CLUB LOTTO

We were all deeply sorry to hear of the death of Olivia Russell’s mother Alice, RIP. Olivia is a very active volunteer within the Club & is a member of the Lotto Draw Committee. As a mark of respect to Olivia, and her family, last week’s scheduled draw was postponed to this week. The draw will be for a whopping €19,500 can be entered online at www.delasallegaa.ie

CUL CAMP

A hugely successful Cul Camp was held in Gracedieu this week. The noise and excitement was great to see and hear. Well done everyone and thanks to the parents for making the drops and collections work so efficiently. On Friday, the younger members were delighted to see Jan O’ Dwyer & Jonathan Flynn from our juvenile club sponsors St Dominic’s Credit Union arrive with some refreshments & treats for the last day, thank you. There’s some great shots & videos on our social media.

RESULTS

GAA; Our Minor Hurlers had a comprehensive 5-20 to 2=9 league win over Ballygunner this week, well done lads. Our seniors put up a great battle in the Hurling League Div 1B but went down 1-16 to Tallow’s 1-21 and unfortunately in the Senior B League, Div 4B went down to Tramore earlier in the week. In U15 Championship Group stage, our boys went down to Cois Bhride despite a flurry of goals. In the U13 Championship Group stage, our U13 Hurlers went down to Mount Sion.  Our U12A hurlers went down to Roanmore and the U12B team went down to Clonea in the City league. In the U11A City League, our U11s had a good win over Passage.

CAMOGIE; Our U12 girls hosted 2 teams from Mooncoin Camogie and played some fantastic challenge matches on Saturday with a great display of skills all round. Thank’s so much to Mooncoin Camogie for coming into us for a great morning of camogie. Keep up the good work girls & mentors, ye’re a joy to watch. Well done to our U14 club girls who had a good win at home to Ferrybank during the week in R3 of the championship. Thanks to both teams on a great game.

COUNTY DUTY

Congrats to Alannah McNulty who did us proud lining out with Waterford Minor girls v Cork in Munster Semi Final. Well done to our club girls Alex Healy, Mya Kelly, Isobel Boland, Caoimhe Mulvaney & Ella Holohan who did us all proud lining out over the weekend with Waterford U15 v Tipperary. Best Wishes to Reuben O’ Halloran, the management team & panel of Waterford U20 hurlers as he lines out v Tipperary Monday this week.

#TALESFROMDELASALLE

Did you know that 32 years ago, on July 15th, 1989, a party of 48 club members and players departed for a trip to the USA and Canada? This was indeed a memorable trip which included the major attractions in New York and visits to Albany, Rochester and Toronto. Highlights also included visits to Lake Ontario, Niagara Falls and the Sky Dome and CN Tower in Toronto.  Of course, there were several hurling games played during the tour. With the first game in Rochester (Waterford’s Sister City) and was attended by the Mayor of Rochester. This exhibition game consisted of two teams made up of DLS players. Team 1. Johnny Keane, Oisín Ryan RIP, Davy Duggan, Mick Lane, Micko Casey, Joey Carton, Mick Murphy, Joe Mulcair, Tom O’Leary, Capt., Tommy Madigan, M. Cooper. Team 2. Dónal Treacy, Trevor Clooney, Owen Dunphy, Jim Dalton, Ger Lowry, Johnny Walsh, Michael Brenner, Alan ‘’Jack’’ Duggan, Eamonn FitzGerald Capt., Iain Treacy, John Walsh. Referee: John Jacob DLS

The second game took place in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York City. The opposition on this occasion was provided by WRTC (now WIT) who were also touring in the USA at this time. This turned out to be a keenly contested game with DLS winning out on a score line that read DLS 3-5 WRTC 0-7. Team: Johnny Keane, Oisín Ryan RIP Capt., Trevor Clooney, Joe Mulcair, Jim Dalton, Owen Dunphy, Mick Lane, Mick Murphy, Johnny Walsh, Noel Dalton Micko Casey, Joey Carton, Davy Duggan, Tom O’Leary, Eamonn FitzGerald, Subs: Dónal Treacy, Alan ‘’Jack’’ Duggan, Iain Treacy, Tommy Madigan. Referee: John Jacob DLS

The third and final game took place again in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and the opposition on this occasion was the Waterford GAA Club, New York. This was again a fine game of hurling and ended in a draw, DLS 3-6 Waterford 1-12.  The trip was organised by Seán Power of Harvey Travel and was an outstanding success for our club. Indeed, the club benefitted enormously from the bonds of friendship created at that time. Many who were part of that group have been stalwarts of the club in the intervening years.