Midleton Notes (7th Nov)
- Nov 07,2024
LADIES FOOTBALL
MUNSTER FINAL TIME
It’s a massive week for our club. This Saturday our Junior Ladies Football team play in the Munster Final in Mallow at 3pm. This is a huge occasion and we are asking for your support to get behind the Ladies and their management team. Please come along and support this fantastic group.
MIDLETON PANEL: Abby Quirke (Captain), Molly Beausang (Vice Captain), Claudia Kearney, Amy McCarthy, Deirdre Corcoran, Megan Kelly, Meghan Wallace, Rayanna Power, Lucy Wallace, Lucy Cashman, Leah Daly, Denise Collins, Lucy Kenneally, Leah Hogan, Rachel Quirke, Kate Dineen, Caoimhe Cronin, Sadhbh Beausang, Jodie Keegan O'Connell, Molly Manning, Deirdre Kenny, Ella Quirke, Elle McManus, Jodie O'Donovan, Ava McAuliffe, Rachel Ryan, Kate O'Sullivan, Kate Saunderson, Sorcha Cronin, Alyx Cahill, Lily Kelly and Ciara Murphy.
Tickets are available at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/mv88sb6e
Cash and Tap also available at the gate on the day. Adults €15. Students & OAPs €10.
MEET AND GREET
On Tuesday evening we held a meet and greet with our younger members of our club. It was a great evening with members of the team signing jerseys and footballs. The Junior ladies were delighted with all those who gave their best wishes for Saturday’s game.
UNDER 14 EAST CORK CHAMPIONSHIP
On Monday evening we travelled to St Nicks for the semi-final of the East Cork Championship. A tough game between both teams who were evenly matched in stages of the game. However it was St Nicks who came away with the victory. We had 25 girls who all got game time on the night. Captain for the game was Anna. Well done to you all.
That was the final game of the season for this group. Many thanks to all the Parents and the girls for their hard work and traveling throughout the year. We will now take a well earned rest for this year.
CAMOGIE
UNDER 9S
Our U-9s enjoyed an action-packed day at their end of season day out at Fota Adventure Centre. The girls and coaches enjoyed Bushcraft, shelter building, toasting marshmallows, obstacle courses and more. The girls had a fantastic day out and thanks to the coaches and mentors for organising.
UNDER 13S
Our camogie ladies represented Midleton in outstanding fashion against Inniscarra in the U-14 (B) 2nds County Championship Final on Saturday last in Ballygarvan.
Unfortunately, they were defeated by the narrowest of margins by a score line of 0-2 to 0-3.
Congratulations to Inniscarra on winning the County Final. The Midleton girls did everything out on the pitch for which they have everything to be proud of!
Thank you to all the U12s who joined us on this journey, to all our coaches, parents and supporters and to the hosts Ballygarvan GAA.
MINORS
A brilliant performance from our minor girls on Sunday last in Ballincollig against a fancied home side.
This was a must win game to keep qualification hopes alive. We were down a number of players for various reasons and after a very disappointing one goal loss to Rockbán the previous week, a win was essential.
The girls were brilliant, leading 1-8 to 1-2 at half-time they drove on to win 4-12 to 1-5. All 18 girls were outstanding but particular mention goes to the U16s who were tremendous. We now have a must win home game verses Newcestown to try and make qualification for the knockout stages. Well done girls.
ADULT CLUB
EAST CORK U-21 A HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP
MIDLETON 0-25 CARRIGTWOHILL 1-20
Photo: Carrigtwohill GAA on Facebook.
Our Fé 21 A hurlers made it two wins from two after a hard fought and very entertaining encounter with neighbours Carrigtwohill in front of a big crowd at Clonmult Memorial Park on Sunday morning last.
Two points from Rory Hartnett and a free from Mikey Finn saw us lead by 0-3 to 0-1 after five minutes.
Further points from Mikey Finn, Peter Barrett and Dara Scanlon saw us level at 0-6 apiece after 19 minutes.
We went on to finish the first-half strongly and points from Mikey Finn (3), Rory Hartnett (2), Darragh McCarthy, Evan McCarthy and Alex Quirke saw us lead by 0-14 to 0-9 at the half-time interval.
