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Nuachtlitir Cumann Fánaithe na Claise

Vol 5 Issue 33

Rebel Og Premier 2 U14 Hurling League

Valley Rovers vs Ballygarvan Thurs 20th Aug in Innishannon at 19:30

Rebel Og Premier 1 U15 Hurling League

Valley Rovers vs Bishopstown Sat 22nd Aug at home at 15:00

All fixtures subject to change, please check website homepage prior to games

Lotto Results

Sunday 16th/Aug/2015

Numbers Drawn 1, 3, 29 & 32 No winner of the Jackpot of €2,600

€20 winners: Alanna Farrell, c/o P.J. Shiels. John Horgan, Crossroads Bar. Joe, Fiona & Mag Twohig, c/o Twohigs. Joe Crowley Slievegullane. Kate Fitzgerald, c/o P.J. Shiels. Joe LeBlanc, Skevanish. Jerry Hubbard, Coachford. Claire O’Shea, Ballinphellic. Donal McCarthy, Skevanish. Tom Cremin, c/o P.J. Shiels. Next Week’s Draw in Crossbarry Inn Jackpot €2,750

Be in to win

U9s, 10s & 11 camogie girls with Dublin camogie star and current Leinster

long puck champion Elaine Gallery

Upcoming Fixtures

Senior Football Championship

Valley Rovers Vs Ballincollig

Saturday 22nd August in Kilmurry at 18:45

Please Support

Premier 2 U16 Football Championship

Valley Rovers Vs St Nicholas

Monday 17th August In the Glen Field at 19:00

Premier 2 U18 Football Championship

Valley Rovers Vs Bantry Blues

Wednesday 19th August in Rosscarbery at 19:15

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Chiedozie Ogbene keeps Nemo Rangers alive

Saturday, August 15, 2015

By Barry Coughlan Irish Examiner

Nemo Rangers 1-11 Valley Rovers 1-11: Nemo Rangers have made a speciality of winning Cork County U21 A titles, being the dominant force with 13 wins, including a couple in the last three years.

Amongst their victims have been Valley Rovers, whom they knocked off a lone championship perch (2013 winners) in last year’s semi-final.

In last night’s decider at Páirc Ui Rinn, it was a chance for the Valleys to gain revenge. Victory was not to be for either side though and a pulsating contest ended with both sides level in what was probably a fair result.

From the off there was plenty of excitement, and Nemo got the opening scores, a couple of points from Kevin and Alan O’Donovan. Valley Rovers hit back with points from Jack Murphy and Eoin O’Reilly but Nemo’s Chiedozie Ogbene made all the difference with a smashing goal as he finished Conor Gould’s through ball.

Billy Crowley might have had claims for a Valleys penalty as he bore down on goal. Seconds later, Nemo saw Valley keeper David Lynch make a brilliant save but Conor Horgan knocked over the rebound for a point. O’Reilly got his second point to again leave a goal between the sides. Nemo lived dangerously in the 16th minute when Jack Murphy’s shot was saved by Michael Aodh Martin. Two minutes later Conor Horgan and Danny O’Sullivan exchanged points.

Nemo defenders got in the way of goalward shots four times in quick succession and Valley had to be happy with a point from Jack Murphy to reduce the Nemo lead to just two points. Tadgh O’Brien cut the deficit further and then Murphy set pulses racing with a

brilliant individual goal to give his side the lead for the first time with 24 minutes on the clock.The sides had a further point apiece with Valley holding the initiative at the break, 1-8 to 1-6.

Two early points from Conor Horgan brought the sides level and it took Valleys 10 minutes of the second-half to register their first score, a pointed free from Murphy, before O’Reilly got another immediately afterwards to restore the two-point lead.

A third point, this time from Darragh Murphy, had Valley Rovers three points to the good by the middle of that second period and Nemo’s luck was out in the 46th minute when their attempt on goal was repelled by a determined Valley Rovers defence.

Man of the match Ogbene sparked a Nemo revival when he struck for two points and substitute Ian Dorney had another to draw the sides level again. There were thrills from there to the finish, with both sides threatening to get the winner but neither had quite the composure to see this game out

Scorers for Nemo Rangers:

C Ogbene 1-2, C Horgan 0-5 (0-2 frees), K O’Donovan 0-2, I Dorney, A O’Donovan 0-1 each.

Scorers for Valley Rovers:

J Murphy 1-3, E O’Reilly 0-3, D Murphy 0-2, D O’Sullivan, B Crowley, T O’Brien 0-1 each

Valley Rovers:

David Lynch, Ian Crowley, Ben Murphy, Tomas O’Brien, Darragh Lordan, Jack Lyons, Johnny Kiely,

Danny O’Sullivan, Darragh Murphy, Eoin Fallon, Jack Murphy, Tadgh O’Brien,

Eoin O’Reilly, Billy Crowley, Darragh Looney.

