Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas to all involved in Kildare ladies football. Wishing you and your families a peaceful time

Kildangan Nurney Update

Kildangan Nurney Update

We would like to thank players, their parents, and trainers for their help throughout the year, and we look forward to seeing you this coming year. Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year to all players, members and supporters of Kildangan Nurney Ladies GAA. Buíochas do gach éinne a chuidigh linn i rith na bliana 2011, Beannachtaí na Nollag oraibh co léir. Kildangan Nurney Ladies AGM is scheduled for Saturday 28 January 2012 in Kildangan Hall at 5pm. All new or existing members are invited  to attend. Our underage party will take place on the 14^th January 2012 in Kildangan Hall. All players/parents will receive a text remind them, in the new year.

Kildare ladies senior county trials

Last trials are this Sunday in Hawkfield at 10.45.

Underage presentation day - Sun 11th December

Kildare Ladies Football Juvenile Presentations

Kildare Ladies Football held their 2011 Juvenile Presentations today, Sunday 11 Dec in Judge Roy Beans, Newbridge in a dry function Room. Central Council Delegate, Christy Horan, was once again the accomplished MC with new County Board Secretary Kathleen Moolick ably assisted in the running of the event by her predecessor Bernadine O'Hara, Janet Keoghegan and the various teams managements while new County Board Chairperson Arthur Corrigan oversaw the whole event. Also in attendance were new County Board Officers, Treasurer Sharon Dooley and Registrar Gillian Dunne. On hand to present the medals were County Senior Captain Donna Berry, Vice-Captain Maria Moolick and All Star Nominee Aisling Holton. The presentation of medals were to the Under 16 Team who got their Leinster Runners Up and All Ireland Shield Winners medals, the Under 14 team who were presented with their Leinster A Championship Runners Up Medals and at Under 12 one team got the Leinster Blits Div 1 Winners and another Under 12 team the Leinster Blitz Div 4 Runners Up Medals. There were Players of the Year Awards at Under 16, Under 14 where there were joint winners and at Under 12 where there were awards for a player from each of the 3 teams Kildare fielder Under 16 Player of the Year: Becky McGuirk, Suncroft Under 14 Players of the Year: Caoimhe Jameson Eadestown and Emma Lyons Sarsfields, Under 12 Players of the Year Rebecca Brereton St Kevins, Savanna Fisher Ballymore Eustace, Aoife Walsh Maynooth. There was also a Kildare Ladies Football Award to Senior Player of the Year Maria Moolick, Leixlip and this was presented to Maria by County Chairpersonn Arthur Corrigan.

Underage presentation day - Sun 11th December

An underage county presentation will take place on Sun 12th in Judge Roy Beans in Newbridge for all U12, U14 and U16 county players. 

Kildare ladies senior county trials

2nd Senior ladies trial will take place this Sunday 11th in Hawkfield. Players need to be there for registration at 10.45. Trial will be over at 1pm. Joe would like to thank all the participants in last Sunday trial. It was a good start on a cold wet morning and we hope to build on it for this weekend.

PRO Report 2011

PRO Report 2011

As 2011 comes to an end so does my first year as PRO. I would first of all like to thank the county executive who have been very supportive to my role throughout the year, often stepping up to help out with a match report.

I would like to think I have made an impact on the promotion of Kildare ladies football throughout this year.  I have made a big effort to get match reports, photos and news out to various media sources ensuring an increase in our presence online in particular. In the past couple of weeks I have set up a new Kildare blog which will be updated on a regular basis. This can be accessed at http://kildareladiesfootball.blogspot.com/ The Facebook page has been a continued success and currently has over 900 followers. This has proven to be very popular with players from all clubs. It can be accessed at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kildare-Ladies-GAA/172449979450439 I would like to thank the local newspapers – Leinster Leader, Kildare Nationalist, Liffey Champion and the Kildare times, the websites – Hoganstand and Kildare GAA. Also a huge thanks to Killian Whelan and his sports team at KFM who have been very supportive in all ladies football matters. In particular live match updates on the league games has been great in promotion of our game throughout the county.

