Month: September 2021

Blackrock 3-11
Midleton 2-16

Stephen Walsh reports from Páirc Uí Chaoimh

MIDLETON WILL FACE Imokilly on 14 October in Páirc Uí Chaoimh for the title of Cork Senior Hurling Champions, beating last year’s finalists Blackrock by two points.

The first half was a tense affair with Midleton having a five point lead at the break thanks to Conor Lehane’s goal after 14 minutes.

The second half came to life with Luke O’Farrell giving Midleton a big lead early in the half but credit to Blackrock they fought back with two goals from Michael O’Halloran and Tadgh Deasy to set up an exciting finale.

The opening minutes were close with Michael O’Halloran opening the scoring with a free, one of three points he would score in the opening half.

Paul Haughney.

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Midleton followed with points from Paul Haughney, Cormac Beausang and Paul White to lead 0-4 to 0-3 after 11 minutes.

On 14 minutes, Lehane scored his side’s first goal when responding quickest to an O’Farrell effort that hit the post to blast the ball past David O’Shea in the Blackrock goal.

Haughney pointed along with two pointed frees from Lehane making it 1-7 to 0-5 on 18 minutes.

Blackrock responded with points from Ger Regan, David O’Farrell and O’Halloran to close the gap before Haughney scored on the verge of half time to leave five between them at the break.

Luke O’Farrell scored his side’s second goal on 33 minutes when finishing to the net from 12 yards making it 2-10 to 0-8.

Substitute Tommy O’Connell and Beausang added points to make it 2-12 to 0-8 on 39 minutes.

However, Blackrock were not finished yet and they introduced Shane O’Keeffe into full forward on 40 minutes and he had a big impact for the final 20 minutes.

Tadgh Deasy had a shot for goal saved well by Tommy Wallace on 43 minutes following a good solo run.

Fulltime from Pairc Ui Chaoimh in the @OfficalCorkGAA County Senior Hurling Championship Midleton 2-16 v Blackrock 3-11 , brilliant stuff lads @midleton_LGFA @MidletonCamogie

— Midleton GAA (@MidletonGaa) September 30, 2018

Two minutes later, they would get their first goal when O’Keeffe was fouled in the square. O’Halloran stepped up to score the penalty.

The momentum was now all with Blackrock as Wallace saved Kevin O’Keeffe’s shot with his rebound stopped on the line by Luke Dineen.

Lehane pointed a few times to extend the lead for Midleton but it was all Blackrock as O’Halloran scored a 21 yard free to make it 2-11 to 2-16 on 51 minutes.

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In added time, Tadgh Deasy scored a goal to make it 3-11 to 2-16. They would have a few more goal chances but Wallace was equal to the efforts as his side progress to the final.

Blackrock scorers: M O’Halloran 2-4, 1-2 free, 1-0 penalty, T Deasy 1-2, S Murphy 0-2, G Regan 0-1, D O’Farrell 0-1, J O’Sullivan 0-1

Midleton scorers: C Lehane 1-6, 0-2 free, 0-2 65, P Haughney 0-3, L O’Farrell 1-1,  C Beausang 0-3, P White 0-1, T O’Connell 0-1, S O’Meara 0-1

Blackrock

1 David O’Shea

2 Gary Norberg
3 John Cashman
4 Conor O’Brien

5 Daniel Meaney
6 Niall Cashman
7 Andrew Murphy

8 David Farrell
9 Stephen Murphy

10 Kevin O’Keeffe
11 Alan O’Callaghan
12 Ger Regan

13 Tadgh Deasy
14 Michael O’Halloran
15 John O’Sullivan

Substitutions

29 Cathal Cormack for Andrew Murphy (40)
27 Shane O’Keeffe for Regan (40)
26 Mark O’Keeffe for Deasy (43-45, blood sub)
22 Eoin Smith for O’Farrell (60+1)

Midleton

1 Tommy Wallace

18 Eoghan Moloney
3 Finbarr O’Mahoney
2 Seadnaidh Smyth

7 James Nagle
6 Sean O’Leary Hayes
4 Luke Dineen

8 Paul Haughney
9 Seamus O’Farrell

13 Cormac Beausang
14 Luke O’Farrell
10 Cormac Walsh

5 Sean O’Meara
11 Conor Lehane
15 Patrick White

Substitutions

23 Tommy O’Connell for White (37)
12 Padraig Nagle for O’Meara (47)
25 Garan Manley for Lehane (60+2)

Referee: Joe Larkin (Ballinora)

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St Vincent’s 1-21
Castleknock 1-9

Stephen O’Meara reports from Parnell Park

TODAY’S SECOND DUBLIN SFC quarter final saw a re-run of the 2016 final as Castleknock hoped to advance past holders, St Vincent’s.

