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Cork County Senior Hurling Champioship Final 09/10/2016: Erins Own 2-11 Glen Rovers 0-19

On Sunday the 9th of October Erins Own played in there 5th Senior hurling county final, The Glen were the opposition who were in there 3rdfinal in row & were chasing back to back titles Erins Own being the last club to hold this honour in 2006 & 2007, Eoghan Murphy open the scoring for Erins Own with a mighty point from out on the wing, The Glen were playing well & responded with some fine scores, Eoghan Murphy put over another 2 points 1 from a free & 1 from a 65’ The glen kept matching these & quickly went in to a 2 point lead but then James O Flynn found the net in the 20th minute to give Erins Own a one point lead but that was to be Erins Own’s last score of the first half, the Glen kept sending them over the bar & went in at the break with a five point lead & looked to be the County Final Programme better side, The second half saw Cathal O Mahony & Mossy Carroll firing over a 2016 point each & Eoghan Murphy added another 5 points ( 3 frees 2 from play) after both sides exchanging points & Mossy getting a goal 40th minute saw Erins Own take 2 point lead & it this stage it was looking good, but the Glen with man of the match Patrick Horgan in fine form sent over 5 points in row & took back the lead by 2 points, Erins Own’s Cathal O Mahony had the last chance of the game to goal but was hooked & saw his shot to sale over the bar & that was it the Glen took the victory with a 2 point win, in a game that turned out to be a cracker of second half, well done to all involved it was a hard path to reach this final with some tough games along the way, Cian O Connor, Jack Sheehan, Robbie O Flynn, Cathal O Mahony & Eoghan Murphy played well for Erins own

The U10 team who played at half time during the Senior County final

Team in Full: 1.Shay Bowen 2.Cian O Connor 3.Cormac Dooley 4.Jack Sheehan 5.Steven Cronin 6.Shane Murphy 7.Cathal O Mahony(0-02) 8.Andrew Power 9.Sean Kelly 10.Robbie O Flynn 11.Colm Coakley 12.Kieran Murphy 13.Eoghan Murphy(0-08) 4 –frees 1- 65’ 14.James O Flynn(1-0) 15.Mossy Carroll(1-01) Subs Used Mark Collins for Sean Kelly HT, Cian O Callaghan for James O Flynn

& Steven Horgan for Andrew Power

Cul Camp 2016 saw 202 children take part in this years camp which is once again a new record in numbers for the club,

Thanks to Niall & all his coaches & helpers

Chairman Tom Ahern & DD Sheehan await the through in this year’s Senior County Final

Cul Camp 2016

Alan Cadogan at this year’s Cul Camp with the Under 7’s

Senior Hurling Championship Semi-Final Erins Own 2-13 Midleton 1- 18, 25/09/2016 Team in Full: 1.Shay Bowen 2.Cian O This year’s semi-final of the Senior hurling championship against Midleton saw Callaghan 3.Cormac Erins Own play some of their best hurling of the year, from the off both sides Dooley 4.Jack Sheehan were clearly up for this one Eoghan Murphy opened the scoring with a free from 5.Stephen Cronin 6. Shane outside the 21, Robbie O Flynn was lively at wing forward in catching 3 puck Murphy 7.Cathal O outs in row & scoring two points, Jack Sheehan was hurling well at corner back Mahony 8.Sean Kelly as was Shane Murphy at centre back, Midleton were also showing their strength 9.Andrew Power(0-01) with Luke O Farrell always looking dangerous & Paul Haughney was playing 10.Robbie O Flynn(0-3) well at midfield, Kieran Murphy hit a fine point & Eoghan put over 3 more points 11.Colm Coakley 12.Kieran from frees to leave the sides level at the break at 7 points apiece, Murphy(1-01) 13.Eoghan Murphy(0-06) 14.Mossy Carroll 15.James O Flynn Subs used Mark Collins(0- 02)for Sean Kelly, Cian O Callaghan(1-0)for James O Flynn & Steven Horgan for Mossy Carroll