I put together about 2 or 3 newsletters throughout the year. These are time consuming to put together but my new way of producing these will be on the Kildare blog. I got some great feedback on these and the girls were delighted to have their names/photos in the newsletter.

I was lucky to have the title of PRO for the year and although this position is for one person, I have developed a wide network of fantastic people from various clubs who have been a huge help to me throughout the year. For fear of leaving out someone, I won’t name people but you know who you are – the people who I have relied on to provide reports on various games throughout the year. This has made my job a lot easier and I have enjoyed receiving the reports always highlighting the great work and passion alive and well in our clubs.

My involvement with the county teams has been a great experience and thanks to all management teams who have been so welcoming and forthcoming with information and player updates etc. In particular I would like to thank Karen Brady, the U16 management team and Paul Kelly for their assistance to ensure I covered the job on hand.

Going forward I would like to establish a PR committee to help in covering games be it with photos or reports or both as it is difficult to be in seven parts of the county at the same time on the one day. Such a system will take some of the workload off me and cover more games overall.

Before I get to the highlights there have been thankfully only a few lows. I have a poem to read on that called ‘Do you just belong’

Are you an active member

The kind that would be missed

Or are you just contented

That your name is on the list?

Do you attend the meetings

And mingle with the crowd

Or do you stay at home

And crib both long and loud?

Do you take an active part

To help the club along

Or are you satisfied to be

The kind to “just belong”?

Do you even go to visit

A member who is sick

Leave the work for just a few

And talk about the clique?

There is quite a programme scheduled

That means success, if done

And it can be accomplished

With the help of everyone.

So attend the club regularly

And help with head and heart

Don’t  just be a member

But take an active part.

Think this over member

Are we right or are we wrong

Are you an active member

Or do you just belong.

There were many highlights throughout the year. It is hard to single out one highlight from a year of many successes and progression. However the U16 win over Limerick in the All Ireland Shield final stands out. This was a magnificent performance from a talented bunch of girls led by a great management team. Its always an easy job to report on a victory like that.

In conclusion then, a warm thanks to everyone who has helped me in any way throughout the year. It was much appreciated. And finally thanks to Joe for his support to my role throughout the year and I wish him well in his future venture of senior county manager.


Jackie Whelan

Change of venue for Kildare senior ladies trials

The 1^st trials for the kildare senior ladies team will take place on Sun 4^th Dec in the Curragh GAA grounds from 11 – 1. All players to be there at 10.50 for registration.

Naas Juvenile Award night

                                                      U15 team Division 3 winners

                                                                            U13 team

                                                       U12 winners Division 1

                                                U11 Team Winners of U12 Division 5

Naas Ladies Juvenile Section hosted their annual Awards Night on Friday 25th November in Naas Gaa Club house. It was very well attended and all those in attendance thoroughly enjoyed celebrating the great success of the teams in the spring and autumn leagues. The u11 players won the u12 Division 5 while the u12 team shared the Division 1 title wiith Clane in the spring league while the u15 team went unbeaten in their group and eventually won the u15 title Division 3 in  the autumn league ; a very exciting match against Confey. Many players on this team are still eligible to play u15 next year and the following year. The u13 teams participated in u13 league Division 3 and Division 5 respectively. These teams included u12 and u13 players in both leagues and they performed very well in all their matches; the Division 3 team narrowly missing the latter stages of the competition while the Division 5 team were runners up in the final. The Minor team also won Division 1; defeating Celbridge after extra time in a most exciting encounter. Many of this squad were underage and portends well for the future .Naas ladies Football Section would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous sponsorship of Naas Tyres who sponsored a set of jerseys for the u12 team and their representative Robert Ferguson was in attendance on the night. Naas look forward to an enjoyable and successful season in 2012.

