PEIL FAOI 6/8/10: Our Sunday morning sessions continue as usual. Training times: the Under 6 boys at 10am, the Under 8s at 11am and the Under 10s at 12.00. Fáilte roimh chách! Newcomers/beginners welcome!
PEIL FAOI 14: This Saturday, February 4th, our Under 14 team will travel to the annual Mick O’Brien Tournament at the Nemo Rangers Club, off South Ring Road, Cork. What a start to our football year! Enjoy the day and best of luck, boys.
CAID FAOI 16: Our Under 16 training will take place on Fridays at 5pm and on Sundays (gym) at 11am. Connolly Park is the place to be! We might even see a score and ten players at the sessions!
CAID FAOI 16½ – FREWEN CUP: (i) Frewen Cup game result: Mercy Mounthawk: 5-16; Coláiste Chríost Rí: 1-7. Mighty! Bua iontach! Imríodh an cluiche i bPáirc na Mistéalach. (ii) Another Frewen Cup game result: The Green CBS: 4-13; Coláiste Choilm, Baile an Chollaigh: 1-5.. Go hiontach! A great victory! Sa Ráth Mhór a imríodh an cluiche. (iii) Now for real excitement – The Green v Mounthawk! Tralee v Tralee IN THE MUNSTER QUARTER FINAL! An encounter not to be missed by the football faithful!
CAID FAOI 18½ – CORN UÍ MHUIRÍ: Best wishes to The Green (v Coláiste Chríost Rí) on Sunday next (5ú) i Leathchraobh na Mumhan. And best wishes to Joe O’Connor, Joe Looby, David Couchman, David Fitzmaurice, Gearóid Mac Gearailt and Brandon Patterson. Go sroiche siad Craobhchluiche na Mumhan le bua gan dua!
SCÓR CHIARRAÍ: The TDB Scór na bPáistí (for primary school pupils) competitions will take place in early March.
FADÓ FADÓ: Against a backdrop of mounting apathy towards the GAA and its possible extinction in Tralee, Austin Stack decided that action was needed! He called a meeting in the old National League Rooms in The Mall in 1900. The meeting came about after a chance encounter with Maurice McCarthy.
The two talked about the decline in football standards in the Greater Tralee area. Mar thoradh ar a gcuid cainte, they convened that special meeting. Austin chaired the meeting and the others in attendance were James and Thady O’Gorman, Denny Curran, Con Healy and, of course, Maurice McCarthy. (All of those men went on to win All-Ireland medals).
The result of their deliberations was that they reformed the Tralee John Mitchel Club. Thady ‘Gorman was appointed captain and Austin and Maurice became secretaries. A new era was dawning!
Within two years, Austin had cemented his place on a Kerry team that was backboned by Tralee men. He organized the team off the field and, we’re told, he even paid for expenses incurred during the training of that county team. B’é an scéal céanna é with regard to his regular excursions to Central and Munster Council meetings.
One of his most important journeys was to the Leinster final of 1903 between Kildare and Kilkenny that had gone to a third game! (Yes, Kilkenny! Yes, football!) He was the ‘spy’ i measc an tslua and noted the great handpassing and combination play of The Lily Whites.
As a result of all information received, the Kerry team was ready for the ‘new’ style of play that Kildare brought to the All-Ireland! Toradh – the first of our 37 titles! Agus inchur (input) mór sa scéal ag Aibhistín de Staic. Let Austin Stack be our club’s inspiration for 2017! (ar leanúint…)
