< Previous© October 2018 The Meath Coaster50Yes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Helps With Your Chronic Pain By teaching patients’ better strat-egies for coping with chronic pain, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a valuable treatment al-ternative for the millions who take pain killers for Chronic Pain. Ac-cording to an article in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice. "Cognitive be-havioural therapy is a useful and empiri-cally based method of treatment for pain disorders that can decrease reliance on the excessive use of painkillers " write Drs. Muhammad Hassan Majeed of Natchaug Hospital, Mansfield Center, Conn., and Donna M. Sudak of Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia. They discuss evidence supporting the use of CBT to avoid or reduce the use of pain-killers for chronic pain. CBT Offers Effective, Safer Alternative to Opioids for Chronic Pain Despite the aggressive marketing and prescribing of these powerful painkillers, there has been little change in the sever-ity of pain reported by patients. Chronic use increases the serious risks of misuse, abuse, addiction, overdose, and death," They believe CBT is an important alter-native for treatment of chronic pain. The goal of CBT is to help patients change the way they think about and manage their pain. CBT helps patients understand pain is a stressor and, like other stressors, is something they can adapt to and cope with. Interventions include relaxation training, cognitive restructuring, and guided exer-cise -- all in the context of an "empathic and validating" relationship with a pro-fessional Therapist like myself. These interventions "have the potential to relieve pain inten-sity, improve the quality of life, and improve physical and emo-tional function," according to the authors. "Therapy helps the patient see that emotional and psychological factors influence perception of pain and behaviours that are associated with hav-ing pain. Therapy puts in place cognitive and behavioural strategies to help patients cope successfully." The authors cite several recent original studies and review articles supporting the effectiveness of CBT for chronic pain. Studies suggest CBT has a "top-down" effect on pain control and perception of painful stimuli. It normalizes reductions in the brain's grey matter volume, result-ing from Stress. CBT effectively reduces pain scores, while avoiding or reducing the risks of overuse, addiction, overdose, and death of painkillers. It can be used as a standalone treatment or in combination with other treatments. Doctors Recommend CBT for Chronic Pain AND for Depression Anxiety Panic and more issues. You will learn many skills to manage down the pain, relieve the pain, and in some cases actually elimi-nate the pain. With cases of panic anxi-ety or stress, symptoms have been either controlled or eliminated. Treatment with CBT begins with an initial in -depth Con-sultation, one to one. This Assess’ your suitability and is private and confidential. Whatever your illness or ailment simply text 0858126677 to organize your initial consultation today Bernice Mc Kenna ( Adv. Psych . CBT) MICHP §© October 2018 The Meath Coaster51Murder, mystery, and tragedy in MorningtonOnce upon a time, where the Ozanam Home now stands, stood one of the finest Queen Anne style houses in Co. Meath. – Mornington House, Coney Hall. Built in the early 1700’s it was originally owned by the Wellesley family, one of whom was Arthur, better known as the Duke of Wellington who famously battled Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, and was twice British Prime Minister.In 1816 ownership of the house passed to the Brabazon family. James Henry Braba-zon was the last member of the family to reside there. He was not liked by the peo-ple in the area and had a bad reputation. One night in January 1880, Mr Brabazon and his coachman returned from Drogheda to find the house locked and in complete darkness. When they gained entry they found Margaret Skean, a housekeeper Mr Brabazon had dismissed three months ear-lier, seated at the kitchen table. There was blood on her face and arms, and her hands and clothes were covered with flour. The walls, floor, and table were covered with flour in what appeared to be an attempt to cover-up blood stains. Miss Skean’s re-placement Emma Bouchier was nowhere to be found. When the police arrived they found blood streaks on the floor leading to the scullery which housed a well 15ft deep, at the bot-tom of which they found the badly mutilated body of Miss Bouchier. Four years earlier Margaret Skean had en-tered employment with Mr. Brabazon as a young woman of good character, now she stood before a court, a visibly broken woman, charged with murder. What had happened to her in the intervening years became apparent during the trial. Brabazon had abused, violated, and beaten her, and as a result she had become alcohol dependent. On the 8th March 1880, after only 15mins deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. The judge sentenced her to penal servitude for life. After a number of petitions by Margaret Skean herself to the Lord Lieutenant, and favourable sup-port from the prison chairman she was released on parole on 3rd March 1890. On her release she returned to relations in Meath and then disappeared.After the trial James Henry Brabazon left Mornington never to return, it is not