Bride Rovers Notes (11th Feb)
- Feb 11,2025
BRIDE ROVERS
U21 Footballers lose out to Castlelyons
The first round of the U21 football championship took over the weekend. Bride Rovers were drawn to play our neighbours Castlelyons, who had home advantage. As neither Bride Rovers nor Castlelyons participated in U21 football last year, it was great to see both clubs competing this year.
Castlelyons started strongly and had two goals scored in the first few minutes. This created an uphill battle for our players, who responded well. The first score came from the boot of Conor O'Riordan, who scored from outside the new 40m arc, which is now rewarded with two points. Conor followed this with another point, before cousins Ciarán and Shane O'Dowd scored points to leave to 3-3 to 0-5 down at half-time.
We matched the physicality and skill of Castlelyons in the second half, and were denied some goal scoring opportunities by the efforts of the Castlelyons goalkeeper. Points were scored by Jack Mannix, Conor O'Riordan and captain Frank O'Flynn. This was undone by a fourth Castlelyons goal. We put the Castlelyons defence under enormous pressure in the last quarter, and while we did score two goals (Shane O'Dowd and Frank O'Flynn), we were unable to bridge the gap.
The score at the end of the 60 minutes was Bride Rover 2-8, Castlelyons 4.8. Thanks to the panel of players who put in great effort over the last four weeks. A majority of the team are still in the minor grade, with six still playing Under 17, so there is plenty more years for these young players to progress in this grade.
Team: Ronan O'Riordan, Ronan Barry, Jack Lynch, Gary Quirke, Gearoid O'Connell, Luke Harrington, Conor O'Riordan, Cormac Barry, Gearoid Gubbins, Shane O'Dowd, Ciaran O'Dowd, Frank O'Flynn, Jack Mannix, Matthew Kenny, Eanna Lyons, Sean Dowling, Shane Prendergast, Adam Kelleher, Rudi Gharib, James Larkin, Adam Hynes.
Sincere thanks to our management team, Noel Crowley, James Bermingham, Pa O'Driscoll for taking on this role, and with such a young team on duty the seeds for success in the u21 Football championship in the years ahead have been sown.
CLUB MEETING. The Club Executive met in Monday February the 10th. Chairman Pa O Driscoll presided, With the season getting underway there was a full agenda of items up for discussion and approval. Reports from the Treasurer, Children’s Officer , East Cork & County Boards, Grounds Committee, PR /IT were relayed and discussed. Dissatisfaction was expressed with the proposed format for the East Cork Junior Hurling Championship and a letter is being forwarded to the Board .
Subcommittee Meetings were fixed for the PR/IT and the Development committee The u21 players were congratulated on their performance against a much older Castlelyons. team, but with the team mainly made up of 17-year-olds ,the hope is that those players will be much stronger in the coming year. Upcoming fixtures in the various leagues for all club teams were noted. The success of the Boot sale and its importance to the club finances was acknowledged and anyone willing to help out is most welcome. The next boot sale is March 2nd. Votes of Sympathy to the Quirke Family Terramount & Murphy Family st Bridget’s Terrace were passed.
Katie Quirke
Prior to the club executive meeting Katie Quirke was honoured with a presentation on behalf of the club for her outstanding achievements with the Cork Senior Ladies Footballers. Katie was Corks only All Star for 2024 a truly magnificent achievement for Katie who puts in endless hours of training, and we are all very proud of her in Bride Rovers.
Lotto at €10,000
Lotto Result: 4th of February - Numbers this week were 11, 15, 23 & 25 - No Winner
Congrats to our lucky dip €30 cash winners:
Fintan Lawlor, Leamlara, Una Sheehan, Britway, Maureen Sheehan, Britway, Richard Harris, Rathcormac,C Newet, Glanworth .Next week's jackpot is an incredible €10,000.
RED FM SENIOR HURLING FIXTURES.
Our 2025 REDFM SHL fixtures are as follows; March 9th away to Blarney, March 23rd at home to Castlelyons, April 4th away to Russell Rovers, April 20th at home to Newcestown, May 4th away to Mallow, May 18th away to Lisgoold, May 31st at home to Blackrock, June 15th away to Courceys and June 29th at home to Ballinhassig.
2025 FIT UPS in BARTLEMY ; the dates for the 2025 Blackwater Valley Fit Up Drama series have been firmed up. Nine plays will be staged in a number of venues. Wed night the 19th are the dates pencilled in for Bartlemy Hall. Wednesday the 19th it's Seamus O Rourke with 'Padraig Potts'. Curtain Up on the night 8pm, €15.
LIGHTING UP FOR IRELAND. The 2025 series of Monday night walks is continuing the series will continue for the next two Monday nights Feb 17th and Feb 24th at 7.30pm. Walk as fast or slow and as much or as little as you want and are able to.
Last Man Standing
With our senior panel now preparing for League action, they are holding their annual 'Last Man Standing' competition, based on weekly Premier League soccer results.
If your chosen team wins, you remain in the competition week by week. If not, you are out! All entries need to be in by Friday 14th of February at 6pm. To take part, please contact any player or coordinator Eoin Roche on 0863212831
BRIDE ROVERS CLUB SPONSORS are; Rathcormac Tyres Fermoy Print & Design Gerard Gubbins Construction and Veolia.
