RESULTS

U16 FC Rd. 3
Kilcormac/K 3-03
Edenderry 4-18

SFC Rd. 5
Tubber 0-09
Edenderry1-13

FIXTURES

WED 27 Aug 6.30
U12 FL (HOME)
Edenderry V St. Rynagh's

WED 27 Aug 7pm
MFC Rd. 4 (HOME)
Edenderry V St. Broughan's

THUR 28 Aug 7pm
U14 FC Rd. 4  (HOME)
Edenderry V Ballinamere/Durrow

SUN  31 Aug 5 or 6pm (TBC)
Re-fixed JHC Rd. 5
Edenderry V Gracefield

SENIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

Tubber 0-09  Edenderry 1-13

The JV BYRNE Sponsored Senior Football Team overcame Tubber on Sunday last in Clara to top Group 1 of the Offaly Senior Football Championship and secure a place in the Semi Final of the Championship for the 4th consecutive year.  The Reds will have a four week break to the Semi Final.

A full report features elsewhere in the paper.

Edenderry: Brian Quinlan, Colm Byrne, Stephen Guing, Sean Pender, David Hanlon, Sean Marshall, Stuart Cullen, Richie Dalton, Oran Lawton, Basil Malone, Mark Young, Dean Cummins, Keith McGuinness, Aaron McDonnell, Sean Doyle.

Subs: Sean Moriarty for Dean Cummins, Daniel Nolan for Stephen Guing.

Scorers: Sean Doyle (0-5, 1f), Daniel Nolan (1-0), Richie Dalton (0-3, 2f), Mark Young (0-3), Basil Malone (0-1), Aaron McDonnell (0-1).

U14 FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

K/K  3-03 Edenderry 4-18

The EDEN CLAIMS Sponsored U14 Football Team sit at he top of Group 1 following a hard fought win away to Kilcormac.  They face Ballinamere/Durrow this Thursday and the winner will have every chance of topping the group. 

OFFALY HURLING - OPEN FORUM
A major effort to restore Offaly hurling to its place among the top hurling counties will kick off with an Offaly Hurling Open Forum on the Wednesday after the All-Ireland hurling final.
 
A Leinster Council initiative, headed by former Offaly Manager, Diarmuid Healy has been established to put a process in place to re-establish Offaly as a top hurling county.
 
An Offaly Hurling Committee has been put to assist in the process.  The committee is chaired by Kieran Keenaghan(St Rynagh's) and includes Pat Cleary(Ballinamere); Joe Errity(Birr), Cillian Farrell(Edenderry), Martin Hanamy(St Rynagh's); Liam Hogan(Ballyboden St Enda's and formerly Coolderry); Finian McDermott(Tullamore); Damien Martin(St Rynagh's) and Pat O'Connor(Coolderry).
 
The role of the committee is to identify issues, identify solutions to those issues, draft plans to deal with the issues and identify people to implement those plans.
 
The committee has already identified coaching and team preparation at club and county level as two major issues.  Plans are already being drafted to organise courses in coaching and team preparation by top coaches from outside the county.
 
High-powered intensive courses are also being planned for all county mentors to commence in October.
 
An Offaly Hurling Open Forum will be held in the County Arms Hotel, Birr on Wednesday September 10 at 8pm.  This Forum will consist of a presentation by Diarmuid Healy on Stage 1 of Offaly Recovery - Implementing Skill Coaching in Team Preparation which will focus on defining hurling, coaching and team preparation.  This will be followed by questions and answers and a sharing of ideas of how to restore Offaly to its rightful place among the top hurling counties.  
 
The Forum is open to all.  Club officials, team mentors, players and club members are particularly encouraged to attend.

U10 FOOTBALL BLITZ IN CELBRIDGE
Edenderry Under 10 footballers and management team headed off early last Saturday morning to take part in the biggest football blitz held in Ireland this year, in Celbridge Co. Kildare.  Edenderry travelled with big numbers; even in the height of holiday season, we had two teams of 13 players with another 9 away on the day.  This group have had two teams for all blitzes and one off games all year, which is a great sign for the club. 

All of these players started out with the CÚL REDZ a number of years ago and the skills learned were all put on show on Saturday.  Edenderry were paired off into two evenly matched teams in the spirit of Go Games (Edenderry EAST & WEST).  The games were 10 a side and each game was 15 mins in duration. 

Edenderry East was in a group with Mullingar Shamrocks, Crossmaglen and Leixlip.  Edenderry were slow to get going in the first game and fell behind in the first half but they were much better in the second half but left just a little too much to do and lost out by 2 points. The lads gathered themselves up and came out all guns against the power houses of football Crossmaglen Rangers, they played some great football and worked hard for each other and came out winners by 6 points. In their last game Edenderry came up against Leixlip and the lads took off in the same manner to win the game easily.  Edenderry moved onto the next section of the blitz and came up against a strong home team in Celbridge.  The lads legs were started to feel tired and the early start and lost out by 6 points but they battled right to the end and never gave in.

