26th September 2011

The Juniors ensured promotion to Division 3 with a well merited eight point win over Drumcliffe/ Rosses Point in the Division 4 playoff game at Oxfield Park on Saturday evening. The foundations for this victory were laid by a solid first half performance, which saw us going into the half-time break ahead by seven points on a scoreline of 0-11 to 1-1. Whilst ouropponents had the ball in the net again within a minute of the resumption, the Gaels refused to panic and fired over seven unanswered points and eventually ran out convincing winners on a final scoreline of 1-19 to 3-5. The team was; Declan Loughnane, Conor Mc Donagh, Paul Brennan, John Craig, Gavin Mc Morrow (0-2), Padraig Cassidy, Niall Brennan, Peter Henry (0-2), James Lyons (0-1), Brian Boyd (1-0), David Quinn (0-6), Kevin Barry (0-1), Johnny Quinn (0-3), Eoin Mc Dermott (0-1), Keith Candon (0-3). Subs; Shane Barry for C Mc Donagh, Diarmuid Jinks for S Barry, Eoin O'Connell for K Barry. This is a significant achievement for the Club and we look forward with anticipation to next year. Well done to all of the squad for their efforts over what was a long year and a special word of thanks to the team management of Vivion Boyd, Eugene Carroll and Shane Quigley and also Vincent Henry and Hilary Lyons.

The U13 team had a good win over Ballymote last Sunday morning to top the group in the Feile Shield. They now take on Coolaney/Mullinabreena in the semi-final next Sunday morning at 11AM. The team was: Conor Heffernan, Paul Harrington, Mark Collery, Conor McGrievy, Andy Flynn, Cian McDermott, Alan Kelly, Enda O'Connell (1-1), Darragh Hailstones (0-1), Mark Keegan, Daire Kearns (1-0), Karl McKenna (1-4), Ben Tuohy (0-2), Conal McCormack, Luke Flynn (2-0) Subs: Daniel Murphy (2-1), Steven Willis, Niall Whelan, Niall Higgins, Darragh Kelly, Tomas Little.

Connacht GAA are awarding bursaries of €1,000 to students attending Higher Education - the scheme will be open to members of the GAA who are attending a full-time Higher Education course and who are active participants in their Higher Education club. Further information and application forms for this year's scheme are currently available to download from www.connachtgaa.ie - closing date October 14th, 2011.

The club wish to express sympathy with the family and relatives of John Tonry, Ougham, Riverstown who died last week.