GLORIOUS DAY AT GAA GOLF CLASSIC!

After months and weeks of organising and preparing, last Friday morning finally saw the first team of golfers tee off in the Blackwater Motors sponsored Kilworth GAA Golf Classic at Fermoy Golf Club followed by a further 49 teams throughout the day. We were blessed to have such fine weather for the occasion and it was great to see so many people out on the course. It’s hard to know where to begin when it comes to thanking people because there are so many but I’ll begin by sincerely thanking our main sponsor Blackwater Motors who came on board this year. Your support and sponsorship is very much appreciated and it is crucial as we look towards building a new club house and updating our pitch facilities, a project that is going to cost in excess of €750,000. We hope to continue our good relationship for many years and we hope you will stay on as the main sponsor for next year’s event. It was great to see your presence at the Golf Club with so many new cars on display last Friday. It was fantastic publicity for our club and you so again, thank you very much! We would like to thank our own Niall Cotter in helping to form the relationship between Kilworth GAA Club and Blackwater Motors and we would also like to thank Jamie O’Callaghan for presenting the prizes in Cotter’s Bar last Friday night.

We would like to thank all those who very kindly sponsored tee boxes or entered teams into the Golf Classic. Without teams and without players, there would not be a classic so we would like to sincerely thank you all for getting involved. Your support of our club does not go unnoticed and it is very much appreciated. The full list of sponsors is as follows: Blackwater Motors (Main Sponsor), Michael Lucey (Top prize in the raffle), Barnes Jewellers Fermoy, Kilally Stables Kilworth, Ger Hennessy Hair Studio, Avondhu Motor Factors, McCarthy’s Mace/ Fermoy Nissan, Kevin O’Keeffe, O’Sullivan’s Centra Kilworth, O’Callaghan’s Dental Practice Fermoy, Denis Twomey Kilally, MJ Coffey Electrician, Molans Garage, Sanmina Fermoy, Noel Flynn, The Arch Bar, Don O’Mahony, Kilworth Camogie Club, Fermoy Print and Design, John and Oliver Sheehan Blocklayers, Liam Magnier Landscaping, Lorclon Civil Engineering, Michael Lyons Building Contractors, Orla’s Hair salon, Kilworth Sheltered Housing, Kilworth Pitch and Putt Club, PPL Biomechanics, Chadwicks, Shaws Fermoy, Laya Healthcare, Fitzgerald Hurleys, Liam Walsh Hurleys and Sliotars, Riordan’s Supervalu Fermoy, Mark Nugent, Silver Bullet Warehousing, Butchers Bar, Mikes Tyres Fermoy, Ned O’Brien and Joe Cahill, Provision Electrical, Walsh’s Pharmacy Fermoy, Ballymartle GAA Club, Mike O’Brien Kilworth, Collins O’Brien Fermoy, Mitchelstown Dental Clinic, Araglen GAA, Fermoy Hire – Dave McCarthy, Corbett Court, Shinnick’s Spar and Post Office Fermoy, Fermoy Credit Union, Ely Search, Kilworth Juvenile Club, Aherne’s Bar Kilworth, Bill Hegarty and Family, Kilworth Celtic, The Village Inn Kilworth, Avondhu Press, Bill O’Flynn, Caman Leisure, Dion Cahill Carpentry and Construction, Circle K, FDC Group, Paddy Walsh Motors Fermoy, Collin O’Meara, Amber Service Station Dublin Road Fermoy, Cross Refrigeration, Aidan Hyland Plastering, McMahon’s Fermoy, Chop Shop Fermoy, Castlehyde Stud, Donal Byrne Motors, Grasstec (Noel Gowen), Strata Programming and Logistics, Alan Kenny, Carrigdhoun Engineering, Kilworth Community Council, Conway Engineering, Dornan Engineering, Henry Construction, Brian Tobin, Maurice McNamara & Kieran Walsh, Pa O’Connor, Sherry Fitzgerald (Donal Barry), Walsh’s Bar Mitchelstown, TOCO Welding, Belgooley Engineering, O’Sullivan’s Centra Kilworth, Con O’Sullivan, D Pack, Eoin Stanton, Islecalsh Engineering (Mark O’Connor), KDC Ltd, Paul Nelligan, Kilworth Sports Complex, Will, Brian and John Hegarty, Will Twomey and Lester Condon Plastering, Kieran Lane, Chris O’Mahony Evolution, Conor Cooney, Des Harrington, Fergal McCormack, James Ronayne Funeral Directors, Noel Gowen, Damien Lynch and James O’Brien, Port of Cork, Pat O’Brien, Pa Browne Plant Hire and Evans Mockler, England.

