Club Lotto:
Our next Milltown-Castlemaine GAA Lotto (Kindly sponsored by Alma’s Takeaway) will take place on Mon the 17th of May. Join us on our Facebook page for the live draw.
Standard weekly or Annual tickets are available online with ClubForce @ https://bit.ly/39GTqt1 and weekly tickets are also at all usual outlets with the Jackpot Prize of €12,600.
Míle búiochas do gach duine for playing Milltown/Castlemaine Club Fundraising Lotto, the money raised is vital to the day to day running of our club and your support is sincerely appreciated.
Coiste na nÓg:
GAA for all: On Monday evening last our GAA for all group had its first ever training session. The focus of our group is to provide an opportunity to play football and have fun to players with additional needs.
Well done to Stephanie Dinham, Gillian Twiss, Maria O’Sullivan, Danny McClure and Dara O’Connor the organising committee who have been training and getting organised over the past few months. We had 7 fantastic players join us for our first evening where we played games, ran obstacle courses and more. There were lots of great skills on show and big smiles going home.
Thank you also to Elaine Murphy who helped out and will join our coaching team next week along with senior players Donal Kelliher and Steven Roche. A big thank you to Gearóid from the Kerry Sports and Recreation Partnership (KRSP) for all his guidance. If you wish to enquire about players attending GAA 4 all training, volunteer as a coach or have any other questions please contact Danny on 087 6536631.
U8 Girls: All of our juvenile teams have now returned to training. After their first training session was postponed due to the weather last week our U8s also got underway on Monday evening last. It was worth the wait though as the girls had a fantastic first evening at training with lots of fun and lots of football.
U8s team manager Deirdre O’Sullivan gave a big thank you to her fellow coaches Keelin, Derry, Tommy and Mary T for their wonderful coaching on the night. Whilst also giving a big thank you to Claire our Club Covid Officer and Under 8 Covid supervisors Helen McClure and Siobhán Woods.
Volunteers: We are blessed here at Milltown/Castlemaine GAA with fantastic number at juvenile level and right across the club. We are also extremely grateful to all of the almost 70 coaches who volunteer for our juvenile teams.
To offer to become part of a coaching team please contact Liam Doherty 086 041 3593 or Ian Twiss 087 252 1053
To offer to become a COVID supervisor please contact Claire O’Sullivan 087 123 7101
The return of matches for our juvenile teams is also not to far away, we would like to ask if any parents would like to volunteer to send in scores/results to our PRO team and take team pictures throughout the year. The more the merrier so that we can get the best coverage of our teams, please contact Danny on 0876536631 if you would like to help out.
Seniors:
This week saw plenty of action on the fantastic new sand based surface at Paddy Burke Memorial Park. On Tuesday the long awaited return to training for our senior team commenced with new team manager David Heasman and his coaching team. David will be joined this year by selectors Brian Kerins and Ian Twiss. The clubs senior footballers will also be joined by members of the coaching team of Stephen Carroll, Liam Corkery, Paul Twiss, Liam Doherty and Garry Murphy.
It is fantastic to see the seniors back in action and with the Kerry Team wetting the appetite for football even further this week, we can’t wait for our seniors to take to the field here at Paddy Burke Memorial Park.
Another very welcome sight at training on Friday evening was to see our senior player Thady O’Sullivan return to the field of play. It was wonderful to see Thady back at training and a very warm welcome back to him from everyone at Milltown/Castlemaine GAA.
Field Development Project
As said above with the return to football not too far away, there was another welcome sight this week as our pitch was lined and is ready to for action.
A big thank you to for their fantastic work and their time too Matt Edwards and Gavin Di Marco who expertly lined out the pitch for the very first time.
The return of match action is not too far away now, a huge thank you to you all for your continued support of Milltown/Castlemaine Gaa Clubs Field Development Project.
Thank You – National Club Draw
All at Milltown/Castlemaine GAA wish to pay a huge thank you to everyone that purchased a ticket for the national club draw. In the last week the final tally of money raised almost doubled to over €3,500, your support is appreciated sincerely.
All of the finds for the sales of these tickets will go towards the running of Milltown/Castlemaine GAA and the clubs field development project including our brand new community walkway and 270 seated stand. There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs so fingers crossed for everyone that entered.
