Archive for the ‘Féile’ Category

CAMOGIE
Our Senior camogie team were defeated by St Martins in league on Saturday in Piercestown. Hard luck girls.
The refixed Féile camogie tournament took place in Hollymount on Sunday morning and our girls defeated St Ibars, lost out to Kilrush and drew with St Martins in the group stages thus qualifying for a semi final v Cloughbawn. After a hard fought game our girls were defeated by 2 points. Well done to all involved.
 Well done to our u10 camogie teams who had their 1st cluster blitz of the year on Sunday morning in Killurin.
 Congrats to our Junior camogie team who had a brilliant win over St Annes on Sunday evening away 5-15 to 1-2.

COISTE NA NÓG
 Well done to our u9 hurlers who headed off to Pairc Carman to play Faythe Harriers on Saturday morning where they put on a great display of hurling.
Our Féile A football team qualified for a semi final on Sunday having defeated Naomh Eanna and been beaten by Kilanerin. They were unfortunately beaten by Fethard in the semi final.
Our Féile  B football team travelled to Tagoat on Sunday where they drew with Kilmore , defeated St Marys of Maudlintown before being beaten by St Marys of Rosslare. Well done to both panels on great performances.
 Well done to our minor footballers who beat Castletown on Monday  evening in Castletown . 
Our u15 hurlers had a great win over Faythe Harriers on Thursday evening. 

SENIOR GAA
 Our Senior hurlers had an excellent championship opening game on Friday evening resulting in a draw after a real ding dong battle with Oulart The Ballagh in Bellefield. The half time score left us trailing by 1 goal (1-9 to 0-9). After the interval the two sides exchanged scores and near misses to bring the game to its conclusion with the teams matched at 1-18 apiece.
Our scores came from Craig Doyle 0-5, Gary Moore 0-5 (0-4 frees), Mark Fanning 0-4 (65s), Michael O Regan (1-0), Daire Barron (0-2), Rowan White (0-1), Brendan Doyle (0-1)
 Well done to our Junior hurlers on their impressive win on Saturday v St Fintans. Final score 3-21 to 0-11- our scores came from- Matt Doyle 0- 9 (6 frees), Matthew Joyce 0-5, JJ Doyle 1- 1, Padraic Weafer 1-0, Cormac Cooney 1-0, Ben O Shea 0-2, Aaron Kehoe 0-2,
Matthew Banville 0-1, Jack Brazzill 0-1.

CONGRATULATIONS
 A huge congratulations to Senior anchorman John Leacy and Therese on the happy arrival of their little daughter on Friday. The camogie club are particularly excited and have the registration papers ready.

LADIES FOOTBALL
 The U12 Blue ladies football team started their season with a home game against Taghmon. The girls  fought a gallant battle , fighting until the bitter end. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts and narrowing the score difference  down to only 3 points, Taghmon took the win.  Well done girls !

 A big thank you to all who supported the ladies football Table Quiz last Saturday night.  A great night was had with much head scratching at some of the questions and answers.
Thanks to Joe for doing the questions, to D.J Dave, and Tony for doing the bar.
Also to the following who generously sponsored prizes;
Whitford Hotel, Talbot Hotel, Anita at Atomic Blonde, Killeen’s Maxol, The Haven Pharmacy and to all others who brought numerous other items.

TENNIS
Free introductory/refresher tennis evenings will be held 7-8pm, every Wednesday in May starting 9th- All levels welcome, especially new players. Supportive environment to ease your way in. Summer membership Jun-Aug (incl.) €40.

CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to all our members celebrating their First Holy Communion this term.

CONDOLENCES
 Glynn Barntown GAA Club are greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Dick Pierce. Our deepest condolences go out to his family at this sad time.  As a mark of respect the GAA grounds will close today Friday from 6-8pm and tomorrow Saturday from 1.30-3.30pm. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

A final thank you to the dedicated mentors who got the teams prepared for Féile na nGael 2017, working so hard for many months to hone the skills of over 70 children and who coordinated the passing of information to parents both game related and non game related for the event. Your efforts were incredible and a particular nod goes to the hurling management who made our club almost unique in entering two teams for the Féile thus ensuring meaningful game time and experience for so many club boys. Well done managers Mickey Laffan, Shane Carley, PJ Gaynor, Pascal Cooney, Georgina Roche and your great backroom teams!!

