Midleton GAA Club

27 April, 2011

Junior A Football Championship
Midleton 0-12 Dungourney 0-11.
Our Junior A footballers came through their latest Championship fixture on Sunday last when they overcame a gallant Dungourney team by a single point. Tha game was played in glorious sunshine in Castlemaryr. In the first quarter Dungourney were the stronger team winning most of the breaks and carrying the game to Midleton. Dungourney led by 0-5 to 0-3 at this stage. Midleton lost Jamie O’Mahony to a back injury and he was ably replaced by Keith Ryan. The second quarter belonged to Midleton as we upped our game and kicked some glorious points, notably from Willie O’Brien, John Keane and Keith Ryan. At half time we led 0—9 to 0-06. The second half was only 4 minutes old when Sean Corcoran suffered a bad ankle injury in an accidental collision. The game was held up while Sean was removed to hospital via ambulance. Padraig Dalton was introduced into a revamped Midleton team. Shortly after Padraig O’Shea retired with a hamstring injury. All the injuries and delays seemed to unsettle Midleton. Dungourney rallied and tied up the game with only a couple of minutes to go. Dungourney looked the more likely winners as they had the momentum. A pointed free from Stephen Moore with two minutes to go edged Midleton back in front and we used our experience in the last couple of minutes to hold on for the win. Well done to the Mentors and players who manged to secure the win against strong opponents and despite the long delay and upset caused by Sean’s injury. Midleton now face Carrigtwohill in a quarter final which has to played in the next two weeks.
Team: Brian Behan, Sean Hennessy, Sean Corcoran, Barry Fitgerald, Jamie O’Mahony, Seamus O’Farrell, Eoin Walsh, Patrick O’Mahony, Aidan Ryan, John Keane, Declan Ryan, Kieran Mulcahy, Willie O’Brien, Padraig O’Shea, Stephen Moore. Subs used Keith Ryan, Padraig Dalton and Davy O’Brien

Junior A Football Championship
Midleton 3-16 Russell Rovers 0-03
Midleton had an easy win over Russell Rovers in the losers round of the Junior A football championship played on Monday 18th at Ballinacurra. Midleton got off to a good start leading 0-06 to 0-00 after ten minutes. We continued to add on scores and the result was never in doubt.

Junior Hurling League
Midleton 1-08 Carrignavar 0-12
Our Junior A hurlers lost their latest League game against Carrignavar in Midleton on Wednesday last. We had not got our strongest team out but the performance on the night was not good enough to secure the points.

Adult fixtures
Wednesday 27th Junior B Hurling league
Midleton v Killeagh, Midleton 7.15pm
Thursday April 28th Minor Football League
Midleton v Glanmire, Midleton 7pm
Saturday 30th Senior Hurling League
Midleton v Ballinhassig, Home at 7.15pm

Medal Presentation
Our Minor &Junior B Hurlers will receive their Championship winners medals on Saturday night next 30th, in the Club at 8.30pm.

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Fe 16 Premier 1 Hurling league Midleton v Blackrock in Midleton
Last Tuesday evening we played Blackrock in the Hurling league. We played reasonably well in the first half against the wind and des[ite missing some chances we only trailed by five points at half time. Although we conceded a goal early in the second half we played very well for the rest of the game and were unlucky not to come away with a draw.
Final Score Midleton 2.10 v Blackrock 3.10
Team: Brian Rossiter, Shane Buckley, Billy O Shea, Alan Stanton, Sean O Farrell, Darren Quirke, Gavin Bagnell, Aaron Mc Evoy, Padraic Nagle, Kevin Rohan, Eanna O Brien, Conan Finnegan, Robert Williams, Michael Abernethy and Lochlinn Mc Carthy. Sub Colin Shanahan.

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Wed night 20th April
Midleton took on Inniscarra at the Midleton CBS pitch on Wednesday evening.Conditions for football were perfect and both teams served up some excellent stuff.It was great to see the commitment and skill shown by the lads on what was a very warm evening.
Inniscarra just about got the better of results, winning 3 out of the four matches.Although all the matches were very close and with a bit more accuracy Midleton could have been on the right side of a couple of more matches.

Squad

Calvin Buckley, Mark Daly, Ciaran Evans, Niall Higgins, Cormac Hill,
Harry Holohan, Ronan Lynch, Ryan O’Riordan, Cormac O’Brien,
Adam O’Connell, Tommy O’Connell, Ross O’Regan, Adam O’Riordan,
Colin Oedegbe, Babatunde Olotu Jubril, Alan Power, Coleman Quinn,
Liam Ryan, David Scanlon, Ross Shanahan, Jake Shannahan,
Fergus Wade, Scott Wolohan, Mark Donnelly.

Saturday 23rd April
Midleton took on Douglas in bright sunshine away from home and just the bare number traveling we fought hard but to no avail and were beaten in all games by a very strong Douglas football side, to our credit the boys fought hard and never gave up.

