Club Championships

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nice_guy80 wrote: »

Pearses have never won a senior title?
Really?

No - they got relegated a few years back and won the Intermediate title, and have won Under 21 and Minor but no Senior. We have a bit of a Mayo like history when it comes to finals. In the Senior and Minor final in football and Senior hurling final in the next few weeks so hopefully this year will be different.

dirkmeister

Kilkenny semi finalists almost known.

Ballyhale Shamrocks
Clara
Mullinavat
O Loughlin Gaels/ Dicksboro play their quarter final next weekend

JB81

Tyrone senior semi-finals played this weekend. Bookies favourites beaten in both semi-finals:
Killyclogher beat Dromore 0-13 - 0-12
Killyclogher up by six points at half time and Dromore reduced to 13 men, straight reds for Barry Collins and former County man Colm Mc'Cullagh. Killyclogher hanging on at the end after Dromore missed a penalty in the second half and ex county men Dermot Carlin & Eoin Bradley receiving 2 yellows each and a black card for Ronan Mc'Nabb.

Trillick beat Coalisland 0-13 - 0-05
Last night to reach their first final since 1987. They only came up from intermediate level last year, having lost the intermediate final. The scoreline was a shock to me, Coalisland would be very disappointed, after going in as favourites. Good performances from Lee Brennan, MAttie Donnelly and the Trillick goalkeeper who pulled off a string of great saves. Coalisland finished with 14 men and 1 or 2 black cards.

A great chance for one of these teams now to win a County title, Killyclogher should go in as favourites ( current league champions ) after beating Trillick by 15 points in the league earlier in the season.

Nidgeweasel

Donegal finalists are St Eunans (letterkenny) v Naomh Conaill (Glenties).

Necro

Sligo Quarter finalists decided yesterday, QFs take place next weekend.
Tourlestrane vs Coolera/Strandhill
Calry/St. Joseph's vs Tubbercurry
St. Mary's vs Coolaney/Mullinabreena
Curry vs Eastern Harps

Intermediate final will also take place outside Markievicz Park for the first time in a long time that I can remember, out in the west of the county in Enniscrone between Castleconnor and Easkey.

castletownman

Wexford's senior hurling semi-final pairings are as follows:

Oulart the Ballagh vs Faythe Harriers
St.Martin's vs Glynn Barntown

Oulart are the unquestionable favourites to claim their sixth title in seven years, and were rarely out of second gear in defeating last year's runners-up St.Anne's by 3-14 to 0-12, while a late Rhys Clarke point snatched a 0-17 to 1-13 win for Harriers against a Cloughbawn outfit who were quietly confident of advancing, but had two starters suspended following the fracas in the final group game against St.Martin's. Harriers will stay with Oulart early on in the semi, but Oulart will pull away fairly comfortably.

St.Martin's had the stand-out result of the weekend, deservedly defeating reigning champions Shelmaliers by 1-15 to 1-9. They have been my tip to run Oulart the closest this year, and perhaps even win the championship, and have introduced a lot of young players to the side. Were shorn three suspended players themselves against the champions who were more or less full strength, so they'll be confident of progressing further. Glynn's age profile is enviably young, and they too play a brand of hurling that can beat any team on any given day, and were more comfortable against Buffers Alley than the 0-17 to 1-13 win suggests. Alley got a goal in injury time and never got going on the day. The semi final should be a cracker, but I fancy St.Martin's to edge it. Maybe after a replay.

Interestingly, St.Martin's remain on course for a senior double, as they face Castletown in a mouth-watering football semi-final this weekend. Daithi Waters and Ciaran Lyng are formidable for Martins' and they have had some titanic recent battles with Castletown over the last few championships, for whom former Wexford star Colm Morris leads by example. It will be a tight one, but Castletown have had the Indian sign over Martin's recently, and may have a better spread of forwards to notch the win here. Midfield will be key.

Intermediate champions St.James are in their first ever senior semi-final having shocked reigning senior champions St.Anne's in the quarters, and face a Shelmaliers side who have been a coming force the last few years, but have never progressed beyond the penultimate rounds. Have been more impressed with the Jimmies all year, and their central spine of Wexford senior captains Graham Molloy and Matthew O'Hanlon, and Brendan Doyle, is formidable, and expect them to continue their fairytale season here against a Shels side despondent after losing their hurling crown.

dirkmeister

Kilkenny draw was made tonight


Mullinavat v Clara
Ballyhale Shamrocks v O'Loughlins/ Dicksboro

Stereomaniac

The Clara lads are rough. That should be a good match. Is it just me or have Mullinavat improved a lot over the last few seasons? I don't follow the game too closely, but just notice people discussing them a lot more frequently than they used to. I used to attend regularly.

zetecescort

Derry and Louth football finals on tg4 today

Kerrydude1981

Results from yesterday's championship games

Kerins O Rahillys 4-19 East Kerry 2-08

Kilcummin 1-14 St Kierans 1-10

Mid Kerry 1-12 West Kerry 1-17

Shannon Rangers 3-14 Rathmore 4-15

Big game today

Austin Stacks V Dr Crokes

zetecescort

Did Crokes lose the club final? bit of a shock if they were finished by this evening?

