News for GMDS for Panorama for Sep

Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society

Rehearsals are just starting for the next production of GMDS which is Miracle on 34th Street - The Musical. We are very excited to be bringing to you the very first performance of this musical in Ireland!

Miracle on 34th Street is a great Christmas show, recalling the magic of Christmas from childhood when Santa Claus was real. The show really brings back the excitement of Christmas and it is a nice antidote to the mayhem of Xmas shopping! We are putting together an action-packed show again this Season.

Our director Tom Ronayne has had a busy Summer on stage in an intense version of John B Keane's classic ‘Sharon’s Grave’ at the Mill Theatre in June with the Balally Players. Congratulations to all on a great production! Tom and crew are now preparing for a story in a very different setting.

Miracle On 34th Street tells the story of Doris and Susan Walker, a mother and daughter that are much too practical to believe in Santa Claus. Doris is in charge of Personnel at Macy's Department Store in New York (circa 1947) and it's Christmastime. The real Kris Kringle is hired to be Santa Claus for Macy's and the spirit of Christmas comes up against the cynicism and materialism of the practical New York business people. Filled with humor, spectacle of New York at Christmas and Macy’s famous Thanksgiving Parade and beloved songs this joyous, heart-warming musical is pure family entertainment.

The Musical by Meredith Willson is based on the 20th Century Fox Picture with story by Valentine Davies and screenplay by George Seaton.

The Mill Theatre have had the builders in all August repairing the flood damage from last year. The stage is set. We are looking forward to seeing you all in rehearsals in St. Tiernan's school or see you in the Mill Theatre in the first two weeks of December!

Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society - Miracle on 34th Street The Musical - Dec 2012

Doing some PR for GMDS.
Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society
on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/6065036825/
on web: http://www.gmds.ie

We are doing the premiere amateur dramatic performance of Miracle on 34th Street The Musical in Ireland. We will be on-stage Dec 5 to 15th in The Mill Theatre.

Starting schedule:
We will be having reading next week evening of Thur the 6th in St. Tiernan's school.
We have some musical introduction evening of Tue and Thur 11th and 13th, kids also on the Tue.
We will have auditions on the weekend Sat 15th OR Sun 16th  (10 euros audition fee for non paid up members (deducted from membership on renewal)).


http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000042

Synopsys, cast, musical number snippets.

Music Theatre International: Meredith Willson's Miracle on 34th Street The Musical

www.mtishows.com

Book by Meredith Willson Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson Based on the 20th Century Fox Picture with story by Valentine Davies and screenplay by George

Rehearsals are just starting for the next production of GMDS which is Miracle on 34th Street - The Musical. We are very excited to be bringing to you the very first performance of this musical in Ireland!

Miracle on 34th Street is a great Christmas show, recalling the magic of Christmas from childhood when Santa Claus was real. The show really brings back the excitement of Christmas and it is a nice antidote to the mayhem of Xmas shopping! We are putting together an action-packed show again this Season.

Our director Tom Ronayne has had a busy Summer on stage in an intense version of John B Keane's classic ‘Sharon’s Grave’ at the Mill Theatre in June with the Balally Players. Congratulations to all on a great production! Tom and crew are now preparing for a story in a very different setting.

Miracle On 34th Street tells the story of Doris and Susan Walker, a mother and daughter that are much too practical to believe in Santa Claus. Doris is in charge of Personnel at Macy's Department Store in New York (circa 1947) and it's Christmastime. The real Kris Kringle is hired to be Santa Claus for Macy's and the spirit of Christmas comes up against the cynicism and materialism of the practical New York business people. Filled with humor, spectacle of New York at Christmas and Macy’s famous Thanksgiving Parade and beloved songs this joyous, heart-warming musical is pure family entertainment.

The Musical by Meredith Willson is based on the 20th Century Fox Picture with story by Valentine Davies and screenplay by George Seaton.

The Mill Theatre have had the builders in all August repairing the flood damage from last year. The stage is set. We are looking forward to seeing you all in rehearsals in St. Tiernan's school or see you in the Mill Theatre in the first two weeks of December!

mystery items, guess what I was doing this evening.

If you do want to guess just look at the picture, do not read on. Don't read on too quickly anyway. I will give some clues now and gradually reveal the mystery of the strange objects.

