Senior Club News, 5th March 2024

Austin Stacks 3-8 Churchill 1-5

Report by Tim Tiger Slattery
Played under lights in the Nuns field on Saturday evening,Stacks opened the scoring in the 1st minute with a point from Fiachna Mangan,Cian Purcell with a point, and shortly afterwards followed with a goal to make it 1-2 to 0-0 after six minutes.

Shane OCallaghan with a point on eight minutes increased the lead and there was no further score until injury time when Churchill scored a goal. Leaving the half time score Austin Stacks 1-3 Churchill 1-0.

Donagh McKivergan from a free and Luke Chester from play increased the lead to 1-5 to 1-0 with three minutes gone in the second half.Cian Purcell with a goal and a Joey Nagle point shortly afterwards followed by a Churchill point made it 2-6 to 1-1 seven minutes into the second half.

Donagh McKivergan pointed a free only for Churchill with three unanswered points to leave six points between the sides.

Shane Calla with a point and a Fiachna Mangan goal late on made it a ten point game,Churchill had a point deep in injury time to finish the scoring.

Austin Stacks Team: Wayne Guthrie,Colin Griffin,Barry Walsh,Luke Chester (0-1),Luke Casey,Adam Curran,Eoghan Carroll,Barry Shanahan,Joey Nagle (0-1),Donagh McKivergan (0-2f),Fiachna Mangan (1-1),Conor Horan,Cian Purcell (2-1),Gearoid Fitzgerald,Shane O’Callaghan (0-2).

Subs Conor Myers for Cian Purcell,Jack O’Shea for Gearoid Fitzgerald.

The back game v Na Gaeil is on Monday 18^th March at 12pm in Kileen.

Austin Stacks have been drawn in Group A alongside Glenbeigh-Glencar, An Ghaeltacht & John Mitchels for the 2024 Intermediate Club Championship. The top two teams in each group will advance to the quarter Final stage.

Our opening fixture will be against John Mitchels at a neutral venue.

All Dates, Times & Venues to be confirmed.

Children’s Officer:

In an ongoing commitment to creating and maintaining the safest possible environment for all children who wish to take part in GAA games and activities, the club will host a training session for mentors and coaches as follows:

Safeguarding 1 Workshop ( 3hrs) – Tuesday 12th March 2024 from 7 – 10pm. This workshop is mandatory for all coaches/mentors involved with U18 players and as such will be relevant to new coaches/mentors and those whose Safeguarding Certificates expired recently.

Both workshops will be held in Connolly Park and will be facilitated by Colette Murphy, GAA Safeguarding Tutor.

Club Cards:

Our card sessions continue in the Clubhouse on Mondays and Thursdays with the starting time of 9 pm sharp.

CLUB LOTTO:

This week’s (4^th March ) Jackpot worth €2900 was not won. The numbers drawn were 13,14,21,28.. The €20 winners were Brian Morgan, c/o The Club, Jim Finnucan, c/o The Club, John Dennis , c/o The Club, Jim Woulfe, c/o Kevin Barry’s, Denis O’Regan, c/o John Breen. Next Week’s Jackpot will be worth €2950.

Continued thanks to the following businesses for selling our Lotto tickets on a weekly basis – Kevin Barry’s Shop, Commanes Bookshop (PC Books), O’Flynns Interiors, Hussey’s, Princes St., The Burger Shack, Monavalley and Kirby’s Brogue Inn. And continued thanks to everyone who purchase tickets week-in, week-out.

CLUB COLOURS:

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