With 26 juvenile teams and over 400 kids across the 4 codes, Davitt’s GAC had to use two sessions to accomodate everyone at their junvenile awards at the Devenish Complex
A big thank you to all the parents/guardians and extended family members who came to celebrate with us in one of the biggest days in the clubs calendar.
Over £2500 was generated on the day and will go towards our juvenile development.
This was an outstanding success and a memorable occasion for players, coaches and families. The event highlighted not only the achievements of our young juveniles throughout the season but showcased the tremendous effort and spirit within the club. It was a proud day for everyone involved and a strong reminder of the importance of community, teamwork, and the continued investment in our young juveniles.
A big thank you to The Devenish complex, Saffron Gael, club volunteers and mentors for making the day a huge success. Roll on 2026
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Cross & Passion Ballycastle 3-9 St Mary’s Magherafelt 1-10
A goal from corner forward Eimear McCaughan in the 60th minute of Saturday’s Corn Uan Uladh semi-final in Creggan sealed a place in the final for CPC as they got the better of St Mary’s, Magherafelt. The Ballycastle school were two to the good at this stage and appeared to be safe, but McCaughan’s goal put the icing on the cake.
Cross and Passion were on top in the early stages but they could not turn their possession into scores and St Mary’s took advantage as they went two clear with points from Jemma Shivers and Eva Forbes. It was nearing the end of the opening quarter before the Antrim side got on the scoreboard through centre forward Teagan Cassidy and soon afterwards they took the lead when the quick thinking Eobha McAllister fired a quick free to the Magherafelt net.
St Mary’s hit right back with a goal of their own when centre back Aoibh Shivers took advantage of a misplaced puc-out by CPC but Eimear McCaughan responded well for the Ballycastle school and had her team back on terms with two well taken points.
The Derry girls got back ahead when corner forward Cara McNally found the target but CPC finished the half strongly. Mary McArthur drew her team level before Marie Laverty pounced on a defensive mistake to finish to the net in style. That put them three clear and things got even better in the run in to half time when Eobha McAllister added another points to send her team in at the break with a four point cushion. (2-05 to 1-04)
St Mary’s started the second half strongly and had the gap back to the minimum with two points from Eva Forbes frees and one from play from Jemma Shivers and it remained that way when Eobha McAllister and Grainne Doherty exchanged points from frees.
Two McAllister points and one from McEimear McCaughan stretched the CPC advantage to four once again and though both teams had chances to add to their tally it remained that way until McCaughan settled it with her late goal.
CPC: É McAllister 1-5 (1-3fs), E McCaughan 1-3, M Laverty 1-0, T Cassidy and M McArthur 0-1 each.
St Mary’s: J Shivers 1-2, E Forbes 0-5, (3fs), E Cullen, G Doherty (f) and C McNally 0-1 each
CPC: Molly McToal, Sarah Flavin, Sarah Louise Kearns, Mecha Cunning, Cara Delaney, Aoibheaan Gillan, Fiah Sands, Éobha McAllister, Rose McMullan, Marie Laverty, Tegan Cassidy, Louise McBride, Eimear McCaughan, Mary McArthur, Adria McAllister.
St Mary’s: KJ McCoy, B Bradley, F McGuckin, M O’Kane, E Kearney, O Devlin, A Shivers, L Scullion, A Rocks, E Cullen, E Forbes, G Doherty, A Doherty, J Shivers, C McNally.
Subs: R Gribben for A Doherty (24), C McErlean for C McNally (52)
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TONIGHTS FINAL HAS BEEN POSTPONED BECAUSE OF A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING AND HAS BEEN REFIXED FOR OWENBEG TOMORROW (SATURDAY) FOR 3PM
Danske Bank Mageean Cup Final
Cross & Passion College v St Patrick’s College Maghera
St Pat’s Maghera go into Friday night’s Mageean Cup final against CPC as favourites after having gone through the qualifying campaign unbeaten, but their rivals will feel they are in with good chance themselves having won all but one their games, even though it was against Friday’s rivals.
When the two met in that opening round on October 15th in Portglenone the Maghera boys (who had beaten their Co Derry neighbours Colaiste Feirste four days earlier) laid down a marker when they sprung from the traps to dominate the early stages of the game. They had a goal and a point on the boards in the first minute, the goal coming from Lavey star Rian Collins, who ended the game on 2-04 in a man of the match performance. Finn Cartin got goal number two for the Derry school and Ultan McCloskey got the third as they opened up a 3-06 to 0-03 lead after ten minutes.
