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The Hurling Championship's intensify this weekend as clubs discover their fate and chances of reaching theCounty Finals. While the predictions might not have been "precise" to date, the hurling definitely has livedup to expectations and let's hope that both will improve over the coming days of hurling.

In the Pettitts Senior Hurling Championship semi final, Shelmaliers attack Oulart the Ballagh. The latter sideleft it until extra time to see off Ferns in the quarter final clash. Conor Goff is solid for Oulart while NickyKirwan and Des Mythen have great free taking ability. Ciaran O Shaughnessy, Tommy Barron and StephenBanville lead the Shelmaliers into battle. While the Shelmaliers will be confident after the win over StMartins, Oulart seem too strong for the valiant men from "Over The Water".

In the other clash, Faythe Harriers and Rathnure take to the field. Jim Berry leads a formidable Wexford townside who boast some classy forwards including Paul Lambert, Kevin Gore and Rhys Clarke. Rathnure's, PaulCodd was valiant and proud in the post match interview after they defeated St Anne's. Richard Flynn, RobbieCodd and Trevor Hogan are also predominant for Rathnure. This should be a dramatic duel between therural and town club's. Rathnure's determination could just about edge the dangerous Harriers attack.

In the Intermediate Championship, four teams fight for senior status.

In the first semi final, Bunclody and Craanford are set for battle. For the men of Half Way House, ColinFarrell, Aidan Nolan and Kevin Dunne act as main scorers. For the Fr O Regan's Club, James O Loughlin, Peterand Shane Kavanagh show flair. Their quarter final win over Rathgarogue Cushinstown was inspiring but yetBunclody look like they could emerge from this game as winners by a narrow margin.

The second semi final is set to be the most epic battle. Blackwater and Oylegate; the game that has beenregarded by many as the decider of the championship. Oylegate host the talent of Fergal Doran, TrevorMoulton and Jamie Reck while Blackwater have powerful attackers like Brendan and Paul Murphy while DeanWright's free taking is reliable. While both sides are formidable, Oylegate seem to have a slight upper handbut the tension at this game will be palpable.

Finally the Top Oil Intermediate A Hurling Championship comes down to the crucial stages this weekend.

Between Marshalstown and Buffers Alley, both sidesshowcase a similar style of tough and powerful hurling.For the Gorey District side, John Moran and CormacFoley supported their defeat of Fethard in the quarterfinal. When Marshalstown defeated Monagear, MichealJordan and James Byrne were exceptional in dismantlingtheir opponents defence. This will be a dogged battlewith Marshalstown shaping up to be the winning side.

The second clash is set between Naomh Eanna andShamrocks. Gorey play a direct style of hurling as JustinKenny feeds the ball to Conor McDonald, the scorer ofthree goals in their quarter final, while Peter Travers andWilliam Cullen went well also. Mylie Cash, GrahamDenton and Maurice Casey have high scoring tallies forthe Shamrocks while the Jacob brothers of George andBob are workhorses for the Enniscorthy town side.Naomh Eanna remain unbeaten so far and it looks likethat status won't be changing after Saturday's game.

Le gach dea ghuí,

The Briar

T H E B R I AR

T H E B R I AR s e m i s P r e v i e w

Lee Chin

(Faythe Hariers)


Pettitt’s Senior Hurling Championship SEMI-FINAL

40th Anniversary of Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland7-aside – The Rathnure Connection

2012 marked the 40th annual Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Hurling Sevens competition, held on theSaturday of the All-Ireland Hurling ChampionshipFinal weekend. This year a special presentation wasmade to the winning captains for the previous 40years. A total of 28 teams entered the inauguraltournament in 1973 and the last two standing wereBuffers Alley, backboned by the legendary TonyDoran and St Finbarrs of Cork. Buffers Alley werevictorious by a point and this was the first of threeWexford wins on the trot.

Rathnure were victorious in 1974 beating Roscrea inthe final. Earlier, Rathnure narrowly knocked outMount Sion of Waterford. It took a 70's shootout toseparate the two teams after they had finishedlevel.

Rathnure retained their title in 1975. This final wasthe first and only final to be decided on ‘penalties’(three each side) after Faythe Harriers had matchedRathnure (2-7 to 1-10) in normal time. There was noextra time. The first five penalties were saved beforeJohn Quigley became the Rathnure hero, blastingthe winner to the net. The 1975 winning team wasTeddy O' Connor, Martin Quigley, Mickey Foley, JohnQuigley, Liam Byrne, Pat Flynn, Pat Quigley, Patsy O'Connnor and John O' Connor. Syl Barron wasmanager. Two in a row Rathnure team were aformidable outfit, being 1973/74 Leinster club

champions and winners of the Wexford countychampionship in 1972, 1973 and 1974.