Some items are not used for the main activity.

the bottle has a tiny bit of wine and some cider vinegar inside. it has cellophane on top with a small hole in it. guess what it is.

The pencils are there because it is back to school time. Daire was back today at 10. the girls are back tomorrow.

the binoculars are there from the weekend. when the tall ships left Dublin we could see them from outside our house. northerly ish wind so they went out (east) without sail, then out up sail and quickly disappeared out of sight skirting coast.

the half-eaten bar is from when we cycled on metals from DunLaoghaire to Dalkey. Kate bladed.

the music is from song by Fun: Tonight we are young. recorder just for tootling. was playing along with guitar chords and piano chords/melody/beat-notes. Maeve knows all the starting verses words off!

the things used in main activity were ... in order of most useless-ness ...
a chisel
a penknife (now cleaned and sharpened with file)
drill bits
a rock
a hammer
a file
a tin box with white stuff inside, guess what that is.
a small metal looking block and blade

the rock is quartzy granite,quite a hard rock, lots of that kind here and in wicklow hills.

inside the box there is cotton wool mixed with some vaseline. for cleaning baby bottoms? but we don't have babies any more.

the chisel and penknife don't work. The penknife is stainless steel.

one drill bit for drilling metal gives a small spark if hit against the rock.

there is a faint burney smell.

the hammer and file give good sparks when hit at an angle against the rock. bits of rock flake off with the hammer though, watch out for eyes!

the little metal block is magnesium with a small ?high-carbon? steel rod on one side. this rod gives good sparks if scraped on the rock.

the little blade chained to rock is some kind of flint. I'm not sure if it is real rock flint or something else. when scraped against the rod sparks are generated. when scraped against hammer or file not much happens.

the quartz in rock and flint are harder than the steel. when hit against sharp rock tiny shards of metal scrape off and are ignited by friction.

hot metal sparks are good for starting fires with.

the magnesium is scraped making some magnesium dust. that collects at top of rod. scraping top of rod gives nice hot/strong magnesium sparks as well as steel sparks.

vaseline is petroleum-jelly and it is flammable. cotton wool and vaseline is good tinder.

I was making sparks and fire.

lay out some kindling ready to take fire. lay out some tinder (cotton wool). spark into the tinder. if you get it to flame to add the kindling. build and enjoy fire. if practicing lighting fires put it out then do it again. I made about 8 little fires. fun. the girls liked it!

What is the bottle? It is a trap for fruit flies. A bowl with vinegar inside and cellophane on top works too and you can see the flies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint
"Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz,^[1][2] categorized as a variety of chert."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel
"Steel is an alloy made by combining iron and other elements, the most common of these being carbon. When carbon is used, its content in the steel is between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight"

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Why do we need to recreate subversion branch after it is merged to trunk? Can we use subversion merge --record-only option on branch now to keep it alive (with subversion 1.6)?

At the moment we are using a lab/test svn area which sits on trunk and has main components of work branched. A branch create or sync to branch or merge from branch to trunk involves doing the operation on each component. I use a script to help do extras around svn merges. After I merge branch components are re-created from trunk again.

http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/02dec/uf005016.gif

Other lesser beings are doing svn merges manually, often copying updated files directly and placing in trunk by-passing or skipping svn. Hmmm. Yerch! This is not recommended. It only works okay so long as files have only changed on branch and not on trunk.

Anyway.

I learned that re-creating branch was required after once not re-creating branch from trunk but carrying on work. Next time merge was needed svn merge-tracking did not work well and a normal merge resulted in a mess of conflicts through trying to apply duplicate revisions. I had to use log on branch and do merge of branch changes in sequence to trunk kind-of skipping branch syncs (handling any conflicts resolved manually). . . . For each component. . . . Not quite as nasty as it could have been but including of all changes done in past syncs from trunk was not guaranteed. Anyway. Again. It was a nasty enough experience to persuade me that re-creating branch after merge was really quite a good idea.

Back to now, well, back to merge to trunk and recreate of branch components I did yesterday.

