9th May, 2002
Weekly
Sports
DOUGLAS HALL LADIES
Douglas Hall Senior
On what could be described as a winters night Douglas Hall
Seniors when out to face Leeside in their second match of the
season. Starting very well dominating the ball in midfield was
Judy and making some beautiful paces to the forward. Collette
right wing was fouled just outside the box and Douglas Hall were
rewarded with a free kick which was taken by Judy and buried in
the top right hand corner. Another goal from Donna put Douglas
Hall infront at half time. Douglas Hall went out in the pitch in
the second half with the same determination to with a second goal
from Donna and a fourth goal from Caroline. A very good team
performance over all especially Aoife left back. Well done girls!!!!
Douglas Hall make their mark!
Cork trials took place last Saturday for Under 18 and Under 16.
With a number of Douglas Hall players attending and all players
doing their club very proud. We are delighted to congratulate the
following girls for making it onto the panel.
Under 18 Under 16
Aoife Manger Louise Martin
Caroline Hawks Mary Barrett
Lynda Horgan Donna O’Leary
WELL DONE GIRLS!
DOUGLAS GAA SENIOR SECTION
By Pat Harrington.
Douglas Bow Out to Na Piarsaigh in U21 Championship.
This was an extraordinary game. Douglas playing with the elements
in the first half led 1-3 to 1-1 after fifteen minutes. Na
Piarsaigh took over in the second quarter and hurled over six
points without reply. The Northsiders led 1-7 to 1-3 at the break.
Na Piarsaigh goaled directly after the interval The Douglas
performance improved. David Dorney made three great saves in
goal, Paul Kelly came forward on numerous occasions and certainly
brought some spirit into the team. Stephen Dorney goaled to leave
four points between the teams. Na Piarsaigh goaled once more to
run out winners 3-13 to 2-10. Ouglas pushed the self destruct
button once too often and paid the price. The three goals
conceded were certainly as a result of bad defensive play. On the
positive side other teams would have thrown in the towel but this
young side (nine of whom were U18, two U19) never gave up the
ghost and battled valiantly.
Senior Hurling League.
Douglas and Ballincollig crossed hurls in this game. The mid Cork
lads got off to the best possible start scoring 1-3 without reply.
Douglas were just getting back into the game when Ballincollig
scored a second goal. Marc O’Sullivan was moved to centre
back and proceeded to hurl very well. He was well supported by
Brian McLoughlin. Five points separated the teams at the interval.
Douglas kept in contact the second half - the defecit was reduced
to four points on a couple of occasions bu Ballincollig always
had the facility to go up the field and score points. Final score
Ballincollig 2-11 Douglas 0-11.
Next weekend Douglas play Blackrock in the Senior Hurling
Championship on Sunday May 12th at 3.30pm, Pairc Uí Chaoímh.
Congratulations……Well done to Douglas Community School
on their victory in the Munster Colleges U16 ½ football final
over St. Augustines from Waterford. There were twelve players
from Douglas involved in the victory. Also congrats to Mark
Harrington who has been invited to train with the Cork Minor
Hurlers.
Good Luck to Douglas Hall Youths in the replay of the Munster Cup
Final.
Minor Affairs – Premier.
The Minor Hurlers have recorded three wins out of four outings
– there are still six games to be played after the leaving
cert. In football the team has recorded six wins from six outings.
One more victory will ensure that the team qualifies for the City
Shield final. Last years County League final still has to be
played against O’Donovan Rossa.
DOUGLAS CREDIT UNION GAA STREET LEAGES
By Garry White
This week it was the turn of the U-9 Kids to steal the show.
Conditions were perfect, and even at this early stage of their
development, many of these children will excel at whatever code
they may wish to partake in at later stages.
The games themselves provided great skill, Committment, courage
and honesty. The various mentors who coach these children should
take a bow, as their efforts are reaping rich dividends.
