MUNGRET ST. PAUL’ GAA CLUB NOTES
JUNIOR HURLING
Mungret St. Pauls 1-9 Castletown Ballyagran 2-26
On a lovely sunny Monday, 20 May in Mungret the Junior hurlers took to
the pitch in what was going to be a tough game with Castletown
Ballyagran very strong and leading the whole way, Mungret St. Pauls
scored their first point just before the finish of the first quarter
while Castletown Ballyagran had scored 7 points. The visitors
continued to add on scores to the end of the first half it ended 0-1
to 1-16. Mungret St. Pauls had to make an improvement to secure more
points which they did, from the start Mungret St. Pauls pointed 3 in
row before Castletown Ballyagran returned to their earlier form and
added on another 8 points before Mungret St. Pauls broke their stride
with a point and a well taken penalty. Castletown Ballyagran returned
with their second goal. Mungret St. Pauls had a very strong final few
minutes as they seemed to score with ease another 4 points to
Castletown Ballyagrans 2 points.
U-14 FOOTBALL
Mungret St. Pauls 2-10 Kildimo Pallaskenry 3-10
Wednesday 22 May in Mungret our U-14 Footballers took on a slightly
stronger Kildimo Pallaskenry side. Both sides played a great game both
evenly matched, Mungret St. Pauls were just pipped by just a goal.
JUNIOR A HURLING
Mungret St. Pauls 3-18 Hospital Herbertstown 3-20
On a night where the dark sky was a distant rain cloud the Junior
hurlers welcomed Hospital Herbertstown to Mungret on Wednesday 22 May
2019. Mungret St. Pauls had a slow start, they made up the gap on the
score but were just short of two points by the final whistle.
The visitors started the score board running with both a point and a
goal. Mungret St. Pauls settled into the game and sent 2 balls over
the cross bar from play. Hospital Herbertstown replied with a second
point, it then turned to Mungret St. Pauls to take charge and they
took the ball to the oppositions back, broke through the defenses and
struck the ball into the corner of the net, this was accompanied with
a point from a free. Mungret St. Pauls then came on strong again and
goaled for the second time, this gave them a 5 point lead. Hospital
Herbertstown squeezed another point in before Mungret St. Pauls shot
another 3 on target. The next 6 points were shared between the teams
and just before the half time whistle Hospital Herbertstown struck the
net again and tacked on another point. The lead was down to 2 points
to Mungret St. Pauls.
The second half had our backs under pressure with our goalie pulling
off a great save in the opening minutes of the game. It went point for
point again for five more rounds, Hospital Herbertstown were being
denied goals a few times in during the play, Mungret St. Pauls were a
little luckier as the Hospital Herbertstown goalie was drawn out of
the goals the ball landed at the Mungret St. Pauls forwards feet and
was struck over the line to give Mungret St. Pauls their third goal of
the game. Within a minute Hospital Herbertstown struck back with their
third goal and with an added point had leveled the game. Another point
for point, Hospital Herbertstown then went 5 unanswered points with
Mungret St. Pauls coming back and scoring the next four points to be
one point behind Hospital Herbertstown. With time running out,
Hospital Herbertstown pointed again with a 2 point lead. Mungret St.
Pauls received a free from the 45 yard line, the ball was dropped in
front of the goal but all the bodies prevented the ball from going the
distance. A second free closer to the goals ended the same going back
out the field to the sound of the final whistle.
LIMERICK PLAYERS
Well done to our 4 players who are on the Celtic Challenge Limerick
Sarsfield hurling team. Eamonn Flahive, David Hassett, Darragh O’Hagan
and Brian O’Meara. A special congratulations to Eamonn Flahive who was
awarded the Fairest and Best player by the referee in tonight’s match
against Clare Blues.
Best of Luck also the the U-20 Limerick Footballers James Garvey, Jack
Coyne, Eoin Ryan and Shane Barry.
BEST OF LUCK
We would like to take this time to wish all our Leaving Cert and
Junior Cert students the very best of luck in their upcoming state
exam.
U-14 LADIES FOOTBALL
Mungret St. Pauls 4-3 Knockainey 4-6
On Sunday 26 May our U-14 Ladies Football played in the County Final
against Knockainey in L.I.T. Knockainey got the first score in but
Mungret St. Pauls pulled themselves back into the game and played a
great game. Knockainey were came back in the second half and took the
lead near the end of the game, Mungret St. Pauls put all they could
into securing one more goal but were unfortunate to be denied by the
steady Knckainey defense. Well done to the girls in their valiant
performance.
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