All Ireland Ladies Sevens - Another Huge Success
The All Ireland Ladies Sevens competition was held jointly by St Sylvester's & Naomh Mearnog on Saturday last and was another resounding success. 110 teams from the 32 counties, the UK and mainland Europe all travelled to our grounds to participate in the 2011 competition. As usual, there was brilliant support from Sylvester's club members across the club to ensure that we put on a good show. I would like to pass on a huge thanks to Mick Stewart and Enda for their preparation of the pitches and dressing rooms. To Suzanne, Carol Morris, Louise, Liz, Susan, Margaret Carney, Carol Ryan, Carol Walls and Jan for the catering. To Gerry, Noel, Karl and Redmond for manning the car parks. To Anthony Cooney for his huge support again this year. To Paul Reinhart on maning the electrics and John Daly on the clean up operation. To Angela Aherne on her brilliant co-ordination of events across the pitches and to the U/16 girls as ball-girls.
A big thanks to our Ladies Sevens team that represented our club with pride and made it to the last 4 of 64 teams in their competition, only to eventually lose out to a strong Claregalway team. We wish Aimee & Ciara a speedy recovery to bad injuries picked up over the weekend and look forward to them back out on the pitch with us again shortly.
Finally, to finish off a great weekend, our U14 girls hosted St Mary's girls from Oranmore, Galway, in a challenge game on Sunday morning in Broomfield. The Syls girls ran out convincing winners with a scoreline of 4-6 to 1-3. Our guests come back to Church Road for some refreshments (manned by Jake Carney) before heading to Croke Park for the Ladies Finals. Well done to Pat Brennan for organising the game and it looks like a return game is on the cards in Galway later in the year.
It just goes to show the brilliant support across our club in delivering yet another milestone weekend for St Sylvester's.
Brian Sullivan
Thanks to Martin Treacy for the pictures
