Club Notes 26/05/2024

Good evening. Lots of positives this week within the club. Congratulations to all the students who graduated from TY and 6th year during the week, wishing you the very best of luck in your upcoming exams.

We introduced both the Boy’s and Girls Feile teams that will go on to represent Wicklow in the national finals on the 29th June. The Boys will travel to Galway while the Girls head to Roscommon. These are 2 fantastic teams that we as a club are so proud of. Thanks to all the coaches and volunteers for all the work that you have put in to this competition so far. Thanks as always to Alan Bruce for the super photographs and to Monadnock Construction and Sports Direct for their ongoing support.

Both teams will hold mini fundraisers in the coming weeks  and we thank everyone in advance for your support.

Well done to our club players Molly, Sophie, Amelia, Holly, Aoibheann, Siofra and Doireann! Fantastic achievement for the U13 Girls Basketball team who won bronze at the Cairn Community Games National Finals on Friday.

The girls came up just short to a strong Kerry team in the semi-final who went on to win the final while the Lakeside Girls played a great play-off game against Monaghan and came out winners 29-15.

Massive Congrats Girls Bronze All Ireland Medals what a super achievement.

Also well done to all the players who joined the panel for the Wicklow minors and the development teams on Satuday.

Minors included James Phibbs, Patrick Small, Connor O’Toole, Ronan Smyth, Oisin O’Connell and Max Keogh

 For U15’s we had Jordan Dempsey, Rian Keogh, James Mc.Carney, Fiacha Duffy,Oisin Quigley and Oisin Kelly

And the 14’s had Will O’Connor, Noah Tyrell,Kayden McMahon and Oisin Pender & Wayne Nolan.

Your coaches are very proud of you all.

Senior Men

The lads had a fantastic match against Avondale last Tuesday evening with a very impressive win. Final score Avondale 2-08 to Blessington 4-14. This was Blessington’s last game in the league with all thoughts now on the championship which starts in late July.

The team along with the senior Senior Ladies will travel to Killarney this Bank Holiday weekend to take part in the Killarney 7’s tournament. Wishing them both the very best of luck. We will keep up updated on matches and results from both teams throughout the week end.

Junior A

Junior A team were away to Dunlavin on Sunday morning. Well done on a brilliant match. Final score Dunlavin 2-09 to Blessington 2-10

Juvenile Boy’s

U12’s

Kildare u12 league this evening

Blessington vs Rathangan

We started slow this evening, and before we knew it Rathangan has scored 2 goals . We slowly came into the game and worked hard, however at times we were switching off and giving up chances to the opposition.

Slowly we picked our points and dominated for 15 minute period but couldnt get our shots off with Rathangan crowding us out forcing turnovers. Lucky enough we score a nice goal before half time . Taking the lead 1-06 to 2-01.

Second half started and we struggled to win primary ball. The lads heads were dropping and we struggled with them picking their scores and at one stage we were 6 points down. 15 minutes in it was like a switch.

The lads changed we were winning kickouts winning turn overs , blocks, coming out of defence , and moving the ball forward. We got level .We won next kick out, travelled the length of the pitch and score the goal we needed. Followed by a point, taking 4 point lead into last 2 mins. Rathangan worked the ball up the field and after a scramble they scored a goal via a deflection that was going wide. Leading by one . We had a chance for a goal but went narrowly wide, one last attack for Rathangan and lads put the body’s in the way stopping them get a shot off , the ball broke we cleared and the final whistle went. Great way to end the game after a slow start and nice preparation for these lads firstever championship game on Monday vs Stratford.

Thanks to Cian, Kian, Tomas, Josh for stepping up from u11. Thanks to all parents for cheering them on. See you all next week .

U11 Boys

Well done to our under 11 side who with the bare minimum travelled to rathnew and put in an excellent team performance battling and working hard for each other from start to finish , some excellent execution of skill sets that we have been working hard on in training and a well deserved reward from it tonight . Great to see so many blocks in one game which showed the level of heart and work rate . A special mention to Cian maguire who covered every blade of grass and tackled every player on the opposite team and maybe even one or 2 of his own

U9’s

We hosted Valleymount & Kilbride in the U-9 Wicklow Go Games at home in a sunny Blessington Gaa Club.

Big thanks to Aaron & Sheena for looking after referring duties

U8’s

Blessington U8s travelled to Celbridge for a mini blitz playing 3x13 minutes matches. Great matches, very competitive with good attempts made at pickups and lots of good skills on show. Go Games ethos was observed by all. Thanks to Celbridge for hosting and to the players and parents for travelling.

U7’s

Great evening for the U7 blitz with Valleymount and Kilbride on Tuesday evening. Some great skills on display over three games. Well done to all the kids involved.

Our U7s were out again on Saturday morning V Two Mile House in the Kildare league. A great performance from these super little bunch of lads.

Ladies Football

Minor Girls

Minor girls played their final game in the league campaign in Blesso tonight against a strong An Tochar side. . By far their best game yet. Well done to all the girls for their commitment in all the games and we the club thank you for that. There was a good few laughs ang giggles along the way and that’s a big part of it. Thanks to everyone that dug in and helped out throughout all the games, ye know who you are.

Finally the evening was capped off with chip buttys in the clubhouse- Ta se go hiontach, thanks Nessa ,best of luck to all the girls in their retrospective league and championship campaigns

U16 girls

Our Under 16 girls headed to Ashford on a sunny Saturday afternoon to play their Div 3 game. A tough start to the game against a strong Ashford team, the girls certainly didn’t do themselves justice and looked like they had been out disco dancing half the night.

Second half our girls got a second wind and played their little hearts out, much better performance from each and every one of them. Super well done to Charlie and Emily on their debut, they were brilliant. All the training sessions are paying off. Our superstar goaly Zane made some savage saves in the first half and ended the game out field and got a goal for all her hard work. Fair play to Eabha for covering the goal in the second half.

Well done to all the girls- when they put their mind to it, they are mighty.

Blesso Abú

U14 Pink

The U14 Pink team had a Very tough and physical match last weekend, we’re very proud of how the girls played and also how they behaved, not retaliating or reacting.

The score didn’t reflect how well we played, we were unlucky in front of goal a few times, losing by 8 pts.

Hard to pick POTM but Captain fantastic Holly has to get credit for her work rate.

So proud of this bunch.

U14 White

The U14 whites headed to Laragh last weekend for a very tough match v Clara in very warm conditions.

Clara was the better team in the first half with a few unanswered scored.

Our girls battled hard with a much better 2nd half but the gap was too much to close.

Well done for working so hard in tough conditions

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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