Unlike today, the award presentation took placesome time after the conclusion of the competition.Michael Murphy, a heraldic artist, would paint thefamily crest of each player on the winning panel onto a plaque. When Rathnure won their second titlemost, if not all, their players already had familyplaques. As the club was crestless Murphy was askedto design a crest incorporating a pike and hurley.This is the same crest that the club uses today.

Rathnure went on to win the U16 Kilmacud Crokes7-aside tournament in 1992 after a victory over NaPiarsaigh of Cork. This team was backboned by PaulCodd and Mick O' Leary who line out today.Rathnure narrowly lost the 1995 U16 tournamentand were beaten by Kilormac / Killoughey in extratime. Brendan O' Leary, Trevor Hogan and ShaneBarron were members of this team.

RATHNuRE

RATHNuRE 1974/75, 7-ASIdE PANELS

Back L-R: John Quigley, Mickey Foley, Martin Quigley, Johnny O' Connor, Tom McIntyre (Kilmacud Crokes)

Front L-R: Pat Quigley (GAA Pro), Teddy O' Connor, Syl Barron (R.I.P.), Patsy O' Connor, Paudge Fitzgerald (Kilmacud Crokes).

Missing: Pat Flynn, Liam Byrne, Jim Higgins, Seanie Murphy

Martin Quigley of the victorious Rathnure teams of 74/75,receiving a presentation from Leinster Council's Martin Skelly,

with Tom Rock, Chairman of Kimacud Crokes Hurling 7's


Pettitt’s Senior Hurling Championship SEMI-FINAL22/9/12, Wexford Park, 4.00 An Réiteoir: Pat Kehoe

FIR IONAId

17. Shane Murphy

18. Fran Murphy

19. Stephen Quigley

20. Shane Barron

21. Syl Barron

22. Brendan Flynn

23. Mark Boland

24. Jack Guiney

25. Teddy O'Connor

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5 6 7

8 9

10 11 12

13 14 15

STEPHEN SOMERS, ANdy RONAN, PAT COdd, TRAINER: GERRy MCQuAId

JIM MORRISSEy

MICHAEL O' LEARyCHRIS REdMONd ANTHONy O'CONNELL

JOHN O'CONNORSEAN O'NEILL AIdAN REdMONd

dERMOT FLyNNPAuL COdd

dECLAN FOLEyTREvOR HOGAN BRENdAN O'LEARy

ROBERT COdd RICHARd FLyNN NIGEL HIGGINS

RATHNURE

FIR IONAId

16. Arron Lacey

17. Lee Murphy

18. Mossy Campbell

19. darran Caulfield

20. Brian denton

21. Ben O’Brien

22. dean Walsh

23. John Walsh

24. Paul O’dowd

25. Johnny Bridges

26. Cillian Lawlor

27. Alex Lynch

FAYTHE HARRIERS

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5 6 7

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10 11 12

13 14 15

IAN SCALLAN

dAvId MOONEyBRENdAN MuLLIGAN ALAN LyNCH

RICHIE KEHOEEMMET KEELING LEE CHIN

COLM HEFFERNANJIM BERRy

SHANE HOWARdWAyNE MALLON KEvIN GORE

RHyS CLARKEPOdGE FARRELL PAuL LAMBERT

IGGy CLARKE (BAINISTEOIR), RAy CuLLINANE, PAuL BRIdGES, EAMMON SANdERS (TRAINER)

