Upcoming fixtures
6th Sept, U8 Hurling Blitz, Home
7th Sept, JA Hurling CL Semi- Final
7th Sept, U12 Hurling Final, Rathkeale
14th Sept, U12 Football Final, Rathkeale
28th Sept, U10 Hurling Blitz, Away
4th Oct, U8 Hurling Blitz
26th Oct, U10 Hurling Blitz, AwayJunior Hurling:

Junior Hurlers
Our Junior hurlers are through to the semifinals of the City Championship after we completed a tough group campaign. Our first game was against Ballybrown and the concession of a late goal cost us victory in a very close match. This game saw the introduction of Colm Carey, Conor Burke, Liam Carey and Cormac Flanagan to junior competition and it’s fair to say that all 4 have acquitted themselves well when they were needed. Later in the campaign Liam Quirke and Tim Moloney became the latest minors to get championship action and it’s great to see young players coming through from our underage structure.

We won our 2nd game against Mungret but unfortunately lost our next game by a single point to Patrickswell, this defeat made it an uphill battle for our team to finish in the top 4, however our team responded brilliantly by putting together 3 wins against Na Piarsaigh, Old Christians and St Pats to complete our group games with 4 wins and 2 defeats. Only one score divided the teams at the finish of these games so it’s fair to say that the semifinals of this championship will be close hard fought games as all teams are very even.

Our panel for the season is: Niall Moloney, Enda O Shea, Steven Keating, Michael McCormack, Colm Keyes, Stephen McDermott, Robert Hourigan, Pa Walsh, Shane Moloney, Damien Walsh, Colin Kelly, Ger kelliher, Stephen Quinn, Brian Relihan, Pa O’Sullivan, Fergal Carey, Sean Keyes, Joe Burke, Paul Murphy, Tim Moloney, Ian Donoghue, Colm Carey, Niall Carmody , Cathal Scully, Liam Carey, Garbhan Sheehan, Liam Quirke , Darra Skelly, Padraic Sheehan, Cathal Quirke, Donimic O’Connor, Paul Murphy, Cathal Quirke & Cormac skelly.

U13 Hurling
We travelled to Newtownshandrum who hosted us in an U13 Hurling Challenge match . This was our first u13 Hurling match of the year and we called up some players that are still u10 and u11. The match proved very beneficial.

Newtown started very well and showed the benefits of focusing primarily on hurling (they play nothing other than Hurling) with good skill levels and excellent team work. Our team were working very hard but the running and passing of the Newtown team was a whole new experience for us. Every time a Newtown player got on the ball, his team mate was running into space to take a pass and the player on the ball was looking up to pass to a player in a better position.

Newtown were well on top in the first half but our lads showed their true potential in the second half and every player gave of his best and we started to play the game much quicker with good passing movements resulting in good scores. The final score in a high scoring game was 7:11 to 4:7 in favour of Newtown.

While we were defeated , every player deserves great credit for the effort shown as Newtown are one of the strongest Hurling Clubs in Cork over the past 15 years at least.

Our Panel on the night were Eoghan O’Connor, Thomas Shanahan, Ciaran Humphries, Sam Riordan, Padraig Byrnes, Richard Murphy, Colin Coughlan, Donnacha Connolly, Cathal O’Neill, Brendan Power, Conor Godfrey, John Bourke, Sean Kirby, Shane O’Connor, Sean O’Gorman, Fergal Egan, Ciaran Kennedy.

U8 & U10 Football
Crecora Manister GAA Club currently field underage football teams at all competitive levels from U12 to Minor. The club would like to ensure we continue to field football teams at all underage levels so we have commenced football training for U8 and U10s on Sundays from 6pm to 7pm.

We would also like to hear from anybody who would like to help out in any way, however small, with coaching football at this age group. For further details contact Noel Kennedy 086-1589256