All-Ireland SHC Quarter-Final
Cork 0-26 Dublin 0-21
By Stephen Barry at FBD Semple Stadium
It was anxious at the end but Cork held out against a late Dublin barrage to advance to next month’s All-Ireland semi-finals.
Patrick Horgan struck 0-10 to equal TJ Reid as the championship’s all-time top scorer on 699 points, but his team didn’t register again after the 66th minute.
It rained goal chances late on. Ronan Hayes blasted a snapshot wide before Declan Dalton was denied by a flying Seán Brennan save at the other end.
As the clock ticked into four added minutes, Patrick Collins blocked a Diarmaid Ó Dúlaing drive before a Donal Burke free was stopped on the line by Niall O’Leary. A late Ó Dúlaing attempt was snuffed out to the relief of the Rebel fans.
With Robert Downey ruled out due to illness, Ciarán Joyce provided a readymade centre-back replacement while Luke Meade came into midfield. Séamus Harnedy, back from a hamstring tweak, demonstrated his fitness with their opening score.
Dublin, meanwhile, made four late changes with Daire Gray, Darragh Power, Mark Grogan, and Paul Crummey introduced. Out went Paddy Doyle and their entire full-forward line of Fergal Whiteley, Dara Purcell, and Ronan Hayes.
They did cause Cork some problems with their direct running game. Midfielder Conor Burke attempted eight shots, converting four. He also won three scoreable frees, but Donal Burke blazed each wide. Brian Hayes landed two points while assisting three more in the opening half.
The sides were level six times before Cork began to inch ahead. Horgan had a third-minute goal chance brilliantly blocked by Eoghan O’Donnell, but the forward raised a pair of white flags in the 15th minute for a lead they never relinquished.
They stretched it out to six points with Dalton arrowing over four between there and the break. Eoin Downey was denied a first championship point by Hawk-Eye, but they still led 0-15 to 0-10 by the half-time.
They gobbled up the Dublin puck-out for the opening four points of the second half, including another Dalton double.
Donal Burke’s fourth missed free saw Seán Currie take over dead-ball duties and his Na Fianna clubmate ended with 0-7.
With the record in his sights, Horgan was gifted five frees to tap over while Robbie O’Flynn was called off the bench and scored with his first two touches.
Chris Crummey notched three from the half-back line, but Dublin’s late push came up short.
Scorers for Cork: Patrick Horgan 0-10 (7fs) Declan Dalton 0-6 (3fs) Darragh Fitzgibbon, Shane Barrett, Séamus Harnedy, Robbie O’Flynn 0-2 each; Brian Hayes, Luke Meade 0-1 each.
Scorers for Dublin: Seán Currie 0-7 (4fs), Conor Burke 0-4; Chris Crummey, Donal Burke (1f) 0-3 each, Brian Hayes 0-2, Darragh Power and Paddy Doyle 0-1 each.
Cork: Patrick Collins; Niall O’Leary, Seán O’Donoghue, Eoin Downey; Tim O’Mahony, Ciarán Joyce, Mark Coleman; Luke Meade, Darragh Fitzgibbon; Declan Dalton, Shane Barrett, Séamus Harnedy; Patrick Horgan, Alan Connolly, Brian Hayes.
Subs: Shane Kingston for Harnedy (49), Tommy O’Connell for Meade (49), Ger Millerick for Fitzgibbon (59), Robbie O’Flynn for Hayes (61), Conor Lehane for Connolly (68).
Dublin: Seán Brennan; Paddy Smyth, Eoghan O’Donnell, John Bellew; Chris Crummey, Conor Donohoe, Daire Gray; Conor Burke, Mark Grogan; Brian Hayes, Donal Burke, Darragh Power; Danny Sutcliffe, Seán Currie, Paul Crummey.
Subs: Ronan Hayes for P Crummey (44-70+4, temporary), Paddy Doyle for Gray (48), Diarmaid Ó Dúlaing for Grogan (54), James Madden for Donohoe (59), Fergal Whiteley for B Hayes (64).
Referee: Michael Kennedy (Tipperary).
Green Clubs Programme
The Green Club Programme was established to support Gaelic Games clubs in taking simple and effective sustainability action in their grounds and activities. The Programme is structured around the themes of Energy, Water, Waste, Biodiversity and Travel & Transport and is designed to promote sustainability awareness and action in GAA clubs and communities.
