GAA5Star – Page 8 – Herbertstown National School

South Title for Boys Hurling Team

5th June 20195th June 2019 Staff

Herbertstown NS captured the Roinn A hurling title for the first time since 1988 following a victory over neighbours Hospital NS in a tense final.

The final started very positively for Herbertstown with some quick-fire goals giving the team a lead which they would not relinquish for the remainder of the game.

This start would prove to be all important as the free flowing hurling of the first half was replaced by tight, tense passages of play and our boys showed great determination and resilience to hold off a strong fight back from Hospital.

Huge congratulations to the team who have worked very hard in training all year.

A nice link to the last time the school won the A title was that two players from that team, Kevin Higgins and Edmond Heffernan had sons playing in today’s game.

Festival of Football during Active Week

31st May 201931st May 2019 Staff

Gearóid Balfry from the Munster Ladies Football Association visited the school on Tuesday during Active School Week.

Gearóid helped the children work on the skills of Gaelic Football. They also got to take part in lots of fun games and activities.

3rd/4th

Infants/1st

2nd/3rd

Best of luck Lauren

29th May 201929th May 2019 Staff

Best of luck to Lauren who lines out for Limerick this weekend against Cork in the Primary Game.

Boys & Girls Teams through to South Finals

28th May 201929th May 2019 Staff

Well done to our boys hurling team and girls camogie team who have qualified for south finals in their divisions.

The girls are through to play Effin NS in the Roinn B decider following wins over Ballylanders NS and Knockainey NS yesterday in Martinstown.

The boys are through to the Roinn A final following victories over Kilfinane NS, Hospital NS, Galbally NS and Croom NS in their blitz last week. In a local derby, Herbertstown will play Hospital in the final and it will be the first time Herbertstown have played in the Roinn A final since 1988.

Hurling Skills Competition

22nd May 201922nd May 2019 Staff

Well done to Seán, Liam and Tadhg who represented the school in hurling at the Primary Schools Skills competition in Mick Neville Park, Rathkeale yesterday.

Primary Game

9th May 20199th May 2019 Staff

Best wishes to Tadhg who will be playing the Primary Game during the Munster Football Championship meeting of Limerick & Tipperary in Thurles this weekend.

Herbertstown’s Pitch is the same size as Croke Park’s!

11th April 201912th April 2019 Staff

Pupils use measuring skills to check size of local pitch.

Third/fourth class have been studying area and perimeter this week in maths and went outside to draw squared metres.

A further study was conducted to determine the area of the pitch which is next door to the school. Beforehand, a few pupils had stated that they had always been told that the pitch was the same size as the one in Croke Park. This seemed like the perfect time to investigate! It turns out, the pitch in Herbertstown is indeed the same size as the hallowed sod in Croke Park! (if not fractionally bigger!)

Footballers Finish 2nd in County Finals

3rd April 20193rd April 2019 Staff

Our Girls finished runners-up in the 2019 INTO Mini 7s football competition.

Our girls football team continued their fine year with some outstanding performances at the County INTO Mini 7s Finals in Mick Neville Park, Rathkeale today.

Herbertstown NS, representing the South as the division’s champions, took on East champions Roxborough NS, Mahoonagh NS from the West and Gaelscoil Caladh an Treoigh from the City.

In the first game, Herbertstown gave a fine display and had a convincing win against Gaelscoil Caladh an Treoigh.

In the second game, Herbertstown faced off against the Celtic Image Shield holders (county 15-a-side champions) Roxborough NS. The first half was keenly contested and at the break, Roxborough held a 1 point lead. Wind assisted in the second half, the East side pulled away to get the victory.

In the final game, Herbertstown and Mahoonagh NS met having secured a win each at that point. In their best performance of the day, our girls recorded a memorable victory with some crucial goals coming in the last couple of minutes.

Pictures courtesy of Eamon Doody, Skyview Photography

As mentioned, Herbertstown finished as runners-up and it was our best result at a Mini 7s County Final having finished 3rd on two occasions previously. (Boys hurling 2016, girls football 2017). Well done girls!

Mini 7s Camogie – South Final

28th March 201928th March 2019 Staff

Our girls were in real hard luck at the South INTO Mini 7s camogie finals were they lost narrowly in two games to Kilmallock NS and eventual winners Knocklong NS. In both games the girls performed very well and in the closing stages were only only a score away from the winners.

They can be very proud of their performances on the day and can now look forward to the 11 a side camogie in May.

Pupils attending South hurling & camogie trials

Good luck to our 8 pupils who are representing the school at the South trials.

INTO Mini 7s Hurling/Camogie

21st March 201921st March 2019 Staff

Our boys and girls teams travelled to Martinstown this week to take part in the South INTO Mini 7s blitzes.

The boys played games against Kilfinane NS and Ballylanders NS and performed very well.

The girls also played Kilfinane NS, as well as Emly NS. The girls have made it through to the South Finals next Tuesday at 10am.

Training continues for the girls football team ahead of the County Mini 7s final on April 3rd in Rathkeale.

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