Club News 19th July 2021

U19 Hurling

Our U19s were defeated by Silvermines last Wed evening in their final group game. The score in the game was 3–16 to 3–15 with Ben West (2) and Jamie Cottrell getting the goals. The boys put in a great performance, in particular when they were reduced to 14 early in the second half, and were unlucky to lose out with the Mines getting a late goal.

Junior Hurling

The Junior As had a good win over Roscrea in the final group game of the league last Fri evening. The score in the game was 2-18 to 1-15 with Craig Hilmi and Darragh Walsh scoring the goals. This win means we topped the group and have qualified for the final of the Junior A League – the final, against Roscrea, takes place next Saturday evening at 7pm in Moneygall.

The Junior A Championship is due to start on 31st July with the Junior B Championship due to begin on 6th August.

Lotto

There was no winner of last night’s Lotto Jackpot. The numbers drawn were 3, 5, 21 & 29.

Next Monday night’s lotto jackpot will be €6,100 – Please support our lotto by playing online through the link on the club website. The format of the lotto is changing from next Monday night when we will revert to drawing lucky dip prizes each week – there will be three draws for €50 when the jackpot is not won.

The last of our supplementary draws took place on Monday night and the three lucky winners of €500 each are Seamus Cleary, John Spencer and Shane O’Gorman – congrats to all.

Tipperary

Well done to Callan Scully and the Tipperary U20 footballers who beat Waterford in the Munster semi final last Thursday night. They now play Cork in the Munster final on Thursday July 22^nd in Semple Stadium and we wish Callan and the Tipperary team the best of luck in the final.

Well done also to Taurai, Sam, Mason and the Tipp minor hurlers who beat Kerry in the Munster championship last week.

The Tipperary U20 hurlers are due to play Cork in the Munster semi final tonight (Tuesday) – best wishes to panel members Conor Hennessy and Sean Phelan in this game.

Commiserations to Barry, Jake and the Tipperary senior hurlers who lost out to Limerick in the Munster final at the weekend.

Defibrillator

The new defibrillator has recently been installed on the outside wall of the complex and is now accessible to all in the community. All groups within the club have contributed to this most important piece of equipment and fundraising will continue with the walking group climbing Keeper Hill in August to raise funds.

The walking group who will be climbing Keeper in August to raise funds for the new defibrillator.

Grace O’Brien with the new defibrillator and Cian Ryan with the training defib.

Tipperary Draw

We had two winners in the Tipperary draw which took place last Friday night – congratulations to Denis Parker who won €1000 and Niamh Hannon won €200. The last draw in the 2020/21 draw takes place on Fri 6th August and the new draw will start up again at the end of September.

Club Development/Hurling Wall

After all the planning and preliminary work over the past number of months, the new hurling wall started last Monday – this is great news for the club and everyone who has supported this development. Thanks to those who have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to get us to this stage – it is hoped that the wall will be completed by the end of August.

We thank everyone who has contributed to this phase of our development project. Any remaining donations can be paid over to your fundraising representative, any amount is welcome and appreciated. Outstanding tax forms associated with your donation should be given to your fundraising representative along with details of the names you wish to have included on the club development jigsaw wall.

JUVENILE NEWS

Nenagh Éire Óg Cúl Camp

What a glorious week we had to compliment a hugely successful cúl camp at Nenagh Éire Óg.

The children welcomed some very talented & special guests throughout the week, Michelle Barry from the Nenagh Éire Óg senior camogie team and the very talented Grace O’Brien from the Tipperary senior and Nenagh Éire Óg senior camogie teams, Callan Scully from the Tipperary Under 20 football team and Conor Hennessy from the Tipperary Under 20 hurling team. The children were lucky enough to have Colm Fogarty as one of their great coaches for the week, Colm is from Lorrha and is on the Tipperary Under 20 hurling team. Sincere thank you to all of the stars for kindly giving their time to drop in and chat to the children.

Thank you to all the parents who helped out all week in ensuring all sanitizing occurred as planned.

Thanks to Robbie Foley who was on site all week.

