Inter County stars to shoot out for MBNA Kick Fada title
September 12, 2005
Over 20 inter-county Gaelic Football players will shoot out for the MBNA Kick Fada title on Saturday, September 17th in the sixth annual MBNA Kick Fada at Bray Emmets GAA Club, Co Wicklow.
The MBNA Kick Fada competition, football's equivalent of the Poc Fada, determines the champion "long and accurate kicker" of Gaelic football and will be hosted this year by RTE's Michael Lyster. Competitors must kick the ball over the bar through specific competition goal posts with distances measured from the posts to where the ball was kicked.
The champion male and female kickers will receive a ?1,500 holiday voucher and an MBNA Kick Fada All Ireland medal, with the overall winning kicker receiving the MBNA Kick Fada Champion Trophy. This will be the sixth annual MBNA Kick Fada All Ireland final and is once more hosted by Bray Emmets GAA Club at their new grounds in Old Connacht Avenue, Bray. The event is free to the public and all are welcome.
Offaly Goalkeeper Paraic Kelly will defend his All Ireland title and will be joined by a host of top class footballers including:
Mark Herbert (Four times champion and record holder) (Kildare)
Mattie Forde (Wexford)
Ciaran McDonald (Mayo)
Liam McBarron (Fermanagh)
Mark Vaughan (Dublin)
Fergal Byron (Laois)
David Gallagher (Meath)
Ian Burke (Wicklow)
Fintan Ruddy
David Heaney (Mayo)
Stephen Gallagher (Westmeath)
Mick Wright (Kildare)
Enda Murphy (Kildare)
Darren Magee (Dublin)
Jonny Magee (Dublin)
Dan Nelligan (Kerry)
Paul O'Keeffe (Wicklow)
Conor Flannery (Wicklow)
Niall Kelly (Meath)
James Kindregan (Kildare)
Brendan O hAnnaidh (Wicklow)
Niall Gaffney (Wicklow)
Ciara Kennedy, Head of Business Development, MBNA Ireland said "'The MBNA Kick Fada has grown in stature over the last six years and we now have the very best of the best in Gaelic Football competing for this All Ireland title. With an impressive line up already confirmed, we are looking forward to another exciting final at Bray Emmets and we're sure that it will prove to be a great family day out."
The current All Ireland & World Record is an impressive 72 metres, kicked over the bar from the ground by four-time MBNA Kick Fada champion Mark Herbert from Co Kildare.
In addition to the MBNA Kick Fada competition MBNA will be helping support the development of junior hurling with the mini All Ireland taking place before the competition. Junior teams from all over the country will be competing for the All Ireland Hurling title.
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