Ballymartle 3-9, Shamrocks 1-7 Ballymartle’s strong second half display won them their second league victory of the new season, a match played in Shanballys second pitch. The weather was typical of February and Shamrocks played with the aid of the hill in the first half and led 1-6 to 1-2 at halftime, with … Read more
There was a full house at The Monkstown Golf Club recently when large numbers of Shamrocks, young and old assembled for a Victory Dinner and celebration to mark the Junior Footballers successful 2016 season. After an elongated wait of twenty two years The Junior Footballers captured silverware and the Pad Joe Cronin Memorial … Read more
The annual long puc was held on News Years Day from the roundabout in Shanbally to the FBI in Ringaskiddy. A large number of competitors both young and old, male & female took part this year for the bragging rights for 2017. The following are a list of winners and runners up: … Read more
Niamh Buckley c|o Kenny Coveney – Classical Hamper John Jordan – Classical Hamper Ronan Cullinane c|o Novartis Joe O’Driscoll Irene Aherne Brian Cullen c|o Barry Mulqueen John Joe Flynn Shane Broderick c|o Jason Bowne Mary O’Sullivan Hannah O’Keeffe Eileen Twomey Senan Andrews Mairead O’Sullivan Jonny Tuohy Kieran Cummins c|o Kevin O’Grady Catherine Ronayne Ronan Murphy Tommy … Read more
It was a great honour to be present today in the National Maritime College of Ireland to witness Shamrocks Gaa club taking part in the Polar plunge to raise funds for the Special Olympics. This consisted of diving into the sea survival pool under simulated windy conditions with a heavy swell. The six brave … Read more
A household name steeped with tradition and long associated with the South-East Cork region and particularly the Owenabue River and Carrigaline. The name originated in a poem written in the 1840’s. In 1924 the GAA in Cork set up regional boards to run the County. The region of South-East Cork was called Carrigdhoun. The … Read more
University College Cork bestowed Alumni Awards recently on some of its distinguished past pupils. Included in this year’s list was Dr. Richard Palmer late of ‘Inver’, Ringaskiddy and an esteemed Vice President of our Club since 1998. Richard graduated from UCC with a BSc in 1959 and followed up with an MSc in 1961. He … Read more
One hundred years is a long time, but in the GAA the heroes of yesteryear even though it maybe a century ago will never be forgotten and so the Shamrock and Midleton Clubs came together to salute their 1916 teams that contested the Senior Hurling Final on that historical year in our nation’s history. … Read more
Kildorrery 5-14, Shamrocks 2-8 The curtain came down on the 2016 playing season with defeat for the minors to Kildorrery in the league final in Mayfield on Sunday last. Shamrocks can have few complaints on this one as Kildorrery were clearly the better team and had a very good forward line who caused … Read more