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Club Gear
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Meet Our Inter County Stars
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Camogie News
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Our Leinster Hero’s Visit Scoil
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Under 16 Football League
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O’Connell’s Nursery
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Anniversary
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Trad Sessions
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Club House Bar
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Thank you to our Coaches – get involved
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Members Corner
Club Gear
The online shop closed earlier in the month and we expect delivery of this gear in the coming weeks.
The club shop continues to have a stock of socks, shorts and jerseys (up to 13 years).
The shop is opened every Saturday morning in the club grounds from 9.45am until 11.15pm.
Meet Our Inter County Stars
Many of us are familiar with the achievements of our Inter County players that are involved with the Dublin Minor Hurling Team, Dublin U16 Hurling and Football Teams and the Dublin Ladies U16 Teams. Lets take a moment get to know our County Stars a little better..
JACK KENNEDY – DUBLIN MINOR HURLING TEAM
Position: Wing forward
Biggest influence: Family and friends
Earliest memory: Dawdling around the club at age 3 with no intention of joining into any training when Barry Cushen brought me over to the nursery 2 years early!
Most memorable achievement: Earning a starting jersey for the Dublin minor hurlers.
Advice you would give to any young player: Focus on practice, preparation and consistency
Sporting hero: Tom Brady – Always at the bottom of the barrell all the way up through his career but persevered and is now known as the best quarter back of all time.
Pre match ritual: Sleep, Load up on carbs the day before. Triple check my gear bag before leaving.
FIONN DALY – DUBLIN U16 HURLING AND FOOTBALL TEAMS
Position: Forward for both hurling and football.
Biggest Influences: My parents and my coaches.
Earliest memory playing hurling and football: Attending nursery at Scoil Uí Chonaill and getting jellies at the club bar.
Most memorable achievements: Playing hurling and football for Dublin. Winning football Féile with Scoil at Parnell Park. Seeing my name on the big screen at Croke Park when playing for my primary school in Cumann na mBunscoil.
Advice you would give to any young player: As long as you’re enjoying it, you’ll play to the best of your ability.
Sporting Heroes: Richie Hogan & Ciarán Kilkenny.
Pre-match ritual: Snacking on chicken pasta and blaring the tunes.
ELLA GERAGHTY – DUBLIN U16 LADIES FOOTBALL TEAM
Position: Corner back (plays midfield for Scoil)
Biggest influence: My family
Earliest memory: Winning player of the week at Scoil Uí Chonaill Nursery – the joy when my name was called.
Most memorable achievements: Making the Dublin team and winning the Leinster Final.
Advice you would give to any young player: Always be yourself and don’t let others get to you. Always give 100% to training and games.
Sporting hero: Katie Taylor
Pre-match Ritual: Listing to music – some upbeat tunes and then turning on the same tunes in the dressing room to get everyone in the zone!
CATARINA ALMEIDA – DUBLIN U16 LADIES FOOTBALL TEAM
Position: Full back (plays mid field with Scoil)
Biggest influence: Our Ladies Minor and Senior Teams
Earliest memory: Hitting the tyres with the hurl at Scoil Uí Chonaill Nursery
Most memorable achievements: Making the Dublin team and winning the Leinster Final
Advice you would give to any young player: Listen to your coaches and keep practicing!
Sporting Hero: Renaldo (I am from Portugal)
Pre March ritual: I jump twice on the spot just before thrown in
ANDREA CHAPMAN – DUBLIN U16B LADIES FOOTBALL TEAM
Position: Back line for Dublin (mid field for Scoil)
Earliest memory: Attending nursery at Scoil
Biggest influence: My dad
Most memorable achievement: Winning the Dublin Football Féile
Advice you would give to any young player: Always give 100% and keep practising
Sporting hero: Carla Rowe
Pre match ritual: Healthy breakfast and good night sleep!
Camogie News
The U15 camogie team have been going well in the league.
We had a relatively disappointing Féile but we’ve done well in the league since then.
We’ve beaten Beann Eadair, Trinity Gaels and St Marks in the last few weeks. Beann Eadair and Trinity Gaels beat us in the Féile, so nice to get some revenge….
We are top of the league with one game to go.
