GRASSROOTS
BALLYMOTE
Ballymote have made history by reaching our first ever Connacht final after beating Kilglass Gaels in Hyde Pk last Sunday. Daniel Clarke had a Man of the Match performance in full back and with this consistent form from Daniel and all the Ballymote players we can only look forward to a Connacht final in 2 weeks time against Mayo, Lahardane. Special thanks to all the supporters who travelled.
BUNNINADDEN
DATES for your diaries. SCÓR na bPaistí (National School): 12th November Rathcormac 3pm.
SCÓR na nÓg (U17) County Final: 26th November 2017 Ballintogher 3pm
SCÓR na nÓg (U17) Quiz County Final: 10th December 2017 SCÓR na nÓg (U17) Connacht Final: 14th January 2018 Claremorris SCÓR na nÓg (U17) All Ireland Final: 17th February 2018 IT Sligo SCÓR Sinsir (Over 17) County Final and Quiz: 3rd March 2018 SCÓR Sinsir (Over 17) Connacht Final: 24th March 2018 SCÓR Sinsir (Over 17) All Ireland Final: 14th April 2018 IT Sligo. THERE will be an auction held in the Miller’s Inn on Sunday the 19th November to raise funds for the upkeep of our community park. Any items would be gratefully accepted. Please come out and support this event.
CALRY/ST. JOSEPH’S
VERY hard luck to the hurlers who lost out in their Connacht Junior Final to a very very strong Slylane side from Galway at the weekend. THANKS to the team for another great season and thanks to all the supporters who made the trip to Ballyhaunis for the Final. WITH Stars in Their Eyes rehearsals in full flight right now, a very successful table quiz was held in The Village Inn last Friday night. Thanks to all those who attended and to the organisers for putting on a fantastic night. Thank you also to the quiz master on the night, our very own John Griffin. ANOTHER fundraising table quiz is planned for this Friday night in the Harp Tavern Quay Street while a family friendly 5K run and walk will also be held shortly. Details of both these events can be found on the club’s Facebook page. TICKETS are selling fast for our Stars in Their Eyes event which is being held on Friday night 24th November in the Clayton hotel so please be sure to buy your tickets early and don’t get caught. THE latest lotto draw was held on Wednesday, 1st November in the clubhouse. The numbers drawn where 10, 15, 24 and 32. There was no winner of the €6,300 jackpot. There was no match three winner either with Vinny Fowley picking up the promoters prize. The next draw will be on Friday, November 24th in The Clayton Hotel Sligo.
CLOONACOOL
CLOONACOOL/TUBBERCURRY U/16 team will play Easkey/Enniscrone/Kilglass in the Shield final in the Sligo Centre of Excellence in Scarden on Thursday evening next 9th November at 7pm. This team is managed jointly by Bill Carty and David Curran.
THE Cloonacool/Tubbercurry U21 team have qualified for the county championship final of this competition, to be played in the coming weeks, with a good victory over Calry/St Josephs on Sunday last on a 2-14 to 0-6 scoreline. Our club are represented on this team by Jordan Brennan, Oisin Grehan, Conor Prendergast, Aaron Moylan, Gerard Mullarkey, and Keelan Grehan. The management include James Lawrence, Fergus Leonard and Kevin Gallagher.
THE minor hurling shield final will be contested by Cloonacool/ Tubbercurry and Naomh Eoin on Saturday next 11th November in the Centre of Excellence at 3pm. SENIOR and Junior Scor competitions will commence shortly, and the disciplines are the following. Recitation, Solo Singing, Ballad Group, Irish Dancing and Question Time. All interested in representing the club at Scor should contact club secretary Fergus Leonard, Chairman Bill Carty or vice chairman Brian McIntyre as soon as possible.
THEIR will be a club meeting in the community park on this coming Wednesday evening November 8th at 8pm. All club members are requested to attend. CONGRATS to Fergal Mullarkey, Derreens and Rachel Ward, Castlebar who were married in Ballintubber Abbey on Friday last. AND also to Kitty Murphy and Richard Corbett, both from Dublin, who celebrated their wedding in St. Michaels Church Cloonacool on Saturday Last. SYMPATHY is extended to the family, relatives and friends of the late Trevor Lunbrook of 12 Moyox Cloonacool who went to his eternal reward last weekend. May he rest in peace.
COLLOONEY HANDBALL
UNDERAGE Blitz in Drumcliffe this Saturday 11-11-2017 at 12-30. THE 40 x 20 interclub Championship semi-final took place in Collooney this weekend , with the host team of Martin Brannigan , Michael Bruen , Gerry Coleman and Stanley Harte jnr overcoming a strong challenge from the Drumcliffe team of Michael Quinn , Clive and Colin Slevin and Ken Cunningham.
COUNTY board meeting in Castleconnor on 07-11-2017 at 8-30 pm. BINGO next Thursday at 9 p.m , the jackpot is €5,300 in 42 numbers , please come early. FOLLOW us on facebook @ Collooney Handball Club.
