Castllelyons Notes (Feb 3rd)
- Feb 03,2025
Castlelyons boys and girls involved with Cork on the field and in the backroom.
Cork Senior hurlers draw with Limerick in tough game.
Cork 1-16 Limerick 1-16.
Heading into SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday evening seemed a bit of a sacrifice as we were missing the big Rugby game on TV and the weather was nasty. The crowd were slow gathering as no doubt they were enjoying the Ireland win in the local hostelries. There was a nice Under 20 challenge versus Offaly first but more later. At the start of the senior game the place was rocking with a fine crowd, and one could sense with the timber at the throw in that we could have a cracker. Cork got off to a mighty start and were 0-7 to 0-2 up after 12 minutes.
However, Limerick got on top and dominated for long periods. While the pitch was immaculate it was wet and a squally drizzle and at times heavy rain made it difficult to hurdle. Nevertheless, it was fiery and exciting stuff with hard tackles and savage body hits by both teams that kept the crowd on their feet and mentors jumping around the place. To Corks credit, they took the game to Limerick and in the tenth minute of injury time Brian Roche won a free and Darragh Fitzgibbon put over a forty-metre free to make it all square.
Cork showed they were no shrinking violets in matching up to Limerick and for the first day of February one could see that both panels are well conditioned. Our own man Niall O’Leary done very well as Eoin and Brian Roche from Bride Rovers too. Social media showed Niall the victim of a nasty dunt of a hurley by Séamus Flanagan. This kind of stuff cannot be tolerated and interesting to see what action will be taken by way of sanction. The Rebels are looking good for the league and have that tougher edge about them too as they have the hurling always. Ar aghaidh leis na cluichí.
Cork Under 20s defeat Offaly in Challenge.
Cork 1-15 Offaly 0-12
Cork U20s played Offaly in a curtain raiser All-Ireland champions Offaly in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday evening.
Noel Furlongs lads looked convincing and in a one-sided affair Cork pulled away early on, leaving a huge deficit for the Faithful to climb back from as they led by 0-9 at half time. We did not get to see the Offaly star forward Adam Screeney as he is recovering from a groin injury. Cork started the game with nine East Cork lads. Our neighbours Denis Cashman from Bride Rovers and Oisin Fitzgerald from St Catherines and, of course our neighbours on the Avondhu side from the town of Fermoy James O’Brien were on the team and done well. We had our own John Healy on Physio and Brendan Hoare on the Stats. Best of luck to all in the championship.
Castlelyons girls involved in county camogie teams.
Aisling Rosner featured on the Cork Under 17 team in the Munster Under 17 final versus Tipperary as they were defeated on a score of 1-8 to 0-4. Emer Hallihan also feature on the Cork Under 16A as they defeated Clare in the Under 16A Munster final. Congrats to both girls.
Big win for Charlie McCarthy in Leopardstown on Sunday.
Congratulations to Charlie McCarthy and the family celebrated a big win as up-and-coming star Kopek Des Bordes took the Tattersalls Ireland Novice Hurdle in Leopardstown on Sunday with €90,000 to the winner. The horse is heading for the Cheltenham festival now with great confidence. He had already won a lucrative race in Fairyhouse and is trained by Willie Mullins with Paul Townsend on the saddle. Charlie of the McCarthy Insurance Group Fermoy have sponsored our own Club and sponsor Cork GAA.
County Board Meeting Tuesday 21st January 2025.
At this meeting Derek Connelly, Seandún and John O’Donovan, Clann na Gael were elected as County representatives to the Management Committee. Denis Kelleher, Glanmire and John Crean, Muskerry were elected as county representatives to the 2025 Congress delegation.
We received a briefing on finance and governance whereby the Board had engaged with both the National Finance and Munster Council and agreed on a few positive advancements. However, we were then given a suite of extra charges on clubs such as an IT Tarriff, a youth levy, Insurance increase on affiliations, €2 increase on entry to games, referees’ fees at the end of the year will be passed on to clubs, Club monies from gate receipts will be reduced from 10 to five per cent. And we will be encouraged to sell tickets for a ‘Win a House Draw’, but this must not impact on the sale of Rebel Bounty Tickets. Then a detailed report hit the media before we could brief the club.
All in all, this will amount to an extra annual payment of between €2,200 and €2,400. This is even though we now pay a total of €15,000 already to the Board this year made up of €10,500 for Rebel Bounty deduction as a Senior team and we pay €4,500 on Insurance and Affiliations.
A member of the Stadium’s Board of Directors outlined since the meeting he understood that there wasn’t a massive amount of kickback among the clubs. He outlined what’s most important now is that clubs understand that all Cork teams have to be well-funded. Also, a delegate to the Board outlined since the meeting that the SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh is rising and rising each year while the figure we hear quoted is €30m it is around €36m because of deferred income from premium seats. He outlined that the whole issue of stadium debt and all of that is the responsibility of all the clubs. Some delegates raised questions on the night of the meeting, and it will be interesting to see if they are imposed. This is a serious hike in fees payable to the County Board especially when clubs are going through development for their own Parish and communities.
The Real McCoy commences in Castlelyons on Friday 7th February.
Set in 1964 rural Ireland, ‘The Real McCoy’ is a huge success story to date with many sold out shows. The play is packed with witty one-liners and a fascinating storyline. It takes the audience back on a nostalgic trip in time, depicting the wit, banter and tradition of the Irish. Castlelyons Drama Group have now taken on this crowd-pleaser, and it will be shown in the Castlelyons Community Centre. There will be five performances on the 7th, 8th and 9th February also on the 15th and 16th February. Curtain up is at 8pm sharp. Experienced directors Donal Howard and Denis Buckley have worked hard with local stars and no doubt it will be special. Tickets available through phone booking on 085-7746325 or at the door each night.
Storm Éowyn.
The ferocity of this storm was unbelievable. Figures from the ESB show the average number of customers who lost power during the 11 largest events since Storm Darwin in 2014 was 180,000 customers per storm. Full power restoration in those events took an average of 4.6 days. During Storm Éowyn, four-and-a-quarter times more customers lost power, and full restoration could take up to three times as long. Since Storm Éowyn we have seen and received advice on the value of community hubs set up in many GAA clubs and centres. These hubs can assist people with the basic needs such as water, food, showers, washing and contact with the outside world. We were lucky down this side, but parts of the country were ravaged. Due to the frequency of such storms, it would be clubs are encouraged to adapt and have their centres available during future possible outages and ferocious events.
Castlelyons GAA Lotto.
Castlelyons GAA Lotto with a monster Jackpot of €20,000 is not on the usual Monday night due to the Bank holiday and is set instead for Tuesday 4th February. So, the results will be on social media and next week’s edition of the Avondhu.
Votes of Sympathy
Castlelyons GAA Club wish to extend sincere condolences to the Comber and Crowley family on the sad passing of Patricia Comber, to the Leetch family on the sad passing of her mother Olive Hornsby in Australia, to the O’Donovan family on the sad passing of Joan and to the Hegarty on the sad passing of Ann Hegarty. Guímís suaimhneas síoraí da hanamacha do léir.
Club Sponsor: East Cork Oil.
