In
our school we play a large variety of sports. We play hurling, football,
soccer and basketball, amongst others. This is an important part of our
curriculum as a healthy body leads to a healty mind.
Our parish G.A.A. Club is St. Dominics Club in Knockcroghery and other clubs in our wider catchment area include Four Roads and Athleague. With such a large number of clubs there is always friendly rivalry between the students.
Hurling
Prionsias
Killion is a Connaught Hurling Coach. He comes to our school every second
week to train us in hurling skills. We learn to block, bat, catch, strike,
hook and tackle. We also learn the skills of free taking and side-line
taking. We spend the first half hour practising the skills. Then we
pick two teams and play a game. Each year we take part in Cuman na mBunscol
Roscommon. We play teams from the other schools in our area. In October
each year we play in the "Sean Lohan" competition. This competition
is all ground hurling. We won our division in this competition last
year. But we were beaten in the quarter finals. In March each year we
play in the two-teacher schools hurling competitions. Last year we played
matches against Ballintlieva N.S., St. John's N.S. and Glanduff N.S.
in the first round.
In 2003 we won the division1 hurling final. We defeated the Abbey National in a very tight game of hurling.
In 2005 we reached the Sean Lohan Ground Hurling Final and were narrowly defeated by Tisrara N.S. We won the Division1 Hurling Final in June 2005. We played Tarmon in a very exciting game.
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Our panel of players last year was: Patrick Fallon, Alex Cammeraat, Alan Mac Donnell, Brian Donnelly, Padraic Beattie, Niall Glennon, Daniel Crane,David Mc Donnell, Jonathon Finnerty,John Reed, Martin Mc Donnell,Darren Donnelly, Dara Finnerty, Warren Boyle, Caitriona Bannon, Nicolle Reed, Laura Doyle and Shannon Reed. For the last three years we have joined with Fuerty N.S.and we entered the mini-sevens competition in Roscommon. We won the competition in hurling for the last three years. In 2001 Seamus Mc Keown was selected to play in Croke Park. He played for Galway at the All Ireland Semi-Final between Kilkenny and Galway. In 2002 Eamon Bannon was selected to play in Croke Park. He played for Clare in the All -Ireland Semi Final against Tipperary.In 2003 Naos Connaughton was selected to play in Croke Park. He played in the All Ireland semi final on 28 August 2003 at the Cork V Wexford match |
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Football In 2003 we reached the county semi- final of the two-teacher competition but lost the replay to Killina N.S. It was a very enjoyable,closely contested game of football. In 2005 we won the two-teacher football final. We played Ballyleague N.S. in a very exciting game. It was a proud day for everybody in Rahara when we were presented with the trophy. in 2003 we also took part in the Mac Donalds Catch and Kick Initiative. Timothy Geraghty and Naos Connaughton reached the County Final.
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Camogie
We play camogie in our school too. We won the Division 5 final in 2000.
In 2001 we won Division 3 final. But in 2002 we won the division one final.
We only had a panel of eight girls. Five of the girls were in sixth class,
one in fifth, one in fourth and one in second class. In the first round
we were beaten by the girls from Fuerty N.S. but we then beat Ballintlieva
N.S., Mount Talbot, and Glanduff. In the next round we beat the girls
from Athleague N.S. In the semi final we beat the girls from Four Mile
House N.S. We were through to the county final and our opponents were
the girls from Fuerty N.S. It was a great, exciting game of camogie. At
full time the score was 1-3 to 1-2 in favour of Rahara. There was great
excitement when we won.The panel of players were: Natascha Cammeraat,
Fiona Fallon, Emma Doyle, Stacey Doyle, Roisin Connaughton, Orla Fallon,
Caitriona Bannon and Laura Doyle.
in 2003/4 we only had three girls in the senior room. They were Catriona Bannon, Nicolle Reed and Laura Doyle. They joined the girls from Ballymurry N.S. St John's N.S. and Feevagh N.S. and played in camogie blitzes
In 2002 we joined with Fuerty N.S. to play in the mini sevens competition. We won the county final in that and Róisín Connaughton was selected to play in Croke Park. She played for Clare against Kilkenny in the All Ireland Final. She scored a goal. This happened to be the only goal scored by a Clare player on All Ireland Final Day 2002 in Croke Park.
In
2004/5 we joined with the girls from St John's N.S.. We playeed in the
7 aside camogie competitions. We reached the county championship final.
We were narrowly defeated by the girls from Lisaniskey N.S. This resulted
in us being rewarded the Division1 Title.
Soccer
We love to play soccer in our school too. Martin Conboy organises soccer
training for us every two weeks. Two soccer trainers come and teach us
a lot of soccer skills. If it is wet we train on the yard. Each year we
play in the six aside Ribena F.A.I.S. (Football Association of Ireland)
soccer competitions. We also participate in the 7 aside competitions organised
by the Roscommon Primary Schools Committee.
In 2005 we won the 2Teacher Soccer Final.
Other sportsclubs in our area
| St.
Dominic's Hurling Club |
St.
Dominic's Football Club |
Rahara
Rovers Soccer Club |
St.
Dominic's Camogie Club |