Cardinal O'Donnell Cup 08/05/10
Fr. McEvoy Park

Cooley remain pointless at the foot of division 1 after Saturday evenings defeat at the hands of Mattock Rangers. The Kickhams will surely be wondering how they let this game slip from their grasp after dominating the entire first half yet turning over all square at 0-7 to 1-4.The home team started brightly scoring 3points inside the first ten minutes and playing some nice football in the process, however they were caught with a sucker punch when Mattock scored a goal on the counter. This score seemed to spur the home side on as they again took command on the scoreboard, but they were to rue two gilt edged goal chances when Neill Gallagher popped up on the end of two good moves to firstly blast one over the bar & the second chance came crashing back off the crossbar.

Mattock finished the half in a flurry with 3 points in as many minutes with two of them coming in injury time. A few positional switches by the Collon men ensured the second half was more evenly balanced in possession terms. Throughout this half it was score for score and with the game entering its final minutes Cooley held a one point lead and looked like they would go on to win. This was not to be the outcome as Mattock added 3 very late points to stay top of the division. The Kickhams will be glad to see Sean O'Neill back in the colours as this was Sean's first outing for the Club this season.Best for Cooley were Brian White who put in a good performance in midfield & Frank Murphy gave a sound display in defence.

Cooley lined out as follows:1 Seamus Quigley 2 Frank Murphy 3 John Kane 4 P.J.McGivern 5 Alan Page 6 Conor McGuinness 7 Richard Brennan(0-1)  8 Sean O'Neill 9 Brian White(0-7,2f,1/45) 10 Sean Donnelly 11 Patrick Sheelan(0-1f) 12 Ronan Woods 13 Sean McDonald 14 Neill Gallagher(0-1) 15 Conor Rafferty(0-1) Subs used Aoghain McGuinness for R.Woods & Declan McGuinness for S.McDonald.
 
Referee: Tommy Byrne

Cardinal O' Donnell 29/04/10
Clan na Gael Park

Cooley Kickhams remain pointless after two rounds of the Senior league after suffering a second defeat at the hands of Clan na Gaels in Dundalk. The decisive score came in the first half in the form of a Clans goal and helped them to a lead of 1-5 to 0-7. This was a typical Cooley-Clans clash which was riddled with frees throughout with half of the total scores coming from free kicks. The match would be best described as poor fare although the Clans will feel happy with their start to the league. Tommy McEntaggart was the referee and was certainly kept busy as some of the tackles put in were over zealous. The second half continued with the Clans in the ascendancy scoring two quick points to assume control.

From that point on the teams traded points and late in the game it looked like Brian White had rescued a share of the spoils for the Kickhams, however the hosts finished the game in a flurry with three poined frees to win on a scoreline of 1-11 to 0-12. The Kickhams won't be pressing any alarm buttons just yet as they were short a number of regulars for this encounter.

Cooley mentors are extremely annoyed at having lost another player to a serious injury. Keith White suffered a serious facial injury in an off the ball incident and had to be removed to hospital where he is receiving treatment for a broken jaw. The news on the young player who had recently joined the Louth panel is not good as he will be out of action for at least 3 months.

Cooley lined out as follows:
1 Seamus Quigley 2 Eddie Moley 3 John Kane 4 Antoin Watters 5 Frank Murphy 6 Alan Page 7 Richard Brennan 8 Conor McGuinness 9 Keith White 10 Cormac Watters 11 Patrick Sheelan(0-3,2f) 12 P.J. McGivern(0-1) 13 Sean McDonald(0-2) 14 Garoid Clarke 15 Brian White(0-6,3f) Subs used were Declan McGuinness for G. Clarke, Ronan Woods for C. Watters & Neil Gallagher for K. White (inj)

Junior 4A league 1/05/10
Ardee

Cooley A lined out as follows and had a comfortable win over Ardee St.Marys. Jason Long played his first game as a second half substitute since sustaining a serious injury last season.  1 Simon Dullaghan 2 Peter Murphy 3 Antoin Watters 4 Colin Marks 5 Frank Murphy 6 Eddie Moley 7 Ross Dullaghan 8 John Kane(0-2) 9 Patrick Sheelan(0-1) 10 P.J. McGivern 11 Ciaran Sheelan(0-2) 12 Sean Donnelly(0-2) 13 Declan McGuinness(0-1) 14 Daryl Bailey(0-3) 15 Paul Gallagher Subs used were David Thornton, Odran Thornton, Michael Hanlon, Jamie Farrell & Jason Long.

Junior 4A league played in Fr.McEvoy Park. Kickhams Junior A team had a comfortable win over St. Josephs in the league to move up the table. Cooley lead at half time by 1-6 to 1-2 and the final score was 2-11 to 1-5 in favour of the green & golds.

The team lined out as follows:
1 Simon Dullaghan 2 Ross Dullaghan 3 Antoin Watters 4 Peter Murphy 5 Frank Murphy 6 P.J.McGivern 7 Eddie Moley 8 Anthony White(0-1) 9 Patrick Sheelan(1-1f) 10 Cormac Watters(0-1) 11 M.J. Hanlon(1-1) 12 Declan McGuinness(0-2) 13 Daryl Bailey(0-2) 14 Gavin White(0-2) 15 Odran Thornton(0-1) Subs used Shane Marks for D.McGuinness, Seamus Quigley for S.Dullaghan, Paul Gallagher for G.White & Michael Maguire for P.Murphy.
Refereed by Jonathin Conlon.