the second half turned this game in to a heart stopper with both sides upping the tempo, all Erins Own backs were showing how good they really are by tightening up & playing some fine hurling, Andrew Power fired over the first of the second half & Robbie adding another, Kieran Murphy was now hurling well when he Erins Own's Minor Hurling goaled mid ways in the second half, Eoghan Murphy hit two more points one team who were defeated by from play the other from a 65, a great call from the Erins Own line with a double Inniscarra in this year’s substitution in Mark Collins & Cian O Callaghan who proved to be the difference championship with Cian finding the net in the 28th minute & Mark scoring 2 points one of them the best point of the afternoon from away out on the wing, but Midleton were still very much in this game & were looking to level things up when they went for a goal from a 21yard free but Shay Bowen made a fine save & deflected it over the bar, but time ran out for the magpies & it was to be Erins Own’s day in well-deserved victory, there was plenty played well on the day for Erins Own Shane Murphy, Robbie O Flynn & Kieran Murphy are only 3 of 9 or 10 you could mention, but the man of the match would have to go to Jack Sheehan who put in a fine shift for the hour, It’s been 9 years since Erins Own reached the county final so there will be plenty of excitement around the parish were they meet Glen rovers who are chasing back to back titles which was last done by Erins Own in 2006 & 2007

East U21A Hurling Championship Final Erins Own 3-17 Aghada

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Killeagh were the hosts for this years U21 final that saw Erins Own dominate the game from start to finish, In the first minute of the game James O Carroll went on a run from midfield right through the centre to find the net, this set the tone for game, The on form Robbie O Flynn hit 12 points for night & Joe Ryan also found the net in the first half, With James O Carroll now in full control at midfield & also fired over another two points, Erins Own were well on their way, Eoin Monaghan was also hurling well at wing forward he added two more points, Captain Shane Broderick, Barry og Murphy & Cathal McNamara were all hurling well at the back, & what finished this game for Aghada was U21 Hurling Manager Cathal O when James O Flynn came out centre forward & scored a goal & a point Mahony with his selectors in the last five minutes, Star men on the night were Robbie O Flynn & Mark Collins, Billy Hegarty, James O Carroll. Jack Sheehan & DD Sheehan

U21 Hurling Captain Shane Broderick Receiving this year’s East Cork trophy

Team in Full: 1.Gearoid Cody 2.Eoin Leahy 3.Shane Broderick 4.Daire Twomey 5.Steven Lee Barry Og Murphy Cathal McNamara 8.James O Carroll (1-2) 9.Steven Horgan 10.Robbie O Flynn (0-12) 10 frees 2 from play 11.Sam Guilfoyle 12.Eoin Monaghan (0-2) 13.Ger O Mahony 14. James O Flynn (1-01) 15.Joe Ryan (1-0) Subs used: William Fenton for Joe Ryan, Harry Murphy for Eoin Monaghan, Co nor Smiddy for Sam Guilfoyle & Darren O Sullivan for Eoin Leahy

U21 Team after winning the game

Senior Hurling Championship QF: Erins Own 1-11 Blackrock 1- Team in Full: 1.Shay 08, 11/09/2016 Bowen 2.Cian O Connor 3.Cormac Dooley 4.Jack On Sunday the 11th of September Erins Own met Blackrock in the quarter final Sheehan 5.Stephen Cronin of this year’s senior county in Pairc Ui Rinn, weather conditions were poor 6.Shane Murphy 7.Cathal O Mahony 8.Colm Coakley(0- with strong winds & heavy rain for the hour made things very greasy & hard to 01) 9.Sean Kelly 10.Robbie hurl, Eoghan Murphy opened the scoring for Erins Own with a 65 & he O Flynn(0-01) 11.Mossy O followed with another from a free, James O Flynn was showing his strength at Carroll 12.Mark Collins full forward with some strong runs & to his credit scored a goal & two points 13.Eoghan Murphy(0-05) 3 in the first half, Sean Kelly & Colm Coakley who scored a point were hurling x 65’s 2 frees 14.James O well at midfield, Robbie O Flynn had some lively bursts out on the wing he Flynn (1-02) 15.Kieran also pointed in the first half to give a lead at half time of 1-06 to 4 points, Murphy(0-02) Subs used: Shane Murphy put in a fine hour at centre back as did Cormac Dooley at full Andrew Power for Mark back, Shay bowen who was solid between the posts made the save of the Collins & Cian O season when he was called on to dive the width of the goals to deny the Callaghan for Colm Rockies a goal which would have brought them back in to the game, Coakley

