Nuachtlitir Coiste Chontae Chorcaí: Vol. 4 No. 9, May 8th 2012

Dates for your Diary May 10th: Munster MHC

Cork v Clare, 7pm @

Cusack Park, Ennis

May 11th: Cork Senior

Hurling/Football Open

Evening, P. Uí Chaoimh,

8-9pm

May 16th: Munster MFC

Semi-Final, Cork v

Tipperary, P. Uí

Chaoimh, 7pm

May 21st: County

Hurling Championships

Launch, details tbc

May 22nd: County

Board Meeting, 8.30pm

Cork Hurlers Lose out to Kilkenny Despite an encouraging

Allianz Hurling League

campaign, which saw

them finish second in

the league table, Cork

suffered a

comprehensive defeat

at the hands of Kilkenny

in the League Final, 3-

21 to 0-16. However,

Cork will take a number

of positives from the

game, and now move

on to concentrate on

their Championship

opener on June 24th.

Four-in-a-Row for Cork Footballers! Congratulations to the Cork Senior Football panel, management,

backroom staff and all involved in their historic Allianz Football League

Final victory over Mayo on April 29th. The win means that they join an

exclusive group of only three counties (Mayo, Kerry and now Cork) to

have won three Division 1 titles in a row, and it’s a fourth in total for this

team, who also won the Division 2 title in 2009.

Graham Canty lifts the cup following Cork’s victory in the Allianz League Final. Pic: Sportsfile

The game was played in testing conditions, and Cork got off to a slow

start, trailing by four points at half-time, 0-9 to 0-5, but put in a

masterful second half performance to take the title on a scoreline of 2-10

to 0-11. Well done to all involved!

The Cork Footballers’ next competitive outing will be on June 10th when

they play either Kerry or Tipperary in the Munster Semi-Final at 2pm in

Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Meet Your Heroes!!! In advance of the commencement of the Championships, Cork fans will

have a unique opportunity to meet members of the Cork Senior Hurling

and Football panels and management at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Friday next,

May 11th between 8pm and 9pm, so come along and meet your heroes!

Rebel Óg Award for Rochestown College Congratulations to St. Francis’ College, Rochestown, winners of the

Rebel Óg Award for April, sponsored by the Rochestown Park Hotel, Red

FM, The Irish Examiner and Cummins’ Sports. Rochestown College have

won two consecutive Corn na gColáistí (Munster U16½B) titles and one

senior B win in the past two years. In addition, they competed in the

Corn Uí Mhuirí this season again after a long absence, making it out of

their group and into the quarter-finals. We wish them every success as

they continue their resurgence.

Anthony Smiddy, Rochestown Park Hotel; Diarmuid Ó Mathuna, principal, St. Francis College; Áine Cummins, Cummins Sports; David Kirk, player; Catriona Buckley, Irish

Examiner and Diarmuid Gowen, County Development Officer. Pic: Ger Bonus

Jackie O’Shea Memorial Unveiled A great crowd gathered at Donoughmore G.A.A. Grounds, Páirc Eoin

Mhic Chárthaigh, Leaca Bán, on Sunday April 22nd last for the unveiling

of a memorial to the late Jackie O’Shea, Life President of the Club, at a

location to be known henceforth as Jackie’s Corner, in recognition of

Jackie’s service to the GAA.

The O’Shea Family at the unveiling

Sports Capital Fund The Department of

Transport, Tourism and

Sport launched The

Sports Capital

Programme on

Wednesday March 28th.

For more information,

and to apply, see

http://www.transport.ie/

sport/grants_funding/ind

ex.aspx. NB: Closing

date June 1st.

