Ken Dempsey, Paul Moylan, Darren Hennessy and Sean Kenneally toured the classes of Bun-Scoil Mhuire and Gaelscoil Chorain showing off the Munster Senior cup recently won at Turner’s Cross with a 2-1 win over St. Mary’s. A thank you to both schools, who welcomed Youghal United with open arms and the biggest cheer of the day came when the students received a night of NO homework.
Archive for June, 2009
Beamish Cup tours the primary schools
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Youghal United win “Fair Play Award” at the Munster Senior League awards night
Sunday, June 21st, 2009Youghal United senior team amongst award winners at the recently held MSL awards night at Murphy’s Brewery in Cork on Wed 10th June. A delegate team in the line of Paul Moylan, Sean Kenneally and Anthony Horgan went along on the night to represent the club and captain Paul Moylan accepted the award from Michael Foley MSL disciplinary and Beamish Stout representative Ger Cooke. A great night had by all and it was even more special to be up there on the night receiving the award when the likes of Rockmount and Avondale were receiving their awards. It’s were the club aspires to be winning league’s , cups and capping the season off by being recognised by the Munster Senior League.
AGM Recap
Monday, June 15th, 2009On Fri 12th of June we held our AGM at the Walter Raleigh hotel. Firstly, I would like to congratulate Chris Pierce on being awarded Hon. Lifetime president of Youghal United. Chris has been with the club far too long for me to remember and the work he has done for the club down through the years is incalculable. We will do a special piece on Chris in a later edition of the Youghal News.
While numbers were not big on the night a lot of topics did come up for discussion on how to improve on a successful season just gone. New ideas and points raised will be brought to the first committee meeting to take place on Wed 24th June at 8pm. It was encouraging to see some of the under 16 league winning team turn up and be elected to the committee – well done to them.
Incoming committee as follows:
Chairman – Sammy Revins
Vice-Chairman – Finbarr Walsh
Treasurer – Liam Ryan
Secretary – Damien O’ Brien
Schoolboys Secretary – Sally O’ Sullivan
Schoolgirls Secretary – Richard Sheehan
P.R.O. – Anthony Horgan
Chairman – Sammy Revins
Vice-Chairman – Finbarr Walsh
Treasurer – Liam Ryan
Secretary – Damien O’ Brien
Schoolboys Secretary – Sally O’ Sullivan
Schoolgirls Secretary – Richard Sheehan
P.R.O. – Anthony Horgan
Committee members – T.Kennedy, P.Hennessy, E.Perry, J.Flood, D.Long, J.Daly, J.Gallogoly, B.Wade, C.Colin, A. Colman, K. Mason, S. Goggin and R. Sheehan.
Teams to be entered into league’s next season are as follows:
Seniors, U16, U14, U13, U12, U11 and the following girl’s teams U17, U16, U14 and U12. Anyone looking to join the club this season in any capacity please ask any member of the club or simply call up to Ardrath park and speak to a committee member.
Annual General Meeting
Monday, June 8th, 2009This year’s AGM has been fixed for this Friday 12th June at 7:15 pm at the Walter Raleigh Hotel. All are welcome and if you would like to get involved with the club please attend.
Youghal United Soccer Draw
Monday, June 1st, 2009A big thank you to all who entered our draw on Sunday 31st May in aid of raising funds for the club. We are delighted with the good response from the people of Youghal as there was €4,000 up for grabs. The winners are listed as follows:
1st Prize of €1,500 to Maura Nolan c/o Super Value, 2nd Prize of €1,000 to Andrea Cashell Gort Abhionn, 3rd Prize of €500 to Tina Murphy Woodview Court. Then we had five prizes of €200 to Tony O’ Riordan Gort Abhionn, Kieran Riordan Raheen Pk, Richella Corcoran Gort Abhionn, Charlotte O’ Brien Blackwater Heights and Liam Durkin Windmill Hill.
Thanks again for your continued support.
Youghal Seniors Win Beamish Cup
Monday, June 1st, 2009Report: Anthony Horgan
Youghal United 2 – 1 St. Mary’s
Ken Dempsey
Michael John Hennessy
Sunday 31st May 2009 will go down as one of the most successful days in the club’s history as the senior team recorded an unbelievable victory over fancied side St.Mary’s of Kilcully in Cork city. For a change I am not going to do the customary minute by minute match report, instead I am going to talk about the occasion itself. As you can see from the league standings below there is a huge difference in league placings between the two sides. Youghal United went into this game as total underdogs and to be honest we didn’t really expect to be taking part but for another great win against Douglas Hall in the semi-final.
The build up to this tie had St. Mary’s winning this final by a distance only for Youghal to throw a spanner in the works and stun the city team with two first half goals by team captain on the day Ken Dempsey and what was to be the winner by Michael John Hennessy. Youghal were under the cosh for the whole entire second half only for some fine defending by Paul Kelly, Anthony Kelly , Ken Dempsey and Sean Kenneally and of course super goal keeping by David Kearns with a fine penalty save for good measure. Deservedly so David Kearns went on to pick up the man of the match award which was later presented to him at Bertie’s bar!
The Beamish cup is in circulation since 1937 and it was the first time a MSL side outside of the city boundaries won this cup. It is normally contested and won by premier division sides so for Youghal United to win it from division 2 is unheard of. A great credit is due to the management team of Mick Durkin and Liam Ryan, the squad of David Kearns, Paul Kelly, Anthony Kelly, Ken Dempsey, Sean Kenneally, Chris Hennessy, Alan Hennessy, Darren Hennessy, Brendan O’ Sullivan, Shane Ryan and Michael John Hennessy. Subs used Robert Cronin, Steven Fraser and Mossie Clohesy.
This was truly a squad performance on the day as the lads that were introduced played a huge part in the final moments. It is a day to remember for many a year as Youghal United beat a well fancied side under souring temperatures at Turners Cross and of course cheered on all the way by the huge support who travelled on the day.
All in all a terrific season for the club with the seniors gaining promotion to division 1 and winning the Munster senior cup. The under 16 girls won their league also which was a great achievement by them. In addition the Senior team won a fair play award from the Munster Senior League.
