St Josephs GAA Notes
March 23, 2015
Division 6 League:
St Josephs 2-13 Loughnavalley 1-08
St Josephs opened our league campaign with a useful win over neighbours Loughnavalley at their pitch on Sunday 22 March. Games between our two clubs are always keenly contested and Sundays was a good game with both sides doing their best to play decent football. St Josephs were somewhat rusty in the opening period as it was over six months since we played a full game together and it showed as our opponents were somewhat sharper in their play for much of the opening half. Saying that, we did hold a slender one point lead at half time when ahead by 0-8 to 1-4. Loughnavalley opened the scoring with a free inside two minutes which was equalised by Niall Moran in the 4th minute and by the 10th minute we led by 0-3 to 0-1 with Neil Keegans point from play being the pick of the scores. With little to choose between the sides, Loughnavalley gained an advantage when their full forward fired home a goal past Martin Looram and the home side led by 1-2 to 0-3 after 16 minutes. They kept their lead until the final minute of the half but St Josephs with three further points from frees by Niall Moran and points from play from Patrick Egan and Thomas Moran edged in front at the break. In the second half, St Josephs upped the ante somewhat and despite a rocky period midway through the half claimed the spoils with goals from Patrick Egan and Andrew Mc Cormack proving instrumental. In the end, St Josephs won the second half by 2-5 to 0-4 and were eight ahead at the finish. A good result though much tougher tasks lie ahead.
Team: Martin Looram,Pat Mc Cormack,Brian Fitzgerald,Daire Lynam,Hugh Boyle,Brian Killian,Neil Keegan,Wayne Mc Cormack,Colm Mc Cormack,Thomas Moran,Andrew Mc Cormack,Patrick Egan,Jack Farrell,Mark Mc Cormack,Niall Moran. Subs introduced; Padraic Moran,Andy Scally,Darren Mc Cormack,Aaron Mc Donnell(all second half).
Cash for Clubs
St Josephs have registered for the Topaz Cash for Clubs Promotion which has a Prize fund of €200000.
You collect a stamp when you spend €40 on fuel at any Topaz Station no matter where it is in Ireland.
We are asking our members to help us gather the 300 cards needed to have a genuine chance of getting extra funds for our GAA club. There is no cost apart from choosing to fill up your vehicle at a Topaz Station.
The registration code which you will need to place on your Cash for Club Stamp Cardsis 10992. Please share this code with all of our club members so that they can use on their Cards. You're now ready to start earning stamps at your local store and be in with a chance to win.
Membership:
Membership is due for 2015 and we are fast approaching our annual deadline of 31st March so we ask people to please pay their dues to club registrar Jim Mc Cormack as soon as possible.