Edenderry East panel was Mark Whelan, Josh Reilly, Bobby and Jake Mooney, Cain and Aaron Murphy, Stephen Davy, Cathal Tyrell, Daniel O Connell, Jake Connelly, Leon Mc Grath, Cathal Nolan and Tom Bergin.

Edenderry West was in a group with Celbridge, Sallins and Kilmurray Ibricklane, Edenderry played Kilmurray first, for the first few mins of the match the lads were a bit nervous but when they got going they never looked back and were always in control of this game they led from the 3rd min and in the end ran out winners by 16pts.  Next up for the lads was a the home team Celbridge, the lads were slow to get going but in the same manner took off and won out comfortably in the end.  Then on to the last game in the group and it was Sallins who had won their first two games as well. Edenderry started well, the game was very even with some outstanding football from both sides, all level at half time but Sallins came out the stronger in the second half and went 3 points up on Edenderry but the Reds boys were far from finished and battled back to win the game by 3 points.
Next up for Edenderry east was Leixlip, this was a great game of football it was point for point the whole game, however some strange refereeing decisions went against the young reds in this game and in the end they lost out by a single point. The lads again worked hard and never gave in till the final second.  On the Edenderry west panel was Aaron Kennedy, Mark Forde, Mark Mc Carty, Ben Whelan, Killian Lowry, Mark Byrne, Tieran Mc Glynn, Micheal Brady, Sean Larkin, Danny Brereton, Sean Lawless and Paudie Farrell.

Edenderry players can be very proud of how they fared out in this blitz,they were well able to hold their own up against some top class opposition.  When the of the coaches of Kilmacud Crokes, Crossmaglen Rangers, Ballymun Kickims and Crossmolina come up to the Edenderry management and ask how have you got them working so hard for the ball on and off it and praising their skill levels - we are surely heading in the right direction.  These lads are the first bunch to come up from CÚL REDZ and it has been from that it has all progressed for these lads, they all train very hard and are at it since the first week in April. The parents of these kids should be proud of the way they behaved themselves as Edenderry GAA Club are.

With all the football played it was off to get some food in McDonalds, the kids had a great bit of fun here for an hour then off home with the lads in full voice the whole way home.

The lads will be back in training Tue night as they have 3 more blitzes and then Edenderry will be holding an end of season blitz with teams from surrounding areas. Edenderry GAA would like to thank Willie Forde for the sponsorship for McDonald's.

EDENDERRY HURLERS MEET THE STARS
On Saturday 16th August last, in St. Conleth's Park in Newbridge hosted a Centra community hurling event with two of the country's brightest hurling stars, Henry Shefflin and Pádraic Maher, were on hand to give expert tips to the young aspiring hurlers!  Mangans Centra Edenderry was one of the participating stores and a number of Edenderry players got the opportunity to attend, including Cormac Farrell, Rurai Carroll, Cillian Foran and Conor Walsh.  It was a fantastic day and capped off brilliantly when the lads got their photograph taken with Henry Shefflin.

U12 WIN IN KILCORMAC & TRIP TO CROKE PARK
As a reward for this excellent work this Summer the Club has secured tickets to the Donegal V Dublin All Ireland Semi-Final in Croke Park on the 31st of August next.  This promises to be a great day out for the lads as they will get an opportunity to sample the atmosphere at a full house in Croke Park on match day.  The boys will be travelling by bus and accompanied by members of the management team.  This is something to look forward to and a full report will be published on the trip following the event.

GAELIC FOR DADS & OTHERS
FRIDAY FITNESS - Due to popular demand the "Gentle" kick-a-around is back for the Gaelic4Dads & Others. All those interested in a friendly kick around to help improve their fitness are welcome to attend 7.30 every Friday at Edenderry GAA. The intention is to continue for the next few weeks in the run up to the All Ireland Final and hopefully finish the season with a challenge game against a neighbouring team.

CUL REDZ - GRANDPARENTS DAY
Saturday 30th of August promises to be a very exciting morning at CÚL REDZ - just before the guys return to School we are hosting a GRANDPARENTS Morning at CÚL REDZ.  We'd love to see the Grandparents of the players coming down to see the great work that their grandchildren are doing and how much they've improved over the whole summer.  It promises to be agreat morning of fun and entertainment.

CÚL REDZ continues every Saturday at 10.45am and we welcome all children from 4-8 yrs to attend.  Its free of charge and you can drop in a check it out anytime.

CAR STICKERS
2014 Car Stickers are now available - membership is still open and can be purchased for 20 euro in order to get your sticker.

LOTTO & BINGO
There was no winner of our Lotto Jackpot at Sundays draw and it now rises to €6,300 for next weeks draw.

The numbers drawn were 3,9,12,25 Bonus 13.

Three players matched 3 numbers and won €70 each.
They were:
Garrett Reilly C/o myclubfinances.com
Carol Barr C/o Bingo
Kitty Aspell C/o Bingo

Well don to Garrett on his win - small compensation for all the tickets he sells.

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