Skills Challenge: Congrats to everyone who participated in GPO Maria Bergin’s Skills Challenges for our U-6 to U-12 Girls and Boys. Great to see so many taking part and of course that made Maria’s task all the harder in selecting the prize winners who after much consideration were announced as U-6 Girls Zoё McConville – U-6 Boys Jack Ellard – U-8 Girls Aria Keane – U-8 Boys Sean Rushe – U-10 Girls Elodie Farrell – U-10 Boys Liam McDermott – U-12 Girls Millie Byrne – U-12 Boys Cillian Dawson. Many thanks to everyone who entered and sent videos to our Instagram page – castleknockgaa. You can see videos of the winners and others on our Instagram and twitter pages. A huge thanks too to @1884Sport for providing the prizes. Watch out this coming week for a new hurling/camogie Skills Challenge.

Fundraiser: An incredible 14 Castleknock players were among the 250 players from Dublin Development, Minor, U-21 and Senior Hurling Squads involved in the ‘Hurl for Hope’ Fundraiser for Pieta. The individual player target was to strike 2,000 sliotars in an hour making a total of 500,000 sliotar strikes across all the squads. So far almost €22,000 has been raised and you can still contribute at https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/hurlforhope Well done to all of our lads who were involved some of them Fundraising for the second week running.

Coaching: The amount of time and effort some of our members put into gaining Coaching Qualifications so as to benefit our own players often goes unnoticed so a special word of thanks to those of you who are embarking on the latest Dublin Coaching Course, GAA Award 1 Course, beginning on Monday May 18.

The Course is aimed at Coaches who have already progressed beyond the Foundation Award level and are currently coaching a club team at anything from U-13 to Adult level.

The Webinar aspect of the Course extends over 4 weeks covering the fascinating OTú Model, the Role of Coaching and Communications in both football and hurling. The Practical aspect of the Course will be held as soon as activity resumes.

     

Club Together: The Club Together videos continue every Tuesday and Thursday on our Instagram and twitter pages. First up this past week was our Senior Hurling goalkeeper Jack Banks @jankszs who produced a video on the importance of good ‘footwork’ for hurling goalkeepers. That was followed on Thursday by two of our Ladies Footballers Sinead and Jessica Comerford who posted a very useful video showing the correct technique required to block an opponent attempting to kick pass the ball. And of course Ciarán Kilkenny’s hurling and football skills challenges which unfortunately are coming to an end can be viewed online at any time.

 

Return to Play: While there are few signs of an organised return to training or play at either club or county level it is interesting to note the results of a Ladies Gaelic Football Survey which shows that the Ladies footballers in contrast to most of their male counterparts are quite happy to play championship football behind closed doors.

   

Leaving Certificate: It has been a stressful few months for those of our players involved in preparations for the 2020 Leaving Certificate but at least now there is more certainty and if any of our members want to see exactly what the department of Education’s plans for the new calculated/predicted process are you can view a Guide to them at this link (Ctrl + Click) courtesy of Castleknock Community College.

https://t.co/if96X8GJDq?amp=1

Bereavement: The Club wishes to extend our heartfelt condolences to Andy Carolan, Áine and their family and friends on the death of Andy’s mother Rose. As well as a mentor to the 2010 Girls team Andy will be well known to many of our members in his work behind the bar in the Carpenter. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam dílis.

And as always Remember

Wash Your Hands – Maintain Social Distancing – Stay Well

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