Upcoming fixtures
Minor County Football B Final
26th Oct, U10 Hurling Blitz, Away

U10/U12 Hurling/Football
Firstly a big thank you especially to Noel Kennedy for organising trip to Tralee , but also to Noel Quirke , Henry Nash and Chris O Donnell . There was a lot to organise to get the games to run off smoothly , organise Bus , entry to Aqua Dome , McDonalds and then to have everyone home on time so well done guys.

Also to the parents who travelled , thanks a million . Without your help in keeping all the players together and keeping an eye on them in the pools etc , we would have had a tough time. I think it’s fair to say that everyone who travelled had a great time and a fitting end to the season.

Regarding the games played by the U12’s

The lads did well on Saturday. Took us a little while to make it count but we were much stronger in the hurling and I think the final score was 5-10 to 2-1. They had planned for us to play Kerin O Rahillys in football but we received word the night before to say they couldn’t field a team. We asked the Parnells lads if they would play football and 13 of their lads agreed. The 10s lost their hurling match by 4/5 points. Sam\Darragh O Keefe\Ethan\Ciaran Muir played for the U10’s in hurling so thanks to these guys. The 10s were due to play John Mitchells in football and their coach said they were very strong and given Parnells only had 13 for the U12’s game, we switched a number of 12s to the 10s game – Colin Coughlan, Cian Enright, Darragh Foley, Darragh O’Keefe, Ethan, Ciaran Muir,Sean Kirby,Brendan all agreed to play with the U10’s for the football match so thanks again to these guys for agreeing to play with the 10’s .

In the U12’s football match we struggled a bit at the start but once we settled down and made a couple of positional changes we got right back into the game. John Burke went into goals and made some very good saves. It was quite a niggly game really. Their players were very anxious to beat us in football given that they were from the home of Football .The Ref gave a load of frees against us for our tackling which for the most part he was right. Something we need to work on. We were level 4-6 to 5-3 well into the second half and both teams quite keen but after a few fouls in a row the ref decided to blow up the game a few minutes early. Good to see our lads showing they were as good as them and if we had been able to hold onto the guys who played with the 10’s we would have easily beaten them but as the trip was a fun trip , the results were not that important but the performance of the players shows real potential for this group.

Rest of the day went well. We have a few potential Lifeguards in Noel K and Ken Duggan , well done guys , might see ye on the remake of Baywatch !!!

We are hoping to organise one more match on Saturday 26th Oct if we can get opposition in both hurling and football and I think after that , everyone will be glad of a couple of months break to recharge the batteries.

Coaches Wanted!
If anyone is interested in Coaching or helping out in coaching especially with our underage teams ie U6 , U8 and U10’s in both hurling and/or football please let Ger Riordan or Noel Kennedy know . We are short of football coaches all through the age groups especially at U6 , U8 and U10’s and could even do with another coach at u12’s so if you are interested or know of anyone who is interested, we will organise coaching courses etc to help you.