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Competition Launch 2.00pm, Tues April 29 Holy Rosary PS
HOLY ROSARY WIN DAY ONE Tuesday May 6th Cherryvale
ST BERNARDS WIN DAY TWO Tuesday May 13th Cherryvale
ST MATTHEWS WIN DAY THREE Tuesday May 20th Cherryvale
ST JOSEPHS BEST PLAYER on DAY 4 Tuesday May 27th Cherryvale
GIRLS R BEST ON DAY FIVE! Tuesday June 3rd Cherryvale
LIST OF PLAYERS
PICTURE GALLERY
PICTURE GALLERY 2
TEAM of the TOURNAMENT
FINALS DAY June 10th Cherryvale
League Reports
Competition Launch, Holy Rosary PS 2.00pm, Tues April 29
2002 WINNERS - HOLY ROSARY PS
SCHOOLS TAKING PART in 2003
Holy Rosary, Sunnyside Street
Scoil an Droichid, Cooke Street
St Bernards, Rosetta
St Brides, Malone Road
St Josephs, Ballyhackamore
St Matthews, Short Strand
St Michaels, Ravenhill Road
BREDAGH GAC IS DELIGHTED TO WELCOME ALL OF THESE SCHOOLS TO THE 'BIGGER AND BETTER' SOUTH BELFAST SCHOOLS LEAGUE.
COMPETITION FORMAT
All schools will send teams on every Tuesday afternoon from May 6th through to June 17th, with the seven teams split into two groups of three and four. The first group will have the three strongest teams playing one another in 20-minute 12-a-side games on a small-sized pitch using mobile goalposts. The second group will be played out on an adjoining pitch, with the four teams playing shorter 10-minute games. The winner of this second group each week will be promoted to the first group for the following week, with the bottom side dropping down accordingly.
BEST PLAYERS
One player will be named from each group in each week as the 'Player of the Week', with a 'Player of the Tournament named after the Finals Day on June 17th. A knock-out competition will also be held on that date to find the SOUTH BELFAST SCHOOLS LEAGUE champions for 2003.
HOLY ROSARY WIN DAY ONE, Cherryvale Tuesday May 6th
GROUP ONE
Holy Rosary 6-3 St Brides 2-3
St Matthews 2-2 St Brides 0-1
Holy Rosary 4-4 St Matthews 1-2
Winners - HOLY ROSARY
Player of the Week - JACK DUFFIN (HR)
REPORT
Reigning champions Holy Rosary kicked off the 2003 competition with two wins to finish top of Group One and so set the pace for the rest to try and match. In their first game, Matthew Cross bagged three goals in the defeat of St Brides, while Kaelan Devlin also got on the scoresheet. Jamie Cleary was outstanding in defence, Jack Duffin was named 'Player of the Week', and Ciaran Fitzpatrick scored 1-1 in the defeat of St Matthews in the deciding game. In between, St Matthews beat St Brides, who were the unfortunate side having to play two games in-a-row. So well done Holy Rosary, but next week the top group will be a lot tougher as the St Bernards P7s will be back from their break and St Michaels are coming up from Group Two, where they were very impressive. This means that Group One will have four teams next week.
