Bray Emmets GAA Club
Draw Details for May 4 2025
| Prize |
Value |
Winners |
Jackpot
Match 4 numbers to win/share. |
€ 20,000.00 |
0 |
There was no on-line Jackpot winner this week with the Jackpot standing at a staggering €20,000.
The draw takes place live each Sunday night at 9.00pm in the clubhouse. Manual entries will be checked for winners after the on-line draw. In the event of winners among both the on-line and manual tickets the jackpot will be split equally.
The winner of the on-line Lucky Dip for €25 was Sebastian Tkacz. Congratulations Sebastian.
Focal na Seachtain:
Each week we’ll have a word or a phase in Irish. Why not join in and try and use it in your conversations during the week.
Captaen na Foirne = Team Captain
Dad Joke/ Groaner of the Week:
A very distressed man went to the doctor and said, “Doctor, Doctor, my hair’s falling out. Can you give me something to keep it in?” “Certainty, the Doctor replied, “here’s a plastic bag.”
Tales of Ó Muireartaigh: The commentaries of Michael Ó M are the stuff of legend.
“The referee today is Dickie Murphy…Dickie, the first postman in the world to deliver a letter to himself, saying he’d been chosen to referee an All-Ireland Final.”
Seanfhocail na Seachtain:
“Ní mór don fhear beag bheith glic.”
“The little man must be cunning.”
This or That:
Pick between the two items below and see if you’re right.
Where is the hottest place in the Solar System located: the centre of the Sun or in Oxfordshire, England?
They Said It:
“John Hoyne was warming up in the dressing room and he got a slap of a hurl in the head from someone. He got four staples before he went out. That was just the warmup.”
- Henry Shefflin illustrates Kilkenny’s unique pre-match routine before the 2002 All-Ireland Final.
Brain Teaser of the week:
A farmer went to a market and bought a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. On his way home, the farmer came to the bank of a river and rented a boat. But crossing the river by boat, the farmer could carry only himself and a single one of his purchases: the wolf, the goat, or the cabbage. If left unattended together, the wolf would eat the goat, or the goat would eat the cabbage. The farmer’s challenge was to carry himself and his purchases to the far bank of the river, leaving each purchase intact. How did he do it?
Old Irish Customs:
The website duchas.ie has a treasure trove of Irish customs from times past. There are also many other sources on the ways of old:
“Long ago on Novembers night the big boys go round kicking cabbage out side everyones door others go ducking.
On St Stephens day the boys dress themselves up and get a stick and tie a piece of paper on it and get a wren and go round to the houses and say the wren the wren the king of all birds. St Stephens day was caught in the firs. Up with the kettlers and down with the pan give us some money to bury the wrens.
On St Bridgets day the small boys come round and at night the big ones come round dressed and straw ropes tied round them, the next day the girls come round and a doll in a basket and say here is Saint Bridget dressed in white give us some money in honour of the night.”
Writer: Bridie Power
Same address
Teller: Mrs Power
Flaskagh
Dunmore
Co Galway
Answers to this week’s puzzles:
This or That:
Oxfordshire. The centre of the JET fusion reactor located just outside Didcot, Oxfordshire, is many times hotter than the Sun and is the hottest place in the Solar System.
Brain Teaser of the Week:
The farmer takes seven trips over—here are his steps:
- Take the goat over
- Return
- Take the wolf or cabbage over
- Return with the goat
- Take the cabbage or wolf over
- Return
- Take goat over
Note: The riddle doesn’t forbid the farmer from bringing a purchase back, which makes the steps above possible
