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St patricks day ,
The Clonmellon parade was a great success thanks to all the adults and mentors for looking after the kids, everyone looked great in their new club colours, thanks to Dave at "all signs kells" for doing a great job on the new club banner, kevin is taking last orders for club merchandise so get your gear or you may have to wait till next year.

Westmeath Yearbook ,
The yearbook has just been published, its a full colour book with over 440 pages and priced at €8.95 its great value for money st pauls have a couple of pages with lots of photos and every home should have one. its available from Leonards, Anne will also take orders for the book its sure to sell out, thanks to Anthony Meagher and everyone at the Lynn group, and Stephen Reilly, for choosing from among over 200 photographs.

Remember Darragh Farrelly , David Smith and their families at this time of year, forever in our thoughts. our sympathies are expressed to Carol & Martin Boland and their extended families on the sudden passing of Carols brother George, Clem Smith on the passing of his nephew ,masses are offered for your intentions.

Get well wishes
 to Des Greer and Ger Dillon.


Junior men Match report
st pauls welcomed loughnavalley to clonmellon on a wet and windy day sat8 march lnav won the toss and played with the wind, the two teams started with their best 15 with no quater given after 1 minute st pauls dara brady was fouled and Darren Henry stepped up from 50 metres to take the free which went wide from then on we knew the wind was going to have a big impact on the game,after some great handpassing from Philip Gilsenan to Dara Brady, Lee o Farrell latched on to the ball and shot just wide on 7 mins.

st pauls new and regular players were beginning to get the feel for the game when Jimmy MC Quaid took a free 40 metres out on the r.hand side just as we thought it was going wide it turned and hit the post only to drop down to the ever present Darren Henry who fisted the first goal after 11 mins,with further points from Philip Gilsenan,Darren Henry x3 and Johnny MC Quinness on 16,18,23,26 and 28 mins respectively pauls were 1-5 to no score on 30 mins,loughnavalley came back on 31 mins with 3 quick points to make the score pauls 1-5 to loughnavalley 0-3 at half time.

Welcome to our village, we hope you and your families have settled in and are getting used to the village way of life, we at St. Pauls GAA club are always looking for new mwmbers and invite you and your family to join the club.

Anybody interested in joining should phone the club P.R.O.
Leon O'Farrell on 086-2243402 046-9433013 or by e-mailing leonofarrell@iolfree.ie

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the weather settled a little in the second half with 2 points to loughnavalley with no reply from st pauls until the 44 minnute when Jimmy MC Quaid scored a magnificient point from a very tight angle,at the 10 min mark st pauls Maurice Quinn took a solid shoulder and unfortunately was unable to continue with Brendan O Brien taking his place,st pauls midfield player Conor Slater is playing like a man with a lot or courage and vision who never shirked a tackle and with Philip Gilsenan and Maurice QUINN were very solid,loughnavalley scored a point on 13 mins to raise their spirits.

the pitch was beginning to cut up and Jimmy Weldon had his work cut out and as usual he stayed in control, manager OF ST PAULS, Jake Dolan was reading the game well with alot of close hand passing the order of the day, ON 17 MINS Robert Dugdale scored a well deserved point, Richard Sheridan came on for Seamus MC Namee and after a goalmouth scramble scored st pauls second goal on 20 minutes, David Whelehan came on for Lee O Farrell at corner forward, another point from man of the match Darren Henry on 26 mins had st pauls 2-8 to o-6,loughnavalley scored a late goal on 32mins to leave the final sc ore st pauls 2-8 to loughnavalley 1-6.  st pauls have improved a lot over the winter months and no doubt the 12 weeks in the gym has given us both the fitness and body strength needed to lift our confidence and believe that we can achieve as much as we want.

Squad:
john fitzpatrick, ronnie higgins, ray flynn, seamus mc namee, jimmy mc quaid, conor slater, maurice quinn, kenny higgins, philip gilsenan, johnny mc quinness, dara brady, robert dugdale, lee o farrell, darren henry, mickey travers, david whelehan, oliver mulvaney, richard sheridan, gary gilsenan and brendan o brein.


Minor men match report
moate all-whites came to clonmellon on saturday 8 march we were expecting a tough match and so it turned out,our lads have taken a stretch since last year and their overall reading of the game is a lot better thanks to kenny and jimmy and their train ing from january,with a goal from richard shaw and points from conor slater and graham boland the half time score was st pauls1-2,moate0-1.second half went on scoreless until the 9 minute when andrew noone scored a magnificent solo point that lifted the rest of the team scores followed from graham boland,conor slater,and david whelehan with a late point from moate it finished st pauls 1-6 moate 0-2.the squad was ollie mulvaney, james moore, c.duffy, ciarian beek, conor foley, johnathan carpenter, conor slater, david whelehan, luke byrne, graham boland, keith forde, richie shaw and andrew noone.

NMTT FUNDRAISER
Unfortunately the weather went against us on sunday 9 march and we had no choice but to cancel the charity ride out by the Ballymacad,it was a shame because Maurice Quinn and his team put a lot of effort into making it a success.  Our auction went ahead in MULVANEYS with a lot of lots sponsored by people far & wide thanks to Michael Farrelly who conducted the auction brillantly and pushed a lot of items all the way to get the charity over €2,200 euro.  special thanks to "Gary the scouse" and Paul Anthony who between them must have over a thousand songs in their heads and sang most of them into the early hours, I'm sure we will see Gary and Paul jamming again in the near future.


clonmellon.com will have match results on a regular basis,
its a great site withs lots of local information.


sponsorship
we are a local club and we get great help in sponsor ship from the community,usually we will do our bit to thank our
sponsors, on this occassion they wish to remain annoymous so to the people who did the internal works in the dressing rooms,the sponsors of a new pitch marking kit ,and for naming our club as the recipient of a cheque from opel,we express our thanks.

we welcome notes from all the community and would appreciate your help with building up the profile of st pauls and the community,e-mail leonofarrelll@iolfree.ie by 6pm on sundays.