Athea GAA Club Notes:

Our 2025 membership registration is now live. Please see link to register with the club and purchase our club draw tickets for 2025, all players need to register ahead of the season and we would encourage everyone to become a member and purchase a ticket for our club draw as it all helps towards the running and up keep of the club and walking track.

 https://atheagaa.clubforce.com/products/membership

The last Draw took place on Monday 5th of May 2025. The lucky winner of €190.00 was Larry Mc Auliffe. The next draw will take place 19th of May. Tickets available at Collins Shop, Ger Whites Bar, Brown Joes, Gables Grill, O’Riordan Pharmacy, Credit Union and at bingo on a Friday evening.

This year’s cul camp will take place from July 7th to 11th. This has been a great success over the years with approximately 100 kids taking part. It will be for both hurling and football again this year. Online booking are now open www.kelloggsculcamps.gaa.ie

Hurling training will continue over the summer. Wednesday nights 7pm to 8pmfor U14 and U16. Sunday morning for all ages 10am to 11am.

Athea Played Fr.Caseys on Thursday evening last in ideal sunny conditions. Athea started brighty with some lovely scores and great passing, Fr. Caseys came into the game with some brilliant scores also and excellent team work. Overall a very enjoyable sporting game between two good teams: Training continues every Friday and our u11s play Shannon Gaels in Athea at 6:30 this Tuesday May 13th. Athea Team; Conor Hayes, Paidi Ahern, Fionn Hunt, Tiernan Fitzgerald, Conchuir Brouder, James Kelly, Aaron McCabe, Nicco Liston, Edward Kelly, Colton Brouder, Noah Nash, Niall Kennedy, Oisin Kennedy, Kieran Sheehan, Rory Carmody and Oran Hayes.

Underage football continues Friday evening @ 6:30pm to 7:30pm for Nursery, U8, U10, U12.

Well done to the Athea U8 Footballers who took part in their first blitz of the year last Saturday morning, hosted by Askeaton GAA. We had a great turn out and fielded two teams. They played ABK, Killeedy, Shannon Geals and Granagh/Ballingarry.

It was an excellent performance from everyone. We have a big mix of ages 8, 7, 6 & 5 year olds and everyone played their part in each game. The older players showed all their football skills learned the last few years and provided get encouragement to the young players learning the skills. Keep up the great work everyone, well done all ⚽️

Our Under 10s boys played in their first football blitz last Friday evening in sunny Killeedy against Shannon Gaels and Killeedy. This is a fine young team and they performed brilliantly in both games. They showed no fear, tackled properly, passed to each other and picked off some fine scores along the way. Team Ewan McCarthy, David Horgan, Aaron Reidy, Conor Reidy, Matty Doody, Oisin Kennedy, John Mulvihill, Daithi Mulvihill, William Leahy, Noah Collins, Daniel o Connor, Tom Mullane and Brian Ahern.

Huge well done to our u16’s who topped their group in the league after a victory at home against Granagh / Ballingarry last Sunday. They now wait to see who they will play in the semi final next Monday 19th.

Well done to the Athea/ Glin u14 team who play their Feogh / Castlemahon next Thursday. The girls put in a five star preformance from start to finish working really well working the ball out of defence and attack.

Well done to our u12 girls who will play a blitz against Gerald Griffins & St Senan’s in Athea last Friday night. There was great football on display from the three teams.

Best of luck to our intermediates who play the Old Mill in the Old Mill at 7.45 next Friday night 16th May. Last week say them lose on a strong St Bridgid’s side in Herbertstown

Best of luck to our u8 girls who play their first blitz away to ABK this Tuesday evening.

Huge well done to Loren Healy, Shauna Collins and Glin Emmets Laura Healy who were part of the u14 team that defeated Wicklow in Portlaoise. They will now met Fermanagh in the semi final next Saturday.

Athea GAA / LGFA are delighted to be chosen to host the Munster u8 / u10 Festival of football on Saturday July 12th. More details to follow.

Tailtean Cup -Round 1

Limerick 0-25 London 1-15

A Good solid performance by Limerick in Newcastle West on Saturday as they won out comfortably in the end against a gutsy London team.

Dalata Hotel Group GAA Football All-Ireland U20 B Championship Semi-Final

Limerick 0-24 Monaghan 3-17

After a great second half comeback Limerick were edged out by two points in this match played at Moorefield GAA, Kildare.

Well done to Louth who won the Delaney Cup for the first time in 68 years in Croke Park against Meath on a scoreline of 3-14 to 1-18. A great day for the Wee County.

Athea 4:17 St. Senans 1:05

After an exciting league campaign we began our Championship trail on Monday evening at home against St. Senans. We had five points on the board to St. Senans single point when the visitors scored a fortuitous goal after nine minutes after a 45 was spilled with the ball scrambled to the net. They then won a penalty only to put it over the bar midway in the first half. This was as good as it would get for St. Senans. We got to half time remarkably only one point up for all our dominance. The scoreline was 0-08 to 1-04.

In the second half, we were totally dominant scoring 4-09 to their single point to run out easy winners on a scoreline of 4-17 to 1-05. Both Mark Reidy and Sean Ryan accounted for 2-12 in this match with James Broderick and Rory Cleary scoring the other goals.

Overall it was a very solid team performance with good passing movement throughout.

This was a good runout ahead of the County League final which is coming up in the next two weeks. Team Tomas Ahern, Jack O’Connor, Conor Fitzgerald, Cillian O’Connor, Philip Daly, Martin Chawke, Jason Kelly, Tadhg Ahern, Andy Ahern 0-01, Michael Tierney, Mark Reidy 1-07(0-04F), Sean Twomey 0-01, James Hunt 0-02, Sean Ryan 1-05, David O ‘Connor, James Broderick 1-0, Rory Cleary 1-01, Jamie Collins, Dan McMahon, Neilus Hunt, Emmet White.