The big story was the return of Diarmuid Connolly for Vincent’s, as a 49th minute substitute, though the game had already gone far out of reach for Castleknock at this point.

The contest opened in rip-roaring fashion as Ciarán Kilkenny, positioned at full forward, netted with Castleknock’s first attack of the game.

However, no sooner had Knock taken an early lead of a goal and a point, than a fifth-minute Mossy Quinn goal, at the other end, brought the holders back to level scores at 1-1 apiece.

St. Vincent’s Eamonn Fennell and Kevin Kindlon of Castleknock.

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A tit-for-tat first half would see possession maintenance key and it looked like there would be the mere minimum between the sides at the break before two late first half points from Shane Carthy and Éamonn Fennell put the holders three to the good at the break, 1-9 to 1-6.

After a number of early stoppages early in the second half Vincent’s began to dominate Knock’s kick-out reeling off six unanswered points in eight minutes to put an unsurmountable nine between the sides.

With Knock unable to make inroads into Vincents’ organised zonal defence, into the wind, the Marino men continued to control the game.

Castleknock’s Ciaran Kilkenny and Eamonn Fennell of St. Vincent’s.

Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO

The biggest cheer of the second half came when Connolly came off the bench with eleven minutes remaining, but it was their other substitute, Enda Varley, who would score three second half points to rub salt into the Castleknock wounds, running out emphatic twelve point winners, 1-21 to 1-9.

Scorers for Vincent’s: Tomás Quinn 1-6 (4f), Cormac Diamond 0-3, Enda Varley 0-3, Shane Carthy 0-2, Éamonn Fennell 0-2, Lorcan Smyth 0-1, Nathan Mullins 0-1, Adam Baxter 0-1, Lorcan Galvin 0-1, Gavin Burke 0-1.

Scorers for Castleknock: Ciarán Kilkenny 1-1, Kevin Kindlon 0-3, Tommy McDaniel 0-3 (1f), Ben Galvin 0-1, Séamus O’Carroll 0-1.

St Vincent’s

1. Michael Savage

18. Fiachra Breathnach
2. Mick Concarr
4. Craig Wilson

7. Brendan Egan
6. Ger Brennan
10. Gavin Burke

8. Nathan Mullins
23. Éamonn Fennell

9. Lorcan Galvin
11. Lorcan Smyth
12. Cormac Diamond

17. Adam Baxter
14. Shane Carthy
15. Tomás Quinn

Subs

5. James McCusker for Wilson (HT)
13. Enda Varley for Baxter (44)
22. Joe Feeney for Fennell (49)
19. Diarmuid Connolly for Smyth (49)
25. Seán Lambe for Brennan (52)
26. Rian McBride for Galvin (56)

Castleknock

1. Morven Connolly

25. Darragh Warnock
3. Tom Quinn
17. Eoin O’Brien

5. Tom Shields
6. Graham Hannigan
18. Fintan Sweeney

8. Shane Boland
7. Greg Gibson

19. Séamus O’Carroll
11. Ben Galvin
12. Kevin Kindlon
24. Tommy Corcoran

14. Ciarán Kilkenny
23. Tommy McDaniel

Subs

20 James Sherry for Sweeney (HT)
10 Rob Shaw for Sherry (32) (black card)
15 Rory Corcoran for Gibson (36)
13 Mikey Galvin for T Corcoran (43)
4 Niall Milmore for Warnock (60)

Referee: Liam Aherne Clarke.

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Shane Brophy reports from Dolla

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CLONOULTY/ROSSMORE AND NENAGH Éire Óg booked their places in the semi-finals of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship following deserved quarter-final wins in Dolla on Sunday afternoon.

