Golf Classic – Delighted to share the news that our tee times are fully sold for our 2024 Golf Classic which takes place in Beaufort on Friday August 23rd. We are now focused on selling tee box sponsorship at €75 per person/company.
Please contact any of the organizing committee of Pat Kearney, Fergus Foley, Anthony McElligott, Eoin Gallagher, Rory Kilgallen and Brid McElligott if you wish to sponsor a tee box or help with the event. All monies raised go to support our football activities.
Senior Ladies – Corrib Oil Senior Club League Final
John Mitchels 2-06 Killarney Legion 1-12.
John Mitchels came agonisingly close to making it back-to-back Corrib Oil Senior club league titles when they failed narrowly to Killarney Legion in this year’s final played at Fitzgerald Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Killarney Legion won the toss and elected to play with the aid of the breeze in the opening half. They immediately won the throw up and midfielder Kerri Ann Hanrahan cut through the John Mitchels rearguard to open the scoring in the first minute.
From the kick out, Killarney Legion Captain, Kate Mc Carthy won possession and kicked a wonderful long range point to double their advantage. When Kerri Ann Hanrahan added her second point and Aine Devlin chipped in with two more the Killarney outfit had suddenly stretched into a five point lead by the tenth minute.
A wonderful passing movement involving Tanya O’Connor, Tara Fitzgerald and Erica O’Connor resulted in Aoife O’Brien finding Grace Hamilton with a deft pass and Grace slipped the ball to Ava Buckley O’Connell who blasted the ball to the Killarney Legion net to reduce the deficit to 2 points.
Anne Marie O’Sullivan and Lauren Carey added points for Killarney Legion before Diana O’Keeffe combined with Shannon Martin who found Shauna Hanafin with a clever handpass and Shauna scored a delightful point to reduce the gap to 3 points.
Lauren Carey added her second point in the twenty fifth minute and just on the stroke of half time a long range effort from Lauren Carey rebounded back off the upright back to the unmarked Orianne Mc Gillycuddy who blasted the ball to the John Mitchels net to leave the half time score John Mitchels 1-01 Killarney Legion 1-08 and left the John Mitchels ladies with a mountain to climb.
The mountain started to resemble Everest as points from the industrious Kerri Ann Hanrahan and Orianne Mc Gillycuddy pushed them 9 points in front by the fifth minute of the second half.
Things started to go from bad to worse when Killarney Legion were awarded a penalty but John Mitchels goalkeeper, Kayleigh Cllins pulled off one of her trademark saves and kept the Tralee outfit’s hopes alive.
Kayleigh’s save seemed to inspire the John Mitchels ladies and with the introduction of Anna Murphy Stack, Ashleigh Murphy and Michaela Murphy they seemed to get to grips with the opposition.
Niamh Myers then added a point from a free following a foul on Lynda O’Connor and when Ellie O’Rahilly was fouled from the resultant kick out, Niamh added another point from a free.
John Mitchels added some fresh legs in the shape of Clara Dowd, Emma Carmody and Laoise O’Sullivan and with Simi Ogungsbesan and Sarah Kilgallen taking control of the midfield sector, Niamh Myers scored yet another free to reduce the gap to 6 points midway through the second half.
Orianne Mc Gillycuddy increased the lead to 7 a minute later and then a wonderful John Mitchels move ended with Ava Buckley O’Connell firing a piledriver that struck the crossbar and went over the bar rather than under it.
Kate Mc Carthy and Niamh Myers then exchanged pointed frees and with three minutes remaining a very clever free kick movement involving Sarah Kilgallen and Shauna Hannafin resulted in Niamh Myers scoring a fantastic goal to reduce the leeway to a goal.
Try as they might, John Mitchels were unable to breach the Killarney Legion defence for the equaliser and at the call of play the final score was John Mitchels 2-06 Killarney Legion 1-12.
While the result didn’t go our way on Wednesday night, the club can take great pride in the squad’s achievement in reaching it’s second Senior club league final in a row.
The fact that again over 20 players were in attendance gives an indication of how far the squad has come in a very short space of time. The squad has now got a good blend of youth and experience.
We would like to thank our large band of loyal supporters who travelled to Fitzgearld Stadium and encouraged the players from first to last whistle.
As a complete aside, the game had originally been fixed for Monday night but Killarney Legion due to being missing some players on the Monday night requested us to play the fixture on the Wednesday night instead.
Naturally we agreed to their request and while we may have lost the game, it is fair to say that by doing so, we upheld the integrity of the club, the game and the competition and at the end of the day isn’t that worth more than any trophy. John Mitchels Abu!
