Killavullen
ANTHEMS FROM ANNAKISHA
Killavullen Young Christian Workers is presenting a variety concert from Annakisha Church on Friday, October 4, at 7.30 p.m. The line-up includes Dan Twomey accompanied on piano by Elaine Guinane, Kellie Lewis (Voice of Ireland); Crescendo String Quartet; Kate and Érin Hickey; the Willis trad group and Michael Cronin in the atmospheric setting of Annakisha with special lighting and floral installations. Tickets (€12) are available from the parish churches after Mass times or the parish office (022 46578) and from Killavullen and Ballygown School offices, during school hours.
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Results for Sunday, September 29, to September 1 and two shared by Timmy Buckley and Anthony Kenneally, Patsy O’Gorman and Josie O’Driscoll and Marion Regan and Con O’Gorman. Best of last five Christine McCormack and Liz O’Gorman and Billy Feore and Paddy Dinan. Raffle winners Eileen O’Grady, Con O’Gorman and Maura Murphy. Cards are now back for the winter every Sunday night at 8 p.m. in Killavullen Community Centre. It’s only €5 to play and no partner required.
JUNIOR CERTIFICATE
Results are being given out this coming Friday, October 5, Best wishes are extended to all the young people of our community, who have been patiently waiting for them.
COMMUNITY COUNCIL LOTTO
The lucky winners for the last week’s have been Kate O’Connor in Griffin’s Bar and in the Haven it was Catherine Canavan. Thank you all for your support to this fundraiser.
CLUBS AND ORGANISATIONS
This is the time of year that people join new clubs and organisations. If you run or host a club in the parish and wish to promote your events or meetings please email killavullennews@gmail. com.
GAA CLUB NEWS
U21 SUCCESS – Killavullen won their first under-21 title since 2006 when they proved too good for Clyda Rovers earlier today in a game that was played in the splendid Buttevant venue.
We opened the scoring with a lovely point in the very first minute from the slinky Darragh O’Grady, who went on to have a stellar first half. We got the next point from Noah Butler in the third minute but Clyda hit back with a free in the eighth minute. In between, we were denied a good goal scoring chance when Liam Fox was adjudged to have been in the square before the ball and that created controversy in the 10th minute when Clyda finished to the net, in a somewhat similar fashion, but we retaliated in good style when Mickey O’Connor scored a point for a free for us in the 12th minute.
Clyda extended their lead with another point from play in the 13th minute but again, we did not panic and got two points in return, in the 20th and 22nd minute from the very accurate and influential mid-fielder, Mikey O’Connor, both from dead ball situations. Liam Fox scored a nice point for us in the 23rd minute and that was followed by a similar score from Pádraig Looney in the 27th minute to open up a two point lead 0-07 to 1-02. Clyda responded with a converted free but Mikey replied in kind, before the final score of the first half was scored by Eddie Cotter to leave us leading at the interval 0-09 to 1-03.
After the restart we had a number of wides before Mikey scored another free for us in the fifth minute of the second period, but Clyda replied with a free of their own. Jack O’Connor then scored a rallying point for us, in the ninth minute and suddenly there seemed to be a renewed motivation in the team with Liam Fox and Eddie Cotter very prominent. Patrick Angland., Fionn Magner and Mike Fresh in the full back line, were in a particularly tight mood, and Clyda were finding it hard to gain traction in and around our goal area. Outside them, in the half back line, Séamus Fox, Eoin Buckley and Brian Cotter stifled out numerous Clyda attacks.
Liam Fox scored from open play in the 10th minute and the same player earned us a free in the 12th minute that Mikey converted. It was in front of the Killavullen dug out, and Liam blocked down a Clyda clearance, lost his hurley and was still prepared to dive full length without the stick to prevent the clearance. It got better as Liam somehow gathered the loose ball on the ground, and was then fouled and it certainly lifted the spirit in the team. Jack O’Connor scored from play in the 13th minute and Eddie Cotter, who went through an amount of ball in the second half, scored again for us in the 14th minute to open up a sizeable lead, 0-15 to 1-4.
Paul O’Sullivan and Noah harried and blocked and pursued lost causes and we gained inspirational from their antics. Pádraig Looney ran himself silly in chasing possession but Clyda are nothing if not resilient and they scored a free and then earned a penalty. The player appeared to be fouled outside the square but cleverly rolled into the square and the shot was dispatched with aplomb to give them renewed hope. That was followed up with another point, and suddenly the margin was down to three points, 0-15 to 2-06. Killavullen sprung changes from their bench, and Eoin Buckley was instructional in using some nous to slow the game down, and allow Killavullen to gather their breath. Our goalkeeper was coolness personified, if anything threatened his goal, and cleared his lines well. Jack O’Connor scored again for us in the 23rd minute followed by his brother from a placed ball in the 26th and the final score of the game was scored by Jack again in the 27th minute.
In the five plus minutes of stoppage/injury time, Killavullen managed the game well and did not allow Clyda in for a goal, no matter how hard they tried. Afterwards the cup was presented to the Killavullen captain, Eoin Buckley by John Roche, of Clyda and formerly of Killavullen, and the Avondhu board. Eoin thanked his fellow players, the management team of Dave Brosnan, Tommy Cremin, Barry Murphy, John Brennan and coach, John Hartnett, thanked Buttevant for presenting the pitch in perfect condition, wished well of Clyda and remembered Jerry Roche from Killavullen, brother of John, and father of Ian and Colin in his speech. Eoin also thanked the big, big crowd from Killavullen, who were vociferous in their support throughout the year for this team.