Clonoulty/Rossmore led from pillar to post as they were too good for Kiladangan, 1-19 to 1-15. The West Tipp side got off to a lively start with the first four points and led 0-8 to 0-4 after 22 minutes with Dillon Quirke and Fiachra O’Keeffe at the fore.

Kiladangan found some rhythm coming up to half-time and managed to erase the deficit to go in at the break level at 0-9 apiece with Paul Flynn and Tadgh Gallagher their leading performers.

Clonoulty edged back in front early in the second half with the turning point coming on forty minutes when Conor Hammersley was pulled down in the square and Cathal Bourke slotted the penalty to the net.

Clonoulty led by as many as seven when Kiladangan, aided by good scores from Loughnane and Ciaran Kelly cut the gap to four but Clonoulty eased any pressure with Timmy Hammersley converting late frees to ease them to victory with Kiladangan managing a late consolation goal from Ciaran Kelly.

Nenagh Éire Óg booked their semi-final place with a 2-17 to 0-18 win over Loughmore/Castleiney.

Two goals inside the first 15 minutes from Philip Hickey and Tommy Heffernan set Nenagh on their way, and Loughmore missed a chance to narrow the deficit when they had a penalty saved in the 25th minute.

Nenagh, with Tipp senior panellist Jake Morris in fine form along with Michael Heffernan and Paddy Murphy, took a 2-9 to 0-8 lead to the break.

They needed it facing into the stiff breeze and a redoubtable Loughmore side in the second half where they dug in with Ciaran Connolly, John Meagher and Liam McGrath landing key scores to cut the margin to three with five minutes of normal time remaining.

But Nenagh saw out the closing stages well with Daire Quinn superb in defence, with Morris and Killian Gleeson easing any concerns with late points to see them through to the semi-final.

Following the game, the semi-final draw was made with holders Thurles Sarsfields drawn to face Nenagh Éire Óg with Clonoulty/Rossmore meeting Toomevara with both games to be played next Sunday, 7 October, likely at Semple Stadium.

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THE NEXT CHALLENGE to St Vincent’s three in-a-row bid comes in the form of Kevin McManamon’s St Judes side in the Dublin SFC 1 semi-final.

The last four draw was made this evening, pitting the reigning champions against the southsiders while Ballyboden St Enda’s and Kilmacud Crokes will go head-to-head in the other clash.

Last night, St Jude’s stunned a star-studded Ballymun side featuring James McCarthy, Philly McMahon, Dean Rock, John Small and Evan Comerford.

Cork forward Niall Coakley and McManamon led the charge while Kieran Doherty slotted a stoppage-time winner to book their date with St Vincent’s, 12-point victors over Castleknock this evening.

2016 All-Ireland club champions Ballybodden powered past Na Fianna last night on a scoreline of 3-13 to 0-15, while Kilmacud Crokes comfortably beat St Sylvester’s to nail down their semi-final showdown.

The Dublin SFC 2 semi-final draw was also made this evening — St Mary’s face Fingallians while Naomh Olaf/Thomas Davis and Cuala lock horns for those coveted decider spots.

Dublin SFC 1 semi-finals:

• St Jude’s v St Vincent’s
• Ballyboden St Enda’s v Kilmacud Crokes

Dublin SFC 2 semi-finals:

• St Mary’s v Fingallians 
• Naomh Olaf/Thomas Davis v Cuala

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1. Europe’s Thorbjørn Olesen and Rory McIlroy fist bump at the 2018 Ryder Cup Opening Ceremony

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2. West Ham players celebrate Marko Arnautovic’s goal in front of Man United manager Jose Mourinho

Source: Ian Walton

3. Joey Carbery on his way to scoring a try against Ulster at Thomond Park on Saturday

Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO

4. Roy Keane takes to the field during the Liam Miller Tribute Match at Páirc Uí Chaoimh

Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO

5. St. Vincents’ Diarmuid Connolly warms up against Castleknock in the Dublin SFC quarter-final at Parnell Park

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6. Bohemians supporters pictured during their FAI Cup semi-final against Cork City

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7. Paul Mannion in action for Kilmacud Crokes during their Dublin SFC quarter-final against St. Sylvesters

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8. Denis Irwin celebrates with Ryan Giggs after scoring the first ever soccer goal at Páirc Uí Chaoimh

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9. Captain Johnny Sexton takes to the field for Leinster’s PRO14 game against Connacht at the Showgrounds

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10. Team Europe captain Thomas Bjorn lifts the Ryder Cup

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2017 DONEGAL CHAMPIONS Kilcar have crashed out of this year’s campaign following a 1-9 to 0-6 quarter-final loss to Naomh Conaill today.

