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Irish Examiner
3 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
David Devine provides the goods as Anthony Nash-coached London claim Christy Ring honours
Christy Ring Cup final: London 1-27 Derry 1-24 London won their first Christy Ring Cup title since 2012 with victory over Derry at Croke Park on Saturday evening. It was Derry's sixth final defeat in as many appearances and a third in succession for Johnny McGarvey's side. David Devine scored 1-12 for the Anthony Nash-coached winners, who had to repel a late Cormac O'Doherty free with Derry's last chance. When the 65 dropped short, referee Dunne sounded the final whistle to London's relief. London were the sharper team early on and led 0-4 to 0-1 with David Devine unerring from frees. Thomas Brady, Richie Mullan and Cormac O'Doherty were on target for a Derry team chasing the game. Cathal Murray levelled matters at 0-5 all after 10 before London found the net for the 26th time this season. Seán Glynn made the run through the centre before the ball was worked to Devine to score at the far post. Derry's response was instant with a smashing Brady goal in the next attack after a pass from John Mullan. London selector Anthony Nash. Pic: Stephen Marken/Sportsfile O'Doherty kept Derry on touch and the side were level twice more before Devine and Dyland Dawson pushed London toward a 1-15 to 1-12 interval lead. London held the aces for much of the second half but three Eamon Conway points helped Derry back into the game with Cormac O'Doherty putting them ahead in the 52nd minute. London pushed on again with scores from Egan and Dawson to lead 1-25 to 1-20 with five minutes to play. Richie Mullan, Ryan McGill and Ruairí Ó Mianáin replied with points for Derry, but the Ulster side were never able to get level. Devine added two London frees before O'Doherty's late, late free was stopped with Derry's last throw of the dice. Scorers for Derry: C O'Doherty 0-9 (8f), E Conway 0-4, T Brady 1-1, C McNaughton 0-3, R Mullan, R Ó Mianáin 0-2 each, C Murray 0-1, Shéa Cassidy 0-1 and R McGill 0-1 each. Scorers for London: D Devine 1-12 (9f), E Egan 0-4 (3f), D Dawson 0-3, C O'Carroll, S Glynn 0-2 each, T Millerick, P Kennedy, J Morrissey and C McCormack 0-1 each. Derry: S Kelly; Sean Cassidy, M Craig, P Turner; R Ó Mianáin, R Mullan, J Friel; M McGrath, E Conway; T Brady, J Mullan, C O'Doherty; C Murray, C McNaughton, Shea Cassidy. Subs: D Foley for Shéa Cassidy (48), P Kelly for Friel (56), R McGill for Brady (56), G Bradley for McGrath (61), C O'Kane for R Mullan (67). London: M Kilgannon; N Fitzgerald, C Byrne, S Whelan; T Millerick, E Egan, P Muldoon; A Cunney, P Kennedy; J Morrisey, S Glynn, D Dawson; C McCormack, C O'Carroll, D Devine. Subs: N Geoghegan for Fitzgerald (35+2), R Judge for Kennedy (44), O Sheil for McCormack (56), T Hanifin for Cunney (69), D Leahy for Dawson (73). Referee: P Dunne (Laois).
