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.
The camogie club will be running a bus to Croke Park for the camogie finals on Sunday 14th September. Club members Aisling Dunphy and Therese Muldowney are both in action on the day! U-16s must be accompanied by an adult.
Names to Josie Ronan
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On Saturday 23rd August, St Brigid’s Minor girls took to the field in Ballyhale, to play in the semi finals, their opposition were the formidable Rower, who had recently been crowned league champions after they beat Paulstown in the Minor League final in July.
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.
Congratulations to Aisling Dunphy who with the Kilkenny senior camogie panel have reached the All-Ireland final. They beat last years champions Galway last Sunday 24th August in The Gaelic Grounds, Limerick. The score was 4-12 to 3-07. They now face the winners of Cork and Wexford in the All-Ireland final on 14th September.
Therese Muldowney is also in preparation for an All-Ireland final as the intermediate panel beat Kildare in their semi final 2 weeks ago. They will meet Limerick on the day.
The club will be running a bus to the finals in Croke Park on 14th September. Details to follow.
On Tuesday last in Tullaroan, GBC Under 16s played St. Lachtain’s in the first round of the championship. GBC were very impressive in the first half, first to the ball and moving it cleverly all over the pitch. Jamie Lawlor was on fire at full forward, scoring 2-3 in thirty minutes. Aaron Brennan bagged another two goals, while Killian Egan and Dylan Lanigan added a point each. Read more
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
