All welcome to outing at 12 O’Clock Hills

Crecora Community Walking Group invites you to join us on our rescheduled outing to the 12 O’Clock hills in Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare.
Meeting at Belvoir carpark V95YKN5.
Monday 30th October at 12 noon.

Routes
There are 3 walks to choose from which will suit all ages and levels of fitness.
A 5km loop, an 8.5 km loop and a 13 km loop.
The 5km loop includes a beautiful fairyland attraction which the younger ones will love.
The 8.5km and 13km loops are very well marked and maintained, and require a moderate to good level of fitness.

We encourage you to bring along a picnic which can be enjoyed on the benches in the car park afterwards.

More Details
Please see https://12oclockhills.com/ for more details on the great amenity.

Everyone is Welcome
We would love to meet as many people as possible on the day so please share this message, Many thanks.

Contact Donnacha on 087 4167797 if you have any questions.

6 Week Walking Challenge

Our annual 6 week autumn walking challenge commenced on Tuesday 17th October at the walking track at the GAA club.

Let’s get together once a week on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm.

All are welcome so please spread the word to your family, friends and neighbours.

Please let everyone you meet know about the challenge and that the walking track is open to all the members of the community not just members of the GAA and Camogie clubs.

Club Notes 9th October 2023

Under 21 Hurling Championship
Our U21s are amalgamated with South Liberties and they got their campaign in the U21 A Hurling
Championship off to a winning start in Dooley Park on Saturday 7th October against Kilmallock.

This was a very enjoyable game which turned out to be a high quality, high scoring affair with strong displays from both teams.
Kilmallock had the better of the exchanges in the early part of the first half helped by 3 goals scored in the first 15 minutes.

Points from Cathal O’Neill and Darragh Godfrey helped us to settle into the game and then Chris Shanahan narrowed the gap by slicing through the defence and adding an emphatic finish to the net. We continued to press forward with Cathal, Chris and Darragh adding to their totals and Rory Hannan also getting on the scoreboard.
Ben Compton gathered a pass and broke past his marker to finish to the net prior to half time to give us a lead at the short whistle of 2 – 11 to 3 – 6.

The game continued at a fast pace in the second half and the accuracy of Darragh from frees added to points from Cathal and Rory enabled us to extend our lead.
Midway through the second half Darragh struck for a goal and soon after Ben Garry made a decisive save from a free and from there, we were able to see out the game.
We added further points from Sean Enright and Ciaran Kennedy to leave the final score 3 – 19 to 3 – 12.

 

Junior A Hurling Championship
We played the Quarter Final of the Junior A Hurling Championship Tuesday night 3rd October under lights in Knocklong v Kilteely Dromkeen.
After a good run of form, the team arrived with hopes of progressing to the next round.
We got off to the worst possible start by conceding 2 goals within the first 10 minutes.

We recovered well from the initial setup and had our best spell from there to the half time whistle.
Points from Cathal O’Neill, Conor Kirby and Cormac Flanagan helped to reduce the deficit to
3 points as we went into the break on a scoreline of 0 – 8 to 2 – 5.

A good start in the second half was required to bridge the gap and we dominated the early proceedings.
Unfortunately we didn’t turn this dominance into scores and a number of wides meant we were still chasing the game.
We conceded a couple of frees which were converted to make our task ever harder.
We continued to press in search of scores but we only added 4 points to our first half total.

Ultimately the 2 early goals were to prove the difference between the 2 teams.
This is a young team which undoubtedly has the potential to improve and progress in the years ahead.
Thanks to all the players and management team for their efforts throughout the year.
Squad : Gerard Kennedy, Evan Moloney, Jack Dalton, Paraic O’Neill, Richard Murphy, Darach Skelly, Shane Moloney, Rian O’Byrne, Cathal O’Neill, Chris Shanahan, Conor Kirby, David Power, Rob Henehan, Cormac Flanagan, Rory Hannan, Brendan Power, James Conheady, Donnacha Connolly, Damien Kearney, Ciaran Kennedy, Fergal Egan, Ciaran Humphreys, Sean Keyes.

 

Crecora Manister GAA Juvenile Athletic Development Pathway
Open to Boys Born between 2009 – 2012
ALL NEW PLAYERS WELCOME

15 Sessions, once weekly on Wednesday Nights at Manister Community Hall
FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 18th

Please email Ger Hickey to enrol:
coachingofficer.crecoramanister@gmail.com

PROBLEM: Youth athletes need to be exposed to lots of things outside of skills/sports training:
Sprinting, jumping, agility, strength & mobility training
This is often not covered by solely playing one or two sports

SOLUTION: Coaches, age appropriate Athletic Development training sessions focused on developing overall athleticism through lots of different modalities in a structured manner while enjoying the process.

COACH – OSCAR O’DWYER
Qualification:
Master of Science in Sports Performance, University of Limerick
Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (NSCA)

Teams Worked With Recently:
Tipperary Senior Camogie Team
Clare U20 Football Team
Adare Senior Hurlers/Footballers
Dromin Athlacca Premier Intermediate Hurlers
Cratloe Senior Hurlers/Footballers

 

CLUB Limerick Draw
The September CLUB Limerick Draw took place on Saturday 30th September 2023.
We added two more winners to our run this year, having 4 winners in the 2023 Draw up to September.
Congratulations to Ger and Siobhan Carey on winning the Exclusive prize of an Apple iPad.
And congratulations to Catherine Hogan who won €200. This is a great run for Catherine having won already only 2 months ago in July where she won €300.

Thanks to Ger, Siobhan and Catherine for your support of this draw, this year and down through the years.
We have a few more draws before the end of the year so hopefully we will have a few more lucky winners.

 

Club Online Shop now Open
The Crecora Manister GAA COBI sports online shop is now open!
To ensure delivery of goods before Christmas this online shop will remain open until Tuesday 17th October. No more orders will be taken after 17th October.
The shop has 4 GAA Packs to cover all players, coaches, parents, members and supporters.
All items in the packs can be purchased individually.

Orders will be delivered direct to the address specified when placing the order.
Please note that our Club will not be handling any payments or deliveries.

Check out the Crecora Manister Club gear in the online shop and go place your order!
https://cobisports.com/product-category/club-shop/crecora-manister-gaa/

 

Underage Sponsors
A big thanks to some of our underage team sponsors for the 2023 season.
U7 Teams sponsored by David Wallace of Breeze Air www.breezeair.ie
U9 Teams sponsored Richard Keays of BCD www.mascogroup.com
U11 Teams sponsored by Ger Hickey of CE-TEK Medical www.ce-tekmed.ie

Thank you all for your support of Crecora Manister GAA Club and our young players.