Congratulations to Jenny Jones who won 2nd prize in the
black and white category of the Inter Federation Cup for Art.

We were delighted to get a grant from Wicklow Co Council to promote physical activity with our members. The grant was used for an introduction to pilattes and a set dancing workshop.

Congratulations to all 17 members who represented Wicklow
in the national final of the Eleanora Gibbon Competition
for a 15 minute variety show with a season as a theme.
Nine federations were represented and Ashford were the winners.

President Lue Sillery
with outgoing Vice President Sheila Sherlock and incoming Vice President Jenny Jones
at the Guild AGM

Committee Person of Year Brigid Cahill
Guild Person of the Year Sheila Sherlock

At the Federation Arts and Crafts night
Carmel Simmons won the Irene Hynes Cup with her knitted jumper.
Marie Togher won the Pat Hurley trophy with her embroidered cushion cover
and Margaret Stephens won the Sadie Ryan Trophy with her potted plants.
Congratulation ladies.

Congratulations to our singers and musical director Una Mc Gowran
who represented Wicklow in the National Final
of the Baumann Shield for Music in Abbeyleix and came 3rd

Congratulations to Jenny Jones who represented Wicklow at the national final
of the Gempack Recipe Competition in An Grianan.
There were 23 finalists and Jenny was the winner with this menu:

Congratulations to
Una Ryan, Joan O'Flaherty and Stephanie Mc Donald
who represented Wicklow at the national table quiz final in An Grianan.
There were 25 teams and our team came 3rd. Well done ladies.

Our thanks to everyone who supported our centenary celebration
with Paddy Cole and his All Star Band.
It was a great night and we raised €3150 for An Grianan.

The sub committee who organised the event
Lue Sillery, Hilda Roche, Claire Timmons,
Una Ryan and Sheila Sherlock travelled to An Grianan
and presented the cheque to the manager Ann Flanagan.

Some of our members travelled to Wexford to be part of the main
national centenary celebrations which started off with a gala dinner
in the Ferrycarrig hotel followed by music and dancing.
The next day we travelled to watch our national president
lay a wreath on the grave of the founder of ICA Anita Lett
in the graveyard beside the Church of Ireland in Bree.
Then following an ecumenical service of thanksgiving
in the Catholic Church we were piped down to the community hall
for speeches followed by a buffet dinner and more first class entertainment.
It was wonderful to be a part of this celebration of our centenary.
Well done and thank you to Bree Guild and Wexford federation
for all their work and organisation.

As part of our centenary celebrations we spent a few days in the beautiful Dingle Peninsula
and attended the Spring Conference hosted by Kerry Federation
whose president was our past member JoAnn Lenehan.

Catherine Carey the winner of the centenary brooch design
was presented with one of the new brooches by our National President.