We started brightly after the break with five of the first six points, through Mikey Finn (3), David Cremin and Peter Barrett to see us lead by 0-19 to 0-10 after 37 minutes. Amazingly we wouldn't register a score for the next 12 minutes and during this period Carrigtwohill scored 1-5 to reduce the gap to a single point with 11 minutes to play.
We kicked back into gear with five of the next six white flags from Peter Barrett, Mikey Finn, David Cremin, Evan McGrath and Darragh McCarthy to lead by five (0-24 to 1-16) with four minutes to play. Carrig hit back but David Cremin replied in injury-time before Carrig hit the last three points deep in stoppage time to cut the gap to two but we held out for a good win after a good honest battle.
This win puts us into an East Cork semi-final. Date, opposition and venue to be confirmed.
Midleton scorers: Mikey Finn 0-9 (0-7 frees), Rory Hartnett 0-4, David Cremin and Peter Barrett 0-3 each, Darragh McCarthy 0-2, Dara Scanlon, Evan McCarthy, Alex Quirke and Evan McGrath 0-1 each.
MIDLETON: Bríon Saunderson; Tomás Dunlea, Adam Fay, Cathraigh Cronin, Rory Hartnett, Ciarmhac Smyth, Evan McCarthy; Mikey Finn, Evan McGrath; Darragh McCarthy, Alex Quirke, Dara Scanlon; David Cremin, Conor Morley, Peter Barrett. Subs used: Cathal Beausang, Cian Stack and Tadhg O'Leary Hayes.
UNDER 21 B CHAMPIONSHIP
Our U-21 B team were supposed to be in action on Saturday last but Watergrasshill conceded the game early that morning.
They are in action this coming Sunday when they travel to Cloyne (new pitch) to face St. Colmans at 11.30am. Best of luck lads.
JUVENILES
SCIATH NA SCOL
A big congratulations to St. John The Baptist National School who won their first ever Sciath na Scol Football title when they defeated Ballincurrig in an East Cork derby final in Pairc Uí Chaoimh on Thursday.
The achievement is even more spectacular when one considers that this is the school's first time ever competing in the competition. Well done to all involved.
FÉ12S
Last Saturday we made the short journey to Aghada GAA to play in the Billy Ahern U12 Football Tournament.
The four teams involved in this Tournament were Aghada, Nemo Rangers, Bishopstown and ourselves.
We won our first two games against Nemo and Bishopstown.
With Aghada winning there first two games also against Bishopstown and Nemo the final game was played as the Final where we just lost out by a couple of scores in the end.
We would like to thank Aghada GAA for inviting us to this tournament and also thank them for the refreshments they served up to us on the day.
This was our last game of a busy year and we will look forward to the break for now.
FÉ15S
Our Fé15 football panel defeated St. Finbarr’s on Saturday in last in Togher in the P1 championship by a point in a close encounter after scoring an injury time goal, a great fight back by the lads. Well done boys.
This weekend it's back to hurling for this group as they take on Ballincollig in the P1 Hurling Championship Semi-Final in Bishopstown on Saturday at 3.30pm. See details below:
FÉ16S
Our Fé16 footballers are in County Division 1 Championship semi-final action this Sunday when they take on Ballinora in Bishopstown at 12 noon. See details below:
MIDLETON GAA MONDAY CLUB
Our Monday Club got great and well deserved publicity on the GAA's social media channels this week, including this article and video:
https://tinyurl.com/4kjrny7w000
We will be back again on Monday, November 25 at 10.30am in our clubhouse in Clonmult Memorial Park. All welcome.
LOTTO
Here are the lotto results for this week.....well done too to our lucky dip winners. We had no jackpot or Match three winners.
Thanks to everyone who supports our lotto. It is a vital weekly fundraiser for our club.
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).
Thanks to everyone that supports our lotto....
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
FRIENDS OF THE MAGPIES
Our current featured Friend of the Magpies is Imokilly Medical Centre, Unit 3, Distillery Lane, Midleton, Co. Cork. P25 V180.
Check them out at: https://imokillymedical.ie/
A big thank you to Dr. Mike Thompson and all at Imokilly Medical Centre for their support.
Our Friends of the Magpies sponsors support us to develop Midleton GAA One Club. Please support them!
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.
COFFEE AT CLONMULT MEMORIAL PARK
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.....
