Author: Teresa Corcoran

Report by Martin Delahunty

The annual U14 Declan Byrne Memorial Tournament was held in Tom Ryall Park on Saturday last, 6th June. There was huge work put in by all in organising teams, officials and preparing the grounds for the big day. In all, 8 clubs participated in the tournament with the first games getting under way at 10am sharp in glorious sunshine. As each team finished their first match all players, officials and parents were served refreshments by the tireless team in the kitchen who worked hard from early morning to make sure nobody went thirsty or hungry. Read more

Report by Niall Egan

Team Blue played Lisdowney in Nowlan Park on Saturday 6th of June in the Go Games finals. Playing 9 a-side with a strong breeze our lads started well, with Ryan, James & Aaron getting the Kilmanagh side off to a lively start. We rotated our subs every few minutes but this didn’t interupt our dominance.

Thanks to Ben and Aaron who agreed to play the 2nd half with Lisdowney, meaning everyone got full game time. For the record we won 5 games and drew 1 to complete our round of Go Game fixtures.

Panel: Aidan Cahill, Paidí Egan, Ben Young, James O’Halloran, Aidan Comerford, Aaron McEvoy, Chris Mahony, James Casey, Elliot Teehan, Donnacha Cleere, Ryan Corcoran. 

Well done to Cian Ronan who is our U8 Hurler of the Week for this week. Well done Cian, keep up the great work!

Report by Niall Egan

We played Glenmore and Conahy Shamrocks recently in our last round of Go Games.

We made the long journey to Glenmore on Saturday 16th May. Glenmore made a strong start, leading 3-1 to no score after 10mins. Our lads finished the half stronger with good scores from Aaron, Elliot and Ryan to leave the score 3-1 to 2-2 at half time. The 2nd half was end to end with scores hard to get. Our backs defended well keeping Glenmore scoreless to win on a scoreline 4-6 to 3-1.  Read more

Report by Philip Cody

Graigue Ballycallan U10 White Team played their last go game on Monday evening away to Dicksboro. In an entertaining game, both sides hurled well and showed an array of skills. In the opening minutes three points were exchanged between both sides but goals from Jeff Neary, JakeO’Brien and Martin Brennan gave the boys a halftime lead of 4-3 to 0-3. The second half was fiercely contested with both sides raising the green flag on four occasions. Through a great team effort and good defensive play throughout the field the boys came out on top, 8-7 to 4-3. Well done lads on the great hurling over the last few weeks. 

Team and Scorers: Billy O’Neill,  Sean Roberts, Pat Purcell, Sean McGrath, James Brennan, Jake O’Brien(3-2), Ryan Cody, Sean Dillon, Jeff Neary(2-1), Dean O’Brien(2-4), Martin Brennan(1-0) and Cillian Hoyne.

Our U8 Hurler of the Week for this Week is Shane Cody. Congratulations Shane, well done and keep up the good work!

Report by Philip Cody

Graigue Ballycallan U10 White Team continued their winning ways when they played Danesfort last Friday evening. The boys were on top from start to finish with all of them performing well. Well done.

Team and Scorers: Cillian Hoyne, Sean Roberts(1-2), Patrick Purcell, Sean McGrath(2-0), Dean O’Brien(0-1), Ryan Cody(1-0), Billy O’Neill(0-6), Sean Dillon, Jeff Neary(4-1), James Brennan, Jake O’Brien(0-2) and Martin Brennan(3-0).

U8 Hurler of the Week for this week is Eoghan Cahill. Congratulations Eoghan and keep up the good work!