Nurney Villa AFC play host to Parkville United AFC at Augha Road Nurney at 11 am

This is the first game for both teams in this competition

It was the first meeting of both these teams this season in very wet conditions.

Both teams started brightly and it was New Oak who broke through after 10 mins with Realtin Ryan finish. On 19 mins New Oak were awarded a penalty which they seen fantastically saved by the Nurney keeper. Nurney battled hard to get back into it and they did when they scored twice in the space of two mins with goals from Natalia Deka & Rebecca Birmingham to leave Nurney on top at half time.

New Oak started the second half strong and after some fantastic defending from Nurney they finally found the net after a cracking strike from Aoibhe Halligan Murphy to bring it back to 2-2. New Oak pressed high up the pitch in the last ten minutes and seen again Aoibhe Halligan Murphy & Lucy Grogan finding the Net to make it 4-2 to New Oak Girls Pink.

Fantastic individual performances from all the New Oak girls while best for Nurney was Hannah Murphy, Holly Murphy & Carly Doyle.

5th placed New Oak AFC Green play host to 7th placed Nurney Villa AFC at Burrin Rd Carlow (New Oak Boys) at 11:30 am

New Oak AFC Green's last game was a 5-0 loss away against Burrin Celtic AFC.
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Nurney Villa AFC come from a unlucky 4-5 loss at home against Killeshin AFC.
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4th placed Ballymurphy Celtic play host to 6th placed Nurney Villa AFC at Ballymurphy at 1 pm

Ballymurphy Celtic's last game was a 2-2 draw away against Nurney Villa AFC.
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Nurney Villa AFC has yet to win in this competition.
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League leaders St Patrick's Boys AFC play host to 5th placed Nurney Villa AFC at The Meadows Graiguecullen (St Pats Boys) at 1:15 pm

St Patrick's Boys AFC's last result was a confident 2-5 win away against Nurney Villa AFC.
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Nurney Villa AFC come from a poor 2-5 loss at home against St Patrick's Boys AFC.
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U13 - Div.2 Slaney Rovers 0 – 2 Nurney Villa

Nurney were out of the blocks early with two fine finishes from Eli Fleming and Kian Minchin to lead 0-2 at half time. After the break, Slaney looked a bit more menacing and thought they had scored from a long-range effort from Fionn Foley, only for his effort to crash off the crossbar, which would have rewarded the efforts of Rian Nolan, Kirsten Doyle, Will Darcy and Ronan Bochnia. Played well for Nurney Villa Finn Lawlor, Natalia Deka and Declan Kearney.

The away side opened the scoring before an Ide Nolan goal saw Nurney equalise within minutes.The remainder of the first half was an even affair ,with Nurney failing to trouble the Killeshin goalie despite having parity in midfield ,whilst the visitors had more luck and managed to find the net 3 more times to see them leading by 4 goals to 1 at the break. The second half saw Nurney take command and Natalia Deka scored a brace to see Nurney bring the margin down to the minimum. Killeshin scored their fifth and seemed to be safe but Natalia once again found the net for her hat trick to leave Killeshin nervous for the final few minutes with Nurney pressing for a goal that would give them a share of the points.The away defence held firm however and a very enjoyable game saw Killeshin take all three points.

Apart from their goalscorers ,best for Nurney in a battling performance were Natasha Byrne,Elisa Nolan and Alice Carroll.

Nurney Villa and Ballymurphy Celtic finished 2-2 in Nurney in this Carlow league U12 division 1 game. Both teams had their spells of dominance. Nurney had a good start and brought the game to Ballymurphy for the first 20 minutes. Nurney broke through a number of times before a through ball saw Oliver Hughes calmly slot home to give the home side the lead.

Ballymurphy responded with some sustained pressure on the Nurney goal. After a number of corners Ballymurphy’s Noah Fitzpatrick’s looping shot ended up in the Nurney goal,

It was 1-1 at half time. In the second half both sides had their moments.

Ballymurphy stole a March for the early period of the second half. Some sustained pressure on the Nurney goal resulted in some goal attempts and corners. Ballymurphy went ahead when Cian Moylan converted a penalty high into the net.

Nurney were not going to let it go easily and went back on the attack. Nurney won a penalty of their own which Finn Lawler converted with a strong finish also to the roof of the net. A draw was a fair result on the day.

Best for Nurney Villa were Finn Lawler, Oliver Hughes and Declan Kearney. Best for Ballymurphy Celtic were Cillian Doyle, john Joyce and Joshua Salway.

Nurney Villa AFC
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St Patrick's Boys AFC
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An entertaining, hard fought game was played by both teams in very windy conditions and a good playing surface.

