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Club Lotto:
Sponsored by Almas Takeaway, Milltown
Here are the results for the
Fortnightly Milltown-Castlemaine GAA Club Lotto Draw
On Monday, October 4th, 2021
Jackpot €12,600
Lucky Numbers: 02 – 08 – 09 Bonus Ball: 17
Results:
Unfortunately, there was no winner Jackpot or match three prizes
Lucky Dip Prize Winners:
€50 – Bart O’Sullivan
€50 – Fr Fergal Ryan p.p.
€25 – John Joy
€25 – James O’Mahony
€25 – Michael O’Shea
€25 – Ann O’Leary
Well done to the prize winners & best to luck to everyone in our next draw in two weeks’ time (Monday, October 18th, 2021) where the jackpot will be €12,600.
BAILE AN MHUILINN – CAISLEÁN NA MAINGE ABU.
Get you tickets for this draw or renew your yearly tickets at usual outlets or online with Clubforce
Mile búiochas do gach duine for playing Milltown/Castlemaine Clubs Fortnightly Fundraiser, the money raised is vital to the day to day running of our club and your support is sincerely appreciated.
Walkathon: Update
Once again we are humbled and incredibly grateful for the incredible support for our MC Walkathon Club Fundraiser. Thanks the generosity of our club members, community and those of your who supported the event all over the world the total now stands at just over €30,000
It was not only the funds that have been raised but the wonderful atmosphere and spirit that filled the air on a fantastic weekend for our Milltown/Castlemaine Gaa Club that is what really made the event so special.
To have an event to bring so many together safely meeting old friends & new was the real success of our walkathon and all of you made that possible
We hope to continue this tradition of gathering to walk and talk together for many days, nights and years to come thanks to this wonderful facility our community has supported so generously.
Thank you to each and every person who walked with us, sponsored us and who helped in anyway they could, we are truly humbled by your incredible support.
With huge thanks also to Mid Kerry Veterinary Centre for their long term sponsorship of our walkway and to Foleys Spar Milltown for their continued support of our Coiste na nÓg and additional sponsorship of our social area.
With our Walkathon total exceeding the €30K mark it is 50% over the target that had been set pre event, we cannot thank you enough from our club members, to our community and to supporters all over the world thank you for making our walkathon the success that it was.
If you have not done so already and wish to support our walkathon fundraiser please just click on the following link to do so, thank you:
https://www.idonate.ie/event/3072_milltown-castlemaine-gaa-club-24-hour-walk-a-thon.html
Club Fixtures:
Further fixture to be updated as they come in:
Thursday:
17.45: U9 Boys V Listry (H) Challenge
Saturday:
11.00: U9 Boys V Various (H) End of year blitz
11.00: U10 Girls V Keel/Listry (A – Keel) Challenge
Sunday:
16.00: U13 V Beaufort (H) Mid Kerry
(Stay tuned to our social media pages and Clubforce for any additions or changes to the above fixtures)
Kerry Mental Health and Wellbeing Fest –
Oct 9th – 16th:
Join us every evening from the 9th to the 16th of October (18.30-19.30) as our club hosts a ‘Happy Hour Daily Walk’ across the week on our brand new walkway sponsored by Mid Kerry Veterinary Centre.
Come along and catch up with friends or make some new ones as we walk and talk together as a club and community.
We will have Tea, Coffee and biscuits for all of our walkers. Walk Together / Talk Together with Milltown/Castlemaine GAA.
Coiste na nÓg News:
Sponsored by Foleys Spar, Milltown
This Week in the Coiste na nÓg:
Well done to our U6, U7 Boys and U8 Girls teams who all received their end of year medals this week as they sign off for the end of the year. We cannot wait to see all of the boys and girls back next year and don’t forget to tell them to keep practicing all the amazing skills they learned all year.
Well done to all of the amazing coaches, covid supervisors and anyone who helped out this year. A special word for team managers Katie, Trevor, Jono and Deirdre who were chief organisers for their respective teams and done a fantastic job.
Our U9 team had a set of fantastic games against neighbouring club Keel on a fantastic Sunday morning in Milltown. All the teams played some excellent football and our U9s will host Listry on Thursday evening before their big end of year blitz next Saturday.
U9 – End of Year Blitz
The Under 9 end of year blitz promises to be a big occasion next week with five visiting teams coming to Paddy Burke Memorial Park from 11am – 3pm this coming Saturday the 16th of October. All the teams will bring 3 teams each to join our own 3 U9 teams on the day. The Teams that will visit are:
St Josephs Doora Barafield (Clare), Adare (Limerick), Castlehaven (Cork) along with Kerry sides Austin Stacks, Killcummin and our own Milltown/Castlemaine. We look forward to welcoming all the sides and the Killorglin Pipe Band who will parade the teams around the pitch before playing our national anthem to start the day.
There are lots of connections between our visiting teams and our own club. St Josephs Doora Barafield club member Colm Ryan of Kilfillum Piggery just outside Milltown here in Kerry and up in Clare too has been an fantastic supporter of our clubs field development project and we welcome him and his club, a warm welcome to former Milltown/Castlemaine player Fionnan Kelliher will bring his club Adare back to his home place a return visit of a fantastic day out a few years ago for our juvenile teams, we look forward to greeting West Cork side Castlehaven also making the good trip up from the south coast and to the Kerry sides Killcummin whose Senior Coach is too course the former Milltown/Castlemaine player Willie Maher and Austin Stacks Senior and U9 coach Wayne Quinlan is also a former Milltown/Castlemaine senior coach. Our our U9s have had great games against both of the Kerry clubs attending over the past couple of years.
Join us from 11am until 3pm next Saturday 16th October for what is sure to be a fantastic day at Paddy Burke Memorial Park.
Our U11 team hosted Cordal this evening at Paddy Burke Memorial Park and played some fantastic football in the autumn sunshine. Well done to all the players for showing great teamwork, skill and energy.
Senior Team:
Sponsored by Almas Takeaway & Bathrooms 4U
Minor:
Congratulations to the Mid Kerry Minors and their management team on their win over South Kerry yesterday in the Minor County Championship to top their group.
Final score was 2-14 to 1-15 and a special mention to our club players Conor Spillane, Shane O Connor, Jack Teahan, Brendan Casey, Dara Hogan, Liam Roche, Ben Downes and Oisin Spring and to our coaches Cathal Moriarty and Mike Burke who are part of the management team.
In the draw made last night Mid Kerry were drawn out as one of the three group topping teams to go straight through to the semi finals.
