Gailltír
Camogie Club
The
experience of Féile na nGael is something that last forever, the honour of
representing your Parish, club and county at this national event is what dreams
are made of, the Barony girls did this with pride over the weekend in Ulster,
having won the Division two title last year Gailltír Camogie club won the right
to go and defend it by winning the Waterford Féile a few weeks back And defend
it they did.
On
Thursday they set out on the long journey to Belfast. Friday they took on the
host club Naomh Eoin and won, that evening they went down to the athletic
grounds in Armagh to take part in the Parade which was a wonderful spectacle of
colour the girls were awarded the best turned out visiting camogie team for the
way they were dressed, behaved during the event and for the club banner.
Early
Saturday they went to Ballinascreen in county Derry where they played the two
final group games, Ballinascreen and
Kinnity of Offaly and won convincingly, then on to Swatragh where they met
Ballycastle of Antrim In the quarter final, another good win got them through
to the semi final back to Belfast For a
bbq with their host club where various presentations were made.
Sunday
it was back to Swatragh to face Camross of Laois in the semi final, games were
getting tougher now as they entered the latter stages Of the competition winning on a score line of
2.03 to 0.01
The
final was played in the Derry centre of excellence at Owenbeg in Dungiven ten
finals were played here. Tullamore of
Offaly were the opposition a tight first half saw
Gailltír lead by 1.01 to 0.01 at half time, in the second half after a tough battle Gailltír added on 2.03
and only conceded
1.00
Champions of Ireland were crowned, Back to back all Ireland winning titles a
wonderful achievement for such a dedicated bunch of girls, the future looks
bright for camogie in Gailltír
And
Waterford, congratulations must also go to De La Salle on winning the Division
3 Shield final
And
to Keisha Tobin of Dungarvan who came 5th in the skills competition.
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