SPA GAA GOLF CLASSIC
Spa GAA welcome the return of their golf classic on July 7th & 8th at O'Mahonys Point at Killarney Golf & Fishing Club. Good luck to all players taking part and thank you to all who are supporting the event by entering teams as well as sponsoring spot prizes and tee boxes, with special mention to the main sponsors of the Golf Classic, the Killarney Oaks Hotel, Killarney Oils and Tricel.
Tee times are pencilled in for both Friday July 7th and Saturday July 8th with the presentation of prizes at the Killarney Oaks Hotel the night of the event July 8th.
The Spa GAA Golf Classic was last held in 2018 and the funds raised are to go towards the ongoing development at the Spa club grounds.
UPCOMING FIXTURES
Wednesday June 29th U15 East Region League Rd2 Spa v Cordal (7pm in Spa)
Friday July 1st Co League Rd10 Spa v Rathmore (7.30pm in Rathbeg)
Saturday July 2nd Development League Shield Final Spa B v Kilcummin B (7pm in Direen)
Best of luck to all teams and managements. There might be late changes to fixtures so for the most up to date list please check the fixtures calendar on the spagaa.com website.
DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE SHIELD FINAL
Best of luck to our Senior B team who have qualified for the Division 2 Shield Final. They play Kilcummin B this Saturday July 2nd in the Final (7pm in Direen).
BEAN & BATCH KENMARE
Best of luck to former Spa player Kevin Healy & to John Hallissey on their new coffee shop – Bean & Batch - that opened in Kenmare on Friday.
DRINK TEA FOR MND RAISES €1,000 FOR KERRY FRIENDS OF KERRY MOTOR NEURONE
On May 14th Spa GAA Healthy Clubs Officer Margaret Doyle held a Drink Tea For MND event at The Studio in the club. This morning was well attended and raised €1,000 for Kerry Friends of Motor Neurone. The cheque was presented to their chairman Christy Lehane on Tuesday May 18th by Margaret and Spa's Chairman Michael Cronin.
Margaret would like to thank those who supported her on the lead up to the event and on the morning of the event. To those who baked cakes and scones; To Paddy O’Donoghue for coming up trumps; To Mike and Stephen O’Leary Expert; Pat and Ina Arbutus Hotel; Norma Murphy Coleman Njoy beauty and to Brendan and Margaret Torc Hotel for the great raffle prizes. Congratulations to the winners. To Tatyana McGough, Mike Brosnan and Anne Holland for being available to take photographs for launch the event and the Cheque presentation. To everyone who showed up on the day and contributed to the lovely community gathering.
Days like these make you really proud to be part of the locality I live in, helping another local organisation doing great work providing support to those on the MND journey.
Margaret Doyle, Spa Healthy Club Officer
SPA GAA SUMMER CAMP
Excitement is building as there’s just 2 weeks to go before the Up & Active Summer Camp returns. The camp will take place at the Spa GAA club grounds (Tullig, Killarney V93 KN53) from July 11th - 15th and is open to all primary school children.
Activities during the week will include Gaelic football, treasure hunts, rounders, tag rugby, athletics, art, handball & more! Contact Evan (0871496951) or Dan (0857386444) for any queries or to book your place. **Places are limited**
U12 GIRLS WITH A LATE GOAL TO QUALIFY FOR THE FINAL
Our U12 girls pulled off a great win last Monday night with a last minute goal by Ava Brosnan against Currow with a score line of 7-4 to 5-9. They won by the narrowest of margins to secure their place in the final.
U7 GO GAMES
Our U7 girls and boys made a trip to Barraduff last week to play Glenflesk and a fun filled evening was had by all!
EAST KERRY U15 DIVISION 3A RD1
Our U15’s travelled to close neighbours Kilcummin last Monday evening for our opening round of the East Kerry league and in blistering sunshine put in a fine display.
Starting strong Spa burst out of the blocks and tagged on some very good scores. HT Spa 1-9 Kilcummin 0-2. Spa again started the second half well and hit the back of the Kilcummin net early in the half. To their credit our hosts kept battling and reduced the arrears with two fine goals of their own. FT. Spa 2-20 Killcummin 2-07.
Thanks to Kilcummin for very sporting game and for all the parents for the support on the night.
ALL IRELAND QUARTER FINAL
Well done to Dara Moynihan, Dan O'Donoghue, Arthur Fitzgerald and the Kerry senior team and management on their win over Mayo on Sunday evening.
All the provincial champions have qualified for the All Ireland semi-finals and Kerry make the return to Croke Park on July 10th to play Dublin in the semi-final (3.30pm) with Derry and Galway meeting on July 9th.
KERRY LADIES
Congratulations to Cassandra Buckley and the Kerry Ladies team and management who have topped Group C in the Senior Championship qualifiers to progress to the LGFA Senior Championship quarter finals.
They play Armagh in the All Ireland quarter final on Saturday July 9th (fixture details TBC).
KERRY MINORS
Commiserations to the Kerry minor team & management who lost out to Mayo last Saturday in the All Ireland Minor semi-final.
SPA LOTTO
Spa Lotto Results 20/06/22: Numbers Drawn: 3, 6, 13, 23. No winner and €50 Lucky Dips to Neilus McCarthy (Kilbrean), Anne Yeates (Tiernaboul), Daniel Foley (online) and Tom Moynihan (Headford). Next week's JACKPOT is €5,400.
Play online here on spagaa.com or tickets on sale in usual outlets. Thank you for your continued support.
MINOR CO CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW
The draw was made last week for the 2022 Keanes Supervalu Minor County Championship. The group stages are as follows –
Group 1: East Kerry, Rathmore, North Kerry and St Brendan’s Board
Group 2: West Kerry, Mid Kerry, South Kerry and Laune Rangers
Group 3: Austin Stacks, Dr Crokes, Kenmare Shamrocks and St Kierans
Round 1 starts on Monday July 18th and teams in each group will have one home game, one away game and one game at neutral venue.
SCÓR NA BPAISTÍ
Wishing the best of luck to our Scór na bPáistí Tráth na gCeist team of Daisy Cremin, Daithí Stack, Paddy O’Donoghue and Cian Kelly and their coaches Eileen Aherne, Mikey Aherne and Seamus Clifford in the Co Finals of Scór na bPáistí this Saturday July 2nd.
The Quiz competition is the first event of the day taking place at 2.30pm at the Community Hall in Dromid, Halla na Dromoda Cillin Liath. Beir bua agus beannacht.
EAST KERRY CHAMPIONSHIP
The draws for the 2022 O’Donoghue Cup and O’Sullivan Cup East Kerry Championships will take place on Thursday July 7th.
ITEMS FOR NOTES
Any items for the Spa notes please contact the club PRO on 085 1216359 or pro.spa.kerry@gaa.ie before 8pm on Sundays.