Month: September 2021

Dublin 2-21
Carlow 1-16

NEW DUBLIN HURLING manager Mattie Kenny watched his side open their 2019 season with a comfortable Walsh Cup victory over Carlow at Netwatch Cullen Park this evening.

Kenny, who guided Cuala to back-to-back All-Ireland club titles, took over from Pat Gilroy last month and goals from Eamon Dillon and Fintan McGibb ensured his tenure got off to a winning start.

The Walsh Cup tie was played in dreadful conditions, with heavy rain falling throughout, but both sides produced an entertaining affair, before Dublin pulled clear in the closing stages. 

Carlow took an early lead through Marty Kavanagh and the sides exchanged blows thereafter, with Dublin taking a 1-8 to 0-9 lead into the break after Dillon finished at the second attempt on 15 minutes. 

Conditions were awful at Netwatch Cullen Park.

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The hosts responded in kind after the break through a Ted Joyce goal, but Kenny’s side produced a strong finish as McGibb’s goal put them in the driving seat, before John Hetherton, Donal Burke, Sean Moran and McGibb all pointed late on. 

Dublin will face Offaly in round two on Sunday 16 December, while Carlow travel to Laois.  

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A WEEK AFTER appearing to rule John Heslin out of his plans for the foreseeable future, Westmeath manager Jack Cooney has indicated that the star forward may feature next season after all. 

Cooney stated last week that the St Loman’s clubman would not be available to Westmeath in 2019 due to his PhD studies, but he was more optimistic of a potential return following the county’s O’Byrne Cup win over Carlow on Sunday. 

“John is finishing his PhD and that will be finished in mid-January. He’s under enough pressure with that,” Cooney told the Westmeath Independent.

“That’s the culmination of four or five years hard work. He’s working away on his own and the plan is that he will be coming back in after that.”

Cooney will definitely be without Athlone’s Ray Connellan, who recently signed a 12-month contract with AFL side Essendon.

Connellan spent two years playing in the Victoria Football League (VFL) with St Kilda, but was released by the Melbourne outfit in August.

He lined out with his club in the Westmeath SFC after returning home, but will head back down under in an attempt to establish himself in Aussie Rules.

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FORMER KERRY SENIOR Conor Cox has joined up with the Roscommon footballers for 2019.

The talented forward played senior league with the Kingdom in 2015 and has been in and around the panel, and has three All-Ireland junior titles to his name from 2012, 2015 and 2017.

He contributed greatly to all three wins, most significantly last year as he clocked up 1-5 from play in a 2-19 to 1-14 victory over Meath.

The 26-year-old also starred for UCC during their Sigerson win in 2014, and represented Kerry with distinction at minor and U21 level.

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Now though, he’ll throw his lot in with Roscommon, who are under the guidance of former Galway hurling boss Anthony Cunningham.

Cox’s father is a Roscommon native, and he has transferred to his home club of Éire Óg from Listowel. His transfer was officially completed earlier this week

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THE 2017 GALWAY U21 hurling final will be played this weekend.

Poor fixture planning and a condensed calendar has led to the competition running 12 months behind schedule, but Turloughmore and Liam Mellows will finally go head-to-head on Saturday, 15 December 2018.

Galway county board officials decided to leave off the U21 championship until October 2018, having failed to run it off by the end of last year.

And this year, knockout games continued into November, while the last four ties were played at the beginning of this month. 

Some Turloughmore 2017 U21 players are also part of the 2018 contingent who last week progressed to the second-tier championship final, fixed for Sunday 13 January 2019.

Confused enough already? Well, the 2018 Galway U21A hurling championship semi-finals are also scheduled for this weekend, so it’s likely that that will also run into 2019.

And to top it all off, and keeping with the theme of the lengthy delays, the 2017 Galway U21B hurling championship final didn’t finish up until 25 November of this year.

The main reason for that running behind schedule was the decision, favoured by clubs, to alter the start date of these competitions. They had always started in springtime.

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AFTER SUCCESS IN the underage ranks with Dublin football sides, Dessie Farrell is set to turn his attention to club management in 2019.

Dessie Farrell enjoyed plenty success in charge of Dublin teams.

It has been reported by the Evening Herald today that Farrell will take the reins of the Na Fianna senior footballers for next season as he succeeds Philip McElwee.

Farrell guided Dublin to the All-Ireland minor title in 2012 before moving on to help U21 sides claim All-Ireland crowns in 2014 and 2017. 

He worked with the likes of current Dublin senior stars Jack McCaffrey, John Small, Brian Fenton, Paul Mannion, Niall Scully, Con O’Callaghan and Brian Howard during those victories.

