GRASSROOTS

RATHNEW

We had a very busy week in the club. Junior B league result: Rathnew 6-10, Avoca 4-02 - Our Junior B team had a convincing win against Avoca in Merrymeeting.

This was a good overall team performance with some fantastic defending on display including two magic point blank saves from John sayer in the home goal.

In total eight players got thei names on the score sheet with Jem hunter and Nigel Darragh contributing 3-6 between them.

Both Dean Breen and James Kavanagh got through a mountain of work in the forward line and the Byrne brothers, Gavin (0-1) and Robert, must have ran a marathon between them such was their work rate.

Wing backs John Healy (0-2) and Eric Doyle (0-1) both registered fine points on the night.

Our full-back line of Alan Clarke, Jem Manley and Patrick O’Connor played well for the hour and kept the point account against us to just two points.

The other three goals were netted by Dale Franey form a penalty and two impact subs Danny and Tom Quinn. Others to shine were Mick Nolan and lee Kavanagh. Well done all!

Rathnew under-14 girls v St Pats at Dunbur - Rathnew 12–6 to St Pats 7-6 - Played on a blustery night. The short drive in from Rathnew proved to be fruitful for the Village against St Pats.

The game started with Rathnew racing to and early lead. Kara Doyle, Jess, and Faye getting early goals. Faye, Leah, Anna and Sorcha were getting plenty of ball into the full forward line completed with Katie and Kara Anderson.

The full-back line, led by Lynsey, Alex and Sarah, repelled many Pat’s attacks.

Ella in Goal made a few good saves. The half backs led by Shannon, Aine and Clodagh were winning lots of ball.

Pats introduced a number of stronger subs during the first half and battled back and a few goals and points left not much in it at half time. Kara, Faye, Jess and Leah shared all the scores in the first half.

Faye, Anna and Leah seemed to cover all the Dunbur pitch in the first half. Pats had a team of subs on the side-line and the Rathnew management were concerned that after the effort put in the first half would they be able to keep the effort up?

Rathnew, facing up the hill and into the wind in the second half for all the good play, were only leading 6-5 to 2-4.

The second half started with Kara Doyle grabbing another goal. Pats increased the pressure on Rathnew for 10-15 minutes of that half. It looked like that the half time lead would not be enough, for a time Rathnew were at sixes and sevens and couldn’t get the ball up the pitch. A few switches and Faye, Anna, Leah and Jess started winning ball around the middle third and carried ball up the pitch and got it into the lethal Kara Doyle. Jess, Kara, Leah and Kiva finishing off all the second half scores.

Subs Kiva, Ria and Vicky played a huge part in the win. Katie in the goal probably pulled off save of the year a rasper that she tipped over the crossbar when the match was in the melting pot.

Sorcha played on with a badly brused finger winning ball around the half forward line linking play to the full forwards.

We must mention the older girls who led the team on especially the fantastic Faye (who must have ran a marathon tonight), Leah, Lynsey and Jess who is showing the management what she can do.

The under-12s of Alex, Clodagh and Aine in the backline. Kara Doyle with seven goals and three points, well it says it all. Outstanding performances by everyone on the team and we need to mention Kara A, Anna, Shannon, Sarah aswell.

Scorers: Faye 1-1, Jess 2-0, Kiva 1-0, Leah 1-2, Kara 7-3.

Team on the night: 1. Ella Byrne, 2. Alex ‘The Rock’ Mitchell, 3. Lynsey Sayer, 4. Sarah Haughton, 5. Aine Hill, 6. Shannon Goulding,

7. Clodagh Quinn, 8. Faye Larkin, 9. Anna Dignam, 10. Sorcha Higgins, 11. Leah Murphy,

12. Kara Anderson, 13. Jess Moxley, 14. Kara Doyle, 15. Katie Gregory (goal second half), 16. Kiva Doyle, 17. Ria Gregory, 18. Vicky Moxley.

Well done to the u12 girls that played in the county blitz in Dr Cullen Park Carlow at the weekend. Keaveney Doyle, Anna Dignam, Ria Gregory, Alex Mitchell Saoirse Mitchell, Jade O’Loughlin, Hollie O’Connor, Clodagh Quinn and Olivia Vozza.

Our Kevin Gill Golf Classic was a great success, a big thank you to our main sponsors SKC, to Healy’s Mini-Market, Anita and Gemma doing the BBQ for all of the hungry golfers, the food was fantastic and went down a treat with everyone.

To Whacker, Eamonn, Decky Earls Bobby and Richard for their help on the day. Bobby and Ger Ryder won the tournament with a score of 45 points. Mark Doyle and Whaler were in second place with 44 points and third were Mosey and Kieran Coffey. Well done lads! Thank you to all of our sponsors on the day, all who took part and to everyone for their continued support.

We send birthday wishes to Pat Quinn and Seanie Byrne who celebrated birthdays this week.

AGB

On the field, things have been quite in the juvenile section with both under-11 matches and under-13 matches being cancelled due to weather last week.

