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NA FIANNA GAA FOOTBALL CLUB
G.A.A CLUB NOTES 2024
22nd April:
U15 FOOTBALL LEAGUE RD 2
Na Fianna U15 Footballers got their League campaign off to a
winning start as they came out on top by the minimum margin against Cloghan in
Rd 1 last Wednesday evening in Ballinagar on a scoreline of 1-12 to 3-05. Na
Fianna who had a bye in Rd 1 came into this game on the back foot against a
Cloghan side who a good win over Birr in Rd 1 but Na Fianna showed no signs of
it as they hit the ground running from the off opening the scoring with the
first 2 points inside the first minute before Cloghan got off the mark with a
pointed free in the 3rd minute. The next 10 minutes saw both sides add a point
apiece with the Na Fianna effort from Liam Jones and the same player added 2
more before Cloghan added another pointed free in the 25th minute and this is
how it remained at half time with Na Fianna leading by 0-05 to 0-03. The second
half started exactly as did the first with Na Fianna scoring the first 2 points
both from Killian Hogan with Cloghan replying with another pointed free by the
5th minute. Cloghan who had scored 6 goals in their Rd 1 win and had been
denied with at least 3 or 4 good goal scoring chances already in this game
finally struck for their first goal in the 6th minute when a goal mouth
scramble the ball was knocked over the line at the 3rd attempt. Na Fianna hit
back by snatching their goal in the 10th minute when a free just inside the 45
taken by Killian Hogan was caught by Bill Culliton in the square who turned and
blasted it to the net with Na Fianna adding a point before Cloghan struck for their
second goal midway through the half. Na Fianna then added 4 points to Cloghan’s
1 to open up a 4 point lead but yet again Cloghan hot back to score their 3rd
goal in the 24th minute to bring it back to just a single point difference and
this is how it remained to the finish as Na Fianna held on to claim the win.
NA FIANNA: Adam Harte,
Darragh Staunton, Cathal Shiel, Eoin Fox, Sennan Farrell, Cormac Staunton, Sean
Dempsey, Eooghan Gorman (0-01), Liam Jones (0-03), Bill Culliton (1-00),
Killian Hogan (0-04), Callum Grehan, Donal Connolly (0-01), Kajus Ramanauskas
(0-01), Fionnan Connolly (0-02).
SUBS: Aaron Meacle (for Eoin Fox), Rory Kehoe (for Bill Culliton),
Adam Kehoe, Oisin Whelan, Thomas Lynch, Cormac Ryan, Ben McLoughlin, Ciaran
Hannigan.
MINOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE RD 3
With Rd 2 of the Minor Footbaall League deferred due to the bad
weather it was on to Rd 3 where Na Fianna Minor Footballers made it 2 wins out
of 2 as they followed up their opening round win with another this time against
Ferbane / Belmont last Friday evening in Ballinagar on a scoreline of 3-08 to
3-05. Ferbane / Belmont got the better
start opening the scoring with 1-01 to Na Fianna’s 1 point inside the first 5
minutes but the remainder of the half saw both sides add a further 2 points
apiece so at the break it was just the goal between them with F/B leading by 1-03
to 0-03. The second half was a highly entertaining affair as Na Fianna came
from behind scoring 3-05 to F/B’s 2-02 to claim the win with the only downside
for Na Fianna being the dismissal of full back Dara Grehan on a straight red
card.
NA FIANNA: Adam Wallace, Killian Dunne, Dara Grehan, Eoin
Brophill, Stevie Byrne, Oissine Troy, Michael Cooney, Josh Sheeran, Stephen
Confrey, David Berry, Colm Nolan, Sean Dunne, Adam Comerford, Doonacha Cooney,
Cian Multaney-Kelly.
SUBS: Tony Byrne, Lucas O’Meara, Paddy Shiel, Rian Fenlon, Darragh
Flynn, Cormac O’Grady, Edward Mangan, Cathal Quinn, Tadhg Lee.
U13 FOOTBALL LEAGUE RD 2
Having received a bye in Rd 1 of the League Na Fianna U13
Footballers get their 2024 playing campaign underway against Kilcormac /
Killoughey in Rd 2 of the League this Sunday morning (28 April) @ 10:30am in Ballinagar.
Best of Luck to Players and Management. All Support
would be appreciated.
U15 FOOTBALL LEAGUE RD 3
Na Fianna U15 Footballers will be looking to follow up their
opening round win with another as they face neighbours St Vincents in Rd 3 of
the League next Wednesday evening (01 May) @ 6:30pm in Kilclonfert. All Support
would be appreciated.