Upcoming Fixtures
In the Intermediate Hurling League, our boys take on St. Kieran’s at home on May 18th at 7:30pm
Our U11 in amalgamation with Patrickswell take on Granagh Ballingarry in the Community Games Competition
Our U12 Footballers take on Mountcollins at home on Thursday at 7pm
The U11 Hurlers take on South Liberties at home on Wednesday at 7:30pm
All support is welcome to all these games.

Match Reports
Out Intermediate footballers closed out their League campaign this week with 2 matches, first up was a home game against a strong Galbally side who were top of the table coming into this game and who we have met on a number of occasions over the last few years in championship. This was a fine performance from our lads who showed huge improvement from previous games and took the game to Galbally for the full 60 Mins. While we ended in defeat, great pride and learnings were taken from the game which ended on a score line of 3-07 to 1-08.
Then on Saturday we welcomed Pallasgreen to Crecora and started out very strong with 1-03 to no score on the board after 15 mins. Pallasgreen then took control of the game putting up the next 9 scores without reply – we rallied well in the closing stages but could not bridge the gap. Great credit to the 16 players who togged out, especially the dual players who played their 3rd full game in the space of 7 days. The game finished on a scoreline of 1-07 to 2-11.
Our focus now turns to championship with our first game at the end of June. Best wishes to Richard on a speedy recovery from a knee injury. Squad for the 2 games as follows – Shane O’Connell, Darach Scelly, Rory Hannon, Paddy Gardner, Tim Moloney, Francis McAuliffe, Evan Moloney, Cormac Flana-gan, Con Kirby, Cathal Monaghan, Ciaran Cusack, Donnacha Connolly, Sam Riordan, Mike McCor-mack, Richard Murphy, Eoghan Quinn, Conor Kirby, Colm Cassidy, David Macken, Damien Kearney. Thanks also to the coaches and selectors and our physio!.

Our U8s hosted a football blitz at home on Saturday morning. Teams included South Liberties, Bally-bricken & Ahane. Next Saturday will see them host a hurling blitz.

Celtic Challenge
Congratulations to our own Niall Conheady all involved with the Celtic Challange hurling team who defeated Antrim yesterday in the All Ireland Quarter final Semi Final by 6-21 to 1-10 in Abbottstown, Limerick now meet Dublin next Saturday in the Semi final. We wish Niall and all the team the very best of luck.

Gort Super 9’s Champions
Congratulations to Cian Hickey and Sam Collins who as part of the ArdScoil Rís U15 team won the Gort Super 9’s Competition on Tuesday. In the group they beat Coláiste Eoin of Dublin, De La Salle of Waterford and Seamount of Galway. Having topped their group, they beat St. Kierans of Kilkenny in the QF. The Semi-Final they saw off the challenge of Kilkenny CBS. They had an impressive final against St. Colemans of Cork winning on a final score of 5-9 to 2-10. Sam was awarded ‘Save of the Year’ in the Competition.

Scór
The girls were amazing at Scór Sinsir in Rince Foirne on Saturday 11th May in Gleneagle Hotel and came home All Ireland Senior Scór Champions. Huge congratulations to the girls.

Upcoming Fixtures
In the Intermediate Hurling League, our boys take on St. Kieran’s at home on May 18th at 7:30pm
The Intermediate Football League League game versus Galbally will be played at home on Tuesday 7th at 7:30pm. On Saturday 11th we face Pallasgreen at home at 12:30pm.
The U13 hurlers take on Pallasgreen at home on Monday 6th at 7pm
Our U12 hurlers take on Caherconlish away on Tuesday 7th at 6:30pm
On Wednesday the 8th our U11 in amalgamation with Patrickswell have their first Community Games
All support is welcome to all these games.