Squad
Mark Daly, , Cormac Hill, Matthew Kelleher, Harry Holohan, Ronan Lynch, Ryan O’Riordan, Cormac O’Brien, Adam O’Connell, Ross O’Regan, Colin Oedegbe, Alan Power, Coleman Quinn,
Liam Ryan, David Scanlon, Ross Shanahan, Jake Shannahan, Fergus Wade, Scott Holohan, Alan Horgan, Ciaran Evans and Niall Higgins
 

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Our U-13 Panel continued their hurling league campaign with games v Donoughmore and Blackrock recently.
First up was a Friday evening trip on April 15th to Donoughmore for an Eastern Region league game where due to a clash with other games we had to supplement our U-13 Squad with some of the U-12 panel and these boys showed up very well on the night. The blend of enthusiasm of these U-12 players and the old experienced heads like Liam, Dylan, Shane, Conor E, Dion & Kevin D. saw us through to a comfortable win on the night. Our Panel on the night was Dylan Cahalane (Capt), Tommy O'Connell, Evan O'Meara, John O'Dwyer, Kelvin Hickey, Cormac Higgins, Eoin Moloney, Conor Evans, Kevin Daly, Sean O'Leary, Dion O'Neill-Hill, Liam Franklin, Harry Wall, Shane O'Brien, Andrew Nestor, Sean Barrett & Conor O'Farrell.

On Monday April 18th we played host to Blackrock in the Central Region league and after a very slow and laboured first half - which may be attributed to the previous evenings late outing by some squad members - we turned it around in the second half with a much better and more committed performance to win narrowly in the end. Our Squad for this game was : Padraig O'Brien (Capt), Eoin Moloney, Conor Evans, Temitayo Abdullah, Adam Daly, Kevin Mulcahy, Ryan McConville, Jordan Roche, Christopher Shanahan, Garan Manley, David Mulcahy, Christian Daly, Ryan O'Reagan, Liam Franklin, Christopher Power, Shane O'Brien, Sean O'Leary and Kevin Daly.

FLAG DAY - our Juvenile Club annual Flag Day took place on Easter Saturday April 23rd at Hurley's SuperValu from 8am to 8pm. The event was a great success and will contribute to the running of the Juvenile section of the club. In addition to the money raised the collectors are also reported to have lost a few pounds in the heat of the entrance area.
Many thanks to those who gave of their time to collect on such a warm day. And of course our thanks go out to Hurley’s Supervalu for allowing the flag day to go ahead.

FEILE PEIL – it’s finally Official we will be hosting the NEW YORK u14 Feile football team for this years competition which takes place in Cork on Thursday 30th June, Friday 1st July and Saturday 2nd July. We are competing in Division 2 along with Fr O Neills, Erins Own, New York and the Armagh champions, all of these games will take place at Fr O Neills grounds in Ahavine.

VHI Cúl Camp – For the next few Saturdays in the GAA Club from 10am to 12 we will have the Booking forms available for our 2011 Cúl Camp for boys which will be held from the 4th to the 8th of July, more details will follow soon through our coordinator Jim O Sullivan.

GOLF CLASSIC - after the success of last years event we are holding our Golf Classic once again this year, it will be held at East Cork Golf Club on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of July, details of tee times, tee boxes, prizes, etc will follow later.

JUVENILE TRAINING – Outdoor training has resumed for all age groups and details can be found on the team pages on the club website www.midletongaa.com
We are continuing the very successful coffee facilities on Saturday mornings from 10am to 12 noon. Many thanks to the parents who have been helping out. Anyone who could give an hour on a Saturday morning to help would be made very welcome.
Cork Minors
Best of luck to the Midleton Players involved in the Cork minor hurling championship V Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds. The players are Killian Burke, Cormac Walsh and Patrick White.
Best Wishes
Best of Luck to Sean Corcoran who suffered an accidental bad ankle injury in the Junior Football game versus Dungourney. We wish Sean a speedy recovery.

Saturday morning coffee facilities
Our coffee morning are up and running on Saturday morning from 10am to 12. Anyone interested in helping out for the hour going forward should contact one of the coaches. Your help would be really appreciated. We would encourage people to use the facilities in the clubhouse. We have club gear and hurleys for sale on these mornings. We also have lotto tickets for sale on each morning.

Lotto
Friday 22nd April 2011. Jackpot €4,800.
Numbers drawn 1, 8, 16, 20.
No Winner
Lucky Dip winners of €40.
Caroline Wallace, Fr. Murphy Place.
Majella O’Shea, c/o Anthony Cody.
Lynette Lehane, c/o Midleton GAA
Mary McCarthy, c/o Nuala Barrett.
Ann Flynn, Ballyduff.
Next weeks Jackpot €5,000.
Thank you for your continued support.

GAA society results 23-4-2011
Easter Hamper sponsored by Mr.Bernard Cashman
Winner---------Liam Walsh
Category 1-------1st Jim O Keeffe
2nd Donie O Callaghan
3rd Robbie Fitzgerald

Category 2-------1st Willie Ring
2nd Liam Williams
3rd Coleman Quirke

Category 3-------1st Paudie O keeffe
2nd Paddy Fitzgerald
3rd Tom Mintern

Front 9----Jerry McCarthy
Back 9----Dan O Connor

Next outing Captains Prize---Mr Pat Crotty, Thursday, May 12th, East Cork