In this issue AIL V Young Munster 1 Under Age News 2 Brendan Cuttriss 4 John Hayes 4 Team Match Reports 5 Garryowen Lunch 8 News from Dubai 9 Club Shop 10 Golf News 10 December 2011 Volume 2, Issue 3 Concession Scheme 10 The Cork Constitution Cork Constitution F.C. V Young Munster R.F.C. Young Munster R.F.C. 3Rd December Templehill Saturday 3rd December 2011 2:30 As has been the case with AIL League Match Days in Temple Hill the club have put an emphasis on bringing as much to the day as is possible. A warm welcome to all our visitors to Temple Hill for today’s Ulster Bank League game with Young Munster RFC. We extend a special welcome to Young Munster Presi- Itinerary for the Day dent, Nay Cantillon, his committee, players and supporters. 1pm: Club Blitz U7’s U8’s U9’s U10’s Young Munster currently lead Division 1A of the Ulster Bank League having won five of their six games to date. Most recently they defeated Lansdowne last weekend on a 1pm: Match day Christmas Lunch with guest speaker 15-13 score line. They have 22 points, one ahead of Clontarf in second place. For their part, Cork Constitution have won their last two outings against Clontarf and Black- Please contact John O’Mahony or Fiona Burke if you wish to attend the rock College and are in third place with 18 points, level with St Mary’s College. And lunch. since St Mary’s play Clontarf today, the question of who will lead the Division 1 table for the Christmas break will be resolved this afternoon. 2.30pm: Ulster Bank League Match - Cork Constitution v Young Munster Also in today’s game, the teams will compete for the Danaher Sheehan Cup in hon- our of the former Young Munster scrum half who also played for Constitution, Munster U7’s U8’s U9’s U10’s will form a Guard Of Honour for the Senior team and Ireland in the 1930s. And we especially welcome the Sheehan family members to Temple Hill today. For your added entertainment today there will be some Christmas Munster’s Heineken Cup games with the Scarlets will dominate the rugby scene for the Carol singing in the clubhouse before and after the game. next fortnight, in the run-up to Christmas, and we hope that our members will continue to support the club and watch the games in the Clubhouse . Your team needs your support Don’t let them down Santa's Coming Bheith ann gan teip Saturday 17th of December Kids Christmas Party from 10.30 in Main Hall Brendan moves up All Time List Congratulations to Brendan Cuttriss who made is 100Th All Ireland League and Cup appearance for Constitution in FUN, GAMES, SPOT PRIZES, DJ And their recent league game against Blackrock. Brendan lies SANTA CLAUS eight in the Constitution all time appearances table behind Support our "GIVING TREE" in aid of Vincent Richard Lane who played 103 games. de Paul. (Children's Gift or Non Perishable Former skipper Frank Cogan heads the table with 133 ap- food item) Come and experience the Festive pearances in total. Season in Con, and enjoy our world famous MINCE PIES !! Match Day Parking Please note that there is restricted parking in Templehill on Match Days. We request that match patrons respect our neighbours by not parking on the double yellow lines outside local housing estates as this causes a traffic hazard. Page 1 Underage Section News U12 Tour to Waterpark RFC and Gravity Park Over 60 of the U12 squad went on tour on Saturday, 19th Nov, to Waterpark for a Blitz and then on to Gravity Park in Co. Wexford. The trip was a huge success and the boys really enjoyed the day. And all the coaches returned alive! The Waterpark Blitz went very well and the boys performed above themselves. We were very lucky with the weather and each of our 6 teams played two games each. The host club then gener- ously provided rolls and soup for the kids before we re-boarded the bus for the trip to Wexford. Gravity Park was a huge success and the boys were engaged in various outdoor activities in Ireland's largest rope park. In particular they en- joyed the 50m high climbing wall and the What a Weekend 300m zip-line ... which was tested to its max weight bearing capacity when some of the The annual U-13 tour to Terenure College coaches tried it out! Afterwards, the boys were fed in a local take-out (which coped What a weekend, it all began by meeting in the train station at 