We had the fantastic prize of a week’s accommodation on the beautiful island of Fuertenventura as the top prize in this year’s Golf Classic raffle and for that prize we would sincerely like to thank Michael Lucey who very kindly sponsored it. Michael is a fantastic supporter of Kilworth GAA and Kilworth Camogie clubs and thanks to his generosity, we were able to raffle off this prize and we have no doubt the winner will thoroughly enjoy it! Thank you for your support Michael, it is very much appreciated. On behalf of the club we would like to thank everyone who sponsored a prize in the raffle. We had twelve in total and your support is greatly appreciated by everyone in the club. Thank you to absolutely everyone who sold and/ or bought the raffle tickets. We couldn’t have a raffle without the prizes, but we also couldn’t have a raffle without someone willing to go out sell the tickets and then in turn have people buy them. Thank you all very much for your continued support! We would like to thank Jason O’Sullivan of O’Sullivan’s Centra Kilworth for kindly sponsoring the ‘goodie bags’ for this year’s classic once again. It is great to have you on board each year Jason, you continue to be a wonderful supporter of Kilworth GAA Club and we are very grateful. We would like to wish you the very best of luck with the opening of the Post Office next week too! Thank you to Fermoy Golf Club for allowing us to host our event at the club again this year. The facilities up there are second to none and they are always very accommodating to us. The food each team received after their round of golf was beautiful yet again this year so we thank you for everything.  

We would also like to thank John and Ann Cotter of Cotter’s Bar Kilworth for allowing us to host our prize presentation in the bar last Friday night. It was great to see such a wonderful turnout on the night, including many of our friends at Kilworth Camogie Club and for that we would like to say thank you. The full list of prize winners is as follows: Non-GUI Winners: 1st - Aherne's Bar, 2nd - Kilworth Camogie, 3rd - The Village Inn, 4th - Ideclash Engineering and 5th - Port of Cork. GUI Winners: 1st - Mike Tyres, 2nd – Sanmina, 3rd - Walsh's Bar, 4th - Belgooley Engineering and 5th - Collins O'Brien. Raffle Prize Winners: 1st (Holiday in Fuerteventura) - Jodie Carey, 2nd (Smart TV) - Paddy Walsh Motors, 3rd (Jacob's on the Mall Voucher) - Mary Barrett, 4th (Ger Hennessy Hair Salon Voucher) - Conor O'Mahony, 5th (2008/2014 wine) - Mike Walsh, 6th (Hamper from Walsh's Pharmacy) - Aoidinn Tobin, 7th (Hamper from Walsh's Pharmacy) - Michael Walsh, 8th (Hamper from Walsh's Pharmacy) - Matt Slattery, 9th (Double Wine) - Gerry O'Riordan, 10th (Double Wine) - Seanie Shanahan, 11th (Double Wine) - Catherine & John O'Connor and 12th (Single Red Wine) - Jack Walsh. Well done to all of the winners and thank you again to all those who sponsored the brilliant prizes!

Finally, this Golf Classic would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of a number of volunteers over the past number of weeks and months. We would especially like to thank the leader of that team, Ned O’Brien. This was Ned’s first year involved in the Golf Classic and he did a fantastic job. He put in a tremendous amount of work in getting teams and sponsors on board, selling raffle tickets and coordinating the event, leading up to it and also on the day itself. Thank you for all your hard work Ned and we hope you will stay on board for a number of years to come! I won’t mention the number of people who helped Ned out in organising the event for fear of leaving someone out but you all know who you are and your help is greatly appreciated and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Thank you very much! As it is each year, the money raised from the classic is put aside for development purposes and this year is even more important than any other as we look to develop our club house and pitch facilities. In order to do this we need to raise much needed funds and the golf classic is one vital step forward towards doing that. We cannot thank you enough for your support of the classic and we hope that you will continue to support us in our efforts to raise money for the development in the future. Pictures from the event will be published in the paper over the coming weeks but if you would like to see them all then please log on to our website at www.kilworthgaa.com or check out our Facebook Page. If I accidently forgot to thank anyone, then please accept my sincerest apologies. It was not my intention to do so and if a mistake has been made, it will be rectified in next week’s notes. Thank you!   

GOALS THE DIFFERENCE AS KILWORTH OVERCOME CARRIG

D2HL R5 - Kilworth 3-17 Carrigaline 0-22 

Carrigaline were the visitors to Kilworth on Saturday evening last in the latest round of the RedFM division two hurling league and it was the visitors who made the better start leading 0-5 to 0-2 with less than ten minutes on the clock. Kilworth were slow out of the blocks but a penalty in the 16^th minute, created by Ned O’Brien who was fouled in the box and converted by Noel McNamara, got us back on track and by the 17^th minute the sides were level 1-5 to 0-8. A second goal for the home side in the 21^st minute put us ahead for the first time in the game, leading by three points. Some great work from Jamie Sheehan and Liam Whelan led to a great pass inside to Ned O’Brien who made no mistake in burying the ball to the back of the opposition’s net. The score line now read 2-6 to 0-9. Both sides continued to exchange scores for the remainder of the half, with Carrigaline reducing the gap to a single point just before the break but Kilworth pulled away again before the half time whistle was sounded with three well taken points from Noel McNamara, Tom Twomey and Austin O’Hara. At the break we had a three point cushion, 2-10 to 0-13.

