News 28th September

Sam coming to Abbeydorney Schools
Following Kerry's 36th All-Ireland Football victory The Sam Maguire Cup is coming to Abbeydorney schools on Tuesday 29th September
See pictures of Sam's visit here

AIB County Hurling Championship
Kilmoyley Minors defeated Ballyduff 1-12 to 1-06 in the Minor Hurling Championship and the Kilmoyley Seniors went on to win the Senior Hurling Championship 1-19 to 2-8 in Tralee on Sunday last.
The North Kerry Hurling Board Pro Tommy O'Connor did an excellent programme again this year and we congratulate Kilmoyley Club and Tommy O'Connor for the excellent work they have achieved.

Eddie Hayes Memorial Hurling Tournament
On Saturday last Crotta O'Neill's Club had there Annual Eddie Hayes Memorial Tournament in Dromakee which was a great success for the Club. Abbeydorney U12s had a great day out even though we lost our first game to a strong Kilgarvan side by 4-0 to 1-1 who went on to win out the tournament. We defeated St Brendan's 2-0 to no score and we were defeated by Crotta O'Neill's in the final game 1-0 to no score all these game were ground hurling and the pitch was in excellent condition.
Abbeydorney Bord na nÓg Club wishes to thank Sonny Egan and the Crotta O'Neill's Club for a great day out on Saturday last also to the ladies Committee for all the refreshments on the day.
Crotta O'Neill's were defeated by Kilgarvan in the final.

Team Panel: Craig Freeman 1-0, Cian McCarthy, Albon Stack, Niall O'Mahoney 1-1, Jordan Walsh, Ronan Donovan, David Egan 1-0, Killian Spillane, Jack Carmody, Darragh Scanlon, Aideen Spillane, Aidan Leahy, Eoin McCarthy, Daniel Murphy 1-0.

Gaa Club 6 Monthly Draw
Abbeydorney Club 6 Monthly draw starts next Sunday Night the 3rd October and we ask all club promoters to have draw books in by 8pm to Clubhouse bar. Please note that all books have to be numbered and this takes time, so please have them in as early as possible; this is our Annual fund raiser and if you wish to join please contact any Club Member cost €10 per month and will have to continue with our pitch developments next year thanks for all the support for the last number of years this draw has been a great success for the Club. Thanks again.

County U12 Hurling Final
Abbeydorney and Ballyduff will contest the County Under12 Final in Abbeydorney on Tuesday 29th September at 7pm under lights hopefully we will have plenty support for our under 12 team.

Charity Parachute Jump for St Vincent's Hospital
Daniel O'Mahoney recently did a Parachute Jump in aid of St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin he was also joined by school mates, to view this jump log onto the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFmsZL_OZM , and he is willing to do it again. Well done Daniel.

News 21st September

All-Ireland Football Final
Kerry footballers celebrated 125 years in style this weekend with Kerry defeating Cork 0-16 to 1-9 with Kerry's 36 title at Croke Park on Sunday last.

AIB County Senior Hurling Championship
Kilmoyley will play St Brendan's in the Senior Hurling Championship next Sunday 27th September in Austin Stack Park Tralee and the curtain raiser will be the minor Championship Kilmoyley vs. Ballyduff.

Bord na nÓg News
The winner of 2 All-Ireland Football tickets was Tara O'Sullivan Drumcunnig Abbeydorney. Juvenile ticket promoters winners were Jedd Maunsell and Jack Sheehan and both receive a Black and Amber Jersey and we thank all the people who supported our fund raiser which came to €1370.

Under 8 Hurling Blitz
The Under 8 Hurling Blitz was changed to Friday night next 25th September at 7.30pm under lights and will run for 2 weeks

Under 12 Hurling Final
Abbeydorney will play Ballyduff in the County Under 12 Hurling Final on Tuesday week 29th September in Abbeydorney at 7.30pm under lights

Abbeydorney GAA have been provisionally allocated €45,000 under the 2008 sports capital programme towards field development works.

News 14th September

GAA Club 6 Monthly Draw
Our GAA Club Draw will begin on October 4th and ticket sellers will be calling to all house shortly your support would be greatly appreciated.

Win 2 All-Ireland Football Tickets
The Bord na nÓg Club are holding a fundraiser this week with 2 All-Ireland Tickets up for grabs. Tickets are on sale in all local shops in the village and tickets for this draw cost just €2 to enter. All proceeds go to the development of the youth in the parish.

