Lotto:

There was no winner of last week’s jackpot of €11,000. The numbers drawn were 06, 10, 18 & 23. The five €30 consolation prizes went to Rita Gleeson, Listellick; Niamh O’Connor, Curraheen; Paudi Bailey, Tonevane; Tom Diggins, Abbeydorney & Richard Williams c/o Rock Street PO. This week’s jackpot will be €11,100 and the draw will take place this Sunday night June 22nd at 10pm in Skelper Quane’s Bar. Lotto tickets available from the usual outlets or any club officer.

Juvenile Academy:

Our Juvenile Academy have begun training twice a week, on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings as usual. We were very lucky with the weather conditions last week so we saw our players turning up in large numbers.

Under 12’s:

Our u12’s played at home on Sunday evening against Cordal. It was a very exciting first half seeing plenty of scores from both sides. We saw goals from Oisin Tobin, Liam O’Sullivan, Cormac Lynch and a lovely soccer style goal by Martin Laucher and points by Tomas O’Sullivan, Martin Laucher, Sean Crowley and Cormac Lynch leaving the half time score St.Pats 4-5 Cordal 5-6. However, in the second half we failed to take our scoring opportunities kicking numerous wides and missing goal chances seeing only 3 scores.

We saw 2 points from Danny Greaney and a lovely goal by Tomas O’Sullivan with a fine ball kicked in from Martin. Cordal took advantage of our misses and popped the ball over the bar repeatedly. Our defence Matthew Quilter, Danny Greaney, Mikey Healy, Michael Doody, Cillian Lynch, Oisin Murray and Sean Fitzgibbon were kept busy in the second half and Mario Ilavsky made some great saves in goals.

Final score St.Pats 5-7 Cordal 5- 16.

Team: Mario Ilavsky, Matthew Quilter, Danny Greaney, Mikey Healy, Michael Doody, Tomas O’Sullivan, Cormac Lynch, Oisin Tobin, Sean Crowley, Liam O’Sullivan, Martin Laucher, Cillian Lynch, Oisin Murray and Sean Fitzgibbon.

Under 14’s:

Finally after a tough county league and a hard brendan’s league, we have got our first win of the year in the central league. We started off with Patrick Dowling in goals and put Tristan centre-field with Shane. Supporting them on the centre lines were Martin, Ali, Cian, Brian, Adam, Ciaran with Damien and Cathal in the full back line, James & Fergal up front. The sub bench of Aaron and Tomas and Darack all played their part well when they came on.

It was great to see everyone trying so hard but man of the match must go to Brian Teahan. Final score St Pats 3-11 Stacks 1-07. Our next central league is away to Laune rangers and on the 23rd we will have a challenge game against the New York Feile team.

Internal blitz:

Our internal blitz continued last Wednesday evening in beautiful weather conditions. This week our coaches Mono Ryle, Maurice Quirke, Dan O’Sullivan and Brian O’Grady focused on passing skills, to include at least 6 players on the field before a score is taken. After 2 rounds Leinster are on 10 points, Ulster are on their backs with 8 points, Connacht are on 4 points and Munster are trailing on 2 points.

Under 16’s:

Our u16’s played a challenge game at home last Saturday evening against Castlegregory. St. Pats dominated the first half seeing some lovely scores from Gearoid Dillane, Joshua Laucher and Shane Jordan. Kieran Dwyer played an outstanding game in midfield winning possession of numerous balls. half time score St.Pats 1-7 Castlegregory 0-3.

In the second half we rotated our players, playing most players in different position. This gave Castlegregory a chance to get into the game scoring 3 consequyive goals including a penalty.Final score St.Pats 1-7 Castlegregory 4-6. Team: Patrick Dowling, Mikee Cahill, Joe O Connor, Brian Murphy, Eoin Murphy, Joe Quilter, Cian Ronan, Kieran Dwyer, Joshua Laucher, Shane Jordan, Gearoid Dillane, Eoin Greaney, Jack Lynch, Martin Savage and Damien Quirke.

Juniors:

Junior County League Group 5:

St Pats 1-17 Kerins O’Rahillys 1-02

We had a good win against Kerins O’Rahillys last Friday in the County League played in Blennerville. In a game where we were always in control, we held a lead at half-time by 12pts as we were dominant all over the field. In the second half, we closed the game out to run out winners on a score of 1-17 to 1-02. This win will guarantee us a home semi-final with one round to play. We will play Duagh in the last round to be played.

Team-J Fitzgerald, K Quirke, Joe Costello, S Dowling, J Foley(1-00), James Costello, S Daughton, J Foley, A O Callaghan(0-01), D Kerins (0-05), B Savage(0-03), J Conway(0-01), E Sayers(0-02), T O Sullivan(0-01), S Hayes(0-04), P O Sullivan, A O Halloran, B Boyle & T Farmer.

Fixture- St Pats vs Duagh on Thurs June 19th in Duagh at 7:30pm. Keep a look out on our Facebook Page for any changes to this fixture.

Seniors:

County Senior Football League Div 2 Rd 6:

Listry 1-13 St Pats 1-10

Our seniors made a return to competitive action last Sunday after a break for the early rounds of the Senior County Championship. Listry were the opposition and the game was played in perfect conditions in Listry. St Pats started brightly with two early points from their best player on the day, Kieran Hurley. Listry quickly cancelled out these scores in the 8thand 10th minute of the game with two well worked scores of their own. For the remainder of the half, Listry were in total dominance as St Pats lost their way, particularly around the middle of the field.

