GRASSROOTS
BALLYMANUS
The lads kicked off their championship season with a comprehensive win over Rathnew last weekend. To a man the lads performed well, with a good spread of scorers and a returning Paddy Byrne some of the highlights.
Next up is Carnew in Aughrim, Friday week. There was no lotto jackpot winner last week from 4, 8, 20, and 21. Match three winners were: Brian Keogh and the Fleming children.
Finally the club would like to extend its deepest sympathies to Padraig, extended family and friends of the late Pat Healy who sadly passed away last weekend. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a ainm dilis.
ANNACURRA
On Friday night the Seniors had their second match in the championship. They worked really hard and played much better than they had in the first match, but St. Pats proved that little bit too strong winning by seven. We ask everyone to come and support the lads on Thursday night. It is a vital match and all support would be appreciated.
Everyone in the club wishes Aodh O’Neill a speedy recovery. One of the club’s great members We all look forward to having him back at the matches as soon as possible.
BALTINGLASS
Lotto - Last week’s numbers were 5, 17, 19, and 20. There was no winner. Match three winners were M.D. Cleary, PJ O’Reilly, Pat Donegan and Michael Howard each receiving €75 each. Next draw on Monday, July 23, in Horan’s. Please continue to play the club lotto and thanks for your support. Play online at www.locallotto.ie.
After a defeat to St. Pats in their first game of the Senior football championship the Senior men had a great win against Newtown at the weekend on a scoreline of 4-17 to 0-8 with Mikey English scoring a hat-trick. They now go on to play Annacurra on Thursday in Aughrim at 7.30pm
The Junior ‘A’ team kicked off their championship campaign with a win over Kilbride/Lacken on a scoreline of 0-20 to 2-2.
The under-7 boys had a busy morning in Ballinakill where they played in a Monster Go Games blitz. The boys playing great football against Rathnew, St. Pats and Ballinacor. Thanks to all the parents and supporters who travelled to support the boys.
Well done to the under-11 boys green team who had a big win over AGB and played super football.
The under-13 boys had a very convincing win away to Rathnew. The boys running out big winners on a scoreline of 14-24 to 5-1.
This team are unbeaten so far. Scorers: Jack Bookle 6-6, Geordan Peggs 3-3, Callum Brophy 2-5, Dean Kelly 3-2, James Fleming 0-3, Jack Kenny 0-4 and Matthew Fisher 0-1.
Our Academy continues every Thursday at 6pm for under-6s. Please come along and bring your friends for some fun and football.
Contact Alison on 087 6320850 re any club gear requirements you may have.
Sincere sympathies to the Heaslip family Grangecon on the death of Catherine’s brother Lynsey Cordial. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
BLESSINGTON
Lotto - Blessington GAA lotto not won on Tuesday, July 17. Jackpot now stands at €4,400. Draw in Murphy’s on July 31. Numbers drawn were: 7, 8, 12, and 17. One match three winner of €300 was Wayne Miley. Thank you for continued support.
Division 1 – Seniors are up against Newtown on Saturday at 5pm in Joule Park, Aughrim.
Division 4 League Final – Hard luck to the lads in the Division 4 league final on Monday, July 16, in Aughrim. Tinahely won by the smallest of margins. Tinahely 3-7, Blessington 1-12.
Junior B – The Junior B football championship starts at home on Thursday, Blessington v An Tochar at 7.30pm.
Junior C - Junior C football championship away v AGB in Pearse’s Park, Arklow, on Friday, July 27, at 7.30pm.
Wicklow Ladies – Well done to the Wicklow ladies especially our own Kim Connors who beat Offaly on Sunday, July 22, on a scoreline Wicklow 3-15, Offaly 2-11. The ladies are now in the quarter-final. Well done to Mick O’Rourke and his management team.
Blessington GAA Ladies 25 Anniversary Celebrations - Our Ladies 25-Year Celebrations is only a few weeks away on Saturday, August 25. We have an action-packed day not to be missed. All welcome, we look forward to seeing old and new friends of the club, past and present players and management and the wider community. Come along and join in the craic of this wonderful occasion.
Senior Ladies – Ladies are away to Sarsfields on Wednesday, July 25, at 8pm.
Under-16 girls – Under-16 girls white at home v Clan na Gael on Tuesday, July 24, at 7.30pm.
Under-8 girls – Under-8 and under-10 blitz in Carnew on Saturday, July 28, at 10.30am.
Wicklow Under-16s - Wicklow’s under-16 footballers drew with Wexford in Joule Park, Aughrim on July 18, 1-16 to 3-10, in the second round of the Gerry Reilly Leinster GAA Championship. Well done to our club member Jake O’Kelly. This result now leaves Wicklow needing to defeat Laois in their last group game in order to qualify for the semi-finals.
