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Dublin Angels – Inaugural Haggis Cup winners!!!! Well done girls!!!

Angels and Demons – attending the Haggis Cup, Edinburgh. April 20th – 22nd

Dublin Demons 07.06(48) vs Leeside Lions 12.12(84)
The Demons travelled the M9 to Cork for a match up against fierce rivals, the Leeside Lions. The Demons travelled well, with a squad of 14. Although there were some doubts whether or not Paulie’s car would survive the journey with 3 fellow Dee’s, the Lions did supply 1 player to the Dees (Eoin) and his addition was appreciated. It was one of Paulie’s infamous ‘funny stories’ on his car’s unique performances on the motorway and the cause of said performance was on show in the car park, but no more can be said on that at this stage!

The Dublin Demons hosted the very successful second lightning round aussie rules football carnival on the 16 July. All the teams from the league were in attendance and the demons were facing strong opposition in the Belfast Redbacks and the table topping Midwest Magpies.

Dublin Demons 09.03 (57) Belfast Redbacks 03.05 (23)
The demons entered this game determined to avenge their heavy defeat in Belfast in round 1. The team elected to play against the very strong wind in the first quarter and started well when club captain John “Toasty” Enright scored the first goal of the contest after a push in the back lead to a free kick 35 meters out. The demons we battling hard all over the ground and club stalwart Diarmuid O’Riain was clearing the ball out of the backline with ample help from paulie, lunchbox and new boy Sean. The redbacks were to score the next goal of the contest after they quickly moved the ball from their backline down the pitch and scored a relatively easy opener. The demons battled hard in the windy conditions but it was Emmet McKay from the redbacks who scored just before the half time siren to give them a slender lead going into the second half.

Dublin Angels 02.09 (25) Kilrea Kookaburra's 02.02 (14)

This weekend saw a lightening carnival round held at the Dublin home grounds for all the teams in the league... the ladies match first up for the day. Kilrea were quick off the mark booting two goals in the first quarter, one coming from Ciara McGurk and the other from Nuala O'Hagan. A barage of points were scored by the angels unable to find accuracy and vice captain Avril Robinson a.k.a Tiny hobbling off the field with a knee injury.

Saturday July 9th 2011 the Demons played their first home game at their new home venue, Island Bridge. The weather was perfect for a game of footy, the sun shining and a flutter of a breeze just taking the edge off the heat.

The game kicked off with the Demons showing intent for the match. A tap down from the ball up by Big Joe to Lally on the ball and he picked out captain Toasty. He then found Shane ‘Bilbo’ Beggan on the run. His set shot splitting the big posts. The rest of the quarter continued on from there. Bilbo hitting a second on the run, Lally scoring one of his now familiar long range efforts and Toasty grabbing a double himself. The Saints got 2 majors themselves in the first quarter, so it was all still to play for.

12.00 North Leinster v Swans
12.30 Redbacks v North Leinster
13:00 Redbacks v Demons
13.30 Demons v Magpies
14:00 Swans v Lions
14:30 Scratch Match Lions v Magpies

Congratulation to Demons team captain John "Toastie" Enright, Joe "Big Joe" Cunnane and John "Number 2" Tierney on being selected on the Irish warriors team for the 2011 International Cup.

Best of Luck in the competition lads and bring home that cup!

The first ever ladies match was played today at the Boucher road pitches in Belfast between the Kilrea Kookaburra's and the Dublin Angels.

The Dublin Angels ran out confident winners 6.5.41 to Kilrea Kookaburra's 1.2.8.