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A.U.L. 2A – Millstreet Celtic 4 Killowen 0 (Thursday 26th August)

Killowen’s first away fixture of the campaign ended in defeat as costly errors in the second period contributed to Millstreet’s victory. Despite a promising first half showing, Killowen faded badly in the final quarter, as Millstreet’s superior fitness and teamwork prevented any notions of a Killowen comeback. The Killowen line up featured new signing Jason Mc Carthy in midfield with experienced ‘keeper Eamonn Murphy resuming in goal. Millstreet opened with a number of long range efforts that didn’t trouble Murphy whereas Killowen’s main source of attack stemmed from Pa Bermingham’s excursions down the left wing. Millstreet had a goal disallowed for pushing in the area before Owen Braun set up Declan O’ Brien after 27 minutes but his effort was blocked. continue reading…

Junior B Football Championship: St.Johns v Cullen, in Millstreet Friday 3rd 6:30pm
Junior B Football Championship: Knocknagree v Millstreet in Knocknagree Friday 3rd 6:30pm
Soccer:
1A: Kilreen Celtic 5 Rathcoole Rovers 0 Sat 28th 3pm
2A: Leeview Ath (OFF) Millstreet Celtic, Sun 29th 3pm
3A: Knocknaheeny Celtic 3 Los Zarcos 1, Sun 29th 10:45am
3A: Hillington 1 Rathcoole Rovers 0, Sun 29th 10:45am
3A: Los Zarcos v Lakewood Ath, Tues 31st 6:45pm
3A: Rathcoole Rovers v Kanturk, Tues 31st 6:45pm
1A: Rathcoole Rovers v Passage, Thurs 2nd 6:45pm
2A: Millstreet Celtic v Macroom, Thurs 2nd 6:45pm
Saturday 4th September K.o 3.00pm
Presidents Cup 1st Round: Lakewood Ath v Rathcoole Rovers B
AUL 3A: Loz Zarcos v Ballincollig

Sunday 5th September Ko. 10.45 am
St Micheals Cup 1st Round: Dillon Cross Ath v Rathcoole Rovers A
Saxone Cup 1st Round: City Wanderers v Millstreet Celtic

Millstreet Coursing Club will hold their Annual Golf Classic tomorrow two weeks, Friday, September 10.
It will take place at the Kanturk Golf Club and the entry fee for a team of three is €150. The club would also appreciate sponsorship of Tee Boxes and Greens.
If you would like to be associated with the event or for further information contact Dan Joe Guiney (Club Sec) 087 1205305, Gerry Meehan (Joint Treasurer) 087 9087426 or Noreen Corkery (Joint Treasurer) @ 029 70153.

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
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"Gaelforce West" is the largest one day adventure race of its kind in the world. The 2010 event took place on Saturday August 21st. It is a multi-sport adventure race involving cycling, running, hiking and kayaking. The course of approximately 65km stretches from the stunning Glassilaun beach to Westport. En route there are some significant obstacles to cross, including Killary Harbour and the famous holy mountain of Croagh Patrick. Pictured above (from left): Diarmuid Curley, Eamonn O'Keeffe, Mick Mullane, Mike Healy & Chris Murphy. (We thank Catherine Pomeroy-Murphy for splendid picture and very comprehensive caption)

Eamonn O’Keeffe actually won the short course version of Gael Force West which didn’t include Croagh Patrick, but all the others continue reading…

Junior B Hurling Championship: Millstreet 1-1 Lismire 0-11, 7pm Fri 27th Aug in Lismire

Junior B Hurling League: Newmarket 2-4 Millstreet 2-9, 23rd August 7pm in Newmarket (3 wins out of 3 in the league)

Soccer Results:

Weekend of 21st/22nd Aug
AUL 1A: Grangevale 1 Rathcoole Rovers 4
2A: Crescent Ath 2 Millstreet Celtic 0
3A: Hillington 3 Los Zarcos 2, Bweeng 3 Rathcoole Rovers 1

Tues 24th August:
3A: Los Zarcos 2 Kanturk 3
3A: Rathcoole Rovers 3 Grattan Utd 5

Thurs 26th August:
1A: Rathcoole Rovers 4 Greenmount Rangers 1
2A: Millstreet Celtic 4 Killowen 0

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.

Join Ireland’s best adventure race - a new challenge. With a varied mix of challenging on road biking, off road running and a short kayak section, it is set to get the hearts racing on either the 65km MonsterMAC EXPERT category or somewhat easier 35km SPORT category.

Set in and around Millstreet Country Park, the route follows parts of the scenic Cork/Kerry Duhallow Way, in this well designed, often challenging, sometimes gruelling, continue reading…

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

Congratulations to Tony Kelleher (formerly of Minor Row) now based in Cork and runing for Togher AC, who last weekend became the Irish over-40 800m champion in a personal best time of 2:02:33. A fabulous achievement no doubt.

While looking at the Irish Masters Athletic Association website, I noticed that our own Willie Neenan is still the national record holder for the mens over 65s at 800m and 1500m with times of 2.32.12 and 5.08.87, which were both set in September 1998 in Italy.

There are lots of photos of the Irish Masters Athletics Championships on flickr. View the full results of the days athletics.

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Millstreet Horse Show finished up yesterday after five days of enjoyable show-jumping. There was a buzz around the Green Glens, added to by the lovely weather all week, and especially the blistering sunshine on the Sunday. Added below are some images that may give a sample of the atmosphere. It was good to see the show back on the calendar, and hopefully it will get bigger and better again next year.

visit the Millstreet Horse Show website for details on the show, or the Millstreet Horse Show Facebook page for pictures, comments etc.

Update: PHOTO-Graphics, the photo studio based at the West End in Millstreet, have made available hundreds of photos from the show on their website

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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, continue reading…

Millstreet Horse Show opened today amidst some lovely sunny weather, lots of horses and ponies, and a big crowd. Above are a few photos taken today which are on the Millstreet Horse Show Facebook page. Don’t forget that everyone is welcome at the Show, and admission is FREE for all.

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The Humphrey Kelleher Cup for juvenile gaelic footballers is to honour the name
Of the legendary gaelic footballer who scaled the heights of fame
The Iron Man of Millstreet as Michael O Hehir used to say
One who was quite fearless on the field of play. continue reading…

* U14 Duhallow football league final: Millstreet V Kanturk. Tues 10th Aug in Boherbue 7:30pm
* Third Round Duhallow Junior Football Championship:  Millstreet -v- Dromtariffe in Cullen on Friday 13th Aug 7:15pm

* Cork Minor Football League Group 2: Millstreet 1-9 Mallow 1-6. Wed 4th August

According to the Cork County Minor Board:

Section 2 has Mallow, Clonakilty, Donoughmore and Millstreet all on eight points. Kinsale are next two points adrift and with Glanmire, Sam Maguires and Bantry Blues still in contention its look likes it is going to go down to the wire before the outcome is finalised.

Last night RTE 1 aired a documentary “This Sporting Life – Tony Cascarino”. During it, there was a brief shot of Padraig O’Driscoll with the pipes in Italy. Padraig ODriscoll is playing the pipes, and it also shows Pat Barrett,  Michael Lehane (originally from Millstreet) and John Minihan of Clonakilty. You can view This Sporting Life – Tony Cascarino on the RTE website. The lads appear at about 10mins 25sec into programme.