Here is what I do to re-create branch for one component:

BRANCHTAG=insert_appropriate_branch_tag
SVNROOT="insert_appropriate_svn_root"
MODULEPATH=path/in/svn/to/MODULE1

svn_switch_components_to_branch $BRANCHTAG

cd MODULE1
mkdir branch_revfiles
cp -p special branch things branch_revfiles/
svn rm -m"rebranch $BRANCHTAG from trunk" $SVNROOT/branches/$MODULEPATH/BRANCH_MODULE1_$BRANCHTAG
svn cp -m"rebranch $BRANCHTAG from trunk" $SVNROOT/trunk/$MODULEPATH $SVNROOT/branches/$MODULEPATH/BRANCH_MODULE1_$BRANCHTAG
svn up
cp -p branch_revfiles/* .
svn ci -m"rebranch $BRANCHTAG from trunk restore branch rev files" special branch things
rm -rf branch_revfiles

So, anyway, WHY do we need to re-create branch after it is merged to trunk?
Do we still have to re-create branch? Can we use svn 1.6 --record-only ?

Why? Answer: Because ...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102472/subversion-branch-reintegration

Subversion 1.5
"it is not recommended to merge from branch to trunk after reintegration. You can find a full discussion about the reason for that, here: Subversion merge reintegrate"
http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2008/07/subversion-merg/
"Basically, it says, that it is possible to merge your changes again to the trunk, but since reintegration forces you to merge from trunk to branch prior to the reintegrate operation you'll be facing Reflective/Cyclic Merge which is very problematic in Subversion 1.5. According to the article, it is recommended to delete your reintegrated branch immediately after reintegration and create a new one with the same (or different) name instead.
This is a known Subversion behavior which will be addressed in future version (probably in 1.6)."

What I take from the 1.5 Subversion merge reintegrate blog entry:

1. Merging from regularily sync'd branch to trunk called reflective or cyclic merge.
Merge has to take into account branch changes + sync'd conflict changes.
That part of svn merge algorithim has worked using revision tracking for svn 1.5 and earlier and sometimes gets confused.
Okay, we know that, bug "reflective" and "cyclic" are not terms I have familiarity with.

2. svn merge --reintegrate url . is just a 2 URL merge with some additional sanity checks
Have used this type of merge before + manual work to resolve conflicts a good bit in the past.
There are especially awkward merge problems with some cases for mergeinfo and for renamed files.

"An important thing to point out, and I am not sure if the documentation currently does, is that once a branch is reintegrated, it should really be deleted."


What version are we using now?
i@i$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.12 (r955767)
   compiled Jun 21 2010, 14:15:05

j@j$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.12 (r955767)
   compiled Jun 21 2010, 16:00:59

"Does anybody know if the reintegrate problem was resolved in Subversion 1.6 ?" – bradhouse Jul 27 '09 at 23:39
"I've addressed svn v1.6 in stackoverflow.com/questions/3309602. The short version: Yes, you can reintegrate multiple times. :)" – Andres Jaan Tack Jul 22 '10 at 22:04
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3309602/subversion-branch-reintegration-in-v1-6

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.reintegratetwice
Keeping a Reintegrated Branch Alive

From stackoverflow:
"svn merge --reintegrate , as you would normally. (=> rM)
svn merge --record-only -c M ^/ . Note the record-only option.
Step 2 essentially tells the topic branch to consider the merge commit (revision M, from step 1) part of its history. This merge-revision is the one that usually causes problems during reintegration; svn tries to undo rM when integrating topic a second time.

So, repeated reintegration works, just not automatically. :)"


so:
1. svn merge --reintegrate #as you would normally. (=> rM)
2. cd branch area; svn up; svn merge --record-only -c ^/ . #Note the record-only option.
cherry-pick merge the branch merge to trunk back onto branch


Further reading:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html *not released yet*

2010-02-17 — Subversion becomes Apache Subversion
2009-11-07 — Subversion joins Apache Incubator

Daily_UpdateBacklog.au3

Task reminders in morning or evening don't really work. Especially when quite busy last thing and opening explorer, locking a file, opening excel takes a few minutes. So. Automate the open folder, get svn lock and open file part and pop all up as a reminder. Hudson daily task and AutoIt script.

Prompt user, svn update, get lock, open .xls file, commit and release lock (or timeout and release lock) handle lock fail or user not present run from Hudson or other regular cron tool.



