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Proud sponsors of Clanna Gael Fontenoy Ladies lift the Cup Congratulations to our adult ladies footballers who won the Cup by Club News beating St Maurs in a pulsating final played in Sean Moore Park last

Thursday night. This was a great all-round performance by the Clanns ladies in a game that was nip and tuck all the way through, was played in an excellent spirit and was a demonstration of ladies football at its best. Christmas party tickets If you have not been able to collect

and pay for your tickets for the nd Christmas party (2 December) at the club on Tuesday or Thursday evening this week, you can make other arrangements by texting Christina Devey on 0879603899.

Ladies squad: Serena Hannon, Ever Kelly, Lisa Brick, Jenny Mannion, Marie Twomey, Rachel Byrne, Julianne Twomey, Kate McKenna, Ella Thirroueiz, Maria O’Dea, Rebecca McDonald, Lisa Curtin, Anne O’Donovan, Niamh Flood, Orla Flannagan, Shannon Fullam, Kate Benson and Claire Ryan.

Clanns were more clinical in taking their scoring chances and that’s what proved to be the vital difference in the end with a winning score line of 3-

7 to 0-13.

As the saying goes, it’s goals that win games! The team’s abilty to score goals had already been well and truly reflected in the victory they recorded against Clann Mhuire in a replay of their semi final, where the final winning score line was 6-12 to 4-12.

Great credit is due to the team mentors and managers, including Pat Kane, Clare O’Dea and Martin McDonald, as well as the players themselves. Clanna Gael Fontenoy 3-7 St Maurs 0-13

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U16s finish with a flourish Club News Well done also to our U16 footballers who finished their league season with a fine 2-13 to 2-10 win over Naomh Mearnóg in Park on Saturday afternoon. In conditions that were perfect for football both sides sought to attack at every opportunity and it required good defences Club Lotto and goalkeeping on both sides to keep the final score line from going even The numbers drawn in the Lotto 1 higher. draw on November 20th were:  3, 5, 8 and 10

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Clanns reached the half-time break with a well-deserved four-point lead. Two well-taken goals from Theo Scolard and Conor Hennessy provided the crucial cushion for that lead. But the visitors started the second half strongly and put their hosts under incessant pressure for the opening The five €20 Lucky Dip Winners drawn period – that is until a good point from out on the wing from Seamus were: T. McManus c/o O'Reilly's, McCann helped to steady the ship again. John Nicholson, Conor Mahony, Morgan Weymes c/o O'Reilly's and William Mooney c/o O'Reilly's.

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Another notable feature of the win was the extent to which the team was able to draw on a number of the U15 players – all of whom acquitted themselves very well. This win has seen the team finish very respectably around mid table in what was a very competitive Division 2 league in the company of A teams from the likes of St Vincents, Whitehall Colmcille and

Na Fianna as well as Naomh Mearnóg, , Thomas Davis and St

Brigids. Clanna Gael Fontenoy 2-13 Naomh Mearnóg 2-10

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AGM report nd The Annual General Meeting on Tuesday (22 ) received a report from the Chairman, Bernard Barron, which highlighted successful action taken during the year across a range of priority areas including: coaching review and improvement; communications; finance stabilisation and planning; development of strength and conditioning facilities; adult games development; juvenile age transition; and SDZ engagement. Proud sponsors of Clanna Gael Fontenoy

He went on to state that “while significant progress has been made on many of these there remains many challenges and these need to be Club News pushed on in the coming year”. He paid special thanks to the Club’s Officers, Executive Committee members, team mentors and coaches and all volunteers who helped to make the year a successful one. As for Local Enterprise Town success on the playing field, he had this to say: “It is always pleasing to see Marian College will be the venue for a team success and we particularly pay tribute to the boys U16 footballers local Enterprise Town initiative which (winners County B Championship), the girls U14B footballers (winners U14 will bring local schools, businesses and Shield) and the ladies adult footballers (winners Division 2 Cup).” communities together and provide all

attending with the opportunity to Club Secretary, Brian Delany, picked up this theme in his report when he support local ventures of different stated: “While the success of our teams is always foremost in our kinds and size. Hosted by Bank of thoughts, recognition of individual accomplishments, in particular at Ireland, the event takes place on county level, must also be lauded. The number of players representing rd Sunday 3 December, 12pm to 4pm. is in many ways a barometer of the club’s development and we are All are welcome, See very proud to list our inter-county players here: Kate McKenna, Rebecca https://www.facebook.com/events/11 McDonnell (Dublin Senior), Claire Byrne, Maria O’Dea, Ella Thiourrez 4739789196001/?ti=as (Dublin Minor), Sarah O’Laoide, Aoibhe Walsh (Dublin U16 football),

Roisin Staunton (Dublin U15 development squad), Lucy Crowe, Ella Darcy,

Ali Griffin (Dublin U14 football), Olivia Mohan (Dublin U13 development squad), Des Duggan (Dublin U17 ), Karl Morgan, Colm Kirby O’Briain (Dublin U16 football and U16 hurling), Conor Hennessy (Dublin U16 football).”

Club Officers for 2018, L to R: Brian Delany (Secretary), Bernard Barron (Chairman), Suzanne Murray (Treasurer) and Jay Byrne (Vice Chairman)

The following officers were elected for the coming year: • President Frank White • Vice President Robin Booth

• Chairman Bernard Barron

• Vice Chairman Jay Byrne • Secretary Brian Delany • Treasurer Suzanne Murray • Ass. Treasurer Ann McLoughlin

• Registrar Donal Murray • Strategic Development Roger McGrath • PRO Felix O’Regan @Clannagaelfont