Photo: St Conleth's U10 Gaelic team and mentors at presentation of medals
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By Martin Carley.
Team Kildare once again excelled at the HSE National Festival in AIT Athlone adding a further six Gold, ten Silver, five Bronze and 1 fourth place to their already impressive haul from the previous weekend.
Newbridge St Conleth's took their festival Gold medal tally to five with Gold in Gaelic and Drama/Comedy.
Their Under 10 Gaelic team put in the performance of the day to take the Gold.
They had lost their first game in this four Team round robin to Listowel (Kerry) but as the Kerry team subsequently lost to Claregalway (Galway) meant that victory over Claregalway (Galway) would guarantee Gold. Aaron Donohue scored 2-4 of his team's 3-8 to set his team on the way.
Calum Dwane chipped in with 1-1 and Ben Delaney and Fionnain Galvin scored two points apiece. Claregalway tried hard but an inspired Mateen Bello kept his goal intact mopping up anything that came his way giving St Conleth's Gold, Listowel Silver, Claregalway Brone and Clontibret (Monaghan) fourth.
Listowel (Kerry) 3-9 St Conleth's 2-10
Claregalway (Galway) 5-4 Clontibret (Monaghan) 1-5
Listowel (Kerry) 3-9 St Conleth's 2-10
Claregalway (Galway) 5-4 Clontibret (Monaghan) 1-5
Galway 3-3 Kerry 0-6
Kildare 3-8 Monaghan 1-5
Kerry 2-15 Monaghan 3-5
Kildare 3-8 Galway 0-6
Kildare scooped 3 Gold and 5 Silver in the eight talent events.
St Conleth's got their fourth Talent Gold through Tanya Gallagher in the U16 recitation event with an emotional rendition of an excerpt from "The Lovely Bones"
Eadestown gave a wonderful mime performance to win gold in the U16 Drama/Comedy Sketch while Gold also went to Leixlip for their U12 Drama Sketch.
Silver went to U12 Group Dance Celbridge Sth , U16 Group Dance Maynooth, U15 Culture Corner Newbridge St Conleth's U12 Solo Recitation Joseph Carter (Eadestown) and U16 Solo Dance Ellen Dowse (St Conleth's)
On the Athletic track Eoin Conneff ran the anchor leg of 4x200 metre final to win Gold for Eadestown (His brother Darragh won Gold in U16 Comedy Sketch)
Silver Medals went to Kildare in U16 High Jump Ciaran Connollly (Leixlip), U16 200 Metres Grace O'Toole (Kilcullen), U14 100 Metres Peter Hamilton (Milltown) and U10 200 Metres Jack Morrin (Eadestown) and Bronze medals went to Keela Magee (Eadestown) in U16 100m, Katelyn Miley (Johnstown/Kill) in U14 Long Puck, Pauric Spillane (Athy) in U12 600 Metre and Eoin Conneff (Eadestown) again in U16 100 Metres.
The Gymnastics yielded 2 medals through the Murtagh Clan, Darragh Got Silver in U11 while Eadaoin came fourth in U13 girls.
Elsewhere, Edgaras Kucinskas won Gold in U16 Judo fighting in the 40kg section.
Gold
U10 Gaelic Newbridge St Conleth's (Mateen Bello, Ben Delaney, Aaron Donohue, Billy Donohue, Calum Duane, Cian Edmonds, Shane Farrell, Fionnan Galvin, Luke Mahon, Robert McCormack, Sam Neville, Tommy O Neill, Adam Poole, Aaron Redmond, Ross Smith)
Mixed U16 Relay Eadestown (Eoin Conneff, Diarmuid Kilgallon, Orla Lane, John Lawlor, Keela Magee & Hazel Mcloughlin )
U12 Drama/Comedy Leixlip (Anna Crowe, Caoimhe Garvin, Naomi Gorevan, Isobel Kelly, Madison Langan, Jenna McCarthy
U16 Drama/Comedy Eadestown (Sadie Byrne, Edward Carter, Daragh Conneff , Sinead Jacob , Fiona McShane & Andrew White )
U16 Judo 40kg Edgaras Kucinskas (Confey)
U16 Solo Recitation Tanya Gallagher (St Conleth's)
Silver
U12 Group Dance Celbridge Sth (Teigan Brennan, Elbha Sherlock & Aoife Deacon),
U16 High Jump Ciaran Connollly (Leixlip)
U16 Group Dance Maynooth East (Lauren Condron, Siobhan Dalayap, Sophia Knapp, Ciara Thomas, Tara Kavanagh, Rebecca Webb)
U15 Culture Corner Newbridge St Conleth's (Jenny Dillon, Carls Hyland, Caoimhe Gately, Kate O'Leary, Daniel Flynn, Clodagh Mckenna)
U16 200 Metres Grace O'Toole (Kilcullen)
U14100 Metres Peter Hamilton (Milltown)
U12 Solo Recitation Joseph Carter (Eadestown)
U16 Solo Dance Ellen Dowse (St Conleth's)
U11 Gynmastics Darragh Murtagh (Kildare Town)
U10 200 Metres Jack Morrin (Eadestown)
Bronze
U16 100m Keela Magee (Eadestown)
U14 Long Puck Katelyn Miley (Johnstown/Kill)
U12 Solo Dance Katie Loughrey (Prosperous)
U16 100 Metres Eoin Conneff (Eadestown),
U12 600 Metres Pauric Spillane (Athy)
fourth
U13 Gymnastics Eadaoin Murtagh (Kildare Town)
Weekend 1 Sunmmary
GOLD
Under 16 Solo Music - Sean Conlon - St Conleths Newbridge
Under 12 Breastroke - Shauna Dunne - Athy
Under 8 Art - Niamh Mullins - Straffan/Ardclough
Under 12 Art - Ross McHale - Milltown
Under 16 Solo Singing - Abbey McGiff - Confey
Under 16 Butterfly - Matthew Gardiner - St Conleths Newbridge
Under 12 Group Traditional Dance - St conleths Newbridge
Under 16 Group Singing - St conleths Newbridge
SILVER
Under 14 Breastroke - Beth Gardiner - St Conleths Newbridge
Under 16 Table Tennis - St Brigids Newbridge
Under 12 Mixed distance Relay boys - county Team Tom Murtagh - Kildare Town, finn Cowper-Gray - Kilcullen, Ben Curran - Milltown, Ola Amoo - Kildare Town, Sean Stynes - Suncroft/Curragh, Daire McNickle - Kilcock
BRONZE
Under 16 Freestyle - Ellen Crean - Confey
Under 10 Backstroke - Sean McBride
Under 16 Group Music - St Conleths Newbridge
Under 13 Futsal boys - St Brigids Newbridge
Under 13 Indoor Soccer boys - Maynooth East
Under 14 Mixed distance relay boys - County Team Peter Hamilton - Milltown, Cillian duffy - Kildare Town, Sam Prendergast - Suncroft/Curragh, Eoin Richards - Maynooth East, Michael Troy - Suncroft/Curragh, Conor Dunne - St Brigids Newbridge
4TH PLACE MEDAL
Under 13 Cross Country individual Girl - Hannah Breen - Kilcullen
Under 10 Art - Ella Cullen - Kilcullen
Under 12 Solo Singing - Holly Owen - Prosperouss
Under 14 Freestyle - Matthew Walsh-Hussey - Clane/Rathcoffey
Under 10 Backstroke - Ava Rock - Suncroft/Curragh
7-a-side Girl Under 12 Soccer - Monasterevin
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