;http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-automation.html
;http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IECreate.htm
;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9667957/automation-of-right-clicking-of-file-in-windows-explorer


#include <GUIListView.au3>
#include  <Excel.au3>

$Title = "UPDATE BACKLOG"
$Path = "C:\SVN\DocsPlanning\XXX\"
$File = "C:\SVN\DocsPlanning\XXX\Sprint36.xls"

$TortoisePath = "c:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe"
;http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-automation.html
; TODO: change all to /closeonend:1 when all are working
;/closeonend:1 auto close if no errors

Local $iSvnPid = Run($TortoisePath & " /closeonend:1 /command:update /path:" & $Path)
ProcessWaitClose($iSvnPid)
$x = MsgBox(0,$Title & ": svn update done","svnpid:"&$iSvnPid&"\nsvn update done",5)

;http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IECreate.htm
;#include
;Local $oIE = _IECreate("www.autoitscript.com")

$x = MsgBox(33,$Title & ": Try and Lock Backlog?",$File&"\nTry and Lock Backlog?",1800)
;$x = MsgBox(0,$Title & ": Debug","Debug answer = " & $x,900)
; $x = 1 okay $x = 2 cancel

If $x = 1 Then
  ;Hmpfh. the lock command doesn't take logmsg
  Local $iSvnPid = Run($TortoisePath & " /closeonend:0 /command:lock /logmsg:""update jco integration tasks"" /path:" & $File)
  ProcessWaitClose($iSvnPid)
  $x1 = MsgBox(33,$Title & ": Locked?",$File&"\nDid you lock it?")

  ;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9667957/automation-of-right-clicking-of-file-in-windows-explorer
  ;Local $hList = ControlGetHandle("[CLASS:CabinetWClass]", "", "[CLASS:SysListView32; INSTANCE:1]")
  ;Local $aClient = WinGetPos($hList)
  ;Local $aPos = _GUICtrlListView_GetItemPosition($hList, _GUICtrlListView_GetSelectedIndices($hList))
  ;MouseClick("Right", $aClient[0] + $aPos[0] + 4, $aClient[1] + $aPos[1] + 4)
  
  ;MouseClick("Right", "Optical_SW_Sprint_36.xls")

  If $x1 = 1 Then

    ;pull up explorer window for commit or if there is trouble
    Local $iPid = Run("C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e," & $Path)
    ProcessWait($iPid)
    MsgBox(0,$Title & ": EXPLORER","pid:"&$iPid,5)
    Sleep(3000)
  
    $excel_file = _ExcelBookOpen($File)

    $x2 = MsgBox(33,$Title & ": Commit and unlock Backlog","Now edit backlog.\nWhen finished commit and unlock Backlog.\nFinished?\n")

    If $x2 = 1 Then
      ; commit and release lock
      Local $iSvnPid = Run($TortoisePath & " /closeonend:0 /command:commit /logmsg:""update jco integration tasks"" /path:" & $File)
      ProcessWait($iSvnPid)
    EndIf
   
  EndIf

  ; unlock in case the commit didn't unlock
  Sleep(30000)
  Local $iSvnPid = Run($TortoisePath & " /closeonend:1 /command:unlock /path:" & $File)
  ProcessWait($iSvnPid)

  ; close explorer
  ProcessClose($iPid)

EndIf

Exit

Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society News March 2012 - The Field

Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society News March 2012 - The Field

The first week of March was a tremendously busy and exciting week for GMDS. The production of John B. Keane's play The Field had been in rehearsal since Christmas. Members of the Society and the cast met in the Theatre and helped put the set together on Sunday and Monday (4th and 5th March). A quick break had to be made on Sunday to allow paint to dry (and watch Ireland just hold off France in the second half of the rugby!!) Final rehearsals happened Sunday and Monday night, most of the play was set but some scenes had to have some changes at this late stage. Tuesday night saw the show open to a full house and from the start the audience responded to the lively characters on stage.

The Field is perhaps John B. Keane’s best known play. It was first performed in

1965 and is based on a true story.

 In The Field, Keane draws a portrait of rural life in Ireland in the mid-20th

 century that is both loving and damning, sorrowful and censorious. In the

 hearts of villagers involved in the cover-up of an act of violence there is brutality

 and cowardice sitting alongside humour and wit, there is a powerful loyalty to clan and class, and

 a fierce love of the land.

