Christy Ring Cup

[Croí na hÉireann]

Witnessed a very determined Westmeath performance in Navan this evening, they played with a passion not seen since Qualters days. The winning of the game was in the start, they hit 2-7 to no score in the first 15 minutes and they kept that 13 point margin more or less until the end of the game. Kildare did close it down to 8 in the second half but we nipped the threatened comeback with a heartbreaker of a goal. Best for Westmeath were Joe Clarke in the middle, Mitchell, McCormack and Whelan in the backs, and Murtagh upfront. Special mention to Burke in the goals, the referee could have awarded another 2 penalties on top of the 2 he charitably gave and Burke was never gonna be beaten. Slightly worried that we never pushed on after that great opening as you knew once Kildare got to the santuary of the dressing room at half time that they were going to come out reorganised. As expected it's Kerry in the final and while it's nice to be back there we really owe them one after beating we took off them earlier in the campaign. Glad to see the final is in Croke Park, the lads deserve a run out there after that display...

[Kerry Mike]

Brilliant result for Kerry, great to see them getting to a national final in Croke Park and I hope they can bring Christy to Kerry for the first time.

[slow corner back]

Should be a good evenly balanced match this one, when is it on?

[magpie seanie]

Brilliant result for Kerry, great to see them getting to a national final in Croke Park and I hope they can bring Christy to Kerry for the first time.

Ye do have a penchant for looking after cups named after lads from the rebel county it seems!

[stevecw]

Should be a good evenly balanced match this one, when is it on?

July 3rd in Croke Park. Last year it was part of triple header with the Rackard and Meagher Finals. But The Christy Ring is ending much earlier this year so the other 2 competitions won't be anywhere near finished.

03.07.10 (Sat)Christy Ring 2010 - FinalCiarraí V An Iarmhí
Time: TBC, Venue: Páirc an Chrócaigh
Referee: TBC

[Croí na hÉireann]

Should be a good evenly balanced match this one, when is it on?

July 3rd in Croke Park. Last year it was part of triple header with the Rackard and Meagher Finals. But The Christy Ring is ending much earlier this year so the other 2 competitions won't be anywhere near finished.

03.07.10 (Sat)Christy Ring 2010 - FinalCiarraí V An Iarmhí
Time: TBC, Venue: Páirc an Chrócaigh
Referee: TBC

I would like to think it would be played before the Leinster Final the next day. Regardless it's some fall from grace when it was on before the AI semi finals...

[Craigyhill Terror]

Should be a good evenly balanced match this one, when is it on?

July 3rd in Croke Park. Last year it was part of triple header with the Rackard and Meagher Finals. But The Christy Ring is ending much earlier this year so the other 2 competitions won't be anywhere near finished.

03.07.10 (Sat)Christy Ring 2010 - FinalCiarraí V An Iarmhí
Time: TBC, Venue: Páirc an Chrócaigh
Referee: TBC

The finals of the Rackard and Meagher are both scheduled for July 3rd as well.

[Lecale2]

Fair play to Kerry they've come on well this year under Meyler. It would be good to see them win it but I suspect Wetmeath will have too much experience of a Croke Park final to lose this one.

[Kerry Mike]

Great to see the Kingdom getting to a national final in Croker , huge day for the Kerry Hurlers and for the hurling folk of Kerry who have slogged hard for years to scrape teams together and to keep the game alive in only a very small pocket of clubs, and always in the shadows of the footballers.

Great for fellows like Shane Brick and John Mike Dooley and others to finally play on the biggest stage, and I am looking forward to seeing scoring prodigy 19 year old Darragh O'Connell doing his thing, great weight on this young lads shoulders but I wish him and the rest of the team well.

Let's bring Christy Ring home to Kerry.......

The Kerry Senior Hurling team for The Christy Ring Cup Final on Saturday 3rd July 2010 is as follows: 

1 Bernard Rochford Killeagh, Cork
2 Colin Harris, Captain Kilmoyley,3 Tom Murnane Kilmoyley  4 John Fitzgerald Causeway
5 James Godley Kilmoyley  6 Liam Boyle Ballyduff  7 Aidan Healy Abbeydorney
8 Mike Conway Lixnaw  9 John Griffin Lixnaw
10 John Egan Ardfert  11 Michael Boyle Ballyduff  12 Darragh O'Connell Abbeydorney
13 James Flaherty Lixnaw  14 Gary O'Brien Ballyduff  15 Shane Nolan Crotta O'Neills

