ON SATURDAY night more than 400 people attended the annual Rebel Óg awards banquet at the Clayton Hotel Silver Springs.
The awards are sponsored by the hotel, along with Cummins Sports, RedFM and The Echo.
It is held to acknowledge the monthly winners, 16 last year, and an opportunity to showcase all that is good about underage GAA affairs in Cork.
The 16 winners came about because in June there were five winners, with Cork enjoying significant success at the Feile camogie and hurling All-Ireland competitions held in Cork and Kerry.
Winners that month included Bandon and Killeagh/Ita’s hurlers and camogie sides from Clonakilty, Eire Og and Ballyhea/Milford with a number of winners in shield competitions as well.
Other monthly winners included All-Ireland winning ladies football sides (U14 and minor), minor camogie side and Patrician Academy.
Add in Dr Harty Cup winners and the Cork minor footballers, also All-Ireland winners, and you get some idea of the calibre of winners last year.
Ahead of Saturday night the independent judging panel had the extremely difficult task of picking an overall winner from this lot.
After a long discussion, they picked the Cork minor footballers, who won the All-Ireland title for the first time in 19 years. The manner in which they won was one of the factors the judges took into consideration.
Deep into injury-time Cork fell behind to a Galway goal and had just 70 seconds to try and equalise to take it to extra-time.
The quick thinking of keeper, Cian O’Leary, to get the ball back in play was key and his re-start, after one more pass, ended up in the hands of captain Conor Corbett, who found the back of the net to take it to extra-time.
In that Cork dominated to see the cup head to Leeside in what turned out to be a great year for manager, Bobbie O’Dwyer, his fellow selectors and squad, after not the greatest of starts.
Also honoured was Eddie Moloney who received the Hall of Fame award. Eddie has been involved with Rebel Og in the west for many years and has served in a number of offices at club and regional level.
He has also been involved in Sciath na Scol and many other aspects of GAA and is still actively involved at present. This was the last function for a number of Rebel Og officers who were all thanked for their service over many years.

Our names are Gearoid O’Sullivan and Denis O’Callaghan. We are second-year students at Boherbue Comprehensive. We have an idea and we think you can help us. We have recently been accepted into the BT Young Scientist Competition. Our project title is “AWWW REF – A statistical analysis of underage player attitudes towards referees in GAA -v-‘s Rugby”.

The aim of our project is to investigate if there is a difference in attitudes towards referees from underage players in G.A.A and Rugby and if so why?

We are asking that refs and underage players might fill it in.

Under current legislation and to comply with GAA rules, all Cork GAA clubs and units who are providing games and coaching for underage players must have an up to date Risk Assessment and a Child Safeguarding Statement.

To facilitate clubs & units to correctly meet their statutory responsibilities, Cork GAA will hold a seminar on Child Protection & Safeguarding in Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Wednesday, November 27, at 7pm.

We would ask that all clubs send their adult Chair, underage Chair and Children’s Officer to this seminar. It is essential that all clubs are present on the night when essential documentation / info will be distributed.

Presenters: Gearóid O’Maolmhichíl, Croke Park and Des Cullinane, Cork GAA.

Please register in advance with Des Cullinane at childrensofficer.cork@gaa.ie.

Booking is essential so that we can have sufficient support material.

A very sporting gesture from Tractons U14 Hurling Team to stand in for a photo with winning Whitescross team in U14 Hurling Shield Final

    

Mark Linehane, Inniscarra Captain, Referee, Gerard Ahern, Darragh Linehane Whitechurch Captain.

F.T. Inniscarra 1-11 Whitechurch 0-12