WEEKLY LOTTO: The clubs weekly lotto jackpot is growing and growing. This weeks winning numbers were 8,15,18,22. There were no Match 3 winners. This weeks jackpot is 9,800. Tickets 2 at www.eireoggreystones.com.
GOLF CLASSIC The highlight of the Greystones summer social calendar is fast approaching. The ire g Greystones Annual Golf Classic takes place this year on Friday 29th July in Greystones Golf club. Entrance is 220 for a team of four and includes a round of golf (scramble format), a gourmet burger at the halfway point and dinner in the clubhouse in the evening in what is always a hugely enjoyable event. For those who cannot make it on the day but who would like to support the club in its fundraising, there is also an opening to provide spot prizes. There are opportunities to sponsor a tee box (50), the longest drive (150) and closest-to-the-pin (150). To register for the event, become involved in sponsorship or for any other Golf Classic queries, contact Anto Byrne on 0878188871
CL CAMPS The Football Camp is currently taking place in the ire g grounds but there is still time to register for the hurling camp which runs from 25th -29th July. See www.eireoggreystones.com for more information and registration.
PEIL SFC Ones perspective on a match is very much coloured on the outcome vis-a-vis your side. Followers of the victorious team will tend to judge proceedings through rose tinted spectacles and see these in a positive light and will even go so far as to counter the criticism of a less than inspiring game with the response a win be it ugly or otherwise is a win is a win.
On the other hand the losers supporters will be, as it were, in a state of collective depression and will take little consolation in their side being praised for not having descended into negativity and having lost with lan. The latter was the mood among the Greystones following on Friday in Pirc na bPiarsach in Arklow after their team had suffered what was admittedly a no complaints, no excuses defeat to St Pats of Wicklow with a performance which fell well below that of which they knew it was capable. All we can hope for now is that the real ire g turns up for their last-chance-saloon game in the losers group.
A disinterested party, one is quite sure, would have found the game despite the margin between the games on the scoreboard, quite an entertaining one. Neither team was overly reliant on defensive tactics and this led to the play being open and fast moving with some excellently executed end to end movements. The match also produced some fine scores but, sadly for ire g, most of these were delivered off the boots of St Pats players.
In the 1st half ire g played against the quite strong breeze it mollified quite a bit after half-time and the blinding low-angled sun. If truth be told it was during this period that the game was both won and lost with Pats having a return of 2-07 from their 10 shots at goal while at the other end ire g could only muster a paltry 5 points. The play in the 1st thirty minutes was not nearly as lop-sided as suggested by the imbalance in the scores at the break as with better accuracy from frees and from play the ire g return could have been nearly doubled.
A non-partisan belittler remarked that 4 of the 5 ire g scores came from frees. This criticism carries little weight as, to say the least, it is an equivocal observation. Leaving Fridays game aside it can imply the use of the strategic foul as a tactic e.g. the giving away of a free to kill off a serious goal threat. A device one contends,(as does the black card), which has been used for a long time now by some of the more successful county teams in both hurling and football.
The epithet sucker punch aptly describes both of the St Pats goals. In each case the ire g lads were in attack mode and moving forward leaving a sparsely populated vulnerable area in the environs of the goal. In both instances two basic errors around mid-field gift-wrapped possession to the opponents lively attackers who rapidly sent quality ball to the inside forwards who made good use of the available space to outwit our backs.
The Greystones challenge improved after the break and at one stage had the deficit pegged back to 4 points. However some poor shooting prevented the gap being further reduced. Wicklow tagged on a few more points and the game ended with ire g 7 points behind. Greystones can take some consolation from the fact that the 2nd half was a draw.
Comhgairdeachas to the minor footballers on their victory over North District in the 1st round in Division 1 of the County Championship on the score 4-13 to 1-18.
Cailini ire g U-16 girls returned to league action on Saturday after a two-month lay-off with an away fixture against St. Pats.
The lack of availability of a number of the panel necessitated the drafting in of Ciara McDonald, Kira Finn, Iseult Brosnan and Sophie Fitzgerald from the U-14s into the starting fifteen.
In an exciting and high-scoring first-half both sides gave as good as they got. Despite goals from ire gs Ashling Lawrence, Megan Healy and a brace from Rachel Purcell, it was the home side that led at the break by the slenderest of margins, 4-5 to ire gs tally of 4-4.
On resumption of play St. Pats began to dominate, and managed to add five unanswered points to their impressive first-half tally leaving them six points ahead going into the final quarter. A few astute positional changes at this juncture, notably that of moving Megan Healy (1-0) from the forwards into the backs where she played a major role in thwarting the heretofore free-running St.Pats attack. Goalie Ciara McDonalds brought off a string of brilliant saves which in the end were crucial to Greystoneswin. With two goals each coming from Eva Roche, now operating at centre-forward with devastating effect, and Rachel Purcell, dominating at full-forward, ire g finished the game six points clear of a gallant St. Pats team on a scoreline of St.Pats 4-12 to ire gs 8-6. This terrifically exciting game certainly was testimony to the old adage of Goals win games.
ire gs scores: Rachel Purcell 4-2, Eva Roche 2-1, Ashling Lawrence 1-0,Megan Healy 1-0, Eva Moore 0-2, Aoife McTague 0-1.
Comhgirdeachas to Keela Keogh who was a member of the Wicklow camogie team which won the u-14 inter-county tournament played recently in Tinryland.
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