An Riocht / Kingdom Youth Club

This Weeks Activities:

Wednesday 2nd 7pm U16 football practice. U18 Camogie An Riocht v Ballyholland. Global Exchange placement begins. Mourne Hurling Club meeting at Dunavil.
Thursday 3rd 6pm Irish Dancing. 6.30pm U16 Camogie (outdoor). 7pm Creative Arts project at the Nautilus Centre. 7pm U12 Boys. 9pm U18 Boys.
Friday 4th Girls Indoor Primary Schools Gaelic Finals from 10am. Senior Football at Dunavil. Youth Club Closed tonight.
Saturday 5th 10am Juvenile football at Dunavil. U12 Camogie An Riocht v Longstone.
Sunday 6th PRFL Liatroim v An Riocht (Seconds). 8pm Bingo.
Monday 7th NMDC meeting. 7pm U14 football (outdoor). 7.30pm U8 football & Camphill. 8.20pm U10 football. 7.30pm Finance & Social committee meeting. 9pm Lotto draw.
Tuesday 8th 6.30pm Irish Dancing. U16 Camogie An Riocht v Darragh Cross. U16 football An Riocht v Longstone.
Wednesday 9th U16 football 7 pm (outdoor). Junior Camogie Mayobridge v An Riocht. U18 Football An Riocht v Ballymartin.
Thursday 10th 6pm Irish Dancing. 7pm U12 football. U14 Football An Riocht v Clonduff. County Registration Information night in Castlewellan. Wrestlemania.
Friday 11th 1.30pm St. Columbans indoor camogie. 7pm Junior Indoor Football Tournament organized as Senior Members Project.
Saturday 12th 10am Kung Fu at Dunavil. 10am to 11am Juvenile football (U8, U10 & U12) at Dunavil. U12 Camogie Ballyholland v An Riocht. AMP workshops
Sunday 13th U12 Football An Riocht v Ballymartin. Thirds Football An Riocht v Atticall.

