Hurlers make it a double joy with league title

CHARLEVILLE’S intermediate hurlers added the Division 2 Intermediate Hurling League title to their Cork County Intermediate Championship victory when they defeated Mallow on a score line of 2-20 to 2-12 in the Division 2 final which was played at the nearby Ballyhea Gaels stadium on last Saturday.

Mallow, of course, competed in the Premier intermediate championship series this year and Charleville, by virtue of their county win last month, will also be playing in this category in 2016.

This was the first league title for Charleville and should they triumph in the premier division next season they could well be playing senior County hurling in 2017.

Charleville last contested the senior ranks from 1948 to 1952, and though they team notched up some notable victories against teams such as Blackrock in 1950, which at that time had no fewer than eight players on the Cork County team, Charleville had no county title to show for their efforts.

Many players in that team were by now nearing the end of their playing days and so they reverted to intermediate status in 1953. Here, again they achieved little success for the next seven years, at which time the club mentors decided to drop down to junior level and the club played at this grade, until, their breakthrough county victory at this level in 2011.