CAMOGIE players from around the county came together on Friday to compete in the Allcare Kerry Schools First Year Camogie blitz organised and hosted by Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk.
Five young teams competed from Causeway (2), Mercy Mounthawk, Presentation Tralee and Kanturk. The overall winners were Causeway Comprehensive who took the title with a final minute goal from Ally Russell to win by 2 points over Mercy Mounthawk in the tournament final.
Other semi-finalists were Presentation Tralee and Kanturk Secondary School. Congratulations to Causeway Comprehensive and in particular to Ally Russell who also won Player of the Tournament.
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The blitz was made possible by the organising staff from Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk and sponsorship from local business Mounthawk Allcare Pharmacy and Kerry Camogie.
Kerry Camogie Chairperson Annemarie Russell was on hand to congratulate the winning school. Referees on the day were Michael McCarthy and Maurice O’Sullivan. Scroll down for photos…
Scoil Mhuire Kanturk team..Presentation Secondary School team.Player of the Tournament Ally Russell..Causeway Comprehensive School winning team and coaches.
.The Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí team taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean
MERCY Mounthawk Secondary School hosted its second annual Kerry Group’Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday at Caherslee GAA grounds.
Organised by school staff Olivia Dineen, Stephanie Foley and Martina Lawless, seven secondary schools from around Kerry competed under glorious sunshine in what was a very competitive, yet fun day as local club team mates competed against one another with their respective schools.
Twelve teams competed at junior and four teams at senior level, including Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School, Presentation Secondary School Tralee, Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí, Presentation Secondary School CastleIsland, Castleisland Community College, St. Joseph’s Secondary School Ballybunion and Causeway Comprehensive School.
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Winners of the Senior Cup competition were Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School.
Presentation Secondary School Tralee were winners of the Junior Cup competition, were while Causeway Comprehensive School were victorious in the Junior Shield competition were
The organisers wished to thank local business Kerry Group for sponsoring and supporting the event and Claire Salmon, Group Financial Controller for attending and presenting the prizes to the winning teams.
They also thanked Joe Wallace, the pitch groundsman, the county board for use of the pitch, the referees Michael McCarthy, Brian O’Sullivan, Muiris O’Sullivan and Tommy Guerin as well as our umpires, linesmen and the Transition Year students of Mercy Mounthawk who helped set up and run the blitz. Scroll down for photos…
One of the Mercy Mounthawk teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.One of the Mercy Mounthawk teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot CreanOne of the Mercy Mounthawk teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.One of the Mercy Mounthawk teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot CreanOne of the Presentation Tralee teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.The St Joseph’s Ballybunion team taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot CreanOne of the Presentation Tralee teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.The referees, Tom Guerin, Muiris O’Sullivan and Brian O’Sullivan, who officiated at the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot CreanOne of the Causeway Comprehensive teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.One of the Causeway Comprehensive teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot CreanOne of the Causeway Comprehensive teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.One of the Causeway Comprehensive teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot CreanOne of the Causeway Comprehensive teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.The Castleisland Community College team taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot CreanOne of the Presentation Castleisland teams taking part in the Schools Camogie Blitz on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.Presentation Tralee were winners of the Junior Cup at the Camogie Blitz on Thursday.The Mercy Mounthawk girls who were winners of the Senior Cup at the Camogie Blitz on Thursday..The Causeway Comprehensive team who were winners of the Junior Shield at the Camogie Blitz on Thursday.
.Presentation Tralee girls at the camogie blitz at Mercy Mounthawk on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean
FIVE schools from Tralee and beyond took part in a schools blitz yesterday at Mercy Mounthawk.
Aimed at 1st to 3rd year pupils, teams from Pres Tralee, Pres Castleisland, Causeway Comprehensive, St Joseph’s Ballybunion and Mercy Mounthawk took to the pitches under the guidance of Laura Collins, Kerry Camogie County Development Officer and teachers from the schools.
“We’ve gone into schools to teach camogie so we wanted to give them an opportunity to play games against each other,” said Laura.
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“Pres Castleisland actually came with three teams here today. Most of them never held a Hurley in their hands before the start of the school year and now their playing games, so that’s brilliant to see,” she added.