Un21 hurlers celebrating after winning the county final

Blackrock were struggle to score with 15 wides throughout the game, Eoghan Murphy put over two more 65’s & Kieran Hero Murphy added two fine points deep in the second half, Blackrock were given a life line when they found the net in the 29th minute & despite all their wides the gap had closed to two points, Eoghan Murphy put over another point from a free in injury time which was to be the final score of the game & to give Erins Own a win of 3 points, this was a hard game of hurling for both sides in terrible conditions, But it was a game that saw Erins Own lead from start to finish & to give a deservable win & a spot in the semi final against Midleton, Shay Bowen, Shane Murphy, Sean Kelly, Colm Coakley, Robbie O Flynn, James O Flynn & Kieran Murphy played well for Erins Own

U21 Hurling Championship County Final Erins Own 3-24 Ballincollig 1-16

On Sunday the 30th of October Erins Own U21 hurlers brought silver ware back to Caherlag in a well deserved win over Ballincollig in the U21A hurling county championship final at Pairc Ui Rinn, Erins Own stormed in to a commanding lead with a well finished goal from Steven Horgan in the 8th minute followed by another a minute later from James O Flynn, Erins Own were showing their strength all over the field with first half points from James O Carroll, Sam Guilfoyle, Ger O Mahony & James O Flynn all scoring a point each, Robbie O Flynn was again on form & his free taking was excellent with five points from frees from all over the field & one from play, Contender for man of the match Stephen Horgan added four fine poits to U21 Hurling Captain Shane Broderick receiving this year’s give Erins Own a lead at half time of 2-14 to 1-09, the second half saw Ger O County cup from Ger Lane Mahony & Stephen Horgan pointing again Robbie added another five points (4 frees 1 from play) Half time substitute Eoin Monaghan wasted no time in firing one over the bar, Eoin Leahy & Barry Og Murphy were hurling well at the back & with James O Carroll & Stephen Horgan ruling at midfield it was looking good for Erins Own, James O Flynn fired over another two & he closed the doors for Ballincollig in the 30th minute with a rocket to the back of the net, hard to pick a man of the match with so many playing well Robbie scoring 11 points, James O Flynn scored 2-03, James O Carroll, Ger O Mahony, Barry Og & Shane Broderick were both solid but you would have to give it to Stephen Horgan who was outstanding for the hour & scoring 1-05 from midfield well done to all involved

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Team in Full: 1.Gearoid Cody 2.Eoin Leahy 3.Shane Broderick 4.Alan Moynihan 5. Dara Twomey 6.Barry Og Murphy 7.Leon Foley 8.Stephen Lee 9.Stephen Horgan (1-05) 10.James O Carroll (0-01) 11.Sam Guilfoyle (0-01) 12.Robbie O Flynn (0- 11) 13.Ger O Mahony (0-02) 14.James O Flynn (2-03) 15.Joe Ryan Subs Used: Eoin Monaghan (0-01) for Steven Lee, Ronan Twomey for Joe Ryan, William Fenton for Sam Guilfoyle, Niall Galvin for Ger O Mahony & Conor Smithy for

Alan Moynihan

Juvenile Report

ALL TEAMS HAVE BEEN VERY ACTIVE SINCE SEPTEMBER

Our u6 hosting a hurling blitz v Watergrasshill in Sept and then attending one at Blackrock with up to 40 players in attendance at these events. Their season will be finishing up at end of Oct but new players always welcome just contact Michael @ 087 6346358

Ryans of Supervalue with their generous donation during the summer.

U8 – They hosted Sars in Caherlag during Sep, attended a monster blitz in Killeagh, and a return visit to Sars who had Ballybacon of Tipp during Oct. Similar to U6 they will continue Sat morning hurling training until the end of Oct

Our u10 put on a magnificent display of both skill and bravery versus the Glen during County Final half time break, proving Fe9,Fe10,Fe11 & Fe12’s great representatives for Erins Own, a great occasion for these with U21 captain, young players and hopefully some of these players will teammates and the cup eventually go on to represent our club at senior level.

