Féile: A Fabulous
Weekend of Hurling and Hospitality
Last weekend saw the club hosting a
Féile team for the first time since 1997, and it is fair to say that the club
certainly did itself proud, as the club grounds never looked so well with
everything running like clockwork all weekend. We welcomed Abbeyleix of Laois to
Abbeyside and thank you to everyone in the club who helped out in any way, to
make this a very enjoyable and successful weekend, with our visitors leaving
with some great memories of the club and parish.
The grounds looked extremely well
with both pitches in great condition for hurling and camoige, with a special
thanks to the Community Employment team and our Chairman who oversaw these
works leading up to the weekend.
On the hurling side of things our
lads played extremely well over the weekend, beating Trim, Lismore and our
visitors Abbeyleix, and St Marys of Clonmel to reach the semi final on Saturday
evening. We played JK Brackens from Templemore in Cahir and due to some absolutely
crazy decisions by the referee we lost out by a single point. Our players were
very upset at the end of the game and rightly so, as it was not a fair way for
this team to be finished in the tournament and they would have relished another
close encounter with Abbeyleix who went on and won out the competition. Well
done to them.
Our panel of players showed huge
passion, skill and flair and can be extremely proud of the way they represented
themselves and their club last weekend, and we have no doubt that that this
bunch will have some great days ahead of them in the future once they stick
together and put in the effort in training.
Results
Abbeyside
0-8 Trim 1-3
Abbeyside
2-9 Lismore 1-7
Abbeyside
2-5 Abbeyleix 1-7
Abbeyside
3-10 St Marys Clonmel 0-5
Abbeyside
2-6 JK Brackens 2-7
Panel of Players
Kevin
Keoghan, Niall Buckley, Sean O’Sullivan, Sean Lanigan, Jamie Moylan, Daniel
Treen, Daire Slevin, Alec Norris, Ben O’Donovan, Colin Foley, Eoin Flynn,
Tony Dwyer, Tadgh Collins , DJ Kiely (Capt) , Jack Riordan , Kaylem Beresford,
Ronan Foley, Rian Walsh, Joe Flynn, John Joe Quealy, William Beresford, Oisin O
Riordan, Conor Kent, Louis Campbell, Adam Carroll Lawlor and Cathal Cosgrave.
A special thanks to the Féile
committee for all their work which started last December and a special thanks
to our sponsors Garveys, Eurospar, Irish Pride, Fay Milk and our main sponsor,
Alice O’Connor’s.
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.
Academy
Our
academy training sessions will return this Saturday morning for players between
Under 5 and Under 10 at the club grounds between 10.30 and 11.30.
Under 10
Our
Under 10 hurling team had a challenge match against Gowran of Kilkenny on
Saturday morning last in Kilkenny. This was a tough game for the lads against a
team who have produced the likes of Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey over the years. On
the morning the lads played with tremendous spirit and a great morning was had
by all involved. Former All Ireland winning player Pat O Neill was the manager
of Gowran and refereed the game and gave our lads plenty of great advice
throughout the match. We also would like to thank Pat as he agreed to come up
to Abbeyside sometime over the summer months to do a morning coaching with our
players. We look forward to that morning immensely.
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.
