All roads lead to the Park for Imokilly v Midleton in the SHC final next Sunday.This is great times for hurling with the introduction of the new style championships and sweltering summer Sundays sure we thought the 2018 county season would never end. However, Limerick finally captured the Liam McCarthy cup in style. The Rebels had a good year taking Munster and just coming up short in the semi-final to the Shannonsiders. This last few weeks it’s all about county championships and next Sunday is the grand finale of the Cork senior hurling championship as last year’s champions...

Castlelyons footballers win survival battle.Castlelyons 2-11 Cobh 2-10Castlelyons are finding the going tough these days in the various levels. However, on Tuesday 25.9.18 we travelled to Cobh to play the home side in Division 2 of the East Cork Junior Football League. We found it tough to get fifteen players to travel but full credit to our selectors Donal O Leary, Maurice Carroll and James Moroney they worked hard in getting out the lads as a victory would banish us to Division 3 for the coming year. However, from the minute Paudie Kearney threw in the ball our lads fought hard. We...

Castlelyons bow out of PIHCCastlelyons 0-14 Courcey Rovers 1-15Páirc Uí Rinn was the venue last Friday evening the premier intermediate hurling championship replay versus Courcey Rovers. This week the ground was a little softer with more give suiting the stronger man. Courceys played with the aid of a moderate breeze blowing into the Blackrock end for the first half. We set up for the first time with a sweeper scenario and started very well as we lead 0-6 to 0-2 after ten minutes although Tadgh O Sullivan their dangerman was first to score. During these early minutes our...

It’s Premier evening Friday Evening.We are out in the premier intermediate hurling championship on Friday evening 14.9.18 in Páirc Uí Rinn at 7.45 versus Courcey Rovers our last championship game being almost five months ago. Well folks there is talk about the plight of clubs and how the top adult team in each club can be accommodated within the system. We have the Clubs Association recently talking about it but even they are gone a bit quiet. It seems an age ago since our premier intermediate side played Youghal down in Killeagh in the first round of the championship...