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SENIOR FOOTBALL: The Co. Club Championship gets underway this week-end with two Groups of 4 in the Senior competition. The two games in Group 1 go ahead on Saturday evening at 7pm with Na Gaeil playing Kenmare Shamrocks in Lewis Road and Spa versus Dingle in Strand Road.
The Group 2 games go ahead on Sunday (7th Aug) at 1pm. We travel to the Legion pitch at Derreen where we play Templenoe and Dr. Crokes and Kerins O’Rahillys meet up in Castleisland.
In round 2 we have a home game against Kerins O’Rahillys and in the third and final round we are away to Dr. Crokes. The top two teams in each Group will go through to the semi finals.
MINOR FOOTBALL: Austin Stacks 3-11; St. Kierans 1-6.
After going down by the narrowest of margins to Kenmare (0-13 to 0-12) in the opening round of the Co. Championship last week our boys put up a brilliant performance in the second round in Connolly Park on last Wednesday evening (27th July). We went into an early lead with Paddy Lane opening the scoring with a point from play after 40 seconds and adding two more from frees inside the fifth minute. Kierans got off the mark a minute later with a pointed free but Paddy added two more by the 11thminute. Kierans then got their first from play in the 15th minute followed by a super effort from Daniel Kirby a minute later. Then in the 20th minute Kierans got their 3rd point of the game and four minutes later Ronan Carroll pointed for us. Ronan was also involved in the next score in the 28th minute. Ben Murphy fielded superbly and found Ronan on the attack for the first goal of the game. Kierans added two more points to one for us by Ryan O’Driscoll to leave us ahead at the break by 1-8 to 0-5.
We outscored the opposition again during the second half by 2-3 to 1-1. And again it was Paddy Lane and Ronan Carroll who were the scorers – Paddy with a goal and two points and Ronan with a goal and a point. But all 20 players who lined out played superbly with Michael Tansley making a super save in the 25th minute of the first half.
Team: Michael Tansley, Donnacha Horgan, Ben Murphy, James Fisher, Seán Heaslip, Luke Casey (Capt), David Lucid, Daniel Kirby (0-1), Colm Browne, Thomas Deregee, Ronan Carroll (2-2), Noah Townsend, Paddy Lane (1-7 – five frees), Ryan O’Driscoll (0-1), Ronan Mulrooney.
Subs used: Seán Moynihan (20m), Aaron Nolan (52m), Mark Lynch (56m), Gavin Casey (58m), Ciarán Kavanagh (59m).
Kenmare now top the Group on 4 pts; with ourselves and St.Kierans on 2 pts each with Crokes having no points. So it’s still all to play for in the third and final round on this Monday evening (1st August) where we were away to Dr. Crokes. Check Club Website.
ONLINE CLUB SHOP: A reminder that our Club shop is open 24/7. Check out the newest ‘official’ Austin Stacks Club Merchandise – only available to order on this link (free delivery on any orders over €50) see www.oneills.com We would also like to introduce the new Austin Stacks Ganzee Club Clothing Collection, available in Mens/Unisex, Womens & kids check out all the style ranges in hoodies, t-shirts and sweatshirts on www.ganzee.ie/austin-stacks-gaa-clubs/
CLUB CARDS: Our Card sessions continue in the Clubhouse on Monday and Thursday nights with the starting time at 9pm sharp.
CLUB LOTTO: Monday Night’s (1st August) Jackpot, worth €2,850 was not won. The numbers drawn were 8, 10, 11, 26. The €20 winners were Shane Lynch and Marie Enright, both c/o The Club; Mossy Carroll, c/o Carmel O’Neill; Jimmy O’Brien, c/o The Brogue; and Sophie Norris, c/o The Ladies.
Next Week’s Jackpot will be worth €2,900.
Continued thanks to the following businesses for selling our Club Lotto tickets – Kevin Barry’s Shop, Commane’s Book Shop, O’Flynn Interiors, Hussey’s, Princess St., The Burger Shack, Monavally as well as Maguire’s Butchers and Kirby’s Brogue Inn and continued thanks to everyone who purchase tickets week in, week out.
Austin Stacks lotto tickets are now also available to purchase on line on the following link: https://play.clubforce.com/play_newa.asp?ll_id=X529#Anchor Kirby’s Brogue InnMaguire’s Butchers Hussey’s P. Commane Books.
SYMPATHY: Sincere sympathy is offered to the families of the following who died recently: Elizabeth Agnes Meehan (nee O’Reilly), Caherslee and formerly Sneem and New York; Simon Leen, Tylough (uncle of former Club and Kerry Footballer, John L. McElligott); Gerald Landers, St. Brendan’s Park; Angela Fitzgibbon, Ocean View, Camp and formerly St. Brendan’s Park; Doreen Keane (nee Nolan), Killeen Woods, Oakpark; and Jimmy Lee, Newcastle West (father of Billy, a member of Stephen Stack’s SF Management team during the 2016 campaign and the current Manager of the Limerick SF Team).