Firstly we had Tipp overcoming Laois with Jimmy Burke, David
Curtin, and the Dynamic Killian McCarthy to the fore, While Paul
Fitzgerald, Shane Horgan, and Dillon Rogers did well for Laois.
Next it was the turn of Galway and Offaly with tribesman proving
best in this tussle. Brian Lenihan, Jack Wilkins, and Aoibhinn
Killeen cajoled this Galway side along, While Offalys finest were
Defensive stalwart Jamie Davis, Midfielder Rory Scannell, and
attacker Sean Deasy.
Then we had the meeting of Down and Dublin with the Mourne men
edging out the Dubs, Down had many fine performers with Noel
Fanning, Eoin Harris, and mid fielder Adrian O Connell
particularly outstanding. Ian Tobin, Shane O’Brien, and 6
goal hero Caolan Mulrooney shone for Dublin.
Last but not least we had Cork and Sligo going at it with the
Rebels coming out on top. Cork's top performers were Stephen
Crowley, Goalie cum goal poacher Sean Moloney, and the tireless
Alan Cadogan, While Darragh O' Brien, Alan Cremin and Paul Beale
impressed for Sligo
TAE KWON DO
On the 7th of April 02 on a beautiful sunny Sunday
morning competitors from all over Cork, Galway, Dublin & even
as far away as Cardiff in Wales gathered at The Trabolgan Holiday
Centre Co Cork for the 2nd Cork Tae Kwon-do Institute Munster
Open Tae Kwon-do Championships.
Starting with the registration at 10am and kicking off on time at
11.30am with the junior sections the event which was an all
sparring event points & continuous ran smoothly and saw some
great action through the day.
The Tournament director & President of The Cork Tae Kwon-do
Institute Mr Kevin O Sullivan said “I was happy enough with
the way the event ran it was very well supported and my thanks to
all who came to compete and a special thanks to those who gave up
their time to help organise & run the event on the day”.
This year’s event saw a larger contingent of senior
competitors and a large number of competitors from Cardiff. O
Sullivan added “ It was great to have Mr Garry Brady of The
U.T.I.W. (United Tae kwon-do International Wales) & and such
a large number of his members over to compete they were a great
bunch & showed a high standard taking a number of first,
second & third place positions at the event”.
Mr O Sullivan continued “To see a larger number of senior
competitors at the event was very encouraging for the future of
Tae kwon –do events in Ireland especially Open events which
suffered a turn down in resent years it goes to show that the
enthusiasm for what we do is growing again”.
The beautiful surroundings of Trabolgan were a great choice for
the CTI Opens because the juniors when finished could take
advantage of the facilities available.
For next years event Mr O Sullivan will be making some changes to
make the event run more efficiently and expand it to a two-day
event to include patterns, & other technical events to
attract the more traditional Tae kwon-do practitioner.
He finished by saying that the CTI Opens was a good starting
point for the run up to the nationals in Galway on Saturday 2nd
of November 02, Some of my colleagues in ripple promotions were
up in NUIG to help run the recent Galway Opens & picked the
venue for this years nationals so we are currently preparing for
that event.
DOUGLAS GAA UNDERAGE
Results:
U/12 South East Football.
Douglas (1) 4-9 Sliabh Rua 6-11.
Douglas began this game well and were leading at half time 2-8 to
1-4. Sliabh Rua scored a goal straight after the restart and
began to dominate and score some fine points and ran out
deserving winners. Best for Douglas on the night was Eoin
Kilcummins.
U/12 City Foofball Section (1)
Douglas (1) 3-12 Bishopstown 5-5.
U/12 South East Football.
Douglas (2) 2-0 Carrigaline 3-2.
Douglas (2) 2-13 Ballinhassig 1-2.
Despite the score this was a very good game of football and it
wasn’t until the last fifteen minutes that Douglas pulled
away. Paul O’Driscoll at full back and Finbarr Desmond at
centre forward were excellent for Douglas.
