Shamrocks 3-11, Ballygarvan 3-9 Shamrocks played their first match in 2 months on Friday night and battled to a tight win over Ballygarvan. It was a close contest all through and could have gone either way but when Ballygarvan drew things back to within a point towards the end on a few occasions, Shamrocks … Read more
Ballygarvan 4-7, Shamrocks 2-11 Shamrocks were knocked out of the championship by Ballygarvan in Minane Bridge on Saturday afternoon. This was a strange game with both teams playing sweepers, double sweepers and players all over the place. Shamrocks threatened to run away with it early on and opened up a 1-5 to 0-1 … Read more
Tracton 2-14, Shamrocks 0-9 Another sizeable defeat for our Junior Hurlers, who could have won this one if their shooting was better and an opening half hour to match the second half. Some players were playing their first game of the season and we had some regulars unavailable. This enabled other players … Read more
Courcey Rovers 3-14, Shamrocks 0-8 As the score suggests this was a game dominated by the visitors on a wet cold night where prevailing ground conditions were poor. Courceys fielded an experienced side that took the elements and conditions in their stride and despite some fine Shamrock efforts early on, were always likely … Read more
Shamrocks 3-17, Kinsale 1-7 Shamrocks are through to the quarter finals of the B championship after beating Kinsale in Round 1 in Minane Bridge on Easter Monday. Shamrocks were always in control of this game and two early goals from David O’Sullivan and Andrew O’Grady settled them. Further points from those two players … Read more
John Twomey (Ringaskiddy) last month won top prize in the Cork GAA Clubs Draw, a Kia Rio. It continued a remarkable run of success for our members following on from last years success by Diarmuid Murphy in the April draw 2015 and many others. John officially received his prize today from Pearse Murphy (Treasurer … Read more
Shamrock 1-14, Tracton 2-6 This well contested league game was close for much of the hour with Tracton leading 1-5 to 1-4 at halftime. In the second half Shamrocks changed their game and played more direct football and the scores came regularly. With ten minutes to go Shamrocks led 1-11 to 1-6 but … Read more
Shamrocks 5-11, Courcey Rovers 0-5 Shamrocks got their league campaign off to a winning start with this victory over a clearly weakened Courcey Rovers team. The pattern of the game was very similar to the league game played almost 12 months back and will resemble nothing like the championship matches that both will play … Read more
The AGM of the club in preparation for 2016 took place in the Grace McCarthy Rooms on Thursday night last before a good sized attandance. The outgoing chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer gave their very detailed and comprehensive reports to the meeting. All outgoing officers of the Executive were returned unopposed, with the exception of … Read more
Tracton 2-16, Shamrocks 2-9 Shamrocks bowed out of the B hurling championship at Carrigaline on Tuesday evening. Tracton just had too much for the young Shamrocks team on the night. They found scores much easier to come by while Shamrocks at the other end relied mostly on placed balls. However, despite all this, … Read more