Under 8 Hurling Blitz
Abbeydorney Bord na nÓg club will be holding an under 8 Hurling Blitz which will run for 2 weeks starting on Friday 18th and 25th September. All clubs are invited to attend which will run for 1 hour starting time will be 7.30pm on both nights.

Ex- Committee Meeting
An Ex-Committee meeting of the Senior club will be held on next Tuesday 15th September starting at 9pm.

Kerry Minor Hurlers
The Kerry Minor hurlers continue on with their good wins of recent when they competed in the Cork League on Sunday Morning last in Kilgarvan.
Final Score Kerry 0-22 Eire Og 1-8. Our Club was represented by Chris McCarthy, Daniel O'Mahoney and Brian Leen.

The Abbeydorney Under 16 Team who participated in the Ballyhea U16 Tournament

Ballyhea Under 16 Tournament
Abbeydorney GAA Club was invited to participate in the 1st year of the Pat McCarthy Memorial Cup Tournament on Sunday 13th last. We were up against top teams from Cappoquin Waterford, South Liberties Limerick and Ballyhea Cork who were hosts for this competition and did an excellent job running this competition.
Our first game was against South Liberties Limerick and even though we led right up to the end we conceded a free on the stroke of time and the Limerick boys put the ball over the bar to draw this match.
The Second game was up against the more balanced side hosts Ballyhea who won this match 1-12 to 0-6 and our final game was against Cappoquin Waterford which we won in the end by the minimum of a point.
The points were totted up in the end as a number of teams had drawn and were just pipped for the final spot with Ballyhea and Cappoquin in the final and much to our surprise Cappoquin went on to win by 1 point in the end.
Well done to John Roche and Ballyhea Club for an excellent day out also to the Ladies Committee for all the refreshments on the day also to the McCarthy family for sponsoring the Tournament.
Team Panel: Barry Horgan, Alex O'Mahoney, Brendan O'Leary, JP Byrne, Stephen Egan, Stephen O'Connor, Robert Colbert, Daniel O'Leary, Dan McCarthy, Stevie O'Sullivan, Darren O'Sullivan, Sean O'Mahoney, Aaron Conway, Anthony Rigney, Tony Cunningham, Garry Neenan
More pictures from Ballyhea Tournament here

The Kerry Under 21 Hurling Team who defeated Roscommon in the All-Ireland U21 'B' Final

Bord Gais All-Ireland B Under 21 Hurling Final: Kerry 2-18 Roscommon 1-15 Venue Cusack Park Ennis Saturday 12th Sept.
Roscommon made the perfect start with a goal in the opening minutes from full forward John Coyne and the Kingdom battled on from here to lead at half time Kerry 0-11 Roscommon 1-3.
Kerry's Scorers were Darragh O'Connell 0-6 and James Flaherty 0-5 at the break.
Within eight minutes Roscommon were back on level terms with 5 points and both teams were level on three occasions when Kerry introduced Shane Nolan who goaled on the 50th minute and Thomas Maloney had another in 4 minutes later to give a 6 point advantage and Kerry held out to win. Alan Kelly, Captain of the Kerry team accepted the Trophy for Kerry side. Well done to Mentors John Myler, John Hennessy and Phil Stack
Abbeydorney Club was represented by Darragh O'Connell (0-8) and Brian O'Leary at Centre Back.
More pictures from Kerry Under 21 Team here

Birthday Wishes
18th Birthday wishes to Niamh Dowling Kilbrickane who celebrated her 18th birthday at the Clubhouse on Saturday night last.

News 7th September

All-Ireland Under 21 B Final: Kerry versus Roscommon will be played next Sunday time and Venue TBC.

Ballyhea Tournament
Abbeydorney's Under 16 team were invited to Ballyhea under 16 Hurling Tournament next Saturday 12th September.

Bord na nÓg Meeting
A Bord na nÓg Meeting will be held on next Wednesday night 9th September at 9pm. All welcome to attend.

