Midleton Notes (5th Dec)
- Dec 05,2024
THANK YOU
After three years looking after the club’s notes and social media and other PRO duties the time has come for me to step aside and give someone else a turn and these will be my last notes ahead of Monday night's AGM.
This is a busy but rewarding role and I wish my successor the very best in the position.
There’s no way I could have done what I’ve done over the past three years without a huge amount of help and support. For the most part all I was doing is taking contributions from a massive amount of people, who took time out of their busy schedules to help me, and putting them together for the club notes or putting them on social media.
At the risk of leaving somebody out, and I apologise in advance if I do, I feel it would be remiss of me not to thank the following people.
Ladies Football PRO Tracy Saunderson, camogie club PROs, Sinead Garde first and Deirdre Hanrahan in recent years.
Juvenile coaches: Ed Cronin, Aidan O’Donovan, Liam Walsh, Bernard Butler, Shae O’Dowd, Michael Carroll (and also as Juvenile chairman and David Cody too as juvenile secretary), Kevin McSweeney, Martin McSweeney, Mike Oosthuizhen.
Adult mentors: Micheál Keohane, Keith Ryan, Brian McCarthy, Davy O’Brien, Pat Walsh, Jerome Curtin and Eoin Ferritter.
Mary and Coleman Quinn for the club shop news and for their help with scores of matches.
Mairead Beausang for her Healthy Club and Monday Club notes.
Marion Ryan for her bingo and social dancing notes.
John Fenton for his RIP.ie notices, Green Club and everything else.
Pat O’Brien for keeping me in touch with happenings in the pavilion.
Coleman Quirke for facilities news, old pictures etc.
Gillian Murphy for the Magpies All Stars updates.
Liam Wade for County Board news and so on.
Lynda Lawton for the Canva lessons and so much more.
Alan Stanton, my overseas correspondent.
Diarmuid Geary, Michael Walsh and all my turning Midleton Black and White team.
John Cashman of Midleton News and C103 and all the other media outlets for their coverage of our club.
Also thank you to Andrew Foley, Denis O’Flynn, Declan Barron, Alan Donegan, Paul Stack, George Hatchell and anyone else who supplied me with pictures during the last three years.
Thanks for reading my notes and for interacting over the years.
Thanks, Ger Lawton.
CORK COUNTY U-21 AHC SEMI-FINAL
MIDLETON 3-18 NEWCESTOWN 1-10
Evan McGrath in action against Newcestown on Sunday. Photo: The Echo.
Our U-21 A hurlers travelled to the 4G pitch in Pairc Uí Chaoimh to take on Carbery champions Newcestown on Sunday in the county semi-final in front of a fine crowd.
We got off to a good start with two Mikey Finn frees and an Eoghan Fraser point from play giving us a 0-3 to 0-0 lead after eight minutes.
Swapped frees followed before Newcestown cut the gap to two and then we hit three points on the bounce through Peter Barrett (2) and Alex Quirke to see us lead by five (0-7 to 0-2) after 16 minutes.
Swapped points from two Newcestown frees and points for us from Alex Moloney and Mikey Finn saw us lead by five still with six first-half minutes to play.
But again we struck the next three white flags through Dara Scanlon, Alex Quirke and Mikey Finn to give us an eight point lead going into stoppage time before a Newcestown free and a Mikey Finn free saw us finish the opening half with an eight point lead, 0-13 to 0-5.
We stretched our lead to nine just 74 seconds into the second period through Mikey Finn from play but then the game changed as Newcestown roared into it and hit 1-5 on the trot while we didn't score for 17 minutes as the West Cork men dragged the deficit down to a single point (0-14 to 1-10) but amazingly that was to be their final score of the game.
Under the cosh our lads dug in and really stood up to the challenge to power clear in the closing stages and book their place in the county final. Two Mikey Finn frees stretched our lead to three before Davy Cremin struck for our opening goal with less that three minutes to play to double our lead to six.
Cian Stack added a point soon after before Peter Barrett and Alex Quirke added a goal each inside two minutes before Conor Morley finished the scoring with a white flag to give us a 14 point winnig margin which nobody would have predicted with 14 minutes to play but that's hurling for you. On now to the County Final....see below for full details.
Scorers: Mikey Finn (0-9, 0-8 frees), Alex Quirke and Peter Barrett (1-2 each), Davy Cremin (1-0) Alex Moloney, Eoghan Fraser, Dara Scanlon, Cian Stack and Conor Morley (0-1 each).
MIDLETON: Bríon Saunderson; Thomas Dunlea, Adam Fay, Carthraigh Cronin; Alex Moloney, Ciarmhac Smyth, Evan McCarthy; Eoghan Fraser, Evan McGrath; Darragh McCarthy, Alex Quirke (Captain), Davy Cremin; Mikey Finn, Dara Scanlon, Peter Barrett. Subs used: Cian Stack for D Scanlon (half-time), Conor Morley for D McCarthy (54), Cathal Beausang for D Cremin (59), Tadhg O’Leary Hayes for E McGrath (62).
COUNTY FINAL
Our win over Newcestwown means that we will now face St. Finbarrs (who beat Shandrum in the other semi-final) on this Friday night in Pairc Uí Rinn at 7.30pm in the County Final. Best of luck to all the players and management and please support the lads if you can.
Remember you need to get your tickets in advance at: https://gaacork.ie/tickets/
Also on Sunday last Bride Rovers beat Erins Own in their replay of the other East Cork semi-final, which means that we will now play them in the East Cork Final, regardless of Friday night's result, most probably on the weekend after next.
BIG WEEK FOR CONOR LEHANE
It's a big week for our senior hurling captain, Conor Lehane.
Earlier this week he was named on the 2024 Reardens Team of the Co. PSHC.
