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Quinn’s Chemist Bridge Street, Crossmolina, Co Mayo
Tel:096-31241/096-31890 Fax: 096 30641 E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.farmacy.ie Dispensing Quality
T CABS Prop.: Tommie Irwin
086 2229949 or 087 2768727 Late & Early Taxi Service
Mangan Concrete & Haulage Glenmore, Crossmolina
Tel: 096 31198 or 096 30827 Mob: Pat 087 2506882 or Niall 087 7800757
Regan’s Garage, Moygownagh Repairs & Services/Wide range of spare parts
for all makes of tractor Hydraulic Hoses & Couplings Oils & Greases
Contact Paddy: 096 31480 or 087 2758980
Billy Heffron, Clare St Ballina Business Services, Auctioneer & Valuer, Property Management & Farm Accounts.
Tel: 096 71712 & Mob: 087 2532462
S. & J. Mitchell, Moygownagh, Ballina Tel.: (096) 31294/30333 Fax: (096) 31762
Centra Food Store Grocery, Hardware, Animal Feed, Cement, Coal, Petrol, Fertiliser, Agricultural Oils, Lounge Bar.
Peter Munnelly, Plant Hire, Moygownagh Tel 096 31055 or Mb 087 6734986
E-mail: [email protected] 20 tonne Excavator with Rock Breaker,
12-15 tonne Machines, 12-20 tonne trailers for Hire All Groundworks & Re-Seeding carried out
Advertise HERE… Advertise HERE… €€100 Per annum… costing less 100 Per annum… costing less than than €€2 a week 2 a week This will buy you a 3½ x 1 inch advertising space on our Weekly Newsletter. If you are interested please give us a call on
096 31066096 31066096 31066 for more details
Kerbs, Edgings, Paving, Slabs, Wall & Pier Caps, Panel fencing, Post & Rails, Stakes & Gateposts
Contact: 087 7800757
Useful Numbers
Ballina Garda Crossmolina Garda Emergency Garda
096 20560 096 31371 999/112
Ballina Hospital Mayo General Hospital
096 21166 094 9021733
Ambulance Service (Emergency)
999/112
Emergency Fire Service Head Office Fire Service
999/112 094 9021211
Westdoc (Out of Hours) 1850 36 50 00
ESB (Emergency) 1850 205 050
Emergency (Ballina) Water Sewage Roads
Area Engineers (Castlebar)
096 76100 096 76100 096 76100 096 76100 094 90 24444
Fr. Brendan Hoban 096 31288
Carn N.S. 096 31832
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Moygownagh Community & GAAMoygownagh Community & GAAMoygownagh Community & GAA LLLOCALOCALOCAL News News News
S a t u r d a y 2 8 t h J a n u a r y 2 0 1 7
Week 4
Moygownagh Community Centre Tel Number: 096 31066, Email: [email protected] or
[email protected] Website: moygownagh-community.com /www.moygownagh.ie
GAA 2
Community Notes 2
Community Notes 2
Community Notes 2
Spring Gardening 3
Kids Corner 3
Advertising / Useful Numbers 4
Inside this issue:
SMART Lotto The next draw will take place this Sunday January
29th. The Jackpot will be €1050. This week we are
introducing a lucky dip aspect to our lotto. Four
tickets will be selected at random and will win
€10.00 euro each. The link for entering our Lotto
is https://game.smartlotto.ie/game/
supporter_home/478. Thanks to all that entered
the offline envelope option. Envelopes are available
in Mitchell's Centra, Mitchell's Bar and Moygown-
agh Community Centre. Please continue to support
and promote in any way possible.
The Ardmoy U11 panel are pictured with Mayo player James Carr at a
medal presentation function in Ardagh Community Centre . They received
their North Mayo medals. Well done to all.
Moygownagh Community Council
are looking for a small tractor
to carry out work at the foot-
ball pitch and around the vil-
lage. If there is anyone with a
tractor they wish to sell to the
Community Council please con-
tact John or Ann at the
Moygownagh Community Centre
on 096-31066.
