Report: By Philomena Brennan:
As we fast approach the State Exam season and match play has been suspended for all those who are sitting the up-coming Junior and Leaving Certificate, it is perhaps an opportune time to report on the club’s U-16 team season to date.
In 2014 this group of boys had a great year which culminated in a Roinn B County Final appearance, losing out to a highly fancied Bennettsbridge team. Read more
Report by Phil Maher
Graigue Ballycallan U10’s travelled to O’Loughlin Park on Thursday 12th May to play their third competitive match and in what turned out to be hard fought win against an O’Loughlin’s team who were spoilt for choice in the amount of lads that they could field.
This win was at the back of a heavy defeat the previous week from a well-structured Dunnamaggin side who came up to Kilmanagh on Thursday 5th May. But a point worth noting was that GBC were leading and in cruise control for the first period when both teams had to play ground hurling as they held their shape, kept play moving and allowed the ball to do all the work. Read more
All participant’s in Scór were invited to audition for the reading of the Proclamation at the Laochra 1916 Commemoration on League Final Sunday in Croke Park on 24/4/2016. This involved sending a video of J.J. reading excerpts from the Proclamation in both Irish and English to Tyrone Productions. One child from each county was chosen to represent their county on the day and J.J. was delighted to be selected from Kilkenny.
All representatives spent the full weekend preparing for this momentous occasion in Croke Park, arriving for rehearsals on both Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th at 9am. They practised their individual lines, voice projection, positioning on the pitch and adjusting their microphones. Read more
Some of our U8 Hurlers of the Week so far in 2016, Cian Ronan, Dara Barut, David Walton, Aidan Ging, Shane Hogan & Sean O’Halloran. Well done lads and keep up the great work!
Two recent U10 Hurlers of the Week, Aidan Comerford and Eoin Cahill. Well done boys!
An 18 strong U8 panel played 3 matches on an overcast morning in St Kierans college on Sunday 8th May 2016
Congratulations to Manager Tom Hogan, players Oisín Egan, Stephen Keoghan and Eoin Delahunty on winning the Leinster Juvenile hurling Final last Friday. They beat Good Counsel 4-13 to 3-6 in a cracking game, with St. Kierans displaying their best performance of the year & only pulled away in the final few minutes. Well done all involved.
Picture & Report by Martin Delahunty
Graigue Ballycallan competed in the Roinn A Hurling Feile Qualifiers on Saturday morning in Ballyhale. They produced some of their best hurling of their year so far to beat Tomastown 3-8 to 2-1, O’Loughlin’s 1-10 to 2 points and finishing all square with Mooncoin 1-5 to 2-2. This put the boys top of their qualifier group and set to play James Stephens in the Feile Semi-Final in Clara at 12.30pm on Sunday. A great achievement for all involved with GBC being the only country club to qualify for the Semi finals.
Report by Martin Delahunty
Graigue Ballycallan U14s continued their busy spell with a visit from Erins Own to Tom Ryall Park for Round 3 of the Hurling League. Unfortunately mother nature wasn’t kind and the game was played with a biting gale force wind with a downpour of hailstones halfway through to compound the difficult conditions. Read more
Report by Phil Maher
On the 23rd of April the mighty under 10’s played their first practice match of the year against The Rower and even though they showed signs of rustiness they did not fail to deliver and won confidently with a scoreline of 5-4 to 1-1.
Graigue Ballycallan panel are as follows; Shane Cody, Ben Young, Aidan Comerford, Donnacha Cleere, Sean McGrath, Cillian Hoyne, Elliot Teehan, Frank McCluskey, Paidí Egan, Eoghan Cahill, Robbie Tector, James O’Halloran, Tony Butler, Chris Mahoney and JJ Maher. Missing from the photo are Robbie Lynch and Issac Comerford. Read more
New recruits! First U6 training session for 2016, thanks to mentors Alan Hoyne and James O’Connor
Report by Martin Delahunty
Graigue Ballycallan U14s visited Grennan in Tomastown on Friday 22nd April for the 2nd round of the Hurling League. Both teams were coming off the back of first round defeats and were very keen to make amends and collect the 2 points on offer. Read more
