Midleton Notes (25th Jul)
- Jul 25,2024
IN THE RED OF CORK
What can we say about last Sunday's All-Ireland Hurling Final. An absolute epic of a game but unfortunately, by the narrowest of margins, our Cork heroes came out on the wrong side of the result after over 90 minutes of incredible action. A big well done to all the Cork players and management for giving us supporterts an incredible few months and especially to our own Conor Lehane, Tommy O'Connell and Brion Saunderson. Hard luck boys but thanks for all your effort and class.
Well done too to our own Michael O'Connell (second from right in the front row) who was part of the All-Ireland winning Cork team from 1999 that was introduced to the crowd before the main event. Our ladies football chairman, Brian Sheedy, was also part of the weekend festivities, representing his father Fred who was a selector in '99.
JUNIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
MIDLETON 2-10 CLOYNE 2-7
Our Junior A Footballers maintained their unbeaten run in the group stages of the East Cork football championship on Friday night in Castlemartyr when they got the better of Cloyne by a goal to book their place in the knockout stages of the championship. Cormac Beausang and Aaron Mulcahy with the goals.
MIDLETON: Eoghan Collins, Cian Crowley, Adam Fay, Alan Power, Tadhg O'Leary Hayes, Seamus O'Farrell, Cathal Gunning, Ross O'Regan, Evan McGrath, Aaron Mulcahy, Mikey Finn, Chris Power, Johnny Comer, Cormac Beausang, Sean McSharry. Subs used: Colin Sunderland, Kieran Denihan.
JUNIOR C FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Our Junior C Footballers were in East Cork Championship action on Saturday when they took on a strong Carrignavar side who ran out convincing winners on a final scoreline of 3-13 to 0-5.
MAGPIES IN NORTH AMERICA
These five Midleton men were hurling this weekend in Chicago at the USGAA Senior Hurling Challenge competition. Cormac Walsh, Padraig O'Farrell and Alan Stanton with Cú Chulainn (who ost out in the Shield final to Chicago).
Sam Quirke was playing with Tipperary San Francisco and lost in the Cup Final to Na Fianna San Francisco and Ciarmhac Smyth who was playing with Fr. Tom's Boston.
UPCOMING HURLING FIXTURES
The hurling championships get udnerway on the weekend after this one (Bank Holiday weekend) and here are our fixtures....
Saturday, August 3 - Premier SHC: Midleton v Charleville in Mourneabbey at 7.30pm
Sunday, August 4 - Intermediate A Hurling Championship: Midleton v Ballygiblin in Ballynoe at 1.30pm
Monday, August 5 - East Cork JAHC: Midleton v Sars in Cobh at 3pm
JUVENILES
FÉ14S
The Midleton Fe14s who played against Waterford and Kilkenny on Saturday in Killeagh. L to R: Conor McSharry, Liam Cronin, Michael O'Connor, Eoghan Donovan, Tadhg O'Dowd and Will Stokes. Well done boys.
FÉ16 FOOTBALL
Well done to our Fé16s who had a good win away to Youghal in the Division 1 football league last Friday night. Final score Youghal 3-13 Midleton 5-10
COUNTY MINOR P1 HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP
INNISCARRA 0-10 MIDLETON 4-16
Midleton's Conor Morley celebrates one of his goals during the Premier 1 MHC, round 1 at Ballyanley. Picture: Eddie O'Hare/Echo.
Our P1 minor hurlers got their championship campaign off to a great start on Wednesday night when they got the better of Inniscarra in Ballyanly on a perfect night for hurling.
We absolutely flew out of the traps and were five points to no score in front after four minutes thanks to white flags from Peter Barrett (2), Eoghan Frazer, Josh Hogan and Darragh Egan. Things got even better a minute late when Conor Morley struck for the game's opening goal. Josh Hogan added a point before Morley bagged his second green flag and Cian Stack pointed soon after to see us lead by 2-7 to 0-1 after a blistering opening 10 minutes.
Further points followed from Peter Barrett, Conor Morley, Cian Stack and Darragh Egan before Cian Stack struck for our third goal just before the interval to see us leady by 3-11 to 0-4 at half-time.
Second-half points followed from Conor Morley, Peter Barrett (2) and Fionn Kelly and 1-1 from Daniel Garde to see us run out deserving winners by 4-16 to 0-10.
We would like to wish regular goalie Conor Finn a speedy recovery and well done to Senan Carroll on stepping in to the netminder's jersey.
Next up football next week against Youghal and then in hurling is a home game against Killeagh on Wednesday, August 7 at 7pm.
MIDLETON: Senan Carroll, Adam O'Connor, Odhran Dennigan, Eoin Ahern, Matthew McSweeney, Carthraigh Cronin, Tomas Dunlea, Eoghan Frazer, Darragh Egan, Josh Hogan, Luca Brodkorb, Sean McSharry, Cian Stack, Conor Morley, Peter Barrett. Subs used: Fionn Kelly, James McSweeney, Daniel Garde and Nicky Coughlan.
MINOR 2 TEAM
Our Minor 2 team were also in action on Wednesday night when they had home advantage against Bride Rovers in their Rebel Og East Fe18 Division 1 Hurling Championship Section 2 game. The Rathcormac men won out in the end on a scoreline of 4-12 to 1-15.
