An Riocht / Kingdom YC Notes

Weekly programme of activities:

Tuesday 7^th: Hall use 6pm U10 (born 1996 or later) & U12 Camogie (born 1994/95); 7pm U14 (born 1992/93) & U16 (born 1990/91) Camogie; 8pm U18 & Junior Camogie; 9pm Band practice. 7pm Valentines arts & crafts. 7:30pm Games & Coaching committee meeting.

Wednesday 8^th: Hall use 6:30pm U12 Football (born 1994/95); 8pm Senior Football. 4pm Mourne Youth Providers meeting.

Thursday 9^th: 7pm Maths class. 7pm to 8pm ‘seisiun’in upstairs room for all ages. Music, song, verse, dance, an hours varied cultural activity to be enjoyed. If you have an instrument bring it with you, guitars, tin whistles, flutes, recorders, etc. If not it doesn’t matter, there will be musicians there. Come along and have a look. Hall use 6pm U8 (born 1998 or later), & U10 (born 1996/97), Football; 7:30pm Indoor Football; 8:30pm U16 Football (born 1990/91).

Friday 10^th: Primary Schools Indoor Hurling at Dunavil; 6pm Junior & U18 Camogie practice.

Saturday 11^th: Grounds work continues from 9am for a few hours. All available Club members are asked to come along and give a hand.  The Youth Club will be open as a drop in facility on Saturdays from 2pm to10pm to provide somewhere for young people to go. Among the activities available are snooker, pool, table tennis, big screen TV, cards, indoor football, cooking facility, etc.

Sunday 12^th: 8pm Bingo; Senior football training.

Monday 13^th: Finance & Social committee meeting 7:30pm. Grounds & Development committee meeting 8pm. All members to please attend. Lotto Draw at 9pm. 6:30pm U12 Indoor Hurling; 7:30pm U14 & U16 Indoor hurling; 8:30pm U14 Football (born 1992/93); 9:30pm Camphill Volunteers.

Tuesday 14^th: Hall use 6pm U10 (born 1996 or later) & U12 Camogie (born 1994/95); 7pm U14 (born 1992/93) & U16 (born 1990/91) Camogie; 8pm U18 & Junior Camogie; 9pm Band practice. 7pm Valentines arts & crafts. Minor Football starts in the town pitch.

Games & Coaching

The Foundation Coaching Course will take place the last week of the month. Nine of our coaches attended the ‘Fitness & the Ball’ coaching course last Monday. Gerard from the U12s; Brendan from the U14s; Damian, Eric and Noel from the U16s; Jim, Nick and Peter from the U18s; and Brendan from the Reserves. Gerard went on to attend the Coaching Seminar on Saturday.

Camogie

There have been good turn outs at the various practices so keep up the good work. Sticks and helmets now available from the Club.

Indoor Hurling

There is a primary school indoor hurling tournament in Dunavil on Friday 10^th February.

Finance & Social

Membership fees are now due. Supporters as well as players should be paid up members.

The next fundraiser is the poker classic on 18^th February and the next disco is on 18^th March. There is also a ‘Night at the Dogs’ on Saturday 6^th May. The next Finance & Social meeting is on Monday 13^th February at 7:30pm.

Scor

The Club took part in Scor Sinsir in Longstone on Sunday. Thanks to all our participants. We had four entrants, a quiz team, two solo singers and a recitation. Well done to Ailish, Brendan, Elaine, Michael, Sharon. 

Gaelic Telecom

Club members will be contacted over the next week by Gaelic Telecom regarding their Croke Park endorsed scheme.

Dinner Dance

The Annual Awards took place on Friday at the Park Hotel Omeath, two hundred twenty  patrons attended. Guests were Fr. Murray PP, Fr. Sheehan former player, Mark Turley manager Down Minors, Peter Mc Grath manager Ireland, Dan Mc Cartan GAA Trustee, Belle O’Loughlin Camogie Association, Paddy Mc Grath & Reggie Wallace First Trust Bank awards sponsors. Fear a Ti was County PRO, our own Diarmuid Cahill.