The team in full is: Eoin Davis (Imokilly); Timmy Wilk (Imokilly), Ger Millerick (Fr O'Neills), Ciarán O'Brien (Imokilly); Dáire O'Leary (Imokilly), Ciarán Joyce (Imokilly), Luke Elliott (Sarsfields); Shane Hegarty (Imokilly), Brian O'Sullivan (Kanturk); Declan Dalton (Fr O'Neills), Daniel Hogan (Sarsfields), Conor Lehane (Midleton); Tim Hawe (Charleville), Alan Connolly (Blackrock), Jack Leahy (Imokilly).
Then on Saturday he will marry the lovely Lisa in Killarney. Have a mighty day guys and a wonderful future together.
DEAN RYAN CUP FINAL
A massive well done to manager Alywin Kearney and all our players involved with Midleton CBS in their Dean Ryan Cup Final win over the North Monastery in Pairc Uí Rinn on Friday.
IMPORTANT MEMBERSHIP NOTICE
From January 1 2025, Midleton GAA One Club (GAA, Ladies Football, Camogie, Magpie All Stars, Gaelic 4 Mothers & Others) will transition from Klubfunder to Foireann for payment of annual membership.
All members will be required to pay annual membership through the Foireann system.
Klubfunder will no longer be used as the payment system for membership
This will ensure a streamlined system for managing Midleton GAA club membership and aligns GAA systems
What you need to do before January 1, 2025….
Prior to January 1 …..”Foireann go live date”…., all members are asked to:
Check that you have access to the Foireann system
Check that all information is accurate and up to date for yourself and any family members.
Ensure anyone over the age of 18 has an individual email and phone number.
If you are a current (or previous) member of Midleton GAA One Club, you will have access to a Foireann account.
If you cannot access your Foireann account due to password or username issues, please use the “Forgot Password/ Username” function on the home screen.
If the above does not resolve the issue, DO NOT CREATE another account, please contact Kieran Denihan (Club Registrar) (087 410 5991), Mairead Beausang (087 2412010) or Tracy Saunderson (0876625544) for support.
Foireann can be accessed through the following link: http://www.foireann/user-name
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Our 'One Club' Midleton GAA annual general meeting is on this coming Monday, December 9, at 7.30pm. All members welcome.
ONE CLUB CHRISTMAS DRAW
Tickets for the 2024 Midleton GAA One Club Christmas Raffle are on sale now at the following link
https://www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Midleton_GAA_/TicketSales
There are heaps of great prizes to be won.
This is a vital fundraiser for our juvenile, camogie and ladies football teams so please support if you can and spread the word!!!!
LOTTO
Here are the lotto results for this week.....we had no jackpot or match three winners but well done to our lucky dip 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. We have a new Half Zip top on sale now (at the link below). See Below.
Note also that Saturday, December 14 will be the last day that the shop will be open before Christmas.
http://www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Midleton_GAA/ShopItems
FRIENDS OF THE MAGPIES
Our current featured Friend of the Magpies is McCarthy Investment Services.
Many thanks to Tadgh and all at McCarthy Investment Services (http://www.mcis.ie/) for your generous support of the Magpies!
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....
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
Waterford and Cork will play a Senior Hurling Challenge at Fraher Field on Saturday, January 4 in aid of former Déise hurler Brian Greene and Waterford Hospice.
Brian was diagnosed with cancer in May, 2022 and is currently undergoing treatment. The match was launched at The Park Hotel in Dungarvan last week. Tickets will be priced at €10. Throw in is at 5pm.
Greene achieved Munster glory with both Waterford and Mount Sion in 2002. The number seven fell to his knees at the final whistle when the Déise won their first provincial title in 39 years against Tipperary at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Former Déise and Lismore forward Seán Daly has been one of the driving forces behind this event. “The GAA is a family organisation. When your family are in trouble, people rally around. For me, it’s supporting a friend. Plain and simple. No more than anybody else in the room here, we’re supporting somebody that wants our help right now. Let’s drive it on and make it a good night.”
Déise chairman Sean Michael O’Regan recalled Greene’s part in the 2002 Munster breakthrough. “The picture of Brian at the end of the game, that’s the way everybody was in the stands. The raw emotion that day after so many defeats, after so many years. To win a Munster final was huge and to have the Greene name associated with that was only fitting and proper.”
Current Waterford coach Dan Shanahan often marked the Mount Sion man in training. “If you got the better of Brian Greene, you were having a good night! I’m honoured to be here for such a good cause.” Players Austin Gleeson, PJ Fanning and Kieran Bennett as well as team secretary Ger Harris were also in attendance.
Cork coach and Cappoquin native Donal O’Rourke said that the Rebel players and management are happy to lend their support. “Whatever has to be done, we’ll do it. What Brian has, unfortunately has been under every roof in Ireland and has touched every family in Ireland.” Brendan Coleman, Ciarán Joyce, Niall O Leary and Ger Mellerick also represented Cork on the night of the launch.
MONDAY CLUB
Our final Monday Club of 2024, our Christmas special, will take place on December 16 at 10.30am. All welcome.
SLIMMING WORLD AT MIDLETON GAA
Come along to one of our warm friendly sessions, where everyone is welcome.......it's a step that could change your life forever.
And with our amazing joining offers and our Thursday and Saturday morning Early Bird 8am (Thursday) and 7.30am (Saturday)
I'm sure that you'll be able to find a time that suits you.
This really is the sign you've been waiting for.
Looking forward to welcoming all new and old friends to Midleton.
Thursday - Midleton GAA Clonmult Memorial Park - P25TD73
8am, 9.30am and 5.30pm
Saturday - Midleton Soccer club Knockgriffin - P25NR20
7.30am, 9am and 10.30am
More more details contact: Ann Marie 089-4437622
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....
