Under-12 Mullingar Town Tournament

The good men and women who devote their time to looking after the young footballers in their care were blessed with good weather for the Mullingar Town Trophy under-12 blitz hosted jointly by Shamrocks and St Loman’s. The under-age officers and committees of both clubs deserved great credit for organising an excellent tournament and for the catering and hospitality that ran smoothly from start to finish. Pat Collins, Seán Hynes and Robbie Boyle were the Shamrocks ringmasters. Organising a competition such as this is a serious logistical exercise and requires referees, umpires, scoreboard operators, team-lunch box packers and compilers, catering personnel, pitch organisers, team mentors and coordinators etc. A big CONGRATS to all who contributed their several hours of  time and effort: young and not so young were out in great numbers.  Teams from Dublin, Kildare, Offaly, Cavan, Meath, Roscommon and Westmeath took part. Salthill were the overall winners of the competition; they defeated Moate All-Whites in the final and made the long journey from Galway worthwhile. In Group 1, Shamrocks defeated Kilbeggan-St Joseph’ (2-5 to 2-1), Cavan Gaels (3-5 to 3-1) but were then defeated by the champions-to-be Salthill (3-5 to 1-2). In the semi-final of the Tier 2 competition Shamrocks defeated Tubber-Ballycumber (3-4 to 0-3) and were then defeated in the final by their co-hosts St Loman’s (2-3 top 0-4). The Tier 3 section was won by Cavan Gaels and the Tier 4 title went to Celbridge.