 This staging marks the 10th anniversary of the death of John B Keane and marks the 40th Anniversary of GMDS.

Cast of The Field:
Leamy Flanagan - Nathaniel O’Leary
Bird O’Donnell - Brendan Phelan
Mick Flanagan - Tom Ronayne
Mrs Butler - Emma Smith
Maimie Flanagan - Katie Doyle
Bull McCabe - Liam Corrigan
Tadhg McCabe - Peter O’Brien
Sergeant Leahy - Rex Robinson
William Dee - Jim Blake
Dandy McCabe - George Ward
Mrs McCabe - Laura Seery
Fr Murphy - Garrett Grimes
The Bishop - Colm MacGhiolla Phadraig
Flanagan Children - Sinead Ryan, Sally-Anne Murphy, Caolan Ryan, Eimer Nic Giolla Phadraig, Orla Doyle, Yseult Gallagher

Director - Bernard Doyle
Stage Mgr / Asst Dir - Aoife Ryan

We

 produce a play and a musical every year and have made our home in the

 Mill Theatre, which is a great asset to the community. If you are interested

 in becoming involved either on stage or back stage, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us at info@gmds.ie and join us on facebook. Notice to members, please keep an eye out for notice of AGM on May 24th and next activities. We may attend the Choral festival in New Ross in May and we will be back in the Mill Theatre on Dec 4th-8th.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the production of this play. To our patrons Pat Kinsley, Eileen O'Sullivan, Sean Murphy, Alex White TD, Cllr Jim O'Dea, Lillo McGuinness, Deirdre and David O'Sullivan for providing much needed support. Thanks to St. Tiernan's  Community School for rehearsal space and to Tony who looks after us there. Thanks also to the 137th Balally Scout Group for time in the Scout Den. Thanks to the staff in the Mill Theatre. Thanks  to the Blue Light pub, Bective Rugby Club, Specsavers (Dundrum) and everyone else who helped with props. Thanks to our own Tom (Auctioneer and Publican Mick Flanagan) and Colm (The Bishop) for the hard work building the set. And finally Thanks to committee and members who helped in many ways behind the scenes.

Photographs

GMDS2012_TheField_Cast.jpg

Left to Right

Back row: Maimie Flanagan - Katie Doyle, Tadhg McCabe - Peter O’Brien, Fr Murphy - Garrett Grimes, Sergeant Leahy - Rex Robinson, Bull McCabe - Liam Corrigan, The Bishop - Colm MacGhiolla Phadraig, Mick Flanagan - Tom Ronayne, William Dee - Jim Blake, Bird O’Donnell - Brendan Phelan, Leamy Flanagan - Nathaniel O’Leary
Middle: Mrs Butler - Emma Smith, Dandy McCabe - George Ward, Mrs McCabe - Laura Seery
Front: Flanagan Children - Eimer Nic Giolla Phadraig, Yseult Gallagher, Sinead Ryan, Caolan Ryan, Sally-Anne Murphy, Orla Doyle

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Mick Flanagan publican and auctioneer (Tom Ronayne), The Bull McCabe (Liam Corrigan), The Bird (Brendan Phelan) and Tadhg (Peter O'Brien) in the bar.

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A stranger in town (Jim Blake) meeting The Bird (Brendan Phelan) and Maimie Flanagan (Katie Doyle).

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Dandy (George Ward) and Mrs. McCabe (Laura Seery) with Leamy (Nathaniel O'Leary).

IMG_3260.JPG

Trouble. The Bull (Liam Corrigan) and Tadhg (Peter O'Brien) have heard of the intentions of William Dee (Jim Blake) to buy the field.

Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society - The Field by J.B.Keane - Ring Board Rules.

Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society - The Field by J.B.Keane - Ring Board Rules.

General Rules Of Game  (thanks to http://www.allirelandchampionshipringboard.com)

1. The minimum throwing distance is 8'- 6" ( 259 cm) from the board and shall be clearly marked on the floor by a line.

2. The board is mounted on the wall at a height of 76"(193cm) from floor to top of Hook No.2.

3. Only rings hanging on board can be counted in scoring.

4. All players (team or individual) must play with 6 rings.

5. A team or individual having reached 487 or more is then nominated. That is they need to hang the actual number. For example having reached 487 if game is 500x1, No.13 must be hung exactly.

