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New Players, All Ages, Always Welcome. Didn’T Last Due to the Lack of Numbers,” Explains Jim Page 4 Castleknock Hurling & Football Club Email: [email protected] www.castleknock.net The band of fundraisers The juvenile disco Cumann Báire agus Peile Chaisleán Cnucha Castleknock Hurling & Football Club Volume: 9 Issue 2 Newsletter Summer 2010 Castleknock Camogie Report A Féile to remember for ‘Knock’ By Niall Scully, Evening Herald The Castleknock GAA end of term juvenile disco was a roaring success with over 200 THE first one is always special. Castleknock will never forget the Dublin 9 to 13 year olds celebrating the start of Féile 2010. They never won a sausage in camogie before. Not even a runners-up prize the Summer Holidays. Great music and or an appearance in a final. Behind every successful féile are the band of fundraisers who great moves were in great supply and a The Féile Division 3 success will help to cement the future. “It’s a big thing help raise necessary funds to ensure our féile kids are well kitted great night was had by all who attended. for the club,” says camogie secretary Fergal Quinn. “We had such excel- out. Many thanks to all who organised and contributed to these lent support. The side gelled so well together. The priority now is to keep Many thanks are due to all the organisers them playing.” There should be no problems on that score, according to events. Special Praise also to our amazing weekly lotto crew and to all who helped out on the night. Castleknock’s camogie chairman, Jim Mahony. Jim reveals that the camo- gie structure is sounder than it has ever been. The future looks solid. “The club is only 11 years old. We had camogie eight or nine years ago, but it New Players, All Ages, Always Welcome. didn’t last due to the lack of numbers,” explains Jim. “We hadn’t enough people involved and those that were there were stretched to the absolute limit to keep it going. “But now we have so many of the parents involved. Each age group has it’s own set of mentors. “We are building things up from the bottom. The nursery is helping things big-time.” “It’s a lovely surface, and I have been telling the Castleknock are now fielding at U15s, U14s, U12s, two U11s, U10s, U9s girls that if they can’t play camogie on that pitch, and U8s. The progress can be clearly seen. they can’t play anywhere. “The surface is just beau- tiful. People in the club are working so hard to make The other bright news is that the green, green grass of home is almost everything possible.” And it’s all worth it when the ready. “We have Somerton now. It’s the first time we have had our own Castleknock faithful saw the smiles on the faces of grounds. “We have our training area and new pitch, which will be ready the kids as they paraded the Dublin Féile Camogie soon enough. Crown. Commenting on the promotion, the club’s Am- bassador, Michael Brady said that he was de- lighted with the response which the club had “Castleknock Hurling and Football Club been receiving to date from the wider Castle- bid to win their own Field of Dreams”!! knock and Dublin 15 communities. The top prize of €100,000 is definitely worth putting an effort in for but added that the committee was having Castleknock Hurling and Football Club have embraced the latest Kel- lots of fun putting the application together and logg’s competition which is currently running nationwide and which is of- bringing the activites of the Castleknock Hurl- fering a sports club the opportunity of winning their own Field of Dreams ing and Football which currently has in excess with a top prize of €100,000 upgrade of their club’s facilities. of 1,200 members to the wider community. Since the launch of the competition some weeks ago it’s being all sys- tems go for the club who have put together a dedicated Kellogg’s Field It’s not too late for all club members and their of Dreams committee to ensure that not only the club but the whole of families to get involved. Please continue to col- the local community get behind their bid and help them to collect the lect the participating tokens and give to any Castleknock Summer Camps Castleknock has announced the dates of our Summer Camps for 2010. The dates are: July 12th to July 16th and Au- 900 tokens which they need to validate their application. Tokens for the team mentor, committee member or drop off at gust 16th to August 20th The Camps are designed to ensure that all participants are kept busy learning and improving Field of Dreams competition can be found on participating Kellogg’s any local collection point. You can also register