known where he spent the last years of his life. He died in 1921.Mornington House, Coney Hall, was sold a number of times over the years. Around 1950 it was sold to a Mrs. Beresford, a member of the Guinness/Mahon family, who later married Mr. Jack Graham. They had two children, but after only four years family life at Mornington House, Coney Hall, came to a sudden and tragic end. In 1955 a fire broke out and destroyed the house. It also unfortunately and tragically claimed the life of their eighteen month old baby. Mrs. Graham moved to Kilsharvan where she lived till her demise. It is not known what became of Mr. Graham. §© October 2018 The Meath Coaster52Castlehill RidingClubSupported by the North East Region of the AIRC, four riding clubs recently banded together to host the NER Autumn Dressage League at Cheval Showgrounds, Jordanstown, Co. Dublin. day, with a dressage score of 32 and a blistering cross country round, they were unlucky to be out of the placings in the intermediate class. Dayna and her horse Cuig also performed brilliantly on the day, but it was completing their first interna-tional 1* at Camphire International Horse Trials where they really shone. Massive congratulations to Dayna on finishing 29th in a huge international class. This pair are only going from strength to strength. Best of luck to club members Lindsey ilona Brady and Ruth Callan who quali-fied to compete at the Dressage Ireland National Championships held in Cavan Equestrian Centre. For more information, please “like” our fa-cebook, or contact Olivia on (086) 383 1802Olivia Nolan and AbiLindsey ilona Brady and Trigger JoeDayna Curtis and Cillnabradden CuigOur very own Castlehill RC hosted the first leg, and our members were outstand-ing in their commitment to making sure the day ran smoothly. Club secretary Oliv-ia Nolan was not only volunteering on the day, but competing also, where she was 3rd in the Advanced Primary class, and 2nd in the Sportsmans C. Huge thanks to all that helped, the club spirit was fantastic. At the Copperfield RC leg of the league, Olivia and her lovely horse Abi again rode brilliantly by placing 2nd in the Sportsmans C and 6th in the graded AP class. Club chair Lindsey ilona Brady and her horse Trig-ger Joe competed in the Advanced Inter-mediate class, where they won the against some stiff competition. Well done girls!!! Olivia then went on to place 3rd in the AP league and won the Sportsmans C. A fan-tastic performance from this duo. The AIRC National Eventing Champion-ships were also held recently at Lisgarvan house, Co. Carlow, where Gary Monahan and Dayna Curtis represented the club. Gary and his horse Olaf had a fantastic Gary Monahan and Olaf© October 2018 The Meath Coaster53title. Doleres n Geoff O’Donoghue ran the Belfast city half marathon on the 23rd – a lot of half marathons this month! Kenny Boyke ran the Park west night run 5k on the 25th getting in the mood for Haloow-een!Cilles at the 30th Star of the Sea cross coun-try event - gold for Holly Brennan in the u17 3000m. James Smith had a superb run to finish second in the u174500m. In the senior and junior ladies race, Lauren Murphy stayed in contention with the leading 3 until the final 150m where she had the kick to finish and win.Lots of racing this month, somehow there was room for training too. The couch to 5k program kicked off at the end of September, you’ll be seeing this enthu-siastic bunch pounding the pavements of Bettystown Mondays and Wednesdays for the next couple of months. It’s not too late to join in, check out www.cillesac.ie for details.Bigi linn ag rith §Cilles Athletic ClubLoads of Cilles AC lovelies at the Tara Ac 5k at the end of August. Even big-ger numbers at the Boyne AC 5k with over 40 members tak-ing part. A ladies team win put the icing on the cake. The mother daughter combo of Mairead and Lauren Murphy with Lor-raine Hyland took the honours for the la-dies. Lauren was also second lady overall and first in her junior category, Mairead also came first in her category. Our gents took second in the men’s team, compris-ing of Bryan Barry, Kenneth Boyle and Ciaran Smith. ON the same weekend Paul Flanagan was taking on the Lough Shee-lin Challenge, very challenging we hear. Well done to Graham Devitt and Ian Ca-sey who conquered the Dingle marathon. Graham was in action two weeks later to complete the Kilkenny medieval mara-thon.Early September Aaron Smith ran on the U17 Irish Team in the British and Ireland Mountain running championship. A su-perb result from Aaron who finished 3rd of the Irish and helped the Irish Team to an excellent 4th place.Huge numbners turned out for the Frank Duffy 10 mile on sep 2nd, well done to Grainne Ward on complet-ing her first half marathon. Well done to Tim, Aishling, Karen, Regan and Paula on completing the Dublin half marathon. Congratulations to Darragh Collins on becoming the U-20s Triathlon National series champion for 2018. Darragh has competed all summer to win this coveted Lorraine, Lauren and Mairead Ladies team© October 2018 The Meath Coaster54Marathon ManGerardFay, 100 Mara-thons in 16 MonthsAthlete aims to raise €50,000 for Cystic Fibro-sis Ireland -On the 26th of August Bettystown man, Gerard Fay completed his 400th Marathon. Now he has firmly set his sights on completing his 500th before the end of 2019. Gerard is an accomplished maratho-ner. In 2017 he completed 78 Marathons in the calendar year and this