Best of Luck to Tipp on Sunday!

The Tipp Team to play Limerick in the Munster Senior Hurling Final in Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Sunday July 18th 2021, at 4.15pm has been selected as follows: 

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GAA Sports Development Lotto
Fethard GAA Sports Lotto draw results for Friday, July 16, are as follows: the numbers drawn were: 3, 7, 21 and 32. There was no jackpot and three‘match three’ winners who received €40 each: Christy Alyward, Clonmel; Anthony Coffey, Abbeyview, Fethard; and Tina O’Mahoney, Clonmel.

The committee of Fethard GAA Sports Centre Development Lotto would like to thank all our supporters near and far who participate in our weekly lotto draw. The next draw takes place on Friday, July 23, when the jackpot is €30,000 and the seller's prize is €1,000. The funds raised are used to promote sport in the local community.

Slievenamon Golf Club Ladies have a good day at Thurles Golf Club

Slievenamon Golf Club ladies who played on the the Minor Cup and Challenge Cup teams, at Thurles Golf Club on Saturday last, July 17. L to R: Marian Power (Manager), Vera Power, Catherine Cooney, Geraldine Meagher, Phil Whyte and Carmel Condon.

Slievenamon’s team of Catherine Cooney, Ann Maxwell, Geraldine Meagher, Bernie Phelan and Ann Delahunty won their Minor Match against Thurles on Saturday afternoon, July 17. The ladies Ladies Challenge Cup team were just pipped at the post for the Challenge Cup, played in blistering heat.

Slievenamon Golf Club just fell just short of pulling off a double, but what an effort they made! Huge credit to Phil Whyte, May O’Brien, Carmel Condon, Vera Power and Josephine Murphy, who gave their all. Congratulations to Lady Captain, Teresa O’Brien, and Team Manager, Marian Power, for their huge effort and contribution to an amazing year for Slievenamon Ladies Club.

Parish Church Lotto Draw Results
There was no winner of this week's Parish Lotto on Thursday, July 15. The winning numbers were 9, 13, 20 and 21. The winner of the weekly draw of €30 was Peter Grant. Next week's Jackpot for Thursday, July 22, will be €1,275. Thanks to all for your continued support.


Peter Grant winner of this week's draw in the Parish Lotto

Please pass the word on and invite friends and family to take part. You can help our Parish in a real, practical way.  Thank you for your support and the best of luck in the weekly draw. PLAY OUR LOTTO NOW.

Fethard Patrician Brothers First Communion Class 1950

Fethard Patrician Brothers First Communion Class photographed outside the school in 1950. The names we have to date are Back L to R: Tom Mackey, Philip Ward, ?, ?, Sean Evans, Bro Damien. Middle L to R: Keating (Monroe), ?, Richard O'Brien, Paddy Moloney, Ned Connolly. Front L to R: ?, Billy Power, Richard Butler, ?, Lory Dineen and Cyrill McSweeney.

If you can help with further information or the correct date please let us know. Your comments, names or corrections are always welcome to: fethardnews@gmail.com

Tommy Healy, Plymouth, England, and formerly from The Green, sent us the following information:

" I believe that the year is 1950. I made my first holy communion in 1951, some of the boys featured in this photo were also in my class in the secondary school as the Leaving Cert photo of 1960, which appears in some editions of the annual Fethard Emigrants' Newsletter, shows. Damien McLellan and I were the youngest in the 1960 photo and we seem to have ‘stolen’ into that year group. Tom Mackey, Philip Ward, Lory Dineen, Richard Butler and Sean Evans appear in this present photo but were in my class at secondary school so the First Communion photo above is, I am sure, from 1950.

Looking at both the faces from above photo and those from the Leaving Cert one, I am reminded of lines from W B Yeats’ poem:

“In Memory of Major Robert Gregory”
They were the close companions many a year,
A portion of my mind and life, as it were,
Now their breathless faces seem to look
Out of some old picture book.

