Today's match was played in a gale force wind and it was always going to be the proverbial game of two halves. Unfortunately Passage lost the toss and had to play with the wind in the first half. After 15 minutes, with no score from either side, Anthony Kidney opened the scoring with a free. Passage drove on with another Kidney free and a free from Dara Murphy. After a superb team move, Ross McMahon scored a great goal and Dara Murphy scored a great point from way out on the wing. Blarney finished the half wih a point to make it 1-04 to a point at half time.

Poor weather conditions before this match meant that a spectacular game of football was unlikely and that a dogfight would ensue instead. But in the end this game provided everything, with some superb fielding, point taking, and interplay on display from both teams and a tough uncompromising contest on top of that.

All at Passage GAA would like to wish our boys and girls who will represent their schools, Star of the Sea and Scoil Barra Monkstown, in the upcoming Sciath na Scol finals in Pairc Uí Rinn the very best of luck. Its the 4th year in a row that the Star of the Sea girls have qualified for the final and the second year in a row that the school have both boys and girls reaching the final stages. This is a great achievment for both schools, the club, and the players who worked so hard to qualify for the finals.

November 10th, 11:00am - Star of the Sea girls vrs St Brendans (11 a side, 15min per half)

November 10th, 11:45am - Star of the Sea boys vrs Little Island (11 a side, 15min per half)

November 23rd, 11:45am - Scoil Barra Monkstown boys vrs Scartleigh (11 a side, 15min per half)

This is a very special day for all involved, and it would be great if supporters could make the trip to Pairc Uí Rinn to cheer them on.

** Realt na Mara agus Scoil Barra Abú **

Passage began slowly, allowing Youghal a head start of 3 points. Two pointed frees by Anto Kidney brought Passage into the game, but a youghal goal shortly afterwards gave us an uphill battle. at 1-5 to 2 points down it looked like it was going to be one of those bad nights for Passage, but a great point from Cian Power and a Kidney cracker of a goal brought us to half time 1-7 to 1-4 behind.

Passage Under 11 Footballers had their first Floodlit game away to Glenville on Wed 12th October 2011. We brought a squad of 17 to Glenville for this Under 11 challenge match which was played under the floodlights. The game was played with 3 periods of 15 minutes on a nice evening and it was competitive from the start when we had the advantage of the sloping pitch for the first period of 12 a side.

There is strong representation from Passage GAA Club's Under 11's/12's on the Monstown N.S. football team that have qualified for the final of their section for the first time by winning all 6 games in this seasons competition. There are 5 boys from the Passage club on the Monkstown team, Jack Lester, Jack Murphy, Josh Clarke, Will Fielding and Adam Hallissey along with David Hyland from the under 12's so best of luck to them in their final. Star of the Sea, Passage are also progressing well, drawing just one and winning all of their other games so far so hopefully they'll progress too with another strong representation of under 11's and 12's from our club. The girls from Star of the Sea are also looking good to make it through to the final stages. Well done to all involved with both schools.

Passage fe 13 hurlers played Inniscarra in the Championship semi-final in stormy conditions in Togher on Saturday. Passage played with the elements in the first half which was ruined by a 12 minute squal. Passage got the first two points from Ronan Harrington and Thomas O’Neill but missed a couple of good chances when Iniscarra got there first point in the 15th minute, from the son of former Passage player Tony Scott and they scored a goal just after this. Inniscarra got another 2 points from play and then Passage came back into the match with a fine goal and then a point from Cathal McCarthy.

Well done to all of the boys and girls who took part in our VHI Cúl Camp over the past week. We hope that you all had a great time, maybe made some new friends and that you will keep working on the new skills that your trainers showed you. On the final day of our Cúl Camp we were delighted that cork Senior Hurler, Pa Cronin, paid us a visit. Pa did questions and answer sessions with all of the age groups and explained how important the basics (grip, hitting with left and right, rising the sliothar, etc) are, that you need to keep working on them if you want to get better at hurling or football too. A big thanks goes to the trainers who put in a lot of work with the children over the week, to Ned and Noel for having the grounds in tip top shape yet again, and to Tom Harrington for coordinating the whole event. Click on the picture to get a gallery of photos from the final day.

PASSAGE 5-4 TRACTON 2-3

Passage U 11s played Tracton on the new pitch at Manning Park on Wed evening in a highly competitive and entertaining 12 a side hurling match.

Tracton started stronger in the first few minutes and they duly took the lead with a fine point and they had a couple of wides too before Passage upped the ante and started to dominate around midfield through Josh Clarke, Michael Sheehan and Mark Coughlan and in the half back line through Jamie O Sullivan and Luke Tett.

Passage Under 11's took part in a football blitz on Thursday evening hosted by Shamrocks GAA Club.  We played games against Cobh and Shamrocks. We played in the first game against the hosts, 12 v 12.  Passage made a great start and went 2-1 to 0-2 ahead by the break with some great passing and interplay between backs and forwards.  Shane Brosnan and Conor Lester combined very well in a 2 man full forward line with Shane scoring one goal and setting up the other before adding a lovely point from his trusty left boot.