LOTTO
The lotto was held in Glenduff House on Monday 16th March 2015 for a jackpot of €5,700. Numbers drawn were 6,8,9,27. There was no winner.
Lucky Dips
- Jack Sugure, Barrakilla, Kielduff
- Pat McDonnell, Rathanny
- Pat McCarthy, Maglass
- Brenda White, Clogher
- Margaret Horan, Caherue, Castleisland
Sellers Prize : Tom Leen
The lotto now stands at €5,800 and can be played at http://www.ballymacgaa.com
SENIOR TEAM
Ballymac travelled to Keel for Round 1 of Division 3 of the Co. League on Sunday last. After 10 minutes scores were level 0 – 3 to 1 – 0 Ballymac’s goal an opportunist effort from Vinnie Horan. The size then traded points a Padraig McCarthy 45 adding to the Ballymac scoreline. This saw the sides level at the midway point of the half. Keel finished the half the stronger with a goal and 2 points to a lone Vinnie Horan reply from Ballymac to leave the half time score Ballymac 1 – 2 Keel 1 – 6. Ballymac played their best football of the day in the third quarter and points from Padraig McCarthy (2), Aidan Breen and Matthew Galvin allied to some excellent defensive work by TJ Casey, Niall O Shea and Kevin O Shea saw Ballymac trailing by just 2 points with 10 minutes remaining. However, it was the home side who scored 4 unanswered points in the time remaining to give them a victory on a score line of Ballymac 1 – 6 Keel 1 – 12.
Team: W Casey, D Leen, C Reynolds, T J Casey, N O Shea, K O Shea, M Galvin, M Shanahan, A Breen, A Bonn, P McCarthy, S O Reilly, L Sweeney, D O Shea, V Horan. Subs : B O Donnell, M Sweeney.
On Saturday next we welcome St. Pats to Ballymac for a Round 2 game. This game throws in at 5.00pm.
MINORS
Ballymac minors suffered their first defeat in the County League, going down by 2-13 to 3-3 at home to St. Pats Blennerville on Friday evening. Christy Leen got the hosts off to the perfect start with a fortuitous goal early on and points from Darragh Regan and Cillian Brosnan kept Ballymac well in touch at half time. Whatever the management team of Mossie Shanahan and Aidan Breen said to the troops at half time clearly had the desired effect as full forward Aaron Dunne pointed a beauty immediately on the resumption. However an injury hit Ballymac side were then dealt a huge blow when dangerous corner forward Barry Lyons limped off and as we had no substitutes on the day the team had to finish the game with 12 men. St. Pats took full advantage of their numerical advantage and quickly built up a seven point lead. However Ballymac responded in style through a wonderful goal from Tomás O’Connor. The centre back brilliantly fielded a kickout and ran over half the length of the field to blast a wonderful left footed shot to the bottom corner. Again St Pats pulled clear but Ballymac still refused to give in and were given a further boost when Regan blasted a 14 yard free to the roof of the net late on. However time ran out for the depleted hosts as St Pats ran out worthy winners.
Team: Paidi O’Connor, Gary Horan, Eoin Lyons, David Long, Tomás O’Connor, Joe Cassidy, Christy Leen, Micheál Reidy, Darragh Regan, Cillian Brosnan, Aaron Dunne, Gary Sheehy, Barry Lyons.
Our minor teams next game is on April 3rd when they travel to play Asdee/Ballylongford.
SCOR
Pride of place this week goes to our Senior Scor Set Dancing team of Maura Leen, Maria Glavin Murphy, Carmel Moloney, Colette Collins, Fintan Kelly, David Long, Chris Moloney and Tom Daly who qualified for the Munster Senior Scor Final at the semi final held on Saturday last in Cappamore, Co. Limerick. The Munster Final takes place in Ovens, Co. Cork on Saturday evening next. Best wishes to the team and coach Michael Murphy in their quest to bring a Munster title to the Parish.
Unfortunately our figure dancing girls were out of luck in the Co. Final in Scor na bPaisiti which was held in the Gleneagle on Sunday last. The team of Emir Curran, Emma Leen, Lisa Curran, Saoirse Moloney, Aideen Lynch, Rosin Raggett, Alexa Weiss, Laura Sugure did the Parish proud on the day. Many thanks also to coach Michael Murphy for his time invested with the girls.
FAOI 16
Central region U16 fixtures are as follows:
Tuesday the 24th March 2015 – Away to Desmonds
Monday the 30th March 2015 – Away to Annascaul/Lispole
Monday the 6th of April 2015 – Home to An Gaeltacht
Monday the 13th of April 2015 – Away to Kerins o’Rahillys
Monday the 20th of April 2015 – home to Milltown / Castlemaine.
Most of these games will provide a very stern test for us so our fitness levels and training will be very important in the coming weeks.
FAOI 14
Our U14’s begin their Co. League campaign with a home game against Glenflesk at 6.45pm on Tuesday, 1st April 2015. Best wishes to team and management in this competition.
ACADEMY
Our Academy continued on Sunday morning last with all children who attended improving their skills in the brilliant sunshine. For U8 girls Michelle O’ Connor, Emily Heffernan and Niamh Enright who put a lot of effort into training. Academy training will continue next Sunday at 11.00am.
U16 GIRLS
As of yet the girls have not played any competitive games. They did however have a very useful challenge game against John Mitchels last week. The girls are training very hard and await the start of the North Kerry League.
U14 GIRLS COUNTY LEAGUE
Ballymacelligott 0-11 Spa 2-4
We kicked off our 2015 Co League campaign against Spa Killarney in Ballymac on Sat 21st March . A beautiful sunny day greeted both teams as they lined out and the game reflected the weather . It was a very exciting game from start to finish. A full report on the game is available on the websitewww.ballymacgaa.com
U12 GIRLS
The U12 girls are away to Na Gaeil on Wednesday evening 25th March at 6.00pm in the North Kerry League
LADIES FUNDRAISING WALK
The Ballymac ladies club are holding a fundraising walk at Ballyseedy Woods on Easter Monday 6th Aprilstarting at 11.30am. It will begin from the Castlemaine side entrance. Refreshments will be provided after the walk. Please come and support Na Cailini and contributions will be most welcome on the day. Go raibh maith agat!
HANDBALL
Daire Keane made the long trip to Tyrone to take on his Northern opponent in the 40 x 20 U15 All Ireland Final. Unfortunately for Daire he came up short on the day. Nevertheless he can be very proud of his achievement of reaching an All Ireland Final.
KIELDUFF BROWNIES
We are holding a recycling drive in conjunction with the National Council for the blind. Any unwanted clothes, shoes, bags, linen etc is accepted and can be dropped at the Kielduff Centre on Wednesday nightMarch 25th and Friday night March 27th. If these times are unsuitable please call Nora Curran on 086 8973855 for an alternative one.
NOHOVAL SCHOOL
Nohoval National School is having a BAKE SALE fund raiser on Sunday 29th March 2015 in St. Brendan’s Hall, Ballymac, from 11-1pm. There will be all kinds of home baked goods on offer, tea, coffee, raffles, spot prizes and entertainment for young and old. Come along and be in for a treat!
Nohoval school is also organising a Clothes Collection, you can either bring your bagged clothes along to the Bake Sale or drop them to the school on the 30th or 31st of March between 10am and 1pm. All proceeds are going to the school.
