Thursday, 22nd February 2018 East Cork Castlelyons GAA


Intermediate Hurlers travel to Charleville. Our intermediate hurl-


ers travel to Charleville to play in the Premier IHL at 11.30 am on Sunday next. This game will be tough as Charleville were table toppers in the


Premier


IHL last year but were de- feated by Fr O’Neill s in the final. They went well in the championship but suffered an eight-point de- feat to Kanturk. Overall, they had a big year going almost undefeated in the Premier league last year while


championship de-


feat was disappointing for them.


Trained by New-


town’s magic man Ben O’Connor, who played for the rebels for 13 years and won a few medals too. He inspired Cork to four all- Ireland final appearances in a row and winning two and was captain in 2005 while


the same year his


twin brother Gerry was hurler of the year. They were the first set of twins to win all stars the same year in 2005. They say Ben and Charleville mean business this year so let’s see. Well how do we fit in


or have we any chance against the big boys this year including Charleville. We won out Division 2 last year and despite a terri- ble in


start against Kanturk the championship we


fought back gamely before going down by five points. Our lads have done a lot of gym work over the win- ter and have been doing some pitch work (running) as well but have done little with the camán due to the adverse weather. We are down a few due to county and college commitments and a few injuries as well.


However, we had a strong junior side, good minors and mighty U21 side last year and now is the time to get game time into some of those lads and toast them in the cauldron of IHL which will stand to them in cham- pionship


hurling. Back


in 1998 and 1999 when we won the Junior and Intermediate


champion-


ships seventeen and eight- een-year olds like Timmy McCarthy, Eoin Fitzgerald and Peter Murphy were the drivers of these great victories.


The great Sir


Matt Busby once said if lads are good enough they are old enough and no doubt some of our young- er players of the last few years have great ability to drive on too. Best of luck to the lads, new coach Dar- ren Tobin and his manage- ment outfit as a good start is important. Castlelyons Abú.


Defeat for Junior Footballers in Football League Castlelyons 1-11 Dungourney 4-11 We played Dungourney


in their home pitch under lights last Friday night at 8 pm in atrocious weath- er conditions.


Credit to


Dungourney for allowing the game to go ahead on a


pitch that was cut up a


lot and to referee James Bermingham who did a great job. We started rea- sonable as Ronan and Alan Fenton had two points for us early on. This did not last long as Shane Casey (1) and Shane Hegarty (2)


put Dungourney in


the driving seat and Colm O’Neill brought off a mas- sive save for us on seven minutes. Dungourney were


injecting pace and


drive and commitment in their play while our tackle count could be much bet-


ter. Mike Spillane did put over 0-1 from a free but they continued to pile on pressure and had a goal from Sean Hegarty and points from Brian Ahern (3) and Dan McGrath (1). Ronan Fenton had a point from play. On 20 minutes Alan Fenton pulled up with hamstring injury and was replaced by Brian O’Do- novan. They had another 1-1 from Sean Hegarty while Robbie Feeney and Ronan Fenton had 0-1 each for us to leave the half time score 2-8 to 0-6 in fa- vour of a very dominant Dungourney. We made a game of it


for a while in the second half as Ronan Fenton had 0-1 for us and Brian O’Do- novan got a super goal 1-0 after being put through by Darragh Lawlor leaving us just four points adrift. However, we faded again, and the home side were awarded a penalty, clung it and ran out facile winners on a score 4-11 to 1-11. We were somewhat lethar- gic on the night and may- be this can be attributed to heavy training, but we were well off colour and not the team that almost took county finalists Erins Own in the championship in 2017. Ronan Fenton a committed player is our Captain for 2018 and no doubt Ronan, Donal O’Leary, manager, and his selectors will work on this but at least we got a game on a weekend when there were few played. Team: - Colm O’Neill, Brian Carroll, Jamie O’Leary, Shane


Fenton,


Aiden O’Sullivan, Colm Barry, Eoin Maye, Darragh Lawlor, Shane Moroney, Ronan O’Regan, Ciaran McGann, Michael Spill- ane, Robbie Feeney, Ron- an Fenton (Capt) and Alan Fenton.


Subs: - Conor


sport@eastcorkjournal.ie Notes


McCarthy, David Morri- son, Michael O’Donovan, Jack Barry, Shane Flynn and Andrew O’Neill. subs got game time.