U/12 City Football Section 2. Douglas (2) 4-9 St. Finbarrs 3-2.
U/13 Football League. Douglas 1-2 Ballincollig 2-5.
Douglas 1-3 Carrigaline 2-4.
Under 14 Hurling League. Douglas 0-8 Blackrock 1-6.
This was a very entertaining game of hurling by two evenly
matched sides. Shane McCarthy at full back, Patrick Carroll at
centre back and Jason Martin O’Sullivan at half back were
impressive on the night. These sides meet again in Feile on
Sunday.
Douglas GAA Underage Fixtures.
U/15 Hurling League. Douglas V Na Piarsaigh @ home Saturday 3.30pm.
U/12 Football League.
Douglas 1 V St. Vincents away Satirday 3pm.
Douglas 2 V Passage @ home Saturday 2pm.
U/13 Hurling League.
Douglas V Blackrock @ home Monday 7pm.
U/14 Hurling League
Douglas V Na Piarsaigh away Wednesday 7pm.
U/14 Féile Hurling
Douglas V Blackrock @ Ballinlough (prov)
Sunday 7.15pm.
Lotto: No winner of the weekly Under Age Lotto. Next weeks Lotto
is worth €10,800.
Our sympathy goes out to Colm O’Mahony (committee member)
and his family on the death of his father Maurice (Mossy) O’Mahony
who died last week.
COLLEGE CORINTHIANS AFC
Blessed with good weather last weekend was
certainly a very busy one on the schoolboy front. For the first
time coaches from the Aston Villa Youth Academy came to
Corinthian’s Park and we also had the little matter of two
schoolboy cup finals, as well as Street League and other
schoolboys league action.
Aston Villa
There was generally a very favourable reaction to the visit to
Corinthians last weekend of coaches from the English Premier
League side Aston Villa. Following a presentation to over 35
schoolboy coaches on Friday night, the Villa coaches on Saturday
morning went through various drills and routines with our Under
Eight to Under Eleven players. On Saturday afternoon they did a
full session with our Under Fourteen’s before finishing off
on Sunday morning with another session with our Under Twelve’s.
Hopefully this will be the first of several such visits to
Corinthians.
Street Leagues
The visit of Aston Villa coaches meant that our Street League
action was restricted just to the Under Seven age group. As
usual, the games provided great entertainment, with Russia, the
only side to pick up full points from their two games. Russia
opened with a fine 4-0 victory over Brazil and followed up with
an equally impressive 3-0 defeat of Argentina. Brian Lenihan,
Kevin Hodgins, Frank Byrne and Conor McGivern were the pick of
the Russian side. Saudia Arabia also enjoyed a good weekend,
drawing 2-2 with Senegal, before defeating China by 4-0, Richard
Sweetman, Peter Barry, Jack Moloney and Paul Burke were very
impressive for Saudia Arabia. Following their 2-2 draw with
Saudia Arabia, Senegal also picked up 3 points when they defeated
Argentina by 2-1. Skipper Conor Horgan, Jack Hurley, Stephen
Cronin and Luke Aston were the pick of a fine Senegal side.
All the scores and the latest league tables for the Street
Leagues can be found on the Corinthians website at www.collegecorinthians.com.
If you would like more information on the leagues please contact
Terry O’Donovan at 4891257.
National Cup
Our Under Twelve squad travel to Dublin at the weekend with our
best wishes to take on Cherry Orchard in their Quarter Final
replay of the Norten Cup. On the evidence of the first match
there is little to choose between the two sides and our lads
should travel with plenty of confidence.
The semi final of the U14 National Cup between Corinthians and
Maymount Celtic has been fixed for Corinthians Park on Sunday May
19th. The game is due to kick off at 12 noon.
Schoolboys League
It was a good weekend on the schoolboys league front with our two
U11 sides recording excellent victories and our U13’s
picking up three excellent points following a 3-1 away victory
over Everton.
