This week will see the start of the annual Adrigole festival on Thursday August 3^rd . The underage blitz along with the Ceilí will again kick of the weekend on the Thursday night. The Aidan Cremin memorial 7-a-side tournament will take place on the Friday evening beginning at 6.30pm with the final taking place under lights at 9.30pm. Group A is Adrigole, Castletownbere, Bere Island, Urhan, and Group B is Beaufort , Garnish, Garda and Tousist. The annual Tag Rugby tournament will take place on the Saturday with registration at 1.30pm. Following on from the very successful 5K run that was held last year, a 5 mile race will be held on the bank holiday Saturday, August 5^th at 5pm. The race will be held in conjunction with Beara Athletics Club and there will be prizes in different categories. The race will be open to those who are over 16 only and there will be a €20 charge to enter. The race will form part of the Beara Athletic Club Summer league series that will take place over July and August, with races held in Bere Island, Eyeries, Adrigole and Glengarriff. Those looking to take part can pre-register on the Adrigole website. The Sunday will see the family fun day will take place. Duck cards have been distributed and anyone who wishes to buy ducks online will be able to do so from the Adrigole GAA website www.adrigolegaa.com. There is entertainment throughout the weekend in the festival marquee.

Adrigole commenced their Intermediate Football championship game against last years county  finalists Aghabullogue in Ballingeary last Sunday evening. At half time Aghabullogue lead 1-7 to 0-4. A Jason Harrington goal in the 37^th minute reduced the arrears but it was Aghabullogue who emerged winners 3-13 to 1-7. Adrigole’s next game in the group is on Sunday August 20^th against Gabriel Rangers.

Well done to Neilan (Matt) O’Sullivan who played in the half time game in All-Ireland Senior Football Final last Sunday in Croke Park. Neilan came 2^nd in the Sciath na Scoil skills competition last year to earn his trip to Croke Park.

Last Friday in Croke Park saw the GPA remember All-Ireland winning teams from the past across various decades over the last 60 years. It was great to see the club represented by 1973 Cork players Kevin Jer O’Sullivan and Bernie O’Neill and hopefully they enjoyed their trip to Croke Park.

Last week the GAA world games took place in Derry. On the Middle East team was Emma O’Shea from Adrigole who reached semi-final of the ladies football competition. Well done to Emma on this achievement.