Bray Emmets GAA Club
Draw Details for March 29 2024
| Prize |
Value |
Winners |
Jackpot
Match 4 numbers to win/share. |
€ 14,700.00 |
0 |
There was no Jackpot winner this week with the Jackpot standing at €14,700. The winner of the Lucky Dip for €25 was Tony McLaughlin. Congratulations Tony.
Answers to quizzes at end of newsletter
GAA County Nicknames:
Carlow: “The Dolmen County”
Carlow is nicknamed this for good reason: Some of Europe’s most impressive ancient burial chambers, or dolmens (meaning “table of stone”), stand in the green fields of picturesque Cavan.
Brownshill Dolmen, just outside of Carlow town, and Haroldstown Dolmen, near Tullow, are two of Ireland’s most iconic archaeological sites and are visited by thousands of tourists each year.
The Carlow GAA team are also sometimes referred to as The Barrowsiders, in a nod to the River Barrow. Another wildcard nickname for Carlow’s GAA team are The Scallion Eaters, in reference to the fact that most of the province’s onions were grown in Carlow in the nineteenth century.
Groaner of the Week:
Two men were building a timber house. One man picked up a nail, hammered it in, picked up another nail, threw it away. After that, he picked up another nail and hammered it in, picked up another nail, threw it away. After this had been going on for some time, his workmate finally came over and asked him why he was throwing away half the nails.
“It’s obvious,” he said. “Those nails were pointed at the wrong end.”
“How could you be so stupid?” said his colleague. “They were for the other side of the house!”
Riddle of the Week:
I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out, I must break through the wall. What am I?
Seanfhocail na Seachtain:
“Bíonn cluasa ar na claíocha.”
“There are ears on the ditches.”
(Walls have ears)
This or That:
Pick between the two items below and see if you’re right. Afterall you have a 50/50 chance:
True or False: Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s largest importers of sand.
On This Day: On this day in 2004 the smoking ban was introduced for all workplaces including pubs and restaurants. Twenty years ago, today!
Brain Teaser:
Which word logically comes next in this sequence? Spots, tops, pots, opts…
Focal na Seachtain:
In focal na seachtain I have included a word or phrase that you can try and bring into your speech during the week to help build up the ‘cupla focal.’
“Ta suil agam go bhfuil tú go maith.” = I hope you’re well.
Answers to this week’s puzzles:
Riddle of the Week: A baby chick in an egg.
‘This or That’: True. Despite being 95% desert, Saudi Arabia imports huge amounts of coastal sand for use in construction because desert sand is too smooth.
Brain Teaser: Stop. All the words are anagrams of each other.
