Mark the date in your diary, brush up on your general knowledge and pick your team!

This event will be a great opportunity for you to get out as a family and meet you neighbours and get to meet the parents of your child’s team mates, especially for new members to the club and parents of young players which have just started with our club.

Donations of spot prizes are most welcome – bring them to the quiz on the night.
Some child appropriate suggestions for spot prizes are: sweets, toys, crafts, vouchers for cinema or google store

This event will raise much needed funds which will go towards the development of our underage players.

Check out our poster here for all the details and spread the word………
 

Kilpeacon played their first game in the U14 Championship on Wednesday 4th May against neighbours Mungret and it proved to be an exciting skillful game which we finally shaded on a scoreline of 2-6 to 2-5.
Mungret played with the benefit of a strong breeze in the first half and most of the play was in our half. Our defence were under pressure from the off but were making life as difficult as they could for the Mungret forwards. Nial Khan dropped back to help out in defence and the half back line of Chris Shanahan, John Bourke and Brandon Nash were also defending well and moving the ball to the forwards.
Mungret scored 3 points without reply as we struggled to convert into the wind and approaching half-time we were dealt further blows with 2 goals in quick succession. Our lads came out strong in the second half and we began to dominate around the middle of the pitch. We finally got on the score sheet 5 minutes into the half with a point from Cathal O’Neill. This was followed soon after by a free from Patrick Dolphin and a point from play by Darragh O’Keefe to give us a foothold in the game. The next score was a crucial goal which was driven to the net by John O’Donnell from the 21 and this gave the team a great lift. However, Mungret were still in the game and they worked the ball up the pitch in a passing movement to score a point to stretch the lead out to 4 points. Rory Hannon looked to have narrowed the gap with another goal but was called back for over carrying. The pressure came coming and from a crossfield ball into the goalmouth, Sam Riordan got the vital touch to fist the ball to the net to leave just the minimum between the teams. This was soon followed by another free from Patrick Dolphin to level the game. Again, Mungret had a breakaway attack which yielded a point so we found ourselves 1 behind again with time running out. It was all out attack from here and Darragh O’Keefe got on the ball in the middle of the pitch and after a series of passes worked his way in towards goal and sent over a great equalising score. This time we kept the pressure in the Mungret half and with time almost up we won a free slightly to the right of the goals. Patrick Dolphin stepped up to take the vital kick and sent in between the posts. There was just about time for the kickout to be taken when the final whistle was blown.

This was a fine sporting game played by 2 skillful teams which ebbed and flowed throughout. Our lads showed great determination to keep coming back and to ultimately get the 2 points to get our campaign off to a great start.
Squad: Sam Riordan, Luke Bovenizer, Rory Hannon, Ciaran Kennedy, Jack Duggan, Cathal O’Neill, Brandon Nash, Rian O’Byrne, Peter Mullins, Cillian O’Brien, John Bourke, Chris Shanahan, Darragh O’Keefe, Patrick Dolphin, Conor Hannon, John Collins, Fergal Egan, Nial Khan, John O’Donnell, Eoghan O’Connor.

Crecora Manister V Croom 7:30pm May 2nd 2016 in Crecora.

Team: Ciaran Humphrey, Paraic O’Neill , Michael Fitzgerald, Cian Leahy, Karl Moloney, Tomas Shanahan , Edwin Wixted, Conor Kirby, Donnacha Connolly, Michael Bateman, Shane O’Connell and Shane O’Connor.

This was a highly competitive entertaining hurling match between 2 teams who could only field 12 players for the first half. Crecora were quick to start and scored fine points from Michael Bateman, Edwin Wixted and Shane O’Connell to lead the game 9 points to 01:05 at halftime after allowing Croom back in the game for the closing 3 minutes of the half.

Both teams started the 2nd half with 13 players and a big thanks must go to an injured Richard Murphy who started the second half for us so as the match wasn’t forfeited. Crecora battled hard and scored a wonderful goal from Conor Kirby who also added 2 more points to keep us in control of the game.
However we conceded a few goals allowing a tight finish and with Michael, Edwin and Donnacha scoring points we looked to have the game won but Croom scored a last second goal to draw level. Our backs put in some amount of effort especially Paraic O’Neill, Cian Leahy and Karl Moloney.

We now have a break in games until after the Leaving Cert but training will continue.