Gortnahoe Glengoole GAA Club

Fun Academy

Our fun academy for u5s and U7’s continues this Saturday from 9:30am

Under 7s

On Friday our u7s had two teams in action in Dr. Morris Park at the latest hurling Go Games blitz, run by Andy Ryan, our juvenile GDA for mid tipperary. This time it was hurling and a chance for the boys and girls to showcase the fruits of their work on our astro turf and Wall ball. The children showed no effects of the end of another school week as they played 3 matches against strong opposition showing great energy and enthusiasm, with no little skill on display.

Under 9s

Training continues on Monday evenings from 6:45 to 7:45pm for this group. We are due to play a football blitz this weekend

Under 11 football

Saturday morning it was our u11 footballers in action in a festival of football in honour of Michael Hogan of Bloody Sunday fame. In spite of the early start, we had 19 players ready for action at 9.30am at a sun drenched Cahir Gaa grounds. Our 3 games had it all, thrills and spills, point blank saves, a last second winning score, great attacking and defending, sportsmanship and fun for all.

Huge thanks to all the parents, grandparents and family members who continue to support our players and mentors by attending these underage blitzs and bringing the children to the field for training. It is always great to see the next generation coming on, the wheel keeps turning. The children will thrive with all this encouragement and support.#onelifeoneclub

U13 hurling

Our u13 hurlers have been graded in B for the coming season in the Mid championship. We compete with Drom & Inch as well as Moyne Templetouhy in this grade.

U15 football & hurling

Hard luck to our under 15 footballers who lost out to Moycarkey Borris last Thursday in the Mid B Final. See match report below. We continue our preparation for the hurling championship with a challenge at home to St Pats this Thursday

Coláiste Éile Mid Tipperary U15B Football Final

Moycarkey Borris 4-09

Gortnahoe Glengoole 2-02

By Mark Dunne PRO

The glorious summer sunshine welcomed all to Boherlahan for this Mid U15B Football Final between Moycarkey Borris and Gortnahoe Glengoole. A strong Moycarkey Borris led by man of the match Killian Cantwell saw his side claim the spoils at the final whistle.

Moycarkey Borris opened the strongest with the first score of the game coming from the first attack. Killian Cantwell opened his account with a relatively easy free. Moycarkey had grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck and were making life difficult for the Gortnahoe Glengoole team. They added to their tally shortly after when a quick free found Darragh Patterson who unleashed a rasper to the net. Credit to Cian O’Dwyer who got a hand to it but was unable to keep it out. O’Dwyer was called back to action shortly afterwards and pulled of an incredible save from Patterson again. Cantwell added two more from frees while Conor Donnelly added his first of the game. Gortnahoe got a grip on the game. Their opening shot was saved by Power. The resultant 45m from Lorcan Bourke went all the way through to the Moycarkey net. 1-04 to 1-00. Gortnahoe kept the pressure on and on the next kick out capitalised on a Moycarkey mistake with Micheál Campion rattling the net and bringing a point between the sides. Moycarkey bowed on by Gortnahoe’s resurgence scored a great team goal. Eamon Ryan found Patterson in space who layed off a lovely ball for Cantwell who got his sides second goal of the game. Cantwell continued his form with another point. Shane Bourke from Gortnahoe got on the end of a Bourke kick and pointed for his sides first white flag of the contest. Bourke knocked over another free before Eamon Ryan finished off the half with a fine effort to extends his teams lead to four at the break 2-04 to 2-02.

While Moycarkey may have dominated most of the opening half, Gortnahoe Glengoole to their credit never gave in despite a sucker punch at the beginning of the second half. A long ball in found Patterson who shot low and despite Cian O’Dwyer getting a hand to it he was unable to deny Patterson his second of the half. Donnelly kicked one more point for his side to push out their lead. Gortnahoe never stopped pressing and were unfortunate on a number of occasions not to raise more green flags. Power pulled of a fine save from Bourke while Billy Hogan had a shot that just skimmed wide. Moycarkey’s final goal came from the boot of Jamie O’Mahoney. A long ball in was superbly fielded by O’Mahoney who made no mistake with the finish. Gortnahoe desperately sought another green flag of their own. A well worked moved between Bourke and Hogan was once again saved by Power. Eamon Ryan kicked over two final frees of the game to see his side emerge 4-09 to 2-02 winners.

