CHANGE OF VENUE: Please note that our younger age groups (under 6/8/10) have relocated to The Green CBS for the Sunday morning sessions. The Under 6s will operate in the HALL (laistigh) at 10am, the Under 8 lads will play on the new astroturf pitch (lasmuigh) at 11am and the Under10 boys will train on the astroturf pitch at 12.00 (-weather dependent).
PEIL FAOI 12: Under 12 training will continue to take place every Sunday at 11am in Connolly Park.The sessions are being thoroughly enjoyed so far. Newcomers welcome.
PEIL FAOI 14: Our Undere 14 Sunday training time is from 4pm to 5.30pm. See you all in Connolly Park! Fáilte roimh gach éinne!
PEIL FAOI 16: Our Under 16 training days and times will be at 5pm on Fridays and at 11am on Sundays (gym).
SCÓR: (i) TDB Scór na bPáistí competitions will be held in Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn, Bóthar an Chillín, Ráth Rónáin, ag 6.30pm ar an Aoine 3ú Márta. The quiz will take place at 11am on Sunday March 26th March. Quiz teams go straight to the county final (ii) Congratulations to The Spa set dancers who were successful in the Scór na nÓg All-Ireland final in Belfast last weekend.
PEIL FAOI 16½ ~ FREWEN CUP ¼-FINAL: Best wishes to The Green CBS team in their preparations for the Frewen Cup (Munster) competition semi-final.
PEIL FAOI 18½ ~ CORN UÍ MHUIRÍ: Comhscór arís…tar éis ochtó nóiméad eile! Another epic encounter! Tralee CBS: 2-11; Coláiste Chríost Rí: 1-14.
Good luck to Brandon Patterson, Joe O’Connor, David Fitzmaurice, David Couchman Gearóid Mac Gearailt, Joe Looby and all The Green boys in Saturday’s second replay. The victors will play Coláiste Bhréanainn in the final on Saturday February 25th.
FADÓ FADÓ: A 100 years ago, Austin Stack was a member of the Tralee Liberal Club and the Irish Club that had been founded by a Tralee curate, Fr Charles J. Brennan, to promote Irish cultural traditions. We gather from that information that Austin believed in the importance and value of our music, language, games, customs…viz. our Irishness. On 10th August 1925 he married Winifred/Úna Gordon, the widow of an RIC inspector; he had stayed in her house while on the run in 1920.
When he went to his eternal reward on 27thApril 1929, Kerry footballers of all political shades attended his funeral. He had become ill with appendicitis and died at the Mater Hospital, Dublin…ní nach ionadh, his several hunger strikes had taken their toll! Ní raibh sé ach 49 bliain d’aois. He was buried among patriots in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Ireland had lost a patriot and Kerry GAA had lost its president. Brian O’Higgins wrote: ‘one of our greatest of our beloved dead lies in the grave – great in his patriotism, great in his fearlessness, great in his unselfishness, great in his humility and, greatest of all, in that glorious charity which governed every action of his life and won for him that love that cannot die.’ Gael go smior ab ea Aibhistín de Staic! If only…..!!
