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» Ex Portmarnock AFC Player picks up Award
» Portmarnock AFC players called up for FAI Amateur Squad
» FAI Under 15 International Schoolgirl Training Camp
» FAI Kick Start 2 Course
» Match Report: Portmarnock AFC U11A v Shamrock Rovers
» Monthly Draw Results (March)
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Wednesday, 28.03.07
Paddy Fenlon Cup U15 – 24.03.07
St. Joesph’s Boys 1 – 4 Portmarnock AFC
Portmarnock under 15’s who are in the Major DDSL league had an excellent away win over St. Joseph’s Boys in the second round of the Paddy Fenlon cup.
A goal down within 10 minutes and playing into the breeze and up the slope Portmarnock improved their grip on the game with every player stepping up their control over the opposition. Paddy Egan scored after 20 minutes from a great Kevin O’Brien cross and four minutes later Jamie Walsh pounced on a mistake by the St. Joseph’s Keeper to make it 2 – 1.
Jamie Carr had a shot from a corner dramatically cleared off the line but 2 minutes later Tighe McCarthy played a great one two with Johnnie Boyle to run on to beat the keeper from 18 yards. The second half was very exciting and Sean McKearnan kept Portmarnock in the game with some fine saves. The central defence for Portmarnock Morgan O’Reily and Jamie Carr were outstanding and well supported by Brain Murry and Steven Rusk at full backs. Portmarnock forced the pace with Kevin O’Brien and Jamie Walsh causing constant problems for the St. Joseph’s defence, and with Portmarnock’s mid field taking control of the match substitute Nial Hoban scored a good individual goal by rounding the keeper to make it 4 – 1 with three of the goals coming from mid field. Michael Ring played well in central midfield and the substitutes of Josh Scannel, Anto Brennan and Steven Tear provided fresh legs in the hard fought second half.
The Team are eager to progress in the cup which may have Portmarnock’s name on it.
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Mountview Vs Portmarnock U/11B DDSL – 17.03.07
Mountview 6 – 1 Portmarnock
After a narrow 1-0 defeat to Mountview at home last week, Portmarnock travelled to play the 2nd placed team in the league on a windy St.Patrick’s morning.
An early conceded goal for the second week running made it a difficult fixture which was eventually lost by six goals to one.
After going 2–0 down halfway through the first half, Portmarnock got back into the game when Paul Scully following in on a shot from Ciaran O’Reilly which the goalkeeper could only parry, threw himself full length to score with a brave diving header, his thirteenth goal of the season.
However losing a third goal right on half time and a fourth immediately after the restart made it a difficult second half playing into a strong wind.
Mountview scored twice more to continue their good run but Killian McGreer gave an outstanding performance as man of the match for Portmarnock in a difficult game in tough conditions.
TopThursday, 15.03.07
FAI Schools Ribena 5–A–Side National Competition 2007
On behalf on Portmarnock AFC, we would like to thank the school principal Mr. Keaveny, and Miss Curtis for accepting our application to enter a team into the up and coming Ribena 07 national tournament.
Players from 5th & 6th classes will be invited for trials after school on Thursday 15th March 2007. This will be the first time that St Marnocks have entered the Ribena Tournament in its long history.
Portmarnock AFC will be offering the school, our Paddyshill facility to stage the North Dublin league section and also the services of two coaches from the club. Mr Darragh Smith (Head) and Mr Kieron King (Assist), both of whom are involved with our DDSL U11A squad.
Competition Format.
5–A–Side.
League basis, no more than 5 teams per league.
2 points for win, 1 for draw and 0 for a loss.
Game will be played for 24 minutes, 2 halves of 12 minutes each.
Panel will consist of 8 players only.
Only 5 players including goalkeeper on the field of play.
Subs shall roll on roll off at any time, once referee is notified.
All players must wear shin guards on the day.
Goalkeeper shall only throw the ball. No Goal kicks.
On behalf of the club we would like to wish St Marnocks, Mr Keaveny, & Ms Curtis and of course the players the very best of luck with there first venture to competitive soccer. Please keep a watchful eye on our website for further updates.
Barry Flynn
Football Committee
Portmarnock AFC.
Monday, 12.03.07
Portmarnock AFC U/11B DDSL Vs Mountview – 10.03.07
Portmarnock AFC U/11B DDSL 0 – 1 Mountview
A great performance by Portmarnock against the league leaders resulted in a narrow defeat in Paddy’s Hill on Saturday with even the opposition Manager agreeing that his team were very lucky and that a draw would have been a fair result.
A 4–1–4–1 formation left Paul Scully up front on his own working hard for the hour and nearly scoring the equaliser mid way through the second half when he beat three players to the ball and shot narrowly wide.