Kerrydude1981

zetecescort wrote: »

Did Crokes lose the club final? bit of a shock if they were finished by this evening?

Ya Dingle beat them last weekend

Boots234

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Ya Dingle beat them last weekend

Crokes won by a point today

zetecescort

zetecescort wrote: »

Cork SHC semifinals
Glen Rovers v Midleton
Sarsfields v Erin's Own

SFC semifinals
Castlehaven v O'Donovan Rossa
Carbery Rangers v Nemo Rangers

just to update this, its Sarsfields v Glen Rovers next Sunday and Nemo Rangers v Castlehaven in 2 weeks

Kerrydude1981

County Championship Quarter final draw

Rathmore V Dr. Crokes

West Kerry V Kenmare District

Killarney Legion V Kerins O'Rahillys

Kilcummin V South Kerry

Necro

Senior Championship QFs played this weekend in Sligo, big shock with reigning champions Tubbercurry being knocked out by last year's Intermediate winners Calry/St. Joseph's. St. Mary's, Tourlestrane and Curry also progressed, beating Coolaney/Mullinabreena, Coolera/Strandhill and Eastern Harps respectively by relatively small margins.
Semi finals see St. Mary's take on Tourlestrane, and Calry/St. Joseph's meeting Curry.

Intermediate final saw a bit of a shock, with Easkey netting 5 goals (game was even at 1-8 a piece at the time) in an eight minute spell to blitz bookies favorites Castleconnor. Final score Easkey 6-10, Castleconnor 2-9.

Hammer Archer

The Meath SFC Final will be between Navan O'Mahony's (who beat St. Peters Dunboyne 0-22 to 2-13 today) and Na Fianna (who beat Gaeil Colmcille 1-19 to 0-12).

My own club Ratoath have been promoted to Senior for the first time in their history after winning the Meath IFC final.

Fireball07

Ciaran Carey's Patrickswell will play Na Piarsaigh in the final of the Limerick SHC after they hammered Adare today. A serious inside forward line of Lar Considine, Limerick panellist Tommy O'Brien and U-21 All-Ireland winner Kevin O'Brien is pretty formidable. They have Carey's nephew Cian Lynch further out the field, playing at centre-forward today- he's incredibly gifted and they have two other players from the U-21 panel, Aaron Gillane & Jack Kelliher, scoring loads from wing-forward/midfield.

Then they have a fine half-back line too with the captain of that U-21 team, Diarmuid Byrnes, at centre-back who put in a monster performance today. Mark Carmody has Limerick experience and Seanie O'Brien at midfield started for Limerick seniors this year. Former Limerick hurler of the 90s and early 2000s, Barry Foley, is at full-back with former All-Star goalie, Brian Murray, between the sticks. It's mostly a very young team and they've played fine hurling this year.

Na Piarsaigh got revenge on Kilmallock in the other semi-final, but weren't as impressive as they perhaps should have been. They have an abundance of talent too, and despite having a lot of young players, have more experience- with 2 Munster club titles in the past few years. They have Ronan Lynch, Michael & Peter Casey and David Dempsey from the U-21 winning team. They have Shane Dowling, Kevin Downes, Adrian & David Breen and Cathal King from the Limerick senior team as well as the likes of Alan Dempsey, James O'Brien and William O'Donoghue who have been involved with underage teams in the past. And young Casey scored 4 or 5 from play against Kilmallock in the semi, which is no mean feat for a lad who is still minor.

It might be a year too soon for the Well but they have been the form team in the county and Carey seems to be doing a great job. No one really gave them much of a chance at the start of the year, they didn't even make the quarters last year. I'd like to see them do it tbh, played some lovely hurling today.




