Our Senior Footballers made it 2 wins on the bounce following a hard fought, 1-point victory over Monaleen last Friday night. We had some good displays all over the park, most notably Conor McLoughlin and Christy O’Hagan in the full back line along with Evan Sweeney and Evan Egan up front. Kieran Daly came away with the man of the match award, along with a return of 1-05 from play.

The final moments of the game were nervy enough with Monaleen being awarded a contentious penalty. It looked as soft as can be with many vocal protests coming from the Na Piarsaigh sideline. On reflection, and following some consultation with those closest to the action, it turned out that Cackz actually had the Monaleen man in a headlock. So fair play to the ref on that one. James Linnane stepped up to save the Monaleen penalty but for our opponents to slot the rebound.

With a slender 1-point lead, and time almost up, play was stuck inside our own half. Doing our best to keep Monaleen out, the ref suddenly halted the game due to our opponents only having 2 defenders back. He duly brought the play all the way back up to the Monaleen 21. A free in front of the posts that ended up being thrown in and the game blown up. We’ll take that one as it’s possible that we only had 2 up as well.

The win continues our strong start to this year's league campaign. We have also seen great growth in the group with a couple more young lads blooded at senior level. Harry McGann's first year playing the adult ranks along with the return of Tommy Glynn, Adam Jordan and Stanley Dikes is great to see. 

Final score: Na Piarsaigh 2-09 Monaleen 2-08

Team: James Linnane, Christy O’Hagan, Conor McLoughlin, Aaron Rushe, Fionn O’Tiarnaigh (0-01), Ronan Houlihan, Matty Walsh, Jack McCarthy, Cathal McMullan, Dean McLoughlin, Gordon Brown, Evan Sweeney, Evan Egan (0-03, 0-02f), Aodhán Keane (1-00), Kieran Daly (1-05).

Subs: John Leahy for Dean, Adam Jordan for Matty, Tommy Glynn for Aodhán, Harry McGann for Jack, Stanley Dikes for Kieran.

Round 3 of the league sees the lads make the trip to Ballylanders on the 29th of March.

Peter Casey made his return to intercounty hurling at the weekend in what was an emphatic Limerick win over Galway. Peter chipped in with a point, having been brought on around the 50 minute mark. Shane did the business in goals, while not making the scoresheet himself, he did keep a clean sheet and built a great platform for Limerick with his pin-point puck outs. William put in a good shift in midfield, while Vince was introduced early for an injured Mike Casey. Mike took a heavy blow to the head after a high challenge from his Galway opponent. We look forward to Mike making a return to action in the coming weeks.

JJ Carey added a third level All Ireland medal to his armory following UL’s 1-20 to 19-point win over NUIG last week. The victory in the All Ireland Intermediate final complements the Munster championship he and UL won only a couple of weeks ago.

Fixtures
Junior B Football League Vs Mungret - Wednesday 7:30, Páirc Uí Dromgúil.
Senior Hurling League Vs Patrickswell - Thursday 7:00, Páirc Uí Dromgúil.
Intermediate Hurling League Vs Crecora - Saturday 3:00, Crecora.
Junior B Hurling League Vs Caherline - Sunday 12:00, Caherline.