Caulry GAA PRO Notes 29th January

Post date: Jan 29, 2012 7:23:15 PM

Sincere Sympathy

The Caulry Club express our deepest sympathy to the O'Beirne family Longford, on the passing of Fr James O'Beirne. Fr James O'Beirne was a former President of the Club, and a great supporter of Caulry GAA during his time as Parish Priest, Moate, Mount Temple and Castledaly.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anam

Intermediate Championships

Caulry have been drawn in Group one in this year's County Intermediate Football Championship Group stages. Caulry play the following Group One teams (in the following order): Ballinacargy, Tubberclair, Tang, Garrycastle and Milltownpass. The first game via Ballynacargy is scheduled for mid-April.

Winner of each Group goes straight to semi finals

2nd in Group one V 3rd in Group two. 3rd in Group one V 2nd in group two in quarters

Bottom teams in each group play relegation playoff.

Junior Championships

Caulry have this year decided to enter their second team in the Junior Championship proper and have been placed in the group with other clubs who have their second team entered. The other clubs in the group are as follows :- St Lomans, Athlone, Coralstown/Kinnegad, Mullingar Shamrocks, The Downs, Tyrellspass and St Mary's Rochfortbridge. The group stages will be played on a round-robin basis with the top two teams qualifying for the Quarter-finals proper where they will meet opposition from Junior Club teams. The first game in this competition will be versus St Lomans scheduled for early May.

As both the Intermediate and Junior Championships will be run in parallel from April onwards there will be plenty of competitive games in place this year for the Club's adult players.

County Leagues 2012

The Division 2 Co League is due to commence w/e Feb 11th with the Div 5 League scheduled to commence at the end of February.

Leinster Colleges Football

Well done to the Caulry players who were members of both the Moate CS and Athlone CC Senior football squads who defeated St Joseph's, Rochfortbridge and Patrician College Newbridge respectively in the second round of the Leinster Senior Colleges A Championships last week. Moate CS have drawn St Peter's Wexford and Athlone CC have drawn St Mary's Edenderry in Quarter-final ties which are scheduled to be played on Saturday, February 11th 2012.