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Club Notes 20th May 2013

Upcoming fixtures
22nd May, U14 Football Vs Hospital H, Away, 19:00
23rd May, Felie Launch, Woodlands Hotel
24th May, U10 Hurling Blitz, Away
25th May, U10 Hurling Blitz, Away
26th May, City JA Hurling Semi- Finals
29th May, U14 Hurling Vs Templeglantine, Away, 19:00

Minor Hurling
Our second fixture in the Minor Hurling Championship resulted in another draw, this time at home to the amalgamated St. Michaels. Playing into a stiff breeze Kilpeacon performed excellently in the first half with good scores from Nicky Morrissey and a goal a piece from Dean Fanning and Liam Carey. This just left us trailing by two points at the interval. Despite dominating for large parts of the second half, failure to take scoring chances kept the game in the balance right to the end. Five second half points gave us a one point advantage heading into injury time but a late St.Michaels point ended the game all square.

Panel: Eoin Enright, Darragh Griffin,Seán Fitzgerald,Evan Keogh,Evan Moloney,Colm Carey,Cormac Flanagan,Tim Moloney,Nicky Morrissey(0.2), Liam Quirke(0.1),Liam Carey(1.1),Thomas Keogh,Dean Fanning(1.1),Conor Burke(0.1),Craig McNamara(0.1),Conor Griffin,Damean Kearney.

Minor Football
Our minor footballers went into the exam break on a positive note following a hard fought win over St.Pats on Thursday last. The preceeding downpour left underfoot conditions heavy but both sides coped well and produced a great game. A brace of points by Micheál O’Neill gave us a good start and while St. Pats replied a Craig McNamara goal followed quickly by a Liam Quirke point gave us a two point half-time advantage. Second half scores from M.O’Neill, David Cregan and C.McNamara followed.
However we did not turn out possession into scores and St. Pats fought back scoring 1.2 without reply. Kilpeacon rallied again and a Conor Burke goal and points by Damean Kearney and C.McNamara gave us a four point lead into injury time. Resolute St. Pats never gave up and a goal in the last play of the game brough our margin back to one point.
Panel: Eoin Enright, Evan Moloney,Tim Moloney,Liam Carey,Nicky Morrissey,Cormac Flanagan,Colm Carey, David Macken, Seán Fitzferald,Thomas Keogh,Conor Burke(1.0),Liam Quirke(0.1),Craig McNamara(1.2), Micheál O’Neill(0.3),Conor Griffin,Darragh Griffin,David Cregan,Dean Fanning,Damean Kearney(0.1), Evan Keogh. Best of luck to all panel members taking exams at present and in June.

U14 Hurling
Our Feile Team continue to prepare for upcoming match against Templeglantine at end of May. We played Ballybrown recently in a challenge match. While Ballybrown were stronger on the day, we hurled well and the Team continues to make good progress.
On behalf of all of the Club , we want to congratulate Karl Moloney on being picked on the County u14 Hurling squad. Karl is Captain of our team and leads by example . He is a credit to himself and his family and has shown great Commitment and Loyalty to his club.

U-14 football
Best of luck to our newly amalgamated Kilpeacon U-14 football team who will play their first game in the U-14 football championship this Wed 22nd May, away to Hospital/Herbertstown.

U-12 Football & Hurling
We are facing into the second phases of the Hurling and Football leagues having won all our games to date . We closed out our first round games with a comprehensive win over Mungret in the Football league with a score of 4:08 to Mungret’s solitary point. On a night where conditions were quite difficult following torrential rain all day our team played great quality football and worked together very well as a team unit .Once again we had a number of scorers including 2:01 from Sam , goals from Richard and Colin and points from Cathal , Sean etc it is great to see a spread of scoring across the panel.

Now we move up a level in both the Hurling and Football leagues with much tougher matches ahead and the next couple of weeks will tell us where we are and what work lies ahead of us. It is very important that all players are available for the next couple of matches and get to training also.