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Community Notes
GAA Notes
St. Daria’s Day-Care
St Daria’s Day-Care is open from Monday to Friday 9am to 12.30 pm. This is a Community based facility catering for pre-schoolers aged 2½ to 6 years. Enquiries for Daria’s Day-care Centre 096 28967.
Community Notes
Due to the dark evenings, the walk-ing group will meet at the Moygown-agh Community Centre on Monday evening @ 7pm to walk the lake in Crossmolina. Please bring Hi Vis tops etc. for safety.
Vacancies The Community Employment Scheme in Moygownagh have up-coming vacancies for both men and women. Anyone interested please contact Ann or John at Moygownagh Community Centre on 096-31066.
First Aid Course. First Aid training in the use of a de-fibrillator is being arranged in the coming weeks as plans are in place to update the defibrillator equipment. Anybody interested in participating in this training, please contact Ann or John : 096-31066.
Moygownagh G.A.A. Club Membership is now open for 2017.There is now an online option to renew your 2017 membership. Click on the following link https://www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Moygownagh/Membership#MembershipOptions .
Mayo Mud Run 2017
Mayo Mud Run returns to Moygownagh on Saturday April 1st 2017.This will be the fifth staging of the event. Without the good will and support of the community and beyond the Mud Run would not be the success it has been since it started in 2013. Entry has now opened for Mayo Mud Run 2017 and can be done via Facebook or mayomud-run.ie. Early entrants can avail of discounts.
Mayo Stroke Support Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday 26th January 2017 from 11.30am-1pm in Lough Lannagh Holiday Village
(Reception building), Castlebar. Topic: ‘Communication and Stroke’ This meeting is for stroke survivors and their family members/carers. Admis-sion is free of charge. No booking required. For further information, contact Ailish Houlihan, Croí Nurse on 094-9049172
Irish dancing classes every Friday from 6.30-7.30pm in Moygownagh Community cen-tre. Classes will be for any age
and any level. All new beginners very welcome. For further information contact Annmarie on 086-0687342 or Siobhan on 089-4944935
St. Patrick’s ‘Festival of Lights’ Crossmolina St. Patrick’s ‘Festival Of Lights’ Weekend 2017 starts on the evening of the 17th of March 2017, with the ‘Electric Light Parade’, which will be seen and move through the town in a display of lights. If you, your business, school, community group, or resident’s association, or if you know anyone that would like to take part in the Parade, an infor-mation evening will be held upstairs in Stick Bar, Crossmolina on the 2nd of February 2017 at 8:00pm. There you will be advised of what’s required to participate in the Parade and how/where lights for floats etc. can be obtained and purchased. We hope to see you there to help make this festi-val event a success. This Parade is unique in that it is the first of its kind to be held in Ireland. Please con-tact [email protected] or Sheila 087-9120680/Anthony 087-6664818 for more information.
Deel- Ardagh Macra na Feirme The club would still like to hear from anyone in-terested in entering the 2017 Macra National Talent contest, as the closing date for entries is approaching. New
members are always welcome, the mininum age is 17, you don't have to be involved in farming and the club area is presently covering the whole of North East Mayo. For details contact 086 8713359
Mediterranean Cruise Joe Walsh tours have teamed up with local man Gerry Higgins and are offer-ing the cruise of a life time on the Mediterranean later this year. Come along to the information evening in the Ballina Manor Hotel on Wednesday evening the 1st February @ 8pm, and learn all about cursing and our wonder-ful holiday offer. See the Western People for more details.
Ardagh Community Players present their latest production, the John B. Keane classic, SIVE in Ardagh Commu-nity Centre on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10th 11th and 12th February at 8pm nightly. No booking necessary
The gates of Moygownagh GAA Com-munity Centre will remain open every evening until 10pm to facilitate recrea-tional activities throughout the sum-mer. The Community Centre will remain locked from 4pm weekdays apart from ongoing events. Please contact the Cen-tre for further details @ 096 31066
Big year ahead for Community Games as it celebrates its 50th Birthday!
