The Parents Committee and Eochaill Óg are a great bunch of people who love to enjoy life and meet with friends as often as possible.   This year, they got together and organized a most fantastic Halloween Night for all their Juvenile members, family and friends. See more photos and report in this weeks East Cork Journal out wednesday Nov. 4th 2009 at all newsagents.
Denise FitzGerald Reports/ Photo: Michael Hussey   Email: news@youghalonline.com

They started their work by decorating Club Aras into a maze of witches caves, vampire’s coffins and the hall was decorated all over with skeletons, ghosts and monsters.   In fact, the Mums and Dads looked positively terrified when they arrived with their own ghosts and monsters in tow!   Each child received a goodie bag and for the next two hours or more they were  enthralled with arts and crafts, face painting, Halloween games – all going on to disco music by D J Ollie.   Over two hundred children spent the afternoon playing, dancing, running and having a crystal ball!   Tea/Coffee and refreshments kept the parents quiet, as they sat and watched the children enjoying themselves in the large and comfortable Club Arus.  It was great to see many of the Dads along enjoying themselves.

Gone are the days when Mums made costumes out of old curtains, and used boot polish to blacken the faces.   At Club Arus on Saturday, the costumes were amazing.  They ranged in colours from pitch black to purple, pucey pink to lime green, blood red to snowy white – and these were worn by parents too!   There were witches, batmen, skeletons, fairy queens, pumpkins, white witches, and some that this journalist just could not identify.   There were spot prizes for dancing, party pieces, wrapping the mummy, musical statues etc., and the winners included Eabha Walsh and Jason Coleman for the colouring competition, and Claire Kilgannon who won best adult costume.

This level of children’s entertainment and fun takes a lot of organising and work, and great credit is due to the parents Committee and Eochaill Óg for their dedication and commitment to the Juvenile members, their families and friends.   Their thanks, surely, was the joy and happiness on the faces of all the children as they were ‘tricked and treated’ in true G.A.A. Youghal style.

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