At this time of year , burn out and injury is a big possibility as there is an awful lot of different activities happening ,including community games activities , schools activities and also GAA .So please talk with your child and make sure they do not over do things. It is important that all on the U12 panel prioritise these matches over matches with other age groups. This U12 panel are in a position to show all other clubs that we are a force to be reckoned with and with a 2 year plan and program whereby we would aim to be top in the county at U14 Level in 2 years time we need to stick together for both training and matches this year.

Finally , best of luck to some of our panel who will be playing in the U11 Community games hurling matches over the coming weeks and also to Sam , Colin and Conor who are going to Athlone next weekend for the All Ireland Tag Rugby Finals having recently won the Munsters .

Summer Camp
Crecora/Manister GAA annual Summer Camp will take place from Monday 1st to Thursday 4th July this year at the GAA field. This is not just limited to Crecora/Manister players so feel free to pass on the word to friends, cousins, etc. It follows on Friday with the opening round of Feile na Gael where we welcome the Tyrone hurling champions Dungannon. Enquiries on Summer Camp to Pat Quirke 087-2347077.

Fundraising
A scrap metal collection will take place on Saturday 25th May and Saturday 1st June in aid of the Crecora/Manister underage development fund. Look out for further details in notes from your school, fliers to your home, etc. Please do your best to support this initiative in any way that you can.

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Club Notes 13th May 2013

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Upcoming fixtures
13th May, 7:15pm, U-16 Hurling vs Garryspillane in Knocklong
16th May, 6:45pm, U-12 Football vs Mungret at home
19th May, 4:00pm, Junior A City Hurling League vs Na Piarsaigh in Caherdavin

Junior Hurling
Our Junior team, played Mungret in the City League and came away with a well-deserved win 3-11 to 0-9 . One of our goals was straight from the training field and it is good to see the coaching paying off on the scoreboard. We also got some great points and overall it was a workman like display.
We limed out as follows: S Keating, J Burke, N Moloney, P Sullivan, G Kelliher, S Moloney, P Walsh, R Hourigan, C Scully, C Skelly, E O’Shea, D Walsh, S McDermott, B Relihan, S Keyes, P Murphy, N Carmody.

Our 2nd game in the City Junior League was against St Pats and on a windy, wet evening we lost this game by 3 points. The game was start stop with many frees and these were pointed with great effect by the St Pat free taker.

We limed out as follows: S Keating, J Burke, N Moloney, P Sullivan, N Carmody, S Moloney, P Walsh, M McCormack, C Scully, C Keyes, E O’Shea, R Hourigan, S McDermott, B Relihan, Damien Walsh, Colin Kelly, P Murphy.

Unfortunately in this game our center back Shane Moloney, received a nasty hand injury and we wish him a speedy recovery and that he will be back in action before the championship.

Our next game is the City league against Na Piarsaigh on Sunday May 19th at 4pm in Caherdavin.

U-16 Hurling
U16 Hurling Championship Kilpeacon V Bruff . Venue Crecora, Date 10th May 2013 at 7pm. Full time Score Kilpeacon 02-07 Bruff 02-12.

Kilpeacon Team: Ian De Capitani, Mark Shanahan, Cian Leahy, Paraic O’Neill, Jake Loughran, Tomas Connolly, Karl Moloney, Edwin Wixted, Barry Fitzgibbon, John Blake, Garry O’Connell, Evan Keogh, Shane O’Connell, Damien Kearney, Stephen O’Donovan & Michael and Richard Bateman.

Yet another great game of Hurling where again Kilpeacon needed one or two lucky breaks but that didn’t happen.

After a great start with points from Edwin Wixted a 65 and a great point made by Karl Moloney and scored by Edwin. We then allowed Bruff back into the game with goals but full of determination Kilpeacon went on with 3 super points from Shane O’Connell one could have been a goal. Other points from Barry Fitzgibbon and Evan who also made a well taken goal by Damien Kearney. Bruff stayed in touch with another goal. Then like in our last game Edwin Wixted scored a goal direct from a 65. That left the half time score Kilpeacon 02-07 Bruff 02-05.

