Archive for the ‘Camogie’ Category

Glynn Barntown GAA Club would like to welcome Dermot Rafter on board as our new Health and Well being Officer. Dermot is a Behaviour Support Specialist living in Killurin with strong ties to the club. Dermot has over 25 years experience working on individual support and organisation development with qualifications and competencies in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS); Person Centred Practice (PCP); Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA); and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).

He is also a trained instructor in non-violent verbal and physical intervention strategies. He has devised many other programmes in the areas of teenage behavioural support; mindfulness; and youth leadership. Dermot is a fantastic new addition to this area in our club and we are thrilled to have somebody of his calibre as part of our team. Dermot can be contacted on 0872879183.

Over 100 club boys, girls, mentors and officers donned the blue and green to march in the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Wexford on Friday March 17th along with club Senior heroes Michael Doyle, John Leacy, Pádraig Donnelly and Michael O Regan.  The youngsters were each a credit to their club and great ambassadors for the parish. Bhíomar an bródúil astu!☘

 Our 14 camogie girls had a great day out in Croke Park on Sunday for the camogie All Ireland finals. We were one of 36 teams drawn to attend from 240 entries in the “Road to Croker” draw.

Paul Carty is giving a presentation on the physical development of players from the early years at 8pm this Friday in the clubhouse. It promises to be a very informative evening and will include some demonstrations of age appropriate exercises.

Wexford GAA Coaching & Games Development are in the process of planning Foundation & Level 1 / Level 2 courses. These courses are a excellent way to up-skill new & existing coaches. Over 200 coaches took part in our Winter Coach Education program last year, with a further 398 coaches taking part in our club development work throughout the year. 

To express your interest please fill out the expression of interest form or contact us directly for more information

Expression of Interest Link : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FRRW3KD

Well done to incredible u12 and u14 camogie star Ciara Butler who lined out in Croke Park today at half time in the Minor Hurling All Ireland Final.  Ciara was put forward by her primary school Glynn NS earlier this year to take part in the GAA INTO RESPECT GO GAMES Exhibition match.

Innovate Wexford Park was alive with excitement as the Wexford  Senior camogie team snatched a championship victory over All Ireland Champions Cork on Saturday afternoon-well done to Glynn Barntown’s Emma Walsh who played at midfield and panellist Aoife Sheil and trainerror Alan Stafford.

Hard luck to Clodagh Jackman, Patrice O ‘ Gorman and Emma Kiely and the Wexford Intermediate camogie team who were defeated by Antrim on Saturday evening.

Well done to Emma Walsh and Aoife Sheil and the Wexford Senior camogie team who defeated Waterford on Saturday in the All Ireland championship in Walsh Park. We wish Emma a speedy recovery for a hand injury sustained in this game.

Hard luck to our Senior camogie team who were beaten by Oulart The Ballagh in Killurin yesterday evening in the second round of the championship.