Sligo Rugby Club presents TAKE ME OUT on the 10th of February in the Sligo Park hotel! There will be over 25 hot, single girls from all around Sligo there who are ready to find love. Door for the show open at 7.30pm and the single ladies will take to the stage ready for their first potential date at 8.30pm. The one and only DJ Scruffy Duffy will guide our take me out guys through the rounds that might secure them the lovely lady that they have so often dreamed about.

Make sure you are there to witness this unforgettable show. And for those girls who didn’t find love on the show, they might have better luck at the McHugh’s after party, which promises to keep the take me out spirit alive as the night continues!

Tickets for the much anticipated show are €15, and €20 on the night.Tickets are available at the Sligo Rugby Club, Bernie’s Beauty Salon and the Record Room in Sligo town. There are a limited amount of tickets so get yours early- as they are expected to sell out.

If there are any single guys or gals who would like to take part on the show. Please get in contact on the Sligo RFC Take me out Facebook page or call 087-2406834.

The Sligo Rugby Club 2011 Calendar, in aid of Sligo Cancer Support Centre, is now available to pre-order online for just €10 (+€2.50 post and packing). We’re expecting delivery this coming Wednesday (December 1st) so be among the first to get your hands on what is going to be a very much coveted piece of art Yes – it’s yet another nude calendar for charity but this one is different in one key area – our boys actually played in the buff while being photographed.

Please note that online sales and dispatch are being handled by Shooting Stars (who also did the photography and design). Please contact Ross Mannion at Sligo RFC if you have any questions about distributing or helping with sales. Use the Buy Now link above to place your order!

The draw, in which Prizes of €1,000, €500 and €250 are up for grabs, will take place in Mc Hughs Bar Grattan Street Sligo on the evening of the 26th. Some tickets are still available for purchase. For details contact Ross Mannion at the Record Room, Grattan Street, Sligo.

A poster for the event can be found here – please consider putting this up at your place of work etc.

Killester Travel are holding a golf day to celebrate Moss’s career and also to raise some much needed money for the IRFU Charitable Trust and Stuart Mangan Appeal – both charities looking after seriously injured players. We know it is a tough year and because of that we have tailored the competition in a particular way.

Essentially, the event will be Munster v Leinster and will have one celebrity playing for Munster with his partner and another playing for Leinster with his partner, so that essentially the tournament will be a four ball rather than a team event. Paul O’Connell will captain the Munster team and Brian O’Driscoll will captain the Leinster team.

The cost of the day will be €500 (am shotgun) or €600 (pm shotgun) per person to include a round of golf on the Palmer course at the K Club and dinner with a star studded cabaret that night. For those who would like to raise the participation fee by means of sponsorship cards, please contact the Hotline (01-8537950).

You can support the event in various ways and these details are in the enclosed detailed information and booking form. We do hope you will be able in some way to support this great celebration of one of our Rugby Legends and also these worthy charities.

Download: Moss Keane Booking Form
Download: Moss Keane Invite Sponsor

The organising Sub-Committee is also indebted to the management of the Glasshouse Hotel for their assistance and professionalism in ensuring that the event ran so smoothly, and was such a huge success, both financially and socially. Many thanks also to the Quiz Master, Cameron Giles, who did his usual superb job, and to Peter Gillespie who set the questions.

All monies raised have been lodged to the Stuart Mangan Trust Fund, and Stuart’s family has responded that they are overwhelmed by the thoughtfulness and generosity of the friends and members of the club.

Anyone wishing to make a personal financial contribution may do so by lodging to the Stuart Mangan Trust Account at AIB, Pearse Square, Fermoy, Co. Cork ( Account Number 17569101, Sort Code 93-60-81).

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Meeting Stuart has inspired me to champion Night Around Tables – a global fundraiser for the Stuart Mangan Appeal. The event will involve people from Sydney to Sligo, New York to Newcastle, Cape Town to Cork, hosting a meal with friends at home for Stuart on one special night across the world – Keith Wood

You can read more about this and other ways to help – check out Stuart’s appeal at www.stuartmangan.org.

In support of the efforts of those in Munster Rugby, Irish and English Rugby and indeed Rugby worldwide to raise funds for Stuart Mangan, the members of Sligo Rugby Club have arranged a table quiz to be held in The Glasshouse Hotel on Tuesday May 26th 2009 at 8pm. The cost of a table is €40. All are welcome – please come along, bring some friends and support the appeal!

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As you may or may not be aware a young Sligo Rugby Club player, our New Zealand outhalf Paddy Pearson was badly burned in an incident in Sligo just before Halloween. His heroic efforts saved his team-mate and tragically led to his own injury.

We are glad to report that Paddy is making progress in hospital in Galway where he is receiving ongoing medical attention. It looks like he will have to have a number of skin-graft operations for his injuries and this may well take him several years to recover from.

As a carpenter, the use of his hands is critical to Paddy’s livelihood. This is something that is of ongoing concern to him and those close to him in securing an income for the future.

We (Sligo RFC) have put together a fundraising group consisting of Rodger Burrows, Cameron Giles, Aisling Burrows, Cliona O’Kelly, Marion Rolf and Rory Raftery. We have organised a Race Night in The Strand on Friday November 28th at 8:30pm. The first race is off at 9pm and we hope to have a rugby memorabilia auction on the night.

There are several ways you can help – firstly, if you find yourself in Galway – please visit Paddy at the hospital, you don’t have to know him, just let him know that you know of him. Secondly and perhaps more importantly we need to try to raise as much funds as we can in the upcoming fundraiser – following are the ways you can help financially;

• * Sponsor a race for €100
• * Buy a horse, jockey or trainer for €20 each
• * Take an ad in the booklet – full page €250
• * Come along and support the function on the night (and place a little wager on the races)
• * Bid on some very interesting items in the rugby memorabilia auction
• * Donate a prize for the raffle on the night
• * Make a cash/cheque donation to the fund

We are creating a new account in the name of Sligo RFC – Paddy Pearson fund. Please make all cheques payable to ‘Sligo RFC – Paddy Pearson fund’. The account will be administered by the Club President and the Hon. Treasurer. Please send any sponsorship, race funds or donations to Rory Raftery, Anvil House, Burton Street, Sligo.

For further information please feel free to contact any of the above organising group. Please download the poster for the event – if you have a place for it please put it up.

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