Lotto Draw

Sunday 7th of October 2018

Jackpot

€10,000 NO WINNER
Numbers Drawn 7,16,29,32

The weekly winners of €30 were
Patsy Raftery & Mary Fox, C/o Hyde.
Nerney Family, Abbeytown.
Alan Enda & Aidan, C/o Johnny Igoe.
Liam McNeela, Cloonbrackna Avenue.

Thanks to everyone who bought and sold tickets your support is very much appreciated.

COACHING NEWS  (WK 41 2018)
 
A. National Hurling Development Provincial Coaching Workshop
 
Date: Saturday October 13th
Venue: Connacht Centre of Excellence. Registration: 10.30 a.m. Workshop:
11.00am – 1.20 p.m.  Lunch 1.30 p.m.
Format: Practical station based workshop with participants rotating to each station.
Target audience – Youth – Adult Coaches.
Open to all coaches – Hurling & Camogie Workshop Theme – Building the
Essentials into Every Training Session: To include - · Goalkeeping essentials ·
Catching & Striking · Hooking & Blocking · Rising & Hand passing · Defending &
Attacking Coaches:
Lead coaches Jamesie O’ Connor, Seanie Mc Mahon, Christy O’ Connor – Clare,
 D.J. Carey, - Kilkenny  Ollie Canning - Galway Eamon O’ Shea –Tipperary, Derek
McGrath - Waterford Martin Fogarty: - National Hurling Development Manager,
Special Guest: - Kate Kelly – Wexford
Bookings: http://learning.gaa.ie/hurlingworkshops early booking advisable as places
are limited.
Enquiries: All enquiries to Martin Fogarty.
Email: [email protected] Registration: €20 (includes lunch) Play and Stay with
the G.A.A.B

B. Update on Club Coaching Mentoring Programme

Reminder of the 3No. objectives that were agreed upon at our meeting on 27 th  March

Implement Club – Primary School Link.
Coach Education.- Coach the Coaches
Expanded Coaching Committee - to meet monthly.
Status  of objectives :-

Implement Club – School Link. : Immediately prior to the summer
school holidays our coaching committees put forward names
of coaches who might be willing to coach within Primary Schools in the
Roscommon Gaels catchment area (i.e. St Comans Wood,
Gael Scoil, Kilteevan). Coaches were contacted and a number of
meetings held to discuss the structure of the Club School Link.
It was agreed to focus our energies at the younger age children i.e.
Junior and Senior Infants.
We have 9/10 of our Club Coaches now rolling out the ABC Programme in the three schools.

We will provide a further progress update in a few months time.
 Coach Education- Coach the Coaches : This objective remains an
open action item. The intent is this will be actioned within the
next number of weeks. Update will follow on this.
 
 Expanded Coaching Committee : The Coaching Committee has
been expanded to approx. 12 members.

C U12 Hurling Skills
County Skills Final Saturday October 6th
 Venue     Tremane.
 Time       4pm.
 Connacht final  Friday October 12th
 Venue     Connacht COE.
Time 7pm.

U14 Football:
Our Under 14 girls play Oran in the Summer League A Final on Sunday at 12pm in
Lisnamult please come out and support the girls.
U16 Football:
Anthony, Leo, Mike and Mary are getting the girls ready for a semi final that is to be
played hopefully end of this month. Training Continues for the girls.
County Development
Well done to all our Gaels Girls who are doing County Development at the Minute.
We have lots of girls at U13 & U15. A group of our U14’s travelled to Limierick
yesterday to the JP McManus Centre of Excellence in Martinstown to partake in the
inaugural Ingenium Inter County Blitz with Limerick, Offaly, Laois and Roscommon
batting it out for silverware. Roscommon overcame both Offaly,Laois and Limerick to
setup a final with Limerick. Both sides played brilliantly. Roscommon missed a
couple of Goal chances and were unlucky to be beaten by four points. Well done to
our Roscommon Gaels Girls Hollie Harkin, Claire McNeilll, Chloe Donoghue,
Caoimhe Walsh, Mikayla Martyn, Ellen Biesty, Eimear O’Farrell and Eadaoin Walsh
who was doing the Stats. The future is looking bright in Roscommon Ladies Football.

In Faithleach’s club house last Tuesday were Mary Mulhern, Anne &
Michael Naughton, Roscommon Gaels members Mary Kelly & Marie McAleer.
There was a presentation to the 1978 All Ireland Football ladies who were
celebrating their 40 th Anniversary. Brendan Cregg Roscommon Ladies LGFA
Chairperson in his speech said that Marie McAleer was the backbone of
Roscommon Ladies football back then and still is. Keep the flag flying Marie we are
very proud of all you and honoured to have you as a member.

U8 Football:
Roscommon Gaels hosted our Annual Bernie Hoare Tournament last Friday 5 th
under lights in Lisnamult. This marks the end of the U8 Boys Football season for
2018. As always, this is a great way to end the season with the boys playing in the
Bernie Hoare Cup for the older boys and the Bernie Hoare Shield for the beginners.
A very enjoyable evening was had and it was great to see first-hand the progress
made by all the lads this year. A big thank you to all the players for coming out each
week, to their parents for their commitment to taking them to training and
encouraging them and finally a big thank you to all the coaches for their dedication to
under age football. We look forward to doing it all again next year.

Roscommon Gaels – U8 Football Coaches 2018:  Ciaran Heneghan,
Declan Hussey, Gary Greene, Dion Hegarty, Seamus O’Neill.  Michael O’Reilly,
Enda Daly, Shane O’Donnell, Philip Fleming, Mick Byrne.

U10 Football:

U9 &Camp; U10 coaches. Declan Hussey Seamus Carthy, Gerry Donohue, Marcus Hone,
Joe Biesty, Derek Dolan, Mick Byrne,  John Connelly, Peter Gilleran, Shane Killeen, Philip Fleming, Mark Keaveney.

U16 Football:
Roscommon Gaels 2-10, St Ciaran’s 3-6.Congratulations to our superb U16 lads and
their amazing management team Kevin Keegan, Pat Hoey & Shane Kelly on winning the County final on Sunday in Ballyforan, after a great game of football.

Senior Football:

Boyle conceded league game as they were unable to field a team.

Hurling

County U12 Hurling skill challenge

Well done to Aaron Bracken  Eoghan Keavney  Conor Grogan & Liam  Naughton
who took part  in County under 12 Hurling challenge  in tremane  on Saturday evening with a third place finish. Also  big thanks to or two skills coach &  Killian and Garoid Egan.

U-14 hurling:
The U-14 hurlers beat Padraig Pearses by 2-13 to 1-9 in an enjoyable, closely-
contested U-14 league play-off under lights at Ballyforan on Friday evening. The
team will now play Four Roads in the semi-final at 12.30 p.m. next Sunday. The
match will be played in either Athleague or Tremane.

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