Our school is involved in a lot of sports.
Gaelic football, swimming and basketball. There are three gaelic
teams, the boys, the girls and the combined team. Three years ago the
combined team won a major competition and last year the boys team
were runners-up in another major competition.. Over the years the
team has never won anything until the girls won the Louth
county
final in November 2000. Every week the
school goes swimming. Students from the classes 3 rd, 4 th, 5 th and
6 th participate. Every year the children try to swim the maximum
number of lengths they can by swimming a 15m + 25m pool. There is a
very high standard with people swimming between 8 and 32 lengths. The
record is 48 lenghts 1200 Metres achived by Martin Caroll.
There are three terms and the school only goes swimming two terms so
in the third term the children in 5 th and 6 th go outside on Fridays
to play Rounders. This is great fun and isn't really taken seriously,
(but some people do!).
ROUNDERS: Played with a bat or racquet and a ball (usually a tennis
ball) plus bollards used as bases. Very popular in Ireland something
like Cricket played for fun sometimes you see people playing it on a
beach in the summer. It was the game the Irish brought to America.
That game is now called Baseball.
HURLING: Played with a hurley stick (camán) and a ball
(sliotar). Played in a field with goal posts. If it goes over the bar
it's one point (0-1) and under the bar it's three points(0-3 or1-0) a
goal. A native sport to Ireland probably the equal most popular along
with Gaelic. There are fifteen on each team and the ball (the
sliotar) is hand sewn hard leather. It is a very quick and is an
extremely skillful sport.
GAELIC: Played with a ball (just like a soccer ball). Played in a
field the same size as the hurling pitch, with fifteen on each team.
As popular as hurling. Gaelic and hurling are played in every county
and when there is a national final it is played in Croke Park, at
GAA headquarters.Very physical sport, played by thousands of
people. Another native sport.
FAVOURITE TEAMS: The most popular soccer teams in our class are;
Celtic, Man
Utd, Newcastle,
Liverpool and Aston
Villa.