Although the score line may not reflect it, this was a hard fought contest with some fine footballers on both sides. Killian Cantwell was presented with the man of the match award from Mid Board Secretary Michelle McKelvey. Captain Cillian Doran collected the trophy from Chairman PJ Bowden in the presence of Laurenz Egan (Coláiste Éile).

Our thanks also to Cormac and Charlie from the Boherlahan Dualla Club who acted as linesman for the game. Both Cormac and Charlie are Young Whistlers in the Mid Division.

Team and scorers:

Moycarkey Borris: Reuben Power, Niall O’Sullivan, Cathal Clancy, Richie Maher, James Danagher, Cillian Doran, Sean Maher, Killian Cantwell (1-01 play, 0-03 frees), John Fitzgerald, Rory Heffernan, Eamon Ryan (0-02 frees, 0-01 play), Conor Donnelly (0-02), Sean O’Dwyer, Darragh Patterson (2-00), Daniel Butler. Subs used: Jack O’Keefe, Fiachra Johnston, Conor Doherty, Jamie O’Mahoney (1-00).

Gortnahoe Glengoole: Cian O’Dwyer, Patrick Brophy, Billy Hogan, Billy Gleeson, Adam Norton, Declan Teehan, Jack Gleeson, Aaron Dwyer, Micheál Campion, Ciarán Langton, Lorcan Bourke, David Stanley, Shane Bourke, Jacob Moriarty, Thomas Coady. Subs used: Eamon Hayden, Tony Ryan Webster, Adam Hogan, David O’Reilly.

Referee: Kevin Jordan (Thurles Gaels)

U17 hurling

Our Under 17s hurlers continued their County league campaign with another good win at home over Ballinahinch last Monday on a score line of 2-8 to 0-11. This makes its 5 wins from 5 & sees us top the group and into a semi final. Semi final details TBC

Junior A Football

Our Junior footballers begun their Mid Junior A campaign with an away fixture versus Holycross last Thursday at 7:30pm in Holycross. A great start saw us into a commanding 4-6 to 1-3 half time lead. We held this lead throughout the 2nd half to come away with a 4-12 to 1-8 win. We take on Thurles Sarsfields in round 2 at home on June 9th at 7:45pm

Junior hurling

Premier Intermediate hurling

Our Premier Intermediate hurlers have qualified for the County league semi finals. We now face Eire Og Annacarthy on Saturday 4th June at 6:30pm in Annacarthy

Camogie News

U10s had 2 great games last Wednesday against Ballingarry. Training continues this Wednesday evening.

The U12's had a home win against Fethard on Tuesday evening last. The girls continued training on Friday evening in preparation for their next game in the competition. They will travel to Dundrum on Tuesday evening May 31st to take on Knockavilla at 6.30pm.

Our u14 team completed a very successful run in the u14 league stages With s great win away to Clonoulty-Rossmore and now must wait a few weeks to see who we will be drawn against for the knockout stages. We have two challenge matches in the pipeline for the bank holiday weekend.

Our U16 girls travelled to the co camogie grounds in the Ragg on Monday night last and secured a great win on a score line of 2-11 to 2-7 over Portroe in a very sporting U16C plate final. A great success for this young team who were dogged by injury earlier in the season.

The u21 team were all set for a game on Sunday morning but unfortunately Ballybacon couldn’t travel so we now await details of who we will be playing in the quarter final.

The juniors playing Gortnahoe on Wednesday evening in their tournament competition and we wish them every success.

Many of our girls are doing school exams this week and we wish them good luck and success.