Community Games caters for competitors from over 6 to under 16 to develop active healthy lives through experiencing a wide range of sporting and cultural activities. Upcoming Coun-ty Final events in Swimming, U14 Quiz, Hand-writing, Art & Gymnastics are taking place in March. If your child is interested in participat-ing please contact Selina Sweeney 086-8777415 for further information on repre-senting Moygownagh in the Community Games. The first event will be swimming for U8 to U16 age groups. Anyone interested in representing Moygownagh in swimming at the county final on 5th March in Claremorris Swimming Pool please contact Selina. If there is enough interest we will have a swim off on Sunday 5th February in Ballina Swimming Pool at 2.00pm.
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With Spring now on the way, start with the lawn it’s good to spike it eve-ry so often to help it along, especially with all the rain we get, as spiking helps get the water away more quick-ly. By spiking I mean reducing compac-tion in the soil using long metal spikes you can strap them on your shoes, or you can buy a special lawn spike. A simple one has up to 10 spikes on it and it’s like a spade. You stand on it and it goes into the ground, penetrat-ing the top few inches of the soil to help with aeration and let the water drain away. There are also rotary models you can push along, and even heavy-duty variants for pulling behind a ride-on lawnmower. A garden fork works just as well, but it takes a fair while if your garden is of a reasonable size. Around the end of January you can put some lime onto the lawn. The lime serves to stress the moss, and then you can apply moss killer. You put moss killer on soon after the lime and it keeps moss away for most of the year. Lime helps to raise the pH in the soil. If you bring up the pH, it helps in stressing the moss because moss loves low pH or peaty and acidic soils. Some artificial fertilisers also reduce the pH in the soil, and this acidity creates excellent conditions for the growth of moss, which you don’t want. If gardeners have not started to prune their hedges they should start from February onward if they want to create the perfect garden design. For the new flower-beds gardeners should start digging over the soil and mixing in some manure, for older flower-beds gardeners should mix in some chicken manure around it which is available in pellet form. When the growth then comes in a month or so the garden will be ready to kick off, and you can start planning your garden design. Some people think that you need to live in the countryside in order to use these products but both are readily available in garden centers. For those who want colour in the flowerbeds and borders, now is a good time to plant primroses, or you could buy grown daffodils or Tête-á-Tête. If you have a vegetable patch in your garden, now is a good time to dig it over and dig in the farmyard manure and compost. If you do it now the veg-etable patch will have time to break it down before the spring hits. For the garden roses now is the time to feed them to ensure that they reach their full potential later in the year. There is a special type of plant food availa-ble for them that ensures they have
all the nutrients they need to reach their full potential. If you haven’t pruned them yet, I would still hold off and wait until the first week in March. This is just in case we get a late frost that could damage the rose. It is very unusual for this time of year, but at the moment some weeds are appearing in gardens. The reason is the very mild weather has encour-aged growth. It is a good idea to dig them out or spray them with weed killer. If your garden did not live up to your expectations last year then now would be a good time to do a soil test to find out what was missing and how to compensate for it. Some gardens may need magnesium, calcium or per-haps lime to compensate for deficien-cies in the soil. The test kits are easy to use and you can tell by what colour it turns what exactly your garden needs to ensure it reaches its poten-tial this year. Now is the best time to do the test because you have time to fix any problems that exist. Now is also a good time to seek advice and start planning if you have a large garden project that you intend to complete this year. Over the next few months there will be more products, and plants that will become available to fill your new garden.
Sometimes it’s a good idea to plant in sec-tions so that differ-ent flowers are ma-ture at different stages giving a wide variety to the garden.
The lawn mower is the most essential gardening tool. Although not many people know it, these also need a ser-vice and Spring is the perfect time to do it. Spark plugs, oil, and sharpening the blades is usually all that is need-ed. This winter has been unusually mild and this is causing unseasonal growth. Once there is over 6 degrees Celsius temperature in the ground plants of all sorts will start to grow. Many garden enthusiasts took special notice of the birds in their gardens last year because the winter was so cold. This allowed them to explore the full range of bird foods, and see what type of birds it would attract into the garden. In Ireland, the tradition has always been to feed the birds nuts, however, nuts only attract certain types of bird and it can be more ex-pensive. For example, meal worms at-tract the robins, meal/fruit mix at-tracts the song birds, and niger and thistle attract the finch. Ref: - Ashbrook Garden Centre
Preparing for the garden for Spring
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