Next week the girls face Plunketts in what will be no doubt a tough encounter.
Best of luck to the girls.
Our Leinster Hero’s Visit Scoil
We were delighted to welcome many of the U16 Dublin Ladies Team to Scoil on Thursday, 25th May.
The cup accompanied them on the evening – much to the excitement of all the boys and girls. The ladies assisted the coaches with the training sessions – not everyday you can say that you had Leinster Champions training you at your training session!
Huge Thank You to the girls for giving up their time so willingly and to Alex and Daria Chapman for coordinating the evening for our young players.
You can read the full match report from the Leinster Final here
Under 16 Football League
Scoil Ui Chonaill 2-10 St Maurs 1-13
A cracking game of football last week on a sunny Tuesday evening in the club. Scoil started well and created a number of goal chances but couldn’t finish them. Some well worked points gave Scoil the lead but Maurs bounced back with a well taken goal. Maurs led 1–5 to 0-6 at half-time.
Maurs started the better in the second half and hit three unanswered points to lead by 6 points with 20 minutes to go. Scoil then got a brilliant goal, finished to the net by the lively Conor Maher. This was added to by a couple of points by Alan Murphy to leave the sides level with ten to go.
A clash between Fionn Daly and Maurs centre back led to both players going off as a precaution. The loss of Fionn galvanised Scoil with an impressive last ten with Tiernan Browne hitting an excellent goal to leave Scoil two points up with five to go.
Alex Courtney had an excellent second half as sweeper while Rafa Almeida was solid at centre back. Conal McCartaigh got on top of the good Maurs full forward. Nathan Oates made some timely blocks to deny points while Alex Kelly made a number of direct runs at the goal. Addi Ayadi scored a spectacular point that mighty, it satisfy the purists.
Scoil had chances to win the game in the final minutes but a draw was probably a fair result with two well matched teams played in great spirit.
O’Connell’s Nursery
The Clubs Inner City Nursery at O’Connell’s school every Saturday continues to grow. It is brilliant to see the young girls and boys in the club colours and playing hurling, football and fun games each week.
A number of the girls and boys have migrated to teams as the club continues to build on the work undertaken at our schools in the inner city by Thomas Gleeson our brilliant Games Promotion Officer.
The nursery is a real reflection of the multicultural community that our club is now. We are looking for a few volunteers to assist which coaching for 60 minutes each week from 12-1pm on Saturdays.
Please contact Ronan Murphy 0879295105
Anniversary
It was 37 years since Scoil won its second Men’s Senior Football championship on the 23rd May, 1986.
Scoil beat Thomas Davis 0-9 to 0-1 in the last Dublin Senior football championship to be played at Croke park.
The club then represented Dublin in the Leinster championship with a number of our players involved with the county at that time.
Only 28 clubs in the county have won a Senior A Men’s football championship with 11 of those clubs not in operation anymore. #proudofourpast
Trad Sessions
Junior Trad Session
The Junior Trad Session will not take place on Friday, 2nd June due to the Bank Holiday Weekend. The date will be confirmed in the near future.
Adult Trad Session
The Adult Trad Session will not take place on Friday, 2nd June due to the Bank Holiday Weekend. The date will be confirmed in the near future.
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
Thank you to our Coaches – get involved
We are fast approaching our Summer Break (end of June) across all of our Juvenile Teams and a huge thank you to all coaches, helpers and coordinators for their commitment to our under age section.
A big thank you to all parents that bring their children to training and games each week.
Our underage teams will be back in action towards the end of August/beginning of September and as always, we would love for you to get involved.
If you are in a position to help with any of the teams – from set up of pitches, to washing bibs, or are interested in coaching any team, including helping with our Scoil Hoppers GAA Academy, we would be more than happy to hear from you. Children from ages 3 are welcome at our Academy.
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
Famous GAA Quote
“As Collins said to Dev, you’ll always be my General”
Anthony Daly to Ger Loughnane at the launch of his book in 2014.
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.
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ANNUAL REGISTRATION
Annual Club Membership Subscriptions can be renewed and paid online, please see attached link: Pay Membership — Scoil Uí Chonaill (scoilgaa.com)
