Bray Emmets GAA Club
Draw Details for May 24 2024
| Prize |
Value |
Winners |
Jackpot
Match 4 numbers to win/share. |
€ 15,500.00 |
0 |
There was no Jackpot winner this week with the Jackpot standing at €15,500. The winner of the Lucky Dip for €25 was Clodagh Crean. Congratulations Clodagh.
Answers to quizzes at end of newsletter
GAA County Nicknames:
Wexford: “The Yellowbellies”
While sometimes nicknamed The Slaneysiders (a clear reference to the River Slaney, which cuts through the middle of the county), the Wexford GAA team are more commonly known as The Yellowbellies.
This is in honour of the Wexford hurling team that won a match in Cornwall in the seventeenth century while wearing yellow sashes for William of Orange. This history is also reflected in the traditional yellow stripe the players wear across their purple jerseys.
Groaner of the Week:
Why did the birthday boy wrap himself in paper? He wanted to live in the present.
Riddle of the Week:
Take off my skin and I won’t cry, but you will! What am I?
Seanfhocail na Seachtain:
“Síonnach I gcraiceann an uain.”
“A fox in lanb’s clothing.”
This or That:
Pick between the two items below and see if you’re right.
By July 2023 how many different TV series and films has David Attenborough appeared in or narrated: 124, 224, or 324?
On This Day: On this day in 1964 the new American Embassy in Ballsbridge was opened.
Brain Teaser:
There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
Answers to this week’s puzzles:
Riddle of the Week: An Onion
‘This or That’: 324
Brain Teaser: Heroine