The under-7 and under-9 boys travelled to Kilmacanogue for a blitz on Friday evening where they had an excellent night of football.

The under-17s will resume training after their break for exams this week and their under-17 league fixtures will be finalised.

AGBs Senior men will face Stratford midweek with time to be confirmed and the Junior Bs will face Avoca on Thursday evening away in Avoca at 7pm. The first championship match has been confirmed with Tinaheley for the Senior men, date and time to be announced.

The ladies have also had a quite couple of weeks, with the girls taking a break from matches for their exams. Matches will resume following the exams.

AGB’s under-10, 12 and U4 girls have been busy with training and matches and huge progress can be seen with the teams.

Congratulations to the under-12 girls who represented AGB playing with the under-12 Wicklow County Development squad in the Leinster U-12 blitz in Dr Cullen Park, Carlow.

AGB will run a summer camp this August in Pearses Park on the week of the 14th to the 18th. The price will be €45 pr child, with great fun and games to be played. Further information to be confirmed.

Thank you to LMH who joined us to celebrate the first year of our new Clubhouse last weekend. LMH were also celebrating 50 years in operation. It was a wonderful day in the clubhouse, with much fun had by all.

AGB would like to express votes of sympathy to the Kelly family and the Greene family on their recent bereavements.

Please send club notes to arklowgaa@ gmail.com You can contact the AGB PRO at above email, Facebook (‘Arklow Geraldines Ballymoney GAA Club’ or ‘AGB Ladies’) or Twitter.

COOLBOY

With the Division 3 League almost at an end, our Junior ‘A’ championship campaign starts in a little over three weeks on Sunday, July 9, against Newcastle in Pearse’s Park, Arklow, with kick off at 12.30am although this time will be confirmed closer to the date.

Belated birthday wishes to footballer Adam Doyle who celebrated his 21st last weekend!

ENNISKERRY

Senior Football – No matches of late for either senior teams. The ladies played in the Ellen Kinch Memorial Blitz on Saturday in Tinahely which gave them a good work out and some sun burnt faces all round while the men had a good training session first thing Sunday morning in the Altitude Chambers in Bray. July will see the start of championship season for our senior men and ladies team. The men will face Dunlavin, Rathnew and Avoca dates TBC while the ladies will play Carnew, Tinahely and Nicks.

Juvenile Football - A big congratulations to Cliodhna Coleman who represented the club playing for Wicklow at the Leinster U12 Blitz in Carlow on Saturday, Cliodhna is daughter of Tommy who does great work with our juvenile section. Cliodhna has also recently attended some training sessions with the senior team and is playing fantastically, well done and keep up the good work!

Last Friday night the under-7s had a return visit to Eire Óg for their Go Games blitz last night. The team put in brilliant performances against opposition from Eire Óg, St. Pats and Fergal Ógs with some great defending, attacking and scoring displayed. Another fantastic team performance by Adam, Jamie, Reuban, Rian, Saoirse, Simon and Sophie. Thanks again to the supporters that travelled down and voiced their support for our stars of the future.

Last week our under-11s were away to Fergal Og’s in Ballywaltrim with their biggest turn out to date with 15 players tuning up on a very wet evening, the home team started on the attack but some fine defending and good goal keeping kept them at bay and it wasn’t long before Enniskerry took control and by half time we had a commanding lead of 5-00 to Fergal’s 1-1.

The second half was one way traffic and the home team didn’t register any score and we ran out comfortable winners on a score line of 8-03 to Fergal Og’s 1-01. It was our second win in a row and third overall. It was a fantastic team performance! Well done to all players and coach Mick.

The Oskars - Our joint fundraiser in conjunction with Enniskerry YC FC, The Oskars was attended by close to 400 people on what was a thoroughly enjoyable night in The Parkview Hotel, Newtownmountkennedy. We would like to thank all of the local businesses who sponsored either the event or some of our budding actors along with the Ann Marie Wrynn and the staff of the Parkview Hotel.

The gross total made between the two clubs was €25,000 so a huge thank you to everyone in the village who supported the night, the actors themselves and of course the organising committee too.

The winning film on the night was ‘Forrest Gump’ with Mark Mullen playing Forrest, best actor went to Paul Wrynn and best actress to Lauren O’Sullivan. If you would like a copy of the films we can send across the links on email or put them on a USB stick, just send the GAA Facebook page a message.

ST PATRICK’S

St Patricks GAA Annual Golf Day in Wicklow Golf Club on Saturday, June 17.

Scramble 4 ball competition €100 per team time: First tee time 9am to 4.30pm.

To book your team contact: Mary Cahill 087 1202755, Tommy Vickers 087 9901505, Davy Shannon 087 2453887 and Gerry Tiernan 087 2483490.

Well done to St. Pats under-11 football blue team for a brilliant performance and result in wet conditions against Annacurragh. Well done to St .Pats under-11 white team who put in a great performance against a strong Kilbride team. Overall 30 under-11 footballers played which is great to see.

