Club notes 19/05/2024
Good evening. There was a great community spirit on Saturday morning with both the senior men and senior ladies helping the tidy towns with the big community clean up. It was great to see everyone getting stuck in and the feedback from the tidy towns committee was hugely positive. The town looked fantastic by the time you all finished.
Senior Men
The lads are away to Avondale on Tuesday evening at 8pm in their last game of the league. The very best of luck to you all and well done to you all for coming out on Saturday morning to help with the community cleanup.
The team will also travel to Kerry on the June bank holiday weekend to take part in the Kilarney 7’s. More details to follow.
Minors
Big thanks to Dynamic eventsie for sponsoring a new set of jerseys for our minor team. Steven Bohan of Dynamic Events was on hand to present the jerseys to team manager Jimmy Mulhall. Best of luck for the year ahead lads.
The lads travel to Tomnafinogue on Monday evening for their player pathway league. The best of luck to you all.
U 15’s v St Kevin’s
Our U15’s were back in league action tonight after a hectic weekend at Feile , We were down a few first teams varying inj’s , The lads were slow to start & missed a lot of good opportunities but stuck at it & ground out a good local derby victory over St Kevin’s .
Final score :
Blesso 6-08 St Kevin’s 1-10
The U7s travelled out to Nurney yesterday evening in the Kildare league. Some great passing and skills on display. The lads are showing a massive improvement every week. Well done to all. We go again Monday in the WW league.
Ladies Football
Senior Ladies
Our Senior Ladies had a great win over St.Pats on Saturday evening at home.Brilliant performances all over the pitch,a big well done to Ciara O'Neill on her Senior debut an scoring a lovely point!!!
Very hard to choose a POTM as all the girls were brilliant but Aoibhinn Bailey got it on the day!!!
Well done to the girls and management who supported the Tidy Towns on Saturday morning!!!
U14 pink team had a surprise match yesterday v Newtown. Fair play to the girls for putting in a great performance
Once they found their feet they dominated for the whole match winning 6-05 to 3-07
POTM goes to Isabella Harte who fought for every ball and worked her socks off.
The u14 blue travelled to Tinahely on Thursday evening for the third round of the league. Blessington got off to a blistering start and built up a few scores to take the lead. It was end to end throughout the game with Tinahely showing some fight in the second half to push Blessington close. In the end Blessington finished triumphant, winning by 3 points.
U14 Blue
Our u14 blue team were away to An Tochar on Saturday afternoon. We started quite slow and by half time we were down by 5 points. During the break the girls realised they needed to up their game, they knew their mistakes and where to fix them. We started the second half at a blistering pace with 3 goals from Mollie and 3 from Lucy gave us the lead, and the girls kept pushing to put scores on the board. The end result was Blesso 8-11 An Tochar 6-9. Coaches are very proud of the way the girls performed in the second half. There was so many players that deserved player of the match but we can only pick one. POTM goes to Dara Cullen, who’s drive to get the ball and reading of the game were brilliant.
Scorers:
Lucy Keely 4-2
Mollie Daniels 3-0
Grace Behan 1-5
Thea Smith 0-2
Kate Hill 0-2
The Academy
The academy had a great session on Friday evening. Great weather great numbers .
Thanks to the winning Feile teams boys and girls . The kids loved seeing the boys and girls with their trophies.
Thank you to the teams for coming down to help out. See you all next week
Healthy Club
Our club with thanks to the Healthy Club Team have been chosen to take part in a pilot scheme sponsored by the HSE and Sunsmart where we will provide information on keeping safe in the sun. We now have 2 sun scream dispensers with SPF 50 for everyone’s use all we ask is you scan the QR code that’s on the board and take part in a very short survey, this will provide feedback with the hope of these dispensers being provided to all clubs throughout the country. These dispensers are located at the clubhouse and at the Brew21 container.
Positive mental Health
Our next training day for Safe Talk will be held in Blessington GAA club house June 12th @ 9.30am -1pm. This training is for adults over 18years old, and is open to anyone in the community.
If you would like to be suicide alert and have the tools to talk to anyone who may be suicidal please register for this training and be part of our Blessington champions.
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Wicklow News
Wicklow hosted Laois in round 2 of the Tailteann cup today. Hard luck to you all being beaten by 1 point.
Summer Jobs ! If you are turning 18 this year and you’re looking for Summer Work. Why not get involved in Coaching at our Kellogg’s GAA Cul Camps 2024.
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Condolences
Our sympathies this week to the Sargent family , Rita , Sean , David , Dermot and Noel on the passing yesterday of their mother , Pattie . Pattie was wife of the late Jim Sargent( died 2019 ) and sister-in-law to Christy Sargent ( died 2012 ) . Mass for Pattie will be on Wednesday at 11.30 at Crosschapel .
You can keep up to date on all club related news across all social media and also with our Tik Tok account starting as soon as Craig finishes his thesis and summer exams. For all thing LGFA related you can contact Olivia on 086 030 8395 and for everything else football or club related you can contact myself Lisa on 086 376 7534 and pro.blessington.wicklow@gaa.ie