Play resumed for the second half and once again it was Carrigaline who enjoyed most of the possession for the opening ten minutes as they converted a three point deficit into a two point lead by the 41^st minute, 2-11 to 0-19. Noel McNamara tagged one back with our first free of the game before Ned O’Brien, who was having a great game at full forward, converted his second goal of the game to put us one point clear in the 47^th minute, 3-12 to 0-20. For the final ten minutes our lead swayed between two and three points and there was always a fear that the opposition would get in for a goal but our defence held strong and did well to clear the ball down field. Three points ahead, substitute Daniel O’Regan tapped over the insurance point deep into injury time from the centre of the field to give us a deserved 3-17 to 0-22 win. This was a tough, physical encounter but our lads played very well and the goals were the difference in the end. Considering we were missing four of our starting team, it was great to get another convincing win under our belts. Up next is an away game to Cloyne next Sunday evening at 6pm in round six of the league. We would like to wish the management and the players the very best of luck in this game. Please come along and support!

Team and Scorers: Shane O’Brien, Maurice McNamara, Kieran Lane, Brien Roche, Austin O’Hara (0-1), Dave Twomey, Mark O’Connor, Brian Tobin, Nathan Byrne, Tom Twomey (0-1), Liam Whelan (0-4), Paddy Moakley, Jamie Sheehan, Ned O’Brien (2-2) and Noel McNamara (1-8). Subs: Daniel O’Regan (0-1)

LOTTO JACKPOT HITS €14,500!!!

There was no winner of our lotto jackpot last Monday night worth €14,350. The numbers drawn were 4, 8, 10 and 12. The lucky dip winners of €25 were: Rose and Ger Griffin c/o Centra, Rose Griffin c/o Centra, Tom Howard c/o Tom Howard and Liam Reidy c/o Centra. Next week’s jackpot will be €14,500. Tickets cost just €2 each or 3 lines for €5 and they are available locally in the four pubs or in O’Sullivan’s Centra Kilworth. You can also purchase a lotto ticket online at www.kilworthgaa.com. Be sure and play today for your chance to win! Best of luck!

KILWORTH CAMOGIE HOST A CAKE SALE

Next Sunday, May 26th, Kilworth Camogie Club will host a Cake Sale in the community hall to raise funds for the upcoming Féile competition. The cake sale will take place from 12-1pm (or after mass) and all are welcome to pop in and buy a sweet treat or delicious cup cake. Please spread the word and be sure to support the club in any way you can. Thank you!

CONGRATULATIONS

On behalf of the club we would like to congratulate Liam Óg Hegarty on playing with Cork in the primary games in Limerick last Sunday afternoon during half time in the Cork versus Limerick Senior hurling game. It was a wonderful achievement and a very proud moment for himself, his family and the club. Well done Liam Óg and we hope you really enjoyed the day! We look forward to seeing you play for Cork again in the future!

On behalf of the club we would also like to congratulate Mark Carey on winning the All-Ireland with the Cork U16 Soccer team last Sunday. Congratulations to Mark and the team on a great win and a fantastic result. We hope you all enjoyed the celebrations!

Finally we would like to congratulate all of the Kilara Óg players involved with the St. Colman’s U14 footballers who defeated Colaiste Choilm in the semi-final of the Cork Schools ‘A’ Championship on a score line of 7-15 to 3-07 last week. Well done lads!  

BEST OF LUCK

On behalf of the club we would like to extend our best wishes and our congratulations to Tomas Maher who will play with Cork in the Primary Games at half-time in the Cork versus Waterford Senior hurling game on Saturday June 8th in Pairc Úi Chaoimh. This again is a wonderful achievement for Tomas, his family and indeed the club. We hope you have a wonderful day Tomas and we look forward to seeing you playing in the red and white of Cork!

THANK YOU

On behalf of the club we would like to sincerely thank all those who helped out for the junior hurling championship game between Fermoy and Ballygiblin last Friday evening. It was greatly appreciated. Well done to Aidan Hyland and his team of officials who officiated the game.

FIXTURES

RedFM D2HL R6 (intermediates) - Kilworth V Cloyne in Cloyne on Sunday May 26th @ 6:00pm.

VOTES OF SYMPATHY

On behalf of the club we would like to express votes of sympathies to the Russell, Byrne and Allen families Kilworth and the Hammond family Fermoy following the sad passing of Pad Russell. Our thoughts and prayers are with Siobhan, Patrick, Jenny and the extended family at this time, including our own Bob Allen. May Pad rest in peace.

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MAIN CLUB SPONSORS: Mike Walsh Pharmacy, Aherne’s Pub, The Village Inn, KDC Ltd, Kilally Stables and Mitchelstown Dental Clinic.