their skills of Hurling & Gaelic Football in an enjoyable and friendly environment with many an opportunity to make Cornflakes, Crunchy Nut and Crunchy Nut Feast promotional packs. your support if you haven’t done so already by new friends. All activities will be carefully planned and implemented by Castleknock Club Coach Brendan Phelan and logging onto www.kelloggs.ie/fieldofdreams, A full scale PR campaign is underway which includes a “Tokathon” com- click on “support your club or community” - en- his army of enthusiastic and qualified coaches. petition between six local primary schools to see which one can col- ter castleknock in the required field and insert To enrol just contact Brendan on 08513229397 And why not bring a friend? lect the most amount of tokens. In addition a host of local businesses, your name, e-mail address and send. shops, supermarkets, hospitals and even churches are getting behind the initiative to help us achieve our token target. Other novelty events For further details and information check out Community Credit Union Castleknock Hotel & Country Club include the “Kellogg’s Crossbar Challenge” and “Who’s the biggest the club’s website on www.castleknock.net or www.communitycu.ie Tel: (01) 820 1111 www. castleknockhotel.com Tel: (01) 640 6300 Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut”. e-mail [email protected] Juvenile Section Sponsor Adult Section Sponsor Page 2 Castleknock Hurling & Football Club Page 3 Castleknock Hurling & Football Club U11 Boys First ever Hurling Cup Final But we did and we did it in style and made our way Carrick Rangers Visit to the final in Parnell Park. Final Carrick Rangers from Carrickfergus in County Antrim had a very successful A final now awaited us the next day. Thomas Davis visit to Castleknock last year and their u12 team and their parents had a mem- were our opponents as they had just beaten Lucan orable day where they were introduced to the skills of hurling by Castleknock after extra time. We know Thomas Davis well and Hurling Coaches, Brendan Phelan and Keith O’Brien. As a thank you for this we knew they would be tough opponents. They are day Carrick Rangers extended an invitation to Castleknock GAA to attend a certainly a team on the up, who are going about their Friendship Night held in the Clarion Hotel in Carrickfergus. Keith O’Brien and business quietly under the guidance of an excellent Dave O’Brien attended this unique event on behalf of Castleknock Hurling group of mentors. We have had two draws and one & Football Club and were presented with a very impressive framed Carrick defeat to them in our last three encounters so we Rangers shirt signed by the Carrick Under12 squad. In return Richard Meeley knew we were up against it. from Carrick Rangers was presented with a Castleknock GAA training top with his initials. A session of music followed with the locals providing a piper and The boys were ready for the final. Unfortunately we drummer from the local marching band to entertain the large crowd in atten- The U11 Boys (1999) won their first ever hurling cup final with a fine win over lost the toss and had to play with the wind in the first dance. The Castleknock duo responded with a fiddler and a novice bodhran Scoil Ui Chonaill last Saturday morning in Russell Park, St Brigids home ground. half…a decision, which would cost us in the end. A player! Keith did the business and really impressed with a string of jigs and Scoil teams arrived full of promise and very confident after an excellent semi slightly slow start resulted in Thomas Davis scoring reels, as for the bodhran player, well now that’s another story. An enjoy- final win. However the 1999 Castleknock boys had other ideas and battled hard two points in the first 5 minutes before we got going. able night was had by all and it was a great example of how sport can bring with wonderful displays of skills and tenacity to end up winners at the final whis- The next 15 minutes belonged to Castleknock and people together in a spirit of friendship. These Cross Border exchanges have tle based on the combined scoring of both teams. Castleknock 5 - 9 to 1-1 Scoil despite our dominance we only put 5 points on the received very positive feedback from the highest levels in Croke Park. Ui Chonaill. Everyone was delighted at the final whistle with great scenes of scoreboard with a strong breeze at our backs. The Castleknock on Facebook joy. The games ended in a welter of excitement with this group of players lifting wind proved decisive and in the second half we held silverware for the first time.
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