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2019 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 2019 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 131st staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 15 January 2019. The championship began on 18 March 2019 and ended on 27 October 2019. St. Finbarr's entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Nemo Rangers at the quarter-final stage. Femoy secured promotion to the top tier championship after a 54-year absence. On 27 October 2019, Nemo Rangers won the championship after a 2–08 to 0–10 defeat of Duhallow in the final at Páirc Uí Rinn. It was their 21st championship overall and their first title since 2017. It was a second successive final defeat for Duhallow. John Hayes from the Carbery Rangers club was the championship's top scorer with 2-20. Team changes To Championship Promoted from the Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship * Fermoy Results Divisiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening Echo
''The Echo'', formerly known as the ''Evening Echo'', is an Irish morning newspaper based in Cork. It is distributed throughout the province of Munster, although it is primarily read in its base city of Cork. The newspaper was founded as a broadsheet in 1892, and has been published in tabloid format since 1991. The newspaper was part of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings group, and 'sister paper' to the group's ''Irish Examiner'' (formerly the ''Cork Examiner''). Thomas Crosbie Holdings went into receivership in March 2013. The newspaper was acquired by Landmark Media Investments, which in turn was sold to ''The Irish Times'' in 2018. Unlike the ''Irish Examiner'', which is now a national daily, ''The Echo''s focus is on local news. ''The Echo'' is published daily except Sunday. History The ''Evening Echo'' was first published in 1892. It was launched as an evening paper by Thomas Crosbie, then proprietor of the ''Cork Examiner''. Crosbie had himself joined the ''Examiner'' in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avondhu GAA
Avondhu GAA is a Gaelic football and Hurling division in the north of Cork, Ireland. The division includes teams such as Charleville, Mallow, Fermoy, and Mitchelstown. It is one of eight divisions of Cork County Board. It organizes competitions for the clubs within the division, from Under 12 up to the adult level. The winners of these competitions compete against other divisional champions to determine which club is the county champion. In addition, the division selects football and hurling teams from the adult teams playing at junior level or county intermediate level, and these then compete for the Cork GAA Senior Football Championship and Cork Senior Hurling Championship. Achievements * Cork Senior Hurling Championship ** Winners (3): 1952, 1966, 1996 **Runners-Up (1): 1961 * Cork Senior Football Championship **Winners (1): 1961 **Runners-Up (2): 1958, 1960 Clubs * Araglen * Ballyhooly * Ballyclough * Ballygiblin * Ballyhea * Buttevant * Castletownroche * Charleville * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O'Donovan Rossa (Skibbereen) GAA
O'Donovan Rossa or Skibbereen is a Gaelic football and hurling club based in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland. It participates in Cork GAA competitions. Traditionally, the club has been much more successful in Gaelic football. It won its only Cork Senior Football Championship in 1992 and subsequently won the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship after beating Éire Óg of Carlow in the final. The club participates in the Carbery division of Cork GAA. Honours * All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship: Winners (1) 1992-93 * Cork Senior Football Championship: Winners (1) 1992 Runners-Up 1994 * Cork Intermediate Football Championship: Winners (2) 1924, 1985 Runners-Up 1914, 1983, 1984 * Cork Junior B Hurling Championship: Winners (2) 2004, 2013 * Cork Minor Football Championship: Winners (1) 2001 Runners-Up 1981, 1983, 1987 * Cork Minor A Football Championship: Winners (1) 2008 * West Cork Junior A Football Championship: Winners (6) 1945, 1961, 1963, 1974, 1979, 1982 Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrigaline GAA
Carrigaline GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the town of Carrigaline in County Cork, Ireland. The club fields both Gaelic football and hurling teams in competitions organised by Cork County Board. The club is part of the Carrigdhoun division of Cork. They are a Senior Football club, and a Premier Intermediate Hurling club. Cork Inter-county player Nicholas Murphy plays his club football with Carrigaline. Despite competing in numerous county finals such as Intermediate football final of 2003 and Intermediate hurling of 2006, Carrigaline failed to capture a county title. This was until 12 October 2008 when they captured their first adult county after an Intermediate A Hurling win over Bandon. In 2009 they captured the football title, by beating Cill na Martra. In 2014 they secured their first top level county by defeating St. Finbarr's, in the Premier 1 Minor Football Final. In 2015 the club reached the Promised Land beating St Michael's in the Cork Premier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballinlough, Cork
Ballinlough () is a mainly residential townland and suburb on the southside of Cork city, in Ireland. It is located between Ballintemple and the larger suburbs of Douglas and Blackrock. History Among the earliest written references to the townland and then village of Ballinlough date from 1601 (as "Ballinlogha") in the Calendar to Fiants of reign of Henry VIII, and from 1655 (as "Ballinloghy") in the Down Survey. These Irish language names (, the town of the lake) reflected the position of the village focal-points (including Ballinlough House and the original Ballinlough school), close to Lough Mahon and the Douglas River Estuary. The Ballinlough Stone, a standing stone near Ballinlough House, was surveyed by antiquary Thomas Crofton Croker in the early 19th century. Later archaeological surveys of the stone question whether its origins are prehistoric, or if it is a less ancient boundary marker. In the 19th century, land use in the area was mainly focused on farming and market ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCC GAA
