The under 14 footballers continued on their winning ways with a home victory last Tuesday evening.I wasn't sure whether they were playing and only saw a few minutes by accident.They are on a roll since being turfed out of the Championship for not fielding.Going well now,with only a few matches to play in the summer league.
In the B League I attended a very entertaining match between ourselves and Moynalvey in their ground.They are a very decent lot and the match was played in the best of spirits ,no dirt and loads of endeavour from both sides.The ref was Mick Ryan from Dunsany ,a man who referees club matches to County standards,in that he doesn't blow prissily nor oftenThe players responded well and I would say that all involved enjoyed themselves.We were short a few and deservedly lost.
Both sides were guilty of more than the normal number of stray passes ,but I would absolutely love to be able to do them myself at this stage.Lads play as long and as often as you can.
I was delighted to meet a former colleague at he game.Tempus definitevly fugits as we both had sons playing.Don't have the bragging rights this time.
The Feis Cup match against Skryne was played in the pitch last evening.This was the first match this year not presided over by John Brady ,who has had to take time out for personal reasons.Barry Sheridan and Con O Neill now carry the baton ,not a light load in this Parish ,where expectations to win the intermediate are high every year and where failure to do so is frowned on by the afficiandos.I know all about this,having walked the walk.They have a hard job of work ahead and I wish them and the players the very best.They and the players carry huge expectations and I have nothing but praise for the players who are in the field nearly every night ,especially the dual players.Those lucky enough to have work involving early starts and who have families to support must be suffering exhaustion between everything ,but I suppose that the physical exertion ameliorates the bubbling pressure this damned recession and austerity is imposing on all.
Conversely those with no jobs are under even more severe pressure trying to keep poverty from coming in the window and love going out the door.We live in hard times and unforgiving times.
Like the Moynalvey match the Carnaross ref,O Reilly did a great job and the players responded well.
It was an open game played in the best of spirits and not a dirty stroke and no mouthing either.A good few stray passes ,more so by us and although we were beaten by six points ,the match was contested to the end.
An unusual feature was that both sides had former greats and men capable of still contributing to the cause on the field.We had Darren Fay,thrice an All Star and twice an All Ireland senior winner and they had Trevor Giles who I think has also two All Irelands and a number of All Stars also,the exact number of which I don't know.There is nothing big headed about either of these men and nobody on either side was out to make a name for himself by tyrying to "do" them.Anyhow these boys can mind themselves and I was delighted for my eldest Evan in that he was equal to Giles his direct opponent as was the Skryne player who marked a rusty Fay,who has missed a lot of training sessions as he is studying hard to secure employment .GAA fame is no guarantee of employment in this County or Country.
Rumour has that the game keeper Fay intends to turn poacher and try his hand at full forward.Time will tell.
The Camogie Junior Team recently put Donaghmore 's second yeam to the sword ,a feat I missed and I hear they are swaying regurarly to the beat of the rumba to get fit.
This evening there was a post painting sponsorship and feed in the field and the Old folks committee is running a sponsored cycle to the bog also.
Any older readers I have may remember Pat Mc Elroy .a Corkonian who lived in Blanch and Who I befriended there.He won two senoir football championships with Summerhill in the late sixties /early seventies I think and would have played with the likes of Mattie Kerrigan.He was a member of a family of fourteen I am told and had eight of his own.His sisters child is young Gould who plays with Cork Footballers.He use work in Post and Telgraphs and was a thorough gentleman and a very brave man who fought his illness to the last.
I didn't make the funeral in Blanch on Thursday and Friday as I have my own medical problems,but my brothers did.Blanch was brought to a standstill as his coffin was carried through the village to the local Church and thousands followed it.There was a massive crowd from Cork there and his passing will long be remembered in Blanch .for the genuineness and friendliness of the huge attendance.
Ar dheas De go raibh a hanam dilis.
Finally those few of you away who suffer these ramblings should not be too homesick.The weather is brutal here
Slan go foill..
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