ST PATS
love the lottery
There was no winner of our club Lotto jackpot of €3000 on Sunday night last the numbers drawn were 05,06, 19 & 23. The five €30 euro consolation prizes went to: Michael Moriarty Derrymore West Harry Poff c/o Poff Motors PJ Crean Camp Joel Walsh Curragraigue Patsy Bowler Blennerville
Next week’s lotto will have a jackpot of €3100 and the draw will take place on Sunday night 18/09/2022 at 9:15 PM in Skelper Quanes Bar club lotto can be played online through the club website www.stpatsgaclub.com, Lotto tickets can be purchased from any club officer or at the following outlets: O’Shea Shop and Service Station Blennerville; Poff Motors Dingle Road; Seamus O’Sullivan Master Butcher’s Manor; Noyek’s Mile Height; Byrnesworth; Skelper Quanes; Keane’s Of Curraheen; Betty’s Bar; The Rock Inn. Please have your lottery entries in by 7pm, every Sunday evening.
register
If you haven’t completed registration, please do so now. Not being registered means your club membership has lapsed and participation in club activities will have to stop until registration is complete. Any difficulties with registration please contact any club officer or team coach. Membership for 2022 should be completed now via www.foireann.ie.
Betty McGrath Walk
The sun shone down on a big crowd of walkers who took on the 12km walk last Saturday, it was great to see such a crowd take part. Well done to all.
Healthy Club Event
Really looking forward to our next Healthy Clubs Initiative for St Pats Blennerville GAA. We are delighted to have such an experienced AI running coach Michelle Greaney to lead the sessions. This is a progressive running program designed to get more people active by running and walking intervals over a 5K distance. The goal will be to complete the 5K Tralee Park Run on Saturday 19th November & hopefully develop a love for more running!! Children are welcome as long as they will find 5K achievable. High visibility required. Screening forms & check in from 6.30pm Thursday 15th September. ONLY €15 per person for the whole 10-week series or part of the series. Please share & help us spread the word for our club & community.
Juvenile Academy
Due to Met Éireann Status of an Orange Warning for heavy rain and thunderstorms some of the training was canceled on Sunday Morning last. Keep up the practice at home and we’ll see you all again next week.
U10 Girls – This week U10 Girls played a match against our neighbors Kerins O’Rahillys on Friday evening 9th of September. With classmates, friends and neighbors lining out against each other, it was a challenging and entertaining game for both sides, with the St. Pats girls playing the best we have seen them play this year so far, they were very impressive all 14 of them . Well done girls on a great performance all around. Thanks to Kerins O’Rahillys for making the short trip to Blennerville. Training as normal next Sunday 18th of September at 10.30am.
U11 Boys – Training continued Thursday evening for the boys, Sunday’s session was canceled due to the orange weather warning. The Boys will play Ballyduff at home next Thursday evening at 6pm and we will also host Templenoe next Sunday at midday.
minors
Our minors played a great game against Sneem/Derrynane/Templenoe and Tuosist last Saturday in Strand Road, extra time was needed to separate the sides it was Sneem/Derrynane/Templenoe and Tuosist that came out victorious in the end. Well done to all you all played great and worked well together.
St Pats B
Our senior Bs had their match against Tarbert on Monday 5th of September in Round 1 of the Kerry Cup. Tarbert opening the scoring with a point, Joe Costello got a superb goal to start our scoring. Tarbert added three points and a goal between scores from our side of Cillian Lynch’s point, Adrian Greaney point and Brian Murphy point. The first half finished St Pats 1-03 Tarbert 1-04
In the second half Tarbert scored 1-06, our own scores came from James Friel Point, Adam Bailey point and two goals and two points from Adrian Greaney. With extra time needed to separate the sides, it began with only one point scored from both sides ours coming from Adrian Greaney. First half after extra time read St Pats 3-08 Tarbert 2-11. Second half of extra time began no score came from Tarbert in this half and Adrian Greaney scored a point to add our scores. Final whistle blew St Pats 3-09 Tarbert 2-11.
Our senior’s Bs were also out in their Round 2 of Kerry Cup in Blennerville last Friday night, first half was low scoring from both sides three points in total. Our scores came from two points from Brian Murphy and one point from Brandon Boyle. First half finished St Pats 0-03 Cordal 0-03. Eleven Points were scored by Cordal in the second half of this game, we scored seven points which came from two points from Cormac Lynch, Joe Costello point, Martin Savage point, Cillian Lynch two points and one point from Brandon Boyle. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough this time and Cordal were the winners. St Pats 0-10 Cordal 0-14
It was great to see experienced legs come on the field in both of these matches, a big cheer from the crowd when Joe Costello and Eoin Sayers donned their football boots once more.
Congratulations
To Eoin and Sarah Sayers who christened Baby Liam Sayers recently.
To Marianna Costello and Sam Bongard who got married last Friday week at Churchtown House in Beaufort.
To Melissa Costello and Spela Cvar and the other Kingdom Swim Moms Adrienne O Halloran, Leza O Donoghue and Niamh O Callaghan who completed their 33km relay swim from Blennerville to Brandon Pier recently. They were raising funds for a defibrillator for Fenit. Please donate if you can at https://www.gofundme.com/f/defibrillator-for-fenit-locks-beach?fbclid=IwAR3GhJpyx2JXv2Ls_Zwoqal6j-6Wt2A8rTWX4r2Q5Mdlut6BASD3sbsFT4o
sympathy
The club would like to extend its sympathy to the families and friends of Gerry O’Leary, Clogherbrien, Gerard Flynn Castlegregory and John O Brien Caherslee.
