Ladies Volunteers category listing | Buccaneers Rugby Club Athlone

At last Saturday’s Buccaneers pre-match function, presentations of ‘Athlone Crystal’ vase and flowers by ‘A Room In Bloom’ were made on behalf of the club by Regina Bushell to two long-standing stalwarts on Buccaneers Ladies Committee Hazel Reid and Lola Lyster. The Ladies Committee play a key role in the club, particularly on big match days such as AIL fixtures and especially Ireland U-20 international games. This committee has served the club voluntarily for over 40 years and both Hazel and Lola have been in the frontline through all those decades of their sterling service. They are not thanked often enough for their unstinting efforts and the gesture was definitely warranted.

THANK YOU, LADIES!

Maura Harten, who has died after a lengthy illness, was for many years a voluntary member of the Womens Committee of Athlone RFC. Her husband Kieran is a former Junior XV captain as well as having being on the club's Bar Rota. Deepest sympathy is extended to Kieran, daughters Sinead and Aoife, her mother Sadie Mulhern and the extended family.

Maura reposes in Flynn's Funeral Home, Moate, on Wednesday from 5 pm to 8.30 pm. Funeral Mass takes place in St. Patrick's Church, Moate, at 12 noon on Thursday with burial afterwards in Donegan Cemetary. Ar dheis De a anam.