An Riocht club notes
July 21, 20147pm U12 Camogie practice; 7pm U14 Camogie Championship Semi Final v Mayobridge; 7.30pm U18 Football An Riocht v Ballyholland; 8pm Senior Camogie Practice.
Wednesday 23 July
11am Mens Shed; 7pm U12 Football Practice; 7.30pm Senior Football practice; 7.30pm Senior Camogie Championship Quarter Final Replay v Ballyholland in Atticall; as there is no juvenile camogie tonight, parents are asked to take the children to Atticall to support the Seniors.
Thursday 24 July
10am Kingdom in association with Greencastle Area Residents Car Boot Sale at Dunavil; 7.30pm U16 Football in Kilcoo.
Friday 25 July
7pm P5/P6 Gaelic; 7.30pm Senior Football An Riocht v Atticall at Dunavil.
Saturday 26 July
GI Jive at Esplanade; U12 Camogie in Bredagh.
Sunday 27 July
10.30am Breakfast Club, come along for a chat and a bite; 12pm Extended Provision moderation; 2pm Reserve Football in Downpatrick; 8pm Bingo.
Monday 30 July
11am Men's Shed visit by REACH; 6.45pm U14 Football Practice; 7pm Finance meeting; 7pm U14 & U16 Camogie; 9pm Lotto Draw.
Tuesday 29 July
7pm Executive Committee; U14 Camogie An Riocht v Clonduff; U18 Camogie Championship Final v Portaferry or Liatroim.
Wednesday 30 July
7.30pm Senior Camogie An Riocht v Clonduff.
Thursday 31 July
6.30pm Meeting with Insurers; 7.30pm U16 Football An Riocht v Downpatrick.
Match Reports
U16 Football An Riocht v Ballyholland
The U16 footballers produced another marvellous and unexpected result on Thursday with a 3-7 to 0-5 win over visiting league leaders Ballyholland Harps.
Thomas Sloan with three fantastic saves, including a full length diving penalty save; Michael Harper and Shane Cunningham covering along the back line like veterans; Liam Rodgers a dominating force at centre half; Conor Clarke majestic as ever at centre field; and Jack Rafferty unerring from free kicks claimed the plaudits but this was a real team effort. Paul Kearney and Ronan Campbell worked tirelessly up and down the pitch from wing back; Dane Matthews and Marc Rooney put in some telling tackles in the middle third; while the lighter boys like Eoin Sloan, Blaine Rooney, Paddy McComiskey and Caomhan Campbell showed their worth with thoroughly committed displays.
Conor Clarke opened the scoring with a huge point from play before Jack Rafferty punished rash tackling with two close in frees. Ballyholland were coming more into it however and were awarded a penalty after some twelve minutes but Thomas Sloan was down to his right to push the spot kick around the post. Moments later Thomas saved again to keep Harps out and in a breakaway attack Conor Clarke soloed all of fifty yards riding tackles before firing to the roof of the net for a six nil lead. With twenty five minutes on the clock the visitors got their first point but Jack Rafferty's third free left An Riocht ahead 1-4 to 0-1 at the break.
Harps went for goals on the restart but found the home defence in determined mood with some great tackling and blocking depriving them of scores and Jack Rafferty added his fourth free at the other end. However by the fortieth minute Ballyholland had put two scores back to back and it looked ominous for a tiring An Riocht side. Then between the forty fifth and fiftieth minutes Jack Rafferty pointed from a free and from play and the visitor's resistance was broken, five minutes from time they added their fifth point and forced another fine save from Thomas but again An Riocht transferred the ball quickly up the pitch and Caomhan Campbell came in at the far post to bundle the ball over the line and in added time Ronan Campbell's shot from distance crept in just under the crossbar for our third goal and a hard fought but thoroughly deserved win.
Team: Thomas Sloan, Michael Harper, Shane Cunningham, Paul Kearney, Liam Rodgers, Ronan Campbell 1-0, Conor Clarke 1-1, Marc Rooney, Paddy McComiskey, Dane Mathews, Eoin Sloan, Blaine Rooney, Jack Raffertty 0-6 (5f). Sub: Caomhan Campbell 1-0.
