Coolera-Strandhill BNN 17-4-02

The sponsored Bag Packing takes place this week-end at Dunnes Stores on Thurs, Fr and Sat. More helpers (Players and Adults) are required for Fri and Sat so please do come and help raise much needed funds for the club. Please contact Rose Cawley 30156 with your name.

Some of our local Hurling stars took part in the Joe Cooney school of Hurling last summer. This provrd very worthwhile and enjoyable fro the participants. This year we are fortunate in that Joe will be making the trip to Ransboro for a Coaching Day for all the young hurlers of the area next week. More details next week.

Well done to under -16 player Damien Gildea on a very fine performance in the All-Ireland Shot Putt competition in Nenagh at the week-end. Hard luck to Damhain McFadden who had qualified the All-Ireland 60m race and had great chance of success but unfortunately picked up an injury and could not compete.

Four of our players, Luke Bree, Roger Leahy, Niall Quinn and Donncha Sheridan helped out in a great performance by the local rugby team to defeat a fancied Ballina team on Sunday in the semi-final of the Connaught Cup. Best of luck in the Final.

Well done also to all the competitor who took part in the Community games Basketball last Saturday and good luck to the two U- 13 teams in the semi-finals this weekend.

The Suumerhill team had a good win over St Muredachs in the schools semi-final and are now through to the final against St Jarlaths. Well done and good luck to Michael McDermott, Damien Gildea and the other lads from the area who are on the panel.

The Girls U 14 team played Grange least week and recorded a very good win. This was a very good team performance with the usual players dominating the game.

The U-12 girls were due to play Eastern harps on Monday evening last - report next week-

Under 12 Boys played their second match last Tuesday at Ransboro Park with Curry providing a formidable opposition. A great game of football was served up by both teams with Curry taking advantage of the wind in the first half and looking very confident at half time. The local team had other ideas for the second half and really took the game to the opposition. There was some excellent play throughout the second half with a very exciting finish to the game. The ball was moved up and down the field with speed and accuracy and with both teams scoring right up to the final whistle . The end result was a share of the spoils with a draw which was a fair result on the evenings performance. The management an be proud of the excellent performance by all the .team.

The U-16 Boys played Eastern Harps in Keash on Friday evening last. This was a tough game of football but the home team had the upper hand for most of the game and were always on top on trhe scoreboard. Our team tried hard to compete in the first half and had a few good spells but unfortunately not enough to make a difference to the result. Harps started well in the second half but Coolera-Strandhill fought back well and did manage to get on top play wise towards the end of the second half. We had the the majority of possession in the last quarter and got some fine scores but were a bit unlucky not to be rewarded with a goal and a few more points.

The Minor team were due to play Eastern Harps on Monday evening last.

A Meeting of Bord Na N Óg will take place this Thusday 14^th at 9:00 pm in the meeting room at Ransboro Park.

The club are fortunate to have the services of two of the Sigerson Cup Winning Team from Sligo IT providing Coaching in both Ransboro and Strandhill Schools. The two players are Michael Moyles and Darren Kerins. Hopefully the children in both schools will gain enjoyment and benefit from this coaching which is scheduled to run on every Tuesday. The club would like to acknowledge the assistance and support from the teachers in both schools.

We would like to congratulate the Sports Stars of the year who were presented with their awards last week. They included local Athlete Eimear Ruane who has represented the local area at County , National and International level. Well done Eimear. Mark Brehony from St Mary's who provided coaching at Ransboro last Summer. The overall award went to Eamon O'Hara who has recently been appointed Coach to the clubs and schools in the City Board Area. We would like to welcome Eamon to this position and look forward to working with him. This should provide a great boost to the young players in the area and all of the boys and girls are really looking forward it.

The Under 10 team will commence their training This Wednesday 13^th evening at 6:00 p.m. Training the team will be Martin Gillen, Pat Burke and Willie Kelly.

The Under -14 Feile competition is due to start next week. Training has commenced for this team, but any player who has not attended and is eligible to play (born in 1988 or 1989) then please contact Oliver Sheridan, Michael McDermott or Brendan O'Mahony.

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Senior Team.

The club has had a senior Football Team since

In recent times it is one of the top clubs in the county and with a little bit of luck could have been county Champions but unfortunately this is not the case.

With the present squad of players the team is capable of beating any of the other teams in the county.

With the present squad of players the team is capable of beating any of the other teams in the county.

There is a wealth of experience and talent amongst the players with most of them coming up through the underage structures within the club.

Many of the players have experienced the the game right through from U-12 through to playing at County level for Sligo.

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