Nurney played with the strong wind in the first half, though Fiacc’s attacked from the kick-off, and won some corners. Nurney defended strongly and started to get a foothold in the game, putting Fiacc’s under some pressure. After some great work down the right, Mai Cradock burst into the St. Fiacc’s box and put in a dangerous low cross that Kelly Tobin was quick to latch onto, finishing first-time into the corner with aplomb.

Fiacc’s to their credit performed well against the wind, with Mia Brannigan in midfield and Abbey O’Shea putting in some great work. Ella Matthews was also threatening and the Nurney defence had to be vigilant, but was well marshalled by Roisin Murphy. The lively Kelly Tobin was proving a real threat up front for Nurney, and created some half chances, though at the interval, Nurney were one up.

The second half started at a quick pace, with a real midfield battle going on, and neither side willing to give an inch. Both sides were showing good determination and commitment. At the 65 minute mark, the ball made its way to Hannah Matthews, 20 yards from goal, and she shot nicely just inside the far past to level the scores.

The pace of the game increased as both sides battled to find a winner, with both sides having threatening counter-attacks, but no further goals resulted.

Best for Nurney were Eve Kearney, Katie Cowman and Doireann O’Toole.

Best for St. Fiacc’s were Mia Brannigan, Abbey O’Shea and Hannah Matthews.

A hard fought game saw the home side take all 3 points.

In the 23rd minute some great skill from Kian Minchin got him into the Parkville box where he crossed into Eli Fleming who finished to the roof of the net. After this Parkville settle into the game and began to keep possession more with some very good passing in the middle 3rd of the pitch. The Nurney defence however was always in position to deal with any threats that came their way.

In the 40th minute Kian Minchin got on the end of a through ball from Alice Carroll and he gave Nurney a 2 nil lead which they saw out to the end.

Best for Parkville were Joe Smithers, Cody Doyle and Darragh Murphy.

For Nurney Noah Doyle (Goalkeeper), Jack Barrett (Centre back) and Aaron O'Brien (Centre back) where unbeatable all day long.

Good to be back after the weather postponed fixtures. Excuse the cliche but this was probably a game of two halves. The teams were nip and tuck until half time where it was 0-0 and Burrin Celtic pulled away to win 4-0 by the end.

Both sides were playing an entertaining passing game. Both keepers were on their toes.

In the first half Nurney competed well and had some good passages of play. Both defences remained solid.

In the second half Burrin got the break through via Ciaran Redmond’s drilled shot. Burrin were getting the upper hand and goals from Glen Cantwell

Senan Finn and Joshua Smithers O'Connor followed towards the end.

Nurney battled well, and never gave up. Best for Nurney were Shane Glynn and Cillian Murphy in midfield and Liam Nolan in goal. For Burrin the backs played well, in midfield Senan Finn and Josh Byrne played well with Glenn Cantwell always a threat going forwards.

Kian Minchin started this match off with a goal inside the 1st minute. 20 minutes later Natalia Deka showed her class when she brilliantly rounded the goalkeeper and made it 2 nil. Nurney would go on to get 3 more in the 1st half, Finn Lawler getting 1 and Natalia Deka and Kian Minchin getting 1 more each.

Vale started the second half well and very quickly got a goal back with a fine finish from Bill Hayden. 3 more goals for Nurney by Eli Fleming, Alice Carroll and Christopher Salmon would finish the scoring in this game.

Nurney Villa u12 travelled to Clerihan FC in Tipperary for this u12 FAI trophy 2nd round tie. The weather conditions were poor with strong wind and rain blowing diagonally across the pitch. This favoured Clerihan in the first half.

Nurney conceded a penalty early in the first half. This was well finished by Ewan Byrne to give the home side that early advantage. Clerihan capitalised on the weather and worked through a further four goals in the first half, with Robbie O’Brien prominent.

Nurney enjoyed good periods of possession in the second half after the turn around. Aided by the wind they put some pressure on the Clerihan defence. Despite some close calls they didn’t score. Meanwhile Clerihan managed to work their way up the pitch to score again. Clerihan were a very well balanced team. Prominent for them were Noah and Robbie O’Brien, and Luke Keane (a second half scorer). Best for Nurney were Ben Maher, Finn Lawler and Jack Glynn.

St Joseph's welcomed Nurney to Mcardle's cross today for this local Derby, St Joseph's started the better and had the run of the chances, Daniel Byrne, and Donnacha Moran we're full of running and we're putting the Nurney Defence under pressure, Cillian Mc Ateer and Dán Kehoe we're very trick pushing forward from Midfield, however Nurney Goalkeeper Noah Doyle was on top form and kept them at bay, half time 0-0. Second half say Nurney improve and become more of a threat going forward, ten minutes in they were rewarded when Conor Salmon slotted home, St Joseph's fought hard for the equilizer and Nurney caught them on the counter attack to make it 2-0 with Adam Janus finishing past the advancing keeper, Max Duignan pulled one back to set up a fantastic last ten minutes, Joeys had a second ruled out for offside, Nurney finished off the Game when a Joeys Defender turned the ball into his own goal from a corner, Final Score 1-3

Best for St Joseph's, Alex Mc Grath, Evan Farrell and Conall Doyle, best for Nurney, noah Doyle(GK), Conal Dermody and Cian merchant

This game started out as a close game with both sides working each other out in the opening exchanges. As the flood lights came on after the first 15 mins the game sprung into action with both teams playing some nice football.

