How sweet ’tis to roam by ire g’s green sward these evenings filled with the pleasures of an awakening Spring and to see our hurlers plying their sport. They have been training and playing the occasional practice match in readiness for their Leinster League campaign. On Saturday they played their 1st game in this competition against Leixlip. Unfortunately but not discouragingly they lost by 2 points.
If one lends an ear to the chatter of children, particularly but not exclusively of boys, in the school yard of any primary school one will be struck by the frequency with which names like Chelsea, Man U, Liverpool etc. will receive mention. Only very occasionally names prominent in Gaelic sports e.g. Kilkenny, Kerry, Dublin, Donegal will be heard. This is a stark illustration of the huge task the GAA is facing to get its message across in these times of the multimillion dollar hyping of international sports. That it survives at all there are even some who say it is thriving is a tribute to the merits of the sports it promotes and to the huge effort expended in its service by the multitude of voluntary workers at home and abroad.
The GAA has therefore to be constantly devising methods to bring to the notice of children with a sporting bent, the enjoyment and the many other benefits to be derived from the playing of its games. To this end Cumann na mBunscoil in Wicklow recently organised a series of indoor football blitzes across the county for girls in 3rd and 4thclasses. One of these was held in Shoreline under the guidance of Gareth Doyle. Girls from a number of schools in Greystones were among those taking part. If excitement and enjoyment are to be taken as the criteria of success then the Shoreline blitz must be judged to have been quite a hit with the girls. Hopefully the experience will also have cultivated a desire in many of the girls to take up the sport and to get involved with their local clubs.
A propos, Samus Ahern has informed the notes that the ire g cailn are already back in training and this year a training session for u-10s has been included. Girls born in 2006 and 2007 are welcome to these sessions which take place on Saturdays at 12.00 noon.
Training for u-12, u-14 and u-16 girls is from 6.30 to 7.30p.m. on Thursday evenings.
Peil na gCailn, like basketball, is a non-contact sport so its emphasis is on ball-playing, han
Last week’s Lotto numbers, 10,16,17,30 favoured the club there were no winners at Match 3 or Match 4.
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