COOLANEY MULLINABREENA
THANKS to everyone who organised and supported the Rock gig held in Tubbercurry recently, it was a great night’s entertainment Our Minor team ended their season with a defeat to Annagh Rovers, from Mayo on Friday last, the final score was 0-20 to 0-8. They were missing a number of players through injury and Holiday’s. However this was a very successful year for the team.The following are the dates for Scor for the coming year. Anyone interested in taking part should contact Eugene Henry or any Club Officer before 22nd November. Scór na bPaistí (National School): 12th November Rathcormac N.S.3pm.Scór na nÓg (U17) County Final: 26th November 2017 in Ballintogher at 3pm Scór na nÓg (U17) Quiz County Final: 10th December 2017 .Scór na nÓg (U17) Connacht Final: 14th January 2018 in Claremorris.Scór na nÓg (U17) All Ireland Final: 17th February 2018, in ITSligo. Scór Sinsir (Over 17) County Final and Quiz: 3rd March 2018.Scór Sinsir (Over 17) Connacht Final: 24th March 2018. Scór Sinsir (Over 17) All Ireland Final: 14th April 2018 in IT Sligo. Anyone Interested in sponsoring a sign in Nace O Dowd park, can contact secretray.coolaneymullinabreena. sligo@gaa.ie there has been very positive interest so far. The next phase of work,whitch is a new sand area is due to start in the next few weeks in Nace O Dowd park.
COOLERA STRANDHILL
COOLERA - Strandhill GAA Club, Ransboro, wish to appoint a person for general maintenance duties under the TUS Scheme. For information regarding eligibility requirements, please contact Gerard Mullaney, Tus Programme Supervisor, Sligo Leader at mullaneygerard@eircom.net or alternatively, by mobile at 086/8221995.
UNDER 16 and Under 21 exit the championship
THE club’s playing season came to an end over the Bank Holiday weekend when both the u16s and u21s were defeated by Easkey/ Enniscrone and Drumcliffe/Rosses Point respectively. Our u21s made the short trip to Oxfield, where they came up againat a very lively, strong opposition. Despite this, our lads were in contention right up to the end and with a bit more luck and composure in front of goals, may well have come away with a result. Team: Oisin Conway, Fionn Morrissey, David Kilrehill (0-01), James Hampson (Eoin McCormack), Ronan Redmond, Seán Murphy, Kevin Banks, Cillian McCahey (Kevin Harte), Peter Doherty (Eoin Macken 1-00), Mark McCallion, Shay Doherty (0-01), Adam Kerrigan (0-01) (Alan Scanlon), Kieran Prior (0-04).
THE under 16s travelled to Enniscrone on Monday to play the host amalgamation in the shield semi-final. Although the boys started well, some quick goals soon had them facing an uphill battle, and they trailed by eight points at half time. Needing a good start to the second half, they conceded early and though they battled to the end it wasn’t to be their day. Team: Jack Molloy, Aidan Davey, Fiachra Staunton. Rory McVeigh, Jack Murphy, Tristan Gilligan, Orin Mitchell, Lee Wilson, Ciarán Flynn (0-01), Oran McDonagh (0-02), Donagh Flynn (0-01), Josh Gilligan (1-01) (Stephen Lynch), Sam McDermott (Cormac Heneghan), Keelan Harte (0-02), Liam Gilligan (Jim Heneghan).
MANY congratulations to Kevin Banks, who last Friday, was awarded a hurling All-Star on the Lory Meagher Team of the Year. This was deserved recognition for Kevin’s displays in the county colours.
IT is a great source of pride for our club that Niall Murphy has been selected for the International Rules series and is currently preparing with the rest of the squad in Melbourne, before heading to Adelaide for the first of two Test Matches. The second match will be in Perth a week later. We wish Niall the very best of luck and hope he has a wonderful experience. A.G.M.
PLEASE note that the club AGM will take place on December 4th. Further details later.
DRUMCLIFFE/ROSSES POINT
NOVEMBER 30th promises to be a big date in the club diary. Our senior men’s footballers are organising a “Zero2Hero” event, which will take place in the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa in Sligo at 7pm. THIS will be an evening of entertaining GAA discussion and interviews with a variety of leading GAA personalities from around the country. Guests include: Galway and Ireland international rules footballer Shane Walsh, Brian McEniff, Monaghan’s Jack McCarron, Mayo ladies football captain Sarah Tierney and many more. The panel discussion will then be followed by an fundraiser auction, with each member of our senior panel donating two items each for the auction. ADMISSION on the evening is €10 and further information can be found on drp.gaa.ie or on the club’s Facebook page. COMMISERATIONS to our junior men’s footballers who were beaten by St Molaise Gaels (1-19 to 2-9) in last Monday’s championship final replay at Kent Park. On the day, the team could have few complaints as our opponents were deserving winners over the course of the hour.
