The apple doesn't fall far from the tree as far as cricket is concerned, with no fewer than four sons of Irish internationals being named in the Leinster Under 11 training squad.
The offspring of Trent Johnston, Deryck Vincent, Peter O'Reilly and Conor Hoey have all been named this week for coaching sessions at North County, King's Hospital School and St Columba's College.
There will be ten sessions in total starting on February 1st as the boys attempt to gain selection for the Leinster Under 11 team this summer.
9 year old Charlie Johnston showed his cricketing prowess at an early age, and the picture on the right shows him batting at Stormont six years ago!
Johnston has proven a real handful for Leinster batsmen taking two hat-tricks already despite his tender years.
His father is of course one of only three players to have taken a hat-trick for Ireland at senior level.
The squad in full is as follows:
- Ben McCabe (Clontarf)
- Jack MacNiece (Clontarf)
- David Vincent (Clontarf)
- Elliott Johns (Pembroke)
- David Cosgrave (Pembroke)
- Gavin Hoey (Pembroke)
- Mitchell Thomspon (YMCA)
- Mikey O’Reilly (YMCA)
- Tim Tector (YMCA)
- Charlie Johnston (YMCA)
- Darragh Nulty (Leinster)
- Jack P Barry (Leinster)
- Daire Cassidy (Leinster)
- Matthew Tonge (Leinster)
- Matthew Lynch (Leinster)
- Craig Mackay (Leinster)
- Cillian Mc Donnell (Leinster)
- Jack O’Neill (Leinster)
- Luke Mc Mahon (Leinster)
- Killian Mc Grane (The Hills)
- Jamie McCarthy (The Hills)
- Luke Fichtner (Rush)
- Sean Keegan (Rush)
- Nathan McGuire (Rush)
- Cian Rock (Rush)
- Jack McGee (Rush)
- Daniel Thorne (Rush)
- Anthony Slawski (North Kildare)
- Adam Byrne (North Kildare)
- Michael Pathak (North Kildare)
- Calum Dowling (Merrion)
- Ali Rasool (Laois)
- Rahul Dambal (Knockharley)
- Patrick Guest (Railway Union)
- Alex Stiles (Railway Union)
- Callum O’Reilly (Railway Union)
- Joe McCarthy (Railway Union)
- Jamie McGovern (Phoenix)
- Louis McDonough (Phoenix)
- James Maginnis (Phoenix)
- Alex Watson (Phoenix)
- Stephen Black (Phoenix)
- Ben Askew (Malahide)
- Binyaom Keegan (Malahide)
- Paul Devine (Malahide)
- Conor Tyrell (Old Belvedere)
- Liam Keating (Old Belvedere)
- David Jolley (Old Belvedere)
- William Stent (North County)
- Luke Whelan (North County)
- Ciaran Sheridan (North County)
- Ben McBride (North County)
- Seamus Cassin (North County)
- Tristan Auret (Slieve Bloom)
The following fixtures have also been confirmed:
- Tue, July 9th – North Leinster v South Leinster - Rush CC
- Tue, July 23rd –– South Leinster v North Leinster - Railway Union CC
- Mon Aug 12th v North Wales in Dublin
- Tue Aug 13th – North v South
- Fri Aug 16th vNorth Wales at Holyhead