Phase 1 of the Green Club Programme ran from 2021 to 2023 with the participation of over 30 clubs from across Ireland. These trail-blazing Green Clubs established Green Teams, carried out club audits and engaged in exciting sustainability partnerships and projects. The experience and input of the Phase 1 Green Clubs led to the development of the GAA’s first-ever Green Club Toolkit
What is the Green Club Toolkit and where can I find it?
The GAA Green Club Toolkit was launched in December 2022. It contains resources, advice and guidance, tailored especially for GAA clubs and members, in the areas of Energy, Water, Waste, Biodiversity and Travel & Transport. The Toolkit also contains inspiring, practical case studies from Green Clubs from across the island of Ireland.
The Toolkit is available to all GAA, LGFA and Camogie clubs and members at: https://learning.gaa.ie/greenclub
You can also click on the map below to find key actions for each thematic area.
GAA Green Club Map
Who else is involved in the Green Club Programme?
The Green Club Programme is a partnership between the GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association and local authorities across Ireland. This partnership had its origins in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Champions Programme launched by the Department of Communication, Climate Action, and Environment in September 2019. Both the GAA and Carlow County Council were among the twelve inaugural SDG Champions and their initial collaboration led to the signing of a Green Club Memorandum of Understanding between the local authority County and City Management Association (CCMA) and the Gaelic Games organisations and an ongoing-working relationship between the GAA and the Climate Action Regional Offices. The GAA is continuing as an SDG Champion in the current iteration of the programme for 2023/24, with Clare County Council now representing the Local Authority sector. For more info visit https://www.gaa.ie/stories/gaa-announced-as-sdg-champion/
Both the Green Club Programme and the Green Club Toolkit have been developed with the expert input of organisations and agencies from across the island of Ireland. Details of these are included under the ‘Partners’ tab above
What do Green Clubs do?
Take a look at some of the Green Club Case Studies at https://learning.gaa.ie/greenclub/casestudies
Green Clubs Sustainable Development Goals
LGFA CEO Helen O’Rourke, Chairman of CCMA Michael Walsh, Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael John Horan, Chariman of Local Autority Climate Change Steering Group Ciarán Hayes, Camogie Operations Manager Alan Malone, DCCAE Katie Aherne, and former Wexford hurler Diarmuid Lyng pictured at the GAA Local Authority SDG Launch at Croke Park.
SDGs
In September 2015, 193 countries met in New York and signed the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This Agenda has become the guide to the world’s social, economic, and environmental actions to achieve a sustainable future by 2030. The framework consists of 17 Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs). Each of these goals has a number of targets associated with it (169 in total). Indicators identify the data that will be used to measure progress towards these targets and to determine if it has been achieved successfully by 2030.
The global progress is monitored by the UN. Individual countries must provide voluntary national reviews including stakeholder involvement. In Ireland, the overall responsibility for implementing the UN SDGs lies with the Department of Communications, Climate Action, and Environment (DCCAE). Inclusion is at the core of the UN SDGs, and as a result, governments, the corporate sector, and citizens are called upon to make the SDG agenda a reality.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Champions Programme is an initiative established by the SDG Unit in the Department of Communication, Climate Action, and Environment. The SDG Champions Programme has the potential to achieve nationwide prominence and raise public awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals. The purpose of the SDG Champions Programme is primarily to raise public awareness of the SDGs, and secondarily to illustrate practical ways in which organisations and individuals can contribute to achieving the SDGs, using Champion organisations’ practices as examples. Each Champion organisation is focusing primarily on a select number of SDGs each. As individual Champions will promote specific SDGs, each of the twelve campaigns will be distinct in terms of the goals they are championing.
The GAA has been award SDG Champion Status for Goals 3 – Good Health & Wellbeing, 4 – Quality Education, 15 – Life on Land and 17 – Partnerships.
We are committed to developing healthy and sustainable communities. Good Health & Wellbeing are direct outcomes of participation in physical activity and meaningful social engagement. We offer opportunities for both through quality coaching and initiatives delivered by our Community & Health Department, such as the Healthy Club Project. We are innovators in Quality Education through our Coach Education and Officer Development Programmes as well as in mainstream education with our GAA Future Leaders Transition Year Programme. The GAA club ensures that the Association has a footprint in the physical environment of nearly every community in Ireland.
Conscious of our impact on the physical environment, we endeavour to work in harmony with our surroundings to support biodiversity and life on land and are building a Green Club Toolkit to further our contribution in a sustainable way. By building partnerships with other stakeholders at all levels of the Association, the GAA endeavours to embed sustainable development concepts and practices throughout the organisation. Our Clubs have been innovators in addressing many of Ireland’s social concerns and are already rising to the challenge of supporting the SDGs.
