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March 17th 2013

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In This Issue:

Adult Football Update Inter County News Hurling News Camogie Round Up Juvenile Matters Fundraising events Fixtures for March

Football Update

Results: Dunderry 3-9 Trim 1-4

Intermediate sides Trim and Dunderry were pitted against each other in this division 2 football A league third round game. It was supposed to have been a home game for Dunderry but due to an unplayable pitch it was switched to Dungany. Conditions were dry but windy and bitterly cold with the harsh conditions affecting the quality of the game and resulted in many poor passes and shots at goal.

This defeat leaves Trim propping up the bottom of the table with no points after three rounds. A win is desperately required and matters are not helped due to fielding without some significant players due to work commitments, injuries and county hurlers unavailable for club league action. It was heartening to see the return of Paul Gilsenan from a long term injury and goalkeeper Mark Daly from England.   

 The Trim team was: Mark Daly; Colm O’Flaherty, Paul Flanagan, Eoin Kelly, Shane O’Connor, David Foley, Darryl Phelan, Frankie Murphy,  Kieran Joyce, Paul Gilsenan, Mark Gilsenan, Maurice Power, Kieran O’Rourke, Keith Hamilton, James Andrews. Subs – Colm McGrath, Andrew O’Brien, Sean Foley, Patrick Lennon, Garret White, John Redmond.

 Trim scorers were: Kieran O’Rourke 1-0, Mark Gilsenan 0-2, Paul Gilsenan 0-1, and Keith Hamilton 0-1 (free).

Training for all Adult Football continues every Tuesday and Thursday at 8pm under Coach Brendan Murphy. All Adult football players welcome.

Inter County Duty Meath hurling team had great wins in the national hurling league, beating Down in

Newry in the first round and on the return of national league hurling to St Loman’s park they defeated reining Christy Ring cup holders London by nine points. A feature of the London match was the man of the match display by James Toher at centre back and in this match Ryan Andrews and Damo McGee made their senior inter county debuts. In the third round Meath played Mayo in Trim on Sunday the 10th of March and had another great victory winning by 8 points, our club man David Foley made his Senior Inter county Debut in that match.

Meath U21 football team had a great win over Louth in the first round of the Leinster championship but went out of the competition to a strong Kildare outfit on Wednesday 6th March. Trim duel player James Toher was a second half substitute coming onto the pitch in the thirty fifth minute and made an immediate impact for the team.

Meath Camogie team got off to a great start to their National league Div 2 campaign beating Waterford by three points and Antrim by four points. Rachel Winters, Katie Hackett and Captain Edel Guy started in these games with Sharon Hillard making her Royal Debut against Waterford. Shone White is also involved with this squad. Katie Hackett scored 1-1 in the match against Antrim.

Robert Burke and Harry Purcell were both in the starting line up against for Meath minor football team in the Leinster league semi final unfortunately Meath lost the match,

Luke Moran is training away with the Meath Minor hurling squad. Lady football players Isabelle Varley and Karley Leavy are involved with the Meath

Ladies U14 and U16 squads in the Leinster Championship

Hurling News

Results

JHL Div 3: Moylagh 2-15 Trim 4-25

SHL Div 1: Trim 0-12 Boardsmill 1-13

Davis Cup: Trim 0-8 Kildalkey 2-5

Senior Hurlers Defeated By Parish Rivals

Final Score: Trim 0-12 Boardsmill 1-13

Trim senior hurlers suffered a disappointing defeat to parish rivals Boardsmill in the first round of the hurling league Div 1 on Sunday morning at St Loman’s park, Boardsmill ran out four point’s winners and deserved their victory.

Trim lined out without a number of regulars with James Toher unable to play due to county commitment’s, Neil Heffernan playing collages finals the injured duo of Ronan Fitzsimons and Shane Ashe Trim struggled to find their rhythm throughout the game.

There were many positive things Trim can take out of this season’s opener, with the return of John Redmond to the red jersey and the debut of  Cork man Eolann Harrington and youngsters like Sean McGee, James Andrews, Luke Moran and Shane Downes sure to improve with every match Trim should have a good season to look forward to.

Trim Scorers: Damo McGee0-10 James Andrews 0-1 and C. Joyce 0-1

Trim Team: Brian Carley (capt), Shane Downes, David Foley, John Cunningham, Sean McGee, C. Joyce, Eolann Harrington, James Andrews, Ryan Andrews, John Redmond, Damo McGee, Luke Moran, Colm McGrath, Kevin Higgins and Jamie Lee.

