In his acceptance speech in after winning the Meath Senior Football championship, Skryne;s Mick O’Dowd began with the immortal words “What a day, what a week, what a club, what a parish”. Considering that the extremely successful Skryne 75/125 banquet held in Knightsbrook and the equally successful boxing tournament known as the Battle of the Bolies took place within one week of each other I think it is only fitting that I echo Micko’s words.  The amount of good work [...]

  Skryne GFC Boxer Profiles Name Age Weight Height Stance Fact about Self Fighting Name Ciara Dixon 19 57kg 172cm Orthodox Lives in Ashbourne and loves Boxing Ciara the Killer Michelle Whelan 25 10 st 5’6’’ Orthodox Orla is my hero Unit James Hegarty 25 11.75 st 5’9’’ South Paw Heading abroad in early 2013 to further my boxing career Hedge Cutter Felim O’Rourke 32 15.5 st 6’ 4’’ Orthodox Never late for anything in [...]

As you no doubt know by now, members of Skryne football club will take on Duleek/Bellewstown on Saturday 24 November in a White Collar Boxing event in the Pillo hotel Ashbourn.  Most of the participants are current players on our adult teams although there are a few who have finished playing and have come in to be part of the event.  We have one lady, Michelle Whelan, participating.  These members have been training two night a week [...]

Skryne saw their U19 championship hopes come to an end at the hands of Dee Rangers on Sunday 18th November in Syddan. This was the semi final stage of the competition and was always expected to be a tough task for theTara side given the quality of Dee Rangers.   The game got underway when match referee David Feddigan threw the ball up in what was a cold frosty morning to let the battle begin. [...]

The Skryne U8s have wrapped up activities for the year.  The lads had their final session over the October Bank Holiday weekend.  It has been a busy year which began back in the first week of March.  Since then the lads have had weekly training sessions.  The emphasis through the year was on enjoyment, participation and most importantly skills development.  On the playing front they participated in the Meath GAA Blitz Day programme which consisted [...]

Royal Gaels 6 – 10 Skryne 5 – 10. Skryne lined out against Royal Gaels of Dunshaughlin under floodlights in FatherMcManusPark on Thursday evening 8th of November in their U19 league campaign.  This was expected to be a thrilling encounter and that is exactly what we got, with great credit going to each side for the top class display of  football we witnessed. This was a mild and damp evening when match referee Mick Ryan [...]

Attention all Adult players.  As you are aware Skryne take on Dul/Bellewstown in a White Collar boxing event in the Pillo hotel on Saturday 24 Nov.  Many of your colleagues are busy every Tuesday and Friday nights training for this event.  They have to raise enough funds to compete in the event and also hope to bring in enough extra revenue to help defray some of the club expenses.  In order that they can box [...]

The Underage section of Skryne GFC held a very successful and enjoyable fundraiser in the form of a Mr & Mrs Competition in Swan’s Lounge on Saturday 27th October. Twelve couples took part, competing to see which couple knew each other best. Our host for the night was Ron Duff. All of the couples scored highly, but only one couple got full marks. Congratulations to Declan and Margaret Moore, who won the top prize of [...]

Skryne U10’s year was coming to an end for 2012 unfortunately. The batteries need to be recharged for the winter months and we are already planning ahead for 2013. But there was one more thing that we had to do. The decision as mad as it may sound was to play a final match at home at Fr Manus Park. The match was going to be a game between the U10’s and the “Overs”, the [...]

Skryne 4 – 22 Dunboyne 1 – 6 Skryne continued on with their U19 League campaign when they took on Dunboyne in Father McManus Park the Skryne home ground on Thursday evening 1st November.  This game was played in bitterly cold conditions with an icy North East wind blowing down through the Skryne home ground and winter letting us knows it had arrived. Match referee Mick Ryan from Dunsany got the game underway at 8pm [...]