Born To Run Marathon Club
Active members
The club members have been very active over the past few weeks, taking part in various events One of which was the trip back to Dingle to see the return of the marathon and half marathon, while the day began dry but cloudy soon and heaven opened the rain danced on the roads enough to make sure everyone was drenched through but just as the beautiful scenery came into view the sun appeared to put smiles on everyone’s faces.
As always it was a great event and so well organized and a great atmosphere.
We had runners running a half marathon for the first time and a few PBs were broken on the day too. Congratulations to all. While Dingle was a challenge in itself it paled in comparison to the epic task taken on by Tom Foley who successfully completed the Kerry way ultra again. An absolutely fantastic achievement.
Couch to 5k
Now that the summer has come to an end we are once again starting our 2022 Couch to 5k program. Starting on September 19th it will take place on Mondays and Wednesdays evenings at 6.30am from the Brandon carpark for 8 weeks.
The cost is just €10 and anyone over the age of 18 can sign up, from those wanting to start from scratch to anyone who might like to return to running after taking time out.
The couch to 5k mentors are graduates of the program and are there to help and encourage the participants to reach the goal of running a 5k consistently.
An organized 5k will be arranged at the end of the 8 weeks where the runners will receive their btr 5k medal.
Anyone interested can find more information on Born to runs Facebook page or can sign up with Active.com
Training for the upcoming Tralee, Galway and Dublin marathons continue over the coming weeks
TRALEE DYNAMOS AFC
U-12 Red Team
Killorglin 2 Dynamos 2. Our Red Squad had their second outing of the season with an away tie against Killorglin. We were extremely unlucky not to come away with the three points as the Killorglin equalized deep into added time. All players performed fantastically and a much improved display from the previous week. Our scorers on the day were Conor Ryan and Eddie Carmody.
Schoolboy Results
U-12 Premier: Killorglin 2 2 Dynamos
U-13 Premier: Dynamos 3 5 Mastergeeha
U-14 Premier: Dynamos 3 1 Killarney Celtic
U-15 Premier: Dynamos 2 3 Killorglin
U-12 girls
Any girls born in 2011 and 2012, interested in play soccer for the club are invited to training at Dynamos grounds in Cahermoneen this Wednesday Sept 14th at 6 30pm. Our first game is fixed for September 24th.
Senior B
Listowel Celtic B 1 7 Dynamos B. Our Senior B team opened their League campaign with a decisive victory over Listowel. John O Brien netted a hat-trick with Peter Enright, Brendan Coffey, Asagad Sancho and Dylan O Brien getting the other goals.
Fixtures: Thurs Sept 15 U-14 Kill Ath B v Dynamos B 6.30pm. U-15 Park v Dynamos 6pm
Fri Sept 16 U-12 Park v Dynamos 6pm
Sat Sept 17 U-12 Dynamos B v LB Rovers B, 12 noon. U-14 Fenit v Dynamos
Wed Sept 21 U-16 Dynamos B v Kill Ath B 6.30pm
Special mention to Saoirse Kerins who finishes up after 8 years playing with the club. What a dedicated servant Saoirse was and still is to Tralee Dynamos AFC. Well done Saoirse!
Also, well done to Francis O Brien who received his Top Goal-Scorer award last Saturday having scored 22 goals in last seasons campaign. Comhghairdeas, Francis!
TRALEE TOASTMASTERS
First meeting
What can I say about our very first meeting on September 5th only that it was an altogether wonderful event. Even before the meeting started it was a “hive of activity” with the last minute preparations being carried out. Members of the local press were present taking photographs before the meeting, with members catching up with one another, and guests being welcomed to the meeting as well.
The meeting was opened by our President James Finnegan, it was very poignant, our first live meeting since March 2020. James’ welcome to all the members and guests was very warm and heartfelt. James’ opening address at our first live meeting was uplifting, positive and affirming. We wish James every success in his role as President of our club for 2022 2023, and every best wish to the committee in their work to move the club forward in a positive direction.
James then handed the gavel over Derry Butler, who was Toastmaster for the evening. Derry chaired the meeting in a very professional manner, making sure the meeting ran smoothly and in sequence. Derry made all of us present indeed most welcome, members and guests alike, in his own unique inimitable style. The meeting flowed well from beginning to end without hardly any glitch.
In the first part of the meeting we had three wonderful, uplifting and light-hearted speeches, from Marie, Catriona, and Sergey. Each speech was unique with great quality of content. Marie, Catriona, and Sergey spoke clearly and confidentially, they all did themselves proud.
After the speeches we had our session of table topics (impromptu speaking), Sonia Elston was the Topicsmaster for the night. We were royally entertained with Sonia’s unique array of topics, with great humor and light-heartedness. The topics certainly “added flavour” to the night, and certainly whetted everyone’s appetite for more.
After table topics had been wrapped up we all had the opportunity for a cup of tea/coffee and a chat. Afterwards we had the next part of the meeting, the evaluation session, where the meeting as a whole was evaluated. Finally our Toastmaster and President wrapped up the meeting and we said our farewells.
All members who carried out roles at the meeting without doubt gave a great account of themselves. All their hard work and efficiency paid off in terms that the meeting went very well, which was clearly evident. Congratulations to one and all.
All in all our first night back was a highly enjoyable and very memorable occasion for all the right reasons.
We will be holding our next meeting on Monday September 19th in the pastoral center at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Parish in Tralee at 8.00pm. It would be great to see you there, you will be mostly warmly welcome, and you will be among friends. It is an evening of great light-hearted entertainment, you will not be disappointed.
Please do not hesitate to contact Derry at 086 2580662 or myself Michael at 086 8378721 should you require any more information.