Games reports
U12 Football 2 Wins, 1 draw and one defeat!
Firstly, congratulations to the 5 Syls players who won SFAI Cup medals will Malahide United last Saturday - Sean Gibson, Denis Smith, Simon Murphy, Josh Bannon and goalscoring hero Sean Guiden. Well done on behalf of the U12 players and Management
Intermediate Football Update
Over the last couple of weeks the Intermediate footballers have had three important wins in the cup and vitally, the 1st round of the intermediate championship. The end result of these games is that they have now qualified for the semi-final of the Loving Cup and we will in the hat when the draw for the 2nd round of the IFC is made on 12/06. Here's a quick round up of the games.
U9s win at Kilmacud Blitz
Sorry boys, a week late. There was a great buzz in the club last Sunday afternoon when Ray, Shay and Podge returned from the Crokes Tournament where our B team won. Ray Flannery sent a few pictures . . .
Colm Byrne wins it for Minor Hurlers
MHL 2 Kilmacud Crokes 3-15 St Sylvesters 4-14 A rousing win having been six behind with 10 minutes remaining, Colm Byrne simply decided to change things as he drove through for two excellent goals. Conor Dwyer added the winning points while Killian Power and Thomas won the balls that mattered in defense to give us a most satisfying win. It was a good game for us from the start as Crokes had some fine hurlers, as usual, but we stayed with them throughout and it was only in the last quarter that they seemed to have us beat before Colm intervened.
Hurlers let it slip at Finglas
SHC B Erins Isles 1-17 St Sylvesters 1-14 We recovered very well from a very slow start but couldn't quite finish it off and Isles pulled away in the last quarter. Isles striking into the wind in the first half was excellent and they opened up a good lead into the wind before a few positional changes got us going and we got back to a one point deficit, 10 to 9 at the break.
Ollies win Fingal Primary Schools League
St Oliver Plunketts Girls gaelic football team have a great win in the final of the Fingal Primary schools league. The final of the Fingal National Schools League was played in Parnell Park on Tuesday, 14th May, with Ollies facing off against Skerries. This was the same Ollies team that had endured heartache in Croker earlier in the year when losing the Cumann na mBunscoil final. But they made no mistake this time. This was a very hard fought victory and the girls had to show great belief.
U14s in Feile na nÓg
Football Feile was last weekend where our A team missed qualification by a single point against Crokes after beating Lucan.
Seniors Footballers navigate first hurdle in Championship
SFC 1st Rd St Sylvesters 2-16 Clontarf 3-07 Good game of football without really having the intensity of championship against Div3 Clontarf. With two goals in the first half, one a cracker from new Dubs star Jack McCaffrey, Clontarf put it up to us but we seemed to be able to respond with points from Micháel, Nigel and Mark and still lead 0-10 to 2-01 at the break.
Four teams U12 all doing well
The Under 12 footballers had a busy weekend fielding 4 teams in the second round of fixtures in the league. It is a credit to all the players that we are managing to field 4 teams and do so to a high standard.
Dublin Minor Girls Leinster Champs 2013
Congratulations to Niamh Harney & Ciara Lynch who won Leinster Minor medals for Dublin V Meath on Sunday in Clane Co. Kildare. The final score Dublin 2-14 Meath 0-4. They will now play the Ulster Champions in the All Ireland Semi Final in July.
Goals sink us in 2nd round of Senior Hurling C'ship
SHC B St Kevins 5-09 St Sylvesters 2-15 Five goals are too much to recover from, especially as a few were of the softish variety and spoiled a gutsy all round display in our second Snr Hurling game against a vastly more experienced Kevins Hurling Club over in Dolphin Park. We started well but didn't take our scores and Kevins stole a couple of goals off slow reactions in our defense.
Minor Girls Top Team North of Liffey
St Sylvesters Minor girls became the top team North of the Liffey with one game to go in this years Minor Division One League. They have beaten all of the four other North Dublin Div 1 teams Fingallians, Clontarf, Na Fianna, and last night Castleknock's A team. Last nights game V Castleknock A was played on a nice but windy evening in Broomfield.
U12 hurlers on a roll
The U12 hurlers finished the grading part of the season on a high on Saturday with a two great victories on the field, and later another at a Ball Wall tournament hosted by O’Tooles where we emerged victorious in dramatic fashion!