Appointments to

National C’tees The following Cork

representatives have

been appointed to

national committees

2012-2014 by Uachtarán

Liam Ó Néill:

Rules Advisory

Committee: Frank

Murphy (Cathaoirleach)

Coiste Náisiúnta

Scór: Liam O Laochdha

(Cathaoirleach)

Hurling

Development: John

Fenton, John Meyler

Playing Rules: Frank

Murphy, Donal Og

Cusack

Officer Development:

Des Cullinane

IT/Communications:

Tracey Kennedy

Child Welfare and

Protection: Marc

Sheehan, Irene Hogan

National Games

Development: Mary

O'Connor (Camogie)

National Safety

Workgroup: PJ Murphy

Congratulations to Cork Camogie Congratulations to the Cork Senior Camogie team on their recent win in

the Irish Daily Star Division 1 League Final, defeating Wexford on a

scoreline of 1-8 to 0-9. It was a 14th title for the Rebels, and their first

since beating the same opposition by a point in the 2007 final.

Cork Camogie captain Julia White with the cup following Cork’s victory in the Irish Daily Star

National League Final. Pic: Sportsfile

Féile Winners Congratulations to Sarsfields, who will represent Cork at the All-Ireland

Féile na nGael, and to Ballygiblin, who will take part in the B section.

Marc Sheehan, Cathaoirleach Rebel Og; Sars captain Liam Healy and Stephen O’Brien, son

of Dava O’Brien. Pic: Cian O’Brien

Juvenile Inter-Divisional Tournaments Well done to Carbery, winners of the Munster U16B Inter-Divisional,

beating South Tipp by of 2-12 to 0-7, and to Imokilly, who retained the

Dick Barrett Shield, defeating Seandún in the final, 1-13 to 1-8.

County Board

Report At the County Board

meeting of May 8th, the

Cathaoirleach

congratulated the Cork

Senior Footballers on

winning the Allianz

League for the fourth

year in succession,

while he also

complimented the

hurlers on reaching the

League Final, where

they lost out to

Kilkenny. Paul McCarthy

(Kinsale) was appointed

Junior Football

manager, with Danny

Culloty (Newmarket)

joining the selectors.

The report of the latest

Ard-Comhairle meeting

was discussed and will

be circulated to all

clubs. Draws were

made for Round 4 of

the Colleges/Divisions

Championships (see

www.gaacork.ie for

details), and the

Cathaoirleach

announced that he

hoped to meet

Divisional

representatives in the

near future to discuss

the 2013 Championship

format. The next

meeting is on May

22nd.

Playing Rule

Changes A number of playing

rule changes come into

effect on May 14th (one

month from Congress),

most notably the new

square rule in football.

See Administration

section of Cork GAA

website for details, or

go to http://url.ie/f9et.

Tracey Kennedy County PRO pro.cork@gaa.ie

Next Issue The next issue of County Board News will be published on May 22nd.

Please forward this newsletter to all your contacts.

Cork Website Hits Continue Climb The Cork GAA website,

www.gaacork.ie,

continues to almost

double in popularity

since 2011, with hits for

the month of April

coming in at

325,884, higher than

any month last year

except our peak in July

(332,648), and well up

on the April 2011 figure

of 177,872.

Many thanks to all our

users for your support.

GAA Social Media

Guidlelines The GAA

Communications

department has recently

circulated all clubs with

Social Media Guidelines,

as well as a set-up guide

for Facebook, Twitter

etc. Clubs are advised to

take careful note of

these guidelines to

ensure that they are in

compliance with them,

as a register of all official

club websites, Facebook

and Twitter pages etc is

currently being

compiled. The guidelines

can be downloaded from

the Social Media

section of the Cork GAA

website, or are available

from the County PRO.

Website of the Week Well done to our most recent Websites of the Week, St. James’ and

Valley Rovers. So far in our tour of club websites, we’ve had Kilshannig

(Avondhu), Glengarriff (Beara), St. James’ (Carbery) and Valley Rovers

(Carrigdhoun). This week, we'll be turning our attention to Duhallow, so

make sure your websites are up-to-date!

www.stjames.gaa.ie

Clubs are welcome to contact pro.cork@gaa.ie to alert us to any website

improvements, Facebook and Twitter pages etc, which we will promote via

the Cork website and our social media.

Keep up the good work!

www.valleyrovers.com