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Carlow 11s Final 4/5/03
SHC Round 1 18/6/03
Portlaoise 0-12 Castletown 0-11
From Laois GAA Website
In the opening round of the Senior Hurling Championship at O'Moore Park on Wednesday 18th June the shock of the championship so far was produced when Portlaoise had a narrow one point win over County Champions Castletown on a 0-12 to 0-11 scoreline. Indeed it was Castletown's first loss in the County Championship for all of five years. Castletown played second fiddle to the County town men for most of the hour and although trailing by a point with nine minutes remaining they could not get the better of Portlaoise.
Seámus Lyons opened the scoring for the Castletown men but failed to add to his tally after this and indeed was substituted before the finish. Fionán O'Suillivan added three points also for Castletown in the first quarter but with points from Noel Costelloe (3), Teddy Fennelly, Cyril Duggan and Brian McCormack gave Portlaoise a two point lead on a scoreline of 0-6 to 0-4 after 15 minutes of action.
A Barry McKelvey point left the minimum between the sides after 20 minutes and inspirational points from Brian McCormack and Tommy Mulligan opened up a three point gap. John Palmer replied for the Castletown men to leave the gap back at two points as the sides retired for half-time.
HALF-TIME: Portlaoise 0-8 Castletown 0-06
David Cuddy moved to centre-forward for the Noresiders and within two minutes of the restart opened with a point from play. Portlaoise won a free a Noel Costelloe converted but Fionan O'Suillivan cancelled out his score with a point as the champions who were now wind assisted came back strongly into the game. Noel Costelloe added two further points in as many minutes to stretch the gap to three points. Four points separted the sides after Cahir Healy pointed with the champions now looking in trouble of losing their unbeaten run.
Portlaoise did not score for the remainder of the game and try as they might Castletown could not pull back the Portlaoise lead. Points from Eoin Dooley and David Cuddy left just two points between the teams with ten minutes remaining. With 4 minutes of time left John Palmer set up David Cuddy to leave just a point separating the sides 0-12 to 0-11 and a draw at least was on the cards.
But the draw didn't materialise. Castletown threw everything they could at the Portlaoise men but to no avail. Castletown went searching for a goal but a John Palmer shot was saved magnificantly by John Hanniffy in the Portlaoise goals. Five minutes of injury time ensued but Castletown could not find the posts as so the County town men ran out winners by the minimum margin.
FULL-TIME: Portlaoise 0-12 Castletown 0-11
PORTLAOISE: John Hanniffy, Mick Bowe, Padraig Malone, Des Killeen, Joe Phelan, Eoin Brown, Brian Mulligan, Cyril Duggan 0-1, Brian McCormack 0-2, Tommy Fitzgerald, Teddy Fennelly 0-1, Cahir Healy 0-1, Noel Costelloe 0-6, Barry Fitzgerald, Tommy Mulligan 0-1. Subs: Diarmuid Mullins for Browne, Colm Byrne for Brian Mulligan.
CASTLETOWN: John Lyons, Tom Phelan, Robbie Delaney, Martin Phelan, Declan Keenan, Paul Cuddy, John O’Sullivan, David Cuddy 0-3, John Palmer 0-1, Cyril Cuddy, John Richard Kingston, Barry McKelvey 0-1, Pat Phelan, Fionán O’Sullivan 0-4, Seamus Lyons 0-1. Subs: Paudge Cuddy for Kingston, James Hooban for Barry McKelvey, Eoin Dooley 0-1 for Seamus Lyons.
REITEOIR: Liam Moran
SHC Round 2 28/6/03
Castletown 1-11 Rathdowney 0-8
From Laois GAA Website
At O'Moore Park on Saturday June 28th last the second game of the Senior Hurling Championship saw Rathdowney take on last years Champions Castletown. The champions who had lost their first round clash to Portlaoise on the 18th June by the minimum margin got back to winning ways when they won out on a convincing scoreline of 1-11 to 0-8
.
Castletown opened the scoring immediately after the throw-in when on 55 seconds David Cuddy in the No.14 shirt though operating at midfield shot their first point of the day. Castletown added a second point a minute later from Barry McKelvey . Then Rathdowney opened their account with a pointed free from Tom Drennan. After 11 minutes of action Castletown's James Hooban, who had seen midweek action with the Laois U-21 Hurlers added another point to restore the Castletown lead to two points.
