UNDER 10: Under 10 HURLING coaching under the direction of qualified county coaches, including Kerry hurler and Tralee Schools’ hurling coach, John Griffin, will continue @ 6.15pm on Friday next in Connolly Park. All welcome. All our Under 10-ers are encouraged to attend. Fridays are designated as “official HURLING evenings” by the County and Town Boards. Agus nach raibh traidisiún na hiománaíochta riamh inár gclub?
FAOI 8: The Mícheál Quirke Under 8 Go Games Blitzes continue on Wednesday @ 6.30pm in Páirc Uí hÉalaithe. The Rock stars continue to shine! For an hour of excitement go to Ballyrickard on Wednesday!
UNDER 6 & 8 & 10: Our Under 6, Under 8 and Under 10 boys will be in action as usual on Sunday next in Cathair Sailí @ 11am. Ag súil le maidin iontach eile peile!
GOOD WISHES: We’re all thinking of Daragh Flynn, an Under 8 star player, who’ll be sidelined for a few weeks because of appendicitis.
GOOD WISHES: Everybody in the Rock Club sends still more good wishes to Emily O’Shea. Tá a deartháir, Dylan, ag imirt leis na hUnder 10s.
PEIL FAOI 12: Training continues for this group on Mondays and on Thursdays at 6pm in Caherslee.
ACADAMH NA gCAILÍNÍ: After their break last week for Lá na gClub, the Acadamh returned to Cathair Sailí on Sunday for training. We were pleased to see so many of our girls along for the day…with first communions, etc, our numbers were affected slightly but great fun was once again had by all. Bhí an-mhaidin againn go léir! Training continues this Sunday with a throw-in time once again of 11am. It will be good to see all our girls ar ais arís agus, le cúnamh Dé, beidh aimsir mhaith againn agus beidh lá iontach eile peile againn! And John’s Lá na gClub injury has improved completely!
BIRTHDAYS: The Acadamh would like to wish a “breithlá sona” to Lauren Nic Conmara who will be twelve on Tuesday 26th (‘hope Maurice Mc’ll be invited go dtí an chóisir!) and to Hannah Tansley who will be seacht mbliana d’aois on Wednesday 27th. Tá siad ag fás go tapaidh….growing in wisdom and in age and in skill!
HURLING: Our sympathies to Kerry hurler John Griffin and his team on their unlucky defeat by An Dún in the Christy Ring Cup competition…and they were level with 14 men and with a minute to go! We now wish them well in their cúldoras ¼-final game against Doire.
UNDER 14 B: Training for the B boys will take place with Dónal, John and Michael in Connolly Park on Wednesdays and on Fridays from 6pm to 7pm. And on Sunday next at 7pm they’ll play An Spá….we’ll be looking forward to this encounter!
UNDER 14A: Some of our Under 14As are training with the Tralee District team on Fridays. Go n-éirí go geal leo. The other A players are encouraged to work on their own to keep their skills in tune until official A-team training will again get on the road!
IOMÁNAÍOCHT FAOI 16/17/18: Hurling training will take place at 5.30pm in Connolly Park on this Friday as usual. This is a good group of camán-swingers.
PEIL FAOI 16: (i) Training as usual. (ii) County league (Roinn 1): Round 1 ~ Wednesday 22nd June. (iii) County championship: Wednesday 19th August.
GAA LECTURE: What is expected to be an interesting lecture on “Gnéithe de Stair CLG i gCiarraí 1884~2009” will be given in Meadowlands Hotel at 8.30pm on Friday next, 22ú Bealtaine, by Pádraig Ó Conchúir, Léana Mór, Béal Átha Longfoirt. Conradh na Gaeilge atá á eagrú agus ní bheidh táille ag an doras. This is the Tralee Branch of Conradh na Gaeilge’s contributation to 125 Years of the GAA. Fáilte roimh chách.
LONG AGO: When was the GAA founded? When was Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) founded? (1884/1893). The founders of the GAA and the Gaelic League were of one mind on many things! Historian Séamus Mac Annaidh tells us that “together the GAA and the Gaelic League raised the consciousness among ordinary people across the country of what it meant to be Irish. Both organisations were implicitly separatist in that they stressed that Ireland was a different country, with a different culture, and not merely an English province or colony. This cultural nationalism took many forms and engaged the minds of many of the new generation of writers and poets writing in both English and Irish. While the GAA’s founders, Michael Cusack and Maurice Davin, wanted to preserve and cultivate their country’s national games, the Conradh na Gaeilge founders (Douglas Hyde and Eoin Mac Néill) wanted to popularize ‘Irish’ entertainments such as fiddling, piping, dancing, reciting poetry and listening to lectures and the preservation of Irish as the national language of the country and the extension of its use as the spoken tongue”.
KERRY GAA: www.kerrycoistenanog.com
THE ROCK: www.austinstacks.ie
HANDBALL: www.gaahandball.ie. Saturday 23ú Bealtaine has been designated “Lá Liathróid Láimhe”. Celebrations/games will take place in the Ballymac Alley from 2pm to 5pm. Fáilte mhór roimh chách.
ONE OF OUR OWN: Former club hurler Brian Ó Conchubhair was heard on RTÉ/RnaG recently when he spoke on the controversial Obama visit to a U.S. university. Brian teaches in the Catholic University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Illinois. He has also written an article on “The Language and the GAA.”….(an teanga dhúchais….ní teanga na taobhlíne….atá i gceist!)….in a recently published GAA book.