For more information visit:
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
https://www.gaa.ie/stories/gaa-announced-as-sdg-champion/
Louth edge out Cork to qualify for All-Ireland Quarter Final;
All-Ireland SFC Preliminary Quarter-Final
Louth 1-9 Cork 1-8
By Dan Bannon at Páirc Grattan, Inniskeen
Louth have made it to the All-Ireland quarter final for the first time in their history with a one point victory over Cork at Inniskeen.
It had been 67 years since the Wee county defeated the Rebels in the championship, the 1957 All-Ireland final.
In the third minute of injury time, Sam Mulroy calmly kicked over the winning point from a free.
With history on the kick, there was no doubting the talisman in that moment. Cue an emotional pitch invasion from Louth supporters.
After a slow start coupled with energy conservation phases of play Tommy Walsh’s effort lifted the home crowd with a shot that sprung Niall McDonnell into action.
Craig Lennon the hero four weeks ago opened the scoring for the hosts but Brian O’Driscoll and Colm O’Callaghan sandwiched the Louth score.
Cork led for the opening quarter until Sam Mulroy found the range and Ryan Burns swivelled over after some good work from Tommy Durnin on his home club pitch of Inniskeen Grattans.
Urged to shoot by the crowd and with his eye firmly in, Burns quickly added to his tally. With that burst, Cork crept into the game.
O’Callaghan continued on his stunning form to hit a brace off either foot. John Cleary clearly identified Louth’s weakness to concede from distance the week previous against Kerry.
With that tactic and those three scores in a row Cork took the ascendancy on the scoreboard before half time. Better was to come from the Leesiders.
Cork full back Daniel O’Mahony flicked over McDonnell in a rapid move down the right channel to stun Louth before half time. Mulroy softened the blow to make it 1-5 to 0-5 at the turn.
In the second half Louth were more dominant and struck three in a row to level while stifling Cork from finding the target. In that run, Paul Mathews skied the ball over the bar and spurned a huge goal chance.
Cleary’s side were lacking ideas, but Brian Hurley curled over to keep the visitors noses back in front. Louth had played a lot of football, but were still behind. They needed inspiration and it came once again in the form of Donal McKenny.
Last weekend’s goalscorer, McKenny scored in the same fashion as last week. A shot from Conor Grimes followed in from the Ardee man after he pounced.
McKenny lashed home and Mulroy added the winner.
Scorers for Louth: Sam Mulroy 0-4 (4fs), Donal McKenny 1-0, Craig Lennon 0-2, Ryan Burns 0-2, Paul Mathews 0-1.
Scorers for Cork: Colm O’Callaghan 0-3, Daniel O’Mahony 1-0, Chris Óg Jones 0-2, Brian Hurley 0-1, Rory Maguire 0-1, Brian O’Driscoll 0-1.
Louth: Niall McDonnell; Donal McKenny, Dan Corcoran, Dermot Campbell; Bevan Duffy, Conal McKeever, Anthony Williams; Tommy Durnin, Ciarán Byrne; Conor Early, Ciaran Keenan, Craig Lennon; Conor Grimes, Sam Mulroy, Ryan Burns.
Subs: Paul Mathews for Byrne (26), Leonard Grey for Early (63), Liam Jackson for Burns (67).
Cork: Christopher Kelly; Kevin Flahive, Daniel O’Mahony, Maurice Shanley; Rory Maguire, Tommy Walsh, Matty Taylor; Ian Maguire, Colm O’Callaghan; Ruairí Deane, Mark Cronin, Brian O’Driscoll; Chris Óg Jones, Brian Hurley, Steven Sherlock.
Subs: Thomas Clancy for Walsh (23), Eoghan McSweeney for Deane (51), Seán Powter for Sherlock (57), Conor Corbett for Cronin (60).
Referee: Noel Mooney (Cavan).
Cork overcome spirited Dublin to book semi final place;
All-Ireland SHC Quarter-Final
Cork 0-26 Dublin 0-21
By Stephen Barry at FBD Semple Stadium
It was anxious at the end but Cork held out against a late Dublin barrage to advance to next month’s All-Ireland semi-finals.
Patrick Horgan struck 0-10 to equal TJ Reid as the championship’s all-time top scorer on 699 points, but his team didn’t register again after the 66th minute.
It rained goal chances late on. Ronan Hayes blasted a snapshot wide before Declan Dalton was denied by a flying Seán Brennan save at the other end.
As the clock ticked into four added minutes, Patrick Collins blocked a Diarmaid Ó Dúlaing drive before a Donal Burke free was stopped on the line by Niall O’Leary. A late Ó Dúlaing attempt was snuffed out to the relief of the Rebel fans.
