McCarthy Insurance Group County SFL, Division 2 Match Report, Templenoe V Castleisland Desmonds

County Senior Football League, Division 2, Round 2 (Back Game).

Templenoe 2-11, Castleisland Desmonds1-13.

Templenoe senior footballers had a crucial win at home to Castleisland Desmonds on Sunday afternoon, to take them out of the relegation zone. In doing so, Templenoe have also ironically put themselves back into promotion contention with three rounds of the county league remaining.

It was a lovely afternoon for a game of football. Castleisland Desmonds had the aid of a strong breeze for the first half, but it was the hosts who got off to a dream start with Brian Crowley and Ciaran Crowley both finding the net inside the first eight minutes. Desmonds quickly regrouped and responded with Brian Leonard thumping over a one pointer followed by a two pointer. Then Aidan Crowley traded points with Brian Leonard to leave the score at 2-01 to 0-04 at the end of the first quarter.

Desmonds squandered a few point chances, before Brian Crowley extended Templenoe’s lead to keep that bit of daylight between the sides. However, soon after the game was blown wide open when the Templenoe defence failed to clear their lines, and although keeper Mark Looney did well to save the initial effort, there no stopping the follow up shot from Denis O’Connor for a goal for the visitors. Things got even better for them a minute later when Chris Devane made it a draw game. The remaining minutes of the first half were very entertaining with Brian Crowley and Sean Sheehan briefly restoring Templenoe’s lead to two points before Graham O’Connor made full use of the wind to land two 2 pointers in a row to put the Desmonds in the ascendancy for the first time. With half time approaching, Mark Casey ventured up the field to fire over what would in the end turn out to be a pivotal point.

Half Time Score: Templenoe 2-05, Castleisland Desmonds1-09.

No doubt about it this was a big game for both sides, but Templenoe’s job got even harder when captain Adrian Spillane had to make way early in the second half after he picked up an injury. Credit to the hosts they dug deep and put together a purple patch that saw them hit four unanswered scores courtesy of Colin Crowley, Aidan Crowley (tp) and Gavin Crowley to make the score 2-09 to 1-09 at the end of the third quarter.

Castleisland Desmonds began the second half playing the possession game in the knowledge that Templenoe had wind advantage, but now they had to go on the attack and two scores from Maurice Hickey and Luka Brosnan saw them reduce the deficit to one point. Aidan Crowley with a 45 and Micheál O'Mahony from a free put Templenoe three points to the good once more, but there was still time for the Desmonds to test Templenoe’s mettle. Desmonds duly added two more scores through Graham O’Connor and Maurice Hickey amid rising tensions to set up an exciting finish. But in the end Templenoe did just about enough to hold on for a vital two county league points.   

Final Score: Templenoe 2-11, Castleisland Desmonds1-13.

Scorers:

Templenoe: Brian Crowley 1-02, Aidan Crowley 0-04 (1tp) (1f) (1 45), Ciaran Crowley 1-00, Gavin Crowley 0-01, Mark Casey 0-01, Colin Crowley 0-01, Sean Sheehan 0-01, Micheal O’Mahony 0-01 (1f).

Castleisland Desmonds: Graham O’Connor 0-05 (2tp) (1f), Brian Leonard 0-04 (1tp), Denis O’Connor 1-00, Maurice Hickey 0-02, Chris Devane 0-01, Luka Brosnan 0-01.

Teams:

Templenoe: Mark Looney, Dara Casey, Kieran O’Neill, Kieran McCarthy, Mark Casey, Gavin Crowley, Martin Reilly, Colin Crowley, Adrian Spillane ©, John Spillane, Sean Sheehan, Ciaran Crowley, Hugh Granville, Brian Crowley, Aidan Crowley.

Subs Used: Micheál O'Mahony, Caoilte O’hUrdail, Jack Wiggins.

Castleisland Desmonds: Steven Bartlett, Luke Curtin, Cian H O’Connor, Conor Wilkinson, Cian Mangan, Luka Brosnan , Denis O’Connor, Adam O’Donoghue, Chris Devane, Maurice Hickey, Graham O’Connor, Brian Leonard ©, Kian Downey, Colm Roche Daire Murphy.