9:45, admirably) before boarding the buses back after a head count and some tearful goodbyes from their mums (although some were seen opening champagne bottles and cheering to Con. when leaving the train station) we all boarded the 10:30 train bound A huge thanks to Kevin Clarke and Dave for Dublin. Farrell who took on the responsibility of organising the day ... Including a dry-run the There was both excitement and trepidation amongst the travelling party of sixty children and eight adults as they were heading off on the week before! annual “U-13 Terenure Tour” they heard so much about. AT 10:30 on More photos can be viewed in the club- the dot the train started chugging its way out of the station and into house. Kevin Fielding the tunnel and right on queue the packed lunches were taken out of their bags, ranging from crisps, fizzy drinks and just to make sure some chocolate. Saturday Juvenile Training Times By the time we were approach- UNDER 7 'S BORN 2005 9.30AM TO 10.30 AM ing Mallow they were buzzing, I UNDER 8 'S BORN 2004 9.30AM TO 10.30AM knew this was going to be a long two and a half hours. On UNDER 9 'S BORN 2003 9.30AM TO 11.00 AM route we got the train driver UNDER 10'S BORN 2002 10.30AM TO 12.00 NOON to slow down going through UNDER 11'S BORN 2001 10.30AM TO 12.00 NOON Mallow allowing just enough time for Tony and Daniel UNDER 12'S BORN 2000 10.30AM TO 12.00 NOON O’Connor to jump on. UNDER 13'S BORN 1999 10.00 AM TO 12.00 NOON AND WED AF- Arriving at Heuston Train Station we all hopped onto a double decker TERNOONS 5.00 TO 6.30PM bus that brought us straight out to Terenure College. On arriving in Please note the above times are subject to change Terenure College we were met and welcomed by Fr. Michael and went straight to our dressing rooms. The Cork Con squad were split into three teams, the Spring Boks, Stags and Lions each having their own dressing room. FOGRA The Spring Boks were coached by Noel Leonard & Tony O’Connor, We hope that the underage news section will be a regular feature of future The stags by Fred Casey, Eoin Burke & John Boland and the lions by editions of the Cork Constitution. Mick Moloney and Paul O’Callaghan. If you have any underage news you would like published please forward to Pat Twomey at [email protected] Page 2 Onto the pitch everyone went for the first of two fixtures to be played that weekend. After a short warm up the matches kicked off, all were played in a friendly manner with great passion and were also very exciting to A big thank you to Fr. Michael and staff of Terenure College, the fami- watch. For the first time lies who kindly hosted our boys and the adults who gave up their Cork Con won all their weekend to travel and look after the squad. three matches away to Terenure. Back into the Dressing Rooms to change and clean up before the boys met their hosts for the weekend. Fr. Michael called out the name of the boy’s one by one and introduced them to the Terenure boy’s and their parents that they were staying with for the weekend and off every one went for the evening. It was up early again the following morning as the host families dropped all the Cork Con kids off at Terenure College, this time to play St. Mary’s. With the same teams as This is the first big U-13 tour over and done with, it was hugely suc- the day before Cork Con cessful and great fun and which all the kids enjoyed. again won all their games. The planning for the next tour which will be to Italy in Easter is well underway and lots of fundraising events will be taking place over the So all in all six wins out of six was a pretty decent return and is credit coming months so keep an eye out a help in any way you can. to Fred and his team of coaches who have all put in a huge effort since Words and pictures by Fergus Humphries they have returned to training after the summer break. After a quick change the kids went away with their host families, a lot of them met up again later that day in Dundrum Shopping Centre where they played Child Welfare- Best Practice a bit of crazy golf and did some shopping. The Club have fully endorsed the IRFU Child Welfare Policy and in doing so have The Cork Con coaches were very kindly invited to lunch by Terenure ensured the following:- College to the Terenure RFC v De La Salle Palmerston F.C.