Dates for your Nuachtlitir Coiste Chontae Chorcaí: Vol. 4 No. 14, July 17th, 2012 Diary July 19th/20th: JJ Long Injury Fund Golf Munster Champions! Classic, Macroom Golf Congratulations to the Senior team, management, backroom Club staff and all involved with their victory over Clare in the Munster Senior July 29th: All-Ireland Football Final on Sunday, July 8th in Limerick. The Rebels claimed their SHC Q-Finals, Cork v 37th Munster title on a scoreline of 3-16 to 0-13. Waterford, 2pm & Limerick v Kilkenny, 4pm @ Thurles August 4th/5th: All- Ireland SFC Q-Finals

Cork Hurlers Reach Quarter- Finals Well done to the Cork Senior Hurling team and management on reaching the All-Ireland Quarter-Finals. Action from the Munster Final (pics: George Hatchell & Sportsfile). Cork disposed of Offaly th on July 7 and Wexford Cork hit three goals in the first half and led by 3-7 to 0-7 at the break, th on July 14 to book a before Clare shored up their defence in the second half and made a far place in the Quarter- more competitive game of it. Finals, where they will Remarkably, all of Cork's scores came from play, while all six of their play Waterford. starting forwards hit the target from play, as did and The game will be played Barry O'Driscoll, who were brought on in the second half. For a full report th on Sunday, July 29 at on the match, go to http://url.ie/fldz or see www.gaacork.ie. 2pm in Thurles. See The Cork team on the day was as follows: , , www.gaacork.ie for Michael Shields, , Paudie Kissane, Eoin Cotter, Noel O'Leary, team, ticket details and Alan O'Connor, , Ciarán Sheehan, Fintan Goold, Paul other information. Kerrigan, Colm O'Neill, Donncha O'Connor, . Subs: Daniel Goulding for D O'Connor (51), Denis O'Sullivan for Kissane (55), James Fitzpatrick for A O'Connor (56), Barry O'Driscoll for Sheehan (66), Mark Collins for Goold (66). With out injured, Michael Shields lifted the trophy on behalf of the Rebels. Cork have now qualified for the All-Ireland Quarter-Finals, which will be played on the weekend of August 5th, but must wait for the completion of the Qualifiers to find out who their opposition will be.

Blarney Win Inaugural Communications Award Ulster Bank GAA Congratulations to Blarney, winners of the May/June Cork GAA Communications Award powered by Compu b, in association with Silver Force Springs Moran Hotel. The award was presented at a function at the hotel Ulster Bank's GAA on July 16th. For more photos, see www.gaacork.ie. Force is an initiative Nominations are now open for the July/August award – see which supports local GAA www.gaacork.ie for full details of your club’s opportunity to win an Apple clubs across the country ipad. by offering them the chance to win support packages to refurbish and upgrade their facilities. One lucky GAA club will receive the top prize of a support package worth €25,000 and four runners-up (one from each province) will receive a support package worth €5,000 each. For more, see http://gaa.ulsterbank.co m/force

At the Award Presentation were Gerard Lane, County Vice-Chairman & Judge; Tracey Kennedy, County PRO; Michael O’Mahony, Blarney PRO; Bob Ryan, County Chairman; and Eoin Daly, Silver Springs Moran Hotel. Pic: Mike English.

Three Wise Men!!

Well done to Cathal McAllister, who refereed the Munster Senior Hurling Final on Sunday at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Cathal, who hails from the Aghada JJ Long Injury club in East Cork, is an experienced Inter-County referee, but Sunday's Fund Golf Classic appointment was his first Munster Final. The JJ Long Injury Fund The Minor Final also had a Cork referee, with Colm Lyons (Nemo) taking golf classic will take th charge of his second final. place on the 19 and 20th July in Macroom golf club and teams can be entered for €250 by contacting Jim Nyhan 087 1460177. Details of the fund and golf classic can be found at www.cillmhuiregaa.com Clubs and individuals are encouraged to support this worthy cause.

Cathal McAllister (centre), flanked by his two assistants, Diarmuid Kirwan and John Sexton. Pic: George Hatchell

GAA Ticket Award for Noel O’Leary Packages Congratulations to Noel O'Leary, winner of the 96FM C103 Rochestown With Cork now qualified Park Hotel Sports Award for June. Noel was honoured for his contribution for the All-Ireland both to Cork's Senior Football victory over Kerry and to the progress of Quarter-Finals in both his club, Cill na Martra, in the County Championship. The award was hurling and football, our presented at a recent function at Rochestown Park Hotel, attended by supporters are advised Noel’s family, friends and team-mates, along with members of the Cork to check out some of Senior Football management and officers of the County Board. For more the very attractive on the event, see http://url.ie/flkg or go to www.gaacork.ie. combination ticket packages available – Hurling Heaven, Football Feast, and Quarter/Semi Combo packages all available. Hurling Quarter-Finals are scheduled for July 29th, with Cork in football action on the August weekend. For full details, see http://gaa.ie/tickets- and-merchandise/

Noel O'Leary receiving his award from Finbarr McCarthy. Also included are Tom Tobin (Rochestown Park Hotel), Elaine Fitzgerald (96FM), Gerard Lane (County Vice-Chairman) and Tracey Kennedy (County PRO).