Subs: Darrell Phelan, Andrew O’Brien and Darragh Kennedy

Juniors Hurlers Have Sixteen Points Win

Final score Trim 4-25 Moylagh 2-15:

Our Junior Hurlers traveled to Moylagh for the first round of the junior hurling league. In a high scoring match Trim won by 16 points against a spirited Moylagh outfit. An amazing statistic of this match was both sides ability to take scores from play with 4-20 of the Trim total coming from play and 2-8 of Moylagh scores from play. Trim had many stars on the day and the youth policy Manager Darren O’Connor is adopting seems to be the way forward for the town side. With youngsters like Colm McGrath, Patrick Lennon ,Rory McGrath, David Buckley, John Cunningham, James Foley, Shane Downes, Gareth White are all just out of the minor grade the future looks bright. Captain fantastic Darren Phelan gave a tireless display in the middle of the park and covered every blade of grass on Moylaghs fine pitch.

  Trim Scorers: Gareth White 1-6, Trevor Toole 0-4, James Andrews 0-4, Sean McGee1-2, and Patrick Lennon 1-0 Rory McGrath 0-1, John Redmond 0-4 Colm McGrath 1-3 Eolann Harrington 0-1

 Trim Team: Kevin Higgins, Paul Mullen, Jamie Lee, Shane Downes, John Cunningham, Eolann Harrington, David Buckley, James Andrews, Darrell Phelan (Capt) John Redmond, Colm McGrath, Trevor Tool, Andrew O’Brien, Gareth White and Patrick Lennon. Subs all Used, James Foley, Sean McGee, Rory McGrath

Senior Hurlers Davis Cup

Result Trim 0-8 Kildalkey 2-5

Trim hurlers lost to Kildalkey in the first round of the Brendan Davis knock out cup at a bitterly cold St Loman’s park on Sunday. The match was played in Arctic like conditions with a storm force wind blowing directly down into the country goals. Good hurling was near to impossible and in fairness to both sides they did not disappoint in that respect. This was a terrible match with bad striking, bad ball control and overall lacked any class.

 Trim had good displays on the day from David Foley at center back, Sean McGee at wing forward, Eolann Harrington at wing back.

Trim Scorers: Damo McGee 0-5,Sean McGee 0-2 and James Toher 0-1

 Trim Team: Brian Carley, Shane Downes, Colm Doyle, Kevin Higgins, Eolann Harrington, David Foley, Ciaran Joyce, Ryan Andrews, James Toher, Sean McGee, James Andrews, Colm McGrath, John Redmond, Damo McGee and Luke Moran.

Subs: Gareth White, Darragh Kennedy, James Foley, Andy O’Brien, Evan Lynam, Darrell Phelan, David Buckley Jamie Lee,

Training for Senior, Junior and Minor hurlers continues every Wednesday and Friday

Camogie Round-Up

Results

Leinster league Trim 2-7 Killyon 1-5

Leinster League Trim W/O Na Fianna

Camogie Girls Start With Great Wins.

Result Trim 2-7 Killyon 1-5

  Our senior camogie team recorded a fine victory over rivals Killyon in the first round of the Leinster league. The girls had an early start as the throw in was at 12 noon, in the early stages of the match both sides looked ring rusty after the winter break. Trim then took control of the match with a great goal by Emma McNally in the 17th minute, Mary Andrews took possession of the ball on the thirty yard line before flicking a lovely pass to the in rushing McNally who timed her run to perfection and buried the ball to the roof of the net giving the advancing Killyon keeper no chance. This left Trim 1-2 to 0-1 ahead and points from Lynn winters and Christine Fagan before the break gave Trim a seven point advantage at the break. At the restart Killyon put on the pressure and scored a brace of points in the third and fifth minute. A goal for Killyon in the eight minute rattled the Trim girls and left the score line reading Trim 1-5 Killyon 1-3 just two points between the sides. In fairness to the Town team the responded very well to the Killyon goal, from the puck out Sharron Hillard fielded the ball and swept a great ball up field, Lynn Winters gained possession and rushed goal wards and with very little space somehow got the ball into the Killyon net. Trim then tagged on two more points and the match finished with two points from the Killyon girls leaving a final score line of Trim 2-7 Killyon 1-5

 Trim Team: Ann Cole, Haley Kennedy, Darina Smith, Sharon Campbell, Leeanne Winters, Christine Fagan, Ann Marie Fagan, Rachel Winters, Sharon Hillard, Emma McNally, Lynn Winters, Emma Reilly, Sinead Connor, Mary Andrews, and Ashling Fagan.

Subs: T. Murray, L. Boylan and K. Winters

Training for U8 Camogie is every Monday evening 6pm to 7pm

All scheduled dates for Senior & Junior camogie league and championship can be located in the news section of our web site. Go to www.trimgaa.ie.