WE battled hard throughout with John Hester in particular making an impressive contribution of 1-4 However, Molaise were full value for their seven-point win at the finish. NONETHELESS, it’s been a highly encouraging season overall with the team reaching both the championship and league deciders in 2017.
OUR thanks to the management team of James McTiernan and Paddy Gormley and all the players for their dedication during the season.
THE DRP junior team last Monday was: Justin Lyons, Shane Creamer, Eunan Cannon, Luke McDermott, Hugh Kisby, David Collins (C), Ruairi McLoughlin, Paddy Gormley, Brian Monaghan, Colin Ginty, David Brady, Eoin Gaughan 0-4, Tom Armstrong 1-0, John Hester 1-4, Joseph Keyes. Subs used: Hugh Cannon 0-1 for Joseph Keyes, Declan Gallagher for Tom Armstrong, Fergal McGrath for Luke McDermott, John O’Hara for John Hester.
U21 Semi-final
THE football action for the year hasn’t concluded yet. Our U21 footballers play their county ‘B’ championship semi-final against Shamrock Gaels this Saturday afternoon in Oxfield at 3pm. GOOD luck also to our own Ronan Keane and the Sligo masters gaelic footballers who play Mayo in the All-Ireland Masters final the same day in Corran Park, Ballymote. LOTTO Jackpot Winner HERE are the Club Lotto Draw results for October.
THE numbers drawn were: 3, 11, 21 and 22.
AND, for the first time, we have a jackpot winner! CONGRATS go to (ahem…) club PRO Austin O’Callaghan whose numbers came up in October’s draw. He collects a jackpot winners cheque of €4,650. Please note the PRO’s new address for all future club-related correspondence from now on will be DRP GAA Club, Lanzarote, Spain. Our monthly lotto draw continues in November’s with the new jackpot starting at €1,000. CONGRATS to brother and sister, Rían and Gemma O’Callaghan who both won gold medals at U13 and U11respectively with North Sligo Athletic Club at last Sunday’s Connacht Cross Country event in Drumlish, County Longford. Other club members also ran very well, including: Joe Campbell, Micheal Carroll, Matthew Percy and Rían O’Callaghan who helped Sligo finish third overall in the boys U13 team event. CONGRATULATIONS to all our club members who were conferred with third level qualifications during the various graduation ceremonies in IT Sligo and St Angela’s College last week. A special mention too for our nursery coach John Deacy who completed the Dublin City Marathon last week - and in one piece!
AS part of the build-up to Sligo’s staging of the 2018 All Ireland Sinsir and Scór na nÓg finals, Rathcormac Hall will host the county’s inaugural Scór na bPaistí competition this Sunday, November 12th. This is a new Scór competition for Primary School children. Contact Mary Power for more info on 0876288718. We would encourage as many club members as possible to support this worthy event.
EASTERN HARPS
Our minor boys lost out to Mayo champions Balla in the Connacht semi-final on a score line of 2:09 to 2:06. It was level at half time and both teams found it hard to get scores but the decisive score went to Balla who got a goal 20 minutes into the second half. We continued to fight back and got back to within a goal but the clock was against us. This has been a great year for the lads and management team and we look forward to seeing all these lads joining our senior ranks next season.
Our U16 boys beat St. Patrick’s/ Farnan’s on Bank Holiday Monday. After a long delay in the playing of this game it was inevitable that we were very rusty and our first half performance was poor. We were losing at half time by 0:08 points to 1:03. Our goal coming from Luke Hogge. We improved in the second half and appeared to adapt better to the heavy underfoot conditions. Kyle Cosgrove started to dominate the mid field exchanges and Kacper Grzenda, Kieran Breheny, and Eoin Higgins played very well in defence.
We chipped away at the deficit before Eoin Connolly got injured after a rash challenge by the opposing keeper resulting in a red card for them but equally as big a blow for us as we lost Eoin who was playing very well. The numerical advantage stood to us and we took a lead that we never relinquished. Finn Bruen scored a goal to put enough daylight between us for the last few minutes and we eventually ran out winners by 3.10 to 12 points. Our final against St Molaise Gael’s is fixed for this Wednesday evening at 7pm in Scarden but please check the fixtures link on our website and Facebook for any updates.
Our supporters have been excellent in supporting our team all year so we need you all out in force. Our U20 mens game against St. Farnan’s didn’t go ahead on Sunday as our opposition failed to field. We play Castleconnor in Keash on this Sunday morning in the Championship semi-final with the time to be confirmed. Our minor girls play their Connacht semi-final on November 26th. They play the winners of the game between Mayo and Galway. No details of venue as of yet. The Club will be holding their A.G.M later that evening in Gurteen Hall at 6pm. This Friday night Bingo in association with Eastern Harps continues as usual in Gurteen Hall at 8.30pm. The jackpot has now reached €2,300 in 49 calls or less with the lotto jackpot 1 at €300. Thanks to all who help out on Friday nights and to those who