All juvenile news and reports
Hurling and Football playing rule changes effective from Saturday April 11th
I now attach for your information full details of Hurling and Football playing rule changes which were agreed at GAA Congress this year. These playing rule changes come into effect from next Saturday week April 11th 2015. Please circulate to all relevant parties within your club to make sure all are made aware of these playing rule changes. I also again include the information on the "Football Tackle" & "Cynical Fouls ( Black Card )" Yours in Sport, Damian
Beautiful morning in Bridgefield
I stopped by Bridgefield on Saturday to see the U10s against Scoil Ui Conail and the U12s against Crokes. The 12s was a grading game and
New Syls Academy Kit
Tadhg, the son of our Senior Manager, Robbie Brennan, at training in Dunboyne, in his new St. Sylvester's academy kit! This kit is available when the academy starts back in January. Cost Price €30
Cosite na nÓg AGM - Dublin Juvenile Committee
Attached are the reports for the Cosite na nÓg AGM on 10th Dec at Parnell Park.Congratulations to the CCC1 (8-12 year olds) and CCC2(13-16) boards on the conclusion of another very busy and successful season. Thanks from St Sylvesters to all the volunteers who make this such a successful organisation and thanks for the work you do for our children and for all the children in Dublin.
Joe Duffy Motors sponsors CC2 Juvenile Boys
Joe Duffy Motors recently signed a significant sponsorship deal with our CC2 Juvenile Boys section.
'Dealing with Player Head Injury-Our Duty of Care'.
I would like to invite players, mentors and club members to a presentation by Fergus Byrne... 'Dealing with Player Head Injury-Our Duty of Care'. It will take place on Thursday, 18th December to begin at 8pm in the upstairs area of our clubhouse.
Juvenile teams in the shake up
A lot of our juvenile teams are in contention for honours over the next few weeks - Under 13s playing next week for the league, our first Division 1 league in ccc2 for a long while, both U14 and U16 winning league division 2 and the Under 15s reaching the championship[p final
DCB Coaching Planner 2014/2015
Hi Everyone - Here is the planner for 14/15. We have as usual a number of Foundation, Award 1 & Award 2 courses, Including Award 2 Youth & Adult Coaching courses for the 1st time.
Coaching News from DCB
Hi - Guys we have a lot of Coach Ed courses planned - you may want to send it out to interested parties in the club. You can follow us on Facebook - i'll be keeping it update with details on workshop & courses - https://www.facebook.com/DublinGaaCoachingAndGamesDevelopment
All Ireland Score Forecast
Many thanks for all those who contributed to our score card forecast for the All-Ireland Football Final. Special thanks to the U12 team for coordinating this event and for all those who took the time to support this activity. We have one lucky winner - Aoife Slyne who correctly forecasted the score on the day and takes away the prize pot. Aoife's son Cian plays with our U10 age group.
Sylvester Juvenile Freestyle Hurling competition - to win 2 tickets to All Ireland Hurling Final Replay!
Many of you will have admired the fantastic skills on display in the GAA/GPA run Freestyle Hurling competitions over the past two years which have allowed people to showcase a variety of skills and tricks using their hurl, sliotar and even different body parts.
Good Weekend for our juvenile footballers
We had performances to match to match the weather from our teenage footballers this weekend. Our u13 div 1 team had a fine win against Skerries who were top of the table before this game. We have three football teams at this age group , the B Team also won their game against St Vincents and the C team put up a great performance against Good Counsel but just came up short. It's tough for our C Team when they are playing clubs that have only one team . The u14 non hurling team had another win and are in contention for a semi-final. We have about 22 players on this panel. Great numbers!!. The 15A match was moved from Saturday but the 15 B team continued their fine form with another win and are currently top of their league
Syls World Cup Challenge
We need your help to support and promote a fundraiser for the juvenile section of the club. We want to try to make sure that every juvenile team has access to a good first-aid kit so we are looking to raise funds to make this happen.
Big cleanup in Bridgefield
Thanks to Eoin Farquharsan and John Maughan for organising a cleanup of the huts in Bridgefield on Sunday. That's the second time in a few weeks we are thanking Euan after he fixed up the nets and fixings. Big thanks also to Rod Fitzpatrick, Des, Sharon & Daniel Stone, Shay Keogh and Colin Gilhooley.