Subs Used: Thomas Hickey, Thomas Conway.

Referee: Donal Casey

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Templenoe GAA Club Lotto

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Templenoe GAA Club Lotto - 26th May

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Templenoe GAA Club Notes - 25th May

Templenoe GAA Lotto:

The numbers drawn on Monday, 18th May were 1, 8, 23 and Bonus # 5. No Jackpot Winner. Congratulations to our spot prize winners: €50 Maureen Harrington, Ring of Kerry Voucher Margaret Hanley, 12 Weeks Lotto Ticket Marie Moriarty.

The Jackpot for our Lotto draw on Monday, 25th May was for a massive €20,000, with three consolation prizes up for grabs (if no Jackpot or match 3 numbers winner). Our weekly club lotto can be played at any of our usual outlets or on-line by visiting www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Templenoe/lotto [klubfunder.com] 

Many thanks for your continued support.

McCarthy Insurance County Senior Football League Div 2:

Templenoe 1-13, Firies 1-21. Our senior footballers suffered defeat at home to Firies last Sunday. The sides were level at half-time, but a powerful second half display by the visitors saw them run out eight points winners.

Templenoe will play Castleisland Desmonds this Saturday, 30th May with a 3pm throw-in time (subject to change). All support welcome and encouraged.

County U14 League Division 7 Final;

Fossa 3-11

Na Fianna 3-07

Fossa GAA Grounds was the venue for last Monday evening’s U14 final, after Fossa won the coin toss to host the final. It was a sporting game with both sides giving it everything. Fossa had a narrow lead at the break., The half time score was Fossa 1-07, Na Fianna 1-05.

The second half was equally competitive, but Fossa pulled through to win by 4 points in the finish. Hard luck to Na Fianna, they had a good league run and the experience of reaching the final will stand to them all. Congratulations to Fossa.

The Templenoe players involved were Oisin Cremin, Alex O’Neill, Oscar Burns, Timmy O’Sullivan, Liam Randles, Killian O’Mahony, Ben Leonard, Aaron Vitting and Tadhg Clifford.

All-Ireland U20 Final:

Best of luck to local players Jack O'Sullivan, Barry Fitzsimons, the Kerry U20 footballers and management in the All-Ireland U20 final versus Tyrone on Saturday.

County Minor Hurling League Division 2 Final:

Congratulations to Micheál O’Mahony, Josh Linnane, Shay Mulvanney and the Kenmare/Kilgarvan minor hurlers on winning the Division 2 County league final with victory over Kilmoyley on a scoreline of 1-13 to 2-06.

Templenoe Community Centre AGM:

The Templenoe Community Centre AGM will take place on Tuesday 2nd June at 8pm in the Community Centre.

All members of the community are welcome to attend. We would encourage anyone with an interest in supporting and developing the centre to come along.

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McCarthy Insurance County SFL, Division 2 Match Report, Templenoe V Firies

County Senior Football League, Division 2, Round 6.

Templenoe 1-13, Firies 1-21.

Templenoe suffered their fourth county league defeat in a row at home to Firies on Sunday afternoon. This result puts Templenoe on shaky ground, but they do have four county league games remaining in a very competitive Division 2.

The game was played in Sunny conditions and the hosts started well with brothers Gavin and Colin Crowley opening the scoring. Firies countered with scores from Darragh Donoghue and Cian Doe, before Adrian Spillane gave the Templenoe the edge at the end of the first quarter to make it 0-03 to 0-02. But in between Templenoe were dealt a significant blow when Teddy Doyle had to retire injured.

James Horgan tied the scores again, before substitute Patrick Clifford went through on goal and he made no mistake with his finish for Templenoe’s first goal in four games. In the ensuring passages of play, Templenoe tagged on two more points courtesy of Aidan Crowley and Hugh Granville, while the visitors had white flags from James Horgan, Cian Doe and Darragh Donoghue. Then in the 30th minute Niall Donohoue was vigilant to the ball coming off the upright and he was perfectly positioned to bury the ball past Mark Looney in the Templenoe goal. This put Firies ahead for the first time and though Templenoe did equalize just before the interval through Mark Casey, it meant that Firies would go in the happier at the break, with the visitors also having the wind advantage for the second half to come.