Our U11 Premier Division side maintained their 100% league record
with an excellent 4-0 victory over Kilreen Celtic. Goals by Eoin
Kilcummins (2), Barry O’Driscoll and Robert Waters, as well
as excellent performances from Ciaran O’Shaughnessy, Gearoid
Cullnane & Christopher Fox ensured that the points went to
Corinthians.
Corinthians Utd travelled to Mallow for a very difficult U11
First Division game and came away with an excellent 2-1 away
victory. They fell behind early on, but undeterred they fought
back with great courage and goals by Olan Kelleher and a
sensational winning goal by Andrew Neville gave Corinthians the
points. Kevin Kelleher and Kevin O’Regan were outstanding on
the day.
Our U13s maintained their 100% league record with an excellent 3-1
victory away to Everton. First half goals by Brian Lombard,
Michael O’Reilly and Stephen Whyte, as well as good
performances from Kieran Manley and Richard O’Donovan
ensured the points went to Corinthians.
Sadly the news was not so good for our U15s, who travelled to
Leeds with a depleted squad and paid the price as they went down
by 3-0. Stephen Duffy and Brian O’Connor did well for
Corinthians.
CUP FINALS
Finally late news in relation to our two Cup Finals, both played
on Bank Holiday Monday afternoon, where our U12s got the better
of Kilreen on a 2-0 scoreline, while our U14s will have to go to
a replay following a 1-1 draw with Kilreen. We will have a full
report on the two finals in next weeks column.
IIBA SHORTMAT INDOOR BOWLS
"Kay Mc Carthy Captures Carrigaline Community
Ladies Singles Title"
Carrigaline Community Indoor Bowls Club Open Licensed Ladies
& Gents Singles Competitions for the Smithkline Beecham
Trophies played on Sunday 5th May
Ladies Semi-finals: K Mc Carthy (WIL) beat Christine Cody (Blackpool)
and E Corkery (BRK) beat Pat Collins (Carrigaline Community)
Final: Kay McCarthy (Wilton) beat Esther Corkery (Brookfield)
Score Card: 1-0, 3-0, 2-0, 0-3, 3-0, 0-2, 2-0, 1-0, 0-3, 0-3 = 12/11
"Frank Corkery defeats Danny Twohig in final of Carrigaline
Community Singles"
Gents Semi-finals: D Twohig (BCM) beat Joe Kirby (Little Island)
and F Corkery (BRK) beat Miah Buckley (Ballincollig Community
School)
Final: Frank Corkery (Brookfield) beat Danny Twohig (Ballincollig
Community School)
Score Card: 0-1, 0-1, 0-1, 4-0, 0-1, 1-0, 1-0, 1-0, 0-1,0-1 = 7/6
The finals were umpired by John Curran & Sean O'Mahony
Fixtures: Westgate Indoor Bowls Club Annual "over 60's"
Licensed Pairs Tournament for the Pat Cox Perpetual Trophy on
Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th May
DOUGLAS HALL AFC
The last week was very exciting, with four of our
teams involved in the "business" end of competitions.
However, of the four, only the Under 17's achieved ultimate
success.
The 17's did themselves and the club proud in the Teddy Healy Cup
Final on Sunday in Turners Cross. Despite their underdogs tag,
they took the game to Rockmount early on and deservedly led 2-0
at the interval. The first half goals were scored by Shane
Kennedy and Shay O'Donoghue. The 'Hall built on
this lead, with a third goal scored by Christy O'Shea. However,
Rockmount fought back and got back to level terms with 10 minutes
to go.
