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Dingle Way Challenge
“The Dingle Way Challenge” makes a welcome return on Sunday 5th June.
A Pre-Event Registration for Dingle Way Challenge will take place on Tuesday 31st of May at 7-8pm at Community Rooms Blennerville.
This is a really important fundraiser for the Club and we ask all our members to encourage family, friends and work colleagues to participate. Registration can be completed on www.eventbrite.ie page https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dingle-way-challenge-2022-tickets-311793321217 or on the club website www.stpatsgaaclub.com.
Club Lotto
There was no winner of our Club Lotto Jackpot of €5100 on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 17, 27, 28 & 29. The five €30 consolation prizes went to:
Cormac Higgins Lohercannon
John Kelliher Lohercannon
Aisling Moriarty Curraheen
Annette Boyle Derrymore West
Christy Murphy Derrymore West
Next week’s Lotto will have a Jackpot of €5200 and the draw will take place on Sunday night 06/06/2022 at 9-15PM. Club lotto can be played online through the club website www.stpatsgaaclub.com, lotto tickets can be purchased from any club officer or at the following outlets:
O’Sheas Shop and Service Station Blennerville
Poff Motors Dingle Road
Seamus O’Sullivan Master Butchers Manor
Noyeks Mile Height
Byrnesworth
Skelper Quanes
Keanes of Curraheen
Betty’s Bar
Rock Inn
Many thanks to all who contribute to our weekly Club Lotto. The Club cannot emphasise enough the importance of our members promoting the Club Lotto among family, friends and work colleagues. The Lotto is now a critical source of funds for the Club.
We are appealing to all club members to promote our lotto at this time to ensure our clubs future viability.
Please have your lotto entries in by 7pm, every Sunday evenings.
Registration
Membership for 2022 should be completed now via www.foireann.ie. Information on using foireann and on membership rates is available on the Club website www.stpatsgaaclub.com. If anyone is having any difficulties using foireann please contact a coach or Club officer and assistance will be provided.
GAA Healthy Club
Don’t forget to have your say in what you would like the club to offer. Find our club mapping survey on previous posts and WhatsApp groups.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD TO CLUB & COMMUNITY YOUNG & OLD! Don’t forget to have your say in what’s important in our quick club mapping survey ⬇
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAa__byToeZUM1k1QUtaTjNCTFVFMzlKQ0cxSktPNTE0Ti4u
Our aim is for our club to become a hub for health in our community. Please join us on our journey. If you’re interested in getting involved please contact our Health Club Officer on: 0860588392.
Juvenile Academy
U5
Great Numbers took part in training on Sunday Morning, Everyone enjoyed a good run around, navigating through cones (aka volcanoes) and practicing all sorts of movement skills in the obstacle course. Well done to our Players of the Week Jack and Kai.
U7
A very enjoyable morning at training on Sunday, we had a quick few drills before we brought all those skills into a game. Numbers were very good and we broke up into different teams for a few games. Player of the week was Jack Galvin who’s improving week after week
Thanks to Noel and James for helping out and we had a special guest coach in Kieran O Shea.
U8 Girls
Thanks to Annascaul for hosting ourselves & Dingle Under 8 and Under 10 girls. It was a beautiful evening of sporting fun with well-balanced sides all getting great experience. We had 2 teams of 6 under 8s. Our girls really impressed the coaches with a great display of skills & learned more positional awareness through every game. We’ll keep practicing the 1 hop rule & position play in training. We will have a mini blitz again In Dingle towards the end of June & we will host the fixture later in the summer. Very well done St Pats.
U9 Boys
The u9s started the session with a warmup by running some laps and stretching. We then practiced our soloing around cones. Finally we worked on kicking drills for points and goals, before we had a competitor match to finish off the session. We will play Annascaul at home next week, we will be in touch closer to the time with Details.
U10 Girls
U10 Girls played their first games of the season on Sunday evening 29th of May with a blitz against Dingle and Annascaul at Annascaul GAA grounds.
The girls played really well together in both games and worked hard throughout. First up against Dingle the girls got the first score of the game. The first half was very tight coming in with a narrow lead of 0-2 to 0-1 at half time. The girls took off in the second half really taking control of the game. The defence of Hannah Enright, Emma Lacey & Clodagh Kane were solid at the back only conceding 2 points throughout the entire game. Ria Horgan in her first game for St. Pats had an excellent game in goals with massive kick outs to her midfield every time. Ailbhe Hennessy, Emma Gilbride and Rosie Dennehy worked hard in the heat covering every blade of grass from midfield. Ailbhe had an excellent game scoring 2-4 from play. Our forwards Rosa Barret Gordillo, Jessica Lacey, Mary-Kate O’Shea and Rachel Colivet played really well and caused a lot of problems for the Dingle defence. Full time score St. Pats 2-4 to Dingle 0-2. Well done girls on their first win of the season.