Without key men Paddy McBrearty and Ryan McHugh, who are both facing long spells on the sidelines with injuries, Kilcar bowed out after a six-point loss in Donegal town.

Earlier this week it was confirmed that 2016 All-Star McHugh would be out of action for the rest of 2018 after suffering concussion in a challenge match.

Meanwhile, McBrearty is recovering from cruciate surgery.

To add to their woes, Kilcar also lost star midfielder Mark McHugh 10 minutes into the game as he suffered a shoulder injury.

In a repeat of last year’s county final in which Kilcar ended a 24-year wait for county senior glory, Naomh Conaill exacted sweet revenge today.

Although severely under-strength, Kilcar battled gamely but Kieran Gallagher’s goal and two crucial points courtesy of substitute Brendan McDyer got Glenties over the line and into the semi-final. 

For results from today’s club clashes around the country, check out our score centre.

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LIAM SHEEDY IS back in charge of the Tipperary senior hurlers for the second time.

Back once again: Liam Sheedy.

Source: Cathal Noonan

Eight years after departing as an All-Ireland winning boss with the Premier county, he’s taken the reins as Michael Ryan’s successor on a three-year term.

The Portroe man was in charge of Tipperary between 2008 and 2010, steering them to Liam McCarthy glory in his last campaign as they ended Kilkenny’s five in-a-row bid.

He also oversaw their National League victory in 2008 and two Munster successes.

The appointment has been warmly welcomed in Tipperary, with hurling fans near and wide delighted to see Sheedy back in the inter-county mix. 

And former Galway star Ollie Canning is delighted to see the 48-year-old back at the Tipperary helm.

“Look, Liam is a good guy,” four-time All-Star defender Canning said at the Electric Ireland GAA Minor Star Awards in Croke Park yesterday.

“It just shows his drive and his passion for Tipperary hurling. Liam came in for a couple of seasons and won an All-Ireland in 2010 and then passed on the baton to the next management team. It was fairytale stuff for Liam really in his managerial career, the way it worked out for him. 

Ollie Canning in action for Galway in 2010.

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“For him to go back and put his reputation on the line again, I feel it speaks volumes for his passion and his interest in Tipperary hurling. He obviously feels that he has the raw material to work with, as in the players.

“I know last season didn’t go that well for Tipperary. They didn’t qualify in the top three of the round robin series in Munster but if you look back on the previous three years in the championship, only one point separated Tipperary and Galway every year between a one-point loss (2015), one-point win (2016), one-point loss (2017)…..

“Tipperary are competing. As we know, Galway won the All-Ireland last year. In the previous three years, one point is all that separated them teams. 

“Liam Sheedy is probably looking at it going, ‘Yeah, I think the players are there but they probably just need a refresh and a new management team in to try and look at it from a different angle and try and get more out of these players.”

He added: “It’s going to be very interesting. The championship now, I think, has resemblance to back in the 90s where you had different teams like Offaly and Wexford breaking through, winning All-Irelands.

“For me, the championship is probably as open as it has ever been in the last 15 or 20 years. Bear in mind we had the great Kilkenny team that really dominated for 10 or 12 years, even longer. 

Tipp lifted the silver in 2016.

Source: James Crombie/INPHO

“For me, I think any of five or six teams could win it (next year). If you look at last year’s championship, I’m sure Cork and Clare were disappointed that they didn’t get over the line in the semi-finals. 

“We could have been talking about Cork and Clare in an All-Ireland final and that has to give them encouragement for next year.”

Another man well versed to voice his opinion on Sheedy’s return is Mattie Murphy. A hurling manager who had a second coming himself, Murphy was in charge of the Galway hurlers firstly for the 1994 and 1995 seasons and then again between 1998 and 2000.

