Inter-County Action Returns: Castleknock has a super six players, Darragh Warnock, Ciaran Murphy, Senan Forker, Conor Chawke, Luke Swan and Conor Kelly who are all members of the Dublin squad for this Saturday’s (Oct.17) All-Ireland U-20 Football Championship Semi-Final between Dublin and Tyrone. The game will be played at 2.30pm in Kingspan Breffni Park, Cavan and will be shown live on TG4. 

It’s just over seven months since Dublin beat Laois in the Leinster Final (March 6) so these players have been waiting a long time for this game. It’s wonderful to have so many Castleknock players involved at national level and we send our best wishes to everyone concerned.

A little earlier on Saturday, at 2pm, it’s the turn of the Dublin Minor Footballers who make the short journey to Navan to take on Meath in the opening round of this year’s Leinster Minor Football Championship. Again Castleknock is well represented. We are delighted to have Rob O’Shea and Gavin Murphy O’Kane (who unfortunately is injured) in the Dublin squad. The game has a 2pm throw-in and while there is no word as yet of any arrangements to stream the match live, there will be radio coverage on the Meath local station, LMFM 95.5FM. Wishing Rob all the best.   

On Saturday night then it’s the return of the National Football League with Dublin playing Meath in Parnell Park in Round 6 under lights. Throw-in time is 7pm and is being shown live on Eir Sports. Great to hear that another two Castleknock players, Shane Boland and Rob Shaw, have been training with the Dublin squad in recent weeks – long may it continue. Good luck too, to our senior, senior player Ciarán Kilkenny for what is bound to be an extraordinary inter-county year ahead (In the Mix for Six).

Nursery – 2014 Girls Outnumber Boys: In spite of the Level 3 Restrictions the Nursery continues on its remarkably successful way due to the enormous efforts of an army of volunteers to whom we are as always hugely thankful to.

An interesting feature of last Saturday’s turnout was that the numbers of girls who turned up in the 2014 group actually outnumbered the boys in that same group, a tribute to the success of the Dublin Ladies footballers in recent years and of course to the great work being done in our local schools at present. Great to see Maria back working in the National Schools and to see former Mayo star David Brady helping out at the Nursery.

The current Nursery times are – 

10am-11: 2013 girls; 2015 boys and girls; 2016 boys and girls.

11.30am-12.30: 2014 girls and boys. 

Pass Them On: Do you have any small helmets and/or hurls lying around the house or garage that are just taking up space? If you have why not bring them down to the Nursery on any Saturday morning. We promise we’ll find a good home for them.

  

Next Up: Who knows? A number of our teams are still involved in the hurling, football and Ladies Football Championships or Cups and hopefully we will receive more clarity over the next two weeks. It’s a tough time for players and management to prepare for club games when they have no idea of what lies ahead so all we can ask you to do is hang in there and remain focused on the prizes ahead.

Fake News: It wasn’t a great year for our Senior footballers but it wasn’t quite as bad as the result which appeared on the Dublin County Board website after we lost Round 3 of the SFC to Kilmacud – it was galling enough to lose never mind seeing the scoreline Kilmacud Crokes 1-111 Castleknock 0-12. The error was later rectified, the actual score being 1-11 0-12. Little comfort.

 

 

And Remember – Keep Washing Your Hands – Maintain Social Distance – Wear A Face Covering

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