Belfast Telegraph
3 days ago
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Derry hope Cormac O'Doherty can point the way to Christy Ring Cup delight
While Derry took their lead from inspirational skipper Cormac O'Doherty in accounting for Wicklow by 2-20 to 1-13 at the Semi-Final stage — he actually matched Wicklow's score — London turned on the style in accounting for Tyrone in their Semi by 4-20 to 1-13 with Conor O'Carroll (2-3) and Sean Glynn (1-4) leading the way. While the experienced O'Doherty is again expected to prove Derry's scorer supreme, Mark Craig, Patrick Turner, Ruairi O' Mianian, Richie Mullan, James Friel and John Mullan are also likely to prove key players given their input to the Oak Leaf outfit to date. London, though, are not short on fire power with the O'Carroll-Glynn duo expected to lead the way again in putting scores on the board. Cavan and New York, meanwhile, will cross swords in the Lory Meagher Cup decider as part of the attractive triple bill at Headquarters on Saturday afternoon (3.00pm) where the US side will bid to rise to the occasion. Their manager Richie Hartnett is hopeful that his players can lift up their standard of performance against a Breffni County outfit that have held firm to date. The New York outfit are not short on scoring talent with former Galway All-Ireland winner Johnny Glynn and ex-Cork player Sean O'Leary-Hayes along with the impressive Aidan James Willis and David Mangan likely to carry a big threat on this occasion. Cavan, for their part, are likely to look to players such as Enda Shalvey, Stephen Sheridan, Canice Maher, Sean Keating and Eamon Og McAllister to set the tone for their performance against a New York side that is certainly not lacking in experience or guile. The Breffni side, though, have shown solid commitment of late but they will need to hit the ground running if they are to prove a thorn in the side of their opponents. In the Nicky Rackard Cup Final, Mayo and Roscommon will do battle in the opening match of the Croke Park finals festival (1.00pm). Mayo can look to an experienced corps of players that includes Oisin Creally, Simon Thomas, David Kenny, Liam Lavin and Cormac Phillips while Roscommon can take their inspiration from Enda Lawless, Conor Cosgrove, Eoin Fitzgerald and Brendan Mulry. Both teams have shown impressive form in reaching the Final which should provide an insight into the standard of hurling in Connacht right now. Mayo, though, might just come out on top in this one although it might prove to be a tough battle.
RTÉ News
4 days ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Christy Ring, Nickey Rackard, Lory Meagher Cup finals: All you need to know
SATURDAY 31 MAY Christy Ring Cup final Derry v London, Croke Park, 5pm Nickey Rackard Cup final Mayo v Roscommon, Croke Park, 1pm Lory Meagher Cup final Cavan v New York, Croke Park, 3pm ONLINE Live scores and reports from all three games on and the RTÉ News app. TV All three finals will be broadcast on the Spórt TG4 Youtube channel. Highlights on The Saturday Game from 10.50pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. RADIO Live updates on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 and Spórt an tSathairn Lae ar RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. WEATHER Saturday will start off mainly dry. Rain will spread eastwards across the country through the morning and early afternoon. The rain will clear during the afternoon with sunshine and showers following for the rest of the day, some heavy in the northwest. Highest temperatures of 15 to 19 degrees. For more, visit The championship comes to an end in three of the five tiers in hurling with the Christy Ring, Nickey Rackard and Lory Meagher finals all taking place at Croke Park on Saturday. Derry out to end losing run In the Christy Ring final appearance list, Kildare sit top of the pile having played in the decider six times. In joint second before this weekend's action, along with Westmeath and Carlow, are Derry on four. The big difference is that while the other three sides now have multiple titles to their name and have moved onto bigger and better things, the Ulster side have a 100% losing record in the final. Four games, four losses. Even Saturday's opponents London have one win from two appearances. Three of those Derry losses have come in the last four seasons with Kildare (4-21) and Offaly (0-41) making light work of them while there was a narrow loss to Meath in there too. While they came into some of those finals as big underdogs, there is no