Subs

Derek Cantry for D O’Sullivan (55, injured), Patrick Hurley for B Crowley (57)

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Under 9 On Friday 14th August our U9 footballers played in two exhibition matches at half time in the U21 County Final against their Nemo Rangers counterparts. This was a great experience for the lads to play under lights in front of a big crowd. The boys performed well both on the field and off it as they provided very loud support from the stands during the U21 match. The following played in the exhibition matches: Sam Browne, Luke Casey, Scott Johnson Collins, Gary Cremin, Billy Cronin, Seanie Crowe, Billy Curtin, Niall Daly, Liam Dineen, Roan Gilli, Neil Hennessy, Luke Humphreys, Alex Hurley, Ben Keane, Matthew Kelleher, Sean T Kenneally, Samuel Linehan, Oisin McCarthy, Shane O’Connell, Anthony Slattery.

Valley Rovers 4 - 07 Kinsale 6 - 13.

Valleys Rovers were beaten in the West Cork ladies

u16 semi final played in Brinny last Thursday 13th Aug.

Rovers started well in the first half playing attacking

football and with the assistance of a slight breeze took

the game to Kinsale. Rovers had been beaten by Kinsale

in the earlier league stages of the competition but it

gulf on that occasion could not be seen last evening.

Rovers lead at half time 3 - 06 to 3 - 05, giving the

eventual winners a scare.

Under 12 Valley Rovers 8-6 Aghabullogue 5-11 The U12's second team finished off their football league campaign with a fine win over Aghabullogue. While not qualifying for the final, the improvement shown by the players over the year has been a joy to watch. Having qualified for the final of the hurling and coming third in the football the players can take great credit. Well done everyone.

10 Hurling Our u10 hurlers travelled to Cobh for the Johnnie Leahy Tournament on Saturday last. We had 2 teams who took on teams from Cobh, Sarsfields & Carrigtwohill. Each team played 3 matches and we played some really good hurling. We won 5 out of 6 matches and it was great to see a competitive edge to these games which the lads really enjoyed. All the lads received medals and refreshments after the tournament. Our thanks to Cobh for the invitation and the hospitality. The following players played in the tournament Adam Lynch, Callum Fennelly, Callum Reardon, Ciaran Hoey, Connor Desmond, Daniel Lynch, Danny O Brien, David Carthew, Declan Cronin, Enda Manning, Enda Muldoon, Eoin Guinane, Kevin Dart O'Flynn, Kieran Kelleher, Luke O'Sullivan, Matthew Woods, Ray Snapes, Seán Mac an tSaoi, Ted McGrath, Troy Young

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On the restart of the second half Kinsale started to

create and more importantly take more chances than

Rovers were getting and went into a lead which Rovers

couldn't peg back but never gave up fighting to the end,

finishing strongly albeit too late. They gave a great

display of heart and determination and now take this

massive improvement into a county competition

coming up in a few weeks time. Team:

Emma O'Brien,

Adi O'Sullivan, Roisin O' Donovan, Aoife O'Brien,

Sarah Lynch, Sarah McCarthy, Carol Cremin,

Grainne Dart O'Flynn, Sinead Dart O'Flynn,

Jennifer O'Donovan, Emer Kiely, Niamh Hurley,

Daire Kiely, Kate Bernard, Kate O'Halloran.

Subs: Danielle Murphy, Roisin O'Sullivan, Gywnne

Hurley, Aoife Reilly, Kate Murphy, Ellen Fennelly,

Clodagh O'Donovan.

Our U8 ladies footballers played two games against

Clonakilty last Wednesday night. Great skills were

shown by everyone with all our girls showing great

improvements in their play. Training continues

Wednesday nights from 6:00 to 7:00pm.

Reminder to all our girls to sell their Golden Goal tickets

and return money at the next training session.

Camogie

Fixtues: Round 4 Senior B Ch'ship v Clonakilty Sunday

Aug 23rd venue and time to be decided.

Valley Rovers play Clonakilty in their final round robin game in the Ch'ship. With two draws and a win from the first three rounds Valleys need a win or draw to progress to the Semi Final of the competition. The two sides met in last years Semi Final which Clon won so Valleys are eager to amend this defeat

This Saturday the under 9s, 10s and 11 camogie girls had were give some words of wisdom, and put through their paces by Dublin camogie star and current Leinster long puck champion Elaine Gallery. A great morning was had and Elaine gave great coaching to all 31 girls and the girls showed immense interest in a good Q&A, asking loads if questions. Many thanks to Elaine for giving her time.

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You might remember a few months ago we appealed

to people to sign up to the bone marrow register as

one of our parishioners Sean Mac Seoin was in need of

a transplant. We are delight to report Sean has

received a transplant and is presently making a good

recovery. Seán has contacted us and asked to post the

following thank you message. We wish Seán well in his

recovery.

Sean’s Message:

I would like to thank all the members of Valley Rovers

who supported the appeal to sign up to the bone

marrow register earlier this year. I had a second

recurrence of non-hodgkins lymphoma in Nov 2014

and at the time needed chemotherapy again followed

by a bone marrow transplant. Two months ago, in

June, I had the transplant. The unrelated donor was a

26 year old German. I am half way through the post

transplant treatment now. Thank you to the many

people in Innishannon and Cork who have supported

my family - Ann, Aisling, Mary and Áine - while I was in

isolation in James's hospital in Dublin and now living

beside the hospital in Dublin.

