Match - 13th March 11.00am K.O

Our preparation for the new season continues and yet again we are going to play the CIE Lions as part of our warm up. Looking forward to seeing a few new faces in our starting line up. Will Barrie McEntee be able to last the game without having a strop? Stay tuned to materdeisaints.blogspot.com to find out!

Saints Vs CIE Lions - 6th February 2011

This morning (6th February 2011) we played the CIE Lions on the back pitch here in Clonliffe. Despite some terrible weather conditions and a very slippery pitch we managed to defeat the Lions 10-5.

It was the first time that some of our students played and both Tim and Kevin played extremely well and slotted into the team brilliantly. Big thanks to the CIE Lions who brought out a lot of players and contributed to a great game. As usual we played well in the first half, we defended really well and ran up a 3-0 lead by half time. Second half saw us tire a good deal and the game really opened up, some terrible defending led to a final score of 10-5. However, it was our first game back and with only 2 training sessions this year we did a lot of things very well. All in all plenty to be pleased about and plenty to try and improve on. Thanks again to everyone who showed up. Cheered us all up after suffering the Italy V Ireland garbage yesterday.