Half Time Score: Templenoe 1-06, Firies 1-06.

Firies somewhat blew Templenoe out of the water in the third quarter, outscoring their opponents by eight points to two. Their purple patch started with James Horgan (2) and Cian Doe splitting the posts. Martin Reilly briefly interrupted their flow with a point for the visitors, but then the visitors started to turn on the style with Cian Doe landing the first of his 3 two pointers. Further scores followed from Darragh Brosnan and Niall Donohue. Aidan Crowley and Cian Doe traded points to leave score at 1-08 to 1-14 at the end of the third quarter.

Templenoe tried hard to bring themselves back into the game and two pointed frees from Micheál O'Mahony, after Cian Doe had put Firies further ahead did reduce the margin to five points. But any hopes of a comeback were short lived with Cian Doe continuing to shoot the lights out, while his partner in crime James Horgan was unerring throughout with his free taking. Cian Doe added 2 more two more pointers to bring his personal tally up to an impressive eleven points. Templenoe had consolation scores from Adrian Spillane, Colin Crowley and Mark Casey, before Diarmuid O’Mahony got his name on the score sheet for the visitors with their last play.

Final Score: Templenoe 1-13, Firies 1-21.

Scorers:

Templenoe: Patrick Clifford 1-00, Mark Casey 0-02, Adrian Spillane 0-02, Colin Crowley 0-02, Aidan Crowley 0-02 (1f), Micheál O'Mahony 0-02 (2f), Gavin Crowley 0-01, Martin Reilly 0-01, Hugh Granville 0-01.

Firies: Cian Doe 0-11 (3tp) (2f), James Horgan 0-05 (4f) (1 45), Niall Donohue 1-01, Darragh Donoghue 0-02, Diarmaid O’Mahony 0-01, Darragh Brosnan 0-01

Teams:

Templenoe: Mark Looney, Mark Casey, Kieran O’Neill, Kieran McCarthy, Gavin Crowley, Martin Reilly, Ciaran Crowley, Sean Sheehan, Adrian Spillane ©, Micheál O'Mahony, Colin Crowley, John Spillane, Hugh Granville, Aidan Crowley, Teddy Doyle.

Subs Used: Patrick Clifford, Jack Wiggins, Marc Foley, John Moriarty, Caoilte O’hUrdail.

Firies: Brian McCarthy, Chris Palmer, Diarmuid Brosnan, Brian O’Leary, Dairmuid O’Mahony, Niall Donohoe, Sean Cooper, Darragh Brosnan, James Horgan, Darragh Donoghue, Pat Daly, TJ Palmer, James O’Donoghue, Cian Doe, Mike Daly.

Subs Used: Conall Mahony, Danny Brosnan, John Henderson, Conor O’Sullivan, Aaron Flynn.

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Templenoe GAA Club Notes - 18th May

Templenoe GAA Lotto:

The numbers drawn on Monday, 11th May were 1, 18, 27 and Bonus # 3. No Jackpot Winner. Congratulations to our Match 3 Numbers Winner for €400: Catherine Sheehan, Edgware, UK.

The Jackpot for our Lotto draw on Monday, 18th May was for a massive €20,000, with three consolation prizes up for grabs (if no Jackpot or match 3 numbers winner). Our weekly club lotto can be played at any of our usual outlets or on-line by visiting www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Templenoe/lotto [klubfunder.com]

Many thanks for your continued support.

McCarthy Insurance County Senior Football League Div 2:

Listowel Emmets 2-13, Templenoe 0-11. A strong last quarter from Listowel Emmets saw them emerge eight points winners over Templenoe at Ballydonoghue GAA Grounds last Sunday.

Templenoe will play Firies in round 8 this weekend at Templenoe GAA Grounds. All support welcome and encouraged. Please follow our social media for confirmation of date and throw-in time.

