I think its great to see 4 teams from kildare representing the county in the leinster colleges senior 'A' championship.
The 4 teams are kilcock,patrcians newbridge,ardcoil athy and naas c.b.s..last year it was only athy and newbridge so the county is progressing.Last year athy won the south leinster 'A' league beating newbridge and this year Newbridge won it..great to see these younger lads playing at such a high level.even though most of the kilcock team is made up of meath lads,Edenderry(Offally) who are also in the 'A' have many carbury and balyna men on their squad.

joeyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 412 - 18/12/2008 16:25:34    167449

I saw Scoil Dara Kilcock play recently they have some serious players, not all Meath though, some Kilcock and I believe one or two are from Johnstownbridge. Also believe they have a few still U-16 on the team, great achievement to play A football at this level. Does anyone know who the Kildare U-16s are and if they are on the Kildare U16 team ? or is there any of the Scoil Dara team playing Minor for Kildare or Meath ?

razorruddock (Meath) - Posts: 15 - 18/12/2008 17:58:15    167561

definitely.... clane beat athy in the kildare championship(no insult im not slagging off)which shows how competitive it is that even de b teams are competing... yes colleges is doing fantastic... 2yrs ago in de u14 patricians won a leinster and clane won b leinster... the colleges system is a big provider for tyrone so de future looks good.

egan18 (Kildare) - Posts: 34 - 18/12/2008 18:44:43    167626

just know a lad by the name of Cian Farrell from johnstownbridge..think he is on panel for kildare minors 09, i persume if harrison silke is still in school he will be with Meath minors..Marcus duke from kilcock will prob be with kildare aswell

joeyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 412 - 18/12/2008 20:00:13    167676

Is there a Brennan guy as well from Johnstownbridge, i was speaking with a well known Summerhill stalwarth who watches scoil dara closely and he was asking about him apparently he is a goal scoring machine. It appears he scored a sack of goals recently against Edenderry.

razorruddock (Meath) - Posts: 15 - 19/12/2008 10:42:15    168014

i see athy are into the next qualifying round..kilcock lost out though..athy face tough opposition in knockbeg now

joeyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 412 - 11/01/2009 16:54:05    177733

would anyone be able to list the fixtures or a website that has them?? cant find them anywhere. even if its just te kildare schools that would be a help. thanks!

White Hawk (Offaly) - Posts: 99 - 11/01/2009 17:19:18    177742

the only information i know is local derby this friday athy vs knockbeg in dr cullen park carlow at 1 o clock..after the trashing knockbeg gave gormanstown i have a feeling they will win by about 8..athy don't look a strong team with only 3 6th years on it..should be good next year however..

joeyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 412 - 14/01/2009 11:30:01    180023

just wondering who would be the best colleges players in kildare? what schools do they go to? only really interested in guys doing their leaving cert...

FelixGuattari (Dublin) - Posts: 6 - 16/01/2009 11:28:39    182165

why is that so you can poach them for a college team in dublin? Not saying that there is anything wrong with that, football should help ya get into a course, its up to the player to pass the year after that themselves and all.

scaldy07 (Offaly) - Posts: 5 - 16/01/2009 12:19:24    182210

from newbridge..colin o shea and ciaran aspell..from athy conor ronan..its coffey from westmeath and kingston from knockbeg u should be lookin at

joeyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 412 - 16/01/2009 18:32:02    182592

clane v pbs in kildare final- should be a hum dinger! lots of interesting head 2 heads! who will win?

egan18 (Kildare) - Posts: 34 - 16/01/2009 21:13:01    182695

patricians are just too strong

joeyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 412 - 16/01/2009 22:28:12    182742

Good call joeyboy,i bet egan wont reply to dis

athiabu (Kildare) - Posts: 157 - 13/03/2009 16:45:00    231908

in reply to the senior schools final betweeen particans and clane....
clane will beat them hands down....iv been watchin that senior clane team very closely this year...on the startin team there is 10-12 leaving certs and they will not want to end there school year in another disapointment...after there loss in the leinister b final...theyy lost that because of not performing on the day terrible unlucky....if im wrong i dont no now but im pritty sure clane have 5 lads on the kildare team...

partricans have like 3 leaving certs too little to beat this strong clane team....

who iv seen running the streets of clane at 6 in the morning before school some days...and who have beaten leisister a winners edenderry in a friendly...beaten several a teams and lost out narrolwy to sarsfrields minor team of 2008...

do your homework lads....

doyler104 (Kildare) - Posts: 9 - 19/03/2009 11:35:06    234737

i wudn be taking to many friendlys into account especially d edenderry 1 las they were missing a dreadful amount of players that day...

collegeboy (Offaly) - Posts: 69 - 19/03/2009 19:00:22    235103

running the streets of clane at 6 in morning..

i aspire to be like these men...what has that got ta do with anything..sure i walk the dog every evenin..i sometimes run..does that make me better??future sucess for me?for my homework will i find out what other clane players do in there spare time??

when is this final being played??

joeyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 412 - 20/03/2009 23:58:45    236121

running the streets of clane.so what still cant play football.

upsheflew (Kildare) - Posts: 44 - 23/03/2009 15:51:14    237205

i would like to congratulate edenderry on reaching the all ireland 'A' colleges final and now they play colaiste na sceilge of kerry in 2 weeks time...great win over claremorris..6 johnstownbridge and a carbury man on the starting line up is brilliant for kildares point of view..lads playing at such a high level..the players were..s geoghegan in the goals..corner backs c Grehan and des holton (C),wing back ben kenny,midfilder paul cribbin(man of match) 6(2Fs),wing forward sean hurley 3(1F) and o flaherty from carbury corner forward..great achievment reaching final..wish them the best of luck

joeyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 412 - 30/03/2009 15:16:25    243495

i also would like to congradulate edenderry on their victory.. i was at the game and are kildare players done us proud..id have ta say hurley was my man of the match although cribbin did play exeptionally well in the last 15 mins.well done to all involved..

cilldara29 (Offaly) - Posts: 26 - 30/03/2009 17:33:57    243768