One Cork GAA Old Head Golf Classic
Thursday, October 27th saw many followers of Cork GAA take to the Old Head Golf Links in support of the inaugural One Cork GAA Golf Classic, with all funds raised going to the support of Cork Inter-county teams.
The sell-out event, sponsored by O’Flynn Group and Amarenco Group, saw over 30 teams battle with the world-renowned course and a challenging Atlantic breeze.
The former general manager of Old Head, Jim O’Brien, chaired the event’s organising committee which comprised of many Cork GAA supporters across various sectors.
Former Cork All Ireland winning greats Joe Deane, Ronan Curran, Kieran Murphy, Tony Nation, Tomás Mulcahy and Colman Corrigan all took to the course, with midfield general Shay Fahy keeping a watchful eye on proceedings.
The spoils were captured by the Sandy Lane team from Limerick who turned in an outstanding card, followed home by NB Shipping and the Malone’s in second and third place, respectively.
Thoughts have already turned to the 2023 event, which has been pencilled in for April 12th of next year, with significant interest expected once more.
Kick a Point for Seamie
Seamie Brady, a lifelong GAA member from St Mary’s from Co Meath had a serious accident in September 2016 when volunteering to carry out works on the old St Mary’s GFC clubhouse. Seamie suffered significant lifelong injuries as a result of this accident and has been unable to work since. This has left Seamie and his family in a dire financial situation. St Mary’s CLG wants to raise funds to bring financial stability to the Brady family and we are calling on the GAA community to support our gofundme #KickapointforSeamie.
On Saturday November 12th, St Mary’s GFC (Meath) members are proposing to Kick a Point in all 32 GAA County Grounds, take a short video, and share it with each County PRO who in turn will post out on their social media platforms with the hopes of raising extremely needed funds for Seamie and his family through a GoFundMe.
This fundraiser is fully backed by the GAA and personally endorsed by the GAA’s Director General Tom Ryan.
St Mary’s GFC members will join us at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday November 12th for the Munster Club Senior Football Championship Nemo Rangers v Clonmel Commercials and they will kick a point at half time of the game.
SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh – GAA Pitch of the Year
In the midst of another busy week on the pitch here in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh, it was fitting that word has come through that our pitch has been awarded ‘Pitch of the Year’ from the GAA National Pitch Workgroup.
A robust system of assessments was completed during recent visits to the six finalists, based on three broad criteria:
(a) Pitch quality assessment during the technical visit in October 2022
(b) Environmental conditions and usage
(c) Resources and management assessment.
A wide range of factors influence the quality of pitches, including the initial construction, the drainage system, the quality of the maintenance programme and the level of pitch use. Accordingly, a scoring system was used, based on over thirty different factors influencing each pitch and this was combined with a weighting factor related to the importance of each factor to avoid bias in the scoring of any one factor.
After everything that went before, a nice and welcome piece of recognition for @PaircUiCha0imh – just named ‘Pitch of the Year’ by the GAA’s National Pitch Workgroup. Its truest examination and vindication came on the day of the @OfficialCorkGAA Hurling final. pic.twitter.com/1BzJDmwPiO
— Tony Leen (@tonyleen) November 9, 2022
Particular thanks must go to all the team here at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh, in particular, John Murphy of Goldcrop, Stephen Forest and the team at Turftech, our new Groundsman Colm Daly and of course, all our staff and stewards.
Lest the aforementioned were due any break, the historic Munster Rugby game here tomorrow night, followed closely by the Munster Senior Club Football semi-final on Saturday (Live on RTE) and two County Football Finals on Sunday will, once more, show the value of having a world class pitch at our disposal.
Cork GAA Welcomes Munster v South Africa
We are delighted to welcome our colleagues in Munster Rugby to SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh for an historic sporting event on this Thursday evening, November 10th, 2022.
The night will represent a celebration of all that is healthy in Cork sport and will mark years of friendships and collaboration across all sporting codes in Cork City and County.
We are proud to have such a magnificent setting on the banks of the Lee to host a sell-out crowd, as Munster welcome the reigning world champions South Africa in front of an international TV audience.
We also recognise the foresight of GAA Central Council and the IRFU in granting permission for this unique event.
Finally, we thank the Munster Rugby event team for their support in the organisation of the event, with many commercial and sporting insights gained and with many new friendships formed along the way.
