Bliain nua faoi shan is faoi mhaise daoibh go lir, ach go hirithe do foirne agus do mhuintir ire g. (A happy and prosperous new year to all but particularly to those associated with the club.)
Overall, the club has to be pleased with its progress in 2015. Nevertheless, the incoming committee inherited a few niggles, not least in the area of finance. It is an unfortunate fact that fundraising is destined to take up a huge amount of the clubs energy in 2016 and, indeed, it was central to the new Coistes first meeting on Wednesday 6thJanuary, L Nollaig na mBan, when, according to tradition, the male members should have been at home cooking for their wives.
During the autumn, it had been decided to forego the Christmas draw for a number of reasons, especially as there was a consensus thatnarbh fhi an tairbhe an trioblid(it hardly justified the effort involved). It was agreed instead to concentrate the clubs efforts in selling 10 tickets for the GAA national draw, which has very attractive prizes and is a win-win project for the club as all the income from sales goes to the ire g coffer. Please consider purchasing a ticket; it would help to reduce the time spent by the members of the finance committee fingering their worry beads.
The decision not to hold a Christmas draw has left the club without those monies that, in other years, were available to offset some of the team registration and insurance costs that become due at this time of the year. The Coiste agreed to reconsider the holding of the draw in 2016.
The lotto, while continuing to supply a vital weekly income, has a cost-to-yield ratio that is troubling and it would take little to render it a less than worthwhile enterprise. It has to be subjected to a root and branch overhaul during the year ahead. Meanwhile, we would be grateful for your continued support. The first draw of the new year is on Monday 18thJanuary and the prize fund is 4,400.
Our u-21 hurlers on the 2015 All-Ireland B winning squad, Anto Byrne, James Pooch Cranley, Danny Nolan and Sen Hughes, were presented with their medals at a recent reception in the Glendalough Hotel. The ceremony was a much-photographed occasion and our lads looked very well in their finery in the photographic montage that appeared in last weeks Bray People.
As we are talking about hurling, it was great to read that it is hoped pending final ratification by the Oireachtas that hurling is to be considered for inscription in the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage this March as one of the designated masterpieces of humanity.
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