This evening’s Reserve Hurling final between Loughgiel and Cushendall, which was scheduled for 6-30 in Armoy, has been postponed and will be played at a later date
Reserve Hurling final postponed
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Intermediate Hurling Championship is more competitive than ever
All hurling fans in Antrim will tell you that the Intermediate championship is always the most exciting and most competitive of them all, but this year’s competition has surpassed itself. Sarsfields win over Con Magees, St Paul’s victory over Cushendun and Tir na nÓg’s win over Cloney Gaels has left no less than four teams sitting level on six points each in Group 2
In one of those thrilling Round 4 clashes CLG Naomh Pól staged a dramatic comeback to narrowly defeat Cushendun 3-19 to 1-22 and set themselves up to claim a place in the IHC semi-finals.
Cushendun dominated the first half, leading by five points at the break. However, Naomh Pól turned the game around in the second, spurred by impactful substitutions including young Sean Munce, whose speed and movement proved crucial. This comeback echoed their recent victory over Sarsfield’s, where young players also made a decisive difference. Naomh Pól’s spirited second-half performance secured a memorable win.
The result means the Shaw’s Road side’s final group 2 game against Tir na nOg now becomes more or less a quarter final, as does the Cloney Gaels game against Sarsfields. Whoever wins these two games will advance to the semi-final and to be honest should one or both end in draws God alone knows who will make the last four.
With Glenariffe Oisins leading Group 1 ahead of Cloughmills and Carey Faughs it appears to be straight forward. However that is not the case, for if Carey were to beat the Oisins in that final game they would join them on six points in the league standings, but would then top the group by virtue of the head to head standings.
Cloughmills, who have played all of their games, are on 4 points and if Glenariffe beat Carey then Carey and Cloughmills will both end on four, with Cloughmills leading that dual on the head to head race, by virtue of their last minute win in Carey two weeks ago. Of course if early pace setters Glenarm win their final game against pointless St Gall’s then they too would be on four points and it would come down to the score difference in the games between each other.…..answers on a postcard please.
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Prenter leads Moneyglass to victory
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Moneyglass 2-14 St. Brigid’s 0-9
Orla Prenter hit 1-10 as St. Ergnat’s Moneyglass continued their quest to retain their Northern Property Senior Football Championship title with an 11 point win over a battling St. Brigid’s on Sunday.
Prenter struck with her side’s opening goal with only four minutes gone and another from Maire O’Neill in the 22nd minute saw the Marian Hill side lead 2-5 to 0-5 at the break.
The Musgrave Park side never gave up and played some excellent football at timjes bu t were never able to match the scoring fire of their opponents who would push on to win comfortably in the end.
Orla Prenter kicked all five of St. Ergnat’s first half points with Cliodhna Logan, Aoife Montague 0-2, Emma Ferran and Theresa Mellon the St. Brigid’s scorers.
After the break the home side continued to score at will with Orlaith Prenter in sparkling form and she would add a further 0-5 to her first half total with Cathy Carey, Leah Cassidy and Niamh Neeson weighing in with points.
St. Brigid’s kept battling right to the end and Ellie Murphy, Theresa Mellon, Cliodhna Logan and Emma Ferran all found the target for the Belfast girls but they never looked like overturning their opponents lead.
St. Eggnat’s: 1 Aine Devlin, 2 Danielle Duffin, 3 Niamh McIntosh, 4 Niamh Neeson, 5 Enya Carey, 6 Sarah O’Neill, 7 Rebecca Bradley, 8 Maria O’Neill, 9 Laura McCann, 10 Annie Griffin, 11 Cathy Carey, 12 Aoife Kelly, 13 Orlaith Prenter, 14 Cliona Griffin, 15 Katie McCloskey. 20 Leah Cassidy
Naomh Brid: 1 Erin Boyle, 2 Enya Boyce, 3 Maeve Blaney, 4 Cora Leonard, 5 Caoimhe Hefferon, 6 Rebeca Barker, 7 Prla T McKernan, 8 Theresa Mellon, 9 Emma Ferran, 10 Cliodhna Logan, 11 Aileen McDonnell, 12 Ciara Austin, 13 Ellie Murphy, 14 Aoife Montague, 15 Laura Agnew.
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Sun shines on Frankie Wilson tournament
The inaugural Frankie Wilson over 40’s Tournament was a huge success on a glorious warm and sunny day at Hannahstown. Lámh Dhearg Chairman Brian Smyth welcomed Frankie’s family and friends and thanked the teams for participating and led a complimentary minute’s applause in memory of Frankie. All Ireland Senior Scor winner Meabh McNeill performed beautifully Amhrám na bhFiann.
The teams and stars of yesteryear rolled back the years and produced many exciting and skilful encounters in a very sporting atmosphere in very warm conditions . Congrats to St Paul’s on winning the Frankie Wilson cup and Brackaville on winning the Pearse McCormick Shield. It was also great to see players and family and friends proudly sporting the specially designed commemorative Frankie retro Jersey no 11 “sweet left foot” Saffron old Boys also wore commemorative jerseys with Frankies name on the sleeve and on the back with his number 11
In the packed clubrooms Paul Buchanan compered the presentation and Paul along with Terry McCrudden, Catherine McGourty and Frankie’s brother Greg paid very poignant tributes to Frankie.
Sincere thanks to Lámh Dhearg and Saffron Old Boys for such a well organised tournament and to all the volunteers , participating teams and referees for their participation which made the tournament such a success and a fitting tribute to the much respected Frankie.
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GAA for All at Kickham’s Creggan
Kickham’s Creggan hosted a very successful GAA forAll on Saturday with a massive crowd taking part at the Staffordstown Road complex. Event organiser, Tony McCollum welcomed participants from all over Ulster as the sun shone down on what was to prove a memorable day.
The Creggan man has been deeply involved in GAA 4-All since its inception a decade ago and has been one of the driving forces behind what has become a major event on the GAA calendar.
Tony enlisted the help of GAA players from Antrim who generously gave their time in making Saturday’s GAA for All a great success with Armagh’s All Ireland winner, Aidan Forker attending the event and bringing ‘Sam Maguire’ along.
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