GRASSROOTS

ST PATRICK’S

On Sunday, our Senior lads make the trip to Aughrim for the late start at 4.45pm to take on Baltinglass in their opening championship game.

In a cagey first half playing against the wind St Pats went in at half-time a point ahead. Half-time score: St Pats 0-5, Baltinglass 0-4. In a game of missed chances, Baltinglass converted a close in free at the end of the game to draw level. Full-time score: St Pats 0-10, Baltinglass 0-10.

Team: Colie Byrne, Wayne Doyle, James Kavanagh, Ciaran Doyle, John Crowe, Padge McWalter, Niall Donnelly, Dean Healy, Shane Murley, Johnny Delahunt, Stephen Duffy, Conor Ffrench, Eamonn Wolfe, Jordan Pettigrew, Tommy Kelly. Subs: Conor O’Brien and Paul O’Brien

Scorers: Tommy Kelly 0-7(0-2F), Jordan Pettigrew 0-3 (0-1F).

Congratulations to all involved with our under-17 hurlers who traveled to Pearse’s Park, Arklow, in Round 4 of the league on Monday night. The lads came away worthy winners with the full time score of Avondale Parnells 3-16 St. Patrick’s 4-16.

Well done to the under-16 A girls who had a comprehensive win over Bray they march on to take on Tinahely home Tuesday 4th at 8.10pm throw in.

Our Senior Ladies made the trip to Tinahely for the opening game of the championship. After a strong performance in which we will regret the missed opportunities, Unfortunately it was not to be.

On Saturday evening out Junior ladies welcomed Eire Og Greystones to Dunbur in their opening game of the championship. Our junior ladies put in a strong performance to secure a fine win. Well done girls

Our future Joe Canning and Lee Chins’ were on duty at under-7 hurling training this week. Well done to Luke Connolly and Michael Delaney on their player of the week awards!

On Wednesday evening our Junior hurlers welcomed Barndarrig to Dunbur. Congratulations on a fine victory with the full time score of St. Patricks 3-12 Barndarrig 1-05.

Our under-11 hurlers made the trip south to Carnew on Wednesday. It was a fruitful journey with the result in favour of St Patricks with a final score of St. Patricks 7-6, Carnew 3-1.

Dunbur was a hive of activity on Saturday morning with so many teams training in the sunshine! Our under-7 footballers were going through their paces under the watchful eye of coaches Bosco, Donal, and Tomas. Players of the week were Seb Phelan and Jack Dempsey, keep up the good work lads!

Big congratulations to Senior player Shane Murley and his wife Hannah on the birth of their son Coley who was born on Saturday.

A big shout out to Jackie Kinch on a great fundraiser for the Ellen Kinch memorial cup today which raised a brilliant €1,915.00 for Barretstown! Well done to all involved especially our own girls who took part and had a great day. Thank you all for your kind donations and it is hugely appreciated!

Wicklow Golf Club are hosting an Inter Club Talent Competition on Saturday, August 12.

This event is to raise much needed funds for Breast Cancer Research Ireland and is in conjunction with the Play in Pink golf competition that Wicklow Golf Club ladies will be organising on Saturday, August 12. A night of fun and craic at Wicklow Golf Club inter-club talent competition. Music on the night will be provided by Breakaway.

Any budding singers, comedians, dancers or any form of entertainer welcome! The winner will receive €100.

Contact Anthony Franey at afraney@wicklowcoco.ie of 087 6799857 to take part in the show.

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 11-12.30pm.

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 Jersey’s 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

The Kellogg’s GAA Cúl website is now LIVE for Bookings. Contact County Coordinator Garrett Doyle 083-4357460 or https://www.kelloggsculcamps.gaa.ie/booking/online/

Cúl Camp dates 2017 in St Patrick’s GAA Club Wicklow Town this year are

Hurling Cúl Camp 3rd July to 7th July 2017 Football Cúl Camp 17th July to 21st July 2017 Camogie - Training continues for under-8 and under-10 girls on Thursdays at 6-45pm in St. Patricks National School pitch. New players always welcome contact Margaret 087 7827881. Dates for your Diary:

Under-16A Ladies: Tuesday 4th July 2017 St Patricks V Tinahely in Dunbur at 8.10pm.

Senior Hurling Championship Saturday 8th July 2017 At Aughrim: St. Patrick’s v Carnew 6.45pm.

Junior A Football Championship Tuesday 11th July 2017 At Pearse Park: St. Patrick’s v Carnew 8.00pm.

Wicklow GAA Review 2017 will have a club forum scheduled for July 11 at Tulfarris House Hotel. The aim is to gather the largest number of opinions as possible to make a plan for the people by the people. Please contact club officers to discuss.

