Day 3 Mooloolaba Canberra

Day 3 Mooloolaba Canberra

A travel day. Training at 8.00am. Back to the apartments and a quick clean up. Loaded the vans and of to Brisbane Airport. Arrived in Canberra at 4.00pm. Coach transfer to Royals rugby club. Boys met their host families while the unfortunate teachers slumed it in the local motel. To bed early. First games tomorrow.

Day 2 Mooloolaba

Day 2 Mooloolaba

Day 2 Mooloolaba

Day 2 Mooloolaba

Early start today with a 7.00am run on the beach. After breakfast headed to Steve Irwin's Australia zoo where we got to give some kangaroos their breakfast. A guided tour, enjoyed by all, where we got to see Echindas, Wombats, Tasmanian Devils, Tigers and of course Crocodiles. Mark Crowe, the chosen one, got his chance to show his prowess at attracting the birds. Failed Miserably! But at least we got a photo (and video). Late Afternoon we trained at the local rugby club, followed by dinner cooked by the boys.

Day 1 Photos

Day 1 Photos

Day 1 Photos

Day 1 Mooloolaba

Arrived safely aftter leaving Newbridge 36 hours earlier. Its a typical cold winters day here 22 degrees. A dip in the Pacific ocean and a game of tip rugby on the beach to shake of the jetlag. Others got over their jetlag in the pool back at the appartments. Weather accomodation and fun spot on long may it continue.

Touring Party

Forwards

Ciaran Boyle, Jack Cantillon, Andy Cronin, Jamie Davis, Cameron Dempsey, James Doyle, Marcus Duke, Eoin Howlin, Finnian Logan, Ronan Mangan, Conor McHugh, Paul Mulrennen, William O'Brien, Robert O'Connor, Ciaran O'Neachtain, David Rigney, Conor Thompson, Daniel Tinsley, James Tracy.

Backs

Sam Bedding, Conor Browne, Micheal Brown, Gary Burns, Brett Cella, Sam Coughlin-Murray, Marc Crowe, Cormac Dillon, Adrian Dunne, Cormac Finan, Darragh Hennebry, Cathal Maguire, Kevyn Mahon, Chris McCarthy, Paddy Moore, David Moynihan, Jake O'Connor, Ronan O'Neachtain, Peter Osborne.

Coaches

Dave Brew, Declan Corbett, Marianne Godon, Caroline Mahon, Andy Melville, Brian Murray, Jon Newsome, Pat O'Brien.

Here is a list of our fixtures

1st July - Royals, Canberra, Australia

8th July - Kings High, Dunedin, New Zealand

11th July - Mt Aspiring College, Wanaka New Zealand

15th July - St Bedes, Christchurch, New Zealand

21st July - NZ Sports Academy, Rotorua New Zealand

Thanks to everyone for attending the meeting

Following a very successful meeting on Wednesday night a big thank you to Andrew Melville for all his hard work organising the tour and to David Brew for the tour gear.  Don't forget training next Wednesday night.