We had four daily winners in this year's competition, congrats to Paddy Byrne who won Prizes on both Tuesday and Friday, netting himself €206 while Pauline Byrne and Ruth Hogan were joint winners on Tuesday. Well done to all and thanks for entering! 🏇⚽️🏇

We had four daily winners in this year's competition, congrats to Paddy Byrne who won Prizes on both Tuesday and Friday, netting himself €206 while Pauline Byrne and Ruth Hogan were joint winners on Tuesday. Well done to all and thanks for entering! 🏇⚽️🏇⚽️

We had four daily winners in this year's competition, congrats to Paddy Byrne who won Prizes on both Tuesday and Friday, netting himself €206 while Pauline Byrne and Ruth Hogan were joint winners on Tuesday. Well done to all and thanks for entering! 🏇⚽️🏇⚽️

Ballyteague 0-15

Castlemitchell 0-11

A dominant first half laid the foundation for Ballyteague to claim an opening round win at home to Castlemitchell on Saturday afternoon.

A blistering start gave the home side a three point lead after just three minutes with points from Stephen Ennis, Brian McGrath and a free kick from Seamus Hannifin. Joe Maher hit back with a close range free followed by a by a left footed shot after a long run through the defence. The Larks took control again though and scored six points in a row, two coming from Glenn Thorpe, two from McGrath and one each Padraic Murphy and Hannifin. Maher kept the away side ticking over with three points before John Fennelly added another from distance soon after but Ballyteague landed three more from Stephen Ennis, Kevin Murphy and Thorpe to give them a half-time lead of 0-12 to 0-06.

The 'Mitchells piled on the pressure in the second half and at times it looked like they could claw their way back on the scoreboard were it not for missed chances in front of goal. Kieran Harris got the first of the half before Maher scored two more frees to bring his total to seven. Hannifin, Murphy and Derrick Mooney pointed one each to keep the gap between the teams before Tadhg Fennin scored two points. Castlemitchell were then chasing a goal which never came as the home side ran out four point winners.

Best for Ballyteague were Seamus Hannifin, Glenn Thorpe, Sean Dowling, Stephen Ennis and Brian McGrath.

Best for Castlemitchell were Joe Maher, John O'Connor, Karol Harris  and Emmet Hyland.

Ballyteague: Marc Herbert, Connor Mullaney, Thomas Coogan, Barry Mullins, Gerry Melia, Stephen Dunne, Donal Dempsey, Kieran Brennan, Seamus Hannifin(0-03,1f,1-45'), Glenn Thorpe(0-03), Kevin Murphy(0-01), Brian McGrath(0-03,2f), Padraic Murphy(0-02,1f), Sean Dowling, Stephen Ennis(0-02). Subs: Derrick Mooney(0-01) for McGrath.

Castlemitchell: Stephen Foley, Matthew Moore, John O'Connor, Brian Kavanagh, Brendan Maher, Ray Fitzgerald, JP Horgan, John Fennelly(0-01) Emmet Hyland, Stephen Donovan, Joe Maher (0-07,5f), Trevor Griffin, Killian Ward, Karol Harris, Kieran Harris(0-01). Subs Tadhg Fennin (0-02,1f) for Ward, Fionn Mcdonald for Dovonan.

Referee: Tony Doyle

We have just been announced as Joint winners of 'Best Sporting Float' in the Athy St. Patrick's Day Parade with our neighbours Rheban. Congratulations and thank you to all who made it possible.

A fitting tribute to Stephen Fitzgerald for whom the float was dedicated in his memory.  

Congratulations to all in the club, young and not so young, men, women and especially the children, who represented the club with such pride in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Athy. The excellent float was a credit to all involved and showed Castlemitchell GFC in its true light - a club with sporting, social and family attributes. This years theme was "Recycling and the Environment" . Once again it was a joy to see the green and white being paraded through the streets of Athy. A big thanks to Declan and Harris Transport for providing the transport to showcase the club and to all involved in preparing and decorating the float . Our entry this year was dedicated to the memory and celebration of the life of one of our great clubmen Stephen Fitzgerald RIP who sadly passed away. It was fitting that he received a minutes round of applause at the viewing stand. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hAnam dílis.

After seven weeks we are now down to the last 10 people in  the Last man Standing competition .Nearly all the top teams have been picked so it is getting harder to pick a winning team to be the winner of €500. We  started off with 218 entrants and after the big upset where we lost 135 people on week 2 it has taken the next 5 weeks to get to the last 10. Best of luck to the remaining people in the competition.

A big thank you to all who supported our Fantasy Cheltenham Fundraiser this year. The club winner was Ruth Hogan who finished with 293 points which placed her in a commendable 11th overall. Well done everyone!

Winner of operation transformation David Pender receives the cup and prize money from last years winner Declan Harris. David lost a staggering 40.2 lbs 2 stone 12lbs.

Well done to David and to all who took part!