U18 Football Kilcoo v An Riocht
The Minor Footballers won in Kilcoo 8-13 to 3-5. At half time only two points separated the teams, 2-6 to 2-4, but An Riocht pulled away in the second half.
Team: S Doran, K Colgan, A Harper, A Sloan, S McDowell, R White, B Rafferty, J Walker, D Morgan, N McComiskey, D Campbell, M O'Rourke, A Eastwood.
Subs: T Sloan, L Rodgers, C Clarke, D Matthews, M Harper, S Cunningham.
U8 & U10 Camogie Blitzes at Kilcoo
At the Camogie Blitz in Kilcoo An Riocht enjoyed all their games.
Senior Camogie An Riocht Ballycran
In the Senior Camogie Summer League Ballycran beat An Riocht but it was the kind of game that should bring An Riocht on a bunch just in time for their championship encounter.
Senior Football Shamrocks v An Riocht
An Riocht won at Pairc Esler on Sunday evening by 0-14 to 0-8, repeating their Championship success over the Shamrocks albeit showing nine changes in personnel from that side.
Missing were Liam McVeigh, Joe McVeigh, Conor Doyle and Rory Cunningham from defence; Ronan McAlinden and James Cunningham from midfield; Darren Doyle, Declan Doyle and Paddy Cole from attack.
John Clarke was the go to man for An Riocht with eleven points, five from play, but would be the first to acknowledge the quality ball in and the diversionary runs of fellow attackers helped create the chances. Paul Murney and Conor Cole battled away at centre field and when Kory Colgan came on he made several high catches. At the back Brendan McVeigh marshalled his defenders while Conor McVeigh had another outstanding hour at full back.
An Riocht: Brendan McVeigh, Michael Trainor, Conor McVeigh, Michael Clarke, Paul Sherry, Deaglan O'Reilly, Aidan Sloan, Paul Murney, Conor Cole 0-1, Paddy Gartland 0-1, Darren White, Deaglan Morgan, James Reilly, John Clarke 0-11 (6f), Ryan Spiers 0-1. Subs: Kory Colgan, John O'Rourke
Accredited Steward Training took place on Thursday at Dunavil with a good turnout of Club members.
Keep Saturday 30th August free for 5K Family Sponsored Walk & 10K Fun Run starting 12pm, followed by Social Sevens & Fun Sports Day from 2pm, followed by music in the club from 5pm to 9pm. More details later.
The additional Coach Tops have arrived; please call into the Club to collect yours.
Football Championship Details
Senior: The IFC match v Darragh Cross will take place at 7pm at Clonduff on Thursday 14th August.
Minor: The MFC match v Downpatrick will take place at 7.30pm at Dunavil on Tuesday 5th August.
U16: The U16FC match v Tullylish scheduled for 14th August at Dunavil will not take place then as it clashes with our IFC fixture.
U14: The U14FC match v Longstone will take place at Longstone on Monday 4th August.
The U12 Camogs have entered an Ulster tournament at Cavan Gaels on Sunday 3rd August and the U18 Camogs will play in an Ulster sevens competition at Lavey on Saturday 2nd August.
Regenerating Environments And Communities' Health (REACH) project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities across the Southern Trust area. They tailor their programme's content and duration to suit the specific requirements of each person/group. REACH will attend at Kingdom Men's Shed on Monday at 11am, everyone is invited to come along and see what they have to offer.
There is a Basketball Coaching Camp at Dunavil all week from 11am to 1pm from Monday 21st to Friday 25th July with Community Coaches Dave Tierney and Sherman Hall.
Fingallians have just released details of their U10 football tournament on 9th August; An Riocht will play in a group with Fingallians (Dublin), Cooley Kickhams (Louth) and Eire Og (Carlow).
An Riocht U8 Footballers will play in a tournament at Longstone on 16th August. Tweet