Match Reports
Our Hurlers were in action last Saturday night in the 4rd round City West Intermediate League game away to Feenagh Kilmeedy. We suffered our first defeat in the league campaign on a scoreline of 3-21 to 3-18. This was an extraordinary game with a fine display by Feenagh Kilmeedy in the first half matched by a stirring comeback by our lads in the second half. We settled into the game quite early and points from James Conheady and Rian Byrne helped us to a 4 points to 1 lead after about 10 mins. Feenagh Kilmeedy came into the game strongly at this point and controlled the game from here to the short whistle. They scored 2 goals and a number of long range points and we faced a deficit of 17 points at half time on a scoreline of 2-17 to 0-06. The lads gathered themselves at half time and started to get a foothold in the game early in the second half. We added the first 6 scores of the second half including 2 goals from Rian O’Byrne. Conor Kirby was quick to get involved in the game on his introduction and points from Conor, James, Edwin Wixted and Mark Shanahan helped us make further inroads into the sizeable lead. Chris Shanahan added another goal and momentum had swung our way. We reduced the deficit to 3 but Feenagh Kilmeedy added a breakaway goal to stretch the lead out to 6 again. We continued to press, added 3 more points and were pushing for an equalising goal but time ran out on the gallant comeback effort by the team. Another highlight of the game was to see the return of Padraig Byrnes to the field of play after a long spell out with injury. Last game in the league stage is in 2 weeks time v St Kierans in Crecora

We’ve had a strong start to our U13 and U14 football campaign. The 13s had a gutsy home win over Mungret St Paul’s 1-8 to 1-6 on 3 April with our scores coming from Fionn Kennedy 1-5 and 0-1 each from Conor Browne, Daniel Barry and David Cronin. Our second U13 match was on 29 April when we beat Pallasgreen 2-10 to 0-2. Our scores came from Conor Hickey 2-0, Tommy Keyes 0-4, Conor Browne 0-2, Daniel Barry 0-2, Stephen Cronin 0-1 and Sean Cobbe 0-1. These two wins have us top of the U13 League Division 3A table with 4 matches remaining.

In between, on 18 April, we had our first U14 Championship match, a comprehensive 3-13 to 0-6 away win over neighbours Croom. Top scorers were Fionn Kennedy with 0-8 from mid-field and Conor Browne 0-5. It was great to see the full forward line chipping in with a goal apiece: Adam McKinley, Will Shea and David Cronin.

Underage Fundraiser
We would like to thank two underage parents Richard & Helen Keays for generously donating 2 Premium level tickets to the sold out Cold Play concert for a raffle. Richard has set-up an idonate page for this raffle. Please use this link to support our underage https://www.idonate.ie/raffle/CMFundraiser

Scór
The girls are performing at Scor Sinsir in Rince Foirne on Saturday 11th May in Gleneagle Hotel Killarney at 3pm. Back row – Niamh Murphy, Blaithin Musgrave, Heather Byrnes, Aoife Gilmartin. Front row – Orla Byrnes, Sara Gilmartin, Ella Wajnor, Roisin Musgrave. We wish them the very best of luck.

Subject: Crecora Manister GAA Club Notes 28th April 2024

Limerick Win – Cathal O’Neill
Congratulations to Cathal and all the Limerick Senior Team on a comprehensive victory in Round Two of the Munster Hurling Championship. Cathal had another fine performance lining out at centre field and contributing 3 fine points from play. We look forward to a trip to Cork in two weeks time.

Upcoming Fixtures
In the Intermediate Hurling League, our boys take on Feenagh Kilmeedy away on Sat 4th at 7:15 p.m.
The Intermediate Football League League Round 2 game versus Galbally will be played on Tuesday 7th at 7:30pm.
The U13 hurlers take on Pallasgreen at home on Monday 6th at 7pm
Our U12 hurlers take on Hospital Herberstown at home on Tuesday 30th at 7pm
All support is welcome to all these games.

Match Reports
Our Hurlers played their 3rd round City West Intermediate League game v Knockaderry in Crecora last Saturday evening. This was our first opportunity to play on the pitch this season and the pitch was in great condition thanks to the efforts of the hard-working grounds committee.
It was also the first opportunity to try out the new dugouts which are a welcome addition to the club facilities. This was a keenly contested game and despite a bright opening we found ourselves 4 points in arrears early in the first half due to missed chances. Oisin O’Byrne got us off the mark and a number of points from James Conheady from play and placed ball helped us to close the gap as the half progressed. It was score for score as half time approached. Cormac Flanagan and Rian O’Byrne added points to leave a Half time score of 10 points to 9 in Knockaderrys favour. Points from the O’Byrne brothers early in the second half enabled us to overturn the deficit and we continued that form through the half to keep our noses in front. Knockaderry kept up the pressure but our defence worked hard to keep chances to a minimum. Points from Edwin Wixted and Chris Shanahan helped us to maintain our advantage and we ran out winners on a scoreline of 0-21 to 0-17.

