal and Fergal over the coming weeks and we look forward to watching.

CORNAFEAN CLUB NOTES

U12 Summer League Group B Final - Cornafean 12 - 6   Castlerahan 4 - 10

Well done to both Cornafean and Castlerahan teams who served up an entertaining game in Breffni Park on Tuesday evening last.  It was definitely a game of two halves as there was nothing to choose between the teams in the first half but cornafean went goal crazy in the second period to run out deserved winners.  Ronan O'Rourke opened the scoring for the Reds with a neat point but Castlerahan replied immediately with a Jake Brady free.  Goals were then exchanged with the impressive Oisin Brown opening for the Reds Account but the dangerous Patrick Slowey replied for Castlerahan.  In their next attack Ronan O'Rourke blasted to the net but the Castlerahan men replied with points from Luke Caldwell and Patrick Slowey.  Oisin Brown who was tormenting the Castlerahan defence scored the next 3 points for the Reds but a goal and a point from the impressive Caldwell plus a point from Adam Hogan put the lads in Maroon a point in front after 15 minutes.  The remainder of the half was nip and tuck with both teams giving it their all.  Reds midfielder Aaron Smith was next to hit the net but again Castlerahan had a major of their own from dangerous forward Patrick Slowey.  Once again the Reds replied with a great R. O'Rourke goal but two points each from Jack Hogan and the dangerous Caldwell left Castlerahan 3 points in front at the break on a scoreline of Reds 4-4 Castlerahan 3-10 and all to play for in second half.  The Reds got the first two scores of the second half with a point from excellent midfielder Aaron smith and another goal from the best forward on the pitch Oisin Brown and for the remainder of the match and to the delight of the Cornafean supporters the team went on a goal spree.  Aaron Smith team captain scored a hatrick of majors, Diarmaid Martin chipped in with a beauty and then the flying corner forward Conor Kilkenny got in on the net with his own hatrick of great goals.   Upfront Castlerahan were overrun by a rampant Reds in the second half and were only able to reply with one goal.  Final Score - Cornafean 12-6  Castlerahan 4-10

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