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St Benedict’s power ther way to Shield victory

GAELFAST YEAR 8 FOOTBALL SHIELD FINAL

St Benedicts Randalstown v St Patrick’s Lisburn

St Benedicts College Randalstown were in unstoppable form as they raced to victory over St Patricks Lisburn in the Year 8 Shield final at Dunsilly.

The goals flew in from all angles as last year’s runners up showed off their wide range of skills with Caden Mulvenna, Corey Carroll and Ricky Mensah Afram all grabbing goals.

Midfield Ciara Remond was another to catch the eye of the Randalstown school Harry Robinson also showed his skills.

Nadia Gosz and Max Megarry gave their all for St Patrick’s, but the Lisburn college were battling against the odds deserve great credit for keeping going to the end  

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Colaiste Feirste battled to the end but Rathmore always had their number

GAELFAST YEAR 8 FOOTBALL FINAL

Rathmore Grammar 5-13 Colaiste Feirste 5-03

Rathmore Grammar won a high scoring Year 8 Football Cup final at Dunsilly on Wednesday evening when they beat Belfast rivals Colaiste Feirste by 5-13 to 5-03.

It all looked like plain sailing for Rathmore when the played some great football to open up a 2-09 to 0-0 lead, both goals coming from Dermot Logan. Things looked bleak for the Irish College but led on by their brilliant midfielder Fionnbhar Stiobhard they started to claw their way back, Stiobhard grabbing two goals before the interval.

Rathmore led by 2-9 to 2-0 as the second half got underway and they stretched their lead with goals from Keevan Murray and Dermot Logan plus points from Se Wall, Logan and Finnegan to seal the win. However Colaiste Feirste kept battling away and a great wee spell in the final quarter saw them get their goal tally up to five by the end.

Rathmore were ruthless in the opening half and Garret Finnegan, Caleb Logan, Oliver Lloyd, Odhran O’Prey and Dermot Logan all contributed to the points tally, Logan also getting the two goals as they move 2-9 to 0-0 ahead. Colaiste Feirste did have a couple of good chances during that spell but were off target with their final shot, but in the final five minutes of that opening half they made the breakthrough and Stiobhard’s two goals made thing look much better.

The first half of the second period saw Rathmore regain their dominance of the game overall and the outcome was never in doubt. However you could sense a little unease among some of their supporters when Stiobhard had another real purple patch in the final quarter, but the gap was just too big to be bridged and the boys in blue were winners with a bit to spare.

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Double Success for Moneynick

What a week it has been for Moneynick Primary school with success on and off the field for the school.

On Wednesday their successful South West indoor 5s girls winning team competed in the all county finals at Tir na nOg. 

Coming up against schools who were much bigger in size in the form of St Joseph’s Dunloy and St Anne’s Belfast, the girls from Moneynick were undaunted and won both games to capture the county crown. They will now go forward to represent Antrim in the Ulster finals. An indication of the club links the school has can be seen in this team, a squad of 6 players could be broken down to 2 girls each from Cargin, Moneyglass and Creggan. A wonderful story and good luck in Ulster.

Fast forward two days and more success was in store for the school. They were awarded 2nd place in the Promotion of the Cumman na mBunscol Gaelic Games and Culture section and a further 2nd place in the School of the Year Category last night at the Allianz Cumann na mBunscol Award Ceremony in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

Well done from everyone at Aontroma Cumann na mBunscol.

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Carey Faughs did ‘Strictly’..and did it very well

Well over 400 hundred people descended on Carey Faughs last Saturday evening to witness a fantastic evening of entertainment by local dancers, who had been tutored for past six weeks by Loughgiel dancing instructor Claire McGuckian.  The line-up included 4  current senior Carey players. First up were father and daughter team Patrick McVeigh and Christina,  followed by Cealach Lavell and Gerard Cubby McAuley, with the crowd now getting full value for money Anne McBride and young Pearce Hegarty took the floor, next appearing for his second strictly was Darren McVeigh and partner Clare O’Brien, followed by Patricia Laverty and birthday boy Robert ‘Elvis’ Hunter. The second half kicked off with Shamrocks girl Simone Connelly and Carey defender Sean McBride,  Aoibh Mullan and another hurler Conleth McKinley were the seventh pair  with recently married John McBride and Megan up next, the entertainment had the crowd rocking,  Ballyvoy pair Bronagh Burns and Aodhan McAuley were the penultimate couple followed by another Shamrock Therse Mc Kinley and Carey corner back Eoin Hill. What turned out to be a difficult night for the judges, Theresa and Eoin claimed the judges award with Anne and Pearce picking up the audience award.