GROUP TWO
St Michaels 4-3 St Bernards 1-0
St Josephs 1-0 Scoil an Droichid 0-1
St Michaels 4-2 St Josephs 0-0
St Bernards 2-1 Scoil an Droichid 1-0
St Bernards 3-1 St Josephs 0-1
St Michaels 2-3 Scoil an Droichid 1-0
Winners - ST MICHAELS - promoted to Group One for next week
Player of the Week - MICHAEL MAC GABHAN
REPORT
This was a brilliant day's football with exciting play, great entertainment for the supporters and a little bit of history with St Josephs and Scoil an Droichid both playing their first ever competitive gaelic football games. They both accounted themselves very well, with Michael MacGahan scooping the 'Player of the Week' award ahead of all of the other players on stronger teams. St Josephs won the battle of the new boys (and girls) with a winning goal from Stephen Gibson. Aaron Ross scored a point in this game for Scoil an Droichid and he also got their goal in the game with St Bernards. Caoimhín O'Corra got their goal in the last game against St Michaels, who won the Group with three victories. They scored ten goals in total and these were their scorers: Johnny Lee 3-1, Ruairi Johnston 2-0, Charlie McGrath 2-0, Ben Horner 1-2, Conor Magee 0-3, Michael Diddles Magee 1-0, Donal McKegney 1-0, Danny Donnelly 0-2. St Bernards came second with terrific displays from Niall Wright and Daniel Nolan, who each scored a cracking goal. Niall scored all 2-1 in the defeat of Scoil an Droichid, including a screamer into the top corner, while Danny scored a brilliant goal in the defeat of St Josephs. Niall totalled 3-1 over the three games, and Danny got 1-1. Niall Byrne and Luke Bowen added goals against St Josephs, for whom Conor O'Reilly replied with a point. St Michaels are promoted to Group One, while St Bernards will also play in the top section next week, leaving Scoil an Droichid, St Josephs and St Brides to play fewer and longer games.
NOTE: There is a photo-spread from all games every week in THE SOUTH BELFAST NEWS, out on Fridays.
ST BERNARDS WIN DAY TWO, Cherryvale Tuesday May 13th
GROUP ONE
Holy Rosary 0-0 St Michaels 0-0
St Bernards 0-5 St Matthews 0-0
Holy Rosary 1-2 St Matthews 1-0
St Michaels 0-3 St Bernards 5-2
St Michaels 2-2 St Matthews 0-0
Holy Rosary 0-1 St Bernards 3-1
Winners - ST BERNARDS
Player of the Week - Conor McCloskey
REPORT
A marvellous individual display by Player of the Week Conor McCloskey and a terrific team effort by the rest of the St Bernards players saw them knock reigning champions Holy Rosary off top spot. The Sunnyside boys took the overall title in 2002 and were the best team on Day One of the 2003 League last week, but they were unable to contain St Bernards on Day Two. McCloskey bagged two goals in the decisive game with Holy Rosary, followed by a point from Niall Donnelly and a cracking goal from Donal Hughes on the final whistle. Jack Duffin replied with a point in the 3-1 to 0-1 scoreline. Earlier, St Bernards beat St Matthews by 0-5 to 0-0 with points from Donnelly (2), McCloskey, Conal Devlin and Danny Nolan. And in their other game, McCloskey scored 2-1 in a big win over St Michaels. The Ravenhill Road boys did well apart from that, as they held Holy Rosary to a scoreless draw in the first ten-minute game and then they beat St Matthews with two goals from Ben Horner and points from Conor Magee and Donal McKegney. Michael Magee was their best player in defence.
GROUP TWO
St Josephs 0-2 Scoil an Droichid 0-6
St Josephs 1-2 St Brides 0-5
Scoil an Droichid 1-3 St Brides 3-5
Winners - ST BRIDES
Player of the Week - Peter Mooney
REPORT:
Scoil an Droichid enjoyed their first ever victory as a gaelic football team, beating St Josephs Ballyhackamore in the opening game by 0-6 to 0-2. Michael MacGabhann got four of the points and Eithne Nic an Bheatha and Caoimhín Mag Eachaidh scored one each. St Brides then drew with St Josephs and beat Scoil an Droichid in the decider, thanks to scores from Player of the Week Peter Mooney, Jack Lavery, Barry Monaghan and Michael Webb.
NEXT WEEK
St Brides are staying in Group Two, along with Scoil and Droichid, St Josephs and St Matthews, so there will be four teams and shorter games. Group One will have St Bernards, St Michaels and Holy Rosary in longer games.
ST MATTHEWS WIN DAY THREE, Cherryvale Tuesday May 20th
St Matthews and Holy Rosary won their respective sections with full points from their games. The black and whites from the Short Strand finished top of Group Two, while the Sunnyside Boys regained the number one position from St Bernards in Group One.