Kildare GAA Award night - November 2011

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Maria Moolick - Kildare player of the year 2011

Maria has had a very successful underage career with the Leixlip club winning U14, U16 and Minor titles. This continued on to the adult grades winning junior, intermediate and senior titles with Leixlip. Maria played a true captains role in this years county final when she led her team to an unexpected victory over Balyna. She also has 2 Leinster medals to her name. Maria was part of the All-Ireland winning Kildare team who won the Junior All Ireland in 2004. Previous awards for Maria include Kildare U14 player of the year and senior player of the year in 2007. She will receive the Kildare ladies footballer of the year at the Kildare GAA awards in Athy GAA on Fri 25th November. This award is much deserved for her never-give-up attitude to her game and she is always on hand to pop over a point or two. She was the Kildare vice-captain for this years campaign where she lined out in the midfield position for most of the games but covered every blade of grass during a game. After her long year with Leixlip and Kildare, Maria is on a well-deserved holiday and her award will be accepted on the night by her mother, Kathleen. 

Kildare ladies senior county trials

Joe O'Donoghue was very happy to accept the position of Kildare senior ladies county manager. There are many challenges ahead in this new role for Joe as he tries to build on the foundations laid down by past managers, both at senior and underage level. The first challenge starts straight away and that is to assemble the best possible panel. Trials will be held on Sunday 4^th, 11^th and 18^th December in the morning at Hawkfield. Times will be firmed up once the numbers coming forward are known. The slate is clean so every player will be given the same opportunity to make the panel. In the past some minors did not try out for senior in the belief that once they finished minor they would have a long career playing county senior football. With the current economic situation in Ireland nothing is guaranteed for our futures. Joes view is that if you think you are good enough then attend the trials. 

What clubs can do

Contact your players whom you believe should attend trials and persuade them to attend. Please send the name position and club of players going for trials. This will help in the organising.  E-mail them to joecpod@gmail.com  

Joe O Donoghue announced as new Kildare ladies football manager

Joe O Donoghue from Balyna has been appointed to the position of county senior manager for the next 2 years with an option for a 3rd year.  We wish him every success in his new role and hope that all clubs and players will give him their full support.

Underage county managers wanted

Kildare ladies football are on the look out for managers for the U12, U14, U16 and minor teams for the 2012 season. If this is something that may be of interest to you, you can contact county secretary Ber O'Hara on kildaresecretary@gmail.com

Kildareladiesfootballpro@gmail.com

You can email all your club news, match reports, photos to the above email address...


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Monasterevin Junior D Champions

Junior D final Monasterevin 4-12 Athy 1-8

From the onset Monasterevin meant business, even at the warm up you could feel the tension and see there steely determination. After losing a league final you could sense that this one was not going to slip out of their grasp. At the first blow of the whistle the Monasterevin ladies made their intensions known by winning the throw in and immediately registering a point thanks to the cool head of Simone Bell.  From the restart Athy go on the attack but Helena Murphy and Sinead Melia neutralise their run. Tracey Greed was pulled down for a free that was taken quickly and fed into Sarah Freeman who slotted it over for another point. Athy try to come back at Monasterevin again and send the ball up the wing but Amanda Whelan sticking close to her marker runs her opposition into a dead end. Monasterevin on the attack again show great skill with quick lay offs on link up play between Vicky Kelly Sinead Melia, Therese Martin and Simone Bell that in turn frustrates the Athy defence and wins them a free that Simone converts into a goal. Cherie Gammell leading yet another wave of attack is fouled and Sinead Melia converts the free into another point for Monasterevin.  Shortly after Cherie is cynically brought down in front of the post and is awarded a penalty that is converted to another goal by Simone Bell. Athy try to build up some momentum and go on the offensive but the Monasterevin keeper Caroline Gorry and back line of Sharon Melia, Gemma Hurley and Tracey Greed hold strong and keep Athy at bay.  Just before the half time whistle Joanne Kelly stops a sure score from Athy with an immense block down to stop any chance of Athy making up some ground in the first half.  Monasterevin keep the umpires busy with more points coming from Therese Martin, Sarah Freeman and with Simone Bell getting her hat trick to leave a score at half time of Monasterevin 3-6 Athy 0-5.