In the 12th minute Rathdowney's Joe Gilmartin and Castletown's David Cuddy exchanged points. Then a free from the 20m line for Castletown in the 14th minute was converted by David Cuddy to leave the score standing at Castletown 0-5 to Rathdowney 0-2 ahead. Then in the 17th minute Castletown's Brian Ferns added another score to leave them in a commanding four point lead.
A foul on Christy Brown by a Castletown clubman soonafter was converted by the same player and now just three points separated the sides. In the 28th minute Rathdowney narrowed the gap to two points when Enda Maher struck from beyond the 45m line. Joe Gilmartin left the minimum between the sides a minute later when a sideline puck by him went over the crossbar. So as they sides entered the dressing-rooms at the break it was still all to play for.
HALF-TIME: Castletown 0-6 Rathdowney 0-5
Castletown's Barry McKelvey had an excellent chance of a score early on in the 2nd half when he went on a magnificent solo-run only to be stopped in his tracks by a magnificent block by Pat Mahon. Rathdowney then started to press for scores but to no avail. After three minutes of the half a sideline cut by Rathdowney went narrowly wide. Another sideline cut two minutes later also went wide of the target . And in the 38th minute Rathdowney finally got a score when a foul on Joe
Kilmartin saw the resulting free converted by Christy Brown levelling the game for the first time.
A minute later Castletown restored their lead when Cyril Cuddy put over a point from the centre-back position. In the 44th and 50th minute fouls on Castletown players saw David Cuddy convert both resulting frees. And after 50 minutes of action the scoreline stood at Castletown 0-9 Rathdowney 0-6. Brian Delaney then narrowed the gap to two points for Rathdowney.
Castletown added another point before in the 52nd minute Castletown started to take over and were rewarded when a move from John Palmer in centrefield lobbed the ball in and Barry McKelvey broke the ball down to David Cuddy who with his first strike on the ball sent it to the back of the net. Rathdowney added their final score of the day a minute later when Enda Maher converted a free. Castletown 1-10 Rathdowney 0-8.
Castletown put the icing on the cake then when in the 55th minute of action they sealed victory when midfielder John Palmer pointed from play .
FULL-TIME: Castletown 1-11 Rathdowney 0-8
SHC 19/8/03
Castletown 2-13 Tinnahinch 1-12
SHC Final 5/10/03 @ O' Moore Park
Castletown 2-12 Portlaoise 0-11
From The Irish Times
Castle are the Kings
CASTLETOWN powered to a record equalling five in a row Laois senior hurling championship titles with a four point victory over Portlaoise in the final at O'Moore Park.
The star of the show was Brian Ferns, who scored his side's second and crucial goal.
The champions got off to a great start with a goal from Pat Phelan in the opening minute.
Three points from Noel Costelloe kept Portlaoise in touch then Brian Mulligan pounced for a goal to leave just a point between the sides after 17 minutes.
A Noel Costelloe point from a free had the sides level but James Hooban fired Castletown into the lead with an injury time point. 1-6 to 1-5.
Brian Ferns gathered a cross field pass from David Cuddy and burst through the Portlaoise to fire home an unstoppable shot and points from Pat Phelan (2) and Paul Cuddy gave the holders a 2-9 to 1-5 lead.
Portlaoise could not get the goal that would have closed the gap as Castletown held on for a thoroughly deserved win.
CASTLETOWN: John Lyons, Martin Phelan, Robert Delaney, Tom Phelan, John Richard Kingston, Paul Cuddy 0-2, Declan Keenan, Cyril Cuddy, Brian Ferns 1-0, John O'Sullivan, Paul Cuddy, David Cuddy 0-3, Fionán O' Sullivan 0-1, James Hooban 0-1, Patrick Phelan 1-3.
PORTLAOISE: J. Hanniffy, D. Killeen, P. Malone, M. Bowe, J.Phelan, B. Mulligan 1-0, O. Browne, B. McCormack 0-1, C. Byrne, B. Fitzgerald, E. Fennelly, C. Healy 0-1, T. Mulligan, N. Costelloe 0-8, T. Fitzgerald. Sub: N. Fitzpatrick 0-1.