Thank you Bartley who diligently managed the car park during the peak drop and pick up times so that children were safe at all times.

Eileen Kennedy, thank you for all of your assistance at check in, greatly appreciated.

Last but by no means least, Niall, thanks for all of your hard work behind the scenes in organizing and running a hugely successful Cúl camp that was thoroughly enjoyed by all of the children. Maith thú.

Conor Hennessy, Callan Scully and Colm Fogarty with the U13 Boys at the Cúl Camp last week.

Membership

Membership should have been paid by May 31st to ensure that your child is covered by insurance. For Covid reasons we ask that any overdue membership being paid is put into an envelope, family details written thereon and handed to the lead coach at the training session.

Lotto

The lotto has always been one of our main fundraisers and with our current club developments it is of vital importance to us now that everyone continues to row in behind our lotto and we continue to increase the Nenagh Eire Og online club lotto subscriptions. We are asking our juvenile families and supporters to play our club lotto online. It costs just €2 per week to play safely online and there are different payment plans available. If your not in, you cant win!

Please choose the ‘auto-renew’ option and also help family members who may not have an online presence to join. The link to join is available on the clubs web page so please sign up now and you will be included in the next draw.

All social media shares of lotto updates are appreciated and its wonderful to see family and friends from far and wide coming through in the weekly winners. Ní neart go cur le chéile.

Return To Play

We would ask all parents/guardians to observe and co-operate with all the Covid protocols that are in place in order to ensure a safe training environment for your children and family. Please ensure you complete the Covid pre training/match conformation on Foireann in advance of attending training or matches.

Under 5

Training continues every Saturday morning from 10 – 11am. Anyone else interested in joining Under 5 training please contact Erica on 0868774496.

For any parents who plan to take a coaching role with the Under 5 group must complete two steps, firstly Garda vetting must be completed and secondly an online Safeguarding course – details as follows:

Safeguarding course- https://learning.gaa.ie/safeguarding -this will bring you to it on the GAA site. It’s a refresher course which covers this aspect of the requirement.

Garda vetting – you cannot be involved as a coach or mentor in any juvenile coaching set up without your GAA Garda vetting being up to date so please apply asap https://gaa.flowforma.com/Lists/Forms/NewForm.aspx?FlowId=7

Under 7

The Under 7 boys squad is continuing to grow with 38 boys involved now and always ready to welcome more new faces.

Training continues on Tuesday evening, 6-7 pm and Saturday mornings from 10-11am.

Under 9

The Under 9 boys travelled to Newport on Saturday morning for a football blitz. The boys played very well and enjoyed the games.

Under 9 hurling training continues Tuesday 6-7pm and Saturday 10-11am with football training on Wednesday 5.30-6.30pm.

Under 11

The Under 11 boys had three teams out in action last weekend, the Navy team played Portroe, the Blue team and the Nenagh Éire Óg team both played Kilruane in Nenagh. It was a blistering hot morning for the Kilruane matches and the boys played really well especially given the heat of the morning.

No training on Tuesday evening as the boys play a football match against Ballina in Ballina, details to be circulated on the whatsapp group.

Hurling training will be Wednesday evening instead this week @ 5.30 and Friday at 6.00pm. New players are always welcome for either code. Great to see new faces joining over the last few weeks and we look forward to seeing more new boys.

Under 13

The U13A group will play Toomevara in the hurling championship on Tuesday night in Toomevara. Training continues for the U13s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.

Under 15

The U15s are due to play Borrisoleigh this Thursday in Borrisoleigh at 7.30. Training continues on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Under 17

The U17s lost out to Toomevara in the 2nd round of the U17A Championship on Mon evening. The score in the game was 5-21 to 2-17. Training continues on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

CAMOGIE NEWS

Seniors

The seniors lost out to a strong Annacarty side in Annacarty last Friday evening. The team now face the Silvermines at 8pm.on Tuesday evening in the Quarter Final of the league.

Well done to Grace O’Brien who was part of the winning team that defeated Offaly on Sunday. Tipp now play Limerick in round two of the championship next weekend.