Fe10’s at the county final half time game

U11 have commenced a round robin football competition with U15 Panel have secured Douglas, Glanmire and Nemo before wrapping up for the season themselves a place in the giving them valuable playing time versus some the better football Premier 2 Hurling teams in Cork League Semi Final against Inniscarra & have football championship due at the end of October. We wish them the very best of luck.

U16 season after 10months of training with an outing at the Glen Resource Centre taking place at the end of August. We would like to thank each player & parent for their hard work attending matches & training & we wish them the very best of luck as Our u12 have also attended blitzes at both Cobh and Midleton, they progress into Minor playing Ballygunner, Carrigtwohill, Lisgoold, Watergrasshill and in 2017. while not on the right side of the results they should great heart and determination with their best performance against Midleton who went on the win the tournament.

U13 finished their season with a final game versus Ballinhassig, This team had an exceptional year at their year at Premier 2, and we are already looking forward to 2017

The Fe15 team who had a great season this year, unfortunately beaten in the semi-final of the league

U14 season has now come to an end but during the year they managed to reach an East Cork final and County Semi final this was Fe9,Fe10,Fe11 & Fe12’s with U21 captain, teammates and the cup achieved only through both the player and coaches dedication

U8 ladies footballers

Junior Ladies First outing of the season

U8 ladies footballers

U8 ladies footballers Junior Ladies Dublin 7’s

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Under 14 ladies Footballers

Well done to the Junior Ladies on winning the East Cork Junior 7s

Under 14 ladies Footballers

Under 8’s

Thanks to Diarmuid & PJ our girls were well prepared for the battle that was to come and U16 Football: they went out and gave everyone a lesson on how As most of you are aware we were graded ‘A’ for the U16 league against much to play football. They stronger opposition. recovered from their own mistakes and optimised The league campaign kicked off on the 31sr of January and we found it extremely difficult to organise games at this time of year due to adverse weather on the mistakes made by conditions. Na Piarsaigh. They played as a team and had We were defeated by Aghada, Rockban, Midleton and Inch Rovers. We were some great passages of given a walk over by Cloyne and had a win against Bride Rovers – a game that play throughout the entire will forever be engraved in my mind as it showed how determined and strong our girls can be when they put their minds to it. Football ability was never a game. Although they question with these girls but they lacked in confidence after suffering some were in the lead at half difficult defeats. time our girls were quick to remember the previous The league campaign ended in March/April allowing the girls to go off and play two games where they at U14, minor and Junior grades for the Summer.As we had not been in the top two of our grade following the league campaign we did not qualify for the had let the opposition County Championship. into the game for the

second half and were determined not to let this happen again. They kept driving on and thankfully were worthy winners on the night.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank this incredible bunch of girls for a fantastic year. A huge thank you must also go to Diarmuid Cunningham and PJ The East Cork Championship started early October and with the help and supports of PJ Savage and Diarmuid Cunningham we got in a few excellent Savage for stepping in training sessions before playing Youghal away on a cold and wet Sunday and helping us to make afternoon. something of the year.

The girls got off to a great start but began to tire in the second half allowing Wishing you all a Happy Youghal to pick up a few easy scores. Eventually the Caherlag girls ran out winners and were through to a semi-final against our neighbours – Christmas and looking Carrigtwohill.This game was played in Carrigtwohill on a cold Sunday 23rd of forward to seeing you all October. Our girls were focused and determined and put some great scores on in 2107 the board. Again they tired in the second half and allowed Carrig to enter the game. It was a very close battle but thankfully we came through as winners with Many thanks a 2-point victory.

The final was fixed for Friday 04th of November in Caherlag against Na Sandra Dooley Piarsaigh.