As a player with Na Fianna, Farrell won three successive Dublin SFC deciders between 1999 and 2001, while also winning the Leinster SFC club championship in 1999. They lost out to Armagh’s Crossmaglen Rangers in the 2000 All-Ireland senior club final.

Dessie Farrell was central to Na Fianna’s era of success.

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Na Fianna have not been crowned Dublin senior football champions since 2001 with their last final appearance coming in 2005 when they lost out to Kilmacud Crokes.

Jonny Cooper is part of the Na Fianna ranks.

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This year they lost out at the quarter-final stages against Ballyboden St Enda’s but have claimed plenty underage titles in recent seasons and can call upon county seniors Jonny Cooper, Eoin Murchan and Conor McHugh.

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REIGNING CORN UI Mhuiri champions PS Chorca Dhuibhne will take on Clare’s St Flannan’s in the quarter-finals of this year’s competition while last year’s Dr Harty Cup finalists Midleton CBS will meet 2016 champions Our Lady’s Templemore in the hurling last eight.

The premier Munster colleges Gaelic football competition will see the Dingle-based school, trained by former Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice, meet their Clare counterparts after the draws were made this evening.

The quarter-finals will take place in January with St Brendan’s, the champions from Killarney in 2016 and 2017, taking on last year’s beaten finalists Tralee CBS in an all-Kerry clash.

There are two all-Cork ties with the meeting of West Cork schools Clonakilty CC and Hamilton HS Bandon while Rochestown College, the finalists in 2015, will face off against Ballincollig’s Coláiste Choilm.

In hurling there will be new champions after Ardscoil Rís, title winners five times in nine seasons, were knocked out at the group stages. Aside from the clash of Midleton and Templemore, there will be a battle between 2017 finalists St Colman’s and Waterford’s De La Salle.

The solitary Limerick outfit John The Baptist Hospital were drawn against Thurles CBS with Christian Brothers College taking on Nenagh CBS to complete the quarter-final line-up.

The draws in full are:

Corn Uí Mhuirí

Quarter-finals – 16 January
A. Clonakilty CC v Hamilton HS Bandon
B. St Brendan’s Killarney v Tralee CBS
C. St Flannan’s Ennis v PS Chorca Dhuibhne
D. St Francis College Rochestown v Coláiste Choilm Ballincollig

Semi-finals – 2 February
D v C
B v A

Final – 23 February

Dr Harty Cup

Quarter-finals – 9 January
A. Midleton CBS v Our Lady’s Templemore
B. JTB Hospital v Thurles CBS
C. St Colman’s Fermoy v De La Salle Waterford
D. Christian Brothers College v Nenagh CBS

Semi-finals – 26 January
C v A
D v B

Final – 16 February

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GERRY McGILL WILL be at the helm for the Carlow ladies footballers in 2019.

The Leinster county have announced that the former Donegal goalkeeper will succeed Bart Gilmartin as manager for next season.

McGill has a wealth of experience, having guided Dublin to their first All-Ireland senior ladies football title back in 2010.

In 2016, he brought the Tipperary ladies to an All-Ireland intermediate semi-final. McGill who has played for the Éire Óg club in Carlow, also served as a selector for the Tipp men’s U21 and senior sides.

Well-known strength and conditioning coach Jim Kilty will form part of McGill’s backroom team.

Carlow narrowly missed out on a semi-final place in this year’s All-Ireland junior championship.

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MAYO CAPTAIN CILLIAN O’Connor is expected to return to training with their squad soon after undergoing surgery on his knee.

It was revealed last night in an injury update released by Mayo GAA that O’Connor had gone under the knife to repair a knee problem but is expected to be ‘back on the pitch in the coming weeks’.

O’Connor’s inter-county campaign ended in late June when Mayo made an earlier exit than normal from the championship at the hands of Kildare.

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The attacker kicked 0-6 in that game but despite that match drawing a line under his inter-county involvement for the year, O’Connor’s 2018 season only concluded at the end of last month when his club Ballintubber lost out to Galway’s Corofin in the Connacht senior club decider.

It’s not the first time that O’Connor has had an injury problem this year as he tore his hamstring earlier in a league game against Tyrone in March. In previous years O’Connor has had struggles in the off-season to fix recurring shoulder injuries.

O’Connor will be in action for a ninth season with the Mayo senior side in 2019. He made his debut in 2011 under James Horan and will team up with that manager again next season as Horan returns for a second spell in charge. 

The 26-year-old has won five Connacht senior medals with Mayo, helped them reach the All-Ireland final on four occasions during his career while also picking up two Young Footballer of the Year awards and an All-Star in 2014.

