Castleknock u12s gain narrow victory over WFTA in top of the table clash

It was a beautiful sunny day when we lined out for our last leage match of the season against WFTA. Both teams were very keen to win after draws in our last two encounters.

Both sides attacked strongly and Leah Byrne played a great debut performance. Eventually our efforts were rewarded when Catherine Leahy put Castleknock into the lead with a scorcing shot from the edge of the penalty box in the dying minutes of the first half.

WFTA threw everything into attack, but Lucy Hanlon made sure our defence was well organised. Player of the match was Fiona Fitzgerald who had a brilliant performance in goals. She kept a clean sheet and the final score was 1-0.

All the team can be very proud of a great first season in NDSL girls section. It has been a pleasure working with such a great team and I hope you all have a nice summer break before coming back for an even better second season.

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Training time moved forward to 6:15pm

We decided to move forward the time for training tomorrow (Wednesday) due to the fact that we suspect some of you might want to watch the UEFA Champions League final. We should be finished at 7:30pm so you will be able to be home in time for the 7:45pm kick-off.

I hope we will have a good turn out of the under 12 especially because we have our last league match on Thursday evening. It is a home gave against WFTA with a 7pm kick-off (meet up at 6:30 pm).

Help needed fitting out new clubhouse

Many of you probably noticed the fact that the new clubhouse at Porterstown is now almost complete. Unfortunately the government withdrew the grant that had been promised from the Lottery funding due to the economic crisis.

Since the club no longer has enough money to pay the building contractor for all the work agreed, the club has been forced to agree that a number of tasks required to complete the clubhouse will not now be done by the contractor. The tasks involve things like installing electrical fixtures, plumbing of the showers in the dressing rooms, installing seating etc..

It would be a shame not to be able to use the clubhouse when it is so near to being complete. Unfortunately all possible sources of funding have been tapped already, so the club is hoping that some parents who have trades will volunteer to step into the breech. The trades required are electricians, plumbers, carpenters and tile fitters.

If anyone is able to help, they should contact Tony Jordan, 5 Castleknock Meadows, ph 8217879 or 087 6535354.

Publicity in Gazette

Check out this week's Castleknock Gazette page 53 has a report on our cup final and a picture.

Match against WFTA postponed

The under 12 match against WFTA which was scheduled for Saturday has been postponed due to the WFTA coaches being on a course for the weekend. The match is probably going to be a 7pm kick-off on Thursday 28th of May, but we will be in touch before then to confirm.

Schedule for the week

Carly from the NDSL asked me to remind you that the final trial for the Gaynor cup team will take place this evening (Tuesday) at 6:30pm in the Oscar Traynor centre in Coolock.

We will have our own training tomorrow (Wednesday) from 7-8:30pm on Laurel Lodge green.

The under 12 team will have their final league match on Saturday with a home match against WFTA. Kick-off is at 11am, so the team should meet up in Porterstown at 10:30am. The under 14 team have no match at the weekend.

I believe that this weeks edition of the Castleknock Gazette will feature a report on our cup final match against WFTA, so maybe you might look out for that.

Trainning cancelled today(Saturday)

It rained through the night last night and so the ground is very wet in Porterstown, therefore we decided to cancel our training session this morning.

I hope we will see a good turn out for training on Wednesday since the Gaynor Cup squad training has been moved to Tuesday night. The under 12 team will probably have our last match in the league against WFTA next Saturday so we need to ensure we are well prepared to meet our old rivals avain.

No training tonight (wedneday)

There will be no training tonite and no matches on Saturday.

We'll have training on Saturday instead in Porterstown from 11 to 12.30. Hope to see you there.

Under 14 girls keep 100% record

U14 girls make it 7 out of 7 in league with an impressive, strong 5-2 win away to St Josephs East Wall.

Louise O'Connor opened the scoring in the 11th min. Further goals from Joy Guinane (18), Megan Naughton (24) and Hannah Hanlon (29) made it 4-0 before the home side pulled one back in injury time to make it 1-4 at half time.

With the strong wind at their backs in the 2nd half it was no surprise that Joeys made it 2-4 in the 43r min but Megan's 2nd in the 53rd sealed the win. With great performances from all players it was hard to name girl of the match but the honour was well earned by goalie Nicole McAuley.