Under 12’s

Coaches: John Corcoran, Our U12 Girls have had an extremely busy and successful year playing a Kieran Collins, Seamus total of 26 games, 15 football games and 11 camogie games and had MulcahyTeam Assistant: loads of fun along the way. Ena Corry,Student The squad is made up of 19 girls, some were playing with Erin’s Own a Coaches: James Mulcahy (last few weeks, Gaisce) while and we had some very welcome new comers this year also. The Team details: girls had a very successful year reaching the final stages of both football and camogie.The girls won 3 out of 4 of their camogie league games, all The core squad now though games, and did enough to get to the quarter final at home consists of 19 Girls, this against Milford and they didn’t stop there. On 26th July the girls took on number was much lower Milford at home and gave everyone a great display of Camogie to at the beginning of the progress to the league semi-final, which unfortunately had to be played year. 6 Girls are on the just two days later. On 28th July the girls played Castlelyons in their age, 12 girls are under 11 league semi-final at the neutral venue of St Finbarr’s, but despite and 1 girl under 10.All showing great skill and determination they were unlucky not to progress the girls play football but only 15 will play to the final. Reaching the semi-final was a huge achievement for the girls camogie and out of that and they played a good strong game and were unlucky to loose against 15, 3 girls are completely Castlelyons. Both teams were well matched. new to Camogie this year.

Games;

26 in total;

10 league FB games;

2 Friendly FB games;

3 championship FB games, reached league final.

6 league Camogie games, The focus again changed to football with the championship yet to play. th reached league semi- The girls took on Mayfield on 16 Sept in their Championship quarter final and showed great determination to win. They progressed to the final. semi-final away to Youghal B played on 8th Oct, the girls played a 1 friendly camogie game; fantastic game of football and progressed to the Championship final. On 23rd Oct, the U12 girls played away to Carrigtwohill in the Final. The girls 4 U13 league camogie were very excited to reach the final and they played their best on the games; day but Carrigtwohill got the glory of the win.

Plus two camogie Blitz’s. The teams greatest achievement was their team work and team spirit, in both the football final and camogie semi-final, they battled on to the

final whistle and at no stage did they give up. Well done to all the girls!

Congratulations to Niamh Murphy on winning the ladies football All Ireland Minor Title

U15:

We reached the East Cork ‘B’ plate final St Catherine’s in Caherlag and unfortunately were beaten by a very strong sideWe Under 8’s played two games previous to this against Bride Rovers and St Catherine’s and were beaten well on both occasions, however our girls showed great heart and determination throughout both games. There have been great passages of play and our skill level has definitely improved since the beginning of the year

Under 14 ladies Football team

Tickets will also be on sale at the door this Saturday the 26th in Supervale Glanmire

Pairc Ui Chaoimh pictured recently on its redevelopment

Construction Well under way in Caherlag in our new Hurling wall & Astro pitch

Minor Manager Billy Hegarty, Club Chairman Ton Aherne, Juvenile Chairman Brian O Shea & Erins Own Ladies chairman PJ Savage pictured at the Vienna Woods Sports awards for November that our under 21 hurling team won

The Erins Own Puc Fada will take place this year on Tuesday the 27th of December at 12:30pm, Starting point will be at Erins Own GAA club Caherlag & will also finish back at the club, prizes will be presented afterwards in The Great O'Neill Bar Glounthaune, all adults & children are welcome to take part in which always turns out to be a great day out

Michael O Connor presenting gear to Mossy Carroll for the We currently have over 940 likes on our Facebook Senior Hurling team ahead of the County Final page

we have over 2,385 followers on twitter, which is a great we to keep in touch with match updates & what’s going on in Caherlag.

This years Christmas draw will take place in O' Donoghues bar Knockraha, On Monday the 19th of December at 8pm all welcome, Tickets can be bought from any Erins Own U21 Hurling team win again, this time they scoop officer or any club the Vienna Woods monthly Sports & community award at a member, Thank you for function held in their honour on Tuesday the 15th of November, your continued support A Big thank you to Michael Magner, Director of Fitzgerald’s with our annual Christmas draw Vienna Woods Hotel for holding the function & for also presenting the award to our team captain Shane Broderick As Always a warm thanks to all those who support our

club in every way. Erins Own GAA Pairc Ui Chonaill, Caherlag, Glounthanue, Co Cork.Tel: 087-3285986