{"id":465,"date":"2016-09-06T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/?p=465"},"modified":"2016-09-06T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:42:08","slug":"clonteadkinsale-at-the-community-games-festival-athlone-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Clontead\/Kinsale at the Community Games Festival, Athlone 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record numbers of participants attended this year&#8217;s Community Games in association with the HSE in Athlone. Despite the inclement weather, over 7,000 participants competed over the weekends of the 18th-19th &amp; 25th-26th August to make the 2016 games a resounding success.<\/p>\n<p>Cork, and in particular our own Clontead\/Kinsale parish, were well represented at the games across Track, Field and the Quiz.<\/p>\n<p>On the first weekend the U14 girls from Cork which included Kate Redmond from Clontead\/Kinsale \u00a0came 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the Final of the Cross Country mixed distance relay. The U12 girls, all from Clontead\/Kinsale, Lauren Green, Nicole Buckley, Caoimhe O\u2019Donoghue, Mary Clare Murphy gave a strong performance and were unlucky not to have qualified for the final.\u00a0 The Quiz team of Sarah Fitzgerald, Aoife Hartnett, Evan Daly, Oisin Soderland, Jack O\u2019Dononvan all from Clontead\/Kinsale came within the top 10 of 70 teams on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The second weekend saw Lia Farley of Clontead\/Kinsale, ensure that Cork took 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the Long Jump while Cillian Fitzgerald, Clontead\/Kinsale, came 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the U8 60m B Final.\u00a0 Kate Farley and Sarah Murphy both of Clontead\/Kinsale also performed well in Sprint and Hurdles.\u00a0 The relay team of Lia Farley, Sarah Murphy, Rose Marie Buckley, and Ava Coyle all from Clontead\/Kinsale gave great run in the semi-finals against tough competition on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say sport was played, races were run but more importantly lifelong friendships were made. In the eyes of Community Games, everyone is a winner with participation and enjoyment being key.\u00a0 Congratulations to you all for taking part and representing your parish and county so well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-471 \" src=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3686-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3686\" width=\"228\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3686-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3686-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/U14-girls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-478\" src=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/U14-girls-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"U14 girls\" width=\"304\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/U14-girls-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/U14-girls.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-480\" src=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3862-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3862\" width=\"248\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3862-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3862-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3862.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160905_154817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-482\" src=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160905_154817-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"20160905_154817\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160905_154817-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160905_154817-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160905_160617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-483\" src=\"http:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160905_160617-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"20160905_160617\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160905_160617-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20160905_160617-1024x760.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record numbers of participants attended this year&#8217;s Community Games in association with the HSE in Athlone. Despite the inclement weather, over 7,000 participants competed over the weekends of the 18th-19th &amp; 25th-26th August to make the 2016 games a resounding success. Cork, and in particular our own Clontead\/Kinsale parish, were well represented at the games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverstickkinsaleac.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}