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Scór Sinsear 2007
Ballycomoyle upped the ante
considerably for this years senior Scór. From last years humble entry in three
categories we have grown to five categories with two entries in three of them.
This hasn't happened without a lot of hard work on the part of our Culture and
language officers, Doreen Farrelly and Catherine Daly. They, together with
all the other participants, had been rehearsing in St. Feichin's National School
Fore and the Parish centre in Castlepollard in the run up to the County
semi-final.
On February 9th in The Downs
clubhouse they gave 100% to the assembled crowd (which included a fair
share of Bal' supporters) and
reaped the rewards in two categories. The Ballad Group of Gráinne Healy,
Doreen Farrelly, Micheál Fagan, Siobhán Murphy and Catherine Daly were
chosen to go forward to the County Final in The Down's Clubhouse on
Saturday February 24th. So too was our entrant in the recitation,
Catherine Daly.
Unfortunately despite giving
brilliant performances in both categories we were unsuccessful in the
County final. We must wait another year for the glory which will
inevitably come if we keep up the work rate and commitment that
was shown these last two years.
Great credit must go to all the
participants who worked so hard and flew the Ballycomoyle flag proudly. |
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Catherine Daly who represented us in
the Recitation made it through to the County final. |
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Gráinne Healy, Doreen
Farrelly, Micheál Fagan, Siobhán Murphy and Catherine Daly who
represented us in the Ballad group section.
They made it through to the County final. |
Elaine
Caffrey, Samantha Molloy, Cariosa O'Neill, Breege Dobson and Clodagh
O'Neill who represented us in the Ballad Group section |
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Back: John McManus,
Joe Masterson, Micheál Fagan & Michael Caffrey Front: Gráinne Healy,
Catherine Daly, Doreen Farrelly & Kathleen Caffrey
Our set dancing group. |
Siobhán Murphy, one of
our solo singers. |
Cariosa O'Neill one of
our solo singers. |
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Our full entry list is as follows: |
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Ballycomoyle
GFC |
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Ballycomoyle
Ladies |
| Ballad Group: |
Grainne McManus, Micheál Fagan, Catherine Daly, Siobhan Murphy, Doreen
Farrelly. |
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Clodagh O'Neill, Breege Dobson, Samantha Molloy, Elaine Caffrey, Cariosa
O'Neill. |
| Solo Singing: |
Siobhán Murphy |
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Cariosa O'Neill. |
| Recitation: |
Catherine Daly |
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| Question Time: |
Ciarán Ring, Jimmy
Weldon, Ray Farrelly. |
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Libby
Hannon, Tracey Weldon, Sinead Kilmurray. |
| Set Dancing: |
John
and Grainne McManus, Michael and Kathleen Caffrey, Micheál Fagan
and Doreen Farrelly , Joe Masterson and Catherine Daly. |
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Scór na nÓg 2007
(Club and County Finals held at the end of 2006)
Ballycomoyle Club hosted one of the first
rounds of Scór na nÓg in Collinstown Hall on Saturday November 4th. We had two
teams entered as last year but had entrants in more categories than last year.
The extra ones being Ballad Group and Figure dancing. Following on the success
of last year's event Doreen Farrelly (Club Culture and Language Officer) worked hard with Catherine Daly to prepare our teams for the various
competitions.
Our entrants were as follows.
Ceilidh Dancing;
Sarah Fagan, Saoirse Farrelly, Kelly Coyle, Alice Murphy, Marie Egan, Jane
Coyle, Bi-Bi O'Reilly and Katie Egan.
Solo Singing: Jane Coyle, Fergal
Tiernan.
Instrumental Music; Cian Farrelly,
Hillary Gaffney, Jack Coyle, Katie Egan, Sarah Fagan, Ciara Walsh, Marie Egan,
Saoirse Farrelly.
Question Time; Karen Coyle, Cian
Farrelly, John Coyle, Rebecca O Brien, Killian Daly, Peter Mc Kenna.
Recitation; Ciara Walsh, Karen
Coyle
Ballad Group; Cliona Daly, Alice
Murphy, Saoirse Farrelly, Sarah Fagan, Jane Coyle.
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they had and provided wonderful entertainment for a packed Collinstown
Hall. Our Ceilidh dancers and our instrumental couplet of Cian Farrelly
& Hilary Gaffney were chosen by the judges to go forward to the County
semi-final in The Downs Clubhouse on Saturday November 18th. We wish
them the very best of luck on the night and encourage as many people as
possible to travel to The Downs on the night to cheer them on.
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Catherine Daly & Doreen Farrelly
who put in tremendous work with our team in the weeks before the
competition. |
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| Our Instrumentalists |
Our Dancers |
County Semi-Final.
At the semi-final in The Downs
Clubhouse on Sat November 18th both our Instrumental group and our very young
troupe of dancers represented themselves and the club well. Unfortunately the
dancers didn't make the next round but our very talented musicians Cían Farrelly
and Hilary Gaffney, deservedly got the aapproval of the judges and indeed the
audience to go through to the County Final on Sunday Nov. 26th in Ballymore
Community Centre. We would like to see a good smattering of local support in
Ballymore at 3pm next Sunday.
County Final
Despite an accomplished
performance our instrumental group failed to make it out of the county to the
Leinster qualifiers. There is no doubt however that the Ballycomoyle Scór
portfolio is growing and brings a whole different angle to the club in the
Winter months when the football is in hibernation. |