Next up the girls played Annascaul. The girls tried hard in this game, their second game in a row against a bigger and more physical side playing in their first game of the blitz. Tired legs started to show in this game which they were chasing from early on. A change of goal keepers saw Emma Lacey go into goals who deserves a special mention for making a total of 4 saves in the game. Well done Emma. It was a game like this we really missed our injured star player Grace Costello who is never afraid to get stuck in. We wish our friend and teammate Grace a speedy recovery and hope she will be back playing with us soon. We were unfortunately on the losing side in this game. Final score Annascaul 3-4 to St. Pats 1-0.
Well done girls on a great performance all around. The girls enjoyed this blitz which we will have again, both in Dingle and at home in St. Pats over the summer months. No training next Sunday 5th as the Dingle Way Challenge takes place. We return Sunday 12th of June at 10am at John Mitchels GAA Club where we will take them on in our 3rd game of the season.
U11
This week we trained on Thursday and had a challenge game vs Kerins O’Rahillys on Sunday. Minus a number of regulars, our windmill team battled hard in the warm conditions but were eventually defeated by KOR’s blue team while our bridge team had a narrow win vs KOR’s white team. This Thursday sees the resumption of the County Go Games where we travel to Dingle to play the locals. Meet up and throw in time to be confirmed later in the week.
U12 Girls
Well done on another great training session on Sunday last in beautiful weather conditions. A big welcome to Ava Moriarty who came to her first training session with St. Pats this week and showed huge potential. Well done to Eve o Sullivan who won our player of the week trophy for playing a superb game on Wednesday evening in spa and putting in another great training session this week. Eve never misses a training session or a match and needs to be recognised for that. Game on Tuesday evening in St. Pats at 6.30 against Finuge/ St. Senan’s.
U13
In lovely weather conditions and the pitch in good condition following recent work on it our Under-13’s faced the challenge of a combined Annascaul – Lispole team. While the opposition had a panel of 20 or so players we started with the disadvantage of having only 12 players. The extra player enjoyed by the opposition for most of the first half made a tough task even more difficult and by half time we were very much in arrears. We were able to muster up another player for the second half which did allow us to at least balance the number of players. While battling hard and defending stoutly in the second half we were never going to be able to make up the first half deficit and the game finished with a win for the opposition.
U17 Central Region
St Pats/Kerins O Rahillys 4-10
Castlegregory 0-11
Progress, progress progress. St Pats/Kerins O Rahillys made it 2 wins in a week as the hard work on the training pitch is showing signs of moulding the team into a formidable cohesive unit. Our forward had raise the standards very impressively against Skellig/Valentia the previous week and the defence was challenged to match them. They matched and surpassed expectations, limiting Castlegregory to shots from difficult angles. Of particular source of pride was regaining possession from our own kick out, where we won 15 of 16. Our midfield continue to work themselves into the ground, moving the ball quickly into our free scoring forwards. Our team must continue working hard if they are to continue their progress. The attitude appears to be good, but tougher challenges await.
Man of the Match Jake Hoare
The Central Region sponsored by Kellihers’ Toyota Tralee Round 5 is to take place on the 30th of May at 7pm. St Pats/Kerins O Rahillys play St Michael’s Foilmore in St Michael’s Foilmore.
Seniors
Development League Division 6 Round 4
St Pats B 1-12
Duagh B 2-05
On a hot May Day Conor Enright opened the scoring for St Pats with a point, Duagh replied with three points on their own from number 12, 9 and 14. Breandan Savage scored his own point for St Pats, Cormac Lynch was given a penalty in the seventeenth minute to which he converted to a goal. Duagh got a goal of their own to go a point ahead. Both Cormac Lynch and Martin Savage each added their own point to bring the half time score to St Pats 1-04 to Duagh 1-03.
Adam Bailey started the second half with his own point and number 8 of Duagh with his point. Patrick Dowling went up the field to add his own point to St Pats Score, Duagh’s number 14 added his own point. As the match went on it was St Pats who dominated with scoring with scores from two points from Breandan Savage, one point from Danny Greaney and one point from Patrick Dowling. As St Pats Scores added up Duagh’s number 11 shot for the back of the net which went in and bounced as quick back out from hitting the bar. Adam Bailey and Breandan Savage added each one of their own points. Paul Hayes the Referee blew the final whistle and the score line stood St Pats B 1-12 to Duagh B 2-05.
Our seniors play in their Round 8 of the Credit Union County League against Firies on Saturday the 4th of June at 5pm in Blennerville.
Congratulations
To Kerry who won against Limerick in their Munster GAA Football Senior Championship.
Best of Luck
To James Costello and the Kerry Minors who are playing in the Electric Ireland Munster GAA Football Minor Championship Final on the 1st of June at 7.30pm against Cork in Páirc Uí Rinn.
Sympathy
The club would like to extend its sympathy to the families and friends of Pat Phelan Stacks Villas.