Cross & Passion looked dead and buried, especially when Collins got his team’s fourth goal, but the cup holders showed a bit of character and got themselves back into contention when Liam McGarry grabbed a goal and Cadhan Crawford added two more to cut their arrears to seven by half time.
When Oisin McCallin added the first four points of the second half there was just three between the teams but St Pat’s found their touch again and sent over some top class points to give themselves a little bit of breathing space as they pushed the gap out to six. Substitute Paidi O’Kane grabbed a goal to leave just three between them again but Rian Tohill had the last say with a point for Maghera to seal a four point win.
St Pat’s had now secured a semi-final spot where they faced St Killian’s, again under the Portglenone lights. This time they were slow starters and were just three ahead of the Garron Tower boys at the break. However they did the real damage during the third quarter when Rian Collins added some great points and Ultan McCloskey grabbed their second goal and Fionn Cartin their third. They were in total control but St Killian’s came strong in the final quarter and corner forward Connlaodh McNaughton brought them back to within six with two well taken goals. McNaughton had a chance for a third goal but goalkeeper D0nnacha Collins made a good stop and the Maghera boys hit a late point to see them home by seven.
A big win for Cross & Passion over Gaelcholáiste Dhoire in their next round at Quinn Park, Ballymena got their bid to retain their title back on track, the Ballycastle school running up a total of 7-17 with Cadhan Crawford and Oisin McCallin again among the goals. A second from McCallin, two by the youngest player on the pitch Paidi O’Kane, plus one apiece by Emmett McKendry and Ryan McQuaid completer the rout and set up a semi-final meeting with St Mary’s.
That game, again at Quinn Park, Ballymena proved a really tough encounter in which it took extra time to see off the challenge of the Glen Road boys. The sides ended level at the end of normal time, after a great equalising point from man of the match Sean Og McLaren as both teams matched each other score for score down the finishing straight.
When St Mary’s led at half-time in extra time they must have felt they had it won, but Oisin McCallin displayed his scoring power in the second half of extra time to hit four points in a row and seal a semi-final meeting with St Louis.
That semi-final against the Ballymena school was played in very good conditions in Cushendun and when CPC led by 1-09 to 0-01 their place in their final seemed assured, despite the fact they had a strong breeze behind them. However the brilliant Fointan Bradley eventually got his team going and a goal from a penalty and three points from play in the lead-in to half time put a different complexion on things.
When Bradley hit the first three points of the second half St Louis looked favourites to advance but CPC steadied the ship and late Oisin McCallin point got them over the line.
St Pat’s, who have the brilliant Portglenone dual star Odhran Doherty in their ranks, will start as favourites, and considering the level of their performances throughout deservedly so. The have a great all around team with a host of stars throughout the field. However CPC have also stars aplenty, especially in the forward line and if they can get off to a good start then they could well be the first team to put titles back to back since they did it themselves in 2014/2015
FonaCAB St Pauls Ulster Minor Tournament, Quarter-Final
Dromintee 2-15-1-11 Ardboe
Kevin Herron reports from Paric Naomh Pol
DROMINTEE survived a twenty minute second half fightback from Ardboe that saw their NINE-point half-time advantage reduced to three in their 2-15-1-11 win in the quarter-final at Paric Naomh Pol on Sunday afternoon.
A lightning start saw them kick 2-5 unanswered within the first 11-minutes- though Ardboe rallied after the break and a 48th minute Ruairi ‘Razza’ O’Neill (15) goal saw the Tyrone Champions cut the gap to three.
Scorer of Dromintee’s first goal- Ronan Martin, helped himself to three of his sides last five scores thereafter and that eased any lingering doubts and ensured his side will make the return trip to West Belfast over the festive period to take on the winners of the final quarter-final clash between Dungiven and Four Masters..
Ardboe almost had a goal from the first attack when last week’s top scorer Darragh Devlin charged through, but he failed to hit the target and tamely shot wide.
Instead, it was Dromintee who were first off the mark through a Calvin Mooney point, a two-pointer followed a minute later when Fionn Toale switched the ball to Diarmaid O’Rourke to shoot over from the edge of the arc.
O’Rourke doubled his account and things got much better in the eighth minute when the Armagh Champions shot in the game’s opening goal.
Oisin Byrne cut in along the byline and laid the ball off to Fionn Toale and he picked out Ronan Martin to blast home via the post and make it 1-4-0-0.