Under-11s – On Thursday, July 20, the Red squad had a rescheduled fixture away to Fergal Óg.
With most of 2008 kids not available a couple of under-9 players Cormac and Fiacha travelled with us (thanks lads).
The lads played really well and attacked the game from the off and finished up easy winners. Well done to players/ coaches and parents for travelling on a Friday evening.
On Wednesday, the under-11 Red team are away v Baltinglass 2 at 7.15pm. Also on Wednesday, our under-11 Blessington Blue v An Tochar at home at 7.15pm. Also Blessington White away v Eire Og at 7.15pm.
Under-9s - Under-9s travelled to Vallymount on Saturday morning, July 21, to play in the Go Games. We played Hollywood, Vallymount and Kilbride/Lacken. The lads put in a super mornings football with all their skills on show
Under-7s – We travelled to Ballinakill for the Wicklow Go Games monster blitz on Saturday, July 21.
Even though we had a lot of kids unavailable due to the time of year we still had 11 players that travelled out and put in great performances in our three games. We won two games and lost our last game to a very good Avondale side. All players played excellent and we definitely unearthed a future Blesso captain. Thank you to all parents who made the journey out your support is very appreciated. Hurling
Under-11s – Western Gaels v Éire Óg 3 at the pitch on Friday at 7.15pm.
Kelloggs Cl Camps – The Kellogg’s GAA Cúl Camp programme continues July 23 - July 27. This is a dual Cúl Camp – Hurling and Football.
Club physio - Physio will be at the clubhouse on Wednesday at 7pm. Contact Pat Molloy regarding any enquiries/ emergencies on 086 8230130.
If you wish to be on the Blessington GAA Supporters text list, please text your name to 087 2858375.
HOLLYWOOD
The next Hollywood GAA Lotto Draw will be held this Thursday, July 26, at 8pm in The Hollywood Inn for a jackpot of €5,600. You can play Hollywood GAA Lotto locally or at hollywoodgaa.com.
Thank you for your continued support and good luck.
The Hollywood Senior team played their first match in the Senior football championship on Sunday against Éire Óg Greystones in Joule Park Aughrim. Hollywood came out on top with a scoreline of 1-14 to 0-13.
Hollywood GAA are holding a raffle. First prize: Late Late Show ticket, drinks reception, dinner and overnight stay in the Radisson Blu for two people.
Second prize: Late Late Show ticket, drinks reception and dinner for two people.
Third prize: 4 Ball in Palmerstown House, Johnstown Naas.
Fourth prize: €50 voucher for Naas Oil. Fifth prize: €50 voucher for Hollywood Inn.
The draw will take place in Hollywood Village on Saturday, August 11, at 10pm.
The tickets are €10 each and are widely available from club members.
AVONDALE
Lotto draw in the Cartoon Inn on July 17. No jackpot winner for numbers 8, 18, 21, and 26. There were three match three winners: Neasa Olohan c/o Celine Miley; Paul Smyth c/o Eileen Kennedy; Andy Byrne, 19 Parnell Park, c/o Eileen Kennedy.
Next draw jackpot is €1,100 and the draw will take place in Jacob’s Well on July 24 at 9.30 pm.
Thanks for all your continued support. The Avondale Senior footballers played in Aughrim against Rathnew on Friday evening. All over...5-11 to 2-07...Harsh lesson learned.
On behalf of the under-13 team we would like to thank Eugene from Dunne’s Designs for sponsoring a brand new set of jerseys.
The under-13 dual team also raised their own funds towards them by completing Hell and Back and receiving donations from parents.
Eugene presented the new jerseys to the juvenile secretary and also Eugene with the under-13 hurling and football team with their coaches Aonghus, Christina and James.
A lovely Wednesday evening was had in the complex acknowledging our four club players on the county Minor team- we are all very proud of you Zach, Torna, Kevin and Shane.
The kids enjoyed having you part of their training tonight...watch this space for some future county stars!
Another good win Wednesday night for our under-11 hurlers, We were playing kilmac at home, unfortunately Kilmac didn travel with full squad so we got the points before game started we gave them a few of our lads for first half and changed them around at half time and ended up making a cracking game out of it.
So thanks to the players who lined out for Kilmac it meant we got a full game of hurling for 15 of our lads that turned up tonight which was great.
