ST. PATRICK’S
Congratulations to Liam Keogh and all involved with the Junior A’s in an excellent start to the 2016 Football Championship. Team: Aidan Dunne, Chris Kavanagh, Ciaran McGettigan, Barry Fitzgerald, Conor O’Brien, Donie Fitzgerald, Hugh Humby, Ian Murphy, Bosco Guinan, Simon Bouchier, Jordan Pettigrew, Lorcan Smullen, Ronan Connolly, Ruairi Marron, Shaun Vickers SUBS: Colin O’Toole, Joe Quinn, Johnny Carton. Scorers: Donie Fitzgerald 1-04, Conor O’Brien 1-01, Ruairi Marron, Simon Bouchier, Ciaran McGettigan 0-02 each and Aidan Dunne, Jordan Pettigrew, Johnny Carton 0-01 each. Full time St Patricks: 2-14 Eire Og Greystones: 1-09.
Congratulations to our Hurlers on two excellent results during the week!
10 JUN 2016 County Hurling League Group 1: St Patrick’s 4-19 Abhainn Dála 0-13
Team: Eoghan O’Mahony, John Connors, Michael Connors, Andy “Muds” O’Brien, Chris Kavanagh (0-1), Gerry Connors (0-1), Terry Healy, Jack Montgomery (0-2), Stephen Morris (0-2), George “Bee” O’Brien (2-4), Sean O’Callaghan, Christy Moorehouse (0-2),James Byrne (1-0), James “Bonner” O’Brien (0-1), Andy O’Brien (1-5) Subs: George O’Connor (0-1) Tomas Kehoe Andrew Conway James “Jimser” O’Brien
08 JUN 2016 Junior Hurling League: Carnew Emmets 1-06 St Patrick’s 2-15
Team: Eoghan O’Mahony, Tomas Kehoe, Tom Ryan, Tom Berry, Andrew Conway, Gerry Connors, John O’Neill, Terry Healy (0-1) Christy Moorehouse, James Byrne (0-3), David Bury (0-10), George “Boo” O’Brien, James “Bonner” O’Brien (2-0), John “Greengrass” O’Brien (0-1), Michael “Micko” O’Brien Subs Denis “Ta” O’Brien Michael “Knotty” O’Brien Neil O’Callaghan Christy Moorehouse
Congratulations to our U14 girls who gave a wonderful display of Football on Monday Evening in Dunbur to retain the Division 1 League. The Victory over Baltinglass meant we are the Champions for the 5th year in a row. Cathy Forde presented Jess Lyons and Lucy Dunne with the league trophy. A Fantastic achievement by all involved.
The weather was ideal for good hurling on Tuesday evening at St Pats NS. This weeks’ Winners at U8 hurling training of our players of the week were Paddy Traynor U8 and Christy Moorehouse U7!
Well done to all of Our U8 and U10 footballers who took part in the monster blitz in Ballinakill on Saturday. Well done to all the players and their mentors. They were fantastic!
Congratulations to Jack Dunne who made his refereeing debut.
Well done to the Pat’s lads who travelled to Kinnegad on Saturday morning to take on Westmeath with the U13 Garden County Academy Mark O’Brien, Mark Evans, Darren O’Brien, Ryan Kavanagh, Finn Egan Barron, Cathal O’Briain and Bill O’Brien. Wishing everyone many more County appearances in the future. Thank you to all the mentors and parents who facilitated our participation in the Leinster Gaelic 4 Girls Blitz in Damian O’Brien’s home club Moorefield Kildare on Saturday. A fun time was had by all.
Good Luck to Johnny Magee, Dean, Johnny & Conor and all the County Footballers in the All Ireland Qualifiers against Carlow on June 18th in Cullen Park Carlow at 7pm.
St. Patrick’s GAA Child Protection Course will be held on the 23rd June in the Clubhouse Dunbur at 7.30pm. Please contact Carmel Earls email: cearls52@hotmail.com or text: 0879680168 for details.
ATTENDANCE IS COMPULSORY FOR ALL MENTORS INVOLVED IN JUVENILE TEAMS.
Don’t forget to sign up for the Kellogg’s Cúl Camps! This year’s Hurling Camp will take place in Dunbur on 11th-15th July and the Football Camp on 25th-29th July. You can register at gaa.ie/kelloggsculcamps.
Our own Summer GAA Camp will take place from 9th-11th August in Dunbur. The Camp is for boys and girls aged 3-10, and held from 9.30am-1.30pm. Bookings can be taken from June 6th, contact Gary Duffy (0863529445). We hope to see you there! There will be a ladies’ referee course next Sunday 10-2 in Ballinakill.
A Club member is seeking two host families for two students aged 15, a boy and a girl. The Students arrive on the 29th June and return to Spain on the 28th July. They attend school Monday to Friday in Dominican College from 9.30 to 4.30. In the evening they have some activity from 8 to 9.45. Saturday is family day and the students stay with the family. Sunday they have a full day excursion. Payment to the family is €705. If interested, please email stephaniemcqueen@live.ie.
Don’t forget still another week of recycling clothes which can be dropped into club house hall. The Club have organised a fundraising collection of recycled clothing with Liberty Recycling in aid of our two U14 Féile teams. We will receive €4 for every 8kg bag of recycled clothing received. Green plastic bags are available from the clubhouse. They can contain clean clothes, towels, blankets, curtains, bed linen, shoes, bags, hats and handbags, and extra plastic bags can be used if you have extra.
Lidl as part of their LGFA sponsorship are giving all local Ladies Club the chance to win €1,000. St. Patricks are #8 on the list. Please request tickets at checkouts and vote for us when you shop!
St Patrick’s GAA Annual Golf Day will be held in Wicklow Golf Club on the 18th June 2016. Scramble 4 Ball competition will tee off shotgun at 8.30am and 1.30pm. There are still a couple of slots available. To book your team for €100 contact Mary Cahill 0871202755, Tommy Vickers 0879901505, Davy Shannon 0872453887 and Gerry Tiernan 087248349.
The County Development Draw has been postponed until Friday 17th June at 7.30p.m, prior to Ciaran Byrne’s “A Year in Wicklow with Micko” book launch in The Arklow Bay Hotel as part of the celebration of Micko’s 80th Birthday. Happy Birthday Micko!
All Supporters and Members who have not yet returned their Development Draw Tickets, please return all Tickets Sold & Unsold to Club Secretary James Phelan (0872284441). The first draw is on Friday June 17th.
Club Lotto Results Numbers drawn were 1, 14, 17 and 18. The bonus number was 24. We had four Match 3 Numbers winners – Ronan Connolly, Niamh & Sean Rafter, Ger Drennan and Alan Noble who share €250 prize. Thanks to the weekly Club Lotto Sellers Lorraine, Tara, John & John who give up their time to help raise funds for the Club. It’s greatly appreciated. If you wish to join a team, please contact Kathryn Fox (0863149233). Make sure you buy a ticket