We had no winners for our match 5 or match 4 jackpots. We had three match three winners: Peter Duffy, Carmel Earls and T/K c/o Bash Barry. Don’t forget to buy your ticket this week. If you are not in you cannot win!

Numbers drawn were 1, 3, 15 and 22. The bonus number was 6.

Thanks to the weekly club lotto sellers who give up their time to help raise funds for the club. It’s greatly appreciated. The next draw is on Monday 3rd July in the Clubhouse. Make sure you buy a ticket each week and you could be the winner of our Match 4 prize €1,700 or Match 5 €10,000 jackpot!

As part of club development and potential additional playing facilities, we are requesting that each age group team support the lotto selling rota by providing a team of 4 on their designated Saturday. Are any of you available to sell in the pubs on Saturday nights from 9pm? Contact your team manager for details.

Please send any information for club notes to Pro.stpatricks.wicklow@gaa.ie before 9pm on Sunday evenings.

You can contact St Pats at Facebook St Patrick’s GAA Club Wicklow Town or Twitter @ StPatsGAAWick

TINAHELY

Senior Football - Anyone that made the short journey to Joule park in Aughrim last Thursday night were treated to a marvellous game of football.

Tinahely and Bray Emmets went at it from the start with bray getting the first score before Tony Darcy equalised.

The last three minutes of the first half Bray hit us for 1-3 to head in winning 1-7 to 1-4.

Second half started brightly with Alan Dillon dragging the team level only a few minutes into the match.

From there the lads never looked back and went on to win 2-13 to 1-11.

It was also encouraging to see the younger lads making their Senior debut, James Tyrell, Curtis Keating and Rory Stokes.

Team on the night was: Niall Byrne, Larry, Hooch, Chester, James Tyrell, Conor, John, crouch, Rory, Curtis, Stevie, Bandy, Tony, Alan and Jason. Well done to the team and management. Next up is AGB in two weeks time.

Tinahely GAA Lotto, June 26 - Numbers: 2, 17, 22, and 23. Bonus 12. No jackpot winner, one match three: Martin Hennessy.

Next week’s lotto: €6,600

Tinahely Ladies - Well done to the senior team as the title defence started on Friday night last against st. Pat’s. Tinahely were by far too strong as they led 11 points to 0-2 at half-time before marching on to win 0-18 to 1-4. A decent battle but Tinahely packed too much punch up front.

Junior football - The Junior team are at home to Coolkenno in the Carter Cup on Thursday evening at 7.30pm.

ANNACURRA

The first anniversary occurs this weekend of Tommy Doyle, Tomanerin. Tommy was a great footballer for the club in his day, a selector and a loyal supporter all his life. He was one of the main people behind the club buying and developing its own pitch in the late 80s, and served as a club trustee for almost 30 years. Ar dheis de go raibh a ainm.

ASHFORD

Lotto draw date: Monday, June 26, for a jackpot worth €4,100. Numbers drawn: 5, 8, 12, and 16. There was no jackpot winner.

Match threes: Niamh Cooney c/o GPO; Catriona Hatton c/o V Hatton; Vinnie Hatton c/o V Hatton; Jimmy Kavanagh c/o Shay; R Phillips c/o R Phillips; Lil Coates c/o M Purcell; Alex Silva c/o A Silva; Mick Dempsey c/o S Dempsey.

In our first Intermediate Championship Group match we lost to Carnew on a scoreline of 0-12 to 1-16. Next up is Hollywood in Roundwood on July 15.

The comedy night in Chester Beatty’s was a resounding success. A fine crowd enjoyed a great laugh and helped people overcome the earlier defeat in the championship.

This year’s Kellogs GAA Cúl Camp will be held in Ashford from Monday 31st. July to Friday 4th. August.

First child cost is €60, second child €50, third and subsequent child €40. Contact Stephen Behan for more information.

The second Ashford GAA Summer Camp will take place from Tuesday 15th. to Friday 18th. August. Cost is €45 for first child and €35 for any additional child from the same family.

Our lotto will be going online soon. Further information to follow.

Further information on Ashford GAA activities can be found via Facebook and from our web page, www.ashfordgaa.com.

BRAY EMMETS

Lotto: The numbers drawn were: 21, 15, 25, and 11. The next jackpot will be €20,000.

Congratulations to Rory Plunkett Boyle who wins €25 in the Lucky Dip.

Please sign up here, it’s a fantastic way of supporting the club and winning some cash.

Bray Emmets senior ladies got their first win of the championship campaign with a hard fought win againts Clara.

Conceding two early goals led the girls to move up in the gears and really start playing.

With a final score of 2-17 to 2-3 both management and players were delighted to get the first win of the campaign.

A special mention to the younger players who are coming up from Minor who are making a real impression to the squad. Next championship match is the 13th of July vs Blessington away. Onwards and upwards!

