< Previous© March 2018 The Meath Coaster60DONACARNEY CELTIC F.C.Donacarney were delighted to have entered 15 teams into the recently organised 6 week tourna-ment run by the FAI in host venues in Gormanston and Swords spon-sored by Fingal County Council. The benefits of Futsal in addition to fun include greater ball touches & control, speed of play and enhanced decision taking along with improved shooting, and encouraged learning by all players on the pitch. Testimonials from players such as Xavi, Ronaldo, Dani Alves, Neymar & Zidane all praise the benefits Futsal had for them and for young kids in developing their technique. All our U8 to U12 teams who took part and played 6 weeks of indoor futsal really enjoyed it during the off season which as a club Donacarney recognise as a great addition to our pre- season now that most leagues are calendar football. Pictured right are some our teams who took part in the event. We would like to thank Paul Keogh & Mick Pender from the FAI for a very well organised tournament along with the venue co-ordina-tors.Futasal TournementOur U12 White’s continued their unbe-lievable SFAI National Cup run with their recent victory over Westpost United in Castlemartin. A late strike from Jake Hough just minutes from the end of regular time was enough to break the deadlock in a very tight game and secure themselves a Quarter Final place in the U12 National Cup. U12 SFAI NATIONAL CUP QUARTER FINALSNew Season Kicks O Best of luck to all of our NDSL and DSCL players and coaches who start their new season at the beginning of MarchThe Lads will also face-off against Duleek’s U12s in the SFAI North Leinster Regional Final in the coming weeks. Best of luck to the players and coaches in the next round of the SFAI Cup!!CMYCMMYCYCMYKMeath Coaster 02-18.pdf 2 23/02/2018 22:27:30© March 2018 The Meath Coaster61Our U12 White’s continued their unbe-lievable SFAI National Cup run with their recent victory over Westpost United in Castlemartin. A late strike from Jake Hough just minutes from the end of regular time was enough to break the deadlock in a very tight game and secure themselves a Quarter Final place in the U12 National Cup. U12 SFAI NATIONAL CUP QUARTER FINALSNew Season Kicks O Best of luck to all of our NDSL and DSCL players and coaches who start their new season at the beginning of MarchThe Lads will also face-off against Duleek’s U12s in the SFAI North Leinster Regional Final in the coming weeks. Best of luck to the players and coaches in the next round of the SFAI Cup!!© March 2018 The Meath Coaster62East Meath UnitedFAI Football for All Training at East Meath United, by Lara SynottEMU was delighted to welcome Oisin Jordan, the FAI Football for All na-tional coordinator to the club for disability awareness training on Saturday 17th Feb-ruary. Ten coaches took part in the very informative and practical training day, which focussed on adapting coaching ses-sions for people with a range of disabili-ties. The training was an important milestone in the club's preparations for launching the Football for All programme, the first of its kind in the area. Feedback from the coaches who participated in the training was very positive. Stephen O'Reilly, who will be the head coach for the Football for All programme commented "Great course which really forced me to think about how I deliver my message to players and to be conscious of the varying abilities in my squad. I'm looking forward to this excit-ing development in our community and being able to provide football for kids who haven't had that opportunity up to now". Director of Football Dave Gaffrey add-ed "this is a great development not just for the club but for the community as a whole. The benefits of football and physi-cal activity are well known. Every child, regardless of ability, should have this op-tion. That's what Football for All is about" What is the Football for All pro-gramme?Football for All is for primary school age children who have an interest in soccer and would like to develop their skills and have fun in a supportive and non-compet-itive environment. The programme is well suited to children who have a disability or additional needs, but it is open to any primary school age child who would like to play football, but not on a mainstream team. Children must be at least 5 years of age or currently enrolled in primary school to be eligible to join the programme. Where and when will Football for All take place?We are holding a taster session on Satur-day 10th March from 3-3.30pm on the all-weather pitch at East Meath United on the Minnistown Road. The taster will be fol-lowed by an information session for par-ents in the EMU Red Card Cafe. Places for the taster session are limited and must be reserved by emailing Football4all@eastmeathunited.ie or by phoning Lara © March 2018 The Meath Coaster63Synnott on 085 7168634. Come along to our taster and information session on Sat-urday 10th March at 3pm to meet the team and find out more. If there is enough inter-est, we aim to fully launch the programme after Easter with a regular session on Sat-urdays from 3-4pm.How can I support the programme?EMU would love to hear from any lo-cal business who would like to sponsor equipment or kits for the Football for All players. New volunteers who would like to help with the programme as a member of the support team are always welcome. Get in touch!Competetition Time - Football for All poster CompetitionWe would like help from the younger mem-bers of the community to design a poster that will be used to promote the Football for All programme. Entries are welcome from primary school age children in the area. The winner will receive a €50 vouch-er for Lifestyle sports, and a family pass to