Overall, Killavullen would have been well pleased with their overall display, and industry, and their ability to spray the ball about with purpose.
BRAVE KILLAVULLEN SUFFER FINAL DEFEAT – Despite a determined effort to get a grip on the game, Killavullen had little answer to the early Grenagh onslaught that saw them race in to a nine-point lead in the opening 20 minutes of the Division 2 under-14 Hurling Championship Final played in Ballyclough last Saturday. Grenagh’s Dan Twomey scored the first point from a free and continued to give an exhibition of hurling, with 11 points in total over the hour.
Despite the valiant efforts of all players out the field, the Killavullen forward saw little of the ball for long spells and were confined to an Owen Magner point from play after 20 minutes and two converted frees from Colm Hannon at either side of the short whistle.
A never-say-die attitude from Killavullen right through yielded good points from Eoin O’Hanlon and Rory O’Regan. Charlie Cremin in goal and Colm O’Mahony at full back cleared a lot of ball and the backs in general worked hard to contain their opponents. James Lyons moved out the field from his full forward berth and energised the team to good effect.
A chink of light quickly clouded over when Grenagh got a second goal to stretch the lead once more. Still Killavullen didn’t surrender and a great run goalward by Owen Magner led to Shayne Cahill seising on a goal chance with an excellent ground shot. This, and a fine goal scored by Owen Magner himself shortly afterwards, helped to put a respectability on the scoreboard, but Grenagh ran out comfortable winners on a final score-line of 2-13 to 2-5.
Charlie Cremin, Darragh O’Connor, Colm O’Mahony, Tomas Fennell, Dan Cronin, Eoin O’Hanlon 0-1, Fearghal Hogan, Barry Cotter, Willie Gifford, Stephen Rea, Rory O’Regan 0-1, Ian O’Mahony, Colm Hannon 0-2, James Lyons, Owen Magner 1-1, Evan Sheahan, Eoghan Forde, Shayne Cahill 1-0, Jamie Lowe, Dara O’Neill
U16S PROGRESS TO COUNTY FINAL – Killavullen, with a blistering start saw off Donoughmore in the dCounty semi-final – under-16 Division 2 grade tonight under lights in the excellent venue that is Glantane.
Shane Walsh opening the scoring for us in the third minute followed by a lovely strike from Michael Walsh in the next minute before the mercurial Jamie Magner got his opening score of a sparkling display in the fifth minute. With our next attack, Seán Palmer found Jamie and he finished expertly to the net, and repeated the dose in the next minute from the opposite side to have us leading by 2-03 to no score, with only six minutes gone. Jamie scored another free in the eighth minute before our mid Cork opponents scored a point from a free after 10 minutes. Jamie replied with another converted free and then Séamus O’Mahony put a ball over the bar with a crisp finish.
Our forwards were getting a great supply of quality ball at this stage, and Michael Walsh profited again in the 17th minute. Patrick O’Grady was influential in the half forward line, and he duly scored a real beauty of a point in the same minute, and was fed by Michael Cagney in the next minute to register his second point. Donoughmore scored a nice point from play in the 19th minute only for Jamie to cancel out that score with another lovely point in the next minute. Donoughmore scored two rapid fire points in the 21st and 23rd minute from a free, before Jamie converted two long range points from frees in the 24th and 25th minutes.
Donoughmore got another point before Jamie bagged his hat trick in spectacular style with a rising blistering shot that rifled into the net. Patrick got this third point of an excellent first half for Killavullen and Jamie converted another free to bring our half time tally to 3-14 as against 0-05 for our opponents at the short whistle.
Seán Palmer got the opening point of the second period in the third minute but Donoughmore got two points back with converted frees in the sixth and seventh minutes. Patrick got two more points in the 10th and 13th minutes, the second of these was a sweet strike, in a congested goal area. Donoughmore got another point back before Killavullen rang out some changes from our impressive bench.
Colm Nagle came on for Michael Walsh, and Jack Martin was introduced for Shane Walsh. Oisin Larkin was utilised for Séamus O’Mahony, and Eoin O’Hanlon for Jamie Magner. Michael Cagney capped his impressive hour when a long range shot of his, deceived the Donoughmore goal keeper who was very good on the night and went in, over the line. For his troubles, Michael was duly replaced by Rory O’Regan after picking up a knock on his knee to leave the final score 4-17 to 0-09 at the end of the game.
Killavullen eased up somewhat in the second period with the big interval lead so to win out the county, a true 60 minutes of hurling will be required.
On the night, our forward will gain the plaudits but we were very good in the back line as well, with Chris O’Callaghan, and Ronan Barry influential but each player that featured in the game were good also.
The final is planned for 6.30 p.m. on this coming Friday night, October 4, in Pairc Ui Rinn against Newcestown, who will provide stern opposition.
FORTHCOMING FIXTURES – Rebel Óg under-16 Hurling final Division 2 Killavullen V Newcestown in Pairc Ui Rinn on Friday, October 4, at 18.30.
Rebel Óg Minor Hurling county semi-final Division 2 Killavullen V Bride Rovers in Ballyhooly on Sunday, October 6, at 13-00
All adult and juvenile fixtures are now on the new Killavullen GAA website killavullengaa.com.
LOTTO – Numbers drawn were 1, 28 and 32. No Winner. The lucky-dip winners were as follows: €50 Bessie Rea – Seller Michael Rea; €30 Máire O’’ Connor/ Grainne Kennedy – Seller Michael Linehan; €20 Máire O’’ Connor/ Grainne Kennedy – Seller Michael Linehan. The next draw will be in Griffins Bar and will be for €3,300