With the sides locked 0-0 at the break, Nurney pushed on in the second half with two early goals in quick succession to go 2-0 up. Vale were chasing the game at this stage and had some half chances but Nurney did well on the counter attack and grabbed another to go 3-0 up. In the latter quarter Vale pressed and were rewarded with a goal by James Aughney, but Nurney again punished some mistakes in defence to finish the game 4-1 winners. This was a closer more entertaining game than the score line suggests with both teams playing with great heart and the game was played in a great spirit.

Scorers for Vale Wanderers: James Aughney

Best Players were Conor Stanley, Adam Walsh and Josh Dermody.

Scorers for Nurney: Conor Phelan, Adam Jeffers (x2) and Callum Jordan. Best Players were Eoghan Murphy, Cameron Curran and Eli Fleming.

Nurney Villa vs Parkville United u12 league division 1

Parkville came out on top in this competitive affair with Nurney in this division 1 under 12 league match.

Both sides were glad to have a game after the recent weather postponements.

Parkville started well with some good pressure on the Nurney goal.

Good defending by Nurney’s Andy Farrellń kept them at bay.

Nurney defended and passed well but didn’t put pressure on the Parkville goal.

Mid way through the first half Jack O Connor from Parkville picked up possession in defence and played a quick ball out to Tadhg Dempsey on the wing.

Dempsey split the Nurney defence with a weighted pass to Joe Leacy who finished neatly.

Half time was a welcome break for both teams.

Nurney pushed on at the start of the second half but the Parkville defense was solid.

Ben maher hit the Parkville post after some good Nurney play.

Parkville then struck again.

Liam Brennan whipped a ball into the Nurney penalty area for Jack O Connor to head the ball past Liam Nolan in the Nurney goal.

Nurney pressed hard to find a way back into the game but some resolute defending by Parkville, who were well marshalled by Jake Leacy at the back, saw them hold out for a 2 – 0 victory.

Best for Parkville were Jake Leacy, Jack O’Connor, and Tadhg Dempsey. Best for Nurney were Aaron O’Brien, Shane Glynn, Andy Farrell and Liam Nolan.

Nurney Villa travelled to The Meadows St Pats on a sunny Saturday morning.

It started well for both teams as both teams were having good possession spells as both were trying to break the deadlock. On 15 mins it was St Pats who took the lead when a corner was taken quickly to Cathal Farrell who passed to Evans Azeta who smashed a shot from 25 yards into the top corner make it 1-0. Nurney were always looking dangerous and pressed hard for an equaliser but just on the stroke of half time Jamal Adegoke hit a fine effort from just inside the box to make it 2-0.

Second half saw both teams create chances with both teams defences working very hard. St Pats went 3-0 when Ryan Doody set Cathal Farrell up to score another long range shot . Credit to Nurney they never gave up and had a great chance to score when Eli Fleming hit the post with a great effort . St Pats pushed further ahead when Eric Mihala score a fine goal after been introduced at half time. Domis Janusas was a torn in Nurney Villas side down the right wing and was rewarded with a fine goal from inside the box which made it 5-0 . St Pats make it three wins from three. Best for the home team were Ricky Matthews, Ryan Doody & Rian Cahill. Best for Nurney were Eli Fleming, Patrick Dermody & Christopher Salmon.

On what turned out to be a sunny morning In the meadows St Pats took on Nurney girls.

The pats girls got off to a lively start when Grace Walker scored the first goal. Pats continued the pressure and went 2-0 up from Katelyn Timmons.

Pats finished first half with a goal from mollie Cowman making it 3-0 at half time.

Nurney lost sarah Murphy through a knee injury. We wish her a speedy recovery.

Pats started the second half the same way and continued with a goal from Heidi Jones. Mollie followed up with another goal very quickly making it 5-0 to Pats.

Nurney pulled two back in quick succession through Ellen Barrett who was playing very well.

Pats got their 7th through Joanne Palmer Rivas.

Nurney got two back in the dying minutes through Ellen Barrett and Roisin Murphy.

Best for Nurney were Ellen Barrett, Roisin Murphy and Hannah Watters.

Best for Pats Grace Walker, Mollie Cowman and Katelyn Timmons