Our U14 footballers will contest the County Div 2 Final this coming Saturday 18th October in Claughan GAA field at 2pm coming up against Ahane.

With a panel of 28 players all of whom have played a part in this campaign throughout the summer months , this is the culmination of lots of hard work and tough training sessions and matches.

Under the expert guidance of our coaching team with a flavour of Kerry , Dublin and Limerick football pedigree, this team has nothing to fear going into this final game.

Having played Ahane earlier in the season and coming up short, Kilpeacon know that this will be a tough test and a close encounter but hopefully all the hard work will pay dividends.

Being the last final that the Club will contest this year we hope that all the club players and coaches along with parents will come along to support this great bunch of players on Saturday.

Panel: Colin Coughlan, Sam Riordan, Thomas Shanahan, Chris Shanahan, Michael Maher, Joshua Skehan Fitzgerald, Patrick Dolphin, Colin Haigney, Padraig Burnes, Conor Godfrey, Ben Carew, Richard Murphy, Adam Fahey, Donnacha Connolly (C), Timothy Duggan, Adam Galvin, Killian Scanlon, Jack Dalton, Shane O Connor, Eoghan O Connor, Philip O Toole, Dara Foley, Eoin Feeney, Cathal O Neill, Ciaran Kennedy, Sam O Donnell, Niall Kelly, Cian Enright.

Coaches: Ger Riordan , Noel Kennedy , Caimin Dolphin , Jack Dalton , Aidan Malone.

The Premier Minor football title eluded Tory Gaels following a narrow loss to Fr. Caseys on Sunday 12th October in Newcastlewest.

The loss of some key players proved too much of a hurdle to surmount on this occasion.  The experience of our opposition was an  important factor and they settled well into the game in the first half.

While a well taken penalty by Conor Burke and points by Cormac Flanagan and Jamie Shinners kept us in the game in the opening quarter, two quick fire goals by Fr. Caseys  gave them a six point interval lead.

The opening half also witnessed two superb saves by Shane O’Connell.

Following the break Tory Gaels dominated the middle third with commanding performances from Ryan O’Shea, Mark Reidy, Cormac Flanagan and Seán Fitzgerald.

Continued pressure and well taken scores by the Shinners brothers, David Macken and Liam Quirke reduced the deficit to three points.

However, Fr. Caseys defended well and were a constant threat on the break and kept the margin  to the end, giving a final score of 2 – 12  to 1 – 11

On behalf of all the coaching staff we would like to thank all the panel for their commitment during the season.

Panel: Shane O’Connell, Evan Moloney, David Macken, Richard Bateman, Ryan O’Shea, Mark Reidy,  Brian Cregan,  Cormac Flanagan & Jamie Shinners, Liam Quirke, Damien Kearney, Dean Shinners,  Micheál O’Neill, Micheál Collins, Conor Burke,  Seán Fitzgerald, Barry Fitzgibbon,  Eoin Cregan,  Darragh O’Farrell, Roy Sheerin, Jordan Ryan, Thomas Connolly, Robert Sweeney, Eoin Kennedy, Sean Cahill

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U16 Hurling County Final 13 a side.
Crecora Manister vs Templeglantine
12pm Saturday 11th October 2014 in Mick Neville Park, Rathkeale.

This group of lads did their club proud by getting to a County Final and although not their best performance of the season still gave a good account of themselves against a very determined Templeglantine team.

It was an uphill battle for Crecora from the start as we lost one of our key players in John Blake with an injury he picked up in our football shield win the previous Saturday. So we only had 14 players to pick from and one of those, Shane O’Connor showed his determination to make himself available for the team when only just back from injury himself.

We got off to a great start when Donnacha Connolly and Richard Murphy battled and won a ball when surrounded by 4 Templeglantine players.

The ball was delivered to Edwin Wixted who started a solo and ended it with a super goal in top right hand corner of the goal. He followed up with a point and scored a few frees for good measure it was all going well but Templeglantine stayed in touch with points of their own and managed to prevent us getting any type of quality ball to our forwards.

However we scored 2 long range points from Shane O’Connell and our team captain Cian Leahy to leave the halftime score:
Crecora Manister 1 – 6  Templeglantine 0 – 6

In the second half the hard working Michael Bateman scored a great long range point but sadly that was the end of our scoring and we missed a number of frees.

We battled hard but it wasn’t to be, the hungrier team crept back into the game scoring a goal and other points to leave the fulltime score:
Crecora Manister 1 – 7 Templeglantine 1 – 11

This team should be so proud of themselves and it was a pleasure to work with them and as the old saying goes you have to lose a final before winning one. 

If this team stick together it should mean a super minor team perhaps competing at 15 aside division 1 in the next few years.

Many Congrats to Templeglantine worthy winners.

Team:  Ian de Captani,  Cian Leahy, Paraic O’Neill, Evan Keogh, Tomas Connolly, Mark Shanahan,Edwin Wixted, Karl Moloney , Shane O’Connell,  Michael Bateman, Donnacha Connolly ,  Conor Kirby, Richard Murphy  and Shane O’Connor.

On the positive we got to a County Hurling final and also won a football Shield County Title. Crecora Manister abu

Many thanks to our Trainers Gerry McDermott, John McCarty, Tom Connolly and Leo Kirby and to the supporters who cheered us on the day.