Under 18 Girls

The Senior Girls have been enetered in bothe Cup and League competitions this year. Following their dramatic success in reaching the leinster Quater Finals in their debut year in 2007/8, and being narrowly defeated 1-0 by St. Peters Dunboyne, an administrative error left them out of the competition last year but continued training. They have been entered a competitive and dedicated squad for  this years U-18 competition and are confident of doing well.

Ms. Meenah has joined the coaching staff. With Mr. Clarke having to look after the U-16 boys,he can only make some coaching sessions and matches, but Ms. Meenah has been drilling the girls in technique and fitness.

Training takes place on Monday afternoon from 4-5pm. Match fixtures are yet to be allocated, but a friendly is hoped for against st. Louis Rathmines in the next 2 weeks.

The Under 18 girls won their first match on the 11th of November. After a tough game they came out with 7 goals to 3, a very good start to the season.

Under 18 Boys

As some coaches are not getting involved in coaching this year, the present one are thinly stretched. Mr. Clarke is with the U-16 boys and senior girls , so Mr. Kelly has been taking the senior boys on his own.

They had a difficult opening Cup match V’s St. Josephs CBS but led for much of the first half before St. Josephs eventually ran out winners.

Unfortunatly, Mr. Kelly left for another job and as there is no-one willing to commit to the  Senior Boys, they have been withdrawen from the league competition.

Some U-18 squad members still train with Mr. Clarke and the U-16 squad on Wednesday.

Under 16 Boys

Mr. Clarke has taken over the U-16 Boys. They have already had a couple of trial sessions and a number of coaching sessions.

They are mostly a young squad, with a lot of 2^nd and 3^rd years, but make up for their lack of physical size with a high level of skills. Competetition for starting places is at  a high level. The opening cup fixture is against current all Ireland champions, Larkin CC, and should prove a good benchmark.

The following league fixtures are against Donahies and Castleknock.

Training takes place on Mondays and Wednesadays.

The focus is on organisations, movement, skill but overall on fun.

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1st Year

2nd Year

Cadette

The league is now over for this school year but players are still training and hoping to improve for next years season. 

Senior

The league is now over for this school year but players are still training and trying to improve skills and hoping to improve a lot before next years season, where they hope to improve on this year.

Hockey News

Girls Hockey

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Hockey News

Girls Hockey

News and Results

Northside Leagues: As of the new year, all girls teams will be competing in Northside Leagues. All finals will be held on Thursday 25th of March. The day will hopefully follow in tradition and be well attended by Mount Temple teams and supporters. 

1st Year A

The first year girls 'A' hockey team competes in the First Year A Leinster League. They are in Section C, against: Newbridge College, Loreto Beaufort, Notre Dame and St. Gerard's.

They also compete in the First Year Northside League, Section A, against: Sutton Park and Santa Sabina B. 

Coaches: Jacinta Corrigan, Andrew Poynter, Nora Murray 

Captain: Louise Hare 

Vice-captain: Yasmin Smith 

1st Year B

 The first year 'B' team competes in the First Year Beginners Northside League, Section C, against: Cabra B, Holy Faith Glasnevin B and Kings Hospital B. 

Coaches: Jacinta Corrigan, Andrew Poynter, Nora Murray 

Captain: Ruth Hoban

Vice-captain: Elizabeth Quinn 

Minor

The second year girls team is competing in the Minor A Leinster League. They are in Section B, playing against: Mt. Anville, St. Andrew's College, Loreto Foxrock and Muckross Park.

They also compete in the Minor Northside league, Section A, against: Kings Hospital and Cabra. 

Coach: Tara O'Donnell

Captain: Rachel Murray

Vice-captain: Helen O'Neill

Junior

The Junior girls team competes in the Junior B Leinster League. They are in Section F, against: Alexandra College, The High School, Mt. Sackville and Mt. Anville.

They also compete in the Junior Northside League, Section B, against: Holy Faith Clontarf, Kings Hospital and Mt. Sackville. 