The second half was poor from a Kilpeacon point of view who battled very hard and should have had 3 goals but in the end only scored a point by Edwin. Our backs again put up a great display but Bruff added 7 points to win.

Next U-16 Hurling Match Monday 13th May in knocklong V Garryspillane

U-14 football
The U-14 football championship will commence on 22nd May with an away game vs Hospital/Herbertstown and in preparation U-14 football training for our newly amalgamated Kilpeacon team has resumed on Sunday evenings at 6pm at Fedamore pitch for the past several weeks with a good turnout at each of these. Last Sunday we teamed up with the U-12 footballers for an excellent training session with Noel Hartigan the Limerick City Games Development manager which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. With just one week to our first game we need everyone in attendance for next weekend’s training session.

U-12 Football & Hurling
Last week we played our final game in the first round of the U12 hurling League against Caherline . In difficult conditions we had a great panel performance and we were able to get every player a minimum of one half of game time. By winning this game we have maintained our 100% record so far this year and have finished top of our group.

What this means is that for the next round of games we will face the top teams from 3 other groups so we expect to have much tougher matches coming up for the second phase of this league.

In the match against Caherline it was great to see so many players get on the score sheet and it would be remiss of me not to mention Sean Kirby and Eoghan O Connor who weighed in with 2 goals each and Fergal Egan who shattered the back of the net also. Well done to all scorers and also all those who played their part from Goals right through to Forwards .

Next up is our final first phase group game against Mungret in Football in a home game next Thursday evening at Crecora Pitch. In preparation for this game we will have a guest coach out from the GDA to help us polish up on some football skills. So Training for football continues on Sunday at 6pm in Crecora. I hope all players can attend this training session.

It would be great to have big support for our final home game of this round so please spread the word and try to attend if you can.

Thanks again for your continued support in getting the players to training and matches . It is much appreciated.

Summer Camp
Crecora/Manister GAA annual Summer Camp will take place from Monday 1st to Thursday 4th July this year at the GAA field. This is not just limited to Crecora/Manister players so feel free to pass on the word to friends, cousins, etc. It follows on Friday with the opening round of Feile na Gael where we welcome the Tyrone hurling champions Dungannon. Enquiries on Summer Camp to Pat Quirke 087-2347077.

Fundraising
A scrap metal collection will take place on Saturday 25th May and Saturday 1st June in aid of the Crecora/Manister underage development fund. Look out for further details closer to the time.

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Club Notes 6th May 2013

Upcoming fixtures
9th May, 6:45pm, U12 Hurling vs Caherline away
12th May, 6:00pm, Junior A City Hurling League vs Mungret away – duplicate fixture?
13th May, 7:00pm, U-16 Football vs Na Piarsaigh away
16th May, 6:45pm, U-12 Football vs Mungret at home

U-16 Hurling/football
Kilpeacon U16 Hurling Championship V Ballybricken 6th May 2013 in Crecora.
Kilpeacon line up. Ian DeCapitani, Paraic O’Neill,Cian Leahy,Mark Shanahan, Karl Moloney, Tomas Connolly, Jake Loughran, Barry Fitzgibbon, Edwin Wixted, Garry O’Connell, amian Kearney, John Blake, Stephen O’Donovan, Evan Keogh and Shane O’Connell, Michael and Richard Bateman

Final Score Kilpeacon 2-6 Ballybricken 3-9.

This was a great game of Hurling where Kilpeacon just came up short. After a super start going 3 points ahead thanks to Damian Kearney and Edwin Wixted

But 2 soft goals in the space of as many minutes brought Ballybricken back into the game. Kilpeacon stayed in touch with great points from Barry Fitzgibbon and John Blake..

