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Parish Newsletter For Sunday 21/02/2010


Baptisms

We welcome into God’s family

Emma Catherine Lavery, Sénna Hegarty, Ellie Bourne, Zara Jean Hom Ellie Jean Grant/Kavanagh,

 Rihanna Rose McDonagh, Fraya

Elizabeth Porter and Starr Teresa Toner who were baptised recently.

Loreto House, Linsfort

Holy Week retreat from 28th March to

3rd April, by Fr. Colm Lavelle. To book a place on this retreat tel. 074 9362204.

€380 residential, €200 non-residential.

ALSO prayer meeting every Monday in Lent beginning 22nd Feb. from 8pm-9pm.

Termonbacca

One day retreat on Thurs. 25th Feb., bus

leaving the Lake of Shadows Hotel at 10am, tel. 9361403 for details.

 

Deaths  

Your prayers are asked for Bridie Crumlish and Elizabeth

Bradley who were buried recently and for their families and friends      saddened by their loss.

World Day of Prayer Service

will take place this year in St Mura’s Chapel, Fahan on Thurs. 4th March at 7.30pm, all welcome.

Anyone wishing to have the Pilgrim Statue in their home for one week please tel. 9361864 or 9362358.

Fr. Doherty will visit the sick in his area on Wed. 24th Feb.

Fr. McGuinness will visit the sick in his area on Mon. 22nd Feb

Lenten Services

Monday to Friday Mass schedule as follows: Oratory 7.30am & 10am.  Cockhill 7.30pm.  Desertegney Thursdays 8pm, and other days as announced. Saturday Oratory 10am.

Stations of the Cross will be said each day after the 10am Mass in the

Oratory & on Sundays at 7.30pm in Cockhill.

 

Buncrana Senior Citizens Committee would like to appeal to anyone who has a telephone monitored alarm no longer in use to please return same to the committee

or tel. Jim 9361666.

Country Market will take place on Sat. 6th & Sat. 20th March from 2-3pm in the Church Hall, Church Street.

CéilíMor will take place in Cockhill School Hall on Fri. 26th Feb. Music by

Céilí Time, Admission €5 inc. supper.

Saint Oran’s National School would like to remind all associated with the School to vote for the Better Ireland Programme, VOTE Buncran C to 51303. Many Thanks.

Dunree Football Club are hosting a  Table Quiz in the Harbour Inn on Thurs. 25th Feb. starting at 9.30pm, all welcome.

Yoga Classes in the  Wellbeing Centre, Inishowen Gateway Hotel every Wed. at 8pm, tel. Patricia 9361345.

Buncrana Go Active Coffee morning will take place in the Lake of Shadows Hotel on Wed. 24th Feb. from 10.45am, all members welcome.  Spring newsletter will be

available.

Spring Gardening Course  will take place in Scoil Mhuire. Grow your own veg.

Contact Denis or Rory 9361065/9361488.  

 

The Cinema

 

 Sat. 20th 8.15pm,

Mon.-Thurs. 8.15pm

Its Complicated (15a)

Matinee Sun. 21st & Sun. 27th

at 3pm

Alvin & the Chipmonks (gen.)

Coming Sat. 27th

Avator (12a)

 

Digital Dolby Surround Sound

Balcony €5. Stalls €4.50. Matinee €3.

 

 

 

Buncrana Parish Draw  

 

 Week 46 – 14th February

 

 1st Prize €500: Francis McGrory, Maginn Ave. 

 Promoter: €30 Marie

Henderson

  2nd prize €300: Martina McSheffrey, Culdaff

  Promoter: €20 Mae Dick

3rd Prize €150: Geraldine Grant, c/o Parish Office

Promoter: €20 Parish Office

 

 

Saint Patrick’s Day Committee Help wanted for a few hours on St. Patrick’s Day, please tel. 086 8435031.

 

Scoil Naomh Pádraig Drumfries

enrolment forms now available for those wishing to start school in Sept. 2010.

Call to the school or tel. 9363396.

 

Desertegney National School enrolment forms now available, completed forms must be returned by Fri. 26th March.

 

Happy Days playschool Millfield will change its name from Sept 2010 to “The Playhouse” under new management of  Pauline Barnett. Enrolment now taking place tel. 086 3750743 for details.

 

Desertegney Community Playgroup open Mon-Fri, 9.15am-12.15pm. Places still available for ECCE Scheme.

Currently offering drop-in day sessions. For more info. call into the Playgroup

or tel. 085 2814271. Please donate old/broken mobile phones to us.

 

Buncrana Community Playgroup Shore Front enrolment forms now

available for Sept. contact Bernadette

087 7618829.

 

Buncrana Hearts Football Club are holding an Easter Soccer Camp from Tues. 6th to Fri. 9th April in Buncrana Youth

Club. Children age 6-12years, each day

from 10am-12.30pm. €35 per child or €50

 for family of two. Contact Jonathan

086 3427066 or Gary 086 1913228.

 

Loreto House Linsfort cookery

demonstration class with Phil McAfee on Wed. 3rd March & Wed. 24th March at 7.30pm. €20 per night.

 

 

Grand Variety Concert in aid of the RNLI Lifeboats will take place in The Inishowen Gateway Hotel on Thurs. 4th March at 7.15pm. Admission €10.

Flower Arranging Demonstration by Josie Coll on Wed. 24th March at 8pm in The Lake of Shadows Hotel. Tickets €7, available from Marie Porter 9362617, Margaret McGinley 9361114, Mac’s Bookshop & Farren’s Filling Station. Proceeds in aid of the Irish Heart Foundation. ALSO Classes by Josie Coll starting Tues. 23rd Feb. To book a place tel. Margaret 9361114.

11th Donegal (Buncrana) Scout Group are hosting Founders Day on Sun. 28th Feb. and 600 plus scouts from Donegal, Derry & Tyrone are to attend. The parade will commence at 2.30pm with all the scouts marching along Main St. to St Mary’s Oratory for the Founders Day Service at 3pm.  

Further to the Buncrana Chamber of Commerce AGM on Mon. 8th Feb. it was agreed that there would be a follow up meeting on Mon. 1st March at 7.30pm in the Inishowen Gateway

Hotel. Business owners attendance would be appreciated.

Vivid Performances every Mon. in the Tullyaravan Mill from 4-6pm, tel. Emma for details 086 3601537.

Buncrana Sporting Association are seeking participants for an upcoming FAS scheme, for details tel. 9363733

or Tony 086 3091996.

Good Morning Service are looking for volunteers, if you have a few hours to spare a week, please tel. 9321598. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Addiction the first step in recovery. Learn from the past, plan for the future, live in the present. If you are concerned about your  dependence on alcohol, drugs or gambling tel. White Oaks Rehabilitation Centre on

074 9384400 for a confidential counseling

service for individuals, couples or families.

Parents Advice Parents Helpline every parent experiences difficulties from time to time. Call us free on 0808 8010 722 or log on www.parentsadvicecentre.org

Inishowen Rural Transport  services to Letterkenny. Do you have a medical appointment in Dublin, Sligo or Galway and have no transport to Letterkenny? Our service runs two mornings per week, leaving Inishowen early & connects with Marley’s & Friends of L’Kenny buses. Booking is essential. For further details tel. 086 2776441 or 0749322291 or Cormac 087 9861606.

Inishowen Development Partnership is currently recruiting participants for IT courses commencing in March. Classes will take place both in Carndonagh & Buncrana, contact Sinead 086 8216306 or 9362218 for further details. 

 

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