Mercy Mounthawk beat Ballybunion in one final and Pres Tralee won another against Causeway on an enjoyable morning/afternoon for the girls. Scroll down for photos…
Presentation Castleisland team at the camogie blitz at Mercy Mounthawk on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.St Joseph’s Ballybunion team at the camogie blitz at Mercy Mounthawk on Thursday. Photo by Dermot CreanMercy Mounthawk girls at the camogie blitz at Mercy Mounthawk on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean.Causeway Comprehensive girls at the camogie blitz at Mercy Mounthawk on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean
.The IT Tralee Camogie squad with The Rose Hotel’s Director of Sales and Marketing Michele King and General Manager Mark Sullivan. The Rose Hotel sponsors the team’s gear.
IT Tralee Camogie team will travel to Mallow GAA Complex this Saturday to play at the 2019 Ashbourne Cup weekend.
IT Tralee will compete for the Fr. Meaghair Cup when they play favourites Athlone IT in the semi-final. This game will take place at 11am.
The Fr. Meaghair Cup this year had 5 teams take part with every team playing each other.
The top 4 teams then qualified for the semi-finals. In round 1 IT Tralee were defeated by St. Marys Belfast on a scoreline of 2-12 to 2-06.
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IT Tralee then went on to record 2 good victories over GMIT and Trinity College Dublin before suffering a heavy defeat to semi-final opponents Athlone IT.
In the end Athlone IT finished top of the group on maximum points (12) while St. Marys Belfast, Trinity College Dublin and IT Tralee all finished on 6 points with scoring difference meaning the Tralee girls would finish 4th.
IT Tralee come in to the semi-final as underdogs as Athlone IT were the pre-competition favourites and have since gone on to prove why by coming through the group undefeated. However, IT Tralee will still feel that they can cause as shock as they were down a number of players when the teams last met.
IT Tralee are managed by former Kerry Camogie manager Stephen Goggin and he is assisted by Danny Guerin.
Preparation up to now has been good with big numbers attending both trainings and games.
IT Tralee can call on Kerry Senior players Caoimhe Shanahan, Norette Casey, Katelynn O’ Connor, Aoife O’ Connor and Kate Buckley aswell as Offaly Senior and team captain Deirdre Cashen. Clare Senior duo Aoife Power and Shauna Canny will also be players to look out for on Saturday.
The winner of this game will go straight to the final on Sunday where they will meet the winners of St. Marys Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. The final is also set for Mallow GAA but with a later starting time of 12pm.
IT Tralee Panel: Annemarie O’ Neill (Kilkenny), Aoife Gregory (Louth), Aoife McMahon (Limerick), Aoife O’ Connor (Kerry), Aoife O’ Leary (Cork), Aoife Power (Clare), Caoimhe Shanahan (Kerry), Deirdre Cashen – captain (Offaly) ,Eimear McGrath (Clare), Elana Bradley (Clare), Ellen Doyle (Wicklow), Emma Hall (Clare), Emma Herbert (Limerick), Joanne O’ Gorman (Clare), Kate Buckley (Kerry), Katelynn O Connor (Kerry), Lana Browne (Clare), Lauren Twohig (Cork), Leah Broderick (Cork), Niamh Tuohy (Kildare), Norette Casey (Kerry), Rachel Mannion (Galway), Ruth O’ Neill (Clare), Shannon Doyle (Kilkenny), Shauna Canny (Clare), Tara Murphy (Meath),
Management: Stephen Goggin and Danny Guerin.
• IT Tralee GAA Club would like to thank The Rose Hotel and especially Mark O’ Sullivan (General Manager) and Michele King (Director of Sales & Marketing) for sponsoring gear for the team. IT Tralee are delighted to be in partnership with The Rose Hotel and are very appreciative of their generosity.
.Margaret Carroll and Risteárd Ó Fuaráin with RTE’s Eileen Dunne at the Camogie Association Awards.
TWO people who make a fantastic contribution to camogie in Kerry were honoured in Croke Park at the Camogie Association Awards on Saturday night
Margaret Carroll of Cillard Camogie Club was the Kerry recipient of a “Volunteer of the Year” Award and Kerry PRO Risteárd Ó Fuaráin received the ‘PRO of the Year” award.
The event was an opportunity for the Camogie Association to recognise those involved at grassroots level and MC for the night was RTE’s Eileen Dunne.
The PRO Award is named after Eileen’s father, the late RTÉ GAA Commentator, Mick Dunne. President of the Camogie Association, Kathleen Woods, paid tribute to those who work to promote the game throughout Ireland and overseas and thanked them for their commitment.
