St. Martin’s help spread hurling gospel
St Martins Bord Na n’Og are in the unique position of helping to spread the hurling gospel to Kilkenny Minnesota USA.
Patrick O’Flynn Chairman of St Martins Bord Na n’Og presented local Photographer Eoin Hennessy with hurls and sliothars for his trip to Kilkenny where Mayor Martin Brett will join him. Part of their trip will be to show their American colleagues the the ancient game.
Eoin also hopes that by leaving them the equipment it will help develop a team in Minnesota.
Who knows some day St Martins might get the call for a challenge match in, Kilkenny,Minnesota, USA!
St. Martin’s minors struggle in championship.
St Martins crashed out of the minor hurling championship on a night where they never really fired.
They led at the break 1-7 to 1-5 but missed a number of chances and it finished level in normal time.
Despite leading in extra time they got caught in the dying embers of the game.
Minors in championship action against Clara
St Martins: Jason Shore, Conor Dowling, Robert Reid, Alan Kelly, Richard Teehan, Patrick Brennan, Steven Walsh, Shane Kinsella, Donal Shore, Mark Cody, Brandon Sheehan, Brian Cody, Mark Dowling, Adrian Farrell & Shane Dowling.
Subs: John Joe Kelly, Colm O’Neill, David Walsh & Jack Manning (all used) Damien Egan, Paddy Heffernan, Aidan Egan, William Trousdell, Conor Dowling, Eoin Murphy, Tommy Quirke, Ciaran Cody.
Ronan Tynan(inj), Finn Dowling (inj), David Healy (inj)
Cyril Farrell coaches St. Martin’s U16 & U18 for one night only.
Thursday night 5th September saw the appearance of a special coach coming through the gate in the Muckalee Field to give the St. Martins U16 and U18 a very special training session. On the inviatation of our Bord na nÓg chairman Patrick O’Flynn, Cyril Farrell who was the manager of the Galway senior hurling team in the 1980s and 1990s that led Galway to four consecutive All Ireland finals appearances from 1985 through 1988 made himself available to give our players a very unique, insightful and encouraging night of hurling excellence.
A big thank you to Cyril for the night and also to all involved in arranging the night which turned out to be a great success indeed. The field was in excellent condition and was extremely well turned out as commented on by Cyril and he also praised the great work being done in the Club and the excellent quality of the lights.
Well done to all involved.
Cyril getting some pointers from Patrick
Scratch to match goal time results.
The 2013 all Ireland Hurling final goal times are as follows;
First Goal 39:35.
Last Goal 63:08.
You have until midnight Monday 15th September 2013 next to contact the claim number and present your winning ticket.
Claims Contact: 087-9558578
Kevin Kealy Tournament
The Kevin Kealy tournamanet will take place on Saturday morning 7th September in Muckalee at 11:15 am.
The game will be between St. Martin’s and Cloneen and all are most welcome so please come out and support the teams.
Get your scratch and win for the All-Ireland
Some scratch cards still available for the scratch and win for the goals scored in the Hurling All-Ireland Final next weekend. This is a great cause so come on and please support your Club. Evry ticket counts.
Minors take on challenge in Palmerstown.
On a lovely morning for hurling St Martins Minors faced the challenge of one of the favourites for the minor a championship the shape of Dicksboro.
The higher standard of hurling caught out St Martins early on and they trailed 4-10 to 0-4 at the break having played against the breeze.
They adapted much better to the pace in the second half and bossed proceedings winning the half 1-9 to 0-4.
Final score, St Martins 1-13 4-14 Dicksboro
Team: Jason Shore, Loughlin Hogan, Alan Kelly, Conor Dowling, Richard Teehan, Patrick Brennan, Steven Walsh, Shane Kinsella, Donal Shore, Mark Cody, Robert Reid, Finn Dowling, Mark Dowling, Shane Dowling, Adrian Farrell, Mark Dowling.
Subs: John Joe Kelly, Brian Cody, Eoin Murphy, Colm O’Neill, Tommy Quirke, Damien Egan, Aidan Egan, Paddy Heffernan.
St. Martin’s underage shine at County level.
On a day where Kilkenny had teams playing at U-14, U-15, U-16 & U-17, St Martins had players involved on two teams.
In Wexford with the Kilkenny U-15’s St Martins had representatives in the shape of Brian Cody, Conor Dowling & Jack Manning. They all contributed in the run to the final where Brian started and Conor came on in a tight affair where they landed the spoils 3-3 to 0-9 v Dublin to win the trophy for the first time since 2008. The side was managed by a St Martins man- Patrick O’Flynn.
Jason Shore was with the county U-17’s who lost out to Cork in the All Ireland final by five points.
Well done to all concerned.
St. Martin’s well represented at County level.
St. Martin’s GAA would like to wish Jason Shore, Brian Coady, Conor Dowling and Jack Manning all the best as they join the County U15 and U17 teams in the All-Ireland Hurling championships this weekend.
Back to school
St. Martin’s GAA would like to wish all of our members young and old the very best in heading back to school or college. Work hard but play harder and remember ……………….. enjoy yourselves.
