Boyle GAA Blog ...by Tony Conboy

Fri. 5pm
I was in the crowd at the Junior league game v Kilbride on Wed. evening in Kilbride. it was a mixed but overall good performance. The final score was Boyle 1.9 Kilbride 1.6. At half time Kilbride led by 0.4 to 0.3. Boyle were playing against the breeze and got off to a good start but got mixed up. An unfortunate, almost slow motion, clash between Cian Beirne and Brendan McQuaid led to Cian sustaining an injury which led to his replacement and perhaps unavailability for a while. I hope he recovers quickly as like Jonathan McDermott has had his share of injury recently. The switch od Ciaran O'Neill to the half back line, plus his free taking, was instruementl in an improved second half when Boyle were held out by the varied woodwork of uprights and crossbars and so on. A Brendan McQuaid goal on 25 minutes of the second half secured victory. Ml. Birmingham too shipped a heavy tackle in that second half. The veteran but irrepressible Noel McKenna finished on a high note with a fine point.
The Boyle team was: Ciaran Beirne (very good kick outs), Ml. Birmingham, J.S.Lyons, Ml. Hanmore, Ml. O'Donnell, C. Beirne, B. McQuaid (1.1), D. Callaghan, S. Tonra, J.Suffin, N. McKenna (0.1), C. O'Neill (0.3 fr), C. Garvin, D.O'Connor (0.1), M. O'Donohoe (0.2) with B. Furey and Sh. Spellman (0.1) and A.N.Other. Shane Spellman showed he hadn't forgotten the scoring touch. The young men Furey and Ml. Hanmore played very well. David Callaghan was an intersting switch to full back and showed a nice delicate dummy touch in the second half.
Early season eligibility for the junior team is always a serious consideration.

While I know that Boyle are in C'Ship action on Sunday the 19th of June there is a very interesting charity walk/run/hike called the 'Curlew Warrior Challenge' on that day at 11am. so anyone not directly involved in the afternoon should consider that.