Juvenile Matters  Details for the Under 8 & 10 Girls Football is as follows: Training: Each Wednesday from 6pm – 7pm indoors in the GAA hall

Football League: The U10 football league is scheduled to commence in early April 2013 and the proposed fixtures list for the Trim girls is as follows: 

Round # Date(to be played

by)

Home Team   Away Team

1 3rd April 2013 Castletown v Trim2 10th April 2013 Trim v Oldcastle3 17th April 2013 Trim v Boardsmill4 24th April 2013 Summerhill v Trim5 1st May 2013 Dunsany v Trim6 8th May 2013 Na Fianna v Trim7 15th May 2013 Trim v Clann na nGael

Play-off 25th May 2013      Quarter-

Final5th June 2013

     Semi-Final 16th June 2013      

Final 22nd June 2013        

Ladies Underage Football Fixture Plan 2013

The full list of U10, U12, U14 and U16 fixture dates can be viewed by going to our club web site www.trimgaa.ie

U8 & U10 Boys Football

Please see below list of upcoming blitz for the U8 & U10 Boys footballers,

Training for U8 Boys Football is every Friday night at 7 to 8pm.

 

We are bringing our U8 Boys footballers to Croke Park to take part in a blitz either on the 4th or 5th of April. We won’t know which date until next week. Go to Trim GAA web site next week for final details (times, cost etc) Parents are welcome also.

U8 & U10 Boys Football List of Blitz’s for 2013;

 

Saturday 6th April Dunganny Saturday 27th April Trim (Host) Saturday 1st June Dunderry Saturday 22nd June Boardsmill Saturday 13th July Clann na Gael (Athboy)Saturday 3rd Aug Ratoath Saturday 24th Aug St Colmcilles Blues Saturday 14th Sept Dunboyne Saturday 5th Oct Trim (Host)

Saturday 19th Oct Dunganny

Croke Park Tour

Our 2012 Under 10 boys football squad will travel to Croke Park on March 23rd, the squad and mentors will complete a full tour of the stadium. The cost per head is €10, parents are welcome to travel, bus will leave Trim Gaa club house at 1pm for more details contact Noel Dempsey on 0867749999

Hurling Training

Training for U8, U10, U12 and U13 hurlers is 10am on Sunday mornings on the back pitches.

U16 hurlers will start training on Sunday 24th March at 11am

Under 13/14 Hurling

Training Sunday mornings 10am-11.30amGreat turnout to date.U13 championship begins Monday 1st April v Drumree/BlackhallgaelsU14 championship begins Sunday 30th June v O'MahonysSpeedy recoveries to Cian Healy, Sean Thornton, Ian Birmingham, Patrick Dinan whoare out injured at the moment.

Feile team seeks Sponsorship

With expected costs of Feile (Limerick 5/7 July) to be around €5,000 we are looking for any individual, company or organisation that might like to help out or contribute towards the costs. Contact Pat Dinan 087/4122483.Within the next two weeks we will know what club we are going to be hosted by and we will be able to recommend nearby hotels & B&B’s for those supporters that are planning to travel. Many thanks to all that attended the Feile Table Quiz and those that sponsored spot prizes. Winners were Kathy Butler, Colin Quigley, Mairead Short and Helene Quigley.

(Gaelscoil)

U14 Football Team’s In Action

Mixed luck for our U14 football teams.

Under 14 Boys football Reserve League Sat 9th Feb

 Trim 3-1 Dunboyne 2-10

 The reserve league was played on Saturday 9th March. Playing against astrong wind Trim played well in first half and only trailed by 4points at half time. Unfortunately the lads conceded two goals earlyin the second half to make it an uphill battle .The lads foughtbravely to the end and closed the gap to just 6 points.Best for Trim were Ciaran Fay in goals, Patrick Dempsey, PauricPayne and Conor Cooke in the backs, Luke Mahon and Pierse Darby atmidfield and Karl Keating and Andrew Dinan in the forwards.

Trim 6-8 v Summerhill  3-8 Div 2 League Sun 10th March

 Trim had an excellent win in tough cold and windy conditions in Trimon Sunday morning. Playing against a stiff wind Trim were underpressure and conceded 1-1 without reply before grabbing the game bythe scruff of the neck and getting on the scoreboard with two quickgoals. Brian Dowling and Gavin Griffin took control of midfield forTrim and with 2-1 from Aaron Lynch,2 goals for Griffin and anothermajor from Oisin Devlin Trim led by 5-1 to 1-6 at half time.With Pierse Darby dominating at full back throughout well supported byCian walsh and Tom Doyle Trim made light work of the second half aftera little scare early on to run out winners on a score line of 6-7 to3-8.