UCC is a football and hurling club associated with University College Cork. UCC teams play in the Cork Senior Football Championship and Cork Senior Hurling Championship as well as the two main third-level competitions namely the Sigerson Cup in football, the Fitzgibbon Cup in hurling and the Ashbourne Cup in camogie. They also compete against inter-county sides in the pre-season McGrath Cup (football) and Waterford Crystal Cup (hurling). The piratical skull and crossbones logo on the team shirt, which first appeared on the rugby team of what was then known as Queen’s College Cork (composed mostly of medical students, hence the bones) was appropriated in the mid-1910s by the GAA clubs, and in 1929 by the UCC hockey club. Notable players ;Football * Johnny Buckley * Maurice Fitzgerald * Paul Galvin * Moss Keane * Billy Morgan * Séamus Moynihan * Ken O'Halloran * Jamie O'Sullivan ;Hurling * Pat Heffernan * Joe Deane * James "Cha" Fitzpatrick * Ray Cummins * Nicky English * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carbery GAA
Carbery GAA is a Gaelic football and Hurling division in the south-west area of County Cork, Ireland. The division is one of eight divisions of the Cork County Board and a division is responsible for organising competitions for the clubs within the division from Under 12 up to adult level The winners of these competitions compete against other divisional champions to determine which club is the county champion. In addition, the division selects football and hurling teams from the adult teams playing at junior level or county intermediate level, and these then compete for the Cork GAA Senior Football Championship and Cork Senior Hurling Championship. The Carbery division consists of 26 clubs from Bandon in the east to Bantry Blues in the west. List of clubs * Argideen Rangers * Ballinascarthy * Bandon * Bantry Blues * Barryroe * Carbery Rangers * Castlehaven * Clann na nGael * Clonakilty * Diarmuid Ó Mathúnas * Dohenys * Gabriel Rangers * Goleen * Ilen Rovers * Kilbrittain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIT GAA
Munster Technological University Cork GAA club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the Munster Technological University in Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland. The club fields teams in a range of competitions in both hurling and Gaelic football. History Gaelic games were first played at the then Cork Regional Technical College when a student Gaelic football team was established in 1975. A student hurling team was set up the following year. The staff of the RTC Cork also had an active GAA club, and competed in various inter-firm hurling and football competitions. In 1995, Cork RTC made their debuts in the Fitzgibbon Cup and Sigerson Cup. Teams were also fielded that year in the Cork SHC and Cork SFC for the first time. Three unsuccessful appearances in Fitzgibbon Cup finals followed, while Cork Institute of Technology, as it was then known, won the Sigerson Cup title in 2009. The Cork Institute of Technology also made an unsuccessful appearance in the 2009 Cork SHC final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunmanway
Dunmanway (, official Irish name: ) is a market town in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland. It is the geographical centre of the region known as West Cork. It is the birthplace of Sam Maguire, an Irish Protestant republican, for whom the trophy of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is named. There is disagreement over the meaning and origin of the town's name. Various sources list its meaning when translated from Irish as "the castle of the yellow river," "the castle on the little plain," "the fort of the gables (or pinnacles)," and "the fort of the yellow women." The town centre is built on and around two rivers, which are tributaries of the larger River Bandon, which passes by at the east end of the town. The town is twinned with Quéven, France. Dunmanway won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1982. More recently, the town came to national and international attention thanks to a visit by Liverpool Football Club for a pre-season soccer friendly. The populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dohenys GAA
Dohenys is a Gaelic Athletic Association club, fielding Gaelic football and Hurling teams in the town of Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland. It won its only Cork Senior Club Football Championship in 1897. Other titles won include 2 Cork Intermediate Football Championships in 1972 and 1995, and 3 Cork Junior Football Championships in 1935, 1966, and 1993. In 2007, the club won its first ever county hurling championship when it won the Cork Junior B Hurling Championship. The club is part of the Carbery division of Cork. The Sam Maguire Cup which is presented to the All-Ireland winning football team each year is named after Dunmanway's most famous son, Sam Maguire who is buried in St. Mary's Graveyard. History Dohenys GAA club was founded in 1886. The first chairman of the club was a local national school teacher, John McCarthy. The club attended the first meeting of the Cork County Board and became the first affiliated club in west Cork. The official name adopted by the club was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beara GAA
Beara GAA is a division of Cork GAA, and is responsible for organizing Gaelic Athletic Association games in the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. It is one of eight divisions of Cork County Board. It organizes competitions for the clubs within the division, from Under 12 up to the adult level. The winners of these competitions compete against other divisional champions to determine which club is the county champion. Currently, the following clubs are part of the Beara division - Castletownbere, Adrigole, Urhan, Garnish, Bere Island and Glengarriff. It has no senior football team so the only representative in the Cork Senior Football Championship is the divisional team. The division also competes in the Cork Minor Football Championship and the Cork Under-21 Football Championship. Beara is a Gaelic football stronghold, with very little hurling played, and no competitions organized. Member Clubs * Adrigole * Bere Island * Castletownbere * Garnish * Glengarriff * Urhan Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seandún GAA
Seandun GAA is a Gaelic football and hurling division in the city of Cork, Ireland. It is one of eight divisions of Cork County Board. It organizes competitions for the clubs within the division, at adult level. The winners of these competitions compete against other divisional champions to determine which club is the county champion. In addition, the division selects football and hurling teams from the adult teams playing at junior level or county intermediate level, and these then compete for the Cork Senior Football Championship and Cork Senior Hurling Championship. Many of the best known clubs in Cork are part of this division - Nemo Rangers, Blackrock, Glen Rovers are examples. The division derives its name from Shandon, whose bells are a symbol of Cork City. History Junior A Football Championship * 2020 Passage West * 2019 St Michael's * 2018 Delanys * 2017 Delanys * 2016 Brian Dillons * 2015 Delanys * 2014 St. Finbarr's * 2013 St. Finbarr's * 2012 Douglas * 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
