This is the Under 8 & 10 teams page.

News, Fixtures and Photos of the Under 8 and 10 Teams will appear here from
now on.

NURSERY PROGRAMME, UNDER 8 & 10 MANAGEMENT 2011

The Under 10 Manager is Mark Redmond. Mark will be assisted by Liam Galvin, Brian Murphy and Aidan Mullen.

The Under 8 Manager is Shane Henson. Shane will be assisted by Gerry O'Neill, Patti O'Neill and John Henson.

Nursery Programme: The very successful nursery will continue to be run by William Leahy. Additional mentors to be appointed for under 10's, 8's & nursery.

TRAINING

Training for the Under 8 & 10 is on Sunday at 11.30 and Thursday at 6.30.

For more details in relation to Under 10 contact Mark Redmond at 086 277 1935 and for Under 8 contact Shane Henson at 085 723 0618.

Details of the club’s nursery programme can be obtained from William Leahy at 087 232 3324.

Club Fe -8’s ‘Play & Stay’ Days

 

Points To Note
• Games start at 6:30 pm. Clubs to be at venue for 6:15pm (to finish for 8.00pm)
• Games 9- a-side for day one (depending on feedback we may run with 7-a-side for blitz days 2 and 3)
• Games 20 min (2 x 10)
• Where clubs have more than one team, players to wear bibs over jerseys on the second team
• Pitches approximately 45m x 40m with a 5m zone marked across the centre area
• Each club to provide referee – this can be one of the mentors with the u-8s
• This is an U-8 competition, U-8 and younger only allowed (i.e. for players born on or before 1.1.2001)

If any Club has a query it can be dealt with through Eddie Bouabbse (086-2609820), James Heffernan (087-6460030), Michael McHugh (0872935504) or Noel Delaney (087-2456147).

FIXTURES

 

RESULTS


Under 9 blitz

The club recently ran an under 9 Blitz under nights under lights. The Blitz consisted of 4 teams including ourselves, Caulry, Tubberclaire and Clann Na Gael. This Blitz was for
younger members of the U/10 panel 8/9 yr olds and older member of U/8s in a Blitz
format over two nights, all matches were very competitive giving the younger members of each panel a chance to shine with some great individual and team efforts. Players that stood out on both nights for Garrycastle were Tommy Stephens, James Murphy, Shane White, Cathal Redmond, Nathan Breslin, Ryan Cornally, Cian Donohue Peter Mulvihill, John McBride, Thanks to refs on both nights Martin Carey, Rowan Mulvihill and Niall Madden.

Under 10 Skills Competition

Our U/10 panel took part in a skills competition over 2 nights where the lads were put
through the skills of the game. Points were awarded/deducted for the different skills played through drills on both weak and stronger sides of the body. The standard of skills
were very high with just a couple of points separating the lads after the 1st night leaving it all to play for on the finals nights. The finals were held on Thurs night with 27 players looking to maximise their points, we had 2 groups 10yrs olds +8/9yrs olds.
For the 10 yr olds Andrew Monaghan lead the field with a great display of skills on 30 pts to take 1st place followed closely by Owen Keogh on 28 pts to take 2nd place and Adam O Brien right behind him on 26 points to secure 3rd place. The 8/9 olds group
proved to be a much tighter contest with very few dropping points. Sean Quinn secured
1st place by just a single point on 28 pts, leaving a nail biting kickoff to decided 2nd/3rd
place between Shane White and Ryan Cornally both finishing on 27 pts. It was the best of 3 placed balls over the bar that would decide, Shane converted all 3 to take 2nd
place and Ryan being denied by the crossbar on the 3rd shot to take 3rd place. Trophies were presented to the 6 finalists. Well done lads.

Under 10 End of season trip to Croke Park

This season finished for the u/10s with a trip to Croke Park on Sat 15th October. On the way we stopped of for a challenge match with Kinnegad u/10s. Where the lads were up against a physically stronger Kinnegad team, we were slow to get into the game allowing the opposition to get an early lead that would prove to be the difference between the sides at full time. Best on the day Andrew Monaghan, Owen Keogh, Martcin and Precious Ebuba. Afterwards we went to Croke Park where we were met our guild for a tour of the stadium and take part in football and hurling skills activities enjoyed by players and adults! “Richie”.

On the way home we stopped in supermacs Maynooth as a treat for players and finished
the season on a high. Big thanks to all that helped during the year John Fagan , Brian Murphy, Liam Galvin and Thomas Kenna.

UNDER 10

The Garrycastle under 10s were in action over the last 2 Saturdays in the Caulry tournament. The competition was run in a blitz format with 3 teams representing the clubs. Out of 10 games played Garrycastle teams had 5 wins over Moate, Millmore Gaels, Tubberclair, a draw with Tubberclair and 4 defeats by Moate, Caulry and Millmore. This was great learning experience for the players who performed very well.

Daniel Ibubu, Ryan Cornally, Owen Keogh, Tommy Devery, Fergal Mullin, Darragh Kenna, Scott Duffy, Charlie O'Connor, Adam O'Brien, Tommy Stephens, Nathan Breslin, Jason Mannion, Dylan Keegan, James Murphy, Ruairi Lyons, Peter Mulvihill, Corey Nugent, TJ Natife, Cathal Redmond, Cian Dowling, Sean Quinn, Mark Kelly, Marcin Scatarowz, Bartosz Dybisz, Shane White, Joseph Henson, Nathan Rushe, Daniel Guinan, Andrew Monaghan, Precious Ebubu and Nathaniel O'Neill.

UNDER 10


The under 10's played useful challenge games against Caulry on Tuesday last. Two 10-a-side games were played which was helpful to boths set of players in their skill development.

Cian Dowling, Owen Keogh, Daniel Guinan, Mark Kelly, Daniel Ibubu, Ryan Cornally, Adam O'Brien, Charlie O'Connor, Cathal Redmond, Marcin Scatarowic, Nathan Breslin, Bartos, Jason Mannion, Shane White, Shane Coffey, Fergal Mullin, Andrew Monaghan, Scott Duffy, Tommy Devery, Sean Quinn.

UNDER 8 (27/5/2011)

Garrycastle U-8s entered two teams in this, their third blitz to date, in Tubberclair on Friday last. This group had played in Rosemount and Tang prior to Friday night and have played teams from Maryland /Tang, Rosemount, Moate All Whites, Castledaly and Tubberclair so far, achieving some excellent results and bringing their skill level up with each game. A big thank you for the hospitality and enthusiasm shown by the organisers in the various venues

There have been great individual performances over the weeks from the likes of Peter Mulvihill, Ben Donegan, Brian Mulvihill, Con O Hara, Cian McCarthy, Andrew Ruane, John Mc Bride, Corey Nugent, Brandon Farrell, Bill Carmody and some great team work from Anthony Mc McCormack, Ryan ,Sean Quinn, Steven Gaffey, David Joyce, Conor Sheehan, Frank Mc Kiernan, David Mulvihill, John Mulvihill, Oisin Nugent Colin Wang, Edwin Malashnyak, Kerrill Egan, Rory Kilkgarrif and our three girls, Jessica, Aimee and Aoife.

The U-8 team continues to train on Monday and Thursday nights from 6.30 to 7.30 under manager and mentors, Shane Henson, Enda Keena, Emmet Keena, Mike Nugent, Aidan Mulvihill and John Henson. We hope to be playing a few more of the excellent blitz competitions that are being run at present and would like to have even more direct involvement from parents who would be willing to take an active part in the training sessions. New members would be very welcome.

PHOTOS