In recent weeks hundreds of you have contributed to our Mary’s Meals project to build a school kitchen in Malawi for the 1221 pupils who are enrolled at the Kholoni Primary School in Mchinii, and then for the 746 pupils at St Joseph’s Primary in Kasungu.
The £7000 required for the first school reached Mary’s Meals some weeks ago and the building was opened and serving meals yesterday.
Here it is:
We have a lot to do today but there is an excellent chance that the £7000 required for St Joseph’s will be raised and in Mary’s Meals account before 470 of us sit down in the Kerrydale Suite for the CQteN St Patrick’s Day dinner tonight.
Here’s what you’ve done. You have funded two facilities which between them will feed 1967 children, all of whom live below the UN measure of absolute poverty, in the 17th poorest country in the world.
Most days, for almost all children, this will be their main meal, it will often be their only meal. As a result, they will attend school in greater numbers, 30% greater, if they are an average Mary’s Meals, Malawi, school. They will gain a better education and have better opportunities in life. They will build stronger bodies, more able to resist infection. Child mortality will fall.
The spirit of Brother Walfrid, of Celtic, is alive within you. You can get involved here.
See you at the party!
Seville, The Celtic Movement, launches tonight.
“CNN reported that on the day before the game 3% of the earth’s flying population were all headed for Seville and were sporting a Celtic scarf – a statistic that no sector of industry could ignore and which would change the policy of many airlines as a result.”
Order yours here:
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Doc , I know what you mean re tonight.
It feels like a cross between the lead up to a CL night ( v Barca) and the first time you tried to buy a pint underage .
Guiness , you say. Your wish is my command
Fourgreenfields
Never thought of that . Could cut one ear off and the end of my nose and go as a Zombie . Nah it will never catch on.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Thanks, at 10:00pm, if I can still see my watch, then I’ll raise my glass in unison.
HH
Best wishes to all who are going to CQ10 tonight.
RIP Tony Benn who I disagreed with on some issues but who was a genuine socialist and a man of principle.
Hail hail to Paul and the others who have worked so hard to make this blog such a great forum for all Celtic fans.
ohits
Hopefully meet you later , don’t think we have met so far . If we have and I was drunk apologies :-)
Bit of help the aged,lads.
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers ………fc not plc
18:06 on 13 March, 2014
Evening,folks.
My sisters nobbled my Dad’s chances pf crashing CQTEN by packing him and my Mum off to Gran Canaria.
Thoughtful pair,eh?
Problem is,he’s gonna miss the game as well-they’ll be there though…
Anyway,does anyone know of a pub in PLAYA DEL INGLES which is likely to be showing it?
TIA.
fgf
Look forward to that , got to go 3 hour drive ahead .
HH
Sannabhoy @ 11 49
” the first time you tried to buy a pint underage ”
Remember it well .
Autumn 1965 –en route to Celtic v Go Ahead Eagles .Dohertys Bar -Cowcaddens.
Tried and succeeded . I was 15 and a half .
Meanwhile back at The Comedy Channel Govan HQ:
subsidiary TRFC Ltd accounts to June 2013 remain oustanding at Companies House. Filing penalties incurred already to be further increased at the end of March.
RIFC plc interim accounts to December 2013 remain oustanding everywhere. Seventeen days before the shares are suspended from Plus AIM Exchange.
Licence to play next season?
Corporate Governance? Weren’t we told that was Mr Somers’ specific talent?
I don’t think Laxey have that role in mind for him.
Bobby , how long have you been on this site and you ask that ?!
The huddle bar , (opposite the irish centre)
Celticbars.com/barsc.html
folks
any word on the tax case?????????
Guyfawkes. , the brains trust on FF claim that theyll be filed at the same time as the interims . Now , anyone , why would that be .
SOT , mine was also when I was 15 in the old station bar in Tyndrum . In 1979 !
Good luck and have a fantastic night tonight to all CQN’rs lucky enough to be there. Can’t make it myself, unfortunately, but thinking about you. Fantastic news regarding Mary’s Meals.
Hx2
Quite worried about tonight.
I’ve been to a number of CQN events over the years, whether golf, quiz nights, the odd hasty pint, and in all that time I’ve never met a CQNer I didn’t immediately like.
Problem is, what happens if Dick Byrne turns up? Bound to be trouble. Between BRTH’s snakeskin boots and DB’s manitee foreskin codpiece, there’s sure to be a painful clash.
Concerned.
PS Dick Byrne: It’s a charity function. Bring your wallet. If you can remember where you left it.
well done to the celtic familay looks grate marys meals school.
Sorry,can’t make the gig tonight,Voguepunter will pick up the award on my behalf……seriously have a great night,it is a milestone in lots of ways,and is to be celebrated.Well done P67 and all the bhoys who help put all the strands together.HH
My first pint in a boozer was in 1966 with my granda in The Auld Hoose just along from Paradise after watching Celtic play Man U in a friendly.