Mothers & Others Notes – Training session at 7:30 pm on Wednesday. We aim to create a fun, non-competitive space for women to play Ladies Gaelic Football and build connections within the community. If you’re looking for a way to get fit, make new friends, and have a laugh, come along! No experience necessary. Contact Aisling on 087 2428358 for information.
Minor Team – Minor County Championship Round 2
John Mitchels 3-9
Dr Crokes 1-13
Our first ever minor County Championship game played in Ballyseedy as John Mitchels resulted in a great win for our Minors who were very determined and organised against a strong Crokes outfit.
The first half saw goals from Gearoid White (2) and Luke Sullivan with points by both to give us a 6 point advantage playing with a strong breeze. Crokes came out with huge energy in the second half and clawed there way back into the game closing it to 1 point before a Jim Dowd goal restored our 4 point lead.
Crokes won a lot of frees & kept plugging away but our defence held solid and the final whistle eventually sounded to the delight of a big home crowd. Well done to the team and management it was in every sense an historic evening!
Congratulations to Mitchels player Fionàn Brosnan & Coach Clive Callaghan on their 2 point victory in today’s U16 All Ireland Final against Meath. Well done Team & Management. Minor training continues on Monday evening at 7pm.
Academy – We took a break this week for the Rose Festival. Training continues next Sunday at 10.30am. Looking forward to welcoming you all back.
Under 9 Boys – Another fantastic display of football from John Mitchels & @kerinsorahillysgaaclub U9 Boys on Sunday Morning last. Both side’s put on a great display of football to the delight of the spectators & great to see both side’s honing their skills & improving every week!! Well done to all involved
John Mitchels U9 Boys training continues this Wednesday evening from 5.30pm to 6.30pm All Newcomers Welcome
Under 8s and 10s Girls – Great training and effort being put in by this group. Keep up the great work and looking forward to seeing you all next Sunday. Well done to the girls that took place in the Munster Blitz last Saturday where 13 teams from around Munster were involved.
Under 12 Girls – Training continues this week with details to be issued by Club Coaches.
Under 14 Girls – Training continues on Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm as we prepare for the North Kerry League which is only two weeks away with our first game v Moyvane.
Under 16 Girls – Training continues on Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm.
Under 11 Boys – We travelled to Milltown on Thursday night for a game versus Milltown Castlemaine. A lovely calm evening for football and the boys gave everything and played some fine football against two strong teams.
A special word of thanks to the U9 players that travelled last Thursday night and indeed for the last number of games. It is no easy task to step up in that grade and they have acquited themselves well. There is no fixture set down for this coming Thursday but we will arrange some friendlies over the next few weeks against some local teams.
We trained on Sunday morning and worked through a number of drills. Great enthusiasm from this group considering a lot of them would have stayed up late for the parade and fireworks. Training as usual at 10:30 next Sunday.
Under 13 Boys – Well done to our boys who represented the club at the Rose Cup on Saturday. We lost in the Shield Final to Milltown Castlemaine. The boys effort was immense and all there was in the end was one kick of the ball that separated both sides. We are extremely proud of the team.
Thanks to all who were there for a long but enjoyable day especially to the parents, supporters, players and management team. Our thanks to Tralee Town Board for organising the event and to Na Gaeil for their hospitality on the day. In total the team played 5 competitive games and had a great day of football.
Under 15 Boys – Plans for the week ahead will be issued by management. Kerry North were victorious over Cavan on a score of 4-19 to 3-10 on Saturday. Well done to Mitchels player’s Jack Collins who lined out at wing back with Sean Sargent in goals. Luke Hanifin was unfortunately injured on the day couldn’t take part. Congratulations lads & well done Team & Management from all at John Mitchels.
Bingo – Continues Wednesday and Friday at 8.30PM at the John Joe Sheehy Road. Over 18s only. ID must be provided on request.
Lotto – John Mitchels GAA Club Lotto Results: Sunday 18th August 2024.
This week’s Lotto numbers are 12, 13, 14 & 16. The numbers today were drawn by Clubforce. There was no winner of the Jackpot of €4,000.00. Congratulations to our three lucky dip winners this week:
€25.00: Dara Fitzpatrick
€25.00: Kellie Houlihan
€25.00: Aisling Lacey
Next week’s Jackpot is €4,050.00 and the draw will take place on Facebook Live on Sunday 25th August 2024 at 11am. Ticket sales close at 9am sharp. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3LlAIYu
We thank you for all your support.
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