Senior men’s football - Hard luck to the Senior men who went down fighting to Tinahely in the first round of the championship.

Under-15 Hurling - Bray Emmets 7-9, St Vincent’s 2-7 - The under-15 hurlers continued their good run in the league with a solid win against St Vincent’s B on a cool Friday evening in Old Conna.

Once again, this team’s ability to score goals proved decisive against a very competitive St Vincent’s B side.

Peter and Sam started strongly at midfield and early dominance saw Ben and Sam take some good scores from play, and with Ben and Rory adding goals Bray seemed in control.

Vincent’s stuck to the task and scored two goals and two points of their own in quick succession.

Sam’s clever play saw him score two further goals to keep Bray in front and the teams went into the break with Bray leading on a scoreline of 4-4 to 2-2.

St Vincent’s closed the gap with some good point scoring after half time, but excellent team play by Emmets resulted in a steady stream of scores.

Rory got two more goals, Sam another goal and a point and Brian added a number of fine points from play. There were very good performances all over the pitch.

Special mention to Jack at corner back, Adam at centre back, Rian who put in a very strong display on a tough opponent, Peter who was tireless throughout and Sam, Rory and Ben who made very important plays at crucial times.

Team: Fionn, Daniel M, Aaron, Jack, Tadhg Mac, Adam, Eoin, Peter, Sam, Rian, Rory, Ben, Conor.

Senior hurling championship round 2 against Carnew - All roads led to Aughrim to face Carnew, the team that beat us at this stage last year, and with a slight change in the weather, from Tuesday night against Greystones, we knew another good competitive game was in store.

We settled into this game very well with points from Padge Doyle and a side line cut by Diarmuid Mastrson, Carnew hit back with three points on the trot before Mark Lennon fired over a lovely long-range point.

We were playing some lovely hurling at this stage with Peter Kiely and Eoin McCormack using some great spatial awareness and setting up a number of direct attacks carving apart the Carnew defence, and so it lead to Tom Cash’s first goal which he executed brilliantly to the top corner of Michael Collins goal after a superb run through the middle by Padge Doyle who laid it off.

Masterson added another long-ranger from a free and we were looking comfortable enough.

Then against the run of play a long ball was sent in to the Bray goal, which came back off the post and Wayne Kinsella netted to keep the men from the Wexford border in the game.

With half time looming we put another great patch of hurling together, Ciano and McNally linking up to set Tom in for his second goal which he dispatched in fine style, 2-4 to 1-3 at the break after playing against a strong breeze.

Tommy ordered the boys into the dressing room and with a relative amount of calm he went around the room issuing great encouragement to all the young men who had just left every ounce of energy out on the field and that hard work always pays off.

Liam Benville, Conor Doherty, Conor McNally, Ben McCormack, Darragh Moloney and two goal hero Tom Cash, hounded and harried every ball. Eoin Mason was coolness personified in goal and set up several attacks with his accurate puck outs.

The second half saw us resume control of this game, with Padge Doyle, Diarmuid, Tom and Benville all firing over points and Carnew not really showing their usual fighting spirit, we were well on the way to our second win.

When Padge blazed our third goal past Collins in the Carnew goal, it was game set and match, Cian O Byrne who worked hard throughout the game received a second yellow in what seemed to be very harsh decision, none the less, there is no doubt Carnew will have a lot more to say in this championship but at this stage of affairs Bray are a bit ahead of them.

Willie Keane and Paddy Lee came on for Lennon who was immense throughout the game and Conor McNally who also put in a good shift. Karl Lacey, Peter Walsh, did everything asked of them, and Peter Kieley outstanding at centre back, the final whistle sounded with the score line 3-13 to 1-06, two from two but we won’t get carried away, still a lot of hard work to be done.

We need to get the support going again, so a few upcoming fixtures for you, intermediate hurling championship next, 9th July v Glenealy 7.30 also in Aughrim.

Then next senior game 11th July 7.30 v Glenealy also in Aughrim and Kiltegan 18th July 7.45 again in Aughrim.

Many thanks to all who helped out, much appreciated, training Tuesday 7.15.

Team: Eoin Mason, Conor Doherty, Peter Walsh, Karl Lacey, Ben McCormack, Peter Kieley, Darragh Moloney, Mark Lennon,(1) Diarmuid Masterson,(2) Liam Benville,(2) Padraig Doyle,(1.4) Eoin McCormack,(1) Tom Cash, (2.2) Conor McNally, (1), Cian O’Byrne, Willie Keane, Paddy Lee, William Robinson and Shane Slattery.

COOLBOY

Our first Junior A championship match is next Sunday afternoon at 12.30am against Newcastle in Pearse’s Park, Arklow.

As it is our first match in the group stages, the lads would appreciate any travelling support to get the championship campaign off to a winning start.