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Moville Celtic Sports & Fun Day a big success

Posted Sunday, August 17, 2008

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Sports Day

Moville Sports & Fun Day was a lot of fun, and more importantly, was a big success.

There was something for everyone.

There was a horseshoe throwing contest as well as a welly throwing one.

There were various throwing and kicking contests into baskets, though holes, into nets as well as putting contests.

Water Slide

A very popular one was the water slide where young contestants had to climb a slippery slope with holed water buckets to see how much water they could bring to the larger bucket at the top.

Dr. McGinley and his team won out in the tug-of-war contest and Aideen McFeeley scooped the Miss Moville Sports contest.

The Bonny Baby contest, as ever, was very popular and the Fortune Teller's hut was busy all afternoon.

Welly Thower

One interesting winner was Finbarr MacCallion.

He won the Welly Throwing Contest getting four wellies into the target area out of five.

It seems that it runs in the family.

Finbarr informs me that he won the Malin Welly Throwing Contest, which is considered to be the Inishowen Championship, two years in a row.

He was displaced by his father who won it the next year - and then by his uncle the following year.

He was disappointed not to get all five wellies in but no one managed to equal his four.

No Welly Throwing Background

So, where did he learn this skill?

Where did he become proficient in welly throwing?

Is he from a rural farming family?

It seems not?

Although his family are from the Carrowmena area, Finbarr was brought up in South London.

He only came to live here seven years when he went to Belfast University.

Very Proud

Said his partner local actress, Movania Parkinson, who has appeared in Coronation Street, Casualty, Touch of Frost and Heartbeat, as well as the film Dead Long Enough, "I'm very proud of him. I knew he would win".

There was plenty to eat too with lots of home made food and cakes baked by the organisers.

Last year's Sports and Fun day had great weather.

This year's was a little overcast but the rain stayed off and the crowds were, if anything, a little up on last year despite having to compete with the Olympics and the first Sunday of the football season with Manchester United and Chelsea playing.

Act Togther

This is only the second year of the newly regenerated Moville Celtic Sports & Fund Day and another example of how Moville is starting to gets its act together again after the doldrums of recent years.

Now, if they could only get the Putting Green, Crazy Golf and Tennis Courts in Bath Green open again....