Seniors: We defeated Castleblayney in the senior league last Saturday in St. Mellans, 1-11 to 0-12. The win was unlikely in the first half as we were losing 0-7 to 0-2 after 27 minutes before a late goal from Paudie McKenna just before the break left the half time score Gaeil Triucha 1-3 Castleblayney 0-8. We impressed in the opening exchanges of the second half and by the 39^th minute were 1-8 to 0-8 ahead. It was a lead we maintained to the end coming out on top by 2 points, 1-11 to 0-12. Our team and scorers were: Martin Treanor; John McCarron, Niall Feely, Darren Todd; Niall McQuillan, Rory Treanor, Aidan Coyle; Pauric Treanor, Niall McMeel (0-1); Niall Rooney, Paudie McKenna (1-1), Chrissy McKenna (0-3, 1f, 1×45);  Mark Counihan (0-2), Daniel McKenna (0-3, 2f), Chrissy McAnanley. Subs Used: Niall Coyle (0-1) for Paudie McKenna (35mins), John Treanor for Niall Rooney (50mins), Damian McRory for Darren Todd (53mins-blackcard) & Gary Todd for Chrisyy McAnanley (55mins).  Our game against Currin scheduled for last Wednesday 24^th September was postponed due to floodlight failure at Currin. Our next match is away to Scotstown this Sunday at 12.30pm.

Reserves C: We await the RFL Div. 3 Final against Blackhill which is now provisionally fixed for the October.

Congratulations: to Siobhan McKenna Fitzpatrick who was recently honoured on Camogie All Ireland day by receiving Monaghan player of the decade.

Thanks: to all the volunteers who collected stones on the new pitch over the last 2 Fridays.

Recreational Tournament: We host our annual recreational tournament this Saturday 27^th September in St. Mellans at 3pm.

U-16: Our championship final against Monaghan Harps has been provisionally fixed for Saturday 11^th October at 12pm.

U-10: Training each Thursday evening between 7-8pm.

CPR AED Course: coming up within next few weeks. To enroll contact Eilish 0877857680. Course fee €25. More details next week.

U-6 & 8s: Training each Thursday evening between 7-8pm. All welcome.

Lotto Jackpot now €9,600: There was no winner of last week jackpot prize of €9,500. The numbers drawn last week were: 4, 10, 20, 27. There were 4 match 3 winners each receiving €25: Ciaran Treanor-Mullinderg, Caoimhe Meehan, Donal O’Neill (Yearly Ticket), George McMeel-Mullinacross (YT). Sellers Prizes: Roisin Donaghue & Camogie Club. Next week’s jackpot is €9,600. Check Team: Gary’s.

Cairde: Thanks to all Cairde members who continue to renew their subscriptions. Anyone who wishes to become a Cairde member or renew their membership can contact Niall on 0860604386.Support your club, share the rewards.

Hurling:
Seniors– We lost to Castleblayney in the senior  league final last Sunday, 1-8 to 4-19.

U-16: We lost  away to Castleblayney in the semi-final of the championship last Monday, 2-11 to 4-8.

 

U-14: We play away to Monaghan Harps in the shield semi-final this Sunday at 12pm.

 

 

 

Ladies:

U-10/U-12: Training as per coaches.  Anyone who still has their sponsorship cards to hand in please do so asap to management or any committee member.

U-14/U-16: Training for this group of girls will continue as decided by team management.

Anyone who still has their sponsorship cards to hand in please do so asap to management or any committee member.

 Liathroid Laimhe.

See County notes for Details.

40th Celebrations Launch Night. We are gathering tomorrow night Friday the 26th in St.Mellans to launch our “40th Birthday Celebrations”, we hope to have as many of the original committee along with the existing committee there on the night, also we hope to have some of our very successful juvenile and senior players in attendance for a few photo’s, on the night also we shall be joined by our main sponsor “Truwood”, as without these and all our competitions sponsors our club would not be as successful as it has been our the past 40 years, we will be having our main celebration night in St.Mellans on the 8th of November so keep the date free as we would like to see as many of the old and new down to join in with the festivities, food will be served on the night.

Juvenile Registration. We will be continuing will juvenile registration on Friday evenings from 7:30pm for a few weeks to try and get all registered so we can begin coaching and start up the leagues, we will also have a bit of coaching for an hour or so for any that want to come down and try out handball for the first time, old and new welcome, both boys & girls, same rates as last year 5 euro per child, goggles are essential, no entry into the alley without goggles.

1. The club will be holding the AGM on Tuesday the 30th of September and we would like to ask people of the area to consider coming on board this term to help out, as the club grows steadily bigger each year the amount of organising events leagues etc also increases, so as the old saying goes “many hands make light work”.

Mono League. As of now all agm forms will have been distributed to all members so we ask to please fill in and return, this is important as it states as to who wants to play in which competitions throughout the year, there are whispers that some folk are coming out of retirement and these individuals might have not received a nomination form so any of these players  can forward their name to any member of the committee of their intention to play in the Mono adult league, thank you.