The Stag’s Voice Newsletter February 2023

Membership
Club Shop
Scoil Awards Night
Team News
Féile Fundraiser
Farrell Hurls
Camogie News
Notices
NEIC Nursery
Trad Sessions
Club House Bar
Volunteers Needed
Members Corner

Membership

Membership for 2023 is now due. Thank you to everyone that has paid membership to date.

Your membership includes your insurance while partaking in training and games and also includes your registration for GAA/LGFA/Camogie. All players need to be registered with the various associations to partake in playing matches.

All fully paid adult members are eligible to enter the draw for All Ireland Hurling and Football Tickets. The clubs gets a number of tickets each year, regardless of if Dublin are in the final or not. Membership also give your voting rights at the AGM.

Tomás O’Connell is in the club grounds on Saturday mornings and you can pay your membership with Tomás, alternatively you can pay online.

Annual Club Membership Subscriptions can be renewed and paid online via this link: Pay Membership — Scoil Uí Chonaill (scoilgaa.com)

Club Shop

The Scoil Club Shop is opened every Saturday morning from 10am – 11.15am with lots of items available.

We are delighted to announce that a new range of Scoil Gear is coming soon and will be available to purchase online – so what this space…

Scoil Awards Night

Our Scoil Awards Night is back after a 3 year sabbatical and it promises to be bigger than ever.. It is always a great night and a great occasion for the club.

Date: Thursday, 16th March

Venue: Clontarf Castle

There has been a big uptake on ticket sales. You can purchase your tickets here

Once they are gone, they are gone!!!

Team News

U8 Boys

Our U8 boys started their go Games off with a strong display away to Finians in hurling last weekend. The boys showed great skills and really enjoyed getting in to the action

This Saturday, the take on Whitehall Colmcille at home. The very best of luck to our U8 are they navigate their journey through Go Games.

U11 Boys

Our U11 boys took on O’Dwyers in their first game of 2023 in hurling away. It was a competitive encounter for their opening match of 2023 but the boys showed great skill and determination.

For their second game, they hosted Na Fianna in Alfie Byrne Road. It was a great test of the boys football skills and they stood up to the challenge and battled to the end.

This weekend, they welcome Kilmacud Crokes for what promises to be a solid test of their hurling skills.

The very best of luck to all teams in their games this weekend.

U16 Boys

Our Under 16s went to double header at Croke Park after their hurling win over Naomh Olaf.

A few pizzas were consumed at the club before the lads walked into Croker.

It was fitting that the lads were there to see tribute to club legend Larry McVeigh (RIP) on the big screen.

Congratulations to Catarina Almeida and Ella Geraghty on making the Dublin Ladies U16 football panel.

Also, congrats to Andrea Chapman on making the U16B Development Panel.

Well done, girls!

Dublin Ladies U16 will start their Leinster Championship this Saturday in TUD Blanchardstown versus Meath.

All support for the girls, especially Catarina & Ella, would be most welcome..

Féile Fundraiser

This Saturday, 4th March, our Féile Girls are hosting a Bake Sale, Craft Fair and Crepe Stand to fundraise for their upcoming Féile Campaign.

The girls are of course hoping to match the boys achievement in their Féile in 2022.

All will kick off at 10.30am in the club grounds – all support is very much appreciate

Wishing our girls the very best of luck on their Féile Journey – we are all rooting for you.

Farrell Hurls – Pop up Shop

Farrell Hurls will host a pop up shop in the club grounds this Saturday morning, 4th March from 9.30am until 12 noon.

This is the perfect opportunity to replenish your GAA equipment needs – they will be on hand to ensure your children are playing with the correct size hurl and will have helmets, sliotars etc available to purchase on the day.

Be sure to stop by – they are more than happy to assist and advise you whatever your requirements are.

Camogie News

U15 Camogie Team

The U15 Camogie team started their league campaign against a physical O’Dwyer’s on Saturday.

The match took place on a cold and windy Bells pitch in Balbriggan. It was a challenging opening match for the Scoil girls but after a good week of training they were determined to get off to a good start. Within a few minutes of the start Scoil were ahead when Aoife Curtin finished from close range following a great pass from Nessa Byrne. Scoil continued to apply pressure on the opposition and were four goals to a point in front at the half time break.

The second half followed the same pattern as the first, with Scoil going on to win 8-1 to 0-1 in difficult conditions. Strong overall team performance with some effective interplay. Some noted performances included Alice Walley in goal, who made a number of fine saves, and Niamh Kavanagh who battled strongly throughout the game. Both girls haven’t missed a training session in the past 2 months and were sharp throughout the game.

U13 Camogie

Scoil Girls u13s team played their first camogie grading game of the year away to Shankill on the 26th of February 2023.

