Parish classic a big success

The fifth Kilcullen Parish Golf Classic held in the Curragh Golf Club on Monday 23 July has brought to over 40,000 euros the accumulated total for parish funds. This year's event, including the raffle, raised 8,500 euros.

Thirty-two teams participated. A number of businesses sponsored tee boxes which helped to defray the cost of the green fees.

Music was provided by John Kelly and Terry McNally and a small number of non-golfers came up at 8pm for dinner and dancing. It was a pleasure to see such fine dancers giving a great display of how it should be done.

The classic was won by the McTernan Team with Michael Masterson as the team captain and a great score of 94 points. The Bank of Ireland with Paula Murray as team captain were runners up. In third place were The Finlay family and in fourth place Willie Brown's team with Steve Kinneavy as team manager. Nearest the pin was won by Hugh Behan and the longest drive was won by Pat Schwer.

On behalf of the organisers I'd like to express my gratitude to all who support this event every year.

Nessa Dunlea

A slide show of pictures from the event can be found here.