U8 hurling pictures
Some pics from the U8 hurlers who played Whitehall in glorious sunshine on Saturday morning in Malahide Castle. Peter
Minor As lose at Na Fianna
MFL1 Na Fianna 1-17 St Sylvesters 0-08 The score doesn't tell the story well from our perspective. We have suffered many big defeats to this All Ireland winning Na Fianna side over the years and with Simon sidelined through injury and losing Jack two minutes into the game, things looked bad. We gave up a goal and a few points but I must say the lads rallied well and played some of their best football in a long while.
Nursery Off 26th
Sorry, bad weather . . .try again next week.
Ball Wall - Mini All Irelands - Buy a Brick
Last Sunday was a busy day in Broomfield as we turned the sod for our Ball Wall in front of a big crowd attending the Mini All Ireland Finals and launched our Buy a Brick Fundraiser.
Clr Anthony Lavin, Clr Joan Maher, Mayor Cian O'Callaghan, Adrienne Stack, and club captains Enda Flaherty, John Couhlan and Sinead Treacy. We would like to thank the Councillors for their support throughout the long process and also Darragh and Eoghan O'Brien and Peter Coyle who attended endless meetings and provided guidance and support in getting funding, a lease on the Fingal land and planning permission.
Thanks to Audi North Dublin for again sponsoring and supporting our Mini All Ireland Finals, which once again proved a big hit with all our youngsters.
Adrienne Stack turned the sod for our Ball Wall development and had a few nice words in rememberence of her dad Tim. Mayor Cian O'Callaghan congratulated the club on behalf of Fingal County Council and Mel McIntyre remembered John Ryan who passed away recently was chair when we embarked on our first development at Syls at Church Road.
Mel called for a bualla bos for John, for Brendan Bannigan, Mick Stuart and Eddie Sulllivan who worked so hard to get this development off the ground, for all the chairmen who led previous developments and for all those who sponsor, support and work so hard for Syls.
John Drumm provided some pictures.
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Club, Lotto, Coaching notes
TABLE QUIZ In aid of NCBI
. . working for people with sight loss. Where : St Sylvester’s G A A Club, Church Road, Malahide When: Thursday, May 30th at 8:30 p.m. Tables of 4- €40 per table Why not come along and join in the fun and support a good cause at the same time?!!
Malahide young chess players prepare for All-Ireland finals
Members of Malahide Junior Chess Club, which meets in St Sylvester’s Club, are currently preparing for the All-Ireland finals( u16 Chess)taking place in Athlone over the week-end 25th & 26th May.
St Sylvester’s GAA club notes 19th May
The senior, intermediate and junior A football teams have all qualified for cup semi-finals. The fourth team had a great win over Naomh Barrog in glorious sunshine in Malahide.
Ball Wall - Mini All Irelands - Buy a Brick
Last Sunday was a busy day in Broomfield as we turned the sod for our Ball Wall in front of a big crowd attending the Mini All Ireland Finals and launched our Buy a Brick Fundraiser.
Quiz for Oxfam
I am involved in a 50k trek for Oxfam across the Mourne Mountains with four of my friends on June 15th-we hope to do this in 14-16 hours. To do this event, we must raise over €2k and we are doing a Table Quiz next Friday 24th in St Sylvesters Gaa Clubhouse to try raise a large portion of this money.
Golf Society News - May 2013
Latest News up-date from St Sylvesters Golf Society: Heritage Outing Sat 4th May: We had a very enjoyable outing to the Heritage Golf Club on Saturday for the Mick Morris Memorial trophy. With lovely weather the members that travelled produced some excellent golf and the winners were:
Tribute to John 'Skinner' Ryan
Very sad tonight to hear of the death of the Great Sylvester's Legend and proud to say a great friend John (Skinner) Ryan. Skinner captained Syls to Junior Championship Victory in Croke Park in 1963 the same year that the Dubs (Captained by Des Foley) won the All Ireland. The same Syls team went Intermediate & then Senior within a few years.
John Ryan RIP - former Chairman of St Sylvesters
John Ryan passed away this evening, May he Rest in Peace. John was Chairman in 1984 when the clubhouse was opened on Church Road, played on the junior football team that won our first ever Championship and was always a hardworking and well respected member of the club,
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