22nd March 2010

The Club would like to thank everyone who supported the annual Dinner Dance last Saturday and hope that everyone had an enjoyable night. The 2009 Kiernan Cup medals were presented to the Senior Team by special guest John Murphy, County Board Chairman. Francis Quinn picked up the
player of the year award and the Vincent Boyd memorial cup was presented to him by Vivion Boyd. Thanks again to the Boyd family for their continued sponsorship of this award. The Ladies Player of the year award went to Aoife Harte and she was presented with the Davina Duncan Memorial Cup by Bord Na Nóg Chairman, John Moore. The Clubperson of the year award went to Eugene Carroll and this was presented to him by special guest County Secretary, Padraig Duffy. Well done to all our award winners on the night.

The Senior team got the league of to a great start last Saturday with a comprehensive victory over St Marys. St Marys opened the scoring on six minutes with a point from a 45 while the Gaels opened their account a minute later with a free from Paddy O'Grady. This was followed by a
great score from John Paul Henry from the sideline while Phillip Murphy added a third a minute later. Both teams struggled to dominate in the following period with scores hard to come by, however the Gaels broke the deadlock on nineteen minutes when Keith McMorrow was on the edge of the square to fist to the net a sideline ball from John Paul Henry. St Marys responded well finishing the half strongly with three points without reply to leave the halftime score 1-3 to 0-4.

John Paul Henry added his second point after three minutes of the second half while a minute later, Eoin McDermott put the Gaels six points up with a goal from the edge of the square after a great pass in from Keith McMorrow. Henry scored a great point from the 40 to extend the Gaels and they were now dominating all sectors of play with the backs in particular snuffing out whatever Marys threw at them. Marys did score two frees midway through the half, however when substitute Kevin Barry neatly tucked away the third goal on twenty one minutes, it
was game over as the Gaels went eighth points up. Joe Quinn added two more before the end while Eoin McDermott scored an excellent long range point to wrap up the scoring for the Gaels who went on to win by ten points on a scoreline of 3-8 to 0-7.

The team was Mark Tuohy, Liam O'Connell, Paul Higgins, Niall Craig, Paul Brennan, Conor Mullen, Johnny Burke, Eoin McDermott (1-1), Philip Murphy (0-1), John Paul Henry (0-3), Jarlath Lyons, Keith McMorrow (1-0), Paddy O'Grady (0-1), Joe Quinn (0-2), Derek Davey Subs: Michael
Hannon for P Higgins (inj), Kevin Barry (1-0) for M Hannon (inj), Brian McDermott for John Paul Henry (inj).

The Senior team are away to Castleconnor this Saturday 27th at 5PM in Round 2 of the league.

The U14 team play there first game this Friday evening at 6PM away to Geevagh.

The U12 team start training this Saturday morning at 11.00AM in Shamrock Gaels Park.

The coaching for U8 and U10 - boys and Girls - has commenced and will continue each Saturday morning from 11.00-12.00AM in Shamrock Gaels Park - all are welcome - especially new members.

The underage player of the year awards for 2009 will take place this Saturday evening at 8.30PM in the Folk Park - please come out and support.

The Club wish to express sympathy with the family and relatives of Lena McConalogue, sister of Sonny McGoldrick, Sooey who died in England, John Taheny, formerly of Riverstown and Ita Winston, sister of Tony McGarry who also died in England and Brid McDermott, Carnagark,
Riverstown who died at the weekend.