Scór Sinsir

Congratulations to our ballad group of Paul Doolin, Paul McDermott, Tony Irwin, Alan Conroy and Shane Bardon on a superb victory in the Ballad Group section of the Scór Sinsir finals in The Downs on Sunday night. Their arrangements and renditions of The Rocky Road to Dublin and The Parting Glass were the ones that impressed the judges most of all in a competition in which Moate All-Whites, Bunbrosna and Ballycomoyle provided serious opposition.

ACL Div.1 Mullingar Shamrocks 0-13 Garrycastle 2-8

Full marks first of all to out groundsmen and to Niall Foran for his rehabilitation work in October. As a result of their good practice, Springfield was in great condition on Saturday and our fixture against Garrycastle went ahead as scheduled on a weekend when 26 of 31 adult league matches were postponed.  Conor Cosgrove opened the scoring for Garrycastle but a Tye Adamson point balanced matters. A good long-range point by Ross Corroon and two more by Denis Corroon and Donal O’Donoghue edged Shamrocks into a 0-4 to 0-2 lead but a misdirected kick-out set up a goal chance for Alex Gardener which he accepted and another Garrycastle point earned the visitors an interval lead of 1-3 to 0-4. A pointed free extended the lead to 0-3 but points from Darren Keena, Dylan McDermott and Ross Corroon levelled matters before Denis Corroon pointed Shamrocks into the lead for the first time (1-4 to 0-8). Garrycastle responded with three points when midfielder Eoin Monaghan scored the crucial goal. A wonderful cross-field pass by Dessie Dolan (he hasn’t gone away) removed the entire Shamrocks defence from the equation and Monaghan honoured Dessie’s vision by blasting the ball to the net.  Points from Tye Adamson and Simon Quinn reduced the deficit (2-7 to 0-10) before two glorious goal-scoring opportunities were squandered by Garrycastle for the nett gain of a single point. The switch of Daragh Daly to full-forward and the adoption of the route 1 approach almost cost Garrycastle for their tardiness. A neat Simon Quinn point, a pointed free by Denis Corroon following a foul on Daly that was close to penalty territory and a blistering shot from the towering full-forward that was deflected over the crossbar reduced the deficit to the minimum (2-8 to 0-13) before the referee’s final whistle.

Shamrocks; Dj Fedronas, Keith Moore, Eddie Moore, Aaron Purcell; Micheál Curley, Seanie Daly, Pearse Corroon; Daragh Daly (0-1) and Denis Corroon (0-3), Dylan McDermott (0-1), Simon Quinn (0-2), Ross Corroon (0-2); Darren Keena (0-1), Donal O’Donoghue (0-1), Tye Adamson (0-2). Subs used: Efe Siode, Ryan Blundell, Paddy Joyce, David Gavin.

ACL Div. 5 Mullingar Shamrocks 2-12 St Loman’s 0-6.

Shamrocks were convincing winners of this Div. 5 league encounter at Lakeland Park on Saturday night. Garry Corroon has been busy in recent weeks selling the idea of regular football to many who were beginning to drop out of the game and the man who was recently awarded the Top Unit Seller award at the Sherry Fitzgerald Annual Conference has so far succeeded in his mission. On this occasion, he had twenty-one players ready, willing and able to don the green and white jersey. Shamrocks were never threatened in this local derby and were full value for their twelve-point victory with Garry himself lining out at full-forward to lead the way.

Shamrocks: Killian White; Dillon Ledwith, Cormac Murphy, Stephen Hassett; Niall Kevin, Ryan Blundell, Eamonn Breslin; Davy Gavin and Brendan O’Reilly; Pearse Corroon, Robbie Rylands, Brian Melody; Kenneth O’Reilly, Gary Corroon, Conor Bracken. Subs used: Scott Hogan (on a comeback after a long absence), Shane Colleary, Oisín Dolan, Neil Hannigan, Matthew Willoughby, Ross Corroon.

Last Man Standing

This week’s results weren’t too hard on the last man standing candidates and 38 entrants have still an interest in the competition. Cork proved to be the big let-down with six eliminated by their failure to beat Clare.  Mayo are the big choice next week (11) followed by Cork (6) and Limerick (5).

 This week in Springfield

Activities continue as usual this week in the Clubhouse:  Monday night is spinning (7.00), Tuesday is Pilates night (7.15), Wednesday more spinning (7.00), Bingo is on Thursday night (8.30) and Friday night it is Fitball (7.15). Walking with Mags is on Monday and Thursday at 7.00.  

Leinster Under-13 League

An important fixture next Saturday in Springfield at 3.00 for our Under-13 team in the Leinster League. A win is essential to qualify the team for the Leinster final in Abbotstown and Longford combination, Western Gaels provide the opposition.