A beautiful sunny winters day for our first u14 league match in 2024. Mooncoin started brightly and some good work between Cathal and Shane resulted in a shot hitting the cross bar and another sneaking past the far post. Carrick took the lead on 5 minutes from a Mooncoin mistake which was the theme of the day. Carrick led at half time 3 nil. Better possession in the second half for Mooncoin but no luck today in front of goal. Some good saves by Bradley kept the score the same. 3 late goals by Carrick gave them the deserved win, but the scoreline flattered them. Plenty of effort by all the lads today who will need to pick themselves up for the next game.

A gale force wind in Carrick saw a game of two halves with Carrick 3 up at half time with the lads holding firm. Second half saw us pull two back through Kai but it wasn’t to be with Carrick defending very well late on. Much improved performance for this lot.

A game at last and their first win of the season for this young group. Half time saw it 1 alk with Liam MC scoring our equaliser. Goals in the second half from Henry and a late finish from Harry saw us secure the win.

No fewer than ten goals scored in this one. Southend started the strongest and notched an early goal. Our girls got themselves the equaliser soon after though.
Some good attacking play from Southend brought it to 3-1 at half time.
The girls gathered themselves at half time and scored three goals without reply to bring it to 3-4 in the second half. A late surge from our opposition finished the game at 6-4. A hat trick from Aoibhe V and one from Molly in this thoroughly entertaining and end to end game.

u11B team were away to De la Salle Saturday morning and started off great, we were on the front foot for the first 15 minutes against a well organised side. We didn’t take our chances and went one goal down, we equalised but was ruled offside was a tight call, 3-0 at halftime. The lads started off great in the second half. Scored 3 goals which were ruled offside. We did get 1 goal from a counter attack from a corner kick Dennis put the through ball into Kai and was side by side with a defender and turned him and lobs the goalkeeper. Great goal and great assist. the boys played great and were very unlucky now onto the next game ⚽️

We started the game brightly and took the lead with a great cross from Bethany Carroll that found Emily Blackmore who turned and finished with a great left foot finish into the bottom corner. The rest of the first half was a fairly evenly matched contest. In the 2nd half Villa came out sharper and got their reward with a good strike from distance after we failed to close down after clearing a corner. Villa then took all 3 points with a poor goal for us to concede. Both teams got what they deserved in the end.

This morning we took our largest group to date into play Waterford Crystal, with all girls getting valuable game time and every girl putting in a great effort for the team and each other. From the kick off our girls were in control of the game but with our opposition playing very defensively it took us a while to get a shot on target. The breakthrough eventually came after 22 minutes when the inform Áine Connery got on the score sheet.
We made a number of substitutions at halftime and after 10 minutes in the second half Áine struck again for her second on the day and her 7th in her last 3 starts(an amazing record). The third wasn’t long in coming with Ella Brennan getting in on the act. Midway through the half we claimed a fourth goal from Aoibhe Rees. We continued to press for more and the girls persistence paid off when Caoimhe Fanning scored the fifth and final goal. Our goalie and defence smothered any potential treat that came their way from a young and determined Crystal team who if they keep at it their day will come.Good day at the office. Well done girls

Tough outing for this young side against a bigger, well drilled Ballinroad team. In fairness the lads kept plugging away and created a few chances themselves.

First game for these boys in what seems like an eternity and the rustiness was evident with Ballinroad leading by 3 at half time. A much better second half saw us create more and we pulled a goal back through Sam but the bigger Ballinroad team notched a couple more.

We travelled to cheekpoint for our first game in 6 weeks minus a few players and got off to a terrible start leaving in a couple of soft goals and were 3 nill down after 5 minutes. A formation change and the game was more evenly balanced with Edmund pulling one back before the home team scored again.
Man of the match Billy M set up John joe to make it 4-2 but as we kept pushing for more goals we got punished with a few late goals.