JUVENILE FIXTURES
Friday 26th July
Rebel Og Coiste Fe14 Premier 1 Hurling League
Ballinora v Midleton at 7pm in Ballinora
Saturday 27th July
Rebel Og Coiste Fe14 C3 Football League Group 3
Midleton v Valley Rovers at 2pm in Midleton
Sunday 28th July
Rebel Og East Fe12 Hurling League Phase 2 Group 3
Whitechurch v Midleton at 11am in Whitechurch
Rebel Og Coiste Fe15 Hurling League Group 1
Carrigaline v Midleton at 1.30pm in Carrigaline
Monday 29th July
Rebel Og Coiste Fe13 Hurling League Phase 2 Group 1B
Blackrock v Midleton in Church Road at 7pm
Tuesday 30th July
Rebel Og Coiste Fe13 Hurling League Phase 2 Group 4B
Sarsfields 2 v Midleton 2 at 8pm in Kiely Park
Wednesday 31st July
Rebel Og East Fe18 Division 1 Football Championship Section 1
Midleton v Youghal at 7pm in Midleton
Rebel Og East Fe16 Division 1 Football League
Midleton v Douglas in Midleton at 7.30pm
Thursday 1st August
Rebel Og Coiste Fe15 Football League Group 1
Glanmire v Midleton at 7.30pm in Sallybrook
LADIES FOOTBALL
U-16 DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE
Well done to our ladies on a great victory over Aghada on Wednesday evening. The final score was 2-7 to 3-6. Thanks to Isabelle for captaining the team. Also a big thanks to the U-14 girls for stepping up tonight you all played brilliantly.
SUMMER CAMP
Orlagh Farmer is once again running her summer camp for girls this summer. Details are listed below.
GAMES PROMOTION OFFICER
Midleton GAA One Club is seeking applications for a Games Promotion Officer. This is part funded by Cork GAA / Croke Park.
You might pass the attached onto any suitably qualified person, so that they might apply if they so wish.
MIDLETON GAA MONDAY CLUB
We will be back again on this coming Monday, July 29 at 10.30am in our clubhouse in Clonmult Memorial Park. All welcome.
LOTTO
Here are the lotto results for this week.....well done to our lucky dip winners
Thanks to everyone who supports our lotto. It is a vital weekly fundraiser for our club.
The jackpot is still €15k....wouldn't that be nice....
Remember you can play anytime at: http://www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Midleton%20GAA/lotto
In total Midleton GAA will give out local business vouchers to the value of €3,800 every year as part of our “Shop Local, Buy Local” campaign.
How to play: tickets are on sale at Pat Walsh Paints, Chadwicks, Frank Murphy Butchers, Murphy’s Pharmacy, Crowley Butchers, or buy online (see above).
Here are the winners of the draw for two tickets to next Sunday's All-Ireland SHC Final for our yearly Lotto draw members....well done lads.....Thanks to everyone that supports our lotto....
FRIENDS OF THE MAGPIES
Our current featured Friend of the Magpies is Stephen Butler Coaches... http://stephenbutlercoaches.com
Our Friends of the Magpies sponsors support us to develop Midleton GAA One Club. Please support them!
BINGO
Fancy a great night out? Why not give our Bingo a go?
It kicks off at 7.30pn every Friday night and is over by 9pm. A single book is €6. A double book is €12.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the bingo in such great numbers in 2023 and hopefully you can join us again for 2024.
CLUB SHOP
The new shop times for 2024 are Saturday morning from 9.30am to 10.30am. Please order online at the link below and collect on Saturday mornings
http://www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Midleton_GAA/ShopItems
GAA & RNLI WEBINAR
As you may be aware the GAA and the RNLI are working together in a partnership that aims to raise awareness of drowning prevention and to educate communities on how to stay safe in and around the water.
The volunteer ethos of both the RNLI and the GAA, working in local communities with people passionate about what they do, has made the partnership a success. But there is still more we want to do to save lives.
The GAA and the RNLI have partnered up to offer a free water safety webinar to all GAA clubs . Please see the details of this free event below:
GAA LEARNING PORTAL
We have been asked to remind members and especially our club coaches that the GAA Learning Portal is a great resource which is free to use. Please check it out at http://learning.gaa.ie/about.
NEW COFFEE
We would like to extend a very warm welcome and best of luck to Maurice Healy as he opened his new Coffee Station in our club grounds (straight across from the train station) at Clonmult Memorial Park recently. These are there opening hours....
CLUB HOUSE
We have a smashing club house, bar and hall, at Midleton GAA Club and don't forget that these are available to hire for functions....see below for details....
PLEASE PLAY YOUR PART
The word is not getting out that NO DOGS (other than assistance dogs) are allowed in our grounds at Clonmult Memorial Park or Park South.
Please respect this and spread the word.....
CONDOLENCES
Everyone at Midleton GAA would like to extend their deepest sympathies to the O'Donnell and Barry families on the death of Elizabeth O'Donnell (nee Barry) of Rosary Place who died this week. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