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CORK’S BID FOR three All-Ireland senior camogie titles in-a-row has been boosted with news that two nine-time champions are on board for an 18th season.

Veteran goalkeeper and 2018 captain Aoife Murray and record-breaking 11-time All-Star Gemma O’Connor have both committed to another year with the Rebels.

Murray, who has eight All-Star awards to her name, captained her side to another dramatic All-Ireland final win over Kilkenny in September with a single point separating the top two as the modern-day rivalry lives on. 

Ann Downey’s Cats ended their bid for three in-a-row in 2016 and completed that feat themselves in Division 1 of the League this year.

But with back-to-back All-Irelands under their belt, the focus is very much on a first O’Duffy Cup three in-a-row since 1973 next year for Paudie Murray’s charges. 

The manager — Aoife’s brother — revealed the news to the Irish Examiner, ahead of his eighth season at the helm.

Aoife Murray and Gemma O’Connor with President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, in September.

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“It has helped the dressing room greatly in that they are keeping standards high in there,” Murray said.

“We wouldn’t have achieved what we have achieved in recent years only for those players. And I include Rena [Buckley] in that. Briege [Corkery] coming back two months before this year’s All-Ireland final gave us a great kick because she brought a huge level of experience and a small bit of madness too, which was probably good at that time.”

It comes as another boost to the Cork camogie fold after 18-time All-Ireland winner and dual star Corkery also committed for 2019, as first reported by The42.

She returned to the panel ahead of the All-Ireland semi-final against Tipperary in August after an almost two-year absence from both codes. 

Corkery’s son, Tadhg, in the cup in September.

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Murray also added that he had his mind more or less made up about staying on for 2019 as the final whistle blew in Croke Park in September.

“At the beginning of the year, I had decided this was my last year, irrespective of us winning the All-Ireland or not. That changed after this year’s All-Ireland final,” he said.

“You have the possibility of three-in-a-row. We failed in that regard in 2016. There is a small bit of trying to right the wrongs, really. Second of all, when you are dealing with the bunch of players that I am dealing with, it is not easy to walk away from them either.”

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LIAM SHEEDY HAS named the team that will take on Limerick in their opening Munster Senior Hurling League fixture, as he prepares for a second stint in charge of the Premier County.

The 2010 All-Ireland winning boss has included a number of experienced players in the starting line-up including James Barry, who is named to start at full-back.

Michael Breen will partner Willie Connors at midfield while Jason Forde, Ronan Maher, Dan McCormack and Seamus Callanan will bring a lot of experience to the Tipperary attack.

Sheedy has plenty of strength to draw from the bench too, with Padraic Maher, Patrick Maher and Jake Morris all named among the substitutes.

Tipperary’s Seamus Callanan (file pic).

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Sheedy was appointed as the Tipp boss earlier this year on a three-year term following the departure of Michael Ryan. 

The Portroe man previously managed Tipperary for three campaigns between 2008 and 2010 and departed the post as an All-Ireland winning manager after masterminding a victory over Kilkenny to end their hopes of clinching five-in-a-row. 

Tipperary will take on All-Ireland champions Limerick in the Co Op Superstores Munster Senior Hurling League at the Gaelic Grounds on Friday evening.

Throw-in for the tie is at 7.30pm.

Tipperary team v Limerick

1. Brian Hogan – Lorrha-Dorrha

2. Seán O’Brien – Newport
3. James Barry – Upperchurch-Drombane
4. Donagh Maher – Burgess

5. Barry Heffernan – Nenagh Éire Óg
6. Séamus Kennedy – St. Mary’s Clonmel
7. Tom Fox – Éire Óg Annacarty-Donohill

8. Michael Breen – Ballina
9. Willie Connors – Kiladangan

10. Colin English – Fr. Sheehy’s
11. Ronan Maher – Thurles Sarsfields
12. Dan McCormack – Borris-Ileigh

13. Jason Forde – Silvermines
14. Seamus Callanan – Drom-Inch
15. Mark Kehoe – Kilsheelan-Kilcash

Substitutes
16. Barry Hogan – Kiladangan
17. Cathal Barrett – Holycross-Ballycahill
18. Jerome Cahill – Kilruane MacDonaghs
19. Cian Darcy – Kilruane MacDonaghs
20. Padraic Maher – Thurles Sarsfields
21. Patrick Maher – Lorrha-Dorrha
22. Mark McCarthy – Toomevara
23. Brian McGrath – Loughmore-Castleiney
24. Jake Morris – Nenagh Éire Óg
25. Joe O’Dwyer – Killenaule
26. Killian O’Dwyer – Killenaule

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