Mountview had taken the lead after three minutes,a low shot following a corner leaving goalkeeper Curtis Hayden with no chance. Curtis went on to make some superb saves to keep the leaders to a single goal.
Portmarnock had further chances in the second half to draw level against a team who arrived intent on continuing their good run as they have only lost one game so far.
The entire Portmarnock squad,starting eleven and four second half substitutes played really well and it was a difficult decision to select a man of the match.
However Wesley Lennon, playing in a holding role in front of the back four impressed throughout and was named MOTM but it was an solid all round team performance on the day.
Stephen Peppard
Mark Beed
Thursday, 08.03.07
Ex Portmarnock AFC Player
picks up Award
Ex Portmarnock AFC and current Wolves player Stephen Ward this week picked up the Coca Cola Championship Player of the Month Award for February on the back of good form shown since he moved from eircom league side Bohemians in January. The former Ireland under 21 player has scored three times in five games for Wolves to help them move into the promotion play-off positions. Everyone at the club wishes Stephen all the best and congratulations on this award and hopefully many more to come.
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Portmarnock AFC players called up
for FAI Amateur Squad
The committee, managers and players of Portmarnock AFC would look to pass on their best wishes and congratulations to Adrian McDonald and Brian Rickard from our senior team who have been called up to the FAI amateur squad to face Northern Ireland on March 21st in Newry.
Once again Portmarnock AFC has players representing their country as well as at league representative level. Adrian has been capped 7 times previous and is back in the squad for the first time since 2001. For Brian this is his first call up. Brian is club captain and lead the club to the Leinster Junior cup win over Killester earlier this season. Both call-ups have happened due to both players having an excellent season so far.
TopTuesday, 06.03.07
FAI Under 15 International Schoolgirl Training Camp
On February 10th and 11th 2007 Portmarnock AFC hosted a training camp for the FAI under 15 international schoolgirl squad. This is the 5th year running the squad has used our magnificent facilities in Paddy’s Hill. This was the first of two training camps to be hosted by the club this year, the second of which is on March 31st and April 1st.
The training camps are used as a get together for the squad to prepare for the International schools Quadrangular tournament in Wales on April 10th – 13th.
The squad were put through their paces on Saturday with warm-ups and some tactical training. On Sunday the squad played a training match against FAI ladies manager Noel King’s Dublin based development squad.
The club are looking forward to hosting the second training camp on March 31st and April 1st and also wishes the squad all the best in the International schools Quadrangular tournament in Wales.
TopTuesday, 06.03.07
FAI Kick Start 2 Course
Recently Portmarnock AFC held an FAI Kick Start 2 course for 16 of the clubs coaches. FAI Technical Director Packie Bonner and FAI goalkeeping coach Declan McIntyre tutored the course. The course took place in the PSLC and on our pitches over the Fri/Sat and Sun. The under 11 DDSL team provided the players for the coaches the practice what they had been tutored on by Packie and Declan.
The course was a huge success with ALL the coaches enjoying it and also learning lots of new and different ideas.
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Portmarnock AFC U11A Vs Shamrock Rovers – 03.03.2007
Portmarnock AFC 6 – 1 Shamrock Rovers
On a beautiful Saturday morning at Paddy’s Hill, our U11 team were out to play Rovers for the second weekend on the trot, having played them away from home last week and winning 5-1 which advanced the team to the quarter finals of the league cup. Rovers were coming out for revenge.
Things started badly, our captain and goalkeeper Mark O’Connor was feeling unwell, and was replaced by Simon Lenehan, and within minutes of the start we were forced to take Sam Boland off due to an ankle injury, however, his replacement Dylan Murray was only on the pitch and his first touch and powerful run to goal netted him his first of three for the day.
The play from the team was not one of there best performances although they were in complete control of the game. Our superb defence marshalled by Gabriel and Connor in the centre had there work cut out in the second half as Rovers tried to reduce the half time deficit of 4-0. A lack of concentration resulted in Rovers pulling one back after 15 minutes of the restart.
We then added two more goals, one from Aaron Mulvey, and one from Craig O`Neill, to give us the three points.
Goalscorers: Dylan Murray (3) Craig O`Neill (2) Aaron Mulvey
TopThursday, 01.03.07
Monthly Draw Results (March)
Monthly draw for March will be taking place soon…
Good luck to all!
TopThursday, 01.03.07
Website Progress
Restructuring of website to include more new content!
The committee and all those included in running the website would like to take this opportunity to apologise to all club members and visitors for the recent lapse of the club’s website.
We have been extremely busy over the last few months with various areas of the club but are now back online and will be busier than ever bringing you more news and announcements as well as our usual monthly draw results. We also have a new fixtures page, which we will be updating every Wednesday with all the forthcoming fixtures.
Thanks for your patience!
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