The Listry forwards tacked on 1-6 in this period to have a commanding lead of 7 points at half time. In truth, they had the St Pats defence in 6’s & 7’s and could have been ahead by a lot more but took the safe option with one on one goal chances by fisting over the bar. HT Score Listry 1-8 St Pats 0-4. St Pats made a few substitutions at half time and they started the half in whirlwind fashion with the two Hurley’s and in particular Brendan Poff, tormenting the Listry rearguard.

Two points from Kieran Hurley in the 35th & 39th minute reduced the deficit to 5 points as St Pats were in control of the game from midfield up. A fantastic incisive run by Brendan Poff drew the Listry defence, he laid off to Willie Hurley and his goalbound shot was flicked outside the post by the Listry keeper. His brother Kieran converted the “45” and added another point from play to bring the scoreline 1-8 to 0-8 in favour of the home team.

Listry made some tactical switches and it had an immediate effect and they tacked on two points in the 42nd and 46th minute. In between these scores, St Pats wasted another guilt edge goal opportunity. Liam Poff made a great run and put Willie Hurley threw and his shot was again saved by the Listry keeper. St Pats eventually scored the goal they so badly needed in the 50th minute.

Another fantastic run by Brendan Poff saw him lay off to Kieran Hurley. Kieran’s shot was saved by a Listry defender but Willie was on hand to finish to the net. This made it a two point game with ten to go with St Pats in the ascendency. However, Listry fought back well and scored three unanswered points in 5 minutes to negate the earlier goal from Willie Hurley. St Pats tried their best to score another goal to set up a grand stand finish but it wasn’t to be. Two shots from substitute David Kerins went over the bar to reduce the deficit to 3 points just before the final whistle from referee Cathal O’Dubhda.

Final Score Listry 1-13 St Pats 1-10.

The second quarter performance was what cost St Pats this game but they showed good spirit in the second half to fight back and will possibly rue the missed goal opportunities in this half. However, overall, Listry were the better team on the day and we wish them well for the remainder of the season.

Full Back Kieran O’Sullivan came off during the second half with a suspected dislocated shoulder so we wish Kieran a speedy recovery. Best for St Pats on the day were Liam O’Sullivan, Brendan Poff & Kieran Hurley.

St Pats: P Bailey, P O’Connor, K O’Sullivan, S Dowling, T O’Connor, L Poff, L Mulligan, M O’Sullivan, P McMahon, B Poff, K Hurley (0-09), Jake Foley, A Byrne, W Hurley (1-0) & L O’Sullivan (0-01 c). Subs: Joe Costello for T O’Connor (28mins); E Sayers for S Dowling (HT) & D Kerins for K O’Sullivan (inj).

Due to St Brendan’s playing Currow on Saturday June 26th in Round 2 of the Senior County Championship, our round 7 County League game versus Legion has been brought forward to this Saturday night. Throw in is at 7:30pm in Blennerville.

Cúl Camps:

The Kellogg’s GAA Football Camp will take place in Blennerville from July 28th to August 1st . The camp is for boys & girls aged 6 to 13. We would hope to increase on the huge numbers that we had last year. Each child will be given free sports gear. GAA players will teach the skills of Gaelic Football in a safe and fun filled environment from Monday to Friday10am to 2.30pm.

New York Feile Team:

On Monday 23rd of June, we welcome former stalwart Kevin Moriarty and the New York Feile team. Our Juveniles will play the New York selection and afterwards we will have a BBQ followed by entertainment by our young musicians. It promises to be a great evening and all are welcome. The match will start at 6.15pm. If you would like to help with refreshments, please contact Mary Wallace.

Blennerville/Ballyard Community Games:

County Finals will take place this weekend in An Riocht, Castleisland. It will start at 10:00am with a parade of all the areas and then begin immediately after with the U10 boys &girls 200m. The programme for SATURDAY is ALL U8/10/12 & 14 qualifying races, (including hurdles), Ball throw final boys and girls, relays U10 mixed and U12 boys & girls. SUNDAY competition starts at 10:30 Sharp with Discus & Javelin, Shot Putt U14 and Long Jump U14, Hurdles and relays (order to be decided). All U16 track and field events take place and track finals. Our final training session will take place on Friday at7:00pm in St. pats Gaa pitch. If you have been selected for a relay please try and attend for practice.

Derryquay NS:

Thanks to locals Michael Wall and Christy Murphy who gave educational talks to our pupils, staff and parents on the beautiful Derrymore beach last week. Christy gave a talk on the history of Derrymore Island while Micheal shared his knowledge of sea-angling in Tralee Bay.
Our school tour was a great success and thanks to everyone who helped with our barbque on Friday last. It was a great social occasion and gave us all a chance to catch up.

Curraheen Community Council:

Curraheen Community Council will hold a clean-up of Derrymore Beach on Friday, June 20th at 7pm. Bags and gloves will be provided. We will meet at Derrymore Beach car park. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Congratulations:

Congratulations to all the students of the club and community who did their Junior & Leaving Cert exams recently. Also, a huge well done to Fergal O’ Brien who qualified to play in the 6th class Kerry Primary school team and to Ellen Wallace who made it to the last 30.

Sympathy:

The club would also like to extend its sympathy to the families & relatives of Shirley Quane, Blennerville. May She Rest In Peace.