The past weekend was the first, for a considerable length of time, in which there was no activity on the playing fields, by the Club. Action will resume this coming weekend. The National Automation U21s’ will meet Padraig Pearse's, in the last of the group games in the Division 1 County Championship, in Knockcroghery on Saturday next, November 12th, at 2pm.
The McGovern Directional Drilling team expects to play St Barrys in the Nort West Championship on the weekend of 18th November.
The National Automation Limited minors are still awaiting news of their league semi final game.
All team managers-adult, minor and ladies- are advised that the new dressing rooms will be closed from Friday the 11th to Tuesday 15th November to allow re-sealing work to be done on the floors.
Preparations are under way for the social event of the year, the Christmas quiz, presentation night and social, all wrapped up in one this year, which will be held in St Joseph's Hall on Wednesday the 28th of December. So note that in your Christmas schedule.
Well done to the Ladies Club on their very enjoyable Halloween Social which they held in St Joseph's Hall on Sunday night last.
Another date for the diaries is the Senior Club's AGM which is scheduled for Sunday the 11th of December at 5pm in the Clubroom. Any member, with ideas regarding the club’s activities, should submit same, on the nomination papers which will be circulated closer to the date.
Congratulations to St Brigid’s on their fine victory in the Connacht Senior Club Semi Final over Tourlestrane at Sligo on Sunday last. It was refreshing to attend a good game in fine weather conditions. Certainly St. Brigid’s are in good shape to be real contenders against this year. They had many fine performances on Sunday with Senan Kilbride getting the ‘Man of the Match’ award and Frankie Dolan giving an exhibition of fine pass delivery/distribution The Connacht Club final is against Corofin at Kiltoom which should be a really good contest. Commiserations to Padraig Pearses on their loss in the Connacht Intermediate Final on Saturday.
I (T.C.) caught up on some reading last evening/night and there is always something interesting in the week end papers. Eamon Sweeney’s column, on the back page of the Indo. Sport’s section, is always worthy of attention with a varied, sometimes quirky, subject matter. Recently there were the comic book heroes of his youth, Sunday Oct. 30th the atmosphere in a small club area when their team gets to a county final and so on. In a sense Eamon has inherited the mantle of Tom Humphrey as a very interesting sports writer of real merit. Indeed sport's writing is a whole genre of literature where the Americans prevail. The French writer Camus said once that: ‘All I ever learned about life I learned from sport’. Camus was a soccer goalkeeper for a time.
Sport got little attention from the Presidential election candidates as outlined by John O’Brien in an interesting and informative piece in the Indo. Sunday Sport, page 4, Oct. 30th headlined ‘Our GAA President a hard act to follow’. I turned into the piece thinking it was the GAA President Christy Cooney that was involved and the headline would thus surprise me. However it was the understanding and supportive attitude of President Mary McAleese to the sport and recreational voluntary providers that he regarded and the lack of reference to sport during the election. This is though Ml. D. is President of Galway United and Mary Davis is a member of the Rooney clan of Mayo GAA background. Sporting grants and funding is getting hammered now and I suppose is an easy target for cuts. Of course there are a lot of clubs struggling with debt and current financing costs et al.
Go raibh maith agaibh,Martin Dolan/T.C.P.R.O. Dept. Boyle GAA Club086 2413529
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