3 points down at half time then right back into it thanks to a 65 from Edwin Wixted which went straight into their goal. Ballybricken then got another goal and Kilpeacon nearly got a goal from Shane O’Connell who then scored a point. Evan Keogh then pulled on a ball that flew into the back of the net. It was a tough hard game. The Kilpeacon work rate especially in the backs and quality of play in general was a joy to watch but needed a bit of luck. Each of the Kilpeacon team gave a man of the match performance including the Batemans who came on in the second half. Conor Kirby was somewhat of a loss after breaking a bone in his foot playing Hurling for his school.

Scores. E. Wixted 1goal and I pt, E.Keogh 1 goal,D Kearney 2pts, B.Fitzibbon,S.O’Connell and J.Blake 1pt each.

Next game V Bruff in Crecora on Friday 10th May at 7pm.

Note: U-16 Football vs Na Piarsaigh away on Monday 13th May is off due to Na Piarsaigh withdrawing from the football.

U-14 football
The U-14 football championship will commence on 22nd May with an away game vs Hospital/Herbertstown and in preparation U-14 football training for our newly amalgamated Kilpeacon team has already resumed on Sunday evenings at 6pm at Fedamore pitch. There has been a good turnout for the initial training sessions and we look forward to an even greater turnout this week and to a successful summer for our U-14 footballers this year.

U-12 Football & Hurling
This week we held our Hurling training session on Monday night in Fedamore and by all accounts we had a great turnout.

The session was led by Colm Coughlan who gave all the players a great workout which is important in keeping everyone focused and fit.

Last evening we had our second U12 Football League match. We travelled to Pallaskenry to play a combined Kildimo / Pallaskenry team. In an entertaining game during which some players played in positions they are not usually used to , it is fair to say that bar a 10 minute spell in the second half , we dominated the game throughout. I cannot mention all players individually but want to mention both Goalies last night , Colin and Sam. It’s great to have strength from the back and both played extremely in what would not be their natural positions

Final score was Crecora/Manister 4-6 , Kildimo/Pallas 1-4

On Sunday evening 12th May we are getting a guest coach out from the Limerick Games development Association , Noel Hartigan , to take a football session with special emphasis on the tackle , movement off the ball etc. I would like for all on the football panel to attend this session and make special effort to do so.

I think that any of you that have been at some of the recent matches can see that this current U12 squad are strong and if we can keep these players together over the next couple of years , we could all see a return and there is a definite potential to be playing and competing at the highest level with this panel going forward , a lot of this depends on us the parents to continue to help and encourage the players and let them know that we are proud of them and their team work , training ethos etc. There are always pressures of playing other sports , playing matches at different age-groups etc but it is very important that players put most focus on their current age group team and attend those training sessions so that all others on the panel can see the full panel ethos is being practiced by all.

Thursday 9th …Hurling League Crecora V’s Caherline 18:30 away game…

U-6/U-8 Hurling
On Friday 3rd May Crecora Manister hosted a very successful U8 hurling blitz.
Teams attended from Claughaun and Ballincurragh Gaels, with 3 teams from Crecora Manister.
All players got plenty of game time with 9 matches played in total across 3 pitches.
It was great to see the Crecora Manister players showing improvement from last year and all players wanting to contest the ball.

The Crecora Manister teams were made up of players ranging in age from 5 to 8 years and it was great to see them all putting their skills into practise and enjoying themselves.
The rain came towards the end of the second round of matches and rained throughout the final round of matches.
At the end the Players had just time to gather their refreshments, unfortunately we did not get time take a group photograph.

Thanks to all the coaches and parents for their assistance and for supporting the young players.

Cul Camp
Crecora Manister GAA annual Cul Camp will take place from Monday 1st to Thursday 4th July this year at the GAA field, it follows on Friday with the opening round of Feile na Gael where we welcome the Tyrone hurling champions Dungannon. Enquiries on Summer Camp to Pat Quirke 0872347077.

GAA Open Night
There will be a GAA open night in UL on May 10th at 7pm. This is an ideal opportunity for your young hurlers & footballers to meet the Limerick Senior hurling & footballers in a night of family fun!