Latest News – 30-08-2020

Senior Championship

We were drawn against our group opponents Longford Slashers for the quarter final of the senior championship. Check the fixture listings on the paper for details of time, date and venue. Best of luck to the team and management

Junior Championship

Our Junior team were comprehensively beaten by a very good Longford Slashers team on Wednesday evening last in Monaduff on a score line of 2-4 to 1-25. We now await the result of Granard and Longford Slashers to see if we progress any further in the competition. The team and scorers were as follows:

Michael Courtney, James O’Neill, Gabriel Higgins, Declan Donnelly, Ciarán Cooney, Micheál Kane, Mike Kiernan, David Collum, Jonathan Connell, Tom McGee (0-1), Kevin Whitney, David Cassidy (1-2, 2f), Brian O’Connor, Mark Breslin (0-1), James McCann (1-0)

Subs used:

Emmet Collum, Paul Donnelly, Mark Prunty, Robin O’Neill and Brendan Kane

Thank you to Joseph Gill for providing a live stream of the match on out Twitter page.

 

Division 4

Our Reserve League team held out for a good win over Granard on Sunday afternoon last in Monaduff. We played most of the match with 14 men after Declan Donnelly got the line and battled to come out on top 0-15 to 0-12 after losing Gearóíd Nertney to a black card in the last 5 minutes. The team and scorers were as follows:

Aiden Gray, Declan Donnelly, Gabriel Higgins, Nigel Kiernan, Ciarán Cooney, Stephen Cosgrave, Tom McGee (0-1), Anthony Kane (0-4, 1f), Mark Duffy, Gearóid Nertney (0-1), David Cassidy (0-1), Kevin Whitney, Brian O’Connor, Podge Gill (0-3, 1m, 1f), Emmet Collum (0-3)

Subs used:

Cian Brady, Mark Prunty, Petie Collum (0-2, 1f) and Mike Kiernan

Sympathy

The club extends sympathy to the families and friends of Martin Devlin who passed away recently. Solas na bhFlaitheas air.

Slán

We say goodbye and thank you to Fr. Joe McGrath who moves on to a new parish this week. Fr. Joe served our community so well over the last number of years and we wish him all the best in Westmeath. Go raibh maith agat