grattans notes 24th July 2021

GRATTAN ÓG GAA
We had a great win over Clonguish in round 4 of the Div 3 league and we quickly followed that up with another great win over Colmcille in Rd 5 on Sunday last 25th at home in dunbeggan park, with our final two games remaining it sets us up nicely to be in with a chance of progressing to the Gilmore cup semi-final, our 2020 championship semi-final is due the take place on the wkd of 29th Aug.
The draw was made for the 2021 Junior championship where we have been draw in a group 2 along with Dromard;Ballymore;carrickedmond;Fr manning gaels Group 1 teams: legan;Ardaghmoydow;rathcline;granard,st columba’s mullinalaghta
Keep an eye out on our social media outlets for updates
Hard luck to our club players Karl Murray , Reuben Murray & Conor Gallagher who were part of the Longford hurling squad who were beaten in Lory Meagher semi final.


FUNDRAISING CYCLE
Thanks to all those who supported our cycle in what was a scorching hot day, it’s something .we may well look at again next year as our dates were restricted due to covid regulations.


CLUB LOTTO
Our lotto jackpot continues to be at €10,000, tickets can be purchased online with a number of options available which include monthly or weeklydraw options, the link to purchase a ticket online can be found on our club website www.grattangaa.com
(https://member.clubspot.app/club/grattan-og-gaa/lotto/tickets)
Tickets can also be purchased in Stonepark Petrol Shop and left back in by 6pm every Sunday for collection for our draw which takes place later that evening, As always your support is greatly appreciated.
Our JACKPOT currently stands at €10,000
Results (18 /7/21) no jackpot winner,
Numbers drawn: 8-10-15-19
€20 Winners: Bernie Mulvihill; Alison McNally; Michael Kelly


LONGFORD SOUTH COMMUNITY GAMES
Longford south community games will hold their athletics track competition in grattan óg gaa club grounds on bank holiday Monday next 4th august at 4.30pm, registration will take place from 4pm, track events will take place for U8,10,12,14 & U16 boys and girls, applicants must be underage on 31st july 2021.


LONGFORD COUNTY BOARD DRAW
Thanks to all those who supported this draw which took place on Saturday last, all winners can be found on any of the Longford Gaa social media outlets.


MINOR CLUB
Best of luck to our underage teams whosechampionship games will commence shortly
Hard luck to our U17 players who were part of the Longford U17 hurling panel who lost out to Armagh in a one point defeat, better days ahead for these great bunch of players, it’s great to see hurling on the rise in Longford even as it continues to have it’s critic’s within the county who should for once support hurling, any player is well entitled to play both codes and should always be supported on that.


O’NEILLS ONLINE CLUB SHOP
Our online club shop with O’Neill’s is now updated with new products for 2021 and is well worth a view,
http://www.oneills.com/shop-by-team/gaa/Ireland/young-grattans.html


CLUB WEBSITE
Our Club Website (www.grattangaa.com) is well worth checking out , training schedule for each age group is now live on the page, in the meantime you can still check out our weekly Club Notes on the page and also if anyone wants anything posted on it either weekly or monthly feel free to email secretary.grattanog.longford@gaa.ie.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Any club updates or information can be found on www.grattangaa.com, our FB page (Grattan Og Gaa), our Twitter page ( @grattanoggaa) and also our Istagram page ( grattan_og2020

STAY SAFE EVERYONE