Cúrsa Gaeilge Cork Victory in U16 Poc Fada á eagrú ag an gCoiste Cultúrtha Congratulations to Colm Fenton of Watergrasshill (picured), who won the Munster U16 Poc Fada on Saturday at Thurles Racecourse, making it two- Cúrsa Gaeilge for adult members of Cumann in-a-row for the Hill as Darragh O'Callaghan was last year's winner.

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Rinne, An Rinn, Co. Phort Láirge. New course for people of all levels to learn Gaeilge and practice their cúpla focal. Gach eolas: Liam Ó Laochdha 086 3258271. irishculturalofficer.cork @gaa.ie Féach: www.gaacork.ie.

Colm Fenton received the trophy from Robert Frost, Munster Council Vice-Chairman.

Rebel Óg Fun Walks Upcoming Club The Fun Walks are a series of short sponsored walks being organised by Fundraisers GAA Clubs that will take place in your local community on Saturday Carrigaline GAA will th 29 September. They offer underage hurling and football clubs from hold a fundraising Golf across Cork City and County with the opportunity to fundraise for their Classic on 10th August own club while also supporting the care of young people being treated at 2012 at Fota Island Golf The Mercy Hospital in Cork. Club. For details, GAA Clubs wishing to sign up for the Fun Walks should call or text the contact any Committee information line on 086 7788888 or visit www.rebelog.ie, where full member. details can be found. To have your fundraising event mentioned here, email [email protected].

Cork GAA Twitter Page Needs YOU! The Cork GAA Twitter page, @OfficialCorkGAA, is one of the most popular County GAA Twitter pages in the country, with more than 9,400 followers. We need YOU to help us to reach 10,000 followers, and when we do, we’ll have

a little prize to give U16 Footballers Claim Munster Title away to one lucky tweep! If you already Congratulations to the Munster U16 Football Development Squad, who follow us, thank you won the Munster U16 Football Cup Final in Limerick on Sunday, beating and please pass on our Kerry on a scoreline of 1-11 to 1-8. Cork also reached the Shield Final, link to your contacts. If but were defeated by Clare. you haven’t found us yet, go to https://twitter.com/Offi cialCorkGAA!

Cork GAA on Facebook Cork GAA is also on Facebook – find us at http://www.facebook.co m/OfficialCorkGAA .

The victorious U16 team in Limerick!

County Board County Championship Draws There was a large attendance at the Draws for the remaining rounds of the Report County Senior, Premier Intermediate and Intermediate Championships at At the County Board th th Páirc Uí Chaoimh on July 10 , and some attractive pairings came out of meeting of July 17 , the the drum! For the first time, we provided live updates from the draws on Cathaoirleach our website and Twitter page, so those at home were able to keep up with congratulated the Senior the excitement! Football team and For the full draw, see www.gaacork.ie, where you’ll also find a selection of management on winning photos from the evening. the Munster Final, and complimented the Senior Hurlers on reaching the All-Ireland Quarter- Finals. Fixtures were ratified, and the Cisteoir thanked all those who helped out at the recent inter-county games, which had a combined attendance of almost 90,000. The Cathaoirleach concurred with this, and some issues were discussed regarding tickets, which were to be raised with Munster Council. Jim Healy paid tribute to Cork’s Féile participants, and to the Cork U16s on their recent win. Liam Cahill (Glenville) and Liam Barry (Bride Rovers) all smiles at the draws! Pic: George Hatchell – for more, see www.gaacork.ie. Leagues Update The latest Leagues Website of the Week Report shows that 65% Well done to our most recent Websites of the Week, Kanturk and Russell of games have now been Rovers. In the next two weeks, we'll be returning to the Muskerry and played across all County Seandún divisions, so make sure your websites are up-to-date! Leagues. Despite a good start to the leagues, there has been a considerable slow-down in the past two months, and we are now 11% behind in comparison to this time last year. With www.kanturkgaa.com Championship draws Clubs are welcome to contact [email protected] to alert us to any website now complete, clubs are improvements, Facebook and Twitter pages etc, which we will promote via the Cork website and our social media. Keep up the good work! urged to take advantage of some space between Championship games to work towards completing their league programmes and avoiding fines.

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Next Issue The next issue of County Board News will be published on July 31st. Please forward this newsletter to all your contacts.

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