Week 9 at CIT (Semester 2)

Well i'm back from the Easter holidays!!! Trying to get back into the trend of the place once again. Four offical weeks left - crunch time!!!

Well i better give you an update on everything. I'm doing ok with all my projects - i have everything started and am making work in progress. All have their knacks however i hope to give my best in all of them. I have to be totally honest and say that last week was a bit of a disaster - college wise. I started well the Bank Holiday Monday but then on the Tuesday i got a call form work asking if i would come in!! It was very tempting for the money and decided to go in up until the Friday. So you can imagine that hindered my performance to hit the college work and it turned out that i didn't do anything else for the rest of the week. A blow however there was good and bad aspects to it and i hope to react in the right manner.

I told you last week we had a Duhallow U21 Championship Final on Saturday... well we won the match by 10 points against Boherbue!! Lyre played brilliant with every player giving there all and it was our first time every winning that trophy since it was established in 1968. Even more fitting was that my cousin Colman was the captain and he dedicated the win to our cousin Kevin who committed suicide last Christmas. Kevin was one of our best player and he, Colman and myself are all the same age. After the game we brought the trophy back to his grave which was truly special. I really miss him and prayer to him hoping he is safe in the lords hands. My message to Kev is - Thanks for being our 16th man buddy, you are the heart and soul of the team, i really miss you and wish you were there to embrace it however i know that i will see you again and we can talk about that great game and everything else!! RIP kid

That night i had to go to a 20th Birthday back in Killarney, made it at 11.45pm and it was great fun!! Great to go back and give a birthday card to a shining friend Julett... it was great meeting up and i hope it brought a smile to her face!! :) After a long day i made it to bed at 4.45am. The Sunday was wonderful, on late notice i decided back AGAIN to Killarney and met my great friend Patrick who is Julett's brother and we went to see the a Kerry - Monaghan match. Apart from the result it was great... haha being a Cork man Kerry won however it was really nice being back there in a glorious sunny day and after we chilled in the town watching the world go by and talked like mad!! We went to the cinema after to watch Kick Ass which was pretty good. After that i decided it was time to go and got home by 10!! Late notice however it was a noble decision to head back.... thanks Patrick!!! haha

Well there you have it... it was a rollacoster of a weekend... i will definitely look back at it in the future in great memory and it will bring a smile to my face.... hears hoping i can focus on my college duties and give it my all.

Thanks for reading!!

Anthony Mannix