AIB County Senior Hurling Championship Semi Final: St Brendan's 1-16 Abbeydorney 0-12
Venue Austin Stacks Park Tralee on Saturday 5th September.
Darragh O'Connell opened with Abbeydorney's first point from a free and St Brendan's responded with points from John Egan Darren Wallace and John Paul Leen in the first 8 minutes and Darragh O'Connell was in top form with his free taking with 4 points putting O'Dorney ahead 0-5 to 0-3 after 15 minutes.
St Brendan's dominated from here on with Sean Flaherty, Eamoon Corridan and a goal by Gerry Wallace in the 18 minute and a final point by Thomas Maloney before half time. Darragh O'Connell kept O'Dorney in the match with 3 pointed frees and one from play.
Half time: Abbeydorney 0-9, St Brendan's 1-6.
St Brendan's dominated the second half with John Egan's free taking 3 points and further point from Darren Wallace to push them 4 points ahead. Darragh O'Connell added 3 points in the second half and St Brendan's had Darren Dineen John Egan and Thomas Maloney finished with points.
Over all this was a poor game for Abbeydorney with Diarmuid Ryan at Full back and Nigel Roche winning frees and Darragh O'Connell playing well for the Black and Amber side. Brian Donovan's attempt at goal in the first was denied by the upright when 'ODorney badly needed a score against the breeze when they had Ardfert side under pressure.
We send our Best wishes to both teams in the final.
Team Panel: Greg Fealy, James O'Connor, Diarmuid Ryan, David Nolan, Aidan Healy, Barry Sheehan, PJ Keane, Brian O'Leary, Niall Connell, Nigel Roche, Michael Hannifin, Darragh O'Connell (0-12), Brian O'Donovan, Kieran Dineen, Damien Ryall.
Subs: Kevin Nolan, Kieran O'Connell, Paul McElligott, David Doyle, Danny McDonagh, Chris O'Brien, Aonrai O'Donovan, Der Lawlor, Tim Fealy, Jason Fealy, Brian Leen.
Referee: Martin Sheehan Cork

North Kerry Under 16 Hurling B Final: St Brendan's 2-13 Abbeydorney 2-11 Venue Ballyheigue on Tuesday 1st September.
Abbeydorney and St Brendan's contested the final of the Under 16 B Competition in Ballyheigue on Tuesday night last with St Brendan's opening with a point from David McKessy and O'Dorney responded with 4 points from Daniel O'Leary at centre forward. St Brendan's replied back with points from Kevin Skinner 0-5 and David McKessy scored a goal midway through the first half after O'Dorney failed to clear their line with Daniel O'Leary finishing O'Dorney score before half time with 2 points St Brendan's 1-6 O'Dorney 0-6.
Abbeydorney started the livelier side with a goal in the first minute to level the game and the game was tight right to the finish with Gearoid Silles St Brendan's coming more into the game scoring a goal in a vital stage of the match also adding points. Daniel O'Leary scored all of Abbeydorney points on the night and finished with 0-5 in the second half and a second goal by Tony Cunningham brought O'Dorney back on level terms again with Abbeydorney last chance with a long solo run by Daniel O'Leary in the dying seconds with his shot bellowing over the crossbar for a point and St Brendan's went on to win by 2 points.
After the final whistle Joe Walsh Chairman of North Kerry Coiste na nÓg presented the trophy to St Brendan's captain Gearoid Silles.
Team Panel: Barry Horgan, Sean Quirke, Brendan O'Leary, Stephen Egan, Stephen O'Connor, Alex O'Mahoney, Michael O'Leary, Robert Colbert, Sean O'Mahoney, Daniel O'Leary (0-11), Tony Cunningham (2-0), Darren O'Sullivan, Garry Neenan,
Subs: JP Byrne, Dan McCarthy, John Shanahan, Anthony Rigney, Stevie OSullivan, Colm McCarthy, Aaron Conway.
Referee: Diarmuid Carroll Ballyduff

North Kerry Under 11 Hurling Leagues
Abbeydorney were well beaten by St Brendan's in the first game and Crotta O'Neill's and Ballyheigue recently and will play Lixnaw on next Monday night,
Team Panel: Cian McCarthy, Aideen Spillane, Albon Stack, Susie Rice, Aidan Leahy, Niall O'Mahoney, Jordan Walshe, Killian Spillane, Sean Holden, Kieran Keane, Adam Maunsell, Shane Byrne, Eoin McCarthy, Michelle McCarthy, Jack Parker, Jonathan Sheehan, Laura O'Connell, Michael Slattery, Shane Conway, Dean O'Brien

Fixtures
North Kerry Under 11 Hurling League: Abbeydorney vs. Lixnaw in Abbeydorney on Monday 7th September at 6.30pm
Ballyhea under 16 Hurling Tournament on Saturday 12th September.
All-Ireland Under 21 B Final: Kerry vs. Roscommon next Sunday time and venue TBC.