Club Notes: 27th May 2018

Shamrocks GAA Club Notes (Kindly sponsored by Allen Engineering & Agri Sales Ltd).

Club Lotto.
The winning numbers for last Saturday’s lotto draw were 4-13-22-23, and there was no winner. €20 winners were Michael Smith, Martha Morrisson, Ciaran O’ Keeffe, Emma & Darragh O’ Donovan, and Adam Denmead. Next week’s jackpot will be €5250.

JFC, Shamrocks 0-12, Affane 0-11.
Shamrocks won their second round Junior football tie against Affane when they had a narrow one point win last Friday night in Tallow. Lining out without a few first team regulars, Shamrocks still managed to keep the scoreboard ticking over with Bernie Kelleher and teenager Kieran Crawford the main scorers getting 5 points each. In fact we had three teenagers on the starting lineup, Kieran, Ivan O’ Neill, and Liam Motherway, and all acquitted themselves very well. This is a championship we are well capable of winning, if we could just make a reasonable effort. We only have one more round to play against Kilgobinet. Panel; Tim Lenehan, Seanie Murphy, Tommy O’ Donovan, Shane Harnedy, Padraig Roche, Shane Roche, Ivan O’ Neill, Paidi Ahearne, Cathal Herlihy, Kieran Crawford, Bernie Kelleher, Liam Motherway, Alan Kelly, Kelvyn O’ Farrell, Chris Murphy.

Junior Hurling.
The next round of the Junior Hurling Championship takes place this Friday night against Kilgobinet in Kilgobinet’s club ground at 7.30pm. It was originally fixed for the Bank Holiday Monday, but Shamrocks asked for a change. Best of luck lads.

Congratulations.
The club would like to congratulate popular players Keegan O’ Farrell and Brian Harnedy who both became fathers last week. Congratulations to you both.

Deise Draw.
This year’s first Deise Draw takes place this Friday night in Lalor’s Hotel, Dungarvan. It’s not too late to get a ticket, just contact any committee member.

Shamrocks Ladies Football.
Heartiest congratulations to Shamrock Ladies U-16 team on their tremendous county final win over St Annes Dunhill last Daturday in Ballinameela. This team has been going very well, and well done to mentors Declan Butler, Brendan Ormonde, and Paddy Smith also.

Deise go down to the Banner.
Murphy’s Law was the order of the day last Sunday in Ennis, anything that could go wrong, went wrong. Starting without Austin Gleeson, Pauric Mahony, the departed Shane & Kieran Bennett, then losing the one man we couldn’t afford to lose, Tadhg de Burca, as well as Noel Connors, Barry Coughlan and Darragh Fives to injury, plus having to play most of the second half with 14 men as Kevin Moran was sent off, it was probably a minor miracle we only lost by 9 points. In fact to score 2-18 was a fine return from a very depleted team, and shows there’s plenty of scoring power there. Colm Roche got his first senior championship outing when he replaced Tadhg de Burca, and Tallow’s Tommy Ryan played very well when introduced also, so well done to Colm and Tommy. It’s difficult to see how Waterford can bounce back with no home games, and with that list of injuries, in the next 3 weeks against Tipperary next week, then Limerick and Cork. The odds are really stacked against them. It’s such a shame that no one in the County Bord had the foresight to sell Walsh Park 12 or 13 years ago when it was possible, and move out to Carriganore where there’s room to have built a fine stadium. We languish in the minor leagues because we can’t stage Munster matches given the location and size of the city venue, and that is a huge revenue source not available to us. Now we are paying for that lack of vision. ‘Hon the Deise!

No Replies to "Club Notes: 27th May 2018"