.Mercy Mounthawk girls who took part in Thursday’s blitz. Photo by Dermot Crean
MERCY Mounthawk hosted a camogie blitz for secondary schools on Thursday in a bid to promote the game among girls.
Ten teams from seven schools took part, drawn mainly from Tralee and north Kerry. The schools were Mercy Mountawk, Presentation Tralee, Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí, Castleisland Community College, Presentation Listowel, St Joseph’s Ballybunion and Causeway Comprehensive.
“It’s to develop skills for first to third year girls who haven’t really played the game before. We’ve only gone into schools in Listowel and Castleisland two weeks ago and now they’ll play games,” said Laura Collins, Kerry Camogie Development Officer who was co-ordinating the event.
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After competitive contests, Presentation Tralee won the A Final beating Mercy Mounthawk, while the B Final saw Presentation Listowel beat neighbours St Joseph’s Ballybunion.
Brid Horan and Dakotah Cater O’Flynn who played for South Munster recently in Interprovincial games. Photo by Dermot Crean
Meanwhile, two girls attending the blitz are excelling in camogie at county and provincial level. Dakotah Carter O’Flynn from Tralee and a student in Mercy Mounthawk and Brid Horan from Kilmoyley and Causeway Comprehensive played for South Munster this year. Both girls will be involved in the Tralee Parnells adult camogie team next year. Scroll down for photos…
Presentation Listowel girls who took part in Thursday’s blitz. Photo by Dermot Crean.St Joseph’s Ballybunion girls who took part in Thursday’s blitz. Photo by Dermot CreanPres Tralee and Castleisland girls in action during Thursday’s blitz. Photo by Dermot Crean.Pres Tralee and Castleisland girls in action during Thursday’s blitz. Photo by Dermot CreanCauseway Comprehensive girls with coaches Rosemary McGarty and Liz Houlihan who took part in Thursday’s blitz. Photo by Dermot Crean
Clanmaurice made the journey to Newcastle West on Sunday to defend their Munster Junior Club Camogie title against Crecora of Limerick.
The Limerick girls were first on the scoreboard with a 1st minute free. Laura Collins got Clanmaurice up and running a minute later. Dearbhla Egan pointed two frees for Crecora in the 4th and 6th minutes.
In the 9th minute Patrice Diggin converted a free and Sara Murphy followed up with two from play in the 11th and 12th minutes.
Jackie Horgan pointed from play in the 22nd minute and Aoife Behan from play and Dearbhla Egan from a free completed the first half scoring to leave the halftime score, Clanmaurice 0-6 Crecora 0-4.
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Clanmaurice started the second half well with a free from Sara Murphy in the 31st minute, a point from play from the stick of Jackie Horgan in the 35th and another free from Sara Murphy in the 37th minute.
Action from the game.
Clanmaurice made their only substitution when Jessica Fitzell replaced Alanna Maunsell. In the 43rd minute Crecora launched a dangerous attack on the Clanmaurice goal but the defence stood firm to repel the attack and a 45′ was conceded, which Dearbhla Egan converted.
In the 44th minute a puckout from Aoife Fitzgerald was capitalised upon by the half-forward line and when the sliotar was delivered into the Crecora square, Laura Collins was on hand to find the net to leave the score at 1-9 to 0-5.
In the 45th minute it looked like Úna O’Connor would find the net for Crecora but a last minute tackle by Michelle Costello resulted in her shot going over the bar.
Another long puckout by Aoife Fitzgerald in the 47th minute saw Rachel McCarthy gain possession but a foul resulted and Sara Murphy converted the free.
In the 49th minute Úna O’Connor raised another white flag for Crecora and in the 52nd minute Sara Murphy converted another free for Clanmaurice.
However, in the 57th minute Crecora ensured that the spectators would be treated to an exciting finish when they scored a point and a goal in the space of a minute. Crecora pressed hard for an equalising goal but goalkeeper Aoife Fitzgerald came to the rescue when she grabbed a sliotar that was heading towards the top corner of her net.
So Clanmaurice held on to win back to back titles on a scoreline of 1-11 to 1-8. Captain Orla Young accepted the Cup from Chairperson of Munster Camogie Marion Graham and Laura Collins received her ‘Player Of The Match Award’ from PRO of Munster Camogie Bríd McNamara.
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Clanmaurice progress to the All-Ireland Junior Club Camogie Semi-Final where they will face the 2017 Champions, Kilmessan of Meath.
