Membership of Rhode GAA

Membership of the club is now due and must be paid by the 31st of March and it can be paid to any of the membership officers Mary Hannon, Patricia McManus, Ger Hynes, James Murphy, Ger Noonan, John Glennon and Jody Kilmurray. The following are the relative subscriptions.
Adult €25
Family €50
Players and Insurances €50
Students €20
OAP\’s €5
All membership must be paid by March 31st 2014

The Rhode division 3 side gained another two points when they had a 2-11 to 1-02 win over Ballyfore with a brilliant display of football from all involved, from our keeper down to our last sub. The Rhode men got two well taken goals from Glen O\’Connell and Liam Grennan to set them on their way, also with points from Gonzo Leavy, Darren Garry, Donal Hickey, Glen O\’Connell and Liam Grennen.
Rhode never looked under pressure I would like to thank Declan Curley Paul Glennon, Willy Murphy for all their help. Our next game is at home against Grecefield in Rhode next Saturday at 7pm. The team
Phil O\’Connell
Gummy Murphy, JP McLoughlin, David Rigney,
Derek Cocoman, Jake Kavanagh, Carl Green
Brian Cassidy, Darren Garry 0-02,
Brendan Curley, Glen O\’Connell 1-6, Gonzo Leavy0-1,
Liam Grennan1-1, Donal Hickey 0-1, Ciaran Hope.
Subs
Mark Hynes for John Gertaghty
Pe Murphy for Brendan Curley
Eoin Hickey for Ciaran Hope
Liam Jelinak for Liam Grennan.

Division 1 League Rhode v Edenderry Friday at 8pm in Rhode referee Danny Walsh

Rhode GAA Club are holding a greyhound fundraiser night on the Saturday of the May bank holiday weekend which is May 3rd. Further details in the next few weeks

There was no winner of the Rhode GAA Lotto for the week ending 24th of March for a Jackpot of €15,000. The numbers drawn were 1 2 21 27 . The club like 6to thank all those who supported the draw and thanks to O\’Toole\’s for the use of their premises and for their help and cooperation. The following matched three numbers and received €70 each. Next week\’s draw takes place in Killeen\’s
Tara Dunne, c/o Fionnuala Hickey
Emmet Corrigan, Tullamore
Ann-Marie Murphy
The Rhode GAA Lotto is the main source of income the club has and now you can play online though our website. The good news is when you play the lotto online you are entitled to free draws, for example pay for seven draws receive the eighth one free, pay for fourteen draws receive two free and so on. In other words, the more you play the more free draws you are entitled to!!

Offaly Senior footballers were beaten by Limerick in O\’Connor Park on Sunday in their sixth game in this year\’s league and are now relegated back down to division 4. It has been a very hard league for Offaly and there is one last game with Fermanagh on Sunday at 2pm for Offaly. On the team and panel from the club were Anton Sullivan, Pauric Sullivan, Shane Sullivan, Niall McNamee, Niall Darby, Paul McPadden and James McPadden.

Offaly Senior hurlers were beaten by Antrim on Sunday on a score line of 1-18 to 1-14. If Offaly are to stay in Division 1B of the hurling league they will have to bet either Carlow or Kerry who play in the division 2 A final.