From Irish Independent
Fifth title on the trot for Castletown
CASTLETOWN lifted their fifth successive Laois county hurling title with a comfortable victory at O'Moore Park yesterday.
Portlaoise had trailed by just a point at the break having fought back from 1-3 to no score down.Kept in the game by the free-taking exploits of full forward, Noel Costello, Portlaoise lost ground once James Hooban had grabbed Castletown's second goal on 35 minutes to open a five-point lead.
Pat Phelan grabbed Castletown's goal following a mix-up in the Portlaoise defence.
Back-to-back frees from Costello had levelled affairs before the break before Hooban landed a score from the touchline to leave it 1-6 to 1-5 at half time at the interval.
SCORERS - Castletown: P Phelan 1-3 (3f), J Hooban 1-1, P Cuddy 0-3 (2f '65'), D Cuddy 0-3, F O'Sullivan, JR Kingston 0-1 each. Portlaoise: N Costello 0-8 (7f), B Mulligan 1-0, C Healy, N Fitzpatrick, B McCormack 0-1 each.
CASTLETOWN - J Lyons; M Phelan, R Delaney, T Phelan; B Ferns, P Cuddy, D Keenan; C Cuddy, J O'Sullivan; C Cuddy, D Cuddy, F O'Sullivan; J Hooban, JR Kingston, P Phelan. Subs: B McKelvey for P Cuddy 45 mins, P Mullaney for Phelan 50 mins.
PORTLAOISE - J Hannify; D Kileen, P Malone, M Bowe; J Phelan, B Mulligan, 0 Browne, B McCormack, C Byrne, B Fitzgerald, E Fennelly, C Healy, T Mulligan, N Costello, T Fitzgerald. Subs: N Fitzpatrick for Fitzgerald 56 minutes, C Duggan for Mulligan 52 mins.
REF - A Stapleton (Rathdowney).
Leinster Championship 1st Round 19/10/03 @ Aughrim
Castletown 2-11 Glenealy 0-6
From Irish Independent
Castletown march on after bad tempered battle
CASTLETOWN 2-11 GLENEALY 0-6 AIB Leinster Club SHC WICKLOW hurling champions Glenealy had two players sent off as they crashed to an 11-point defeat to Castletown of Laois in a bad-tempered Leinster championship clash at Aughrim yesterday.
Dual player Leighton Glynn, who is due to line out for Rathnew in the Leinster club SFC against Clara next Sunday, was sent off in the first half for a second yellow card offence, while Mick Byrne got a straight red card from Wexford referee Joe Kelly a minute from the end.There were numerous outbreaks of violence during the game, the most serious in the second half when, as play continued, a couple of players as well as substitutes became embroiled in hostilities on the sideline.
Two goals in the first half by corner-forward Patrick Phelan helped Castletown into a 2-5 to 0-5 lead at the break and they were cruising from then on.
The Laoismen had Paul Cuddy in flying form at centre-back while brother David also played his part along with John Kingston and James Hoban.
SCORERS - Castletown: P Phelan 2-4, D Cuddy 0-2, J Hoban 0-2, P Cuddy, O Dooley, B McKelvey 0-1 each. Glenealy: W O'Gorman 0-2, E Glynn 0-2, M McDonald, K Snell 0-1.
CASTLETOWN - J Lyons; M Phelan, R Delaney, P Mullaney; J Palmer, Paul Cuddy, D Keenan; B Ferns, J Sullivan; Pauric Cuddy, D Cuddy, F Sullivan; J Hoban, J Kingston, P Phelan. Subs: O Dooley for D Keenan, P O'Gorman for M Phelan, B McKelvery for F Sullivan.
GLENEALY - J Driver; MJ O'Neill, C Byrne, C O'Neill; N Driver, MA O'Neill, G Devlin; L Glynn, M Byrne; A Driver, M McDonald, D Doyle; W Manning, W O'Gorman, E Glynn. Subs: K Snell for N Driver, T Doyle for A Driver, P O'Neill for MJ O'Neill.
REF - J Kelly (Wexford).
Leinster Championship Quarter Final 2/11/03 @ O' Moore Park
Castletown 0-14 Craobh Chiarain 1-9
Leinster Championship Semi Final 16/11/03 @ Nowlan Park
Birr 4-17 Castletown 1-9
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