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824

the polish lad from cobh is top class also

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825

An all rounder by all accounts. Excellent athlete.

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826

Cork U20 Hurling Panel for 2021 has been announced

Cathal Wilson Newcestown

Cian Long Glen Rovers

Eoin Downey Glen Rovers

Padraic Cullinane Ballinascarthy,

Piaras O Halloran Ballygarvan

Cathal Hickey Lisgoold

Cathal McCarthy Sars

Colm McCarthy Sars

MicheĂĄl Mullins Whitechurch

Brian Keating Ballincollig

Conor O Leary Ballincollig

Paddy O Flynn Bride Rovers

Sean Walsh Carrigtwohill

Sean Desmond Watergrasshill

Ben Cunningham St Finbarrs

Conor Griffin Newtownshandrum

Ciaran Joyce Castlemartyr

DĂĄire O Leary Watergrasshill,

Cormac O’Brien Newtownshandrum*Capt ain,

Cillian O Donovan Douglas

Ethan Twomey St Finbarrs

Kevin Moynihan Na Piarsaigh

Brian O Sullivan Kanturk

Sam Quirke Midleton

Diarmuid Kearney Cobh

Luke Horgan Glen Rovers

Darragh Flynn Ballygiblin

Daniel Hogan Sarsfields

Jack Cahalane St Finbarrs

Robbie Cotter Blackrock

Padraig Power Blarney*Vice Captain,

Brian Hayes St Finbarrs

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827

Only 9 city players shows what’s wrong with Cork hurling , crazy that city clubs aren’t producing better quality players with all the investment , only my personal opinion, on the other hand at least in the county it seems to be thriving- at one point Midleton were the only county club consistently producing,
Tbh I’m biased and expected more city players- it’s worrying, know personally that Bishopstown are struggling to get kids and simply can’t as in Scoil an Spiorad Naiomh ( traditionally a feeder club for the town last year over 60 pc of children were born of non Irish parents and obviously most have no interest in GAA )
PS ex Cork football manager is head master-Brian Cuthbert and if he can’t get numbers no one can, hopefully in time that’ll change,
whereas here in Carrigaline numbers are booming children of Irish and non Irish .
It’s a conundrum

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828

11 city players there seems a fair enough representation, you might as well throw in Sars and Blarney as well

Don’t worry about the ‘non Irish’, kids want to play the games that their buddies are playing, if they’re part of the community they’ll become part of the GAA clubs, but it takes a bit of time.

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829

1/3 from the city on the panel seems grand, and at least half of them will start.

Bigger issue is the likes of Blackrock and Na Piarsaigh struggling to put out underage teams in A grade anymore.

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830

There’s the worry.

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831

Hard to believe.
They’d have three teams at each age group, not 10-15 years ago.

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832

Basing it on the competition information on the Rebel Og site, but St. Michaels seem to be the ones playing at the highest grades, not Blackrock.

833

Would Blackrock & Na P have an ageing demographic in their quarry ??

Carrigaline & Ballincollig are huge young areas that need to start producing hurlers

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834

v hard for any club to be strong at hurling when everything is split dual 50:50. Michaels are a totally separate club these days. Having the strongest schoolboys soccer club in Ireland on your doorstep doesn’t help either.

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835

Ballincollig are coming massively in hurling. Think they had three Cork minors starting last year, and two or three again this year.

They’re competing for Premier underage honours in Cork. Carrigaline would want to up it alright

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836

Isn’t Johnny Dywer working part time for the club as a hurling director? Themselves Sars, Barrs and Midleton are the top underage hurling clubs in the county atm.

837

lets be honest, the city clubs took a lot of Cork county players from the outside the city clubs in times past, I would say pretty decent representation from the city

838

They had over 100 under 8s 2 years ago. The club is doing s massive expansion of facilities too. Cork GAA should really look at splitting them in 2 before it’s too late

839

No more than any other successful sides from out the county over time. Newtown were picking lads from Charleville, Buttevant, Limerick, Tipp but there was nothing made of it. There was a culture of lads jumping ship to sucessfull clubs but is now largely gone.

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840

That’s football though, st Michael’s are decent considering they’re the poor relation in Blackrock GAA terms, they’re shagged ref minor as 8/10 are on my kids under 18 Avondale united team and soccer comes first with most of the players

841

Didn’t know that as in Cork i never heard of that shite happening tbh in the 70s/80s

842

Do we know who we are playing in the next round of the hurling or what.

843

Team for Tuesday

Cathal Wilson Newcestown
Eoin Downey Glen Rovers
DĂĄire O Leary Watergrasshill
Cormac O Brien Newtownshandrum Captain
Ethan Twomey St Finbarr’s
Ciaran Joyce Castlemartyr
Kevin Moynihan Na Piarsaigh
Sam Quirke Midleton
Brian O Sullivan Kanturk
Darragh Flynn Ballygiblin
Daniel Hogan Sarsfields
Brian Hayes St Finbarrs
Robbie Cotter Blackrock
Padraig Power Blarney
Jack Cahalane St Finbarr’s
Cian Long Glen Rovers
Cillian O Donovan Douglas
Conor O Leary Ballincollig
Piaras O Halloran Ballygarvan
Diarmuid Kearney Cobh
MicheĂĄl Mullins Whitechurch
Luke Horgan Glen Rovers
Ben Cunningham St Finbarr’s
Sean Desmond Watergrasshill
Additional Panel Members

Cathal McCarthy Sarsfields, Padraic Cullinane Ballinascarthy, Cathal Hickey Lisgoold, Paddy O’Flynn Bride Rovers, Colm McCarthy Sarsfields, Conor Griffin Newtownshandrum, Sean Walsh Carrigtwohill, Brian Keating Ballincollig

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