All


Result of our Weekly Lotto of the 12.2.18. The


again. numbers drawn


were 16, 20, 27 and 30 There was no winner. There were eight “Lucky Dip” winners of €20 each as follows: - Nicole Barry, Helen Mackessey, Lor- na Murphy, Liz Leary, Michelle Fenton, Eamon Fitzgerald, Joe Roche and Luke Moroney. The


€6,000 and our next draw is Monday 26th


Jackpot is now February


at 9.30 pm in the Abbey Tavern. Thanks for your support and please remind your friends that they can play our Lotto Online or purchase from the usual sources.


Victory for the Banner over Cork in Ennis. Well our All-Star nom- inee Colm Spillane


re-


turned to action for Cork on Sunday last as they played Clare in the League in Ennis. Colm had a good game holding the


great


Shane O’Donnell score- less, but it was not enough as Clare had a rare but fac- ile victory over the Rebels. Hard


enough to know


what was going on, as Cork had two late withdrawals from the selected team and the Banner kept a few in the freezer for warmer days so one can only speculate the clash of the ash will be mighty in May when they meet in the championship in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. An- yway, for now Clare move on to the quarter finals of the League and Cork have what looks like a relegation fight against Waterford on Sunday next in the Park but, of course, a second win for Cork could make the League


interesting


Good day in Knockanard. We enjoyed a dry and good day at the Avondhu Point to Point Races held in Knockanard last Satur- day. Despite the postpone- ment


Sunday due to the terrible weather the


from the previous crowd was


reasonable. Thanks to all who supported Castlely- ons GAA Hospitality Tent and especially to those who helped on the day.


up there in years gone


by and they defeated St Mary’s Glasnevin in the other semifinal. The final will be on Saturday 3rd March at a venue to be announced. Congrats to all and especially to our own Castlelyons girls on the panel; Grainne McCarthy (captain),


Billie Shana- Inci-


dentally, there was great excitement when Ms Elea- nor Broderick’s “The Talty Man” ran in a convincing winner in the Glenview Stud and McCarthy Insur- ance Group sponsored fifth Race.


Loreto College Fermoy in All Ireland Camogie Final. Loreto College delivered


big time in the O’Neills All -Ireland Post-Primary Schools Senior D Semi Final All Ireland with an outstanding victory over St Clare’s Ballyjamesduff, Cavan, last Saturday on a score 2-8 to 1-5. They now face Coláiste Naomh Cormac from the famed Kilcormac in Offaly as there was mighty hurlers


han, Lucy McNulty, Ava Hallihan, Avril Beirne and Niamh Colman. Great for the girls and great for camogie all about and all looking forward to the fi- nal.


An tAthair Peadar book launch Comhghairdeas le Ei- lís Uí Bhriain agus a mac Padraig


O’Briain the


launch of their book, Mise an Mac San: remember- ing an tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire, in the Abbey Hotel, Ballyvourney, on Sunday 11 February last. The co-authors


Eilís Uí


Bhriain (originally from Durrus) and living in Cas- tlelyons for many years and her son Pat O’Brien spoke as Gaeilge and English to the audience of nearly 200 people who attended the Ballyvourney launch. The book is a tale of two parish- es on opposite sides of the Cloyne diocese: Clondro- hid, near Macroom, where


an tAthair was born and raised; and our own Castle- lyons, the east Cork village where he was parish priest for almost 30 years (from 1891 to 1920). However, it also offers some intrigu- ing insights into the other villages in which he served as priest—Kilshannig, Kilworth, Rathcormac, Charleville, and Done- raile. The book’s publica- tion this year is timely as 2018 is Bliain na Gaeilge, 125 years since the start of the Gaelic Revival and there was no figure more central to the early twenti- eth-century revival of Irish than an tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire (b. 1839, d. 1920). Happy to have the first launch over them, Pat and Eilís now look for- ward to the next launch at 3 o’clock in Castlelyons Community


Centre on


Sunday 4 March. Hav- ing purchased a copy of the book and had a brief sconce through one can- not but admire the writing, facility of diction and sto- ry written as Gaeilge agus Bearla. So well done Eilís agus Padraig and more about the launch in Castle- lyons later. Castlelyons Main Spon- sor: Zeus Packaging Group


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