Momentum was firmly with Dromintee with Oisin Byrne swinging over a point and adding his side’s second goal in the 11th minute from Fionn Toale’s assist.
Ardboe were shaken and it took until the 14th minute before they replied from a close range Darragh Devlin free, though they fell further behind when Jarleth O’Neill and Mooney kicked scores within the space of 60-seconds to move their side 2-7-0-1 ahead.
Three scores in succession kicked Ardboe back into gear, Cahir McKeown dropped a shot over, Ruairi ‘Razza] O’Neill laid the ball off to Darcy Mallon to find range and after Jamie Concannon was felled, Devlin converted his second free of the half.
The half concluded with the sides trading scores through Ronan Martin and Devlin (free) as Dromintee were well in the ascendancy, leading 2-8-0-5 at the halfway point.
The Tyrone Champions were much quicker out of the blocks after the break and had reduced arrears by a third within the first six minutes.
Edan McCartney was fouled by Tomas Fox- allowing Devlin to kick fourth free, within less than a minute he fired over his first from play and added another from the placed ball shortly afterwards.
Dromintee goalkeeper James Bennett needed to react quickly to divert a low Devlin effort behind at the expense of a 45’, though the pressure lifted when Conor Dunne landed a 45’ to get his side up and running for the second period.
Points were exchanged between Edan McCarney and Keane McArdle- whose shot clipped the bar and went over.
Midway through the half, Devlin brought his tally from the placed ball to six to make it a six-point game (2-10-0-10) but the next score would half the deficit.
Ardboe were very much on top and with 12-minutes remaining a Ruairi ‘Razza’ O’Neill (15) shot snuck its way into the corner of Mc Bennett’s net to set up a grandstand finish on the Shaws Road.
Dromintee needed cool heads and hit the next on the 54th minute through Fionn Toale’s shot that hung up and dropped between the posts.
In response, Jamie Concannon landed a point back, but Ronan Martin kicked the first of three points on the spin to restore his side’s six-point advantage by the hour mark.
Martin’s first was a high effort that curled between the posts, and he added two further scores; on both occasions Fionn Toale was the supplier.
Deep into injury time Conor Dunne’s 45’ dropped short and substitute Michael Walker’s close range attempt finished the afternoon’s scoring as Dromintee booked their place in the last four and will return to St Pauls again on St Stephen’s Day when they will face the winners of the last quarter-final clash between Dungiven and Four Masters (14th December).
DROMINTEE: J McBennett, J O’Neill (0-1), C Dunne (0-1 45’), G O’Rourke, Fergus Toale, T Fox, M O’Neill, D O’Rourke (0-3, 1×0-2pt), K McArdle (0-1), C Mooney (0-2), Fionn Toale (0-1), S Harris, R Martin (1-4), O Carnegie, O Byrne (1-1). SUBS: M Walker (0-1) for S Harris (37).
ARDBOE: S McConville, R Forbes, C McKeown (0-1), Peter Joe Quinn, D Mallon (0-1), D McKeown, JP Doris, E McCartney (0-1), J Concannon (0-1), Ruairi O’Neill (10), Dylan Devlin, J Muldoon, D Muldoon, Darragh Devlin (0-7, 0-6f), Ruairi ‘Razza’ O’Neill (15) (1-1). SUBS: O Coleman for Dylan Devlin (18),
REFEREE: Paul Falloon (Down)
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Naomh Séamas held their Annual Dinner Dance and awards ceremony last night at the Tullyglass Hotel. With nearly 400 people in attendance the night was a celebration of a club that is clearly intent on getting bigger and better.
There was some important initiatives launched at the evening with their Club Facility Development plan launched. This was followed by the announcement of their 1st club development fundraiser when they will be hosting the Quid games on the 28th Feb 2026.
There was also the significant announcement that their Chairman of 13 years, Paul McCarthy was stepping down. Paul was awarded a gift for recognition of his time and dedication to the club.
Then it was over to the awards for all their players from young to old, girls to boys where they got their awards presented by the Senior Ladies and mens captains Anna Crossan and Seamus McGarry.
There was a special presentation to the club President Seamus Henry for his time and service to the club over the past 60 years.
The club the presented Bert Trowlen of the Saffron Gael with a cheque to help support their sterling work throughout the year.
The dancing and craic kicked on into the late hours. Another hugely succesful night and the club would like to thank the Tullyglass team for a fantastic evening. Also a big shout out to Bert Trowlen for his fantastic photographs.
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