year he has already completed 53 and is heading for over 80. Aside from the Mar-athons he also does numerous shorter dis-tance races from 800m to half marathons as his training in during the week and at weekends when there are no marathons on. He is also planning on doing a 24hr race in Listowel Town Park on the 22/23 September where he is hopeful of doing a minimum of 65 miles in the 24hrs. The challenge is all part of a spectacular effort to raise more than €50,000 to pro-vide physio equipment in the CF units around the country but also to assist Cyst-ic Fibrosis Ireland with their Exercise Grant Scheme whereby they give a grant to Persons with CF for part funding Gym Memberships or the purchase of home ex-ercise equipment. All the marathons will be done in Ireland both North and South and there will be a run in at least 20 of the 32 counties in Ireland.Gerard has already raised more than €125,000 in previous fundraisers to en-hance services and im-prove the quality of life for people with cystic fibrosis. All the ex-penses of the challenges come from Gerard’s own pocket with 100 per cent of the funds raised going to the cause. Despite the daunting physical and mental challenge, he has set for himself, Gerard has many very good reasons for doing it.“Running is well and truly part of my life for the past 21 years and I am proud to wear both the Purple of CF Ireland and the Yellow of the CF Trust UK when I am doing my marathons. I still wear the Red of Drogheda & District AC in the shorter races. Running for me is my way of giving back to those with Cystic Fibro-sis. These people have given me so much over the years and the running allows me to aid in both the raising of awareness of CF both North and South of Ireland but also through my fundraising to improve the lives of these amazing people. With-out them I doubt I would even be running. I have been involved with CF for going on 30 years or maybe more and over that time I have met and become friends with those with CF and when I see what they must go through day in and day out it pushes me to my limits to want to help them. I am not a legend or anyone special, just a person who goes about doing what I enjoy most. CF treatments have come a long way in © October 2018 The Meath Coaster55the past 30 years and while for some the treatments are a huge improvement in their daily lives, for others the current medication is not suitable and in the case of those in Northern Ireland and the UK is medication is not available. Research will bring about improvements but in the meantime the fundraising must continue, and I will keep running as long as I can. The marathons are not about me, that are about keeping the memory of all those with CF (alive and deceased) going and is my way of honouring each one of them.“Marathon running in Ireland has really taken off in the last few years. When I started in 1998 we only had two mara-thons in Ireland in Dublin and Belfast. Now with the efforts of the Marathon Club of Ireland, East of Ireland Marathon Series and the East Antrim Marathon Se-ries as well as other athletic clubs around the country, there are over 100 marathons. Marathon running is like being part of one big family. We support each other through thick and thin.“I want to take this opportunity to pay special tribute to all those who have lent their support and really helped with my training and keeping my spirits high—my family, my own athletic club of Drogheda & District AC, as well as the other local Athletic Clubs. I also want to thank all those who have donated in the past and to encourage anyone who is interested in do-nating to this worthwhile cause to not put it off for another day. Please do it now!” Those with Cystic Fibrosis need their equipment now and I know this equip-ment helps them with their fitness, lung function and also aids in keeping them out of hospital.To follow Gerard Fay’s adventure and to donate now, simply visit https://give.everydayhero.com/ie/500-marathons-for-cystic-fibrosis Or website www.seeoff-cf.com For more information on cystic fibrosis, visit www.cfireland.ie. Cllr Stephen McKee and daughters supporting Meath against Tyrone at the recent Intermediate All-Ireland Ladies Final in Croke Park.Local Fianna Fáil Councillor Stephen McKee and daughters with Store Manager Colin Breen enjoying the ice-cream at Cool Beanz Bettystown during their recent annual gelato tasting competition in aid of local charity.© October 2018 The Meath Coaster56Stamullen Football ClubNew Team Alert - Girl's u8The club would like to extend a big welcome our new u8s girls team , this amazing bunch of girls have just graduat-ed from our girls academy. Orlaith Byrne , Orlaith Farrell, Sophia, Grace, Alannah , Hannah, Emily and Millie have a great team spirit and are working very hard in training and learning new skills . They are really enjoying being in their new team managed by Simon and Fiona , we wish them the very best of luck for the season . If anyone is looking to join the girls we train in gormanston complex on Tues-day evenings 6.30-7.30 contact Ali on 0876125466 . Monday girls academy The girls academy is back in action on mondays at 1.30-2.30 after school over at st Pats Astro , it’s great to see famil-iar faces getting back to it and new players coming in to learn a new sport , Our super new under 8 girls team.