RTE radio 1

Garrycastle club featured on RTE radio 1 during when presenter Darren Frehill spoke with chairman Michael Mannion, coach John Keane and player Shannon Mulvihill about how the coronavirus crisis has affected their roles in the GAA.  All spoke well and made their points clearly. For anyone who missed  the item it can be accessed from Garrycastle GAA Facebook page where you ll find a link.   

 

Lotto

The Lotto numbers for Monday July 27th 2020 were 8, 11, 15, 28. The Jackpot was not won. 

9There was one Match-3 winner this week, who receives €100 - Marie Fallon. The Jackpot next draw (Aug 4th) is raised to €8,750.   Play Garrycastle GAA Club Lotto online, with a safe and secure online payment. 

 

Underage

Western Gaels (Garrycastle and Maryland Tang) had mixed fortunes during the week defeating St Mary’s, R’bridge/Milltownpass in the under 17 and losing to Caulry in the under 15.  In the under 13 our lads are on their own and they defeated Maryland Tang.  This week the under 15 boys play  Tubberclair in Tubberclair at 7.00pm; on Wed the U17 boys are at home to  Mullingar Sh. at 7.00pm and on Thurs the U13 boys play Athlone in Garrycastle at 7pm. 

 

Senior Football

Garrycastle 0-17  Athlone 2-7

Our seniors started their defence of the Flannagan Cup with a good win over neighbours Athlone after a  hard battle in Tubberclair on Sunday evening. Playing with the wind Athlone found the net after 4 minutes following a good flowing move to lead by a goal to a point.  They then increased their lead to 3 points before Garrycastle started to find their feet. Between the 8th and 27th minutes Garrycastle added 5 points and were dominating play. Athlone attacks were ending with wides. Midway through the half a nice Garrycastle move finished with a  Conor Cosgrove shot which was well saved by the keeper.  Then in the 28th minute a high ball into the Garrycastle goalmouth was deflected by Sean Brennan  and the rebound was finished to the net to leave the score 0-7 to 2-2. In the minutes before half time both sides added a point. On the resumption two points were shared by the sides but for the next 20 minutes Garrycastle dominated, outscoring their opponents by 8 points to 2 to lead by 5 points. A late point for Athlone reduced the lead to 4 points when the final whistle went. It was a good Garrycastle performance with a lot of good movement,  good kick passing and plenty of well taken scores. In the second half the Athlone keeper was busy saving two shots from Michael Monaghan and one from Alex Gardiner.  There were many good performances with strong contributions by many players at different stages but Tom O'Halloran caught the eye a lot for his work rate, kick passing and scoring. A feature of the new rules was evident with Garrycastle in particular making good use of the forward mark.  

Team Sean Brennan   Mark McCallon , Jack Donohoe , Gary McCallon  James Dolan (0-1), John Gaffey (0-1), Doron Harte , Eoin Mulvihill, James Sheeran, Michael Monaghan(0-2), Tom O'Halloran (0-2), Conor Cosgrove (0-4),    Eoin Monaghan (0-1),   Alex Gardiner (0-4), Jason Nugent (0-1)  Subs Ger Henaghan (0-1)  for Conor Cosgrove, Justin Barrett for Jason Nugent, Mathew Guiheen  for Gary McCallon, Andrew Monaghan for Tom O'Halloran, Anthony Larkin  for Doron Harte.  

 

CHAMPIONSHIP Fixtures

The seniors take on Caulry on Saturday evening at 7.30pm in Parc Ciarain and the juniors take on Ballinagore on Sunday.  As with Sunday s match the crowds permitted to attend are restricted, so entry is by ticket only

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