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Fresher football round 1
| Posted | 20th Jan 2023 |
| Author | Keith Murphy - Fresher Manager |
The ATU Fresher A team kicked off their championship campaign in horrible conditions in Bekan. At the half-time interval, the Galway side led by 2 points to 1. Sligo came out strong in the second half, beating ATU Galway on a score line of 1-5 to 2 points. Playing football in those conditions was definitely difficult, yet it was the ATU Sligo side that weathered the conditions better than the Galway side. The lads now face the university of Galway in their second round.
Sigerson rd 2
| Posted | 19th Jan 2023 |
| Author | Maurice Brosnan - The Irish examiner |
UCC remain alive in the Sigerson Cup after an awesome final quarter saw them pull clear of ATU Galway at Tuam Stadium.
At the turnaround their lead was just one. Then the Kingdom came to the fore as An Gaeltacht’s Cathal Begley kicked two well-taken scores while Dingle’s Dylan Geaney kept the frees ticking over. Some poor finishing at the other end proved costly for a spirited ATU Galway challenge.
A cagey first half in icy conditions saw Billy Morgan’s outfit deploy Shane Merritt in front of the full-back line with Geaney and Mark Cronin at the other end close to goal. ATU Galway went in a with cause for optimism at the break trailing by just one and having missed their first two scoreable frees and dropped another one short.
After converting a pair of placed balls in the first half, Geaney curled a left-footed beauty early in the second to double their lead. A high turnover soon after hinted at a goal chance but Begley was content to push the margin to three. Nathan Grainger and Geaney exchanged frees to leave ATU Galway chasing a goal with the clock ticking down.
Three days after helping Ballygiblin to All-Ireland glory, the lively Cathail O’Mahony came off the bench and ruled out any hope of a comeback. His darting run along the endline eventually forced a full length save from Jack Livingstone and Sean O’Connor had the simplest of tasks to tap home.
From there the contest faded to its inevitable conclusion. Some good work done, more to do for UCC.
Sigerson round 1
| Posted | 12th Jan 2023 |
| Author | Daire Walsh - The Irish examiner |
TU Dublin produced a strong second half display at a rain-soaked Grangegorman last night to secure a Sigerson Cup opening round victory over ATU Galway.
Level at 0-6 apiece during the interval, a third-quarter goal courtesy of substitute Kevin Callaghan ultimately swung the tie in the Metropolitan outfit’s favour. While the conditions made it extremely difficult to play a free-flowing brand of football, TU Dublin will nonetheless take great confidence from the way they worked themselves into the action and ultimately came away with the win that they craved.
Fresh from featuring for Dublin in their O’Byrne Cup success over Wicklow in Baltinglass seven days earlier, midfielder Killian McGinnis got on the end of a sweeping move to kick TU Dublin into an early lead in the second-minute.
Yet ATU Galway proceeded to storm into the contest with unanswered efforts by Dylan Farrell, Conor Reed and corner-forward Nathan Grainger. Farrell was joined in the ATU full-forward line by fellow Longford man Conor Keenan, while another player from the midlands county - Jordan Shields - lined out at left half-back.
There was no reason for TU Dublin to panic just yet, particularly with McGinnis’ centre-field partner Ryan Deegan and Ryan O’Dwyer on hand to cancel out the ATU lead with successive points. The visiting Tribesmen were getting plenty of joy in attack, however, and reasserted their authority through the boots of Farrell and Dylan Ruane.
Yet parity was restored when O’Dwyer and Mark Lavin both found the range for the hosts in quick succession. Darragh Campion’s superb point with the outside of his right boot squeezed TU Dublin into the lead for the very first time on the half-hour, but a second score from Ruane meant the two teams were inseparable at the break.
This left the tie delicately poised and with the scoreboard remaining unaltered for the opening eight minutes of the second period, it was almost impossible to guess which way this game was going to go.
However, Lavin free helped the hosts to settle and St Brigid’s club man Callaghan subsequently flicked a diagonal ball to the net on the stroke of 40 minutes to suddenly create some daylight between the teams. This was the cue for the Dublin college to flex their muscles with the impressive Lavin coming into his own.
Farrell did his best to keep ATU in the frame and Galway senior panellist James Foley also broke up the field from corner-back to kick an excellent point for the Connacht side. Nevertheless, the capital men continued to pick off some fine scores to keep their opponents at bay and ultimately emerged as deserving winners in the end.
Captain appointed
| Posted | 24th Jan 2022 |
| Author | Damian Curley |
Our Trench Cup footballers begin their campaign on Tuesday away to TCD - club stalwart Sean O’Dea passed on some sage advice to the lads last week. Sean spent many years as manager of Gaelic teams at GMIT. Here he is on the right of team captain Liam Costello and Damian Curley
Season update
| Posted | 9th Dec 2021 |
| Author | Damian Curley |
Fresher football had 2 League games vs NUIG and IT Sligo, losing both narrowly. They have been training hard and have some challenge games upcoming.
Senior footballers also played 2 league games and also lost both, but have been putting a massive effort in recently with great turnouts for the 8am Thursday morning sessions.
In a one off second year competition GMIT lost narrowly to NUIG in a knockout competition.
Football Training Times - Week of 25th
| Posted | 22nd Oct 2021 |
| Author | Damian Curley (Development Officer) |
Football Training:
Training for all Fresher players on Wednesday at 6pm and 7pm - we will post lists of who attends at each time based on attendance on week gone by. If you could not attend last week please come to the 7pm session
2nd Year and Senior Training/Trial game on Wednesday at 8.15pm - please spread the word. 2nd year game vs. NUIG next Mon (1st Nov.)
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