Coach: Jeff Murray

Captain: Jenny Scott

Vice-captain: Hannah O'Donoghue 

Senior

Senior 'A' 

The senior 'A' girl's team competes in the Senior Premier Leinster League. They are in Section A, against: Loreto Bray, Loreto Dalkey, Mt. Sackville, Muckross Park, Our Lady's Terenure, Rathdown School, St. Andrew's College and Wesley College. 

They also compete in the Northside Premier League, against: Sutton Park, Santa Sabina and King's Hospital. 

Coach: Rob Abbott

Captains: Jen Keating, Laura Neale

Senior 'B'

The senior 'B' girls team competes in the Senior 3 Leinster League. They are in Section B, against: The Teresian School, St. Columba's, Muckross Park, Alexandra College and Loreto Bray.

They also compete in the Senior 2 Northside League, Section B, against: Santa Sabina C, Holy Faith Clontarf, Kings Hospital, Malahide and St. Wolstan's. 

Coach: Rob Abbott 

Captain: Eilish Monaghan 

Boys Hockey 

News

Mount Temple Cup Run: Mount Temple boys had the best set of cup results seen in this school in a long time, from first years right up till Senior level. Every year made it to their respective cup quarter finals with both first years and Juniors making it through to the semi-finals. 

The first years played Dundalk in the first round of the cup and did brilliantly to come away 7-0 winners. Next came Newpark Comprehensive, a tougher challenge but they still managed to progress after a 2-0 win. Into the semi-final, this time they would be playing "A" league side, Sutton Park. They proved a step to far and the match ended in a 4-1 defeat. 

Minor boys didn’t have such a successful time when they came up against Newpark Comprehensive in the quarter-final, in a very tight match, Newpark came out on top in a 1-0 victory. Newpark’s goalkeeper must get a mention due to his excellent performance on the day which inevitably denied a strong Mount Temple team a semi-final place.

Junior Boys had it tough, a first round game against Kings Hospital proved a tight match for the team that never trains, eventually coming out 3-1 winners. An even tighter match saw them take on Newpark and scrape through 2-1, a tough match versus Wesley awaited. A tough but even match ensued even if the score line didn’t reflect this. At one point the teams were level at 3-3, but this was not to last as Wesley scored a controversial flick. Two goals followed with Mount Temple playing no goalkeeper.

Senior Boys was where the drama was. Two games with extra time and one with  penalty flicks made this cup run as exciting as possible. First up was Kings Hospital, a very exciting match was to be seen and after normal time the score was 1-1, and an Adam Merrey goal sealed a spot in the semi-final of the Senior Plate. Up next was High School, "B" league leaders and a daunting prospect.  At 3-2 down with two minutes left of normal time, our goalkeeper, Senan, was removed. With eleven outfield players we found the net. Extra time. We quickly conceded a goal, Senan was removed again and they scored a fifth goal. But the turning of the tie came when High School player, Shane O'Donohoe received a yellow for aggressive behaviour. With a minute and twenty seconds left, it looked lost but two goals from nowhere got us back to 5-5. We thought we had the momentum but disappointingly we lost 4-3 on flicks. A superb game regardless of the outcome.

A good display by Mount Temple teams this year, hopefully next year we can make it to that elusive final.

First Year: Congratulations to all first year hockey boys, this years camp saw over 50 boys in attendence as well as huge numbers attending training each week. Lets hope this continues throughout this and the next six years they will be playing Mount Temple hockey. Good luck to them through the coming season.

First year A team have started the season brightly with one win and a draw with many players playing at minor level and even junior level. Meanwhile the B team played and lost their first match versus a very talented Kings Hospital side.

All Irelands:  On the 21st-23rd of October, Mount Temple Senior Boys competed in theAll Ireland Schoolboys hockey tournament. This was the first time in ten years that the senior boys competed at such a high standard and they did the school proud. The tournament consists of three group games over two days and either a semi-final and possible final or a placement game on the final day.

