Kildare Community Games: St Conleth's display their talents

The curtain came down on 2024 Cairn Community Games with a spectacular weekend of Art and Culture in the Visual Art Centre, Carlow Town.

Those in attendance were treated to the best of Ireland displaying their talents in Singing, Dance, Drama and Recitation.

There was also Art, Model Making, Handwriting, Projects and Debating taking place with the old traditional game of Skittles thrown in for good measure.

Outside of the competitions there was also face painting, Garden Games with stilt walkers and various Characters strolling around plus a train to keep the party atmosphere going.

Newbridge St Conleth’s represented Kildare in seventeen events winning Gold in three events. Last year’s U12 Champion Sarah Burke returned at under 16 to woo the judges with her rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” to take Gold again. Sarah was also a member of the group on the podium along with Megan Armstrong, Aoibhinn Dennehy, Lily Hollngsworth, Jody Kaye & Ruby Maher who took gold on U16 Group Singing event.

St Conleths also danced their way to Gold in the Under 16 Group Modern and Disco Dance with a polished performance from their dancers Lily Callaghan, Sophia Iarantseva, Sarah Noonan & Sarah Townend. Lily Callaghan also went on to take fourth place in U16 Solo Dance.

The St Conleth’s team produced a very entertaining performance in the popular Culture Corner U15 event to take silver behind the Arklow group and achieved Silver also in the Irish Contemporary Dance U16 event behind the team from Ardcame in Roscommon.

Teams: Group Dance Irish Contemporary U16 Eala Harris, Allie Hickey, Isabelle Kelly, Robin Keogh & ;Stella O’Brien.

Culture Corner U15 Farrah Clifford, Ruby Hegarty, Neaveah Kealy, Kevin O’Calleigh, Tess O’Shea & Georgia Kate Sheehy

Aoibheann Dennehy won Bronze for St Conleths and Kildare in the U16 Recitation event.

Caoimhe O’Reilly of Celbridge Sth was awarded Bronze in U12 Art and Fiodor Elsner of Celbridge Nth took fourth place in U12 Handwriting .

Gold: Sarah Burke (St Conleth’s) U16 solo singing; St Conleth’s U16 Group singing; St Conleth’s U16 Group Dance Modern & Disco.

Silver: St Conleth’s Culture Corner; St Conleth’s U16 Group dance Irish Contemporary Caoimhe O’Reilly U12 Art (Celbridge South).

Bronze: Aoibheann Dennehy St Conleth’s U16 Recitation.

4th Place: Fiodor Elsnet U12 Handwriting (Celbridge North); Lily Callaghan U16 Solo Dance (St Conleth’s).

Also Representing Kildare Solo Singing U12 Lily Sky Hegerty (St Conleth’s).

Recitation U12 Amellie Walsh (St Conleth’s).

Solo Music U12 Isabella Long (Eadestown); Solo Music U16 Ruby Maher (St Conleth’s); Solo Dance (Modern & Disco) U16 Pola Halackiewicz (St Conleth’s).

Model Making U12 Girls Lily Mae Fitzpatrick (St Conleth’s); Model Making U14 Girls Moya Higgins & Shonagh Tully (Johnstown/ Kill).

Hand writing U10 Girls Ava Rose Kane (Straffan/Ardclough) & Farha Nokhain (St Brigid’s); Handwriting U10 Boys Billy Fennelly (Suncroft/ Curragh) & Reuben Kelly Kinsella (Kilcullen); Handwriting U12 Boys Alvin Anil Raj (Kilcullen); Handwriting U12 Girls Suzie Clarke (Straffan/ Ardclough) & Arianne Pelleja (Celbridge Sth).

Art U8 Girls Leah Cezarogluari (Celbridge Sth) & Jenny Mullahy (Straffan/ Ardclough); Art U8 Boys Matthew Tan (Johnstown/ Kill); Luke Whelan (Celbridge Nth); Art U10 Girls Emily Keyes (St Conleth’s) & Willow Sweeney (Johnstown/Kill); Art U10 Boys Daniel Dudarko (Suncroft/Curragh) & Jerome Mooney Griffin (Ballymore Eustace); Art U12 Girls Kateryna Serhiienko (Ballymore Eustace); Art U12 Boys Destiny Anyalemachi (Newbridge St Brigid’s) & Fiodar Elsner (Celbridge Nth); Art U14 Girls Alana Coogans (Eadestown) Grace McGauran (Celbridge Sth); Art U14 Boys Aidan Keyes and Matthew Keyes (St Conleth’s).

Group Singing U12 (St Conleth’s) Ana Boland; Zoe Kaye; Group Music U12 (Eadestown) Isabella Long & Jack Ryan; Group Modern Dance Under 12 (St Conleth’s) Pola Halackiewicz, Lily Sky Hegerty, Julia Trojan & Amelie Walsh.

Choir U13 (St Conleth’s) Aoife Bergin, Seodhna Bergin, Mollie Blanche, Maddy Brady, Willon Callaghan, Walker Cara, Beth Dorahan, Freya Dunne, Hazel Garry, Sienna Kelly, Emily Keyes, Laura Keyes, Realtin McPartland, Belle Moore, Abby O’Donnell, Evie O’Toole, Lily O’Toole & Sadie O’Shea.