BAGENALSTOWN BEAT: Happy Birthday 1st Bagenalstown Scouts Troop
Members of the 1st Bagenalstown Baden-Powell Scouts Troop blowing out the candles during their first birthday celebrations.
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ON SUNDAY afternoon the 1st Bagenalstown Baden-Powell Scouts Troop celebrated their first birthday. The Scout Troop may be youthful, in many senses, but the afternoons party activities, particularly the premiere showing of thirty minute long DVD, chronicling the years wealth of activities and events, belie the fact that this marks an triumphant end to only the inaugural year.
The Group Scout Master, Martin O'Halloran opened proceedings with a warm welcome to all the young members, committee members, parents, family members, friends and Troop leaders who packed out the McGrath Hall.
The ceremony progressed in traditional scouting fashion with a session of poignant Scout songs. While the parents did their best to sing along they could not match the enthusiastic singing of the young members who have a love of classics such as 'Ging Gang Goolie', 'We'll Build a House' and The Shark Song.
This fun element of the birthday party concluded with the blowing out of the candles on a behemoth of birthday cake, suitably iced in the loyal red, yellow and green colours of the Troop.
The birthday party concluded with the first general public screening of the 'Pushing the Envelope' video which recorded the winning efforts of the four 1st Bagenalstown teams who competed in the 24 hour traditional scouting endurance challenge in the Wicklow mountains last October.
The first chapter in the history of 1st Bagenalstown Scout's Troop has been written.