GROUP ONE
St Bernards 1-0 St Michaels 2-0
Holy Rosary 2-1 St Michaels 0-3
St Bernards 1-3 Holy Rosary 4-2
Winners - HOLY ROSARY
Player of the Week - Kaelan Devlin (HR)
REPORT
The 2002 champions regrouped after last week's loss to St Bernards (and a draw with St Michaels) to win Day Three with two victories. Manager John Cahill encouraged his players to go back to basics and concentrate throughout the games, and it worked with a four-point defeat of St Michaels and an eight-point win against St Bernards. Down footballer and referee for the games, Shane King, selected Bredagh Under-10 Kaelan Devlin as his Player of the Week.
GROUP TWO
St Josephs 1-1 Scoil an Droichid 1-1
St Brides 0-1 St Matthews 0-6
St Josephs 1-1 St Brides 1-2
Scoil an Droichid 1-4 St Matthews 5-1
St Josephs 0-0 St Matthews 0-2
Scoil an Droichid 1-1 St Brides 2-3
Winners - ST MATTHEWS
Player of the Week - Francis Brennan
REPORT
St Matthews had their best week yet with three excellent victories, though they will admit that their toughest game was against the rapidly-improving St Josephs, winning by only two points to no score. Indeed, the Ballyhackamore school had one of the day's outstanding players in goalkeeper Daniel Kelly. He was pipped to the Player of the Week award by Francis Brennan from St Matthews, who was the heart and driving force of the team, ably assisted by Patrick Doherty and Chris Cooley. In their first game, the St Matthews trio all scored two points each in the 0-6 to 0-1 defeat of St Brides. Cooley and Doherty added two goals each in the next game with Scoil an Droichid, while Brennan got the fifth and he got one of the points in the last game with St Josephs. The pick of the other games was the draw between Scoil an Droichid and St Josephs, where Aaron Ross scored a dramatic equalising goal after Niall Brown had goaled for St Josephs. Other stars on the day were Damien Connolly with a super goal for St Josephs against St Brides, and the double act of Ronan O'Kane and Michael Webb. Their scores helped the Malone Road boys to two wins and second place in the group.
NOTE: All players in the Schools League are welcome to attend training sessions with Bredagh youth teams. We have Under-10 training every Sunday morning at Cherryvale at 10.00am and Under-10 League matches on Monday nights, as well as Under-12 training on Tuesday nights at Cherryvale at 7.00pm and matches on Sunday afternoons.
ST JOSEPHS BEST PLAYER on DAY 4, Cherryvale Tuesday May 27th
GROUP ONE
Holy Rosary 2-5 St Michaels 1-4
Holy Rosary 3-2 St Josephs 0-0
St Michaels 5-2 St Josephs 0-1
Winners - HOLY ROSARY
Players of the Week - Michael Magee (St Michaels) and ..
.. Daniel Kelly (St Josephs)
NOTE: Scoil an Droichid, St Bernards, St Brides and St Matthews were not involved this week.
REPORT:
Holy Rosary won a scaled down competition but were given a real run for their money by a gutsy St Michaels team. In an extended match, the Sunnyside boys weren't safe until Jamie Cleary palmed the clinching goal to the net. Johnny Li had given St Michaels the lead and he went on to score three points, but Matthew Cross hit back with a goal and a point for Holy Rosary. Two points from Ciaran Fitzpatrick and one from Cleary was matched by scores from Daniel Donnelly and substitute Ruairi Johnston. That all left just one point in it, but when St Michaels wasted chances to equalise, the champions made them pay.
Holy Rosary's Jamie Cleary makes the ball his in the crunch game with St Michaels.
