The Sligo Champion

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FUNDRAISER 25 CARD DRIVE

A 25 Card Drive will take place in The Village Tavern, Bonniconlo­n, on Thursday 25th October, in aid of The Centre for the Unemployed, Ballina. €500 in Prize Money 1st Prize €300, 2nd Prize €150, 3rd Prize €50. Spot Prizes and Raffle. Tickets €10 & game commences at 9pm. Tickets available from the Centre Tel: 096-70885.

GAA CLUB NEWS

IFC–TOURLESTRA­NE CASTLECONN­OR 0-12 V CURRY 3-11: The championsh­ip dream for 2018 is over. In an enjoyable game of football where a very large crowd from the parish were there to support the lads, the extra experience and years of senior stood to Curry as they pulled away and withstood our comeback on two ocacssions.

We were 1-2 to no score down after 5 minutes but we held them scoreless till the last kick of the half after we had drawn level with points from Seán Carrabine, Stevie Curley Kevin Langan and Kevin McDonnell. At this time Rory Healy and John McDonnell were moping up a lot of ball in the half back line. At the break the score was 1-3 v 0-5.

Curry got off again to a good start with a score which we equalised twice through points from Kevin Mc and Stevie. in the 45th minute Colin Gordon was beaten in a 2 on 1 after previously making a double save for Curry to push their lead out to 7 after following with quick points. We showed great spirit and fight at this stage and scored 4 points in a 5 minute spell winning 5 kickouts in a row with Eoin Kent joining Sean and Stevie on the scoring charts.

There was a long stoppage after a strong challenge saw former Sligo team mates Patrick Naughton and Sean Davey hit the deck but warriors that they are were up and able to continue. In the 9th minute of injury time, the final minute, Curry intercepte­d our attack and finished with a goal that did not do justice to the scoreline.

Thanks to the whole squad, management team and anyone that helped in any way throughout the year. Despite going out all can look back and have some reward with out 4th division 2 league title. The squad put in a great effort and deserve enormous praise every one of them for what they managed this year. It is only a few short months after 2 rounds of the league we were down at the bottom of the division but turned it around and won the league with 6 straight wins in a row.

Team: Colin Gordon, Ronan Keane, Keith Earlis, Brendan Howley, Eoin Kent, Rory Healy, Jason Earlis, Kevin McDonnell, Sean Carrabine, Alan Cawley, Kevin Langan, Cian Barrins, Brian Howley, John McDonnell, Stevie Curley: Subs: Patrick Naughton, Paul Sweeney, Paul Flynn. Subs not used Micheál Cahill, Ciarán Kilcullen, Stephen Durkan, Luke Munnelly, Alan Naughton, James Boland, Niall Judge, Liam Naughton, Odhrán Quinn, Kenneth Healy, Brian Mahoney, Benny Foody

THE KUBE IS BACK: The club will be holding the Kube for a second time on Saturday November 24th at the Diamond Coast hotel. Can you become the Queen or King of the Kube or can Tom Tuffy, the current holder retain his title. Currently we are looking for people to participat­e so if you are interested and want to take part please contact one of the committee members.

CONGRATULA­TIONS: Congrats to our former player Richard Howley who has had an excellent few weeks in Showjumpin­g winning a number of Grand Prixs and being part of the Irish Showjumpin­g squad. Congratula­tions to club man Michael Langan who got married to Amy Kelly last Saturday in Ballina with the reception in the Lough Rynn in Mohill

SPONSORSHI­P: Thanks to Patrick McGuinness of PMAC catering for providing and sponsoring meals for the senior lads after training last week

 ?? Pic: ?? Aoife Cannon, Chloe Collins, Kim McMullan, Leanne McDonnell and Rachel Armstrong at Student Day Sligo Races last Thursday. Carl Brennan.
Pic: Aoife Cannon, Chloe Collins, Kim McMullan, Leanne McDonnell and Rachel Armstrong at Student Day Sligo Races last Thursday. Carl Brennan.

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