Category: GAA

Best of luck to Mark Ellis who will play left half back in the Cork Intermediate Hurling team to play Kilkenny in the All-Ireland Final on Saturday (28th August 2010) at 7pm in Thurles.

If you’re not at the game, you can follow the live updates during the match on Twitter at http://twitter.com/OfficialCorkGAA, or you will probably be able to hear it on C103FM (not 100% about that though).

update: Kilkenny won a hard fought battle on the day, pulling away in the last 10 minutes after Cork’s centre back was sent off. final score: Kilkenny 2-17 Cork 1-13

Highlights of the game from TG4 is available on the TG4 website (go to round) 6mins and 30 secs:

http://www.tg4.tv/main.aspx?level=sport&content=188754184193
[read more …] “Ellis in Intermediate Final Team”

The banter has been good ahead of the All-Ireland semi-final in Croke Park today. We’ve a few Jackeens in our midst, and the Dublin flag in the picture above has been lucky to stay in flying for the last few days. There’s a big crowd gone up to Croker for the day, the anticipation is building and the action gets under way in the next few hours time. May the best team win, and may that team be Cork!!

Final score Dublin 1-14 Cork 1-15. Victory for Cork, TBTG ;). The final is on September 19th.

* U16 Hurling: Newmarket 3-11 to Millstreet 0-5

Millstreet Junior Footballers were beaten by Dromtarriffe in the Duhallow Junior A Football Championship tonight in Cullen. Drom’ will hardly ever have a better scoring day, as nearly everything they kicked went over the bar, while most of the Millstreet Kicks ended up either  wide or in the goalies arms, in what was a very frustrating evening of football for the Millstreet supporters.

Tadgh Collins got Millstreet off to a great start with a goal in the first few minutes, [read more …] “Beaten by Dromtarriffe”

Colemans Garage had four of their Kia cars as prizes in the Cork GAA Club Members’ Draw for Bumper March draw.

Pictured second from right is John Coleman, while Oliver Parsons (Cork GAA) hands over of the keys to Tim Cummins, one of the lucky winners.

more info and photos on the Cork GAA Clubs Draw website

Freemount 3-9 Millstreet 1-11

Millstreet crashed out of the Duhallow Junior Hurling Championship tonight after as Freemount came from behind in the second half to battle into the next round.

The game started well for Millstreet with two unanswered points in the first five minutes, but they were quickly wiped out when a long ball into the Millstreet square saw the defenders and goalie hesitate for a second as the Freemount forward raced in and stuck away a simple goal. [read more …] “Hurlers crash out”

Report from John Tarrant

Millstreet delivered a terrific display of passion and pride to lift the Co. U14 B Hurling Championship title after overcoming Ballinhassig 2-15 to 3-4 in Blarney last evening.

Laced with surperb skill and brilliant touches, Millstreet allowed their hurling do the talking over the hour. Indeed a highly motivated Millstreet took control of the proceedings from an early stage and availed on the accuracy of Seán Óg O’Connor and Thomas Walsh to shoot pointed frees.

Ballinhassig managed to find their footing and a goal cut the arrears 0-7 to 1-2 at the break. Three Millstreet points upon the resumption were cancelled out by another Ballinhassig goal. With the game in the melting pot, Millstreet held a facility to step up a gear where their speed and first touch hurling put Ballinhassig on the back foot. [read more …] “Magnificent Millstreet are crowned county champions”

Congratulations to the Mark Ellis who played at wing back for Cork Intermediate hurlers in their victory over Waterford in the Munster Final tonight. While Cork trailed for most of the game, they never gave up and finally pulled ahead through a Bill Cooper point in the 59th minute before John Halbert sealed the victory with an injury time point. For the commentary of the game as it happened, see the Official Cork GAA Twitter page. For the lineup of the teams go to the Cork GAA Website.

Thanks be to god Waterford didn’t beat us twice in one week!