St Josephs then took on the 'big boys' for the first time and put up a good show but they had no match for the likes of Jimmy McCaffery and Ben Horner on the St Michaels side. Even goalkeeper Michael Johnston came out to claim a goal! Still, Gareth O'Reilly scored a consolation point for St Josephs from a well-deserved penalty.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Michael 'Diddles' Magee (pictured here in the red boots) was once again outstanding in defence and took the senior award, despite stiff competition from Charle McGrath and Johnny Li from the same school, and the excellent Pearse Leitch who defended bravely for Holy Rosary, stopping many attacks. St Josephs goalkeeper Daniel Kelly has been making great saves for weeks, and again he was on form to claim the second award.
TEAM OF THE WEEK
This is a new feature that will run for the last few weeks and will end with a 'Team of the Tournament', to be named on Finals Day.
GOALKEEPER
Daniel Kelly - St Josephs
DEFENDERS
Charlie McGrath - St Michaels
Pearse Leitch - Holy Rosary
(pictured below moving in to block Donal McKegney.
Michael Magee - St Michaels
MIDFIELDERS
Gareth O’Reilly - St Josephs
Jamie Cleary - Holy Rosary
Johnny Li - St Michaels
FORWARDS
Matthew Cross - Holy Rosary
Jimmy McCaffrey - St Michaels
Ciaran Fitzpatrick - Holy Rosary
Holy Rosary's Jamie Cleary is favourite to grab the ball ahead of Conor Magee from St Michaels. Donal McKegney looks on.
Ben Horner of St Michaels speeds away from his marker.
GIRLS R BEST ON DAY FIVE!, Cherryvale Tuesday June 3rd
Bláthnaid Ní Smaolaigh became the first girl to win Player of the Week. She took the Group Two award, while Donal Hughes was the winner in Group One.
GROUP ONE
Holy Rosary 1-1 St Michaels 0-1
St Bernards 3-3 St Matthews 0-1
Holy Rosary 1-0 St Matthews 0-5
St Michaels 2-1 St Bernards 4-2
St Michaels 2-1 St Matthews 1-0
Holy Rosary 0-1 St Bernards 1-4
Winners - ST BERNARDS
Player of the Week - Donal Hughes
No-one could keep up with St Bernards, especially Niall Wright!
REPORT: Wet, Wet, Wet! Every single player (and teacher) deserves great credit for turning up and playing their part on a terrible afternoon. Better still, the games in both groups were exciting and keenly-contested. In Group One, St Bernards showed that with a full team they can be unstoppable. They won all three games, beating St Matthews and Holy Rosary with some ease and having to stage a comeback to defeat St Michaels. In the other games, St Matthews caused a shock with a deserved win over Holy Rosary, 0-5 to 1-0.
In the opening game, Emmett Costello gave St Michaels an early lead against Holy Rosary, but Matthew Cross hit back with 1-1 to claim the points. Then St Bernards beat St Matthews with goals from Niall Wright (2) and Conor McCloskey. Next up was the shock result - two points each for Patrick Doherty and Francis Brennan, and a tremendous kick from long distance from Robert McAuley all contributing to St Matthews first win over Holy Rosary, for whom Kaelan Devlin scored a fine goal. St Michaels then had favourites St Bernards on the rack, with goals from Daniel Donnelly and Jimmy McCaffrey, but a screamer into the top of the net from Player of the Week Donal Hughes, two goals from Conor McCloskey and a point from Niall Donnelly settled the contest. St Michaels then got the win they deserved with a winning strike from Ruairi Johnston, and finally it was one-way traffic as St Bernards beat Holy Rosary. Donal Hughes (2) and Niall Donnelly tapped over points before Conor McCloskey's 45 sailed straight to the net. Conor added the icing to the cake with a rare left-footed point!
Action from Group One. Johnny Li of St Michaels with the ball as Kaelan Devlin (Holy Rosary) moves in to tackle. Emmett Costello looks on, while Pearse Leitch is number 9.
FINALS DAY - It's all set up nicely for a cracking competition next Tuesday, June 10th, on Finals Day. There will be an overall cup for the winners of Group One and Group Two, Player of the Tournament awards (male and female), prizes for all ten players on the Team of the Tournament, and medals for everyone.
GROUP TWO - 25 mins each way
St Josephs 1-6 Scoil an Droichid 1-6
Winners - ST JOSEPHS - 3-0 on penalties!
