DERRYTRESK GAA WINNERS 202528 April 2025 (by admin) |
3 IN A ROW CHAMPIONS! Big congratulations to our Primary 6 & 7 football team who won the Doire Treasc Fir an Chnoic Primary Schools’ Cup today, amazingly for the 3rd year in a row!
6 local schools competed for the Cup, Edendork PS, Primate Dixon PS, Brocagh PS, Gaelscoil PS, Annaghmore PS and Kingsisland PS.
Each team played each other in 5 rounds of 10-minute games, with the top 2 teams qualifying for the Winners Cup Final and the next two teams qualifying for the Runners-up Shield Final.
After some fantastic football, the Kingsisland team, who had remained undefeated, topped the group closely followed by Edendork PS.
As a result these top two teams faced off again in the Cup final, in front of a packed crowd of adults and fellow students. In a fiercely competitive game Edendork and Kingsisland served up a real classic, full of skill, determination and attacking Gaelic football.
With the match evenly poised at 1-1 to 0-2 in favour of Kingsisland at half time, the game was on a knife edge.
In the second half despite, some brilliant defending from a determined Edendork team, some outstanding scores from the Kingsisland lads and Jonathan Blair in particular, ensured that the Kingsisland team edged to victory in the final, on a scoreline of 2-9 to 1-2. 
Congratulations to Edendork for a fantastic game of football.
Congratulations also to Annaghmore and Primate Dixon who competed in the Shield final and to Brocagh and Gaelscoil also for a very sporting tournament.
Many thanks to Conor Starrs and the whole backroom team at Doire Treasc GFC for organising another very successful tournament. This is the third year of the tournament. It is now a very well established local tournament and recognised by all of the local schools, as a day to look forward to each year. Well done to everyone in Derrytresk.