I was in my mid teens and had 2 pints of Guinness.
It was a beautiful sunny summer day and Celtic acquitted themselves really well against a team of superstars.
Can’t remember the score though.
1st pint in a pub?
Saltcoats caravan park
13 – 2nd year
1983
had cycled there from Paisley – not just for a pint I hasten to add!
GratefulMyWeansAreBetterKidsThanIwasCSC
HH jamesgang
Green Lantern (((((0)))))
12:30 on 14 March, 2014
4-1 Celtic
Congratulations Paul and the team for this magnificent initiative.
Looking forward to seeing you tonight and many more of the greatest fans in the world.
The score was 4-1 to us. Jeezo I thought I’d imagined that.
What a team we had then.
First pint in a pub.
1979 Granny Blacks in Candleriggs, lunchtine pint when I had a Saturday job at Goldbergs
Thanks Kayal 33.
Not going tonight but hope everyone has a great time,hope the result from Kilmarnock helps the evenings atmosphere.HH
Sannabhoy and 2000 kids say Hail Hail to Pablo’s family
12.19
FF haven’t called a thing wrong since the founding father Green started their adventure in 2012 so that’ll be it sorted soon then.
Last year the very first interims were coincidentally produced in the days immediately following the 12 month kit and sponsor deal announcements. It’s my opinion those deal were necessary to stack up the going concern basis of preparation.
This year there’s no IPO cash in the bank.
What wonderful pictures and words Paul. What a club.
Hope to meet a few of you tonight at CQten….(I’ll be a t table 12)
Paul congratulations it’s mazing what good can be ahieved with a sound focal point…..
Hoping for a good win tonight against Kilmarnock……
HH
Was speaking to oldtim this morning, he is off the booze.
Anyway, he has informed me there is a spare ticket, anybody interested contact me at Lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Ticket is paid for, all you are asked to do is to make a donation to Mary’s Meals.
Look forward to seeing you all.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Start of our journey to Cqten,should be an interesting trip,looking forward to meeting old friends and new ones
Don’t know if anyone has mentioned it.
If Tony Watt has been demoted to the Lierse B Team then would it not be better to bring him back home, since he was loaned out to get first team football. If he’s playing in a reserve or B team then he would be as well playing for ours.
First (underage) pint in a pub.
The New Penny in Kilwinning in 1970, aged 16. It was near the school.
However, I had my first drink at the age of five – a dash of red wine topped-up with water courtesy of my maternal Italian granny. Only at meal times I hasten to add!
HH!!
The Hoeness verdict, sentence and subsequent resignation should end any chance of King passing any “fit and proper ” test. Should.
My first pint was a sweet black n tan in the lounge at Tams Bar in Buckhaven.
I was 15 and a half, and looked 10.
Old Paddy Stephens questioned my age !but I brasses it out.
I went in for Months ,only to be told I was underage.
I argued my corner ,but had to concede when he produced a copy of the local East Fife Mail,
With a photo of my u18 school football team.
We cleaned up all the honours ,but it cost me my drinking den.
We then resorted to sneaking in the door when he went through to the main bar,crawling on our hands and knees underneath the bar counter and through into the room with the pool table.
We would play the men at pool for drinks and when we won they had to buy it for us.
I was the only Tim in that whole pub ,apart from old Paddy himself.
Buckhind made Larkhall look like the Falls Road.
TT
Ginger 10.10
Rip tony benn. New labour, new party.
needed Tony to rule on the deid team.
More pink floyd than keith floyd
….much too eloquent to be a hun.
Enjoy tonight( will be there virtually). Be proud of what we have achieved and of what we still have to achieve. Plenty of signatures on goody books before you get too outta yer face vp and Gordy64. Hh to the famous Glasgow Celtic
Paul67
Another fantastic achievement.
More than just a Blog.
Well done to everyone involved.
Just popped out for lunch into a very blustery Glasgow city centre. Plenty of hair gel required lads, as for me it”s just plenty of hair read. My first pint was in the Casbah in Easter house one warm sunny evening in 1972 , after a game of ten-twenty wanners . Decimalisation was not long in and my first pint of Lager cost me 13 new pence , my mate paid a penny more for heavy. We only had the one, and I left wondering what all the fuss was about. However I had acquire the taste.which persist to this day. HH.
First underage pint (aged 14) in a pub was on an away European trip to Lisbon…
…unfortunately the one when Gary Caldwell scored an OG!
Might need help with my old memory here.
My first pint was in a pub near the pitches at Lethamhill. Can’t remember the name.
I was playing for the Boys Guild that day and after 3 pints before the game I was sick at half time and taken off.
Thoroughly ashamed of myself.
My next pint was in the Dalriada, accross the road from my school, St Gregory’s in Lightburn.
There were six of us and most of us were wearing the school uniform!
My last pint was in The Old Post Office in Linlithgow just the other day!