6. If a player having hung his nomination number, and one, on throwing for the double one, knocks off the nomination number, he is still left for one and may throw any rings he has left for the double one.

7. Only rings hanging down will count as a score.

8. A game must stop when 500x1 is reached.

9. The individual or team to reach 500 with the least number of rings, wins the game.
 

Approx dimensions: Board: 51 x 37cm. Rings approx 102mm diameter, inner diameter 80mm, 2.5mm inch thick.

        

History Of The Game

The game has been played for generations in Ireland. Back in the days before television or radio, nearly every house in Ireland had a ring board game hanging on the wall or the back of a door. They were still very common up to about 30 years ago. With the introduction of television in modern times, this game had almost died out.

As many Irish Emigrated to America during the famine, and were sent to Australia as convicts, the game travelled with them. Any Irish taking the game to the 4 corners of the world. This game is part of the rich heritage of the Irish People.

In the 20th Century, Irish emigrating to England brought the game with them and played it competitively in the Irish Pubs and Clubs. The playing of the game was mainly concentrated around the Degham area, where many Irish found employment in the Ford car plant. This brought about the All England Rings Championship. Up until recent times, teams from the Essex area competed at All Ireland Level, as they took it in turns travelling across the Irish sea to compete in each others venues. Many times, when a hook would get broken on a board, the man of the house would borrow a cup hook from the kitchen dresser (traditional Irish kitchen furniture) and fix his ring board.

Many Irish Americans, now in their 60s of over, would remember playing this game as children in their own Irish homes. Ring, Bowls Skittle and Horseshoes (Meggars) had one thing in common, all games were played underhand with their own separate All Ireland competitions. Rings was considered a winter game played indoors, the rest were played during the summer session.

Up to this day, the game of rings is still played competitively at All Ireland level on this All Ireland Standard Ring Board. In 1980, the All Ireland Rings Association was formed by J. Behan, D. Murphy, A. Moynihan & G. Cartwright. The next year, the first All Ireland competition was played in the ESB complex, Dublin. The final was between Dublin vs. Cork, Dublin won on that occasion. Currently, the game is still played in  Ireland in Pubs around the country. It has become a traditional Irish Pub game which still live on.

If you would like to keep this tradition alive and compete at All Ireland Championship level, then investing in the purchase of this board is your opportunity to partake in this competitive Irish sport on home turf. The All Ireland Ring-board Finals are held in the Clare Inn Ennis, Co. Clare on the 1st & 2nd of March each year.

Glencullen Musical and Dramatic Society The Field by J.B.Keane 6-10 March 2012 at 8pm Tickets 15-12 euros Bookings (01) 296 9340      milltheatre.ie

http://www.allirelandchampionshipringboard.com/page2.htm

http://www.lisheenmontessori.com/products.php?category=8

http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Quoits.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoits

http://www.mastersgames.com/cat/outdoor/quoits.htm

http://www.lisheenmontessori.com/products.php?category=8

For children up to the age of 9 an approximate distance of 160cm and height of 140cm are more suitable. Up to the age of 13, a distance of 180cm and a height of 160cm should provide a good challenge.

There are three Ringboard games in particular that are very suitable for schools:

1. Beginners – The highest score after each player has thrown 3 sets of rings wins the game.
2. Fifty Plus - The first player to reach or exceed a pre-agreed number [e.g.50] wins the game.
3. Thirty-one – The first player to reach a score of 31 using as few rings as possible, e.g. if a player hooks a 10 then a 9 he must add these together to get his total score so far (19) and subtract this from 31 to find which number he must hook to win (12). If he hangs no.5 he must subtract this from 12 and now he knows he must hang no.7 to win, thereby getting the player quickly using mental arithmetic.

As skills levels develop and increase players can move on to the more traditional games of ‘Round the Clock’ (hang each number in sequence, from 1 to 13) and ‘100 + 1’ (players must reach 100 points, then hang the no. 1 to win)
This could eventually lead to competing in the All Ireland Ringboard Championships, which are held annually in Co. Clare, All England Ringboard Championships or even the World Ringboard Championships, usually held in the autumn.

Kit comes with 13 Hooks and 6 Rings, paper template for making board and instructions.


School Size Ringboard measurements: 38.5cm x 30cm