Last Saturday at the request of my good friend Teresa Rattigan i moseyed up to the pitch to take in the atmosphere of the underage blitz being played out and which our Club were hosting.To those who are not in the know the Rattigans are the bedrock on which our Club is built.They sell over 400 Club Lotto tickets each and every week.Without them the pitch and dressing rooms would not be there.
Not that they boast about it.In the ego stakes they just don't figure.But to those that know the story they are simply the best.
Teresa herself has a daughter starting out as has Collette Rowan and Suzanne Kelly who has two.Great to see them managing teams .If the present daughters turn out to be as good as their mothers were we will be unbeatable in years to come.Theses ladies and their contemporaries won every competition open to them in Meath before they reached eighteen years except the Senior Championship ,a medal they subsequently won with either Trim or KIlmessan when the Club temporarily folded due to lack of numbers.They were augmented by Francis Brady who hurled with distinction for the Club and who is doing such marvellous work for thye game of the Gaels in Scoil Mhuire in Trim.Her husband Anthony also walked the Camogie walk and continues to support the GAA club at all levels.Their daughter too yields the caman.how could she miss it.
Stella Keyes was in full flight too and we are so so grateful for the huge effort put into the camogie by herself ansd her husband Dave.
They are well backed up by Martina Loughran,Teresa Hayden and Miriam Mc Hale and a host of others whose names escapes me,much to my discredit.
The pitches were overflowing with children ranging in ages from about five to ten and parents to beat the band admiring and cheering on their adored offspring.
Teams from Athboy,KIlmessan and KIltale were present to augment our own
and we had plenty despite the absence of the Robinstown contingent who were attending First Holy Communion on the day.Over 40 children have made their First Communion in the Parish and this augurs well for the future of the Clubs in the Parish.
With the infiltration of all of rural Ireland's schools with the well funded Rugby Union apostles and the attempts to popularise the the cultures of New Zealand and Ireland's Call at the expense of our native culture and games it is indeed laudable to see such effort and organisation so well applied and supported.
Boyerstown ,which supplies so many players to our Camogie Team ,have a School Team and a fairly successful one at that.
One hopes that Dunderry,KIlbride and Robinstown will take heart and follow in their example.
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