In the football, Drom/Broadford are in yet another final, playing Newcastlewest. Drom beat Monaleen by 4 points, the 2nd team they've beaten them this year. Monaleen are a decent side but Drom still have the edge in most games, despite a lot of their key players getting on a bit. Newcastle lost to Ballylanders this time last year, Ballylanders went on to win the Championship, but they got a big win this time. Both sides lost a single game in the group, Drom to St. Pat's and NCW to Adare, who are favourites to be relegated. I wasn't at it but a 9-point win against the champions is nothing to be sniffed at and they do have some fine players. Drom have the experience though, and I'd have to give them the edge.

castletownman

One finalist of the Wexford senior football final is known after the 2013 champions St.Martin's defeated my own club Castletown by 1-11 to 3-2 in the semi final on Sunday. Can have no qualms about the defeat, as Castletown only scored a solitarly point from play over the hour, and while they got to within two points in the last four minutes, that was borne more out of Martin's getting a man straight red-carded in the final quarter, and Castletown scoring two goals. The victors raced into a 0-6 to no score lead in the first quarter, with Ciaran Lyng in red hot form, and in truth they never looked like losing from there on in.

The other semi saw last year's Intermediate champions St.James' draw 1-9 to 0-12 with Shelmaliers. It's rather notable that for the second match running that Shelmaliers found themselves trailing with full time approaching, only to tag a late equalisier to secure the draw. May point to them having a huge will to win. Didn't stay for any of it as I was too disappointed after the result of the match before, but I believe it was a good game. The replay is on this coming Saturday evening, and I tip St.James' to finish the job this time out. Have been impressed with them all year, and their central spine is rather formidable (they are many people's favourites to win the Intermediate A hurling championship, and their semi final is delayed as a result of the replay).

Incidentally, St.Martin's remain on course for a senior hurling/football double (not done since St.Anne's achieved it in 2000), as they face Glynn Barntown in the stand-out of the two semis this Sunday. Represents a Wexford district derby, and both teams have the right age profile to be confident of being a serious force in senior hurling for the foreseeable future. Glynn have the better head to head record in recent encounters, but I feel St.Martin's have the better credentials to set themselves up for another final.

Oulart the Ballagh play Faythe Harriers in the other semi, and I expect nothing other than a win for Oulart the Ballagh. Lee Chin and Richie Kehoe will no doubt bring their influence to bear for Harriers at midfield and centre back respectively, and Rhys Clarke will carry the can up front, but Oulart appear to be back to their ruthless ways this year under Frankie Flannery, and possess a greater spread of attacking options up front, while Keith Rossiter, Paul Roche and Eoin Moore count amongst their stronger defenders.

Another talking point from the weekend was Glynn Barntown humbling championship favourites Kilarnerin by 2-10 to 0-5 in the Intermediate football semi final. They too remain on course for a potential double, and were impressive against the former senior kingpins, who saw their legendary Matty Forde dismissed on a straight red card offence early in the second half. And Jason Ryan appears to be working the oracle at Taghmon Camross, as they surged into the junior hurling decider after accounting for Tara Rocks.

Kerrydude1981

Wins for Legion and South Kerry today,

Legion beat Kerins O Rahillys 4-10 to 1-15

South Kerry beat Kilcummin 0-14 to 1-8

Other quarter finals tomorrow

West Kerry V Kenmare

Dr Crokes V Rathmore

Rathmore should run the Crokes close,they beat them last year twice so they will have no fear of facing them.

KevIRL

Ballyhale on the way out in KK it looks like. 2 goals down with 8 mins to go.

KevIRL

Na Piarsigh win Limerick SHC title

KevIRL

KevIRL wrote: »

Ballyhale on the way out in KK it looks like. 2 goals down with 8 mins to go.

TJ Reid goal brings Shamrocks back into it

zetecescort

Glen Rovers win their first county for 26 years and their 26 title in all today, beating Sarsfields 2-17 to 1-13

KevIRL

KevIRL wrote: »

TJ Reid goal brings Shamrocks back into it

Ballyhale get a second late goal but O Loughlins hold on to win by 2 points. They play Clara in the final

Al_Coholic

just read on twitter that Dr.Crokes were beaten in the Kerry championship

Kingscourt won the Cavan championship by one point

green n gold

Kerry championship : Rathmore 2-15 Dr. Crokes 1-13

Semi Finals : Rathmore v Legion next Sunday
South Kerry v Kenmare a week later

Final: Nov 8th

zetecescort

green n gold wrote: »

Kerry championship : Rathmore 2-15 Dr. Crokes 1-13

Semi Finals : Rathmore v Legion next Sunday
South Kerry v Kenmare a week later

Final: Nov 8th

who would be favourites from these four with Stacks and Crokes gone?

Hammer Archer

Kiltale beat Kildalkey 2-15 to 12 points in the Meath SHC final to retain their title and win their third in four years.

seligehgit

Mayo County Football Final

Castlebar Mitchels v Breaffy

Ballyhaunis won the county hurling final beating Tooreen.

Ballyhaunis 20 Tooreen 1-14