There were presentations to the Reserve footballers runners up in the County Championship Neill Cousins, Barry Maginn, Michael Rodgers, Neill Curran, Barry Graham, Jim Sloan, Mike Quinn, Raymond Mc Cartan, Seamus Sloan, Brian Annett, Ruairi Doran, Ronan Cunningham, Thomas Sloan, Paddy Cunningham, Wayne Morris, Darren Magorrian, Damian Sherry, Gary Cunningham, Dave Morgan, Paddy Cordell, Fergal Doyle, James og Cunningham, Martin Mc Comiskey, Ciaran Cunningham, Paul Cousins, Eamon Binks, James Cunningham, Dessie Gibson, Pearse Cunningham; U21 footballers winners South Down & County Championships Ruairi Doran, Michael Rodgers, Conor Walsh, Paul Sherry, Aidan O’Hanlon, Colin Flanagan, Neill Doran, James Colgan, Aidan Flanagan, Martin Harper, Martin Clarke, James Cunningham, Richard Annett, Brian Sloan, Paddy Cole, Sean Clarke, Paddy Cordell, Damian Sherry, Noel Mc Ardle, Fergal Doyle, Conor Mc Veigh, Darren Cunningham, Stephen Annett, Darren Mc Alinden, Aidan Cunningham, Michael Sloan; Minor footballers runners up in the County League & Championship Ruairi Doran, Michael Rodgers, Conor Walsh, Conor Mc Veigh, Paddy Cordell, Gareth Small, Fergal Doyle, Darren Cunningham, Pearse Cunningham, Conor Sloan, Martin Clarke, Noel Mc Ardle, Declan Ross, Sean Clarke, Christy Killen, James Colgan, Paul Sherry, Damian Sherry, James Cunningham, Liam Harper, Dave Morgan, Johnny White, Conor Doyle, Gary Cunningham.

The Players of the Year in football and Camogie Awards went to Senior Football Michael Trainor & Liam Mc Veigh, Premier Reserve Football Aidan O’Hanlon & Sean Clarke, Reserve Football Barry Maginn & Barry Graham, U21 Football Paddy Cole & Neill Doran, Minor Football Michael Rodgers & Paul Sherry, Junior Camogie Niamh Cunningham & Marie Trainor, U18 Camogie Ciara Cunningham, Clara Killen & Laura Donnelly, Minor Camogie Laura Brennan, Aisling Clarke & Aine O’Reilly.

There were also presentations to our four All Ireland winning Down Minors Martin Clarke, James Colgan, James Cunningham and Fergal Doyle; to Eamon O’Rourke who played for Down in the All Ireland Masters Final; to the management of the U21 team Jim Allen, Nick Sloan, Peter Walsh & nurse Mary Allen; to Lisa Hughes & Laura Brennan joint Players of the Tournament Kilmacud All Ireland Sevens; Chairmans Awards to Michael O’Rourke and Pat Rodgers. Joseph Donnan received a presentation to mark the Clubs silver jubilee & mementos were presented to the guests.

Grounds & Development

The next committee meeting is on Monday 13^th February at 8pm. It is only three weeks until the League starts so time is running short for getting all the necessary work done. Work continues on Saturday mornings, a job to suit everyone, so get involved and give a hand.

Gift-Aid

There has been an encouraging response to the Gift-Aid programme and those involved in recruiting members are requested to attend a meeting in the Club on Monday at 7:30pm.

Meeting

The next Executive/Management committee meeting is on Monday 20^th February at 7:15pm.

Senior Members

As her project for her Senior Members course Louise has organised a Karaoke contest in the Youth Club on Friday 17^th February at 7pm open to everyone aged seven to fourteen with good prizes for the most entertaining acts. Vicki has organised a ‘Mary Jane’ Fashion Show in the Archways on Thursday 2^nd March at 7:30pm as her project with brand names at a quarter the price. Dave, Joanna and Lisa have completed their projects. Leanne, Laura and Damian have their projects almost ready.

Mourne Youth Forum & Kilkeel Youth Providers

There was a meeting in React on Thursday about substance abuse in the area and a meeting of Mourne Youth Providers on Wednesday, 8^th, to discuss future projects.

Orienteering

There has been some interest in the orienteering project on 4^th March and this is a last call for applicants to take part as the entry form must be returned at the weekend.

Saturday Club

The Saturday opening for teenagers has proved a relative success and will continue at least until the start of March. The project gives young people somewhere to go at the weekend to play pool, snooker, indoor football, watch football on the big screen, relax, etc. without the presence and temptation of alcoholic drink being on offer.

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