I would appeal to the 18-45 year olds to continue to

donate blood regularly for current cancer patients at

CUH and other hospitals.

One day a patient beside me had to wait for platelets

as the blood bank had none after a bank holiday

weekend. Platelets only last 5 days. A very willing

donor was called in urgently to St Finbarr's hospital and

his platelets were delivered by late afternoon to CUH

to the sick patient on chemotherapy.

18-45 year olds can also sign up to the bone marrow

register at WWW.GIVEBLOOD.IE for future leukaemia,

lymphoma or myeloma patients needing a transplant.

They can also sign up when donating blood at St.

Finbarr's hospital or at a mobile clinic.

I am so grateful of this chance of a return to long term

good health. I appreciate how good Valley Rovers and

the community of Innishannon is in supporting each

other and appreciate all the support and prayers we

have received from people throughout West Cork.

Go raibh míle buíochas daoibh go léir.

Sean Mac Seoin

The GAA would like to remind all players at all levels in

all Hurling Games and Hurling Practice Sessions it is

mandatory for, and the responsibility of, each

individual player to wear a helmet with a facial guard

that meets the standards set out in IS:335 or other

replacement standard as determined by the National

Safety Authority of Ireland (NSAI).

All players are advised that in the event of a head

injury occurring, if the helmet being worn does not

meet the standard or is modified or altered from the

original manufactured state, they are not covered

under the terms of the GAA Player Injury Fund.

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Fixtures:

Senior B Ch'ship v Fr O Neills Monday July 27th in

Blackrock at 7.30pm.

Senior B Ch'ship Valley Rovers 2-9 Mallow 2-9

On Wednesday night last Valleys played Mallow in

Castle Rd in their 2nd game of the Championship.

Valleys started well scoring 1-3 in the opening 10 mins

before Mallow opened their scoring. However Mallow

started to pick off points and held Valleys to only one

further points for the remained of the half. At the short

whistle Valleys lead by just a point 1-4 to 0-6. Mallow

started the second half with two goals but Valleys

battled hard and reduced the deficit. Valleys second

goal came from Katie Richardson with in the final few

minutes of the game to leave just a point between the

sides. Lisa Lynch's pointed free was the last score of the

game and valleys now face Fr O Neills in their next

game in this round robin Ch'ship. Team

Gillian Harrington,

Leona Murphy, Ena Coughlan, Rachel O Sullivan,

Emily Palmer, Susan O Leary, Jennifer Murphy,

Maryanne Hawkes, Michelle Cottrell,

Liz Buglar, Lisa Lynch, Laura Brew,

Katie Lynch, Eileen Foley, Orla Deasy.

Subs Katie Richardson for Michelle Cottrell, Clodagh

Deasy for Eileen Foley, Ciara Richardson for Maryanne

Hawkes injured.

Photos of this game can be found HERE

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Valley Rovers GAA

Contact

Valley Rovers Phone 0857038198

Email chairperson.valleyrovers.cork@gaa.ie

secrectary.valleyrovers.cork@gaa.ie

pro.valleyrovers.cork@gaa.ie

Website: www.valleyrovers.com

Every effort has been made to ensure the contents of this newsletter are correct, however we take no responsibility for any errors, omissions or misprints that may occur in this publication from time to time

Valley Rover Ladies Football and Camogie Club are running a joint fundraising initiative called the Golden Goal. We are selling scratch cards with a time on it ( example 12 mins and 43 seconds). If the first goal comes in at this time in the All Ireland Mens Hurling Final the winner gets 500 euro! If the ticket is unclaimed, the 500 goes to charity. Tickets will be distributed by the coaches at training sessions over the coming week. Each family will receive 21 tickets to sell. Tickets are 1 for 2 euro or 3 for 5 euro. Unsold tickets should be returned as soon as possible. Your assistance and help as always is much appreciated.

It is with great pleasure that Valley Rovers announce that Henry O'Leary Auctioneers and Real Estate Agents www.hol.ie, 'Keohanes Readymix' and 'Innishannon House Hotel' are once again continuing their sponsorship of Valley Rovers Website for the year ahead. Henry O'Leary Auctioneers have been sponsoring the website for the past two years and both 'Keohanes Readymix' and 'Innishannon House Hotel' are in their fifth year of sponsoring the website. Valley Rovers would like to acknowledge their contribution and thank them for their generosity As always we encourage you, to support our website sponsors as their sponsorship ensures that communication between the club and our supporters does not cost the club any money.

Saturday August 22nd

@ Kilmurry, SFC R4, Ballincollig v Valley Rovers, 6.45pm

Sunday August 30th

@ TBC, PIHC QF, Kanturk v Valley Rovers

Saturday Sept 5th

@ TBC SFC QF, Ballincollig/Valley Rovers v St

Finbarrs/Castlehaven Alt Sept 5/12th

Saturday/Sunday September 12th/13th

PIHC Semi-finals

SFC semi-finals

Sunday October 4th

Premier Intermediate Hurling Final

Sunday October 18th

Senior County Football Final