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Sport in Cappawhite National School

Cappawhite National School takes part in a very active sporting agenda. Activities include swimming, football, camogie hurling, cross country running and tag-rugby. Most of the teachers participate in one or the other of the activities. Some sports are played between pupils within the school while others are played more competitively and played against other schools in the south Tipperary area.


Mrs. Coman, Mrs. McMahon , Mrs English and Mrs. Flynn are in charge of the hurling and football. Seanie O’Neill who comes to the school for a half-day each week to teach general rules and skills of hurling and football.

Camogie is a much-loved game by most girls and is under the leadership of Mrs. Flynn and Mrs. Coman. Past pupils of Cappawhite N.S. have won All-Ireland in both hurling and camogie.

The Tipperary Cross-Country Championships are held in Thurles each year and some pupils from the senior classes go forward to represent the school. These pupils are selected from competitions held within the school which are organised by Ms. Rainsford, Mrs Coman and Mrs. McMahon. Last year our school team performed very well and we hope to do even better this year.
We collected tokens from the star newspaper this year and received a brand new football/ hurling/ camogie/ soccer kit.
The quantity of sport undertaken within the school could not be achieved without the encouragement and support of our principal Mrs. Flynn. We hope this great sporting tradition will continue for many years to come!

Girls Football League
An Account by winning captain Aoife Meagher

Mrs. McMahon organised a winter football league between the girls of 3rd ,4th ,5th and 6th class. We had three teams and all teams met twice . The two highest scoring teams would meet in the final.Teams A and C made it to the final having both beaten each other once! I was the captain of team C. Emma Quinn was captain of team A.
It was a wet and windy day and athough it dried off long enough for us to play the match ,the field was very wet and it was very windy.Seanie O Neill was referee for the final and it was 10 minutes a side.
Our team ,Team C was as follows:Aoife Meagher Megan Hickey Chloe Clancy Niamh Cleray Sinead Buckley and Carrie Horgan
Team A was as follows: Emma Quinn Shannon Breheny Catherine Grant Aoife Lennon Laura Ryan and Sarah Pollock .
Our team won the final and I had to make a speech. We got gold medals and the runners up got silver medals .The final score was 8 goals and 2 points to 5 goals.We had a grewat time and everyone really enjoyed themselves which was the main thing.

Boys Football League
An Account by Jamie Tierney 6th Class

During the last few weeks we have been playing a football league in the school. Miss Furlong was the teacher who organised it for the boys. Four teams took part A,B,C and D. Padraig Ryan captained Team A, John Paul McCarthy for Team B, Brian Carew for Team C and I was the captain for Team D.

In the final Team's C and D weren taking each other on. Sean O'Neill was the referee. The match was ten minutes a side. The match was very close but in the end our team only won by 5 points. Brians team put up a great fight so hard luck to Brians team and the and the other teams aswell.