Rathbeggan Lakes and the runner-up will get a €20 voucher for Lifestyle sports and a family pass to Rathbeggan Lakes. The closing date is Friday 16th March, and the winner will be announced on our Fa-cebook page (East Meath United FC) the following week. Please send your entry to football4all@eastmeathunited.ie. The poster should feature a football, and the rest is up to the budding artists. The winning entry will appear around the community. Coaches Corner, by Dave GafreyIt's all systems go as season 2018 kicks off. Teams have been training hard in the All-weather at ministown with weekend friendlies becoming the norm. Thanks to our friends at the new full-size Astro in DIFE matches had gone ahead even when the poor weather threatened to halt play. Newly formed squads at u12, & u14 have performed especially well given so many new personnel. New u8's are mak-ing final preparations to take into 5-a-side games thanks to coaches Damien, Barry and Philip. These Academy graduates are the next crop of fine young EMU talent bidding to carry on the tradition of good Football played with smiles on their faces. Oisín Jordan (FAI) presented a fantastic workshop at ministown for 10 of our finest coaches preparing to work on our 'football for all' program. It was a fantastic learning experience for everyone involved in what promises to be a challenging but very re-warding departure for the club. Girls Football is picking up the pace at our Academy with numbers growing on a weekly basis. Our ultimate aim is to re-turn to the glory days of EMU Gems, an extremely successful girls team who man-aged to produce 3 Irish youth internation-als. Our u16Prem and u17A teams have a limited number of spaces left with Aidan, Gareth & Stephen making final plans for the year ahead.Goalkeeper coaching continues every Fri night in ministown with UEFA C licence coaches Robert and Luke providing ex-pert keeper specific training to kids of all ages and abilities. Proof of their labour is evident every weekend with keepers dis-tribution and fundamental skills improv-ing remarkably. The two lads are a price-less asset to East Meath United. §© March 2018 The Meath Coaster64EST. 1950Cockhill Road, Stamullen, Co. MeathT: 086 1731739 E: pro.stpatricksmeath@gmail.comNaomh Padraig GAAR.I.PSt Patrick’s GAA would like to extend deepest sympathies to the Howard, McGinty and Kennedy families on the passing of Gabriel Howard and Seamus Kennedy. Both men were very prominent and well known figures around the area, Gabriel with his involvement in Irish cy-cling and founding Stamullen road club and numerous other events throughout the year in and around Stamullen and Seamus, who played with the Pats for many years including 1963 when he was full back on the Intermediate championship winning team. Ar dheis De go raibh a Ainm Dilis.Committee for 2018St Patricks GAA would like to thank eve-ryone who attended our recent AGM. We look forward to working hard to further promote and develop Gaelic games for the coming year.Our executive committee for 218 is as fol-lows:Chairperson: Gavin KirbyVice Chair: Anto WoodsSecretary: Pat RyanTreasurer: John FinneganRegistrar: Brendan ByrnePRO: Daithi FinneganGrounds manager: Johnny Purfeild© March 2018 The Meath Coaster65Health & Wellbeing officer: Linda DugganCommunity liaison officer: Rosa McNultyIrish language & culture officer: Ivan CurranInsurance officer: Johnny MarkeyChildren Officer: Rosemary CollierPlayers rep: Brian CalveyLGFA rep: Darragh Moloney.Best of luck to the incoming committeeSenior FootballOur senior footballers have started the A league well with two wins from two. The first hard fought 10 points to 8 win over Moynalvey. The second was an equally tough 1-10 to 1- win over Ratoath. Next up is a trip to county champions Simonstown.HurlingOur adult hurlers returned to action re-cently after two years in the wilderness but unfortunately it was not to be a win-ning start for the lads going down to a 1-8 to 4 point loss at the hands of Clann na Gael in less than ideal conditions. Next up for the lads is Ratoath.UnderageAll of our underage teams are now back in training for what promises to be another exciting and successful year. §John Andrews enjoying a day at Nass races with Champion Trainer Willie Mullins© March 2018 The Meath Coaster66Stamullen Football Club Club NewsGood luck to all our new boys teams starting their first ever season this month. Good luck to our new under 7’s boys who are managed by Matt and Mar-tin and our 2 new under 8’s teams man-aged by Stephen, John, Stuart and David. Looking forward to seeing you play for and grow with the Club.We would like to also wish good luck to all our boys teams as they begin their new season, looking forward to watching all the progress over the coming months. We would like to welcome Davy Byrne as the new Seniors Coach. Best of luck to you in your new post Davy.Sponsor newsThanks to Ger and all the team at Sky Handling Partner who will sponsor Nic & Kieron’s under 9s for the season ahead. Everyone at the club is very grateful for the sponsorship and we hope you like the framed jersey! Players wanted!Girls wanted for the under 12’s and under 14’s teams – we are looking for girls born in 2004, 2005 and 2006 for our amazing under 12 and under 14’s teams, please email stamullenfc@gmail.com for more details. Important Reminder to all our players and families.We as a club are reiterating once again that there is to be no parking roadside at pitches in Gormanston as it is a serious safety hazard. There is ample parking in the college so please use this on match days, training days or dropping kids off for training or matches. We cannot state how important this is for the safety of all the kids so please park in the college only.Club Contact Details: -Email - stamullenfc@gmail.com Facebook - www.facebook.com/stamullenfcClub Secretary - Marcus Kelly – 0851477825Website – www.stamullenfc.com §Ger from Sky Handling Partner, the new under 9’s sponsor with Nic Benoit one of our under 9 coaches.