The substitutes are : 16 John Brendan O'Halloran Kilmoyley ,17 James McCarthy Kilmoyley ,18 Colm Harty Causeway 19 Shane Brick Kilmoyley ,20 Sean Maunsell Kilmoyley ,21 Eoin Sheehy Kilmoyley 22 Ronan Kenny Ballyheigue 23 John Mike Dooley Causeway 24 Padraigh Monson Causeway  25 Niall Young Kilmoyley  26 David Fitzelle Kilmoyley 27 Jason Casey Ballyheigue  28 Sean Young Kilmoyley  29 Brian O'Leary Abbeydorney 30 Richard Nolan Crotta O'Neills
31 Darren Twomey Crotta O'Neills  32 Adrian Royle Kilmoyley  33 Nicky Leen Ballyduff  34 Andy McCarthy Kilmoyley
35 Patrick O Keefe Glenfesk

[Croí na hÉireann]

Let's bring Christy Ring home to Kerry.......

Musha will you go away out of that, the fecking cup has never been in Munster let alone the Kingdom & ye want to bring it home??? Jaysus, you'd think ye would be happy enough having the Sam Maguire resting by the lakes of Killarney most year without trying to lay claim to our trophy... Well it will be after tomorrow when we raise it to the heavens for the third time (ourselves & Carlow are currently on two each). No news on the team yet, are you heading in yourself Mike?

[johnneycool]

Great to see the Kingdom getting to a national final in Croker , huge day for the Kerry Hurlers and for the hurling folk of Kerry who have slogged hard for years to scrape teams together and to keep the game alive in only a very small pocket of clubs, and always in the shadows of the footballers.

Great for fellows like Shane Brick and John Mike Dooley and others to finally play on the biggest stage, and I am looking forward to seeing scoring prodigy 19 year old Darragh O'Connell doing his thing, great weight on this young lads shoulders but I wish him and the rest of the team well.

Let's bring Christy Ring home to Kerry.......

The Kerry Senior Hurling team for The Christy Ring Cup Final on Saturday 3rd July 2010 is as follows: 

1 Bernard Rochford Killeagh, Cork
2 Colin Harris, Captain Kilmoyley,3 Tom Murnane Kilmoyley  4 John Fitzgerald Causeway
5 James Godley Kilmoyley  6 Liam Boyle Ballyduff  7 Aidan Healy Abbeydorney
8 Mike Conway Lixnaw  9 John Griffin Lixnaw
10 John Egan Ardfert  11 Michael Boyle Ballyduff  12 Darragh O'Connell Abbeydorney
13 James Flaherty Lixnaw  14 Gary O'Brien Ballyduff  15 Shane Nolan Crotta O'Neills

The substitutes are : 16 John Brendan O'Halloran Kilmoyley ,17 James McCarthy Kilmoyley ,18 Colm Harty Causeway 19 Shane Brick Kilmoyley ,20 Sean Maunsell Kilmoyley ,21 Eoin Sheehy Kilmoyley 22 Ronan Kenny Ballyheigue 23 John Mike Dooley Causeway 24 Padraigh Monson Causeway  25 Niall Young Kilmoyley  26 David Fitzelle Kilmoyley 27 Jason Casey Ballyheigue  28 Sean Young Kilmoyley  29 Brian O'Leary Abbeydorney 30 Richard Nolan Crotta O'Neills
31 Darren Twomey Crotta O'Neills  32 Adrian Royle Kilmoyley  33 Nicky Leen Ballyduff  34 Andy McCarthy Kilmoyley
35 Patrick O Keefe Glenfesk

Is Shane Brick and JM Dooley getting on in years as they were some operators in their day?

[shark]

Well done Westmeath.  The core of that panel now have 3 Christy Ring Cups won.  Time for a bigger challenge.

[The Wedger]

These competitions were given a disgracefully low amount of coverage by the GAA.
You would hardly have known the finals were on.

This picture shows exactly how important this match was to the players:

[Croí na hÉireann]

Well done Westmeath on bringing the Christy Ring Cup home, now we have 3 years to settle into the Liam McCarthy. At the end of which, if we're to progress, we should aim to be ahead of the lower tier group of Laois, Carlow and Antrim and putting it back up to Dublin. I think Offaly will push on from this year, hard to know what Wexford will do.

Hard luck to Kerry, John Meyler has done some job down there, I'm sure ye'll be back next year.

[magpie seanie]

No disrespect to Westmeath (and well done on their success) but I really wanted Kerry to win this one.