Our school has been
taking part in the Cumann na mBunscol football competition since 1992.
At that time the
school played in the Div. 7 competition as we were only a one teacher school
with 22 pupils on roll. We had no football jerseys and played in
navy, red and green t-shirts which Fr. Fleming bought for us.
We didn’t have much
success in the early years and yet each Summer we looked forward
to the games and our rare victories were always a cause of great celebration.
As our numbers grew
we moved to higher divisions.
We had a sponsored spelling
competition and bought a set of sky blue jerseys in 1997.
Finally in 1999
we reached our first final. Everyone was very exited and proud as we lined
out in O’Connor Park.
Unfortunately it wasn’t
to be our lucky day and we were defeated by Clonbullogue.
Then in 2000, we again
made it to the Div.5 final. This time we were determined
not to go away empty handed and we won a great match against Rahan. It
was our school’s first title and we had a wonderful party in the school
to celebrate.
In the 2001 season we
reached the final again but were defeated by Croghan.
In 2001 we entered the
hurling competition for the first time ,in a combined Killoughey parish
team with Gortnamona and Mountbolus schools.
The following are
match reports from this season’s football and hurling competitions.
Football
competition.
Match 1
Coolanarney ‘s
first game of the year was against
Lumcloon.
Coolanarney led
comfortably from the beginning. At half time the
score was Coolanarney 4.2 Lumcloon 2.1
After the half
time break Coolanarney continued to dominate the
game with score after score.The final
score was Coolanarney 8.8 Lumcloon 4.6
Match 2
Our second game of the
season was against Croghan.
Croghan had a good defence
and midfield and it was a difficult game.
Cathal Feighery pulled
off a string of saves.
Daniel Currams scored
two goals and five points.
David Mitchell scored
one goal and three points.
In the end Coolanarney
came out on top.
Match 3
Coolanarney’s
third game was against Ballybryan
This was a
tough game. Point after point came for each
team. At half time the score was very
close at. Coolanarney 1.3 Ballybryan 2.1
After half
time break Ballbryan got a very early
goal and two quick points .
And so we were
were playing catch up .
The closest
we had them to one point behind.
But Ballybryan scored
a goal very near the end and we could
only score a point in reply. We got
a free at the last minute but
the ball hit the post and the referee
blew it up. The final score was Coolanarney 3.3
Ballybryan 4.1
Match 4
Coolanarney 3-10
Clonbollogue 3-9
Clonbollogue had a good
start.
They led going in
In 2001 we entered the
hurling competition for the first time ,in a combined Killoughey parish
team with Gortnamona and Mountbolus schools.
The following are
match reports from this season’s football and hurling competitions.
Football
competition.
Match 1
Coolanarney ‘s
first game of the year was against
Lumcloon.
Coolanarney led
comfortably from the beginning.At half time the
score was
Coolanarney 4.2
Lumcloon 2.1
After the half
time break Coolanarney continued to dominate the
game with score after score.The final
score was Coolanarney 8.8 Lumcloon 4.6
Match 2
Our second game of the
season was against Croghan.
Croghan had a good defence
and midfield and it was a difficult game.
Cathal Feighery pulled
off a string of saves.
Daniel Currams scored
two goals and five points.
David Mitchell scored
one goal and three points.
In the end Coolanarney
came out on top.
Match 3
Coolanarney’s
third game was against Ballybryan
This was a
tough game. Point after point came for each
team. At half time the score was very
close at. Coolanarney 1.3 Ballybryan 2.1
After half
time break Ballbryan got a very early
goal and two quick points .
And so we were
were playing catch up .
The closest
we had them to one point behind.
But Ballybryan scored
a goal very near the end and we could
only score a point in reply. We got
a free at the last minute but
the ball hit the post and the referee
blew it up. The final score was Coolanarney 3.3
Ballybryan 4.1
Match 4
Coolanarney 3-10
Clonbollogue 3-9
Clonbollogue had a good
start.
They led going iat half
time.
Coolanarney came out
with pure determination.
Coolanarney fought back
bravely,eventually getting level from a point by James Norton.
We got a free in the
last few seconds.
We scored.
The referee blew the
whistle.
Coolanarney were in
the county final.
The County
Final.
Coolanarney 4-1
Croghan 4-3
Croghan had a good start
but we kept with them all the way.
Coolanarney were winning
by a goal and a point to two points at half time.
Croghan scored four
goals and a point early in the second half.
Coolanarney came back
again and and scored three goals.
But it was too late.
We had lost our final.
Hurling
Competition
Coolanarney N.S.
, Mountbolous NS.and Gortnamona N.S. got together and
entered the Cumann na mBunscol hurling competition in 2001 for the
first time.
Our trainers
were Dermot Troy and Tom Daly.
Our first
match was against Killeigh and it was
a good one for Killoughey.A quick goal
for us sent the opposition on their
way.But near the end Killeigh scored
a good goal.But Killoughey responded with
a goal the final score was .
Killoughey 2.8
Killeigh 1.6
Our second
match was against Boher and it went
very badly for Killoughey. Killoughey started
well but Boher got quick goals and
we were never in the game after that. The final
score was.Killoughey 3.8 Boher 6.4
Our third
game was against Rath and it was a very exciting
encounter Killoughey dominated the whole game
and the final score was.
Killoughey 8.8
Rath 1.3
We had reached the final.
The final
was held in Killeigh on the June bank holiday weekend.
Killoughey were
against Boher .
We didn't start too
well and things looked very bad for us
at half time.
But after
the half time break Killoughey came
back from the dead. Daniel Currums
moved up foward with Fergal Kinnarney
.
Danniel scored
2.2
Fergal scored
2 goals
The final
score was.
Killoughey 4.4
Boher 4.3.
It was a great victory.
We all returned to the
Blueball for the celebrations.
Match Reports by Fergal
Kinnarney and David Mitchell.
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