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
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
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/
Child Protection and Welfare training night
The rescheduled child protection and welfare training night will be held in coon hall at 8pm on 27th February, Conor Brennan the county children’s officer will be talking about the code of best practice. This training is a REQUIREMENT for all involved in coaching ,training, running of the fields and committee members, also anyone interested in coaching from this year on should attend.
Cheltenham Preview Night……….. is back!
St Martins Bord na n’Og 2014 Cheltenham Preview Night in the Vaults Castlecomer 9pm. March7th. Danny Mullins, Brian O’Connell, Fran Flood & John ‘Shark’Hanlon guest speakers. Tickets €10 include finger food & draw contact any committee member to purchase a ticket.
Juvenile Registration
Medal Presentation
- Muckalee Football Club and St. Martin’s Hurling Club held their medal presentation this evening in Muckalee Community Centre. The u.16 football team, Senior Footballers and Senior Hurlers were all presented with their medals by local Celebrity Jim Bolger. Football Board Chairman Tom Brennan presented Man of the Match for the 2013 County Football Final to Colm McGrath. Guest speakers included Lar Maher, Tom Cullen, Patrick O’Flynn, John Ryan, Jim Bolger and Charlie Carter. Both clubs thanked Jim Bolger for his generous sponsorship for Bord na N-óg and for taking the time out of his busy schedule to attend. Also to Dick Dooley for supplying the food and Maria Murphy and Breda Maher for catering and everyone who helped in any way possible. Also in attendance was the captain of the first Senior Football winning team (in 1968), Nickey Morrissey and his brother Martin who was former Chairman/Secretary of the club. As Lar Maher said in his speech, Martin would drive from Kilkenny to Muckalee to bring a team of young lads only to be told that the match was called off as there were no mobile phones or twitter in that time! An enjoyable evening was had by all and look forward to 2014.
02/02/2014
U.16 Football Team
Man of the Match Colm McGrath with Jim Bolger and Tom Brennan
Jim Bolger with Nickey and Martin Morrissey
L-R: Patrick O’Flynn (Bord na N-óg Chairman), Brandon Sheehan (U.16 Capt), Lar Maher (Muckalee Football Chairman), Paul Maher (Senior Football Capt), John Ryan(St. Martin’s Hurling Chairman)
U16 Medal Presentation
St. Martins U16 football champions will be presentented with their County final medals along with our Senior Hurlers and Football Champions on Sunday 2nd February in Muckalee Community Hall at 4pm.
All are welcome to come along and acknoledge their hard work throughout the year.
St. Martins Minor footballers struggle in County final.
St Martins were beaten in the Football County final in Bennetsbridge where a two goal blast early in the second proved to be their undoing
Against a team with many playing their football in good counsel ‘Martins were under pressure with many of the side having played a u-16 final only a few days earlier whilst they also had to deal with the absence of Donal Shore through injury.
Patrick Brennan scored St Martins first point but Tullogher were quickly ahead 0-2 to 0-1. Mark Dowling levelled matters but it was at this stage Tullogher made a burst going 0-4 to 0-2 ahead. Brandon Sheehan pointed before Shane Dowling booted St Martins into the lead by waving a green flag.
It was all level by halftime 1-5 a piece but Tullogher got a sweet start scoring 2-1 without reply. St Martins did come back into the game and wasted some scoring chances and had a penalty appeal turned. But it was just not to be their day with Tullogher adding four points late on to seal victory.
St Martins 1-6 3-10 Tullogher Rosbercon
A special word to Tom Shore & Jimmy Kelly who stood down after years of service as selectors numbering well in excess of thirty years.
St Martins: Conor Fahy, Loughlin Hogan, Robert Reid, Alan Kelly, Shane Kinsella, Richard Teehan, John Joe Kelly, Adrian Farrell (C), Brandon Sheehan, Finn Dowling, Patrick Brennan, Jason Shore, Conor Dowling, Shane Dowling, Mark Dowling.
Subs: David Walsh, Brian Cody, Tommy Quirke, Aidan Egan, Damien Egan (all used), Ronan Tynan, Tommy Downey, William Trousdell, Eoin Murphy, Colm O’Neill, Sean Maher.
Selectors: Tom Shore, Jimmy Kelly, Patrick O’Flynn