U16 Football

U 16 football training continues every Tuesday under the guidance of Frankie Murphy and selectors Pat Purcell, Ollie Lynch, and CJ Murtagh. As we are now confirmed in Div 2, the championship has now been brought forward to Tuesday 26th march with home fixture against Dunboyne at 6.45. Membership is now due for this group and must be paid before first round.

Minor FootballOur minor football team are playing in Div 2 of the minor football league and have played three matches in the competition. The first match was against a very strong Summerhill team and the lads lost this one. In the second round against Killary Emmett’s in Meath Hill Kenny Morgan’s team had a great victory winning by nine points. The third round was against St Colmcilles and again the minors had a great win by a margin of five points at the final whistle

School Football Blitz 600 Children Attend!!!!

Over six hundred children from all our local primary schools attended a football blitz in Trim GAA Grounds today. Children from St Marys,St Michael’s, Gaelscoil Na Boinne and St Patrick’s had a fun filled day playing football on all three pitches. The event was a huge success and is a follow on from the eighty hours of football coaching work been done in the schools before Christmas. The coaching in the schools is organized by Trim GAA in conjunction with Meath GAA coaching committee. Many thanks to all of those club volunteers who gave up their free time today to help with the activities, without these volunteers we would be lost. On the day two Meath football starts Seamus Kenny

and Jamie Queeney attended and displayed their skills and also gave advice to all of the Young aspiring stars of the future.

A special word of thanks to Sean “Skinny” McDonagh who put in many long hours over the past three weeks organizing the day.

Meath Coaching & Games Development - Youth & Adult Coaching Forum

“Games Based approach to Coaching” Forum with Pat Daly GAA Director of Coaching & Games Development, on Wednesday 20th March at 8pm sharp in Aras Tailteann Navan.  All Club coaching officers, Club Coaches (Juvenile, Adult, Club/School link) are invited to attend this coaching forum.

 “It is generally accepted that players should let the game be their master". Coaches need to adopt a games based approach to training and development. This approach involves the use of drills at one extreme and a full sided game at the other. If you are interested in developing a fuller understanding – and becoming a more effective coach don’t miss this opportunity and come along to Aras Tailteann on Wednesday 20th March at 8pm.

All club Coaching officers to attend with two club coaches (1 underage and 1 adult).

For more information and booking contact Eamon Barry Meath GAA coaching officer 0872341396.

Places limited to 100 so book in advance – Free of charge.

More Coaching News

Hurling Workshop

Gaining Possession with a Focus on Catching - PJ Ryan

PJ Ryan won seven All-Ireland titles as a goalkeeper with Brian Cody’s Kilkenny side and his list of honours also includes nine Leinster SHC titles, five National Leagues and an All-Star award from 2009.

 Aimed at: Under 12 to Minor Coaches

Venue: Trim GAA Club

Date: Friday 22nd March

Time: 7pm

Football Workshops

Developing Physical Fitness for Gaelic Games – Colm Brady

 

Aimed at: Under 16 to Adult Coaches

Venue: Simonstown GAA Club

Date: Friday 15th March Time: 7pm

   

Combined Workshop 

Beneficial Training for Goalkeepers – Brendan Murphy

Setting up the Attack – Game Situations – Sean Kelly

Aimed at: Under 14 to Adult Coaches

Venue: Simonstown GAA Club

Date: Friday 29th March Time: 7pm

All workshops cost €10 each or if you attend two only pay €5 for the second workshop. If you wish to book a place on any of

Club Fundraising Events

Come along and play Bingo at Trim GAA every Friday night at 8pm in the Club House.

Play the club lotto every week Jack pot now stands at €12,000.

Saturday 23rd March – Juvenile Disco – from 8pm to 11pm - Entry Fee €5

Club Fixtures for Month of March

Saturday 17th Hurling League Div 3A – Trim V Ratoath – In Trim – 4:15pm Sunday 18th Hurling League Div 1A – Na Fianna V Trim – In Baconstown – 12:30pm Monday 18th Minor Football League Fixture TBC Monday 18TH Football B League fixture TBC Thursday 21st Trim V Cloncill Leinster hurling league – In Trim – 6-20pm

Sunday 24rd Football B League Trim V Duleek/Bellewstown – 12:30pm In Trim Sunday 24th Div 1 Camogie league 1st round Sunday 24th Div 2 Camogie league 1st round Tuesday 26th U16 Football Championship 1st Round Sunday 31st Football A League – Trim V Rathkenny – In Trim Time TBC

Remember you can book our Club Bar and Party room for your party. We can host any

type of party or event. Contact events@trimgaa.ie

Phone 0868268267

Photo Gallery

Junior Hurlers In Action

Dance Night Workers

School Football Blitz