Big shout out to young Emily Blackmore, who has been tracking down to Youghal every Thursday for the last 11 weeks training with the u12 Waterford/Cork Girls Emerging Talent squad. Today, this young girl attended school starting at 9.30 and finished at 3pm. At 3pm she slipped on the gloves for Gaelic football training with the girls school team and afterwards squeezed in the dinner and homework before scooting down the road to Cork courtesy of her chauffeur…mother Catherine Blackmore.

They arrived home just before 9pm, tired but buzzing. Unbelievable dedication and hard work by both mother and daughter to get to this stage and Emily is still under age again next season. Keep up the good work Emily and Catherine.

Our u12 were presented with their new kits today courtesy of winning team of the month back in March in association with the Munster Express and Azzurri Sports.

Don’t Alex Kennedy and Matthew Walsh look well in the strips!

This squad got their first 3 points on the board with a comprehensive win against a young St Paul’s team. The lads played some lovely soccer with a man of the match performance from Paddy T Murphy on goal, and goals scored were 2 for Finbarr Purcell, 2 for Robbie Doherty and 1 for Matthew Roberts. Happy camp after this and lessons learned by both players and management after the first game.

Another poor display from our older guys who haven’t got going yet with 3 games played. A sloppy goal in the first half sealed the three points for a youthful De la Salle team.

Back to the drawing board ahead of a trip to Dunmore next Sunday morning.

A second disappointing defeat in 2 games for the first team missing a lot of players .

The final scoreline didnt reflect the first half performance which was a half we dominated playing good football throughout , but couldn’t get the ball in the net .

We passed an pressed very well first 15 mins , but on 15mins a villa goal kick led to a through ball and o keeffe took down the striker which looked outside the box but penalty given an scored by villa .

We continued to dominate the rest of the half with Daniel synnott going closest to scoring . You would think after such a good half we would push on an get something but the opposite happened , with mouthing and petty arguments between players creeping in it was never goin to end well .

On 55mins villa striker beat our defence for pace an skid the ball to back post for 2 oncoming villa players 2-0. 15mins later we failed to clear the ball 3 times and villa buried the ball . And 5 mins later , villa striker ran through unchallenged to make it 4-0 .

A very bad result and things have to change quickly to get season back on track .

Team – derek tebay , chris Hanlon , ross o keeffe , wayne kelly , Jason Sauvage , Daniel synnott , Kieran o Brien , Ben keating , joey o Hanlon , Ian synnott , Johnny Kavanagh . SUBS (all used ) Seamus Kearns , kevin Knox , Niall McDonald .

2a home to Villa, kick off 11am.
After the disappointment of the poor defeat to Piltown, the lads will be looking to bounce back and grab 3 points. With only 12 games to play in the league things will be very tight among the 7 clubs.

4th division home to DLS, kick off 2pm
An early season top of the table clash in the 4b with early pace setters De la Salle coming to town. Dungarvan proved a stern test midweek for our older lads but with a big squad to call on they were able to call on the fresh legs when required.

Best of luck to both squads and again support for both is most welcome.

The first shoots of grass are up on the new ground only 7 days after sowing. Great to see a bit of green after the months of dust. Compliments must be paid to Declan Walsh and Sons who have the place looking incredible in such a short space of time.

A very strong Bohs side took advantage of the inexperience of this new side early on in the game. We were 3-0 down before we got a hold on positions and it was always going to be hard to claw it back.. However there was a lot of positives to take from the game. The boys never gave up and enjoyed at least half of the possession and we created some great chances. We went in 5-0 at half time and that tells a lot about the second half performance… Matthew McEvoy pulled off a string of brilliant saves from the strong Bohs attack.. Very strong performances from Adam Conway and Daire O’Donoghue as well as Adam Scahill putting his strength into the equation. Denis Kinsella didn’t put a foot wrong all game and left nothing through on the left hand side. Killian Horan lead the attack when he switched to midfield with a very impressive Sean Drennan… Brian Dunphy and Shaun Langford fought and fought and created chances through the middle and didn’t give up all game. Tom Conway & Sam Hartwell on both wings both had solid performances and will upset a few defences throughout the season with their link up play. Aaron Fewer used his strength very well all game. Nothing to be ashamed of. A new team and already playing out of their skins for each other. Well done boys!