Millstreet had a hard fought victory in the Duhallow Junior Football Championship after their superior fitness saw them hold out for a two point victory after extra time in Banteer tonight.

Kanturk looked by far the better team in the first twenty minutes and they led by six points to two, but Millstreet came into it, scoring four unanswered points before the teams traded points to leave the half time score at seven points apiece.

Kanturk began to dominate the second half but failed to turn their posession into scores as the Millstreet defence did well under pressure not to give away frees in dangerous positions, while the Kanturk forwards squandered a good few chances. The Millstreets forwards were starved of decent posession with which to score as the play constantly broke down once it passed midfield.  Five minutes remaining and Kanturk scored a couple of points and led by 11 points to 9, before the Millstreet line made switches which began to tell and a pair of last gasp long range points in injury time pushed the game into extra time. [read more …] “Millstreet 0-15 Kanturk 0-13”

Minor Hurling League: Millstreet 4-14 Nemo Rangers 5-15 (12-7-2010)
Duhallow Junior A Football Championship: Rockchapel 0-18 Millstreet 1-09
Junior B Football League: St.John’s 1-08 Glenlara 1-07
County Minor Football League Group 2:  Millstreet 1-15 Youghal 2-8
County Fé 14 B quarter-finals: Millstreet 2-16 Thomas Russells 2-8
Co Premier 2 Minor Football Championship: O’Donovan Rossa 3-10 Millstreet 1-06
Fixtures (updated 13th July)

Co Minor “A” Regional Hurling Championship: Millstreet v Ballinascarthy at Millstreet @ Thursday July 15th 7.30 pm. (Ex/Time if Reqd.)

Minor Hurling Championship:  Millstreet -v- Ballinascarthy in Ovens at 7.30p.m. Thursday 15th July

Jnr. Football Championship:  Millstreet -v- Kanturk in Banteer at 8.00p.m. (extra time) Tuesday 20th July.

Jnr. Hurling Championship:  Millstreet -v- Freemount in Banteer on Monday 26th July at 7.30p.m. (extra time)

Tonight in Kanturk, two local teams were defeated in their respective championship games.

In the Duhallow Junior B County Qualifier Final St Johns were beaten by Kilbrin on a scoreline of 2-8 to 1-6.

Afterwards in the Junior A Hurling Championship, Millstreet were defeated by Banteer on a scoreline of 1-18 to 0-12. A sharper Banteer side deserving their victory due to their ability to take their chances throughout the match. The first half was relatively even though Banteer lead by 1-9 to 0-8 at the break, but Millstreet will rue their many missed chances in the second half while their game when they still had a chance to get back into the game, while Banteer seemed to score with every chance.

Update 2010-06-05: However, there was good news  from the underage teams playing in the county. Results were:

• Fé 14 B county quarter-finals: Millstreet 2-16 Thomas Russells 2-8
• County Premier 1 Minor Football League Group 2: Millstreet 1-15 Youghal 2-8

Congrats to Millstreet Junior Hurlers who beat Tullylease in the preliminary round of the Duhallow Hurling Championship in Kanturk today by 6-10 to 2-8, scoring more goals than England left in today! The next round is against Banteer next weekend.

Also congratulations to St.Johns who defeated Lismire in the replay of Junior B County Qualifier Semi-Final by 1-13 to 0-8.

Anyone looking for two covered stand tickets to the Cork Kerry Replay tomorrow (between the 45 and 65). Send a message to the admins and we will forward the message

Two Millstreet girls from the Presentation National School were representing Cork at football and camogie recently. Máire Ellen O’Connor was playing in the U12 interval game at the Cork v Tipperary Munster Senior Hurling Championship game in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, while Shauna O’Sullivan played the following Sunday in Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney the following weekend, as Cork U12 took on Kerry U12 in the interval game during the Munster Quarter Final between Cork and Kerry. Well done to the girls.

from the Official Cork GAA Website