Castlelyons prepare for East Cork Semi-Final of Junior A Football Championship.Castlelyons 2-11 Glanmire `1-6Castlelyons continued their preparations for the East Cork junior football semi-final versus Erins Own with a reasonable win over Glanmire in the league last Wednesday. Glanmire who were defeated comprehensively in the JBFC by both Russell Rovers and Cobh did put up strong opposition and in fact were level with us five minutes into the second half. Nevertheless, this was an improvement on the Grange game and the recent bit of football action is helping us. Glanmire were first...

Under 21 hurlers advance in Championship.Castlelyons 5-15 Youghal 2-16Castlelyons U21 hurlers took care of a Youghal side in this East Cork A quarter final at Ballynoe on Sunday evening. However, there was some nice touches from both sides and it was a reasonably good game overall. We were down our county minor star, Barry Murphy, from the start due to injury and he was a loss. We choose to play with a slight wind into the Morley’s Cross direction in the first half and started well as Jack Barry 0-1 and David Morrison had 0-2 for us. Then a high ball into our square led to a penalty...

Junior Hurlers Drive On.Castlelyons defeat Youghal in East Cork Junior B Hurling Championship.Castlelyons 2-11 Youghal 0-13.We headed for sun drenched Lisgoold last Friday evening with a handy Junior B team that had won some league games and played some challenges. This level of preparation really helps as the lads recorded a very convincing four-point win over Youghal’s second team, their first one being a senior outfit.After ten minutes, we were 1-3 to 0-2 ahead with Brian O Donovan, Alan O Regan and Chris Cotter scoring 0-1 apiece and Chris Cotter finished a high ball to the...

Preview Castlelyons v Youghal J “B” H C in Lisgoold Friday at 7.45pmCastlelyons play Youghal in the East Cork Junior B Championship in Lisgoold at 7.45pm (note the change back from 8pm originally) this Friday evening the 29.6.17 with Paudie Kearney the referee. It is interesting to note that for the Minor Cork v Tipp game in Thurles at 7.30pm tonight (Thursday) the lights were turned on at half time so hopefully we will not be poking for the sliotar towards the end in Lisgoold.Our lads have played three league games losing one and winning two. Youghal have also played three...