ÉIRE ÓG GREYSTONES
Two very important events are in the pipeline for the coming week, one sporting and one social.
The former, Éire Óg v Rathnew in the Renault Senior Football Championship in Joule Park at 5p.m. on Sunday has about it, on form to date, the air of lambs being led to the slaughter with the predicted outcome for Éire Óg being nothing less than a comprehensive defeat.
However hope springs eternal and going on the drawn match against Kiltegan in the previous round, one expects that Na Clocha Liatha will give Rathnew a better run for their money than is forecast by the pundits.
In am an gátar aithnítear cáirde (true friends show solidarity in times of lagging fortunes). Are you a friend?
Support for the team during the championship campaign has, to say the least, been discouragingly poor so think about lending them your support for this do-or-die contest.
The latter occasion – there are those who might say that the order of priority here is out of kilter! – is the marriage of Junior C manager John Wynne on Friday.
Everyone in the club extends every good wish to John and his future bride, Aoife, and hopes that they will have a long and happy life together. Beannacht Dé orthu beirt agus go raibh saol fada sona acu le chéile.
IOMÁINT - Éíre Óg and Carnew faced off in the Dacia Cars Senior Hurling Championship on a recent Saturday evening in the home of St. Pats in Dunbur.
A strong wind which favoured Carnew in the first half blew directly from goal to goal. At the end of the first quarter Carnew were 0-8 to 0-0 ahead and so great had been their superiority throughout the field that it seemed that there could be only one outcome, a humiliating defeat for Na Clocha Liatha.
During that 15 minutes one got the impression that the Carnew lads could not put a shot astray and while the wind did not help the Éire Óg cause the responsibility for the yawning scoring gap could not be placed solely at its door.
Over the period our lads seemed to have been invaded by a lethargy which prevented them from becoming fully engaged and this had allowed the opposition forwards to shoot at will.
A glimmer of hope appeared a few mins. into the second quarter when Chester slotted over a point from a free.
This injected a modicum of energy into his colleagues and they upped their game significantly.
Greystones were thrown a lifeline when Andrew Walsh got in for a goal just before the break to leave the score at half-time, 0-14 to 1-4.
The momentum that Éire Óg had gained in the final minutes of the opening half continued its build-up into the second and after 10 minutes they had reduced the deficit to just two points, thanks to 4 unanswered points (Pooch 0-2, Chester 0-1 all from frees and a point from play by Andrew Walsh).