By Damien Ahern

Good Luck! 

Best of luck to the Limerick Senior Hurling Team in the All Ireland Final on Sunday at Croke Park. We hope we are celebrating three in a row by this time next week!

Athea Coiste Na Nog – 12 th July 2022

Boys & Girls Football Training:

Nursery, U7, U8, U9, U10 & U11 – Friday @ 6:30pm
Newcomers welcome, please come and try out.
Boys Football Training:
U13 – Monday @ 6:30pm
U15 – Monday @ 7pm in Ballyhahill & Thursday @ 7pm in Glin
U17 – Tuesday @ 8pm in Glin & Friday @ 8pm in Athea

Boys & Girls Hurling Training:
Nursery, U7, U9 & U11 – Sunday @ 11am
U11 – Sunday @ 11am & Wednesday @ 7pm
Newcomers welcome, please come and try out.
Helmet and Hurley’s available for newcomers for the first few weeks.
Accepting children from Athea and outside Athea.

Boys Hurling Training:
U13 – Sunday @ 11am & Wednesday @ 7pm
Please bring Gum shields and water.

This week’s Coiste fixtures:
Tuesday 12th July
U11 Boys &Girls Football – Athea V Fr. Caseys in Athea @ 6:45pm
Thursday 14th July
U13 Boys Football – Belville Gaels V Athea in Coolyroe V42 T270 @ 7pm
Friday 15th July
U9 Boys & Girls Football – Athea V St. Senans in Athea @ 6:45pm
Saturday 16th July
U7 Boys & Girls Football – Cappagh V Athea in Cappagh V94 WD52 @ 10:30am
U12 Boys Football – Drom Broadford V Athea in Dromcollogher P56 H584 @ 11:30am

U8 Girls

Well done to our U8 girls who played a blitz last Wednesday night against Castlemahon and Gerald Griffins

U12 Girls

Well done to our \u12 girls who played  Drom / Broadford away on Friday night in the last series game before the summer break.

U16 Girls

Well done to our U16 girls who had a great win over Gerald Griffins on Monday night in the second round of the championship.

U19 Boys

It’s an important week next week for the Shannon Gaels Athea,  U19 footballers. On Monday 18th at 7.30pm in Ballyhahill we play Askeaton/ Ballysteen/ Kilcornan  and on the following  night Tuesday 19th we play Adare  in Athea at 7.30pm.

The team had a good win in round one away to Ballylanders.  We will be looking to the players with adult club team experience, like joint captains Hugh O Donnell  and T.J Hunt , as well as Maurice Fitzgerald,  Cormac Thomson,  Donagh  McKenry and Michael Tierney to inspire us.

Adult Ladies Div 2.

Hard luck to our senior team who lost to Knockainey away last Wednesday night . Team: Sarah O Connor, Amy Carmody, Amy Ryan, Saorcha Fitzgerald , Mary Ita Casey, Maeve Murphy, Rachel Greaney, Aoife Curtain, Anita Quinn, Shauna Dalton, Jackie Stackpoole, Caz Somers, Molly Ahern.

Final league game is this week Wednesday 13th July against St. Bridget’s in Herbertstown at 7.45

Pitch Development
Over the last two months the club has invested in the maintenance of the main pitch to keep it to a high standard. Starting with worm treatment earlier in the year we applied fertiliser to take us into May when we carried out sanding and hollow tining. We have since sprayed weed killer and applied further fertiliser.
The pitch should now start to show strong grass and will need regular cutting.
We have invested €6000 this year carrying out the above works.
Hopefully the money is well spent and will stand to us this winter. You can support this work by supporting our club draw below.

Club Draw
Tickets are now on sale for the Athea GAA Club Development Draw 2022, with the first draw to take place in late July. Tickets are priced at just €50 which covers entry into all 5 draws over 5 months with a total prize fund of €7,200. Tickets can be purchased online through clubforce by following the link –  https://member.clubforce.com/memberships_cart_m.asp?LL_ID=2203&intMF_ID=9741#AnchorTickets can also be purchased by contacting any of our usual sellers. Many thanks to everyone for your continued support, allowing us to continue to invest in our facilities at Pairc na nGael

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