The Galway Minors Visit Killeeneen.

The successful Galway Minor Team who won the All Ireland Final this year visited our school with the Irish Press Cup on Friday the 2^nd of October. Evan Niland, Ian O’Brien, Cian Salmon, Patrick Foley and Shane Bannon are members of Clarinbridge club who were on the Galway panel. Evan Niland and Ian O Brien are past pupils of our school.

Galway had a tough path to the final. They played Kilkenny in the semi-final and won after a replay. They bet Tipperary in the final in Croke Park.

6^th Class gave a guard of honour with their hurls in the air while the champions walked in.  Evan spoke and gave us a few words of advice for practising our hurling and camogie at home. The boys were very kind to sign our jerseys and take a few photos with the children in our school.

By Caoimhe Kennedy and Luke Clarke

Garda Cup Shield Champions!

The Football Garda Cup is a 7 a-side football competition that takes place every year in Gort. It was held on the 16^th of October this year. A panel of ten represented our school at the tournament on the day. The players were Luke Forde, Peter Monaghan, Luke Clarke, Luke Martyn, Alex Haugh, Ben Lalor, Adam Fitzgerald, Michael Cotter, Colin Counihan and Fabien Fleetwood.

We played Northampton N.S in the first match and won. The second match we unfortunately lost to Kinvara N.S who were the overall winners on the day. We came second in our group so we qualified for the shield semi-final.

We played Ballymanagh N.S. in the shield semi final and we won. Then we went on to play Ballyglass N.S in the final. We won the match comfortably. Peter Monaghan was our captain and he received the cup. We all got medals on the day, we were the shield champions!

By Luke Clarke and Caoimhe Kennedy and Luke Martyn.