Minor Footballers show great strength.
For the fourth time this year St Martins made the journey to Mullinavat for the minor football quarter final.
St Martins made a blistering start and were 2-5 to 0-2 up after 20 minutes. They eventually made it to half time with a 2-6 to 0-3 advantage but could have being further clear except for taking some poor options in attack.
Mullinavat started the second half scoring 1-2 on the trot but St Martins ended the game as a contest with a flurry of attacks that ended with 2-2 being gained on the score Bord.
Final score St Martins 5-10 2-5 Mullinavat
St Martins: Conor Fahy, Loughlin Hogan, Robert Reid, Alan Kelly, Shane Kinsella, Richard Teehan, David Walsh, Adrian Farrell (Capt), Brandon Sheehan, Conor Dowling, Patrick Brennan, John Joe Kelly, Mark Dowling, Jason Shore, Shane Dowling.
Subs: Brian Cody, Finn Dowling, Damien Egan, Aidan Egan, Tommy Quirke, Ronan Tynan.
Ref: John Minogue (Thomastown)
St. Martin’s meet Clara in Football Championship.
St Martins qualified for the minor championship quarter final with a fine win over Clara in Coon.
The locals raced into an early lead and extended it to be up 1-10 to 0-0 at halftime.
A couple of early goals at the start of the second half saw the game over as a contest and they now face next Mullinavat next week who already defeated St Martins in the league.
Final score; St Martins 4-15 2-3 Clara
St Martins: Conor Fahy, Loughlin Hogan, Robert Reid, Alan Kelly, Shane Kinsella, Richard Teehan, David Walsh, Brandon Sheehan, Adrian Farrell (C), Conor Dowling, Patrick Brennan, John Joe Kelly, Mark Dowling, Jason Shore, Shane Dowling.
Subs: Ronan Tynan, William Trousell, Aaron Healy, Tom Davies, Damien Egan, Aidan Egan, Sean Maher, Tommy Quirke, Tommy Downey.
Colm O’Neill & Eoin Murphy (both injured)
U12s travel to Croke Park to view the Compromise Rules.
The U12s had a great night out at the Ireland V Australia compromise rules in Croke Park. One of the crew was certainly getting into the spirit of things with his Luminous green wig ! While the match wasn’t very competitive the lads got a great kick out of cheering all the Irish scores and waving their green flags that were provided by the series sponsor.
Some images from The Senior Hurling Semi Final of 2013.
Thank you to Zac Casstevens for these photos.
St. Martin’s in Semi final Senior Championship Clash
Date; Sunday 13th October 2013.
Venue; Nolan Park.
Time; 2.00pm
Why; St. Martin’s Senior hurling team take on Clara in the St. Canice’s Credit Union S.H.C.
Ref; Gavin Quilty.
Come on and support the Lads. We want to hear you shouting!
U12 hurlers do very well in Paulstown Blitz.
On Sunday St Martins under 12s attended a hurling blitz in Paulstown The boys played 3 games and lost in the final to a last minute goal to Bunclody.
U12 Team that played Paulstown 2013
Team : Mathew Shortall, Josh Dempsey, Conor Mulhall, Jack Farrell, Shane O’Neill Adam Agar, Justin Manning, Harry Kealy, Daniel Doyle, Paul Murphy, Shane Brennan, Jack Murphy, Joe Reid, Andrew Buggy, James Dowling, James Carrigan, Donal Coughlan and Darragh Coughlan
Team Selectors: Sean O’Neill Noel Shortall and Donal Coughlan.
Scratch card fundraiser is now closed.
We have closed the scratch card fundraiser now and we would once again like to thank all who supported us with this initiative. The costs of developing and maintaining the facilities within St. Martins GAA Club are never ending but the hard work needs to continue and it can only continue with your generosity.
Richard O’Shea presenting Annemarie Nolan with a winning cheque.
Scratch card News………..
St. Martin’s GAA would like to thank all who supported our All Ireland Scratch Card fund raiser. Your help and support is greatly appreciated.
Nobody has come forward with the 1st goal time and we can confirm the the last goal winnning time was scratched by Annemarie Nolan. Congratulations to Annemarie and please check your scratch cards for the 1st goal time of 39:35 and call the number below. We will keep it open for another short time.
Claims Contact: 087-9558578
Harsh decisions to drive U16 on to greater victories!
Our U16 team suffered disappointment when losing by a point to Thomastown in the hurling championship.
For two teams who had played well in the league this was always going to be a close game. With both defences in good form, scoring chances were hard to take with conditions very greasy due to heavy rain as the match started. We went in at half time three points behind. A big effort in the last quarter saw our lads turn the game in our favour, from being five points down to score one goal and four points without reply to lead by two points deep into injury time. With five minutes of injury time played a free was awarded to Thomastown in front of the goal, which was converted to a goal and we lost the game on a score line of 3-8 to 2-10.
U16 Panel:
Ciarán Brennan
Loughlin Hogan John Joe Kelly Tommy Downey
Conor Dowling Robert Reid Eoin Murphy
Brandon Sheehan Brian Coady
Finn Dowling Paddy Heffernan Jack Manning
Tommy Quirke Colm O’Neill Sean Maher
Adam Kelly, Ciarán Coady, Evan Stapleton, Padraig Buggy, Jack Nolan, Adam Comerford.
U14 Hurling update.
Kevin Kealy Memorial Cup Final
After a draw in the final three weeks ago, St Martin’s went into battle against Cloneen in Muckalee. With a full panel to pick from this time and a good work rate, the St. Martin’s boys took some nice scores to lead at half time 1 : 4 to 0 : 1. In the second half with our backs well on top, our centre field lads gave a good supply of ball to our forwards who took nice scores from frees & play to win on a scoreline of 2 : 12 to 1 : 2. Special thanks to Imelda & the Kealy family for presenting the trophy & to the parents who provided refreshments on the day. Well done to all !
Panel : Robin Smith, Conor Moloney, Patrick Darcy, Liam Brennan, Jason Comerford, Jack Nolan, Ciaran Fitzpatrick, Dean Farrell, Adam Comerford, Robert Dowling, Matthew Cullen, Richard O’Shea, Colm Kealy, Ciaran Brennan, John Murphy, Harry Kealy, Shane Brennan, Darragh O’Shea, Marcus Smith, Darragh Coughlan, Donal Coughlan, Darragh Quinlan, Ronan Shore, Daniel Comerford, Adam Agar.
U14 lose out in close game : St. Martin’s played St. Fiacre’s in Roinn B shield in Muckalee. With two evenly matched teams , scores were hard to get and we went in at half time 7 points to 4 points down. A great battle took place in the second half with some great scores. Our players worked hard to the finish but ended up behind on a scoreline of 3 : 12 to 3 : 6. Well done to all involved.
Panel : Robin Smith, Conor Moloney, Patrick Darcy, Liam Brennan, Jason Comerford, Jack Nolan, Ciaran Fitzpatrick, Dean Farrell, Adam Comerford, Robert Dowling, Matthew Cullen, Richard O’Shea, Colm Kealy, Ciaran Brennan, John Murphy, Harry Kealy, Shane Brennan, Darragh O’Shea, Marcus Smith, Darragh Coughlan, Donal Coughlan, Darragh Quinlan, Ronan Shore, Daniel Comerford, Adam Agar.