We started off on the first day with an extremely tough match against much fancied Banbridge academy. We went into this match with realistic expectations of a respectable scoreline. We believe we achieved this with a performance full of effort and hard work. Although we came off at the wrong end of an 11-0 scoreline, we held our heads high.

Day two was a totally different prospect, two games against weaker opposition although still very tough. However we had our army of supporters to cheer us on, many thanks. Game one was against Munster champions, Bandon GS, we entered with a possibility of a good result if the effort was there. Unfortunately despite the huge amount of effort put in by all, we lost the game 5-1, our goal scored by Mark Ryan. This is definaely a game where we feel that the scoreline does not reflect the game in any circumstance, and I think our legion of supporters will agree. Later that day, tired as we were, we still had another game to play. This tme we lined out  versus Cambell College, the hosts of the tournament. The first half ended on a somewhat positive note at 1-0 down but having hit the post twice and an array of other chances. However the second half showed our fatigue as the match finished 5-0 to the Ulster side.

On behalf of the team, I would like to thank all of the coaches who organised and participated on the rip as well as all school and outside school supporters and the tournament organisers and Cambell College for a fantastic tournament.

 Leinster Under 18s: We are glad to announce that we had one player representing Leinster at this years interpros. Mark Ryan had the honour of being named vice captain for the competition and they narrowly missed out on a tournament win behind an impressive Ulster side. This follows on from our success at under 18 level with Luke Hayden representing Leinster under 18s two years ago.

Leagues: These are the leaguesthat Mount Temple teams are in and theleague formats

Senior A (home and away): St Andrews, Wesley College, Kilkenny College, Mount Temple, Sutton Park

Junior A (straight league): St Andrews, Wesley College, Kilkenny College, Mount Temple, Sutton Park, St Columba’s, Newpark
Junior B (top two to league final): Dundalk GS, St Columba’s, John Scottus, Wesley B, Sandford Park, St Andrews B, Mount Temple B, High School, King’s Hospital, St Killians

Minor A (straight league): Wesley, King’s Hospital, St Andrews, Sutton Park, Mount Temple, St Columba’s, Newpark
Minor B (top four to semi-finals and final): Kilkenny, Dundalk GS, Drogheda GS, Sandford Park, Wesley B, Mount Temple B, St Andrews B, King’s Hospital, High School, St Killians

U-13 B (top four play-off with semi-final and final): St Columba’s, Dundalk GS, Sandford Park, Drogheda GS, Wesley B, Mount Temple, St Andrew’s, King’s Hospital, High School, St Killians, Newpark

U-13 C North (top two qualify for semis): Drogheda GS, Dundalk GS B, Mount Temple B, Donabate CS, King’s Hospital B, Headfort

1st Year

 Coach: Derek Conway

Captain "B": James Graham

Minor

Coach:David Bane

Captain "A": Kevin Mullins

Captain "B" : Sean Cassidy

Junior

Coach "A":Rob Abbott

Coach "B":Andrew Poynter

Captain "A": Senan O'Mahony

Senior 

 Coach: Gareth Borland

Captain:MarkRyan

Up to date rugby news is now available on the online Mount Temple Sports Newletter - http://mounttemplesports.wordpress.com/category/rugby/ 

First Year

 1st Year Rugby focuses on enjoyment of the game and learning and developing new skills such as passing, evasion, tackling and kicking.

Under 14

 Under 14 Rugby looks to develop on skills learnt in 1st Year and build on them looking towards the Junior Cup in 3rd Year.

JCT

Junior Cup Rugby is the first major Competition players will be involved in.   Mount Temple are entered in Section 'A' of the Junior Cup.

We were runners up in the 05/06 Cup.

SCT

The Section 'A' Senior Cup is a major Competition in the rugby calendar. The Senior Cup team draws players from 6th Year through to 4th Year.

 In the past number of seasons the school has been quite successful, reaching 3 finals in the past 4 seasons. In the 04/05 Season the team reached the Section 'B' Finals, and also were the first in the school's history to compete in the Premier, Section 'C' against Terenure College.

09/10 Season So Far

Fixtures