“I think it’s a positive for Tipp,” he said as he received the Electric Ireland Special Merit Award for 2018. “He had a very good working relationship with them.

“It’ll depend on who he puts in his backroom team. Is he going to be able to get Eamon O’Shea to go back and join him? There’s a rumour down our side that he’s going to join another backroom team. I don’t know. 

“There’s a lot of egos inside the Tipp camp at the moment. There are a few fellas that need to be told on no uncertain terms, ‘You either behave or there’s no place here for you’. Because they’re hurlers above the ordinary, it’s not that easy to do it. Ultimately, it’ll be the breaking point.

Congratulations to Mattie Murphy, winner of the Special Merit Award for 2018! #GAAThisIsMajor pic.twitter.com/CgIWvOXx4D

— Electric Ireland (@ElectricIreland) September 29, 2018

“He either gets them lads to toe the line or he works without them. You can’t have fellas inside your set-up (that go against the manager). There’s too much negativity going on then because there’s fellas that are behaving themselves, doing everything according to plan and following your instructions and then there’s one or two who, on a regular basis, decide that they have another set of rules.”

Murphy, who has guided the Tribesmen to six All-Ireland minor hurling titles, added of troublemakers from his own experience:

“You can’t tolerate them. By holding onto them, it’s short-term gain. By getting rid of them, you’re laying down your marker.

“You’re in the job not to be liked, you’re in the job to do it and to have some success. You won’t be successful by being a nice fella and not biting the bullet.”

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EIGHT TIME ALL-Ireland winner Michael Fennelly says he’s ‘very much interested’ in a stint at inter-county coaching or management — but not until further down the line.

The Kilkenny great called time on his playing career with the Cats last December, almost 12 years after making his senior debut in 2006.

Ballyhale Shamrocks midfielder Fennelly bowed out with eight Celtic Crosses, nine Leinster titles, five National Leagues, three All-Stars and the 2011 accolade for Hurler of the Year following a glittering career in the middle-third.

As he hung up his boots, he noted that his ‘body has surpassed its limits at this time’ after a string of injuries and that he was ‘looking forward to spending my spare time with my new wife Lesley as the next chapter of our lives unfolds.’

The 2008 All-Ireland winning captain has a huge interest in strength and conditioning (S&C) and is a lecturer of Sports Science at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT).

And S&C coaching, or even management at senior inter-county level, is something that really appeals to the 33-year-old.

“Without a doubt, yeah,” he said at the Electric Ireland GAA Minor Star Awards, when asked if he was interested in getting involved with S&C at senior inter-county level.

“Very much interested. I’m probably more interested in the coaching side of things to be honest, or even the manager side of things as well. I’ve knowledge in S&C, I’ve knowledge in most of the areas now; nutrition and video analysis. That’s a big, huge plus, so head manager or head coach is where I want to be at some stage,” he grins.

“But no, I’ve a huge interest in it. I’m trying to hold myself back from getting in because if you go back in, you’re at it four or five nights a week, more. We’re on about the ESRI report with players putting in 30-odd hours a week.

“Managers, selectors, backroom team, they’re probably putting in maybe — I don’t know — 40, 50 hours a week, I’d say. I have no time for that at the moment to be honest. I want to take a break, to a certain degree, in terms of those commitments. I’ve just finished with Kilkenny less than a year now. 

Fennelly retired last December.

Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO

Fennelly added: “I’m very eager to get into it. I’ve a passion for it, definitely.

“I like working with players. I’d like to work with younger players and develop them maybe in terms of 19, 20, 21. I’d love to develop them more maybe if it’s strength, the mental preparation or whatever it may be, just small things to try and improve players.

“That’s where I’d like to go in and observe maybe teams, but in due course.”

Still playing club hurling with Ballyhale under the watchful eye of former teammate and now club manager Henry Shefflin, Fennelly admits that he does miss the inter-county set-up.

Looking out on Croke Park and questioned if he misses the big days, he smiled:

“Without a doubt. To be honest, even just there today you’d be envious of these young fellas now starting out their potential inter-county career.

“You’d be in awe of them to a certain degree. The way the championship is at the moment it’s very exciting and obviously there’s a hue amount of interest in it. It’s getting better and it’s improving.”

