North Tipperary Senior Hurling Final Match Programme 1996 Coiste Tiobraid Arann Thuiadh
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North Tipperary Senior Hurling Final Match Programme 1996 Coiste Tiobraid Arann Thuiadh MacDonagh Park, Nenagh Sunday, Sept 8th, 1996 SENIOR HURLING 'FINAL NEWPORT V LORRHA 6.30. Ref. T. F. Stapleton, Borris-Ileigh Clar Oifigillil Micheal 6 Briain (Runai) Best wishes to tile NortiJ Board 011 their Big Oat{ Before the Final, After the Final or just anytime call to: JOHN RYAN'S 51, SUMMERHILL, NENAGH Quality drinks, excellent food in a pleasant atmosphere, hot lunches, evening meals Hot Lunches 12 noon to 4 p.m. Evening Meals 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Phone (067) 31928 Evening Meals in -~1"'I.1. The Half Door • . Restaurant Phone (067) 33692 Chairman's Address A Cliirde. Is an-olloir dom, faille a dlllr roi",h gach aon duine chun Cluiche Ceannais Situear lomaim Tlliobraid Araml TllUaidh 1996. Ollr stllior filial brillgs togedler the Lower Ormond side Lorrha alld from tile banks of the Mllleair come Newport. In modem times this is a unique pairillg for the senior hurling final. Lorrha last wall the tille itl /989 while Newport have to go back to 1935 for their ollly title will. Both sides have some lIotable willS to their credit in tllis year's championship 011(1 both teams have some fille individual players. It promises to be a great filial • and I hope the game /ives up to dIose expectations. I would like /0 wish T. F. Stapleton, the referee for today's game, the best of luck. Also a word of thanks to our loyal patrons for their great support of our games during the year. Thallks also to All RUllai, Michael O'Brien atld Atl Cisteoir, Michael Nolatl, for their trojall work at all times. Pilwlly, thallks to Bord 110 II0g alld especially Limn Hogan for produci/lg this programme. Go raibh mile maitll agaibl! go liir. Sean s. MacEochaidh T. F. Stapleton, Borris-Ileigh, will to-day officiate in his first North Tipp senior hurling championship final. He has taken charge of many finals in other grades up Today's to now. They include minor hurling in 1987, four U-21 hurling' A' finals '90·'93 incl, while in '94 he held the Referee whistle for the Nenagh Eire Og v Ballinahinch junjor final. He has refereed one other senior final when Toomevara defeated Roscrea after a replay of the 1993 senior hurling league final - - - '; What happened since '89 I by S.}. Killg The last time Lorrha won the North final was in 1989. They had a successful year in the 'Jorth that year, beating Borrisokane in the league final by 2-12 to 3-6 and overcoming foomevara by 1-14 to H2 in the championship. With a bit of luck that year they might have won their first ever ..:ounty championship. Be defeating Toomevar.l in the North final, Lorrha \uillified by pl.1Y Carrick Swans in the county quarter .lllilL They won by double scores on a scorelim.' of 4·14 to 1-7. Kieran Hough was in brilJiilnt form on the day, scor ing 1~1D from frees and pl.,y. In the semi-final Lorrlt.l were pitted against Iiolycross Itillycahill.ln a dramatic game the North champions had ,I iiO<\! Mld.l point d isallowLod by reft!rt.~, C(.'orgc Ryan, in Ihe space of only two minutes of the second half. Both wer.. SCOff'S by Aidan Mclntyre ill1d, on both occasions, tIle relerec gave a free out for wh." he deemed to be '-'1 u,ue infringem('nts. Lorrha proil'sted, especially when lh .. y lost by the minimum of m.ugins, 0- 12 to ().1I, Iheir Mg umcnls .lnd prolests proved fruitless, Holycross had .natchL..J thl;' winning score with a 'Tonto' Lanigan point ill Iht! dying moments. What might hilve happenL-d had I orrh.l got through is anybody's guess. Holycross losllhe final to Clonou1ty-Rossmore by ! \\'o poinb. [n the following YCilr they be,lt Shannon Rovers byO-18 to 2-8 in the-first round and qual. ,fiL-d for the winners' gtoUp but were beaten by Newport 2-12 to 1-12 and lost their chance "t improving on the previous ye.u. There wasn't much joy in 1991 eithl;'r. Getting a bye in the first round Lorrha beal Newport convincingly by 1-1510 1-7 but lost Ihe semi-final 10 Toomevara by Ihe minimum of margins on a scoreline of 2-810 1-[0. In 1992 Lorrha qualified for the North final after playing five games III Ihe champi )nship_ They beat Newport. 