MILLTOWN CASTLEMAINE

Underage Training:

It’s that time of year again when the evenings are getting longer, and our children have a spring in their step! The coaches and mentors at our club have been busy up-skilling during the winter months and are eagerly looking forward to imparting their new skills during the busy footballing season ahead. We are very lucky to have up to 70 coaches available,allowing our coach to child ratio to be very low. The U-8 boys training continues indoors at the Nagle Rice Centre on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 7pm. Any new boys in the areaborn in the years 2011 and 2012 are very welcome to attend. We would ask you to encourage your child to bring a friend along who may not have experienced GAA before. Our U10 boys play mini games indoor every Friday from 6 to 7pm also. Our U6 boys & U6 / U8 girls will also return indoors shortly at the Nagle Rice centre -having had an excellent last 12 months with well organised, creative and fun training sessions as well as participating in plenty of blitzes all over the county. This year again, we are fortunate enough to be able to provide our U6/U8 and U10 girls with the added advantage of having their own girls’ squads, allowing them to take part in lots of friendly games and blitzes. This is a very exciting time for Milltown/ Castlemaine GAA Club with the current development of facilities taking place. Our new sand-based training pitch will be ready to use when development on our main pitch begins, transforming it to thehighest standard natural all-weather playing surface achievable. There are also first-class changing facilities and a state of the art floodlighting system included in our plans.

We look forward to creating an enjoyable footballing experience for both you and your child in the year/s ahead. Details of our registration day will follow shortly.

Ian Twiss, Coaching Officer, Milltown/ Castlemaine GAA Club

Any queries contact Podge on (086) 839 8669 or Ian (087)2521053

CAO: Best of luck to all our students who will be completing their CAO application in the coming week. We also wish students every success in their coming Junior and Leaving Cert ‘mock’ exams. You can only do your best!

Kerry Seniors: Huge congratulations to Peter Keane, his management team and the senior panel who acquitted themselves very well in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney on Sunday last. A special mention to all those who made their debut especially Diarmuid O’Connor whose mum Mary Ellen(Evans) hails from Keel and is a teacher here in Nagle Rice Primary School.Continued success to you all.

Jackpot Draw: Congratulations to our winners in our Lotto Jackpot Draw which took place in Griffin’s Bar on Friday night. €50 each to Kate Egan, Liebherr and Jack and Deirdre Kerins, Killorglin.€25 each to: Mary B Linehan, Castlemaine, Pat Twiss, Callinafercy, Michael O’Sullivan, Callinafercy and the O’Sullivan Family, Callinfercy wrapped up our €25 winners. Our fundraising lotto Jackpot is now at €6,800 with €300 for a match 3. We will have our regular 6 consolation prizes if there is no winner/match 3. Our next draw is on Friday February 8th in The Plough Bar. Sincere thanks to all for their loyal support.