U14 girls - Fiona Landers

A fine season for the U14 girls. Training started in August last year. We were delighted to welcome 6 girls from Iveragh RFC and 1 girl from Killorglin RFC. The girls were unlucky not to get to the quarter final in the Munster League but did win the Munster Development Bowl in April beating Fethard 28-19. They finished on a high at the Good Friday Tournament in Shannon getting to the final against Fermoy which ended in a draw in extra time.

At the Good Friday Tournament, we presented the awards for the season with Nessa O’Donoghue Player of the Year, Brooke Sullivan Most Improved, Harriet O’Sullivan Most Committed and Ellen O’Leary, The Coaches Award.

This year's Give It A Try programme has been a great success with 19 girls participating. Many thanks to coaches TJ Brosnan, Liam Murphy and Jenna Moynihan for taking time out to do this programme. The parents and kids are enjoying it enormously and are full of praise for the coaches. The last session will be held on the 10th June.

U16s girls - Patrick O’Reilly

Training started for the U16 girls in September. We had a good turn out across the season for both training and matches.

The team welcomed a number of girls from Iveragh RFC and Killorglin RFC into the panel. Always great to welcome new players to the club, we also had 4 new girls playing in their debut season. The girls did enough to finish third place in their league group and progressed to the Munster league quarter-final where we met a very strong Shannon side who ended our run. We met UL Bohs / Garryowen in the Munster cup where we were beaten 46-26 at home in Killarney.

A number of the U16 girls took part in the West Munster development squad in MTU. Involvement in MTU brings an added dimension to the U16 season and helps open their minds to the potential opportunities available to them as they progress in their rugby career.

Congratulations to U16 Overall Player of the Year Melissa McCarthy, Most Committed Player of the Year Ella Guerin-Crowley and Most Improved Player of the Year Nell Crowley. Further congratulations to Eliza O'Sullivan who represented our club wearing a Munster jersey for the U16 7's inter-provincial competition.

A big thanks to all the players, parents and coaches for an enjoyable 2022/23 season.

U18s girls - Diarmuid O’Malley

The girls went through the conference section of the league unbeaten putting up some big scores all against Cork opponents. They played some good rugby in the process but the feeling was very much that bigger tests were approaching.

The girls got a home league semi-final and unfortunately lost the game by a single score to a very good Carrick on Suit/Thurles team, we ended up also drawing the same team away in the cup semi-final and played much better in that game but in fairness to Carrick/Thurles they won and we had absolutely no complaints, they ended up winning the league. Bowing out at the semi-final stage of both competitions, was a fair reflection of our ability and the standard of rugby we played this season, which was good as we had so many new girls playing rugby this season.

During the season we lost 6/7 of the 2005 girls, main reason was less time to commit to rugby/sport in the leaving cert year. Fortunately, we also managed to grow the player base by 6/7 players, which was crucial otherwise fielding a team could have been very tight. Most/all of these new players will continue to play next season. We have recruited Elaine Clifford (Ali’s mother) as team manager for next season and hope to go back preseason training in August.

In the February U18 interprovincials we had three girls represent Munster, Lily Morris, Fia Whelan and Ava O Malley, Clodagh Foley(injured). In the May interprovincials 7s series, we had the following players represent Munster: Ava O’Malley, Niamh Dorian, Fia Whelan, Clodagh Foley, Katie O Donoghue (injured).

Our Player of the Year was Bronagh Dorrian with Most Improved Player being Emer O’Keeffe. The Most Committed Player went to Keelyn O’Leary

We had the huge honour of Lily Morris playing for Ireland in the U18 Six Nations during Easter time and Lily had the distinction of being one of four girls from Ireland selected to the team of championship at tight head.