Monasterevin started the second half as they did the first if not even a little more hungrily.  They were determined not to let Athy back into this game.  Vicky Kelly storming through the centre laid off to the forward line and Monasterevin win a free that was converted by Simone. A change was made as Gillian Lawlor comes on for Marie Dunne who as usual put her body on the line and defended every blade of grass in her domain.  A brilliant run from Vicky Kelly, Sinead Melia linking up to the safe hands of Joanne Kelly, who narrowly misses another point.  Helena Murphy soon gets the Monasterevin score board ticking over again with a fine point from play. Athy began to press hard once more and registered a number of points, but again with superb defending from Amanda Whelan, Gillian Lawlor, Helena Kavanagh, Gemma Hurley, Sharon Melia and Tracey Greed the shutters were firmly closed. Simone Bell spurred Monasterevin on again with a rasper of a point from distance.  Carole Keenan came on for Sarah Freeman and immediately set to the task of creating space and threatening every time on the goal line. Athy sensing that the game was coming to a close stepped it up a gear held possession for a period that rewarded them with a goal, but as Monasterevin had played all game they almost immediately answered that score with Joanne Kelly rattling the back of the net.

A special mentions needs to go out to the entire panel who throughout the season have given everything (literally blood, sweat and tears), also to the dedication of the management team Niall Colgan, Craig Ennis, Ann Christy and Alan Bell, who gave up so much of their time to train and guide this team to victory.

Monasterevin panel: Caroline Gorry, Sharon Melia, Gemma Hurley, Tracey Greed, Gillian Lawlor, Maria Dunne, Amanda Whelan, Vicky Kelly, Sinead Melia, Helena Murphy, Simone Bell, Therese Martin, Sarah Freeman, Joanne Kelly, Cherie Gammell, Sabrina Harrison, Jenny Gleeson, Deborah Gleeson, Ciara Kelly, Jenna Meredith, Amy Kelly, Karen Mangan, Carole Keenan, Shannon Harrison, Helena Kavanagh, Brid Riordan, Keyleigh Harrison, Antonia Harrison, Jenny Robinson, Caroline Morrissey, Triona Gleeson, Caroline Cleary, Sarah Flaherty, Emily Cleary, Debbie Coughlan

Sarsfields U15 Div 1 champs!

U15 Final Division 1

Sarsfields 6-09 St. Laurences 4-12

In a repeat of U14 2010 final which was won in extra time by the Sarsfields girls, this was another epic encounter which ended with only a score between. With the aid of a very strong wind in the first half Laurences held a lead by 9 points, and although things werent looking great, the Sarsfields girls were still playing good football against the elements. After a positive half time talk the girls came out and continued to play the ball around using width and hand passing to good effect. It wasnt long before they hit the back of the net, to leave them within 6 points. For a while with the benefit of the wind it was all one way traffic, and with 11 minutes remaining Sarsfields went a point up. Two quick points followed then another great goal after a move involving  8 girls. Then as expected this spurned on Laurences and the crowd was in for a hectic last 5 minutes. Referee Jody Callan who controlled the game fairly, awarded Laurences a penalty, which was initially saved by keeper Anna Lawless but was put to the net on the rebound. Again not to be outdone Sarsfields went on the attack and scored another peach of a goal, only for Laurences to score one of their own. In a nail biting finish, Sarsfields kept possession and continued to attack downfield, and finally after 39 minutes on the clock, much to the relief of the sarsfields supporters, the curtain came down on a game renowned for the quality of football, and the precision shooting from both teams. Some exceptional goal scoring, and without mentioning anyone in particular, as this was, as is usual with this team, an all round brilliant team performance. Congrats to their manager and mentors for their fitness, preparation and belief in the girls.

Welcome!

Welcome to the new Kildare Ladies football blog. This will be updated on a regular basis with match reports, photos etc.