St Josephs: Back Row L-R Gareth Reilly, James Doherty, Daniel Kelly, Aisling Barton, Luke Graham, Conor Shevlin, Una-Louise Conlan. Front Row L-R Feargal Smyth, Ryan Wallace, Damien Connolly, Steven Gibson, Niall Brown, Ben Wort.
Player of the Week - Bláthnaid Ní Smaolaigh
REPORT: These evenly-match teams enjoyed a close game with Bláthnaid Ní Smaolaigh catching the eye of referee and Down player Shane King. 'She played really well and took no nonsense from the other players', said Shane. The hero in the penalty shoot-out was St Josephs shot-stopper supreme Daniel Kelly.
NOTE: St Brides did not play this week.
TEAM OF THE WEEK
GOALKEEPER
Michael Johnston - St Michaels
DEFENDERS
Francis Brennan - St Matthews
Gareth O'Reilly - St Josephs
Donal McKegney - St Michaels
MIDFIELDERS
Donal Hughes - St Bernards
Conor McCloskey - St Bernards
Kaelan Devlin - HR - pictured above with Conor Magee
FORWARDS
Bláthnaid Ní Smaolaigh - Scoil an Droichid
Niall Wright - St Bernards
Robert McAuley - St Matthews
The art of blocking, practised by Emmett Costello and Conor Magee on Kaelan Devlin.
Flying through the air - Niall Wright evades St Matthews defenders.
Conor Magee (St Michaels) gathers the ball and looks up, but Holy Rosary players are ready to close in. Other players in picture, from left: Kaelan Devlin (6), Emmett Costello, Jamie Cleary and Pearse Leitch.
LIST OF PLAYERS,
St Joseph's - Conor Shevlin, Niall Brown, Gareth Reilly, Michael Kane, Christopher Linden, James Doherty, Steven Gibson, Feargal Smyth, Ryan Wallace, Daniel Kelly, Luke Graham, Una-Louise Conlan, Damien Connolly, Conor O'Reilly, Peter Smith, Ben Wort, Aisling Barton, Orla Quinn, Sophie Monroe.
Manager – Conor Donnelly
Scoil and Droichid - Bláthnaid Ní Smaolaigh, Dearbhla Ní Ruanaidh, Máire Sykes, Úna Ní Bhrádaigh, Proinsias Ní Néill, Caoimhín Ó Corra, Labhaoise Sykes, Mícheál Mac Gabhann, Tomás Ó Corra, Eoghan Ó Cianáin, Megan Nic Giolla Mhaoil, Eithne Nic an Bheatha, Seán Ó Garmaile, Amaí Ní Chonghaile, Aaron Rosach, Caoimhín Mag Eachaidh.
Manager – Alicia McCarron
St Michaels - Michael Johnson, Michael Magee, Daniel Higgins, Matthew McMullan, Ronan McGarry, Donal McKegney, Daniel Donnelly, Conor Magee, Rory Johnston, Jonathan Li, Ben Horner, Charlie McGrath, Sean Lecky, Conal Mulholland, Emmett Costello, Ben Archer, Gavin Ball.
Manager - John McWilliams
St Brides
Ruadhri Austin, Stephen Smyth, Ronan O'Kane, Barry Monaghan, Conor Heaney, Lorcan Gallagher, Jeri Cronin, Peter Mooney, Daniel Nolan, Michael Webb, Daniel McCrea, Paddy McAuley, Jack Lavery, Conall McCann.
Manager - Henry Duffin
Holy Rosary - Emmett Loughrey, Liam McAree, Pearse Leitch, Ryan Kelly, Jack Duffin, Jamie Cleary, Ciaran Moynagh, Kealan Devlin, Ciaran Fitzpatrick, Matthew Cross, Jack McConaghy, Danny Molloy, Michael Smith, Conall Scott,
Michael Moynagh, Marty Maguire.
