2019 Club Semi Finals: Junior Hurling

Cloughduv is one of the oldest Hurling Clubs in Cork. With the first recorded match in the parish dating back to 1863.by the time Cusack and the lads met up to set up the GAA Cloughduv had already been going around twenty years! One of their early successes was in winning the wonderfully named County Senior Beamish Shield. Winning the championship in 2018 meant the winter just got shorter and better for Cloughduv, after this superb victory in the Munster including nine points from Brian Verling. On their maiden voyage in this championship, the Cork and Munster champions...

 

So hand me down my hurley

And Jersey Green and Gold

The cry has come

Come on Cloughduv

Think of the days of old.

           

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Carrick Hurling made history becoming the first men’s team from Leitrim to claim a Provincial Club Championship title. Beat Galway’s Ballygar by 2-11 to 2-9 the names of Clement Cunniffe, Vincent McDermott and captain James Glancy written in Leitrim lore. The future is bright with underage teams fielding in Roscommon. Manager Olcan Conway is a blown in from Derry who also takes u8 and u10s. And sure there’s no craic in winning a championship unless folk get to write a song all about it. Check out Sean Murtagh and Kevin Glancy chanting away about their beloved Carrick hurling team

 

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Castleblayney battle hardened, defeated a fancied Cushendun of Antrim in the Ulster Final by a point. The hurling cognoscenti would have know Castleblayney are a pedigree hurling outfit. They then made the traditionally tricky journey across the Irish Sea before accounting for John Mitchells of Liverpool in the All-Ireland Quarter-Final. The hurlers there as passionate as any, there’s just not as many of them. The thought of a hurling club from Monaghan or Leitrim gracing Croke Park on All Ireland Day shows the soul of the game is in hurling strongholds like the Castleblayney and Carrick and the heart still beats true. Traditionally with the customs station and barracks in town, hurlers came and went. Now the team is home grown and Monaghan to the core.

 

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Dunnamaggin won Junior in 1994, in ’95, senior ’97. This years success as sweet as any. The Kilkenny championship is like a revolving door and escalator combined. At Junior level, Kilkenny top the bill with Seven titles, followed by Cork with five. Limerick, Antrim & Waterford have lifted a title apiece. Still soldiering for Dunnamaggin is Noel Hickey, still crazy to be hurling after all these years? It shows you in Kilkenny, same as anywhere else, it starts with club and ends with club!

 

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