Murphy Insurance Youghal Sponsor Youghal U10 Girls Footballers

Youghal Ladies Football Club are pleased to announce that our U10 team will be sponsored by Murphy Insurance Youghal for the 2012 season. The Club are extremely grateful to receive this most generous sponsorship in these tight economic times. Presentation of the set of jerseys took place at Club Aras on Saturday 10th March at our weekly training session where Michael T Murphy presented a set of jerseys to our Chairperson Caitriona Bulman Hill.

YLFC would like to take this opportunity to wish Murphy Insurance all the best in their business exploits throughout 2012.

Family Fun Quiz

On Sunday Feb 26th, YLFC held a very successful family fun quiz where the format was based on pop music, movies and TV quiz shows to raise funds for the year ahead. With 22 teams of both parents and kids taking part, a very enjoyable evening was had by all where in certain cases the parents seemed to enjoy it more than the kids. Many thanks to our sponsors on the night, Youghal GAA Club, Doyles Restaurant, Flavins Shoe Shop and to all parents who donated prizes. The club would like to extend their appreciation to the  parents committee under the guidance of Sandra and Maria organised the refreshments at the break and to Doyles who kindly donated hot food. In a tight finish the overall winners were as follows;

1st – The Flynnos 615pts

2nd – The Leamys 573pts

3rd – The A Team 563pts

4th – The McSweeneys

Easter Peil Camp

Numbers signing up for our inaugural Peil Camp are very promising with over 50 from all age groups already signed up. The Camp will take place in Youghal GAA club during the Easter Holidays from Tuesday April 10th until Friday the 13th. This development camp will be run by Mr. Charlie Mc Loughlin, who has years of experience in running these Ladies Football camps for both Junveniles and adults. This will be a fantastic chance to learn from one of Irelands leading coaches of our sport and NOBODY will leave without learning some new skills!! The price of the camp will be €50 and will include a training kit. Reductions are in place for girls from same the family. Please contact Catriona on 086 1951128 for full details.  LETS GO YOUGHAL, LETS GO!!!

Club Hoodies
We are at the final stages of finalizing the Club hoodies which will give us our own unique identity both within Youghal GAA but also around the town. Orders are now been taken every Saturday during training times.

“Your Mental Health Is your Wealth”

The  Club are behind the scenes working hard on a mental Health evening which is pencilled in for the 12th April at 7pm in the Hall. This event has many Topics for Discussion in the area to include Resilience, Nutrition and Alcohol. All are invited including clubs, organizations and parents from Youghal and surrounding areas.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

All players are requested to take part in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade where we will assemble at Dolphins Square at 2:30pm. Please wear our Club colours and a green hat. After the parade all players and family members are invited to Club Aras for a disco @ 4pm.
U14 League Results
Our U14s have now played 4 league games defeating Cloyne, Carrigtwohill, and were defeated by Erins Own and Aghada. Next up is Na Piarsaig. Well done girls on some superb performances.
Day trip to Fingue
The long awaited trip to Kerry which was anticipated by all went ahead last Saturday the 3rd March. This trip was planned at the start of the year and was pushed out from February to March due to weather issues in North Kerry.
47 Players from both groups U12/14 and very welcome support from parents took to the bus at 9am from Club Aras in Youghal. The Bus trip to Killarney for the first stop ended up with a small bit of a shopping event compliments of “Claire’s” accessories at the outlet Centre. The fashion on show was a sight with the whole event and tour been christened the“Bling Bling Tour 2012”.
We arrived in North Kerry just after lunch for our first match with the U12s. We had some good spells of play from all players but ended up losing to a very good team. The U12 team is in transition of development, blending those just out of U10 grade with current U12 players. The year will have a different focus on development, improving the basic skill level at this grade and full inclusion of all players. The U14 game went ahead just after and from the off the challenge was very strong by Finuge. There were some very noticeable individual battles on the field with Finuge which had some gracious comments by the chair of Finuge club.
Finuge in North Kerry have senior ladies football and the under age structure of the club has some serious coaching going on. The club was voted Club of the year in Kerry in 2011 and once we arranged this challenge we were aware that it was a strong club with good football roots. We learnt a lot more about individual players and our own abilities as a team from this day which we hope will stand to us on in the near future.
The hospitality shown to us by this club was very welcome with refreshments served before our journey home. We presented Finuge with a shield in appreciation for hosting us and currently it is been considered in a Memorial tournament for one of their senior players who passed away following an accident last year. It is a very good thought to know Youghal Ladies Football is involved in such considerations on a tournament outside of our own county.
We would like to thank the Parents; Siobhán, Marie , Alison, Niamhand Caroline  who gave 100% on the day andwithout that extra bit of help it wouldn’t have gone off so smoothly. And of Course the players, they were a credit to their parents, a credit to themselves and a credit to represent their club the way they did….BLING BLING!