Our P6 and P7 girls made a great start to the Gaelic Football season in the Autumn League at Woodlands Playing Fields. The girls played 3 matches against St. Bernard's, St. Michael's and St. Bride's and came away with three great wins.

The girls battled hard for every ball, tackled ferociously and displayed some wonderful attacking play across all of the matches. Each win was a real team effort but a special mention must go Laura Mc from P7CM who stepped in to goals for her first ever Gaelic Football matches and played liked a seasoned professional.

Following on from the great performance of the girls' team, the boys' team did brilliantly themselves and have also qualified for the semi-finals.

They were placed in a group against St. Bernard's, St. Michael's, St. Bride's, and St. Joseph's, with all four matches being extremely competitive.

The boys came away with two draws, one loss, and a very tense draw against our near neighbours, St. Joseph's, which means that they qualify as runners-up in the group.

Both teams will play their semi-finals on Wednesday, 23rd October, at Rossa GAC.

The girls are on first at 1:15 p.m. vs. Holy Child.  

The boys play at 2:00 p.m. vs. St. Anne's.

This has been an excellent start to the Gaelic football year in St. Ita's, with over 35 pupils representing the school already. This will increase further when another 40 boys and girls from P6 and P7 travel up to Carryduff GAC at 11 a.m. on Friday, 18th October, for a friendly match against St. Joseph's to mark the opening of the new pitch at the club. I think this is a good indicator of how strong Gaelic games are in our school.