Grace in action against Offaly last Sunday

Under 16s

The U16s played Toomevara on Monday evening last and came out the right side of a hard fought battle by 2 points. They played St Cronans, Roscrea last night and were beaten by two points in the soaring temperatures.

Congratulations to Nenagh Éire Óg’s Laura Nagle and the Tipperary U15B team who defeated Limerick 1.19 to 1.6 on Sunday.

Hard luck to Éabha O’Brien and the Tipperary U16B team who lost out to Galway on Sunday evening.

Under 14

Our under 14 side had a very tough outing against a very strong Boherlahan side in blistering sun on Saturday. Our girls fought to the bitter end though. Well done especially to all the U12 girls who played up.

We play our final group game against Kildangan on Wednesday evening in Puckane.

Best of luck to Niamh Boland and the Tipperary U14A squad who play Dublin and to Clodagh Spain and the U14B squad who play Cork in Cork next weekend.

Under 12

Nenagh 2 welcomed Gortnahue to town on Thursday evening last. Unfortunately Gortnahue were short on numbers, and so we gained our first 2 points in the league. We played a very entertaining challenge game instead, well done especially to the Nenagh girls who very sportingly played with Gortnahoe. Next up we play Newport 2 on Thursday evening at 7.30pm.

Nenagh 1 play Templemore in McDonagh Park on Saturday morning at 11.30pm.

Training as usual for all u12s at 7pm on Monday evening in the Convent Field.

Training for Team 1 only on Thursday evening 6-7pm at Eire Og.

Under 8

Our U8s played Kiladangan on Saturday morning in Puckane. We had two super games and the girls certainly deserved a cool ice pop afterwards Training continues Monday and Thursday @6p.m.

Nenagh U8 girls in Puckane last Saturday morning

Under 6

Training is back this week.6-7p.m. Don’t forget to complete health questionnaire in advance.

Cúl Camp

Niall Cahill was the driving force once again this year behind the success of the Cúl Camp. On behalf of the Nenagh Éire Óg Camogie Club we would like to note our sincere thanks to Niall for organising and coordinating the camp.

Well done to the 160 children on their behaviour all week. We are very lucky in the club with them.

The coaches were very good this year also and very helpful. It was great to have Caoimhe Connolly, Conor Hennessy & Conor Tierney from the club coaching. Thanks to the under 14 girls that helped us out all week especially with the youngest groups. Thanks to our county players that visited. Thanks to the parents that volunteered to ensure the camp was well supervised and ensured hand sanitizing regularly took place. A special thank you to Robbie Foley who was present for the the full week helping out. Another special thank you to Bartley Ryan for ensuring the safety of the children at the entrance to the car park all week. Thanks to Eileen Kennedy for helping out each day at check in making my job much easier. Thanks to Elaine O’Brien for capturing lots of photos of the children during the week to give an insight into the fun that went on.

There is a small box of lost & found in the shed on the outside field. If anyone lost anything they can look there during training. The children sat in pods in the same place in the stand all week so if anything is missing it is most lightly with someone from the pod so you can ask on your child’s training WhatsApp group to see if anyone brought home some gear by accident.

Finally for anyone that hasn’t received the delivery of their Cúl Camp gear by post, you follow up by email to culcamps@gaa.ie

Thanks to all the parents for the support all week and for completing the health questionnaire each day.

Grace O’Brien and Michelle Barry with the youngest members of our camogie club at the Cúl Camp last week.

Swap shop success

Nenagh Éire Óg Camogie Club would like to say míle buíochas, A BIG THANK YOU to all who left in club gear for the Swap Shop and donated so generously at the event on 15 July.

A total of €488 was raised in the hour for The Children’s Ark Paediatric Unit, University Hospital, Limerick. We were delighted to have Gráinne Beattie and her mother, Tanya drop by to support the Club’s fundraising efforts. Well done Gráinne on motivating us all to support this great cause.

We encourage everyone to continue recycling unused gear. Further swap shops will be organised at a later date.