All Ireland Final for local players
June 24, 2019
All roads should lead to Tullamore next Saturday when local players, Brian Cotter and Darragh O Grady, representing Cork Rebel Óg North play a Galway Maroon’s selection in the final of the Celtic Challenge. The game is timed for 2.00 PM atthis stage, but do check before travelling.
Cork Rebel Óg North selection, featuring players from all over North Cork, beat a East Cork selection, last Saturday in a pulsating semi-final by a single point, in a game played in Ballinlough.
For 2019, a total of 44 teams with over 1,300 players will have played in 138 games – including 6 Finals – as part of the Bank of Ireland Celtic Challenge. The six divisional finals will be played on Saturday, June 29th, at O’Connor Park in Tullamore; the winning cups have been dedicated to the memory of Michael Hogan (age 24), John William Scott (age 14), William Robinson (age 11), Jerome O’Leary (age 10), Michael Feery (aged 40) and Tom Hogan (aged 21) – six of the victims from among the 14 people shot and killed on Bloody Sunday at Croke Park on November 21st, 1920.