Another great weekend of games with the highlight in Parnell Park yesterday afternoon where our U14 Feile hurlers were narrowly beaten by Castleknock by 1pt. The team were fantastic ambassadors for the club and were very well organized and coached by their mentors; Paudie O’Neill, Paddy Corrigan and Niall Desmond. The club is indeed in safe hands with such committed mentors and players. Thanks to all the parents for the wonderful behind the scenes support. It was a fantastic club weekend and I’m sure with this type of professional approach success is only around the corner. It is our long term goal that these young players will with be representing our club at senior level in a short few years.
A plan has been put in place where all juvenile teams will have an adult player/s associated with them. To find your allocation of adult players please contact Malachy Daly at 087 2576568 for hurling and Peter Shovlin at 087 2777873 for football. The intention is to work around the players schedule and they might take the odd session or review progress in whatever way the mentors feel appropriate. Should a mentor require a specific player the juvenile committee would prefer you deal thru’ the above representatives.
Following on from a very successful presentation by Will Heffernan on mentors night, we have now agreed for Will to return on Monday 21st 7.30pm in Sancta Maria to give an outdoor session which I think many mentors will benefit from. All are welcome .
We are increasingly coming under pressure from other interested groups in the promotion of our games. As mentors we need to continually strive to hold onto all our players. From last year we have lost 107 registered players across all ages up to and including U16. The committee is reviewing the reasons behind this fall off and would appreciate if you can drop us a note with your thoughts. In the meantime we plan to talk to the individual team mentors and hopefully prevent such occurrence next year.
We are hoping to run a hurling street league in the very near future. If you are interested in helping please contact myself (087 2542214) or Mick Keville (086 3292061) asap.
This will be ideal way for adult players to get involved and pitch your estate against your neighbours. We hope to have a gala night with various finals and barbeque. Can you be the first winning estate and put your name down in the history books of the club. We need many many volunteers for this to be a success. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks for everyone’s continued support .
Best Regards,
John Ryan
Juvenile Chairman