Well done to our under-12 county stars Kayleigh, Abbie, Emma, Justin, Lexi and Hazel who represented their County on Saturday in Carlow.

Well done to Mark Evans and Cathal O’Brien from St. Patrick’s under-14s who took on Carlow at 11 in Ballinakill on Saturday, June 10, narrowing losing out by three points.

A big thank you to Jackie Kinch and Tinahely for inviting the Junior and senior Pat’s girls down for an great day of football we did reach a semi-final the girls played great football and everyone enjoyed it. All funds raised went to Barretstown in memory of Jackie’s sister Ellen who passed away .

We have had a lot of crack with Bill Hill and the Wicklow Rose now let’s get serious who will represent St Patrick’s Wicklow Rose centre are looking for girls between 18-27yrs to represent themselves, their families, friends and club in the Wicklow Rose in the Arklow Bay Hotel on June 25. Anyone interested please contact

Lyn Moloney 083 4631611, Peter Cooney 087 8141271, Steve Cronly 086 2505791, Pádraig de Brún 087 6706310.

Fancy winning €500 easy money with our 2017 Sports Event Prediction Competition organised by the Ladies Section are now available.

Fancy winning €500 easy money with our sports prediction competition.

Closing date for entry is Wednesday, June 14. Competition forms are available from Ladies Club management teams or through St Patricks GAA Facebook page. Please support only €10! or contact any ladies manager.

On Friday night our Senior footballers welcomed Avondale to Dunbur for the Division 1 league game. It ended with a full time score: St Patrick’s 3-24, Avondale 1-03.

Team: Ian Murphy, Chris Kavanagh, James Kavanagh, Ciaran Doyle, Simon Bouchier, Shane Murley, Niall Donnelly, Eamonn Wolfe, Sean O’Brien, Paul O’Brien, Stephen Duffy, Jordan Pettigrew, Conor O’Brien, Tommy Kelly, Donal Fitzgerald. Subs: Hugh Humby, Lorcan Smullen, Aidan Dunne, Bill McHugh, Shane Doyle

Scorers: Donal Fitzgerald 2-02, Tommy Kelly 08, Jordan Pettigrew 0-06, Paul O’Brien 1-01, Stephen Duffy 0-03(2F), Conor O’Brien 0-03, Shane Murley 0-01.

Hard luck to the county Junior footballers in the Leinster Semi-final against Louth in Drogheda - especially our own Padraig Higgins, Paul O’Brien, Stephen Duffy, Conor O’Brien, Simon Bouchier and Jordan Pettigrew.

Congratulations to Joe Murphy and Daniel Connolly who lead the way in the under-7 hurling in St Pat’s NS, and were proud boys to be presented with our player of the week awards. Well done to all and keep up the practice between training lads.

Have you got any used football boots/ hurling helmets you are not using? The club would love them. They can be dropped into the gear shop every Saturday morning to help with the club gear exchange program.

Don’t forget tuck shop and club gear shop open every Saturday morning 11-12:30.

New pink club supporters Jerseys” are now available.

Jerseys that have been pre-ordered from Alan O’Brien will have first preference.

Call to club shop on Saturday morning to collect jerseys from 11am to 12.30pm.

Jersey sizes are the same as the jersey sold in our club shop on Saturday mornings: 0-6 months, 1-2 years, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 10-11, 13, Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, 2XL etc.

Prices are €28 for sizes 0-6 thru’ 3-4, €30 for sizes 5-6 thru’ 10/11, €40 for size 13, €45 for all adult sizes.

A big thank you to volunteers Siobhan Hollingsworth, Emma Hughes Czwalina in the Tuck Shop and Marie O’Brien, Olivia Connolly Carey and Mick Murphy who have volunteered to assist with the Club Gear Shop at the club nursery every Saturday in Dunbur.

Any Individuals interested in been involved with our club teams for 2017 should contact the club secretary at: Secretary. stpatricks.wicklow@gaa.ie.

We are always welcoming new players to St Patrick’s GAA club we begin at three years of age come along Saturday morning and try it out.

St Patrick’s GAA Club are hosting a fundraising Ceili for the Martin family on June 23 at 9pm in the clubhouse, Dunbur. Admission at the door will be €10. A raffle with lots of prizes will be held on the night.

It will be a regular Ceili with set-dancing and old-time waltzes and Music by a two-piece band. Please reserve a date in your diary!

KNOCKANANNA

Lotto results - Numbers drawn were 5, 13, 18, and 24. No winner. Match three: Theresa Dunne. Sellers prize Sarah O’Keeffe. Next week’s jackpot stands at €3,600.

Knockananna play Newcastle tonight in Knockananna at 7.45pm.

A win here would leave the lads in a good position for promotion. We would appreciate all your support.

We would also like to welcome home Jonny Wybrant and Eimear Mc Crea from their travels in Australia.

The club are holding a teenage Disco in the Hall on June 30 from 8 - 11. This event will be strictly supervised.