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Feile na nGael
The Feile na nGael festival of U-14 hurling and camogie took place in Waterford and Tipperary over the weekend. Our hurlers were placed in Division 5 and hosted Michael Dwyers from Wicklow who proved to be the eventual winners of this division. We began our campaign with a 5-8 to 0-0 win over Carlow Town who seemed out of their depth in this group. We then lost our second game to Passage narrowly 3-5 to 2-6 after a cracking match. On Saturday morning our guests defeated us 1-10 to 2-1 which meant we were in the shield competition.
We travelled to Passage where we defeated Kilsheelan 1-10 to 1-3 in the quarter final. It was then on to Grangemockler for the semi final to take on Four Roads from Roscommon who ended our run by defeating us 1-7 to 1-5.
We would like to say thanks to chief organiser Tommy Ryan and everyone who helped out over the weekend. Well done to our players and mentors for their efforts. Congratulations to our visitors Michael Dwyers on their success.
Panel: Daire Treacy, David Ryan, Conor Murphy, Kieran O’Sullivan, Cormac Dawson, Alex Keane, Ryan McCarthy, Evan Hayes, Alex Browne, Josh Kelly, Rueben O’Halloran, Aaron Wymberry, Darragh Crowe, Nathan Finn, Sean Treacy, Alex Hoban-Maguire, Senan Maher, Owen Oseni, Conor Cummins, Sultan Anadekan, Conor O’Shea, Glen Buckley.
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Celtic Challenge U-17 Hurling
Well done to the Waterford city U-17 hurling team who won the Division 4 final of this competition in Nowlan Park on Saturday. We were represented on the squad by Peter Grogan (who received a fair play award), Sean Carton (who travelled from the Galway Gaeltacht to play), Luke Flynn, Donal Carey and Ian Condon
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New Arrival
Congratulations to our former senior hurler Michael Doherty and his wife Amy on the birth of a baby girl Cara in Australia recently.
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Injury
Unfortunately during the week it became clear that the injury suffered by Paidi Nevin in the senior hurling championship game against Portlaw was more serious than we realised on the day. We would like to extend our best wishes to Paidi for a speedy recovery.
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Fixtures
Friday 24th June East Junior Football Championship v Naomh Pol in Gracedieu 7.30pm.
Saturday 25th June East Intermediate Football Championship v Tramore in Walsh Park 7pm
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De La Salle Camogie Club
Training:
U-8, 10 & 12 squads on Weds 22nd June @ 6.30pm in Gracedieu.
U-14, 16, 18, & Intermediate squads on Weds 22nd June @ 7.15pm in Gracedieu.
Newcomers are always more than welcome to join in.
Fixtures:
U-12 league round 4 on Tues 21th June away v Lismore throw in 7pm.
Results:
The U-12 girls lost at home to Portlaw in round 3 of the league played in Gracedieu on Tues 14th June.
Feile Na nGael 2016:
This All Ireland club competition took place over 3 days on Fri 17th, Sat 18th & Sunday 19th June. On day 1 we travelled to play 2 games in Portlaw. At 4pm our first game took place against the recently crowned county B champions Portlaw-Roanmore. Our girls showed there through form with a great display of camogie running out victorious 4-0 to 2-4. At 545pm we played Four Roads of Roscommon. We never hit the same form as in the earlier game but we battled right to the final whistle losing out 0-1 to 2-4. At the end of day 1 the group standings were 1. Portlaoise 2. Four Roads 3. DLS 4. Portlaw. Day 2 began with a game against our visiting club Portlaoise who had won there 2 games on the Friday. Our girls showed great spirit throughout this game against good opponents, but came up short at the final whistle 0-1 to 2-4. When news filtered through from the other group game that Four Roads had lost there final group game without even scoring unbelievable the calculators had to be taken out. It had been confirmed that we had finished 3rd & were into the Shield Competition, but something didn’t sit right at our end (we don’t do the soft option). After an hour of waiting & wondering where to next it was then confirmed after all due to a miscalculation on the scores in the committee room & the “results from the 3rd round games lol” we were now heading to An Rinn after finishing 2nd in the group & qualifying for the Cup Competition. Round 1 results: DLS 4-0 Portlaw-Roanmore 2-4, Portlaoise 2-3 Four Roads 1-0. Round 2 : DLS 0-1 Four Roads 2-4, Portlaw-Roanmore 0-1 Portlaoise 8-2. Round 3 : DLS 0-1 Portlaoise 2-4, Portlaw-Roanmore 7-8 Four Roads 0-0. We headed down to An Rinn feeling proud having qualified for the 1/4 finals of the Cup Competition knowing we were facing tough opposition in Myshall of Carlow who had won all there 3 group games impressively. Our girls battled hard throughout this game losing out 0-0 to 5-6 at the final whistle. Myshall eventually losing out in the final to Naas 1-3 to 1-1. Afterwards the girls & family headed back to Gracedieu for the Saturday night entertainment & BBQ. Many thanks to Kinny, Stewart & Anthony for all the hard work put in with this squad over the last number of months. Many thanks to all the families who hosted the visiting Portlaoise girls who were a credit to themselves, there families & club over the weekend. A big thank you to all the parents, family members & supporters of DLS camogie club for your support in Portlaw, Gracedieu & An Rinn during the girls matches. A very big thank you also to all the DLS GAA club for everything on the Friday night & all day Saturday in Gracedieu especially Charlotte Brenner & Rose Madigan for all there hard work within the camogie club. Many thanks to Ciara Twomey, Beth Carton, Taylor Healy & Katie O’Keeffe for helping out with the umpiring at Sunday’s Div 3 camogie final in Walsh Park. Finally a massive well done & thank you to our Feile squad of 2016 who conducted themselves superbly over the weekend carrying on a fine tradition from previous Feile squads of 2012, 2014 & 2015 from within our camogie club. Roll on 2017 when we will try do it all over again. ????
Panel : Sarah Heery, Clare O’Connell, Lucy O’Donnell, Layla French, Charlotte O’Loughlin, Saoirse Kinsella (capt), Ava Murphy, Sarah Hunt, Holly Ryan, Ella Murphy, Emer McGlynn, Lily McGrath, Ellen Riordan, Caoimhe Mulvaney, Frances Drohan, Sophie Fowler, Jade O’Keeffe, Aoife O’Keeffe, Nicole Power. Absent due to holidays Sharna Cremmin and Zara Nolan. Caitlin Kelly was unavailable due to her participation in the World Karate championships where she performed superbly.
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