Clanmaurice Team and Scorers:
Aoife Fitzgerald, Liz Houlihan, Niamh Leen Michelle Costello, Elaine Ryall, Patrice Diggin (0-1f), Orla Young (C) Aine O’Connor, Laura Collins (1-1), Rachel McCarthy, Aoife Behan (0-1), Olivia Dineen, Jackie Horgan (0-2), Sara Murphy (0-6, 4f), Alanna Maunsell. Substitution: Jessica Fitzell for Alanna Maunsell (43).
Referee: John Kirby (Cork)
A MEMBER of Tralee Parnells Hurling and Camogie Club was honoured at national level at an awards ceremony in Croke Park on Saturday.
Tralee Parnells Camogie Chairperson, Carmel O’Shea-Maloney was given a Volunteer of the Year Award at The Camogie Association Volunteer and Media Awards Dinner.
Over 100 guests were in attendance at the event at which Volunteer and Media Award winners were honoured for their contributions to the Association in 2017.
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Carmel was described as being “at the heart and soul of the camogie side of our club” on the Tralee Parnells Facebook page.
“All of us at Tralee Parnells Hurling and Camogie Club would like to congratulate her on this milestone of achievement which is thoroughly deserved for the years of hard work. Congratulations Carmel on the award and the years’ service to Tralee Parnells,” read the post.
Mike O’Halloran on Clanmaurice’s bid for All-Ireland glory this weekend…
Laura Collins.
Clanmaurice Camogie Club travel to St Brendan’s Park in Birr on Sunday at 2pm in their bid to become All Ireland Junior Camogie Champions,
They had a nail-biting win over Athleague in the semi-final and now face Kilmessan of Meath in the final.
Kilmessan look like they might be a very formidable outfit but judging by the confidence shown at their press evening a huge upset could be on the cards.
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Kilmessan will present a huge challenge to the Clanmaurice women, they have scored a huge amount of goals on the road to the final beating the Cavan champions on a scoreline of 5.15 to 0.02.
Patrice Diggin.
Alana Maunsell in goal for Clanmaurice will have to be at her best to keep her net intact, she will be well assisted by her captain Treise Moran who operates in the full back line.
Kerry will look to their county and college star Patrice Diggin, who is an Asbourne Cup medal holder.
Expect Laura Collins from the great Collin’s hurling family in Kilmoyley to be influential also, all the women will have to be at their very best to hold Megan Thynne the Kilessan midfielder.
Operating at full forward for Kilmessan is Katie NiChoillean she bagged three goals in their semi.
Clanmaurice will have to keep the frees to a minimum as Kilmessan’s Ailin Donnely is pretty handy from placed balls. Expect the Clanmaurice women to return with the cup.
Camogie:
Tralee Parnells were narrowly defeated by Causeway, 6-3 to 5-0, on Saturday the 7th in their final game of the first round of the U-12 Kerry County Camogie League. All players pulled together in a tenacious display of teamwork that resulted in goals for Hannah Sharkey (2), Eimer Ni Shuilleabhan (2) and Clodagh Begley. While Clodagh B’s “puc fada” kept much of the play in the opposition’s half, solid defenders like Katie O’Dwyer shut down many dangerous moves in the Parnells half. To witness in person the 200% improvement in this team, come along on Sunday, June 29th at 12 noon when all 4 Kerry camogie clubs meet again as a warm-up for the Kerry v. Carlow championship game; North Kerry venue TBD.
On Saturday, June 7th, Tralee Parnells U8/10 camogie players travelled to Causeway to participate in the first of 4 summer blitzes. The girls had no problem racking up scores with Lana O’Connell’s superb goalkeeping skills keeping opposition scores at a minimum. Welcome back to Ciara Casey and Ciara Palmer who weren’t long blowing the cobwebs off their hurleys and getting “stuck” in with Jessica O’Loughlin! It is a testament to the tireless efforts of the U6 and U8 coaching staffs that such young players demonstrate such proficiency with a hurley. Tralee Parnells will be hosting the next blitz on Saturday, July 12th at 10:30 a.m. Venue TBD.
Generous Donor:
Thanks a million to the Tralee business(who wish to remain anonymous) that paid for 40 hurleys used by Parnells coaches in the local primary schools. Its donation like this that will help the club develop and help attract new members. The club wants to get coaches into over 20 primary schools with over 10,000 kids in the Tralee area so contact 085-1355566 if your business wants to help the club achieve this.
The Tralee Parnells U12 Camogie team who were defeated by Causeway