© March 2018 The Meath Coaster67Naomh Colmcille C.L.G. www.cilles.comOskars - 16th March 2018 It is almost here - our big fundraiser for 2018! The scene is set and the camer-as are rolling so don’t miss out on THE event of 2018 at the City North Hotel on Friday 16th March.All funds raised go towards our infra-structure projects so it is critical that eve-ryone supports this event. 50 brave souls have put themselves out of their comfort zones over the last 2 months and have worked phenomenally hard in the name of the club. On the night they will showcase 8 well known movies for your pleasure. Tickets are available by contacting any club coach or online at our website spon-sored by Burkes Pharmacy www.cilles.com There is a late bar and music after the show so why not kick off the holiday weekend in style at a great event. Oskars FundraisersA special thanks to all our actors who have worked so hard in raising much needed funds as part of Oskars 2018. Table quiz-zes, 90's parties, clothes sales, afternoon teas and cake tasting are just a SMALL sample of the events that have taken place in the name of the club and to everyone we want to say a huge thank you. We are indebted to everyone for their support, en-ergy and drive. You are an absolute credit to the club and your contribution makes a lasting difference #weareallstcolmcillesOur thanks too to local business Indaver Ireland who are the event sponsors. In-daver have proven to be great supporters of the club and we are delighted that they have come on board with us for 2018Ladies AGMWell done to our ladies committee who hosted a very well attended and efficient AGM at the end of January. The hard work is paying off and the energy and pos-itivity in the room on the night was superb and augurs well. Well done to everyone who took on the roles for 2018 and best wishes for the year ahead. On the night Paul Nash was elected as Ladies Chair and Maeve Connell replaced the popular and long serving Eamon McPeake as sec-retary for the year. We are delighted that Eamon will still be involved with the club and is concentrating his efforts on our The Sam Maguire was a welcome visitor to Southgate Shopping Centre as a fundraiser for Oskars 2018© March 2018 The Meath Coaster68Games Promotion Officer Niall Kane Enjoying the recent Oskars18 Art Camp at Piltown an excellent Player Pathway workshop at Piltown last month Out u15 boys are really enjoying the Leinster Leaguesteams. We thank Eamon sincerely for his years of hard work and look forward to a bright future.The Action CommencesFebruary saw the winter teams back in ac-tion and March will see the games com-mence in earnest for underage teams. The u9, 10 and 11 go games teams got back into blitz action this month whilst the u13 and 15 boys have completed 3 rounds of the Leinster Leagues. These have proven to be a great success and we have taken a "development" approach to these trying new things and it has worked very well. We have also made some good friends across the province and we look forward to playing these teams more often into the future. The u17 boys have won their opening two games in the league as they aim to build on their u16 successes of © March 2018 The Meath Coaster692017. Keep working hard lads and driv-ing on. Our ladies teams are also back in action with the u16 girls leagues up and running. Both teams have started very well and it’s a sign of the great work being undertaken that we are fielding two teams at this level. In the meantime our adult ladies teams are working very hard and after a number of friendly matches will be eager to get into competitive action as soon as possible. It has been a tough start to the adult men's leagues with county commitments and injuries depriving us of a number of starters but our young players have grasped the opportunity with both hands and done very well. A special word to all our adult debutants across the A and B leagues. These young players have re-ally stood out and staked a claim and defi-nitely belong at this level. Well done to everyone . You can keep up to date with all the action on the games on www.cilles.com , Facebook StColmcilles GAA club and twitter @StColmcillesGAAVolunteers Of The Month Our January and February Volunteers of the Month award winners received their prizes recently. Our January winner is the hugely popular Pat Kelly. Pat has given us a lifetime of service and gets about his business in a quiet, unassuming and dili-gent manner. A leader of out HEALTHY CLUB initiative Pat is known all over the country as he mentors new Healthy Clubs and has been showcased on Leinster GAA roadshows and at Croke Park. However Pat epitomises all that is good about the GAA as he is always available and always lending a hand - take our new pathway from the club house where he quietly got on with the work.Our February award winner is Aideen Gurrin who as one of our Children's Of-ficer Administrators fills an important role. Under the expert guidance of Des Morgan and Joe Kelly previously we have built a very strong Child Welfare team and Aideen has been a force behind us in becoming a leader in this respect. The team has seen us become the top ranked Garda Vetted club in the county leading the way in compliance on this important area. Well done to Pat and Aideen on their awards from Carroll Estates/Cois na Mara HomesScor SuccessCongrats to Aideen and Pat our Jan and Feb Cois na Mara Volunteer of the Month award winners Next >