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Updated Oct 1st 2018, 8:13 PM

CARNACON HAVE APPEALED the two-week suspensions that were imposed by the LGFA’s National Appeals Committee last week on the eight players who left the Mayo panel.

The42 understands that Carnacon formally lodged their appeal to LGFA Central Council this morning and it is likely to be heard in the next seven days.

In the meantime, Carnacon have two Mayo ladies SFC games to play this weekend and will be without their suspended contingent unless a successful appeal takes place before Friday night.

The reigning All-Ireland champions were due to play Castlebar Mitchels yesterday but the game was postponed due to a bereavement in the Carnacon club.

Carnacon will face Castlebar in the refixed game on Friday night before they take on Knockmore in their final Group A game on Sunday.

The bans are due to expire at midnight on Thursday 11 October but by appealing to Central Council, Carnacon are running the risk of longer suspensions being imposed if it is not successful.

Source: Mayo LGFA

The eight players – Cora Staunton, Fiona McHale, Martha Carter, Marie Corbett, Amy Dowling, Doireann Hughes, Sadhbh Larkin and Saoirse Walsh – were initially given four-week bans. Their appeal to the National Appeals Committee saw two-week suspensions imposed instead after a lengthy six-hour meeting in the Tullamore Court Hotel last Thursday.

The report from last week’s appeal hearing, signed by all seven members of the National Appeals Committee, has been seen by The42. It revealed that the initial four-week bans imposed on the Carnacon players were “quashed because of the procedural irregularities” used by the Connacht Council. Instead, two-week suspensions were imposed on the players for bringing the Association into disrepute. 

In attendance at the meeting in Tullamore were the eight Carnacon players and representatives from the Connacht Council, Connacht Appeals Committee, Mayo County Board. A solicitor from Leman Solicitors was also present to ensure that a fair hearing was conducted.

The Mayo county board explained at the hearing that “the collective withdrawal of the eight Carnacon Players, the manner in which their withdrawal was communicated to the manager and their subsequent press statements which was intended to make the function of the Mayo manager untenable, was calculated to bring the Association into disrepute.”

Carnacon’s Fiona McHale

Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO

The Carnacon players responded through their spokesperson Fiona McHale and, according to the document, she argued that “they are amateurs, they are entitled to withdraw their services to their County at any time without bringing the Association into disrepute, that they did not want to be there, that their initial press statement was representative of Carnacon and non-Carnacon players in response to media pressure, that the timing of the initial statements was significant and that both Mr Leahy and Mayo County Board indulged in press statements which exacerbated the issues.”

The Committee stated they were “disappointed by the paucity of their response” in relation to the “justification for the withdrawal and the justification for issuing a press statement and the tone of initial press statements after they withdrew from the Mayo team.”

While the Committee agreed that the decision of the players to leave the Mayo panel “should not of itself be regarded as bringing the Association into disrepute”, they were slapped with two-week bans because of how their withdrawal from the squad “was communicated and the initial press statements which led to innuendo against Mr Leahy.”

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HENRY SHEFFLIN, TOMMY Walsh, Eoin Kelly and Lar Corbett are some of the big names that will be in action in Borrisoleigh next month as part of a fundraiser for Amanda Stapleton.

Amanda, the sister of former Tipperary defender Paddy Stapleton, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in recent months and a charity game has been organised to raise some much-needed funds for her.

A host of Kilkenny and Tipperary legends will line out in the game that takes place on Saturday 3 November at 6pm at The Park in Borrisoleigh.

***A night not to be missed ***

The legends of hurling will reunite for the Amanda Stapleton Benefit Match in Borrisoleigh on November 3rd

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— Amanda Stapleton Benefit Fund (@AmandaFund) September 29, 2018

“We’ve a lot of contacts within the two panels,” Paddy Stapleton told Tipp FM. “It was a rivalry around ’09, ’10, ’11 up to ’14 and even ’15 that captured the imagination.

“So we were hoping maybe we’d put something together that really would. The main event is the match itself but we have a whole day of events going. We’re really looking forward to it and it’s something brilliant to focus on in a positive way.

“The whole parish already is behind us, the whole county really. We’re feeling it from everywhere and I think it’s going to be a fantastic day.”

Donations can be made on the Gofundme page here.

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