Minor Football
An Riocht v Longstone, Ballyholland v An Riocht
The minor footballers were flattered by a six point win over Longstone on Easter Monday. The visitors dominated early on and went into a two nil lead before An Riocht got a grip in the middle third through Darren Doyle and Conor Cole and scored six successive points for a four point interval advantage.
Brendan Allen robbed a defender to place Rory Cunningham for the first point. Conor Cole set up Brendan for the second and four from Declan Doyle pushed An Riocht further ahead. The keeper saved well to deny Brendan a goal while at the other end a one handed stop from Kevin Mathews prevented Longstone getting back into it just before the break.
Though Conor Cole and Darren Doyle extended the lead on the restart some silly shooting prevented An Riocht building a winning lead and Longstone making the most of their opportunities, including two terrific scores from on the sideline, had the deficit cut to two points and it could have been closer for Kevin made a second point blank save and they also rattled the crossbar. At eleven eight the result was very much in the balance until Darren Doyle stormed through and presented Rory Cunningham a shot on goals from which he made no mistake, 1-11 to 0-8.
Team K Mathews; D Bowater, S Sloan, M Clarke; P Gartland, S White, P Allen; S Corr, Darren Doyle 0-1; C Cole 0-1, D Flanagan, R Cunningham 1-3; Declan Doyle 0-5, B Allen 0-1, A Rogers. Subs D White, M White, C Clarke, M Keenan, R Clarke.
* Several changes for the game in Ballyholland failed to spark a better display and the home side won out 3-9 to 1-8 with Brendan Allen the An Riocht goal scorer.
U16 Football
Rostrevor proved far superior to the An Riocht team in Sundays challenge at Dunavil but the boys never gave up and were rewarded with a late flurry of points. Team A Magorrian; A Higgins, M Donnelly, G O’Neill; R Clarke, S Corr, D Higgins; D Doyle, J McCulla; R McAlinden, R Donnelly, R White; A White, C ORourke, A McVeigh. Sub N Murnion.
Premier Reserve League An Riocht v Bryansford
The Seconds were most unfortunate not to come away with something from this entertaining affair at Dunavil on Sunday. Two goalmouth misses and too many missed points from play and from frees prevented An Riocht from scoring enough to share the spoils. Bryansford with an experienced spine to their team made the most of their chances. Colm Kearney was unerring from frees, finishing with nine of their thirteen points from placed balls. The Ford were three nil up when Diarmuid Flanagan opened for An Riocht with a free kick over off a post. Sean Clarke made it two points to five with the best score of the match and then had a flicked effort bounce just the wrong side of the upright. Bryansford rallied again and opened a six point gap by the break. Points from Michael Trainor and Gary Cunningham on the restart narrowed the gap but Bryansford hit back with two converted frees and a fifty. Then midway through the half Diarmuid Flanagan collected a long pass and fired in a goal, Darren White and Sean Clarke added points apiece and suddenly there was only a kick of the ball between the teams. Bryansford introduced some formidable subs and with time running out we needed a second goal, the chance fell to Brian Sloan but his goal bound effort was diverted for a fifty and Ford finished with another free for a 0-13 to 1-6 victory. Team: G Finnegan; C McVeigh, M Rodgers, M Trainor; S McArdle, J Clarke, C Doyle; B Sloan, D Sherry; C Cole, G Cunningham, D White; R McCartan, S Clarke, D Flanagan. Subs: R Cunningham, D Morgan, T Hughes.
Senior Football Challenge An Riocht v Bryansford
Bryansford won 2-12 to 0-12. An Riocht were utterly dominant for twenty minutes and led 0-8 to 0-2 and were unlucky not to goal from a Paddy Cole effort which came back off a post. Chris Killen 0-2 and Paddy Cole 0-5 were tormentors in chief though the visitors did force two good saves from Gavin Finnegan. However An Riochts scoreless final ten minutes to the first half allowed Ford to narrow the gap with four unanswered points. Half-time score An Riocht 0-8 Longstone 0-6. The scoring touch deserted An Riocht on the restart with a series of narrow wides while Kalum King and Adrian Carvill got on top at midfield for Bryansford and their first goal in the thirty eighth minute came off a rampaging King run. Five minutes later Luke Howard was upended in the square and Shane King expertly dispatched the penalty. An Riocht were limited to four Killen frees in the second half as they lost all shape with both sides emptying their benches. Thanks to referee Denis Cotter who stayed on after the PRFL to take charge of this game. Team: G Finnegan; C Doyle, J Clarke, P Sherry; D O’Reilly, L McVeigh, L Fitzpatrick; P Murney, A Flanagan; A Cunningham, C Killen, M Trainor; P Cole, P Cunningham, G Cunningham.
Camogie Club Officer Training Programme
Patricia, Angela and Christine attended the Camogie Club Officer Training Programme in Armagh. Only two Down clubs participated!
U10 Camogie Blitz
The U10 Camogie Blitz due to take place in Kilclief last Saturday was postponed by the County Board.
Good Luck
Best wishes to Michael Spiers (Castlewellan HS) and James Colgan (Down U21) in their respective Finals this weekend.
Creative Arts project
The photography and sculpting programme in conjunction with Johnny from Bridge Youth Project took place at Kingdom last Thursday for a bumper four hour stint.
Senior Members Training Evaluation Day.
The Senior Members Training Evaluation Day scheduled for Saturday has been postponed to a later date.
AMP Project
The Alternative Media Project workshops for 14 to 18 year olds in digital photography, animation, DJ projects and digital music mixing takes place at Kingdom Youth Club on Saturday week, 12th April, from 10am to 1pm. There will be opportunities to try both and if desired expand into a series of workshops. A few places still available
Olympics Parade
Well done to Cheryl, Leone and Beth whose Senior Member Project took place on Saturday when a group of young people from KYC participated as ‘Brazil’ at the opening ceremony of NMDC minority sports Recreational Olympics in Newry Sport Centre. Thanks to Clara and Eilish for their help on the day.