ST PATRICK’S
What a week for our county teams! Congratulations to our Senior county Ladies who, on Monday, May 7, were deserving Lidl Div 4 NFL champions.
Well done to all involved especially our own Niamh McGettigan, Rose Fagan, Clodagh Fox, Saoirse O’Reilly and Mick Kavanagh member of the management team.
On Saturday, in Aughrim, the county hurlers welcomed Mayo in the first round of the Christy Ring cup. A dominant first half performance from Wicklow laid the foundation for a deserving victory with a final score of Wicklow 1-20, Mayo 2-11.
On Sunday, the venue was O’Moore Park, Port Laoise for the opening game of the Leinster championship for the county Senior footballers against Offaly.
In an intriguing game of football with long range frees and penalty saves and seven minutes of injury time the two sides could not be separated with the full time score of Offaly 1-11, Wicklow 0-14.
In the first period of extra time, Wicklow had turned it around to lead Offaly 1-13, Wicklow 0-19, outscoring their opponents five points to two.
In the final ten minutes of the game, Wicklow got the all-important goal by Darragh Fitzgerald to run out deserving winners with the full-time score after extra time, Offaly 1-15, Wicklow 1-20.
Hard luck to our county under-16s who played their hearts out on Friday evening against a very impressive Longford side in the Leinster LGFA under-16 championship final. Victory was not to be, but they never let up, We thank the players especially our own County captain Lucy Dunne and Níamh Caffrey, their mentors Tim Kelly, Rosie Coffey and Shayne Murphy for their work throughout the year.
Well done to the Senior Ladies who travelled to Blessington on Saturday evening for their League game. A strong performance saw the girls home with a deserved victory with a final score line of: Blessington 3-07, St. Patrick’s 3-17
A big thank you to Whistler’s Bar Wicklow for kindly sponsoring new training tops and full set of jerseys for our senior ladies presented by Whistler’s manager Liam Byrne to our Senior ladies captain Sarah Delahunt.
Our Intermediate ladies made the trip to Pearse Park, Arklow on Sunday to take on AGB in the league. In a tight game St Patricks ran out winners with the final score AGB 2-08 St Patrick’s 4-03. A Big thank you to the three under-16s Aishling Walsh, Eva Phelan and super sub Holly McSorley for helping the girls out, Holly put the ball in the back of AGB net to secure a win.
Scorers: Níamh O’Brien (Snr) 2-01, Aimi Healy 0-01, Jess Lyons 1-0, Níamh Caffrey 0-01, Holly McSorley 1-00.
Well done to the under-10 girls who played great football in sunny Arklow on Saturday morning against Carnew, AGB and Baltinglass.
On Saturday, our under-8 ladies team took part in their first blitz in Arklow. Well done to all the girls and the management Brian McSorley, Maria Lalor, Sarah Evans.
Well done to the Senior hurlers who had a fantastic win against Ballygarret (Wexford) in the Leinster Hurling League quarter-final in Dunbur in Saturday evening. Special mention to our county representatives who travelled back after beating Mayo.
The lads will now contest the Leinster Senior League club hurling semi-final. Date, time and venue to be confirmed
Our Intermediate Hurlers had an excellent result against Kilcoole in Kilcoole on Tuesday evening with a final score of Kilcoole 2-18 St Patrick’s 4-19.
On Wednesday our Junior hurlers welcomed Avondale to Dunbur but came up short with the full time score of St Patrick’s 2-08, Avondale 3-10.
Well done to all our under-7 footballers have been busy with go games in Enniskerry on Friday night and training in sunny Dunbur on Saturday morning. Players Of The week were Mikey O’Neill and Kai Murphy.
Well done to our under-7 hurlers who with the good weather were enjoying the sunshine at St. Pat’s national school on Tuesday evening with their skills improving each week none more so than players of the week, Ruairi Keating and Ben Morrissey.
Our sincere condolences to the family of Jordan Quinn (Wicklow Town and Rathnew, Co. Wicklow) who passed away May 7. Sadly missed by his loving father Thomas, mother Vicky and partner (Marcus), brothers Thomas, Cian and Taylor, sisters Ellie and Zara, grandad’s Pat and Jimmy, grandmother Maria, uncles, aunts, cousins, extended family, relatives and many friends.
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