League Win
Muckalee and Railyard squared up for Senior Football League 2014 title in Canon Kearns park. The title holders made a bright start when Colin McGrath pointed a free on three minutes after a foul on Brandon Sheehan who was making his first final debut, three further points two from Colin and one from James Maher had Muckalee leading by four points, despite this start Railyard were level on twenty minutes and took the lead coming up to the break. Two long range points from Michael Morrissey and Bryan Byrne restored the lead, half time score 0-6 to 0-5. Sterling defender Conor Kinsella had to be replaced before the break due to injury his replacement Patrick Brennan coming on to play well in his first final. Despite a sleat shower and a strong cross field wind only one wide was recorded in the first half by either side. A pointed free by Colin opened the scoring in the new half. With little between the sides the first goal was going to be important and it came to Muckalee a long delivery from midfield was fielded by Brandon Sheehan he passed to Oliver Walsh and he fed Colin to finish in style. Shane Coonan and James added two points and when Brandon was fouled in the square Colin stepped up to despatch the football to the corner giving the goalie no chance in the forthy fourth minute. Tom Morrissey was unlucky with a late effort coming back off the angle of post and cross bar . Railyard came storming back with a fine goal and were striving hard for more but stout defending by the Murphy’s Alan and Aidan,Noel Darcy , Martin Dowling ,Patrick Nolan goalie John Coonan all kept them out. Final score 2-9 to 1-6. County Chairman Tom Brennan presented this years Captain Oliver Walsh with the Shield and congratulated the teams on their play.
Team John Coonan, Noel Darcy, Alan Murphy, Aidan Murphy, Conor Kinsella, Patrick Nolan, Martin Dowling, Michael Morrissey 0-1,Oliver Walsh (Capt.) Tom Morrissey, James Maher 0-2, Shane Coonan 0-1, Bryan Byrne 0-1,Colin McGrath 2-4, Brandon Sheehan.
Subs. Brian Cahill,Patrick Brennan(used), Eugene Maher, Shane Egan, Adrian Farrell, Damien Egan, Jack Dowling, Aidan Egan.
Manager Martin Dowd Selectors Larry Maher, Ronan Ruane, Pauric Keegan
Ref. Peter Burke
22/march 2014
U10 and U12 squads travel to Maynooth
Under 10s and 12s travelled to Maynooth on Saturday 15th march for challenge matches. On a beautiful day we were treated to two great games and the kildare boys showed that the future for hurling looks bright for the lilywhites. Our lads gave a good display for games early in the season . Our hosts looked after us very well and fed us before we headed to Dublin for kilkenny’s league encounter in parnell park , a great day was had by all . Thanks to Noel Shorthall for organising the trip and all the coach’s and parents for helping things run smoothly.
First round exit
Canon Kearns Park was the venue for the first round meeting of Muckalee and Railyard in the Junior Football championship. Lining out without the injured Conor Kinsella Muckalee put in a fine effort over the hour but they had to settle for second best. Final score 1-7 to 0-2.
Team Brian Cahill, Nicholas Purcell, Alan Murphy, Shane Egan,Brian Cadigan 0-1. Noel Darcy, Eoin Murphy, John Joe Kelly , James Kelly, James Callinan, Brandon Sheehan 0-1, Adrian Farrell, Eugene Maher, Tommy Quirke, Robert Reid.
Subs Shane Dowling (used), Damien Egan, Colm o Neill, Jack Dowling, Jason Shore (used)
Selectors Richard Nolan, Tom Dooley, Seamus Tynan , Martin Dowd.
REf. John Guinan
15/3/2014
St. Martin’s Minor get their second football win
With a good spirit in the squad, Rower Inistioge were our next obstacle in the Rionn A football league. Settling well we pointed after 5 minutes with good team play. A Rower Inistioge attack saw them goal after a long ball was deflected to our net. We responded well to dominate possession and added 2 further points to lead the half time score level 3 pts to 1 goal. St. Martin’s started the second half with a great run from midfield to goal after 3 minutes. With the lions share of scoreable chances adding 3 more points we went into the last quarter 6 points up. Rower Inistioge we’re not finished yet and put a goal and 2 on the board to leave just 1 point in it. St. Martin’s gaoled again with 2 points in reply to leave 2 pts in it heading into injury time. St. Martin’s finished the scoring with a well taken point to win on a score of St. Martin’s 2-7 Rower Inistioge 2-4.
Team:
Tommy Downey, Loughlin Hogan Richard Teehan Paddy Heffernan Brian Coady Robert Reid Stephen Walsh Brandon Sheehan John Joe Kelly Mark Dowling Tommy Quirke Eoin Murphy Conor Dowling Shane Dowling Jason Shore
Subs: Mark Coady Sean Maher Finn Dowling Aiden Egan Ciaran Coady (all used) Conor Fahey Ronan Tynan Ciaran Fitzpatrick.
St. Martin’s U14 footballers look forward to quarter finals.
Glenmore 8-6 St Martins 3-0
St Martins U14 footballers kicked off their league campaign with a very tough match against league favourites Glenmore. While the lads were very rusty after the enforced break due to the recent terrible weather, they did not do themselves justice in the first half. To their credit they did not give up and gave a much improved display in the 2nd half to register three goals. Adam Agar and Justin Manning tried hardest for the defeated hosts Conaghy Shamrocks 0-8 St Martins 1-6 On a brutal morning at the Polo Grounds with the rain teeming down St Martins put in a gritty and determined display to edge out their local rivals. With Harry Kealy,Paul Murphy and Justin Manning playing well in defense, Adan Agar working hard in midfield and Dan Doyle,Daragh Quinlan and Robert Dowling combining well in attack the lads held on for a great win. The crucial score for the saints was a well taken goal from John Murphy.
