GAA club offers up four-bedroom house worth €280,000 as top prize in fundraising raffle

It’s a bit of an upgrade on a hotel break for two or a voucher for your local supermarket.

A GAA club in Louth is offering up what must be the most prestigious top prize in the history of GAA club fundraising raffles in a draw that will take place later this year. Last week, St. Fechin’s GAA Football Club from the village of Termonfeckin, just outside Drogheda, officially launched its Win A Feckin House campaign, which will see one lucky person win a house worth a cool €280,000 as the top prize in a fundraising raffle in December, with all funds raised going towards the building of a community centre. Working with a local developer, the club secured a house in Termonfeckin’s Castle Park development, which is in close proximity to the stunning Termonfeckin beach, two schools and two world-class golf courses – Baltray and Seapoint. Speaking at the launch, Club Chairman John Mc Evoy said: “We’ve been looking to get a community centre project off the ground for a number of years and have been thinking of ways in which we could raise the money. We think ‘Win A Feckin House’ is a feckin great idea! “We have a wonderful 21-acre site here and the community centre would be a fantastic facility not only for our members, but the wider community at large.” The house is the standout prize, but the runners-up prizes aren’t bad either, with a Mediterranean cruise, a four-ball plus dinner at Baltray, which has hosted the Irish Open in the past, and an all-expenses-paid trip to Barcelona all up for grabs. Tickets for the draw, which will be held in the Westcourt Hotel in Drogheda on 30 December 2018, cost €100 and can be purchased on www.winafeckinhouse.com; more information on the campaign is available on Facebook here. If you’re not in, you can’t win.