The 'Hall re-grouped and the final score of 3-3 forced the match
into extra time. The extra time was when the Douglas lads showed
their true fighting spirit, having the better of exchanges, but
without forcing the winning goal. The winner did eventually come,
following a spell of pressure from the 'Hall, when Stephen Barry
hooked in a late chance to give the 'Hall a 4-3 win. This was
well deserved and a just reward for a group of players and
manager, Garrett Lyons, most of whom have been with the club for
many years, for most winning their first major trophy. The full
panel was:
D.Healy, D.O'Sullivan, A.Newman, S.Long, M.Galvin, P.White, R.Brown,
R.Harris, S.Kennedy, S.O'Donoghue, G.Draper (captain), C.O'Shea,
A.Leong, P.Mooney, S.Barry, D.McNamara, P.Kelly, D.O'Connor.
In the MSL Junior Super Cup Semi Final, the 'Hall entertained
Garryduff. Again, we had the underdogs tag, but proved well up to
the task. The significant difference between the sides was
finishing, where Garryduff
converted the three opportunities presented to them. The 'Hall
had the better of the first half, but failed to convert a number
of half chances. Garryduff took the lead, but the 'Hall looked to
have taken the game to
extra time, when Brian Foley scored with less than ten minutes to
go. However, Garryduff struck twice late on to win the match, 3-1.
In the City Challenge Cup Semi-Final the AUL Juniors had a
difficult task, away to AOH Cup Finalists, Villa Utd. Here, the
'Hall took the lead with a fine strike from Stephen Carroll.
Villa exerted some pressure, but the 'Hall defence stood very
firm and looked reasonably comfortable throughout. Late in the
game, Villa piled on more pressure, which eventually told, with
an equaliser with less than 10 minutes to go. This forced extra
time, where neither side could break the deadlock. The penalty
shoot out didn't go our way, with Villa winning 6-5 on spotters.
Tony Keating can be well proud of his side, who showed their
capabilities in this competition - they now have four league
matches to go, and four wins will see them champions - good luck
in these matches lads!
The Youths were also in cup final action, but unfortunately went
down 2-0 to Everton in the Murphy Cup Final. The 'Hall were
chasing three-in-a-row in this competition, but Everton proved
too strong on the night. The 'Hall side played with no
consistency in this game, having the upper hand at times, but
without creating any real openings. On the other hand, Everton
made the most of their chances and eventually deserved their
victory.
The Youths also hosted Casement Celtic in the league, recording
an important 4-2 win. The scorers were Robert Heffernan (2),
Declan O'Connell and Shane Kennedy. This keeps their league hopes
alive and shows that, on form, they are a match for anyone. They
have the biggest match of the coming week, with the Munster
Youths Cup Final replay against Peake Villa scheduled for next
Saturday night at the 'Cross. The 'Hall will need to repeat their
form of the draw to compete with their Tipperary rivals. They
have already
proved that they are capable of beating Peake Villa, let's hope
they can find their best form on Saturday.
Both Under 15 sides had league matches with differing results.
The Premier side hosted Cobh Ramblers and recorded a 1-0 win,
which didn't reflect their dominance of the game. The 'Hall were
well in control, but didn't convert chances. Jonathon Lane was
the scorer of the 'Hall goal, with Stephen Bermingham again
keeping a clean sheet. The Division 1 side were home to Everton,
who prevailed with a 3-1 win. However, the 'Hall side battled
very gamely. The 'Hall scorer was Conor Stanley.
Fixtures:
Thursday, 9 May: Under 15 Premier League: Home v. Blarney St/Castleview,7.00
Under 15 D1 League: Away v. Riverstown Boys, 7.00
Friday, 10 May: Under 13 League: Away v. Corinthians Boys, 7.00
Saturday, 11 May: Under 15 Evans Cup Replay: Away v. Wembley
Rovers, Limerick, 2.30
Munster Youths Cup Final Replay: Turners Cross v. Peake Villa, 7.00
Sunday, 12 May: AUL Junior League: Home v. Inishannon, 3.00
Monday, 13 may: Under 17 League: Home v. Everton, 7.00
Wednesday, 15 May: AUL Junior League: Away v. Dripsey Celtic, 7.00
Youths League: Home v. Leeds, 7.00