Panel was as follows: James Turner, Tyler O’Neill, Bobby Dease, Shane Kennedy, Jake Nolan, Tiarnan Byrne Cahill, Cameron Byrne, Tyler Byrne, Joe Jacob, Adam Kearns, Leighton Gahan, Calaem Nagle, Alex Kavanagh, Kevin Murphy, William Mullally, Great numbers, Great result, Well done all.
Well done to the under-9 footballers who played some excellent football in slippery conditions in Bray Emmets Friday evening. Their attitude and how they performed was a joy to watch. We played Newtown, Ballinacor, and Bray.
The panel was Ava O’Connor, Noah Porter, Charlie Cullen, Conor Kelly, TJ Heffernan, James Turner, Tiarnan Byrne Cahill, Harry Cullen, Tyler O’Neill, Bobby Dease, Leighton O’Toole, Tadhg Cleary and Shane Kennedy.
Keep up the good work, guys! Well done to all our under-7 footballers who played in the Go Games blitz in Ballinakill Saturday afternoon. There was some great kick passing, tackling and some excellent saves from the keepers and there was plenty of good scoring.
The panel was Will Phelan, Tyler Kavanagh, Eoghan Doyle, Enda Dechaine, Josh Porter, Finn Keogh, Aidan Kelly, Callan Keogh, Lucas Byrne Cahill, Ollie Evans and Daniel Stadkevicius.
The GAA Cúl Camps in Avondale this year is on from August 13 to the 17. Camps run from 10am to 2.30am.
Closing date to register is noon on Friday, August 10, and you must register online as you cannot register on the morning of the Cúl Camps.
If you have any problems registering please contact Liam Kelly at 087 6878123.
You can register online at gaa.ie/kelloggsculcamps.
Don’t forget everyone that Centra Rathdrum is still donating funds to various clubs and charities locally. Avondale GAA would really appreciate your support.
Make sure you request the blue tokens at the till with every purchase.
TINAHELY
Intermediate football - The first round of the championship took place last Friday at 8pm in Ashford on a wet evening for football.
The opposition was kilmacanogue. Tinahely started off brilliant and raced into a 1-8 to no score lead. Conditions were hard on both teams.
At half-time we were leading 2-8 to 1-4. The second half was a battle as kilmacanogue refused to lie down.
Tinahely ran out winners on a score line of 4-12 to 2-6.
Next up is Dunlavin on Saturday, August 4, at 6.45pm in Baltinglass. Well done to all the players and management on getting the season going.
Junior Football - The Juniors played the county league final last Monday night in Joule Park Aughrim against Blessington who were playing at Junior B level. We had a huge panel to pick from and we used it well.
Tinahely were first to score and pushed on from there with three first half goals to head in at half-time leading by 3-2 to 0-5.
Blessington upped things in the second half and got back level near full-time but Willie Quaile kicked the winner deep into injury time to give Tinahely the win by the slightest of margins. Tinahely 3-7, Blessington 1-12.
The Junior team are now county league Division 4 champions and will play division 3 football in 2019. Congrats to all the players and management. It was a fantastic week for Tinahely football club.
Well done to Matthew Ging on winning the Electric Ireland Minor Player of the Week award. That’s a second Tinahely winner this season.
Tinahely GAA lotto results from July
16. Numbers drawn were: 3, 9, 11, and
18. Bonus was 23. No jackpot winner. There were six match three winners: Alan Nolan, Helen Furlong, Jim Coogan, Edward Heffernan, James Tyrrell, and Orlaith Kavanagh.
ENNISKERRY
Men’s Update - The lads will take on AGB this Thursday in their opening round of championship at 7.30pm in Kilgarron, it would be great to see lots of support for them to kick off the campaign in the right direction.
Ladies Update - Clan na Gael ladies will play An Tochar in the league this Wednesday at 8pm in Kilgarron.
Juvenile Update - A busy week of Cúl Camps this week in Enniskerry, juvenile training TBC depending on numbers on Friday, a message will be sent to all parents if there is a change.
Golf Classic - Enniskerry GAA Golf Classic is taking place on Sunday, August 26, in Powerscourt Golf Club, if you’d like to partake or sponsor a tee/green please contact Rebecca Drew on 085-1443441.
RATHNEW
Rathnew GAA’s Senior team started their defense of the 2018 championship Friday evening taking on the men of Avondale.
After conceding an early goal, the lads really took over this game, playing with good intensity and good attacking football reeling off 1-4 in reply in the first quarter.
This was an all round good team performance with a wide spread of scorers ending with a tally of 5-11 (5-10 from play).
A special mention must go to John Hayden Moorehouse who had a good game at corner-back in his first championship outing.
Hard luck to our Intermediates who without some of our key players, suffered a heavy loss to Ballymanus in the championship.