Manager - John Cahill
St Matthews - Sean Turley, Marc Renic, Gavin McGoldrick, Jack McGuigan, Francis Brennan, Robert McAuley, Christopher Cooley, Patrick Doherty, Eamon McGuigan, John Doherty, Ciaran Vernon, Robert McDowell, James Lawlor, Paul McGratten.
Manager - Fergus Coyle
St Bernards - Conor McCloskey, Niall Donnelly, Niall Wright, Donal Hughes, Paddy Hannity, Conal Devlin, Danny Nolan.....
Manager - Dessie Donnelly
PICTURE GALLERY,
Four Bredagh players on opposing sides for their schools. From left: Donal Hughes (St Bernards), Pearse Leitch, Jamie Cleary (both Holy Rosary) and Conor McCloskey (St Bernards).
Determination shows on the face of Conor McCloskey as he moves in to attempt a block on Pearse Leitch.
Playing through the rain - St Josephs in blue and Scoil an Droichid in yellow. Their players in the picture are, from left, Amy Connolly, Proinsias O'Neill and Tómas Corr.
St Michael's player Ronan McGarry turns away from his marker with the ball; Michael Magee prepares to receive a pass.
Eyes on the ball! Players from St Matthews and St Michaels battle for possession, watched by Michael 'Diddles' Magee.
Conor McCloskey holds off a marker from St Matthews.
Action from St Josephs against St Brides (in yellow and blue).
St Bernard's Paddy Hannity (No 14) breaks out of defence with the ball in the defeat of St Matthews.
Conal Devlin of St Bernards appears to be in control in the game with St Matthews.
NOTE: If you know anyone in the pictures and want their name in the caption, please email me: jeromequinn at yahoo.com and all of these pictures are courtesy of the SOUTH BELFAST NEWS.
PICTURE GALLERY 2,
Scoil an Droichid star Michael McGabhann can play with his eyes closed!
High-flying action from the Group Two clash between St Josephs and St Brides.
Conor McCloskey of St Bernards is chased by Jimmy McCaffrey from St Michaels, as Ben Horner looks on.
St Bernards get a foot in against Holy Rosary.
TEAM of the TOURNAMENT,
(all ten were presented with new Down jerseys and shorts)
GOALKEEPER
Daniel Kelly, St Josephs
DEFENDERS
Donal McKegney, St Michaels
Jack Duffin, Holy Rosary
Michael Magee, St Michaels
MIDFIELDERS
Conor McCloskey, St Bernards
Jamie Cleary, Holy Rosary
Michael McGabhann, Scoil an Droichid
FORWARDS
Niall Wright, St Bernards (pictured in action)
Peter Mooney, St Brides
Patrick Doherty, St Matthews
FINALS DAY, Cherryvale June 10th
St Bernards captain Conor McCloskey receives the Group One trophy from Maria McCourt from the SOUTH BELFAST NEWS.
Conor in action in the Final, chased by Charlie McGrath from St Michaels.
Group Two Player of the Tournament Michael McGabhann receives his trophy from Down GAA Games Promotion Officer Shane King.
Seamus Rooney from Belfast City Council Support for Sport presents Blannad Smilie with her trophy for Girl Player of the Tournament.
Charlie McGrath of St Michaels in action against St Bernards.
Crunch! Charlie is caught in possesion.
Bredagh Under-12 footballer and hurler Donal McKegney displayed the courage of a lion twice on Finals Day. First, he was a rock at the heart of the St Michaels defence as they won an epic Semi-final against Holy Rosary (the first time they had beaten their rivals), and second, Donal played the part of the lion in the school play 'The Wizard of Oz'. In between the two events, Donal broke his arm in the football tournament and missed the presentation where he was named on the Team of the Tournament. Still, he performed as a one-armed lion and now proudly wears his new Down shirt, which was a prize for being named on the team. Best wishes from everyone to Donal for a speedy recovery.
All of the schools were presented with a framed picture montage of their team in action in the League, courtesy of the SOUTH BELFAST NEWS. This is the St Brides team.
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