The last five mentioned are sadly no longer with us, of the eleven who sat Leaving Cert in 1960 just four remain, Damien McLellan, Tom Burke, Rae Molloy and myself. Thank you Joe for publishing this photograph, I wonder how many of these are still with us. – Tommy Healy

Further to my email of yesterday (above),  the photo also features Richard O’Brien, Paddy Moloney and Ned Connolly. Richard settled in Dublin and died there in 2006, Ned Connolly died some years ago too. Paddy Moloney, I believe, went into banking and managed a branch of AIB, I am told, in England. I am also told that he had a holiday house in North Devon, seventy miles from here. Where he is now I have no idea. Richard and Paddy were at the secondary school until Inter Cert when both left to pursue their studies elsewhere, Richard at Rockwell College and Paddy, I seem to remember, at a college in Newbridge. This photo has given me a severe dose of nostalgia.
– With good wishes, Tommy Healy

Newsletter articles are now invited for this year!
As we pass half-way through 2021, a reminder to consider writing an article for this year’s Emigrants Newsletter seems even more appropriate. Jennifer Fogarty's memories of Newbridge on her Facebook page, is a perfect example of what we're looking for . . . what about it Jennifer?

So please drop us a line and some photographs and we will do our best to include them in this year’s issue due to go to printers in early November. Days fly into weeks and weeks into months, so what better time to start than now. Articles and photos can be submitted by email to: emigrantsnewsletter@gmail.com or by post to Joe Kenny, Rocklow Road, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, E91 XR26.

Faces and Places from the Past
The following are a selection of photographs of faces and places taken in our locality that may bring back memories to many of our readers and visitors to fethard.com Please send any comments or photo information, names and event, to fethardnews@gmail.com

Fethard & District Photos from the past . . .

This week we have a selection of photographs taken at Fethard Dances from our files and if you can help with names, comments or further information, we would love to hear from you. Email: fethardnews@gmail.com



Maybe you can identify some of the people in these photographs taken by Willie Boland many years ago at Fethard Dances and Events. If you can please let us know . . . Drop us an Email to: fethardnews@gmail.com


Maybe you can identify some of the people in these photographs taken by Willie Boland many years ago at Fethard Dances and Events. If you can please let us know . . . Drop us an Email to: fethardnews@gmail.com


Photographed at a Dinner Dance in the 1960s are Back L to R: P.J. Davern, Carmel Brett, Liz Brett, Timmy O’Connor, ?. Front L to R: Honor (Mulligan) Davern and Joan (Brett) O’Connor.


L to R: Kathleen Maher, Philip Maher, Euna Whyte and Paddy Leonard


L to R: Lady with John Hunt, Lisronagh, and Tom Purcell with a Lady.


Three Fahey sisters with two men. L to R: ?, Kay (Fahey) St. John, Paddy O'Sullivan, Carmel (Fahey) O'Brien, and Belle (Fahey) Walsh.


L to R: ?, Dick McCarthy, Patsy Byard, Don Byard and ?.

Maybe you can identify some of the people in these photographs taken by Willie Boland many years ago at Fethard Dances and Events. If you can please let us know . . . Drop us an Email to: fethardnews@gmail.com


Maybe you can identify some of the people in these photographs taken by Willie Boland many years ago at Fethard Dances and Events. If you can please let us know . . . Drop us an Email to: fethardnews@gmail.com


Group photographed at a Fethard Tennis Club Dance in the 1950s Back L to R: Paddy O’Flynn, Betty O’Flynn, Dolores O’Flynn, Billy O’Flynn. Front L to R: Leila O’Flynn, Kitty O’Flynn, Maura O’Flynn and Hayden Plant


Maybe you can identify some of the people in these photographs taken by Willie Boland many years ago at Fethard Dances and Events. If you can please let us know . . . Drop us an Email to: fethardnews@gmail.com


Pictured at a Fethard Dinner Dance in the Ormonde Hotel Clonmel back in the 1960s are Back L to R: Tommy Bulfin, Billy Lynch (Clonmel), La Walsh, Ned Maher. Front L to R: Mary Lynch (Clonmel), Dolly Bulfin, Veronica Bulfin and Nellie Maher.


Back L to R: Marie O’Sullivan, Donal O’Sullivan, Ann O’Sullivan, Joe Hayes, ?. Front L to R: Mossie Hayes and ?.


L to R: Con Conway, Mary 'Mollie' Conway, Frank Hughes, Joan Hurley (née Conway), Paddy Hurly and Agnes Hughes (née Conway) from Clonmel.

Fethard News
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