After a warm up match against St. Vincent’s the week before the girls travelled in great form…

The game was played in great conditions and spirit and an excellent referee, who guided both teams through the whole match.

The Scoil girls showed great skills from the start having worked really hard in the last 12 months. It is great to have another 20 or so girls coming through from Go Games playing camogie for scoil.

Unfortunately, at the end, Shankill won and while both teams got the same number of fine scores, goals win games. Hopefully, next time we get the bounce of the sliotar and the efforts that hit the crossbar or went narrowly over will go in the right side .

The next camogie game sees us at home to Setanta at 1.30pm on March 12th and all support will be welcome.

Minor Camogie Team

Following on from the camogie meeting towards the end of last year, we have joined forces with Craobh Chiaráin to form our Scoil Chiaráin Gaels Minor Camogie Team.

The girls have played two matches, coming out on top in their first. At the weekend, they faces very tough opposition in our very near neighbours, Clontarf. Clontarf proved too strong for the girls on the day but the determination and battling to the end was fantastic to see.

It is great that our young ladies are playing competitive camogie at Minor Level and we wish them continued success in the coming months ahead.

U8 Camogie

On Saturday afternoon, some of our U8 girls played in the half time game between Dublin Senior Camogie and Tipperary Senior Camogie game in Parnell Park.

It was great to see the club colours in action in the half time display. Well done to the grils, their coaches and their parents.

Huge Congratulations to Orlaith Benham and Nessa Byrne who played with the U14 camogie Development Squad blitz at Marley Park.

U14 squads finished up session 2 with 2 weekends of blitzes. They break now for the league and will have session 3 coming into the summer.

Well done girls

Club Notices

Notice from the Executive

All Teams, Mentors and Players are asked to please follow the below:

1. All mobile goalposts should be returned after training and matches to the Castle Avenue end of the ground

2. Please do not clean football boots in the car park use grass area to clean boots

Best Wishes

The club send out best wishes to Under 16 player, Raphael Almeida after a recent operation.

Looking forward to seeing you back out on the pitch after recovery.

NEIC Nursery

We had 40 kids at our NEIC nursery in OConnells school last Saturday. The nursery takes place every Saturday from 12-1pm.

We could do with additional coaches if anyone could spare 60 minutes once a week. Please contact Ronan Murphy on 087 929 5105 if you are in a position to help out.

Trad Sessions

Junior Trad Session

The Junior Trad Session will take place on the later date of Friday, 10th March to tie in with Seachtain naGaeilge. The Trad session will take place in the Clubhouse from 7pm to 8pm.

All are welcome to come and join in with our Junior Trad Musicians.

Adult Trad Session

The Adult Trad Session will take place on Thursday, 9th March, also to tie in with Seachtain naGaeilge. The Trad session will take place in the Clubhouse from 9.15pm.

All musician are most welcome to come along and join in.

There is plenty happening in the area for Seachtain na Gaeilge. Be sure to pop along to some of the events.

There will be a Pop Up Gaeltacht in the Club House on Thursday, 9th March in conjunction with our Adult Trad Session.

Club House Bar

Our Club House Bar is opened every Thursday evening from 9pm – all are welcome.

Our Club House Bar is also available to book for Private Events.

Please contact Neil Mc Dermott at scoilclg@gmail.com for further information

Volunteers Needed…

As we are growing from strength to strength, and our numbers are growing across all levels, we are asking parents to help with various teams.

If you are in a position to help with any of the teams or indeed with the Scoil Hoppers GAA Academy, we would be more than happy to hear from you. Children from ages 3 are welcome at our Academy.

Training is provided – you are not just handed a bag of ball….

We are looking for coaches/volunteers for all areas – if you in a position to assist in any area, please speak to Ciaran, our Scoil Hoppers Lead: 087 233 3720 or Thomas, our GPO: 085 133 7728

Members Corner

COFFEE MORNINGS

The Scoil Ui Chonaill/OCS*PPU coffee morning gathering will resume :

Tuesday 14th March

from 11am until 1pm in Scoil Clubhouse.

We are looking forward to seeing you there and as this will be the first get together in 2023 we are hoping for a good turn out.

Further Enquiries if any, to:

Dick Murphy: 087 9295093

Gerry Rowley: 087 6287395

Famous GAA Quote

“Setanta Ó hAilpín….the original Setanta from the old Gaelic stories was ten foot tall, had ten fingers on each hand and ten toes on each foot but even he couldn’t be playing better hurling than his namesake here today.”
― Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh

Stags Voice

As always, should any member wish to have Club News included in the Stags Voice, please email all information to scoil.pro.eoc@gmail.com before the 15th of the month.

ANNUAL REGISTRATION

Annual Club Membership Subscriptions can be renewed and paid online, please see attached link: Pay Membership — Scoil Uí Chonaill (scoilgaa.com)