doubting that this is a golden chance for Derry to end their wait. Team captain Cormac O'Doherty is averaging nine points a game, attacking half-back Ruairí Ó Mianáin is an incredibly exciting talent while corner-back Patrick Turner is having an excellent season for Johnny McGarvey's team. The Exiles, who are coached by former Cork goalkeeper Anthony Nash, bring a real danger to Croke Park with goal-scoring their main currency. Five group games produced 14 in all with only Kilkenny in the Leinster SHC having a better goals per game rate across all 2025 group stage championships. Jack Morrissey and Conor O'Carroll lead the way with four goals apiece. Derry have proven a bit of a fly in the ointment for the Exiles having won the last four clashes between the sides, but London's narrow loss earlier in the competition owed plenty to O'Carroll's dismissal heading down the stretch. Neil Rogers' side have reached the final despite the loss of last year's joint-captains Jack Goulding, who was also named 2024 Christy Ring Hurler of the Year, and Kevin Reid. Clare's Sean Glynn will lead them out at HQ. Connacht derby in Rackard decider Roscommon enter their fifth Nickey Rackard final on Saturday and strangely for them, Ulster opposition won't be awaiting. Their four previous finals have brought a pair of wins against Armagh and defeats to Donegal and Tyrone, but it's fellow Connacht side Mayo squaring up to them this time around. Maybe not such a good thing given Mayo's aggregate advantage over the Rossies this season stands at 26 points after their league and round-robin clashes. Kevin Sammon's side do bring momentum to Croke Park though as while the opening two rounds brought just a single point, they have been followed by wins over Armagh, Fermanagh and Louth to book a final spot. Séán Canning has been key to that revival with a hat-trick against the Wee County making it five goals over those three wins. In-form goalkeeper Enda Lawless took a blow to the head and had to be removed early in the second half against Louth, but Sammon is hopeful he will have recovered in time for this. With the Mayo men's and ladies' footballers struggling this season and their camogs disbanding in February, the hurlers have been a rare chink of light for the county's long-suffering supporters. Last year's final loss to Donegal will undoubtedly provide the motivation to make amends, especially as they threw away a six-point second-half lead. Mayo have certainly been hurling a team on a mission and claimed the Division 3 title back in March, beating a London side that will play in the main event this weekend. In Shane Boland, Eoin Delaney and Liam Lavin they have three reliable score-getters as they aim to return to their more familiar terrain, the Christy Ring Cup. New York and Cavan chase maiden title This year's Lory Meagher campaign has not been without controversy but when all is said and done, New York will be hoping to claim their first national silverware since 1996 when they come up against Cavan, or are they? In the blazing heat of Gaelic Park 29 years ago, the American side took Derry apart to win what was seen as an All-Ireland B final by some, while others claim it was an All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final. Whatever it was, Galway hammered them the next day a few hours before Michelle Smith's first Olympic gold in Atlanta with then New York boss Monty Maloney angrily revealing that his team had enjoyed a night on the town prior to the fixture. Such shenanigans simply wouldn't be expected these days with volunteers like current manager Richie Hartnett fighting hard to find New York a spot in the Irish calendar. After last year's Connacht league triumph they were granted a spot in this year's Lory Meagher Cup, joining at the semi-final stage. That brought ire, most notably from Arthur Hughes, manager of semi-final opponents Monaghan, who labelled it "an absolute disgrace" prior to their 1-29 to 2-13 loss. Aidan James Willis scored the goal and David Mangan hit 10 points, but they can expect a trickier challenge from the Breffni County. Ollie Bellew's Cavan side have made amazing progress since ending a six-year absence from inter-county hurling by competing in the 2017 Lory Meagher Cup. They reached the final in 2021 and have since won the Division 3B title. Cuala's Colum Sheanon is part of the current squad and they warmed up for the final with a challenge match against the former All-Ireland kingpins. Breffni captain Enda Shalvey is expected to overcome a hamstring issue to line out.
