Carnmore Hurling Club celebrates 70 years
Carnmore Hurling Club was founded in 1944. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of this historic event, a Family Fun Day will take place at Carnmore centre and pitches on Saturday 20th September.
The fun kicks off at 2pm. There will be lots of free activities for all the kids, with the camogie girls joining the hurling boys for competitions at all ages. The highlight of the day will be the Parish Senior’s 7-a-side Hurling Competition. Bouncy Castle, Face Painting, BBQ, Tea & Coffee.
Daddy’s and Mammy’s might need to dust off their hurls and helmets to show off their skills in the over 40’s competition!
The not-so-young members should enjoy watching the hurling and activities on the pitches or meeting up with friends while enjoying the archive slide show and heritage presentation in the halla.
Keep an eye on Carnmore.net for more details.
Carnmore U13s Defeated in County Championship Semi-Final
Carnmore 0–3
Athenry 1–6
Carnmore’s U13 run in the A County Championship came to an end earlier this week with a defeat to Athenry in the semi-final. Athenry won the toss and elected to play with the strong breeze for the opening half. Athenry exerted some early pressure but Carnmore showed excellent defence with Oisin Noone, David Feeney and the impressive Conor Flaherty in the full back line and Gary Fox, Rory Carberry and Ronan Hanley marshalling the half back line. Athenry opened the scoring with a 65 which was followed by a score from Carnmore’s Harry O’ Gorman.
There were tough exchanges around the field in particular in mid-field area where James Cummins and Mark Melody worked tirelessly. Athenry then got a fortuitous goal when a long range attempt went straight to the net. Rather than heads dropping, Carnmore stayed with the cause and goalkeeper Torin Finnerty produced some outstanding saves, to ensure Carnmore were still in the game at half time.
Carnmore opened the second half with an attack which lead to a point from Enda Collins, and with some creative play, Shaun Killilea broke through on goal but was fouled before he could get his shot on goal. Ciaran Keane scored the resulting free. Despite the endeavours of the forwards Harry O’ Gorman, Aidan Grealish, Fergal Cullina, Kyle Higgins and Fergal Feeney, Carnmore were unable to get that elusive goal.
Athenry were fortunate on two occasions when Ciaran Keane had the goalie beaten only for the retreating defender to clear the ball of the line and Mark Slevin had a shot well saved by the Athenry keeper.
Carnmore acquitted themselves very well and with a bit more good fortune, may have had a better result.
U13 Panel: Torin Finnerty, Oisin Noone, Conor Flaherty, David Feeney, Gary Fox, Rory Carberry, Ronan Hanley, Mark Melody, James Cummins, Mark Slevin, Harry O Gorman, Enda Collins, Ciaran Keane, Shaun Killilea, Aidan Grealsih, Ryan Fox, Ian Butler, Nathan Grealish, Fintan Cogley, Ronan Grealish, Gearoid Hennessey, Kyle Higgins, Fergal Cullina, Fergal Feeney, Ronan Killilea.
New Website for Carnmore Hurling Club
Carnmore Hurling Club have a new web page. Above is a screenshot of the homepage and it can be checked out online at Carnmore.net. The new website has many new features including a club calendar. If you want to include news, an event or anything other item on the web site, please email [email protected]. Many thanks to Aaron Fox who designed and developed the page.
Table Quiz
Carnmore Hurling Club’s annual Table Quiz will take place in Grealish’s Bar on Friday Sept 5th at 8.30pm. This has always been a great fun night out and this year it should be no different. Your support would be greatly appreciated. Table of 4—€60 (€15 each) with a reduction for students.
Cash for Clobber
Back to school and time for an autumn clearout? Carnmore Hurling Club are continuing to run this fundraising initiative. Please gather up old items of clothing, shoes, handbags, belts etc and drop bags of these unwanted items into the centre, between 5.30pm and 8.30pm each weekday evening.
U11
Carnmore U11 squad is currently involved in a series of challenge matches. Two competitive and skilful games were played in recent weeks, first against Castlegar at home (6–6 to 0–1) and second versus Abbeyknockmoy away (7–6 to 5–6). Next game is due to be played in the coming week, with details to follow.
U12
The U12 Ocean Hygiene League concluded in recent weeks with Carnmore finishing second in the U12 Group A League. As a result, the Carnmore’s current U12s and will qualify Grade A of the U13 Championship in 2015. The 2014 League commenced with an away win in Craughwell in early April and this was followed by two home wins against Castlegar and Clarenbridge later in the month.
The fourth game was a bye as Salthill were unable to field a team. After a six week break the team then travelled to Moycullen and were beaten by three points by a strong Moycullen team. Carnmore then hosted Athenry in early July for their penultimate game of the league and took the points on the night.
The League ended with a narrow loss to Turloughmore who also had been beaten by Moycullen earlier in the league. Challenge matches for the U12s throughout the year so far have resulted in good wins over Killimordaly, Liam Mellowes, Cappataggle, Ardrahan and Oranmore.
Juvenile Training Times
- U6 Pitch 1—Wednesday 6.30–7-30pm
Contact Mike Ryan at [email protected] or 087 6690532 - U8 Pitch 1—Wednesday 6.30–7.30pm
Contact Tim Feeney at [email protected] or 087 3271311 - U10 Pitch 2—Monday and Wednesday 6.30–7.30pm
Contact Kevin Moran at [email protected] or 087 6780870 - U12 Pitch 3—Monday and Wednesday 6.30–7.30pm
Contact Derek Healy at [email protected] or 087 2888528 - U14 Pitch 3—Monday and Wednesday 7.30–8.30pm
Contact Liam Slevin at [email protected] or 087 9788853 - U16 Pitch 2 —Monday and Wednesday 7.30–9pm
Contact Tom Cogley at [email protected] or 087 6687939
New members are always welcome