And these are the pretty amazing people who made it all happen! Glynn Barntown GAA and Camogie club thanks our FÉILE COMMITTEE 2017 who have worked tirelessly to bring to fruition the successful club event we witnessed over the last few days.
Anyone who has been involved in an event like this knows that it does not “just happen”. Countless meetings, phone calls, emails go into ordering gear, organising food, organising various presentations, garda vetting, organising and allocating the host families, fundraising, organising sponsorship, hours of administration and a hundred other things ,and then as if that’s not enough…..you’re on duty all weekend “delivering the goods!!!” And they certainly did deliver -in spades! Well done- take a bow (and a very well earned breather!)
Back row l-r Paudie Berry, Fiona Hayes, Annette Hillis & Angela Finn
Front row l-r Róisín Doyle, Sarah Butler, Colette Carley, Suzanne Goff, Aideen Buckley & Pascal Cooney

Thank you again to our many fantastic sponsors for their support for Féile na nGael 2017.

We’d like to express a big thank you to all the host families and all families involved in Féile na nGael 2017 in Glynn Barntown parish. Your support for the club and courtesy towards our visitors has been exceptional and reminds us why we are all involved in the great organisation which is the GAA.
We’d also like to thank the wonderful club people who did not have children involved in Féile but still gave up their free time to bake, make sandwiches, serve food, serve in the bar, wash and clean, flip burgers etc. So much work has gone into making the club “Féile ready” and so many have been involved -THANK YOU!

To the Glynn Barntown boys and girls who took part in Féile na nGael 2017 over the weekend we would like to express the great pride you have instilled in your club. You carried yourselves with great dignity with the perfect measure of good fun and we salute the excellent ambassadors you have been for our parish. We hope you have made great friends and will cherish the memories of this weekend.

After months of hard work, planning, anticipation and preparation the Féile weekend has swept by in a blaze of energy, games, excitement, companionship, appreciation and cooperation. Our three visiting clubs Éire Óg, Annacarty Co. Tipperary, St Fechins, Termonfeckin Co. Louth & Na Piarsaigh Co. Westmeath slotted in like old friends and despite being pitted against each other in our group games, all clubs based in Killurin followed each others progress through the Féile na nGael 2017 competition with interest and good wishes. We thank the three visiting clubs for their company and courtesy over the weekend and wish them safe journeys back to their respective counties, safe in the knowledge that we have all been responsible for creating a weekend of wonderful memories for the 140 odd children who visited Glynn Barntown parish. We also wish all other clubs we met along the way on the field of play well for the remainder of the playing season and thank the Bunclody and St Martins Clubs who hosted group games for our B hurling team and camogie team on Friday evening. A massive thank you must go to Wexford Co Board and the overall Féile na nGael committee for their incredible orchestration of this huge event in Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny. I think its fair to say that the GAA has put itself forward on a huge stage over this weekend and has painted itself in the annual glory that is Féile .

In order to make Feile 2017 a major success and to showcase our great club to our visitors we need the help of everyone in the club. The Feile Committee would greatly appreciate donations of cakes, buns and sandwiches to the clubhouse from 9:30 onwards on Saturday Morning and would love to see as many people as possible stay around to support our Feile teams.

FÉILE FOOTBALL UPDATE:-Our 1st team won all three of their preliminary games v St Martins, Sarsfields and Shelmaliers in Killurin on Saturday morning. This qualified them for a semi final meeting with Naomh Éanna Gorey in Monamolin that afternoon. The game was tight but a last minute goal from Alan O Mahoney gave us a 1 point win on a scoreline of 2-4 to 1-6 . So the boys March on to a football final. Details tbc. Well done lads and mentors!
Meanwhile our 2nd Féile team travelled to Tagoat on Saturday morning where they defeated Wygram Gaels and Crossabeg Ballymurn but lost out by a goal to Rosslare.  Well done boys and mentors!