On Friday evening the 16th April, St Ita’s Gaa club held a table top quiz in The Quality Hotel Redbarn.
With teams consisting of four members it was great to see 24 team taking part. A little later then advertised
quiz master Ted O Brien and his team started proceedings. with 8 rounds of questions each round consisting of 10 questions the task of keeping score was not going to be an easy one, however well done must go to Ted &Rosari O Brien, Eddie & Caroline O Brien, Kay Supple, Mary Cunningham and Angela Cronin all who worked hard on the night to keep the large crowd up to speed with results as they happened.

During the night there was a raffle with a large number of prizes donated from many local business, We alsohad two Cork jerseys to auction off. A signed jersey from the Cork Senior Football team and a signed jerseyfrom the Cork Senior Hurling team. Well done to Mr Peter Connon and Mr Ted Kelly who both outbid all others to win the jerseys.

With the raffle and auction over the more serious matter of the quiz resumed with several teams in a race forfirst place. Two rounds in particular were hard on everyone and they were both the Musical round in whichshort clips of music was played and each team had to guess the answers and the photo round in which 10 photos of St Itas members down through the years were shown, what made this harder was the fact that in all photos used of these members were from the pram to first communion. All in all it was a fun night with a great response to the quiz.

At the end of the evening and with the results tallied up the winners were announced. With 52 points
and in first place representing Youghal GAA  were Tommy Roche, Declan Hennessey, Jo Daly & Kevin Minihane. For their troubles they won a months free membership to the Vita health club at the Quality Hotel.

In second place winning a meal for four in the Quality Hotel was the aptly named team Cape Town Riders made up of Art & Shane Supple, Brian Gaynor and the man who was responsible for the name. Ed RIce. Ed from Cobh was only staying in the hotel on the night and joined in on the fun and games at the quiz at the last minute. Ed was part of the group involved in the David Walsh charity cycle Pedal For Parkinson’s from Belfast to Cape town in South Africa hence the name Cape Town Riders.

On the night both the prize winners then handed back their prizes and asked that an auction be held to auction off the Club Vita membership and Meal for four and that the monies raised through an auction go to the Pedal For Parkinson’s Charity. Club chairman Sean Harnedy duly obliged and through his auction €235 was raised for the Parkinsons Pedal for Charity.

A special thanks must go to all who took part on the night, we must also mention the following people Sean Supple for his work in organising the event, to all the management and staff at the Quality Hotel for their support and function room, to Martin Walsh for our Auction items. To Ted O Brien and his fantastic team on the night who kept everything moving along. To all who sponsored the raffle prizes a big thank you. We will be announcing the winners of our Art Competition shortly and will give a report on that in due course.