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship:

Best of luck to Tadhg, Killian the Kerry senior footballers and management against Donegal at Fitzgerald Stadium on Saturday. Best wishes also to Pat Spillane in their Tailteann Cup game away to Waterford.

Munster Minor Football Championship:

Well done to Noel O’Neill who was part for the Kerry minors match day panel in their round 3 win over Clare.  Noel was also named on the match day panel for the Munster Final between Kerry and Cork, which was to be played on Monday evening at Pairc Ui Rinn.

Underage Football Results:

East Kerry Region U16 Div 2A Final Result (AET):

Na Fianna 5-10, Rathmore 1-18.

Congratulations to all the Na Fianna players and management on winning the East Region Division 2A final at Rathmore GAA Grounds, last Thursday evening.

Templenoe had 5 players involved - Danny O’Sullivan (captain), Jack Harrington, Ben Leonard, Oisín Cremin and Liam Randles. While Shane Cremin was part of the management team.

County U14 League, Division 15 semi-final result:

Na Fianna B 3-09, Ardfert B 4-10

Hard luck to the Na Fianna B U14 team who gave a gallant display but just came up short against Ardfert B in last week’s semi-final.

Well done to Lily Noonan Murphy who played in the Primary Game at half-time in the Kerry versus Cork Munster Senior Football Final.

All-Ireland Basketball Schools Final Win:

Huge congratulations to the Pobalscoil Inbhear Scéine 2nd year girls on winning the All-Ireland Div 2 Final at the National Basketball Arena, Dublin last Thursday.

The team included 5 Ex-Templenoe footballers Adele O'Sullivan Nash, Michaela Palmer, Sadbh O' Mahony, Emma O' Sullivan and Chloe O' Shea

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McCarthy Insurance Group County SFL, Division 2 Match Report, Listowel Emmets v Templenoe

Listowel Emmets 2-13, Templenoe 0-11.

An 11th hour change of venue saw Templenoe make the 2 hour trip to a cold, wet and windy Ballydonoghue for the County League round 7 clash with Listowel Emmets on Sunday. 

Templenoe played against the strong wind and driving rain in the first half. Aidan Crowley opened the scoring for Templenoe with a fine point, quickly matched by similar from Darragh Lynch.

From there to half time it was pretty much even stevens with a brief Templenoe lead being cancelled out by 2 two pointers from Emmets. Having played against the elements Templenoe were probably the happier at the short whistle with the game deadlocked at 0:06 each!

Whatever was said to Emmets at the break, had the desired effect as they got quicker to breaking ball and began direct running at Templenoe. They scored 2:07 in the half, with only Brian Crowley 0:04 and Teddy Doyle 0:01 troubling the scoreboard for the visitors. Templenoe were not helped by being turned over a number of times and some poor shot selection. As the wind dropped and the rain stopped the game concluded on a 2:13 to 0:11 scoreline.

The lack of showers at the venue did not help the mood as the cold and wet Templenoe players began the long journey home.

Teams & Scorers:

TEMPLENOE: J.Linnane, D.Casey, K.O'Neill, K.McCarthy, M.Casey, G.Crowley(0:02- 1*2pt), M.O'Reilly, M.O'Mahony(0:01), A.Spillane(capt.), S.Sheehan(0:01), C.Crowley, P.Clifford, Ciarán Crowley, B.Crowley(0:04), A.Crowley(0:02)

Subs used: J.Moriarty, T.Doyle(0:01).

LISTOWEL: Kevin O'Connor(0:01), Ger McCarthy, Niall Collins, John Carmody,   Eddie Browne, Micheál Kennedy, Jack McElligott(0:01), Darragh Leahy, Joe Joe Grimes, Rob Smith, Bryan Sweeney(1:03), Adam Heffernan(1:00), David Keane(0:01), Sam Tarrant(0:02 1*2pt), Darragh Lynch(0:05 1*2pt).

Subs used: R. Heffernan, T.Pierce, D.Carey, N.Lynch.

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