2-6 100-9 in the first round and went on to defei\{ BorrisokiUle i'y 2-9 10 1-9 and qualify for Ihe semi-f;n.,J. This turned oul to be a marillhon against I"oorncvilra. The teams drew 2-9 to 0-15 the first day, were slilllocked together 3- 13 to 1-19 .tter exlril time the second day and Lorrhil eventually came oul on lop by 2-7 10 1-5 after 11(' third ilth.mpt. Alas, for the men in blue and while thl;' exhaustion, mentJI and physi .11, of the three game sag.l took its 1011 and Ihey lost badly to Nenagh in lhe final by 1-18 ~,J 0-8. Any progress they might have made outside the divi"ion, was haltt!d by defeat at !llt! hands of Toomcvara, in the play-off bel ween the losers and Ihe winner.; of the league. Th~re wasn't much 10 shout about in 1993. J\fter ,1 comprehensivcdefe.ll uf SI. Odhr,U1's ,1 combination ofSilv.. rmines .1nd Templederry- by 4-1610 1-15 in Ihe first round, Lorrha ere defCilh.. >d, 4-9 to 1-9, by Nenagh in the winn('rs' group. They won the fir.;\ round ;n 2 1994, beating Borrisokane by 1·15 to 1·8 in the progress. They met Toomevara in the sec ond round, drew the first day on a scoreline of 1-11 to 2-8 but were be.1ten in the repl,ly b ~ 1-16 to 1-12. Toomevara went on to win the county final and were beaten by Kilmallock i, the Munster club final. Lorrha played four matches in the 1995 championship. In the first round they drew 0-1; to 1-9 with Newport and were beaten in the replay by 0-11 to 0-10. Qualifying for tho losers's group they drew with Moneyg<lll, 0-8 to 1-5 but were beaten in the rcpl<ly by 0- t to 0-10. And so the llXord since 1989 looks like this: Lorrha pl<lyed 28 ch<lmpionship matche won 14, drew 5 and lost 9. It will be interesting to see what will be added to that rccon: after today's game. .. ...................... CONCEDED 10 GOALS Lorrha losl to Toomevara on a scoreline of 10-6 to 5-7 in the second round of Ihe 196."-1 senior hurling ch<lmpionship . .. LORRHA SEMI-FINALS Do you know that Lorrha has contested no less than 18 North Tipperary senior hurlinr semi-finals for the pasl30 ye<lrs. They have one less that Kilruane MacDonaghs, but hav C' appeOlred there more oflen that Roscrea, Toomevara or Nenagh Eire 6g. Best of luck 10 Lorrha in loday's final from Wa'~h Par-Ie: Se,wiu. Station 0509-39062. Petrol, Diesel and Oil. Hardware Goods In Stock. Tyres and Batteries. Fast Puncture Repairs, Car Wash. J Best oj luck to Connie and the Boys from CORK ROAD, NEWPORT Where the Gaels Meet Don deoch is don chomhfli is Jearr " Martin Ryan, Newport looks back by Liam Hogan In 1989 Newport successfully defended their North Intennediate Hurling title by defeat ing Portroe after having previously defeated Templederry in the 1988 Final. The 1989 vic tory marked a long awaited return to Senior ranks. The captain that year was defender Martin Ryan who is current senior selector for this year. That was Newport's last success and with seven years having elapsed Martin Ryan looked back on a great yea r for his beloved Newport. LH.- What position did you play in? M.R.- I played full back up to the Kildangan game before moving to left corner back for prior 10 the semi final. Newport's Martin Ryan seen here receivillg the Fr. Hewitt Cup from the then North. Board Chainnan John TIerney, after Newport had won the North Tipp Intennediate Hurling Final of 1989. On the extreme left is Michael Collins who W;l5 a selector with that team. LH.- How many games did Newport play? M.R.-Six games. The Championship was run on a league basis similar to the one run this year. l.H.- After winning the championshil;' in 19S8, what club did you thi nk were your bogey team? 5 M.R.-Silvermines, definitely, they had beaten us in the 1987 final and we never seemed to be able to get one over on them. LII.-You did but them in the semi finlol? M.R.-That's right, I remember Connie McCrath giving a great performance at centre back. Silvermines pushed up Noel Sheedy during the second half, but this came to nothing, as we held it. LH.- The fin,,] ag"inst rortroe, whlot were your thoughts as caplain? M.R.-We knew we were defending champions and after beating Silvermines in the semi final we knew Ihal the pressure had somewhat eased. Still, anything can happen over si)( ty minutes of hurling. L lf.-Describe how the game progressed? M.R.-I remember we got a good start scoring two early goals.