Senior


FIR IONAId

16. Michael Sinnott

17. Paul Roche

18. Garrett Sinnott

19. Conor O Leary

20. darren Nolan

21. Michael Jacob

22. Stephen doyle

23. Andrew Kavanagh

24. Tomas dunne

25. Tommy Storey

26. Kevin Nimmo

27. Aaron Kenny

28. Anthony Roche

29. Rory O’Connor

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5 6 7

8 9

10 11 12

13 14 15

PAT HERBERT (BAINISTEOIR), BRENdAN O’CONNOR, SEAN CROWLEy

BEN O’CONNOR

KEITH ROSSITERdENNIS MORTON BARRy KEHOE

dARREN STAMP CONOR GOFF LAR PRENdERGAST

dAvId REdMONdSHAuN MuRPHy

FRANK CuLLENEOIN MOORE RORy JACOB

PETER MuRPHydES MyTHEN NICKy KIRWAN

OULART-THE BALLAGH

FIR IONAId

16. William Redmond

17. John Redmond

18. Andre O Brien

19. Chris McGrath

20. Shane Griffith

21. Fergal Hynes

22. Stephen Corrigan

23. david Cloney

24. Noel Mythen

25. denis Kelly

26. William O Shaughnessy

27. James Gordon

28. Ronan Kavanagh

29. Brian Tobin

30. Conor Tobin

SHELMALIERS

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5 6 7

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10 11 12

13 14 15

BRIAN MuRPHy

AIdAN MuRPHyBRIAN MALONE CLIvE LAWLOR

CONOR WALSHAIdAN CASH BENNy BARRON

EOIN dOyLEBRIAN dOyLE

CIARAN O’SHAuGHNESSyJOE KELLy ALAN GRIFFITH

STEPHEN BANvILLECONOR ByRNE TOMMy BARRON

Pettitt’s Senior Hurling Championship SEMI-FINAL22/9/12, Wexford Park, 5.30 An Réiteoir: damien donovan

Senior



On behalf of everyone in Hollymount may I welcome

you all to this evenings County Senior Hurling Semi

Finals. All in Shelmalier are delighted with the

progress of our Senior Hurlers this year, particularly

with our recent record of fighting relegation,

thankfully that is behind us for 2012 at least. It also

gives great pleasure to all in our club to see that

finally all the hard work that has been done by so

many at underage level, in both hurling and football,

for so many years, is finally starting to pay off. To

our Selectors, mentors, trainers, players etc I say a

huge thank you for all your hard work and

dedication during this year and hopefully your work

and efforts won’t finish this evening. The revamping

of our Senior Championships this year to two groups

of six teams has defiantly improved the standard

greatly in my opinion, and has led to some very

exciting and thrilling games. Hopefully this will lead

to Silverware for our County Teams in time. It does

however make the difficulties of a ‘Dual’ club more

complicated but that’s a debate for another time

and another place.

GAA in Wexford has been given a massive boost in

the last week thanks to the brilliant exploits of our

Camogie girls and I would like to take this

opportunity to congratulate Kate, Catriona and all

involved in the fantastic achievement of three in a

row. Everyone in Shelmalier are very proud of ye all.

In closing may I wish all four teams competing this

evening the very best of luck and hopefully the

‘high’ in Wexford GAA will continue thanks to two

exciting Senior Hurling Semi Finals.

Mairead Ni Ceallaigh

SHELMALIERS

Gaelic Games were always part of the recreational

activities of the men of Oulart-The Ballagh, even

before the foundation of the G.A.A. In fact, so

strong was the interest in both hurling and football

in the area that two, and sometimes three teams,

represented the parish in the early days. Records

show that the Oulart Hill hurlers contested and lost

the first ever Wexford senior hurling final of 1888

while the footballers from the curacy of The Ballagh,

were runners-up in the senior football finals of

1888, 1889 and 1898. Recognising the wisdom of

the old proverb, “ní neart go cur le cheile” the

present-day club, representing and uniting the

whole parish and calling itself Oulart-The Ballagh,

dates from 1954.

Famous names from bygone days include J. Royce

(“The Irish Invasion of America”), P.P.Sutton, (1865-

1901) journalist, hurler and athlete who did so

much to promote the Association in the early days

and Jim Mythen (great-grand uncle of the Jacobs)

who won All-Ireland senior hurling with Wexford in

1910.

All-Ireland senior medals were won by Christy and

Michael Jacob in 1968 and by Martin Storey, Liam

Dunne and Paul Finn in 1996 while Michael Jacob,

Liam Dunne and Martin Storey are the proud

holders of three All-Star awards each.

Nine county senior hurling titles have been won

(1994, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010

and 2011) and presently we field four adult hurling

teams i.e., senior, intermediate, junior and under

21 as well as under-age teams from under 8 to

minor.

OuLART-THE BALLAGH



The club crest, featuring the pike, is a reminder

of the Battle of Oulart Hill, where the Wexford

rebels, led by Fr. John Murphy of Boolavogue,

defeated the crown forces, on Whit Sunday

1798.

Oulart-The Ballagh Camogie Club is on the crest

of a wave at the moment and are holders of the

All-Ireland club-championship title. Nine

members of the club won All-Ireland senior

medals with Wexford on 16th September,

namely Karen and Colleen Atkinson, Ursula and

Helena Jacob, Mary and Una Leacy, Stacey

Redmond, Shelley Kehoe and Shauna Sinnott.

Karen Atkinson captained the team this year,

while Ursula Jacob was awarded “player of the

match”. Mary Leacy (2007), Una Leacy (2010)

Ursula Jacob (2011) have also captained Wexford

to All-Ireland senior victory and Colleen Atkinson

was captain of the winning Intermediate team in

2011. The club will contest the senior camogie

county final, against Shelmaliers St. Ibar’s on

Saturday 29th September.

Stephen Banville Aidan Murphy Clive Lawler

darren Stamp


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