Tullogher-Rosbercon 2-2 St Martins 2-8
In this winner take all clash with the victors progressing to the quarter final, captain Robert Dowling won the toss and elected to play with the gale force wind in the first half.
Knowing that a big lead was required if we were to have any chance the lads played some great football to lead by 2-6 to 0-1 at half time with the goals coming from Conor Mulhall and Dan Doyle and some excellent points from play by Dan (0-2), Daragh Quinlan (0-2) and Robert Dowling.
In the 2nd half the defence came to the fore where sub goalie Jack Murphy, Harry Kealy, Paul Murphy, Liam Brennan, Donal and Darragh Coughlan all put in a tremendous reargaurd action to keep the home side at bay. The whole team put in a massive effort against the wind and were rewarded with two points from play from Dan and Adam Agar to seal the win.
The long journey home didn’t seem to take long as we can now look forward to the quarter final
League semi-final
Conahy made the short trip to Muckalee to take on the Senior footballers in the League semi-final. In a well contested tie it was Muckalee who started well against the breeze and went to three points up in the early stages , but Conahy settled and came right back into to level on midway through the half and to lead at the break 0-4 to 0-3. Wind assisted Muckalee had to battle hard to achieve the victory and some good combination play and the accuracy of Colin McGrath set them up to win 0-11 to 0-6.
Team John Coonan, Noel Darcy, Oliver Walsh, Aidan Murphy, Conor Kinsella, Patrick Nolan, Martin Dowling, Alan Murphy, Michael Morrissey, Shane Coonan, John Maher 0-1, Tom Morrissey 0-1,Colin McGrath 0-7, 1f,Bryan Byrne 0-1, Eugene Maher.
Subs.James Maher 0-1,Shane Egan, Patrick Brennan, Adrian Farrell, Damien Egan, Aidan Egan, Jack Dowling, James Callinan.
Manager Martin Dowd. Selectors Pauric Keegan, Ronan Ruane, Larry Maher.
Ref. Peter Burke
7/3/20
St. Martin’s minors fight back in Football league opener.
St Martins minors completed a spirited comeback to claim 2 points in the roinn a football league our first outing of the year pitted us against a strong O’Loughlins team under lights in muckalee with O’Loughlins getting into the game quicker we found ourselves well down after the 1st quarter 2:3 to 2points. After some team switches we found new belief and went in at half time 2:6 to 1:3 down. The 2nd half didn’t start according to plan when o loughlins hit us for 1:2 to open up a lead of 3:8 to 1:4 with 20 minutes remaining. When many a team might have wilted this group of lads rolled up the sleeves & ground out a victory with some well taken scores to win on a score line of st martins 4:7 O’Loughlins 3:9. Team Conor Fahey, I hogan, R Reid, C O’Neill, B Coady, R Teehan, S Walsh, Jj Kelly, B Sheehan, M Dowling, J shore, E Murphy, M Coady, S Dowling, A Egan, subs T Quirke, C Dowling, T Downey, P Heffernan, all used S Maher, C Fitzpatrick, R Tynan
Fitzgibbon Win
St. Martin’s would like to congratulate W.I.T and our own Patrick O’Flynn on winning the Fitzgibbon Cup in Belfast at the weekend. They beat Limerick I.T in the semi-final after extra time before beating Cork I.T on a scoreline of 0-17 to 0-12.
Child Protection and Welfare Night
St. Martin’s Hurling Club would like to thank Conor Brennan, County Child Welfare Officer for coming to Coon last Thursday night to give a very thorough presentation on the code of Best Practice. A large crowd attended and came away feeling more informed. For more information on the GAA’s Child Welfare and Protection Code of Best of Practice please see http://www.gaa.ie/clubzone/child-welfare-and-protection/
Double outing
Muckalees Junior footballers had a double outing in the junior League first up was home game against Carrigeen on friday night , and away to Winegap on sunday. Muckalee had a victory against Carrigeen 1-13 to 1-1, and were unlucky to loose to Winegap 2-3 to 1-3 with Robert Reade making his first start for the Juniors scored a goal and another effort come back off the crossbar a fine contribution.
Team v Carrigeen Brian Cahill, Shane Egan, Alan Murphy 0-1, Nicholas Purcell, Brian Cadigan, Conor Kinsella, Patrick Brennan, Noel Darcy 0-1, John Joe Kelly, James Kelly 0-1,Brandon Sheehan 1-7 0-5 f,Adrian Farrell, Tommy Quirke 0-2, Jason Shore, Eugene Maher 0-2. Subs Shane Dowling,Damien Egan, Aidan Egan, Robert Reade,all played
Team V Winegap some changes Eoin Murphy on for Nicholas Purcell (working) , Robert Reade on for Jason Shore (unavailable), Subs Damien Tynan Jack Dowling both used Scorers v Winegap Brandon Sheehan 0-3,Robert Reade 1-0.
Selectors Martin Dowd, Seamus Tynan, Richard Nolan, Tom Dooley.
Ref. v Carrigeen Paddy Bowden 21/2/2014
Ref. v Winegap Pascal C0nnelly 23,2,2014
