 First year hurlers after attending a Galway Hurling blitz in Ballindereen on Tuesday 19th September.
 Congratulations to 3rd year student, Saoirse Healey pictured here having captained the Galway U14 Soccer team who won the prestigious U14 Gaynor Cup in UL this June. The Gaynor Cup sees girls from all the leagues in Ireland representing their counties in an FAI run tournament played over 4 days. Saoirse led the girls off with a double goal strike in their first game against Wexford before accounting for some strong opposition including the Dublin Metropolitan league who are serial winners of the competition. The final was a first time all Connacht affair against local rivals Sligo-Leitrim which Galway won with 1-0 is a very close game. FAI Chief Executive John Delaney was on hand to present the cup to Saoirse.
Saoirse plays her club football with Cregmore Claregalway FC where she made it an incredible year by also capturing the All Ireland Club u14 title where Saoirse produced another double goal strike in the All –Ireland final to see off the Dublin opposition.  Congratulations to Thady Moran, Calum Carroll and Alex Haugh who represented Galway at the U14 Kennedy Cup held in Limerick over the summer. Presentation College Athenry 1st year hurling captain Cian Shaughnessy receiving the 1st Year A Hurling Championship Cup from Eamon Veale, Chairman Galway Post Primary Schools GAA.  First Year Hurling Panel The 1st year hurlers began their year by playing a number of challenge games against Tulla Community School, St. Raphael’s College, Loughrea and St. Flannan’s College, Ennis. Due to the large numbers interested in participating in hurling the overall 1st year group was split into two teams with Forms 1 – 4 coming together to create 1 team and Forms 5 – 8 coming together to create another. Doing this at the start of the year allowed everyone who was interested to get plenty of game-time. As the year progressed a 1st year panel was selected from the performances given in these initial games. Further games were organised throughout the year for those who were not selected as part of the Championship panel.
The Connaught 1st Year Hurling Championship kicked off on the 14th March when we played Gort Community School in Clarinbridge. Following a slow start, we gradually started to get on top and goals from Eanna Brady and Adam Stewart along with a 12 point (7 from play) contribution from Gavin Lee meant we pulled away to win comfortably on a scoreline of 2-16 to 2-03. Our second game was against St. Raphaels College, Loughrea on the 28th April in Craughwell. This time we made an excellent start and early goals from Thady Moran (1) and Cian Shaughnessy (2) meant we were always in control. 2 further goals in the second half from Shaun Gilligan meant we ran out comfortable winners on a scoreline of 5-19 to 1-03. Our last group game was fixed for 5th May where we took on St. Brigids, Loughrea again in Craughwell. This turned out to be a superb team performance with goals from Shaun Gilligan (4), Cian Shaughnessy (3), Eanna Brady, Adam Stewart, Thady Moran & Ryan O’Donnell giving us a comprehensive victory of 11-13 to 1-04. The final was fixed for 17th May in Ardrahan against Gort Community School. Having elected to play with the breeze in the 1st half, we built up a 13 point lead by half time with goals from Luke Martyn, Adam Stewart & Shaun Gilligan along with 2 excellent points from play from full-forward Cian Shaughnessy. Gort, with the aid of the breeze in the second half, were unable to break through what was an excellent defensive display and the game was ended as a contest midway through the second half when Cian Shaughnessy and Ryan O’Donnell added 2 further goals. The final score-line on the day was Presentation College Athenry 5-09 Gort C.S. 1-06. Overall it was an extremely successful year for our 1st year hurlers. They scored a total of 23-57 and conceded 5-16 in their 4 championship outings. They are a team with great potential for the coming years. Presentation College Athenry 1st Year Panel (Scores 2016/17):- 1. Jamie Burke, 2. Cathal Shaughnessy, 3. Jack Finn, 4. Luke Clarke, 5. Darragh Burke, 6. Luke Martyn (1-0), 7. Ben Haverty, 8. Conor Rooney (0-4), 9. Liam Leen, 10. Adam Stewart (2-1), 11. Gavin Lee (0-30, 0-18f), 12. Eanna Brady (2-0), 13. Thady Moran (2-7), 14. Cian Shaughnessy (6-8), 15. Shaun Gilligan (7-3), 16. Eoghan Hickey, 17. Ryan O’Donnell (2-0), 18. Michael Molloy, 19. Eoghan Burke, 20. Niall Farragher (0-1), 21. Matthew Moloney, 22. Alex Haugh, 23. Mark O’Dwyer, 24. Ronan Jennings (0-4), 25. Hugh McCann, 26. Gabriel McCann. History was made last Saturday in Lough Rynn Regatta in Co. Leitrim when two girls from Presentation College Athenry were on the winning ladies eight. The two members of the victorious Galway crew were Katie Diviney who rowed in the 2 seat of the 8 and Hannah Lane who had the very challenging task of leading, motivating and steering the boat.
The crew is coached by former international rower, living in Athenry for 20 years, Owen Diviney.  Presentation College, Athenry held it’s annual Achievements Day today Wednesday May 17th. As always it was a great day whereby the students success in all areas of school life is acknowledged and celebrated. Awards were presented for Academic achievements, 100% attendance, sport, arts, music and culture. The Credit Union Awards for highest results in Junior and Leaving Certs were presented to 6 students. The Spirit of Presentation College Awards and the perpetual Ceist trophy were awarded to very worthy recipients and the day culminated with the presentation of the Student of the Year Award to Sean Garman.
To view a full pictoral record of this event, click here.  On behalf of everyone at PCA I wish to thank all who participated in our annual Golf Classic and Raffle in 2017. The monies raised goes towards the provision of extra curricular activities in the school. A special word of thanks to our main sponsor Neylon Maintenance Services. Thanks also to our many green and tee sponsors and all who entered teams. Your support was acknowledged on both days on the golf course and on our website. Thanks also to Gerry Doherty and Luke Glynn for their help in organising and running the event. We look forward to seeing you all at our golf classic next year.
Cathal Moore - Principal Golf Results 1st - Tom Callanan, Liam Higgins, John Maye and Gerry Cannon 2nd - Ray Kenny, Austin Clarke, Gerry Raftery and Robbie Lyons 3rd - Michael Duane, Conrad Byrnes, Mixie Donoghue and Gerry Doherty 4th - Nicola Burke, Julie Carr, Kay Duggan and Noreen Doherty. 5th - Philip Somers, Seamie Crowe, James Martin and Patsy Lynch 6th - Padraic Lyons, Norman Farrell, Michael Higgins and Linda Lyons 7th - John Quinn, Ray Glynn, Luke Glynn and Gerry Doherty 8th - Sarita Glynn, Martina Casserly, Una Molloy and Angela Clancy 9th - Andrew Davey, Paddy Farrell, Owen O’Flaherty and James Lyons 10th - Shane Concannon, Kevin Kavanagh, Gary Moroney and Jason Greene. Raffle Results 1st - Áine Fahy - Flaherty Pharmacy Hamper 2nd - Michael Rourke - Joyces Supermarket Hamper 3rd - Anne Barrett - Galmac Printer 4th - Sean Whelan - Just Kidz Athenry Voucher 5th - Niamh McDermott - Galberts Foods Athenry Hamper 6th - Helen Byrne - Kreation Kitchens Plate warmer 7th - Jimmy Reilly - Kreation Kitchens Wine 8th - Áine Fahy - Kreation Kitchens Roses |
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