Compulsory mouthguards
Following the introduction of new rules in relation to mouthguards for Gaelic football in 2013 and 2014, it is now compulsory for all juvenile and adult players (excluding adult females) to wear mouthguards when training and playing games.
Poor start kills the U16s
U16F Div2 Three early goals caught us flat footed on the all weather at Ballymun and we just never quite recovered. We played into a strong cold wind in the first half and battled back gamely, dominating the second quarter but didn't convert enough on the scoreline. We came out strong in the second half but, again, didn't convert enough to dent Ballymuns lead, missing goal chances an both posts and the opposing keeper making a few great saves.
Juvenile AGM
Good crowd present for a lively Juvenile AGM on Wednesday. Chairman Ernie Brenner and Secretary Pat Hoyne presented an excellent summary and report on a very busy and successful 2012 both on and off the field of play - highlights probably being the Feile Football and Hurling competitions, very strong showings in the younger ages in football and hurling and wins U16 and U14.
Mouthguards will be compulsory for Juvenile Footballers
From January 1 2013, the wearing of Mouthguards will be compulsory for juvenile footballers in matches and in training. The club have organised for a specialist (Philip McCann Laboratories) to come in over a number of nights in November to measure and fit customised mouthguards, I understand that these will cost between €35 and €40.
From Juvenile Secretary
Firstly, a big thank you to all of you who contributed to and helped get such a big turnout for the EGM last week. The next big off-field event in the Sylvesters calander is the White Collar boxing -v- rugby club which, as most of you will be aware, is being held on Friday 21st September next in The Wright Venue.
Code of Best Practice course
All mentors working with children (U18s) must complete the Irish Sports Council/GAA Code of Best Practice in Youth Sports Course. As previously advised, this County Board run Code of Best Practice course will be run for us in the Clubhouse on this Wednesday 6th June from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. It will be held upstairs at the back. If you haven't already done this course, please attend on the night. Regards Pat
Record numbers at Mini All Ireland Finals
Regardless of the weather for the preceeding weeks, Syls Mini All Ireland Finals Day always brings out the sun and this year was no exception. Broomfield was resplendent thanks to the efforts of our Sponsor, Audi North Dublin and our hard working committee and was thronged on Sunday afternoon as record numbers of young players took part in our Finals Day.
Square Ball and other rule changes
Please note the following Playing Rule changes which were passed at Congress on Saturday, 14th April. These changes will become operative one month from Congress (i.e 14th May) and are to be implemented in all competitions.
Bag packing a big success - thanks and well done
Last Saturday we had a fundraiser in dunnes stores in the pavilions swords where we had over 40 volunteers packing bags to raise money for the juveniles of st. Sylvesters. This turned out to be a great success with 1200 euro being raised through the huge efforts from parents of our young players.
Malahide Community School Mixed Football Tournament
Following an initiative suggested at our last Juvenile Committee meeting, the inaugural Malahide Community School 2nd Year Mixed Football Championship was hosted by Syls in Broomfield on Wednesday morning. Organised by Panner and Philip Reid with the help of Dave Peyton in the School the event was a huge success with a full turn out in glorious weather, fun and good football and refreshments and a cup sponsored by Autobar Vending (Anthony Cooney).
Comhairle na nÓg annual meeting
Wrap up of the Dublin juvenile football and hurling year, CCC1 and 2 combined. All competitions completed to schedule, almost 10,000 games, 5,500 players on CCC1 football (increased a little from 2010) and over 4,000 CCC1 hurling (10% increase), not a single major issue with dual status, reduction in disciplinary issues. Pride of place for Syls was our u12 div1 champions and good representation in most competitions. Very impressive organisation by the volunteer committee members and we all owe a big thanks to the Ciaran Hoban (retiring chairman), Alan O'Connor CCC2, Niall Connaughton CCC1, Damian, Kathleen and many many more . . . go raibh míle maith agaibh.
All Ireland Score Forecast
Very impressive 11 winners of the score forecast - congratulations to those who believed The Dubs could win a tight game - we divided the prize and threw a bit to make it an even €100 each - Deirdre Devine, Alison Kavanag, Brian Lennon, Maria Whelan, Donal McFerron, Andrew Delevey. M McVeigh, Edel Woods, Calum Miskelly, Bernard Boran, Aine Daly. Well done to Aiden, Ernie and all who helped organise and collect - many thanks to all those who supported, we cleared over €3,000.