The club would like to wish the best of luck to Billy Ryan who’s on the panel with the Kilkenny Minors for the the Minor All Ireland Hurling Final tomorrow v Limerick. The minor match starts at 1.15pm with the senior final starting at 3.30pm. All-Ireland Sunday is a great occasion and hopefully Billy will enjoy every minute of it!
Graigue-Ballycallan GAA Club was a winner of €1000 in the recent Piltown GAA Draw and in recognition of the fantastic support locals showed in buying tickets from promoters it was decided to hold a raffle for ten prizes of €100. The names of all who purchased Piltown Tickets were put into the hat and the following won €100 each:
Congratulations to all the winners.
On Saturday our U-10 team did us proud in the annual Mullinahone Tournament. We paraded through the village with teams from Cork, Tipperary, Carlow, Derry, Antrim, Clare, Galway, Meath, Laois, Limerick, Tyrone, Waterford and Offaly. We were honoured to represent Kilkenny along with Windgap. Charles J. Kickham was born in Mullinahone in 1828 and is famous for his novel “Knocknagow” and the Tipperary Anthem “Slievenamon” which he wrote. Read more
Our U-8’s had a much improved outing in the Inistioge Tournament on Saturday the 30th August. All matches were 10-a-side with the first half ground hurling only. First up was St. Mullins. After a sluggish first half, we went in at HT 1-0 to no score behind. In the second half, despite great efforts and two disallowed goals, our lads couldn’t get a deserved equaliser. The FT score was GBC 0-0 St. Mullins 1-0. Read more
Well done to Killian Egan on winning an U14 Tony Forristal medal with Kilkenny on Saturday. They beat Galway in the final of the tournament on a scoreline of 2-16 to 2-15
Well done also to Aaron Brennnan who was on the Kilkenny panel for the U14 Sonny Walsh Tournament.
Hard luck to local lads Sean Ryan, Conor Flynn and Tommy Ronan who were on the U15 North panel for the Michael Foley U15 Tournament in Wexford on Saturday. They were beaten in the final by the Kilkenny South squad on a scoreline of 1-7 to 5 points.
Graigue Ballycallan GAA Club and St. Brigid’s Camogie Club would like to say a massive thanks you to everyone who helped out in any way on Sunday at our Family Fun Day. While the weather wasn’t too kind to us, it did not deter the goodwill and determination of all present to make the event as big a success as possible.
Thanks to all the volunteers who helped out on the day in any way, those that were in the kitchen doing trojan work, those on different stalls or on the inflatables etc.
Thank you to all our sponsors and to everyone who made donations of prizes and cakes, buns and sandwiches.
A huge thanks to everyone who put in so much work to prepare the timber. 90 loads were auctioned in all so all the hard work paid off!
And thank you very much to all who turned up on the day even though the weather wasn’t the best!
We will have lots of photographs up on the website and Facebook page in the coming days.
U12 Go Games Team White played neighbours Tullaroan on Wednesday evening, in what proved to be a classic encounter. The game started well for our boys with a couple of early scores from Oisín Egan but the Tullaroan boys were soon in their stride and they found their range to level matters 15 mins in. Read more
Our Annual Family Fun Day is back on Sunday 24th August 2014 2pm to 6pm in Tom Ryall Park Kilmanagh.
Hosted by Graigue Ballycallan GAA Club and St. Brigid’s Camogie Club the Main features this year will include: Read more
We will have lots of photographs from the Family Fun Day and some in the lead-up to it. Here’s one to get you started:
The club would like to wish one of our juvenile members, Colum Prendiville the very best of luck as he heads off to Macedonia on Monday 18th August for the European Basketball Championships. Colum will be part of the U16 Irish squad competing in the European Championships between 20th and 30th August.
The weeding out process for this Irish squad has been going on since October 2012 and Colum had to go through a series of tough trails to get to the final 12. He is a very talented player and has won his place on the squad through sheer hard work & dedication. Colum is a member of the Kilkenny Stars Basketball club and has played at all juvenile grades for Graigue Ballycallan GAA Club and we hope to have him back hurling with us in the future.
The other teams in the same group as Ireland are: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary and the Netharlands. Ireland will have to play all of these teams in pool games and depending on how they get on will determine how they progress in the competition. There are 22 teams from all over Europe taking part.
It’s a huge honour for Colum to represent Ireland and Kilkenny and his parents Martin and Deirdre and sister Laoise must be so proud of him. Colum is also grandson of long-standing trustee of our club, Billy Malone. GOOD LUCK COLUM!
Tournament report by Philomena Brennan
The annual u-14 Declan Byrne Tournament took place in Tom Ryall Park, Kilmanagh on Saturday 16th August. This long running juvenile tournament attracts a lot of interest from u-14 teams throughout the county and beyond. This year was no different with seven teams from Kilkenny, Tipperary and Carlow taking part. St. Patrick’s of Ballyragget, John Lockes of Callan, Clara and Kilmacow made up the Kilkenny contingent. Ballingarry from Tipperary and Ballinkillen from Carlow completed the line up. Conditions on the day were good and as usual the pitches were in excellent order. A large crowd of locals and visitors were in attendance and their vocal support added to the occasion. Read more
