Blackwater

ACTIVE RETIREMENT

There is an outing on December 5 to the Craft Fair in the RDS – travel by public transport, departing Wexford at 9 a.m.

The AGM is being held on December 10 at 2.30 p.m. in Blackwater Lodge, all current members and those who are interested in joining, are most welcome to attend. cost €5, per person for refreshments on the day.

Our Christmas night out is on December 14 in Blackwater Lodge, dinner and dancing – cost €30 per person (will be part subsidised for members). If interested in any of the above, contact Margaret on {087} 6703242 or Kate at 087 2840457.

GAA CLUB NEWS

The under-16 hurlers are finishing the season strong as they qualified for the George O’Connor hurling tournament final with a tough one point win in Merasheen, winning 2-09 to 2-08 against St James. The grass was long, slightly wet weather and it was cold, winter hurling which typified some of the play at times but our lads stuck to there task well till the end. James had only 14 players so the game was played at 14 a side.

We missed a few early chanc- es and it was James, who had the first two points on the board. We didn’t get off the mark till the 13th minute when the excellent Kealan Fikentscher made a brilliant run from midfield to point. This seemed to settle us and we had two more quick fire points with Johnny O’Toole and an Adam Murphy free putting us into the lead. Two more Adam Murphy frees and then Kealan again had us with up by four, although we had Brian Og to thank with a number of good saves in the goal. With seven left, the James full back line was finally breached, Séamus did well to win the puc out, fed Adam Murphy and he gave the goalie no chance to have us leading by seven. James though responded well and had a goal of their own and started to take over and they notched a second goal with only a few minutes left to leave it back to two. Adam Murphy though just before the half time whistle, won a high ball in turned the full back and lofted the ball over the goalie who had come out of his goal. Unfortunately while Adam was taking the shot he received a hand injury which he had to be substituted.

The second half though it was James, who started to get on top whittling away at our lead and with 10 to go the sides were level at 2-07 a piece. Again Brian Og was called into action clearing the ball off the line on one occasion. James pressure finally told as they moved in front but credit to our lads who finished the stronger scoring the next two points with Pad O’Connor, moving out of his centre back role to the forwards pushing our lads over the finish line with a couple if minutes to go. We hit a few wides in extra time but James also had a couple of opportunities to level the game but couldn’t get past a determined full back line.

The annual general meeting of the adult club takes place on December 14 in Levers Bar, Blackwater, starting at 8.30 p.m. Nominations forms have been posted and emailed so make sure and have your say.

Congratulations to ex club member Declan Sinnott and his wife Siobhán on the birth of their baby girl. Declan now currently resides in Rathgarogue.

Congratulations to Johnny O’Toole and the Kilmuckridge school on defeating New Ross CBS in the county final.

The following officers were elected for ladies’ football for the 2019 season. Chair. – Aideen Sutton, secretary – Paul Cullen, treasurer – Anna Berry, Registrar – Josephine Molloy, PRO – Lizzy O’Brien, Children’s Officer – Aideen Sutton

From now on I am going to try and have a teaser about something to do with the club and I’ll give the answer the following week, just for a bit of fun. This week’s question, what Blackwater hurler scored two goals against Clongeen in a 2004 hurling league final even though both goals were illegal and stated so by the referee, but were given on a technical loophole?