With Robert Downey ruled out due to illness, Ciarán Joyce provided a readymade centre-back replacement while Luke Meade came into midfield. Séamus Harnedy, back from a hamstring tweak, demonstrated his fitness with their opening score.
Dublin, meanwhile, made four late changes with Daire Gray, Darragh Power, Mark Grogan, and Paul Crummey introduced. Out went Paddy Doyle and their entire full-forward line of Fergal Whiteley, Dara Purcell, and Ronan Hayes.
They did cause Cork some problems with their direct running game. Midfielder Conor Burke attempted eight shots, converting four. He also won three scoreable frees, but Donal Burke blazed each wide. Brian Hayes landed two points while assisting three more in the opening half.
The sides were level six times before Cork began to inch ahead. Horgan had a third-minute goal chance brilliantly blocked by Eoghan O’Donnell, but the forward raised a pair of white flags in the 15th minute for a lead they never relinquished.
They stretched it out to six points with Dalton arrowing over four between there and the break. Eoin Downey was denied a first championship point by Hawk-Eye, but they still led 0-15 to 0-10 by the half-time.
They gobbled up the Dublin puck-out for the opening four points of the second half, including another Dalton double.
Donal Burke’s fourth missed free saw Seán Currie take over dead-ball duties and his Na Fianna clubmate ended with 0-7.
With the record in his sights, Horgan was gifted five frees to tap over while Robbie O’Flynn was called off the bench and scored with his first two touches.
Chris Crummey notched three from the half-back line, but Dublin’s late push came up short.
Scorers for Cork: Patrick Horgan 0-10 (7fs) Declan Dalton 0-6 (3fs) Darragh Fitzgibbon, Shane Barrett, Séamus Harnedy, Robbie O’Flynn 0-2 each; Brian Hayes, Luke Meade 0-1 each.
Scorers for Dublin: Seán Currie 0-7 (4fs), Conor Burke 0-4; Chris Crummey, Donal Burke (1f) 0-3 each, Brian Hayes 0-2, Darragh Power and Paddy Doyle 0-1 each.
Cork: Patrick Collins; Niall O’Leary, Seán O’Donoghue, Eoin Downey; Tim O’Mahony, Ciarán Joyce, Mark Coleman; Luke Meade, Darragh Fitzgibbon; Declan Dalton, Shane Barrett, Séamus Harnedy; Patrick Horgan, Alan Connolly, Brian Hayes.
Subs: Shane Kingston for Harnedy (49), Tommy O’Connell for Meade (49), Ger Millerick for Fitzgibbon (59), Robbie O’Flynn for Hayes (61), Conor Lehane for Connolly (68).
Dublin: Seán Brennan; Paddy Smyth, Eoghan O’Donnell, John Bellew; Chris Crummey, Conor Donohoe, Daire Gray; Conor Burke, Mark Grogan; Brian Hayes, Donal Burke, Darragh Power; Danny Sutcliffe, Seán Currie, Paul Crummey.
Subs: Ronan Hayes for P Crummey (44-70+4, temporary), Paddy Doyle for Gray (48), Diarmaid Ó Dúlaing for Grogan (54), James Madden for Donohoe (59), Fergal Whiteley for B Hayes (64).
Referee: Michael Kennedy (Tipperary).
The Cork Senior Football Team to play Louth has been announced;
(2) Kevin Flahive (Douglas)
(3) Daniel O’Mahony (Knocknagree)
(4) Maurice Shanley (Clonakilty)
(5) Rory Maguire (Castlehaven)
(6) Tommy Walsh (Kanturk)
(7) Matty Taylor (Mallow)
(8) Ian Maguire (St Finbarrs)
(9) Colm O’Callaghan (Eire Og)
(10) Paul Walsh (Kanturk)
(11) Sean Powter (Douglas)
(12) Brian O’Driscoll (Carrigaline)
(13) Mark Cronin (Nemo Rangers)
(14) Chris Óg Jones (Uibh Laoire)
(15) Steven Sherlock (St Finbarrs)
(16) Micheal Aodh Martin (Nemo Rangers)
(17) Sean Meehan (Kiskeam)
(18) Darragh Cashman (Millstreet)
(19) Thomas Clancy (Clonakilty)
(20) John O’Rourke (Carbery Rangers)
(21) Killian O’Hanlon (Kilshannig)
(22) Eoghan McSweeney (Knocknagree)
(23) Jack Cahalane (Castlehaven)