Best Wishes
All
in the club would like to wish the best of luck to anyone who will be soon be
doing state exams and college exams.
Under 10
Our
Under 10 hurling team travelled to Ballyduff on Friday night last to take part
in the annual Ballyduff Upper Tournament. We were in Division 1 where on the
night we played three games against Clonmel, Sarsfields and Youghal. In the
first game we had a fantastic win. In the second we had a narrow defeat and
also lost the third game to Youghal. We failed to qualify on the night but
played really well in all three matches and it seems like this age group are
improving with every match. Well done to all.
Please Note
Please
note that there will not be any underage hurling training for academy players
on Saturday morning 18th June due to the Féile taking place.
Congratulations
Congratulations
are sent from all in the club to Niall Buckley who recently won the County Féile
Hurling Skills competition that was held in the Dungarvan Club Grounds.
Schools
Last
week the club was well represented in Garranbane National School and Scoil
Garbháin for the Féile schools visits of various dignitaries of GAA, Camogie and
Handball associations. Benny Shields, Jonathan O’Donovan, Pakie Hurney, Joe
Cleary, Niamh Enright, Breda Cleary and Sean Kiely were all present. The club
would like to thank the two schools for the invite and thank them both for
being so well prepared on the day with a wonderful array of skills of the
games, dancing and singing. They were two wonderful days by any standards.
We
in the club would also like to congratulate Abbeyside NS who recently won the A
section of the West Waterford Primary Schools Hurling competition. They will
now compete in the county final. Garranbane also had success lately when they
won the county final of the Mini Sevens Hurling competition. Many
congratulations to both.
Underage Academy -
“Mini” All-Ireland Hurling Series
The
3rd & 4th rounds of our “Mini” All-Ireland Hurling
Series for U-8 & U-9 were held on Saturday morning last at the club grounds
and we were yet again blessed with glorious sunshine and six (6) exciting games
of very competitive hurling.
In
Round 3, leaders Kilkenny beat Tipperary, whilst Dublin & Galway had wins
over Limerick & Clare by the bare minimum in a pulsating encounter. The
talking point of the round was the sporting duel between brothers Nicky &
Adam Fitzpatrick.
In Round 4, Clare had a resounding win over Dublin; Galway beat Tipperary by goal,
whilst Limerick & Kilkenny were tied on three (3) goals each.
This
week’s featured teams are Clare, Galway & Limerick.
Clare
(v) Dublin
Clare
bounced back following their defeat in Round 3 and made a tremendous start, led
by Rian Burke who struck for four (4) goals. The banner men were well served
through-out the field by Conor Dalton, Callum Tutty and strong defending from
Dan Hayes.
Fionnan
Lonergan stretched their lead further with a great goal & the Clare men can
be grateful for the powerhouse performances from Joey Riordan & Callum
Tutty.
Sean
Kiely battled bravely for Dublin through-out and was ably assisted by Eoin
Carroll, Callum Donnellan & Conor Byrne.
Charlie
Feeney was solid through-out especially when he was in goal. Dublin’s fate was
sealed with a hat trick of goals by Aaron Walsh who covered every blade of
grass during the game.
This
was a great win for Clare, who were under strength due to the unavailability of
Prelim Tyrell, who can always be relied upon to give 100percent.
Galway (v)
Tipperary
Galway
scored a six (6) goals to five (5) win over Tipperary in a very exciting game
which hinged on a controversial goal.
The
half-time score was two (2) goals a piece with the Galway goals coming from
Oisin Power & John Dillon, whilst Diuran Norris & Matthew Walsh raised green
flags for Tipp.
The
Tribesmen had strong performances from Caleb Egan Walsh, Shane Enright &
Daniel O’Connor who is improving in every game. It was a great team performance
from Tipperary, with Nathan Norris & Archie Mattiuzzi standing out.
We
had seven (7) goals over the course of the 2nd period, as both teams
tried their hearts out in a rip roaring encounter.
AJ
Hayes & John Dillon stretched Galway’s lead with goals, before Tipp bounced
back & after Matthew Walsh scored from a penalty it looked like it would
finish all square.
However
with only seconds to go, a goal from Oisin Power who gave a man of match
display for Galway saw them claim the points. They are a power to be reckoned
with and if Sean O’Regan and Owen Morrissey are in as good form next week, they
may well knock Kilkenny off the top of the table.
Limerick (v)
Kilkenny
A
battling display from Limerick, who only had seven (7) players, saw them
deprive Kilkenny of their fourth victory. The sides finished level at half
time, following goals for Limerick from Cathal McGrath & Donal Rowe, whilst
the cats had goals from Jonathan Tutty & Padraig O’ Niadh.
It
was nip & tuck through-out the 2nd half, scores were hard earned
against resolute defences, with strong displays from Scott Collins & Alex Lubek.
With
30 seconds to go, some good work by Sean Murray, Adam Fitzpatrick & Elliott
Henley, put Cathal McGrath through for what looked like the winning goal,
however on the stroke of time the battling Jack Hurney equalised for Kilkenny.
Next Week’s Games
Dublin
(v) Galway
Clare
(v) Kilkenny
Tipperary
(v) Limerick
The Finals
The
All-Ireland finals will be played on Sunday 12th June, commencing at
3pm (Players to be at the venue for 230pm). More details next week.
Hurling on the
Green - 2016
HOTG
is back in 2016 & coming to a green near you very soon. The committee are
currently finalising plans for this year’s HOTG, which will run in July &
August. More details over the coming weeks.
Kelloggs Cúl
Camp
Our
camp for the Kelloggs Cúl Camp this year is from the 4th to the 8th
July. This is always a great camp and we always have big numbers attending. To
book your place on this camp you can do so online on www.kelloggsculcamps.gaa.ie.
Bag Pack
The juvenile club are holding their
annual bag pack fundraiser on Thursday 2nd, Friday 3rd
and Saturday 4th June in Garveys SuperValu. This fundraiser is vital
to raise adequate funding for the juvenile club and all parents are asked to
help out volunteering their time. We respectfully ask parents to volunteer two
hours on any one of these days to achieve a successful outcome. Please contact
our juvenile secretary Niamh on 087(9705005) if you would be willing to help.
All help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