© October 2018 The Meath Coaster57new skills , make friends and most im-portantly have fun along the way . We look forward to seeing budding new stars emerge if you have any enquir-ies please contact Ali on 0876125466 Saturday Academy See the online Octo-ber Coaster for lots more photosOur Saturday Academy is back after sum-mer break and we have lots of new re-cruits which is brilliant to see. Saturday Academy is on Saturday mornings from 10-11am in Gormanston college, it’s run by Karl and his team of helpers and is go-ing from strength to strength.Caireann one of our awesome academy coaches with some of our academy play-ers of the week.Looking for strictly dancers!!!!!!We are looking for all you groovers, mov-ers and shakers to compete in our next Stamullen FC does Strictly come Danc-ing which is happening in City North Hotel next Feb. No experience required, we promise you will have an amazing time and all training will be provided. If this sounds like something you are inter-ested in, please contact Grainne on 087-6395245Club Contact Details:Email - stamullenfc@gmail.com Facebook - www.facebook.com/stamullenfcClub Secretary - Marcus Kelly – 0851477825Website – www.stamullenfc.com §© October 2018 The Meath Coaster58East Meath UnitedEddie Maher MemorialSeptember saw visits to Muiredeachs Park the home of Albion Rovers to take part in the annual Eddie Maher me-morial tournament held over two week-ends. On the first weekend our U10’s as-sisted by Mark, Gareth & Ed made the trip with their crew & gave a great account playing 4 great games. In the afternoon session we had 3 teams in U11’s, Hawks, Falcons & Saints. Great football displayed by all with both featuring in 4 games each. On the Sun-day seen our U12 Panthers & U12 Devils give a good account of themselves against some top opposition playing 4 games each. In the late evening session our U16 Prem made the visit too. With some play-ers unavailable or away or holidays others stepped up to the grade and did very well. While weekend two saw our U13 Tigers & U14 Titans in action. The U13’s played 4 games in total, although no silverware for the lads but this was a good run out as they return to action in the NDSL league. The Titans had great game time before their season recommenced and were only pipped on goal difference in topping their group with wins over Moneymore and-Donacarney and a defeat against Dromin in their group. In the knockout they were defeated against Maynooth. Overall a good experience for the Titans lads.Panthers - Summers 3’sFor our Panthers “Summer loving hap-pened so fast” a trio of summer tourna-ments came to an end recently for EMU U13 Panthers in Monasterboice with their most gutsy performance in a long while. However lets rewind to their first of three and The Glamorous Volkswagen Invita-tional Masters cup which is almost a dis-tant memory now where we had a deplet-ed squad backed up by some of our U11’s players braved the elements & downpours of typical Irish summer to compete with the country’s elite teams. This led up to the most eagerly awaited tournament, which was perfectly co-ordinated by everyone © October 2018 The Meath Coaster59at EMU on the day our own East Meath United Cup & festival at camp Minnis-town. We were desperately unlucky to be denied progress in a group by goal differ-ence despite drawing with eventual win-ners Shamrock Rovers. Finally to the Eddie Maher tournament in Albion Rvrs. The lads topped their group with a fine win over Balbriggan and a hard fought draw with hosts Albion to take their place in the elite group in the Cup. The absence of a number of key players and a mounting injury list & crisis was al-ways going to take its toll but ultimately the game against Dundalk Shamrocks came down to a referee decision with the final came against our neighbours in Donacarney. The EMU lads were out on their feet but a change of formation, personal and tactics brought out the best performance of the day. Despite going be-hind early on the boys dug deep to defend, keeping possession well while creating a number of chances to score themselves. Overall our summer 3’s have been a great effort by all this summer and it should bode well for the return to league action with has com-menced. Just a word of thanks & a mention to all the those U11’s who helped out over the past few weeks & to the play-ers who played and trained through the pain barrier.Coaches Corner - “Keepers ball”How many times have you heard the words “the keeper’s mistake cost us?” Never accu-rate but the position of goal-keeper is hugely important. Other players can often ‘get away with it’, unfortunately it’s rarely the case for the keeper. And yet how many coaches get the time or have the skills to address this with their goal-keeper?. With this in mind about two years ago EMU began their goalkeeper specific training sessions on Friday nights. The brainchild of Robert Quinn, with his as-sistant Luke Reilly (both UEFA C licence goalkeeper coaches) the job of specific coaching for keepers began for boys and girls from U7 to U17. Massive credit is due to the lads for be-ing able to tailor sessions for such a broad age group with varying abilities but the lads have gone about teaching the players all the basic tech-niques necessary to be a good shot stopper as well as putting emphasis on football skills like pass-ing and receiving with correct bodyshape. Together with regular help from Mark Sheahan, Aidan Tallon & Aaron Mooney the lads contin-ue to work with anything Next >