Limerick U15
Congratulations to Sam Collins and Cian Hickey who played on Saturday last against Wexford in Ballyagran. Limerick won on a scoreline of 1:12 to 2:08.
We also want to congratulate Patrick Concannon was part of the winning team with ArdScoil Rís who won the Limerick colleges Semi-Final against Scoil Mhuire on a scoreline of 1:21 to 2:14. We wish him and all the team every success in the final.

Facility Developments
Two 12 seater dugouts were installed at the GAA pitch on Saturday. Many thanks to all those who assisted with this work today, and also with the installation of the bases earlier in the year.

These dugouts are funded from the GAA and Camogie Clubs Development Fund, so please continue to support the fundraising efforts, so that we can continue to provide more facilities for all our GAA and Camogie Club players and members.

Sponsors
Crecora Manister GAA Club wishes to sincerely thank O’Connell’s Mills and PBC Builders for their continuing support of our adult hurling and football teams respectively.
We are delighted to partner with local businesses and their generous sponsorship is greatly appreciated.

Health & Wellbeing Sign
We wish to draw your attention to the new sign on the portacabin at the GAA pitch.
It was erected by the Healthy Club committee and it contains a wealth of information on available, free supports for those who are finding life a struggle.
There are also tips on how to improve one’s wellbeing and sense of purpose.
Contained on the sign is a QR code, which when scanned will provide a host of links to support services.
Please make club members and the wider community aware of this resource.

Club Limerick Draw
Congratulations to Ger Hickey on winning 4th prize in the April draw. Thanks to all in Crecora Manister who support the Club Limerick draw. This is the 3rd winner in two draws.

Upcoming Fixtures
In the Intermediate Hurling League, our boys take on Knockaderry at home on Sat 27th at 7 p.m.
The Intermediate Football League League 1 game which was postponed will now be played on Tuesday 23rd in Claughaun.
Our U17 Hurlers in amalgamation with South Liberites play in Dooley Park against Cappamore this Wednesday April 24th at 18.45pm
The U13 hurlers take on Coshlea Gaels at home on Monday 22nd at 6.45pm

Match Reports
Our Intermediate footballers played in Round 2 of the City East Intermediate Football League with a hard fought win against Mungret on Saturday evening. With the sun shining for the first evening of the year, our lads showed what hard work, teamwork and the jersey meant to them by working really hard in defence and then attacking in waves to put up some fine scores and even when Mungret came back into the game in the closing minutes a fine score by Evan Moloney sealed the deal. Panel on the night as follows. Thomas Connolly, David Macken, Tim Moloney, Paddy Gardner, Evan Moloney(0-01),Cormac Flanagan, Cathal Monaghan(0-02),Ciaran Cusack, Patrick Dolphin(0-01),Mike McCormack, Sam Riordan, Donnacha Connolly(0-1),Colm Cassidy, Richard Murphy(1-3),Darach Scelly(0-01),Rory Hannon, Eoghan Quinn.

Our South Liberties/ Crecora Manister u17 footballers played Round 2 of the league competition on Wednesday evening at home taking on Ballylanders. With the aid of a strong wind we led 0-9 to 0-3 at half time. We had a great start to the 2nd half scoring 1-1 in first few minutes & battled hard to finish it out winning 2-11 to 2-7. Next match for this group is round 2 of hurling league next Wednesday vs Cappamore in Dooley Park with round 3 of football league the following Wednesday away to Galtee Gaels. Compliments to the field committee who had the pitch in fantastic condition for us

Our U14 Footballers started their campaign with a strong win against Croom on Thursday versus
Croom on a final scoreline of 3-13 to 0-6 points.

Our U8 footballers played a football blitz Saturday morning in Kilteely Dromkeen & they played against Pallasgreen, South Liberties & Kilteely Dromkeen. We were very competitive in every game & the boys showed great skill levels.

Club Limerick Draw
There is still plenty of time to join up for the rest of the year – just go to the following website and follow the link, making sure you select Crecora as your club of choice
https://clublimerick.ie/annual-membership/