Club Notes: 1st April 2018

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

Club Lotto.
Last week’s winning lotto numbers were 19-20-22-23, and there was no winner. €20 winners were Mike Leahy, Simon Pomphrett, Mark Geary, Ml & Ann Slattery, Ann Marie Byrne. Easter Eggs, Liam Casey, Chloe Power, Claire O’ Driscoll, Kay Casey, SER Coolbeggan, Tom & Mary Hickey. Next week’s jackpot will be €4,050.

IHC, Shamrocks 1-13, Modeligo 1-13.
At the end of this pulsating and gripping first round championship match played at the very well appointed Ballysaggart GAA grounds last Saturday, both sets of supporters left out a big sigh of relief that their team wasn’t beaten, as in truth, either side could have won this tie at the death. Incredibly, this year is the fourth year in succession that Shamrocks have drawn their first round match. The game started at a blistering pace with Shamrocks threatening an early goal swiftly followed by Modeligo’s first point of the match. Colm Roche’s first pointed free was followed by a fine Edward Hynes point, and then Colm had two more as Shamrocks were getting the better of the exchanges. Modeligo hit over another followed by a fine Stevie Lucey point, then Modeligo scored 3 points on the trot to level up matters again. A good move saw Edward Lonergan shoot to the net only to be called back very harshly by referee John Condon for a free in the build up. Luckily Colm buried the resultant penalty to the net, but that was a very definite case of the advantage rule not being applied correctly, had we missed the penalty, it would have been a tough one to take. Both sides traded score for score with Colm unerring from placed balls, and Cathal Herlihy also shooting a fine score to leave Shamrocks lead at the break with a three point advantage, 1-8 to 0-8. The second half saw Modeligo hit a purple patch getting 4 of the first 5 scores, Colm replied with two from frees, and John Paul Lucey also scored a fine point before Modeligo breached the Shamrocks defence for a fine goal to put them a point up. That lead went to two points, before Colm and J.P. rounded off the scoring with another fine point to leave the scores all square. Both sides had chances to snatch the game, but when the final whistle went it was honours even. Padraig Ahearne suffered a hand injury in the first half, but typically played on through the pain barrier, that man has grit and guts to spare. This was championship hurling, nothing spared with exchanges quite physical, but I thought very fair from both sides. 17 year old Kieran Crawford made his debut, and acquitted himself very well, as did his brother Adam who had a very good 60 minutes. There won’t be any time to dwell on this game as we have a second round match against Brickey Rangers to prepare for this Saturday 7th April in Lismore at 4.30pm, providing Lismore is available. Panel; Ciaran O’ Keeffe, Padraig Ahearne, Tommy O’ Donovan, Brian Harnedy, Padraig Roche, Shane Roche, Adam Crawford, Billy Hynes, John Paul Lucey (0-2), Edward Hynes (0-1), Colm Roche (1-8), Stephen Lucey (0-1), Cathal Herlihy (0-1), Edward Lonergan, Kieran Crawford, Shane Harnedy, Kelvyn O’ Farrell, Tom Roche, Joe Leahy, Ivan O’ Neill, Jason Ahearne, Keegan O’ Farrell, Martin Delaney, Liam Motherway. A big congratulations to Ballysaggart, the pitch was in excellent condition, and the facilities are a credit to everyone in the club.

JHC, Shamrocks 0-5, Brickeys 3-24.
Our Junior Hurlers went down heavily to Brickeys in the first round played in Clashmore last Sunday morning. Players were unfortunately very thin on the ground for whatever reasons, we just had a bare 15. As a result we shipped a heavy defeat. Some of our younger players such as Ivan O’ Neill and Tom Roche did very well, and it was great to see Eoin Roche don the Shamrocks jersey after a lengthy period out with back problems. Sean Casey was called into action also after quite a while away. This team are playing again next Sunday 8th April at 11.30am in Lismore against Cappoquin, but I hope we get a better turnout, or we’re going nowhere. Team; Liam Murphy, Michael Lucey, Mikey O’ Neill, Martin Delaney, Alan Kelly, Tom Roche, Sean Murphy, Edward O’ Neill, Ivan O’ Neill, Eoin Roche, Bernie Kelleher, Padraig Tobin, Keegan O’ Farrell, Sean O’ Neill, Sean Casey.

Fixtures.
Saturday 7th April, IHC, Shamrocks v. Brickeys, @ 4.30pm in Lismore. Sunday 8th April, Shamrocks v. Cappoquin, @ 11.30am in Lismore.

Good Luck Jim!
Best wishes to club stalwart Jim Nicholson and his wife Ann who are moving to Gortroe in the near future to be closer to their family. Jim you may be moving, but you will always be a Shamrock! Good luck Jim and Ann from all in the club.

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