Irish Examiner
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
London will meet Derry in Christy Ring Cup final, Mayo face Roscommon in Nickey Rackard Cup final
The landscape is clear in the Christy Ring, Nickey Rackard and Lory Meaghar Cups after this afternoon's action all across the country, with Derry, London, Mayo, Roscommon, and Cavan all set to compete in the big treble header in a fortnight. The final spot on the big day in Croke Park will go to either New York or Monaghan, who meet in the Lory Meaghar semi-final next Saturday in Mullingar. Going into today, London were in the driving seat in the Christy Ring Cup but Derry are the side who will start as the clear favourites in the final after they put Wicklow to the sword in a one-sided game at Celtic Park. Wicklow went into this game knowing that an away win would have pushed them into the top two, but poor first half shooting with the aid of the breeze and 1-5 from Cormac O'Doherty left it 1-13 to 0-8 at the interval. Once Ronan McMahon picked up a red card to leave them with just 14 men on the field, Derry over-ran their opponents to win by 2-30 to 1-13, with O'Doherty scoring 1-13 while Aimon Duffin scored the second goal. London also had a final spot in their control as long as they took care of business against already relegated Tyrone and they did that with ease at their home field in McGovern Park, with Conor O'Carroll (2-3) and Seán Glynn (1-4) leading the way in a 4-20 to 1-13 win. The contest in Trim was a dead rubber, with Donegal picking up an 0-28 to 3-14 win over Meath. In the Nickey Rackard Cup, Fermanagh got their first point of the season with a 1-22 to 3-16 draw against Mayo, who knew they were into a final regardless of their result in Enniskillen. Eoin Delaney scored two goals for the visitors, Corey Scahill goaled to level the game in the closing minutes. Seán Corrigan's point looked like it might sneak a win for Fermanagh but Liam Lavin preserve Mayo's unbeaten record with an equaliser. They'll meet Roscommon in that decider after goals from Brendan Mulry and Seán Canning (two, completing his hat-trick) saw the Rossies come from behind to beat Louth, 4-17 to 0-20. Had Louth held on, it was Armagh who would have reached the final alongside Mayo, thanks to their 0-23 to 3-13 win over Sligo. This was a roller-coaster of a contest with Shea Harvey (0-9) and Tomás Galvin (0-5) scoring freely for Armagh, but Sligo kept nabbing goals to stay in contention. Andrew Kilcullen's penalty made it 1-2 to 0-6 after 13 minutes, Darragh Flynn nudged them in front (2-7 to 0-12) just before half-time and just when it looked like Armagh were pulling away, Kilcullen's second green flag on the hour mark set up a tense finish. In the Lory Meaghar Cup, finalists Cavan rested players in their 2-15 to 1-10 loss to Leitrim, Lancashire edged out Warwickshire by 0-26 to 4-13, and the big game of the day was in Inniskeen, where Monaghan needed a draw to stay ahead of Longford and secure a semi-final clash with New York next Saturday. That's exactly what they got when Niall Arthur hit four injury time points to make it 2-20 each, leaving Longford eliminated by the narrowest of margins.
RTÉ News
17-05-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Hurling round-up: Derry and London book Croke Park date, Monaghan finish strongly
London and Derry will contest the 2025 Christy Ring Cup final as Wicklow – leaders prior to Saturday's final round of games – missed out on the decider on scoring difference. The meeting of Derry and Wicklow at Celtic Park looked set to be a blockbuster with the winner guaranteeing a final spot, but in the end Johnny McGarvey's side strolled to a 2-30 to 1-13 win. The Oakleafers led 1-13 to 0-07 at the break with Cormac O'Doherty scoring freely, including the only goal of the half in the lead up to the interval. Eamon Conway opened the second-half scoring to extend Derry's advantage and with O'Doherty tapping over free after free and Wicklow losing Ronan McMahon to a red, the result was a foregone conclusion from way out. Pádraig Doran did nab a late goal for the visitors but Derry had the final say with a second goal to secure a fourth final appearance in five years for a competition they have never won. That result meant that all London really had to do was beat Tyrone given the scoring difference situation – the Exiles drawing with Wicklow earlier in the competition – and they did that with the minimum of fuss with a 4-20 to 1-13 win in Ruislip. All four goals for the Exiles came inside the opening 28 minutes with Conor O'Carroll grabbing a brace before further efforts from Sean Glynn and Dylan Dawson. Having trailed by 10 points at the break, Tyrone were more competitive in the second half with their goal coming after 38 minutes. There was nothing on the line as Meath hosted Donegal but the Tir Chonaill County won an entertaining contest on a 0-28 to 3-14 scoreline. Nicky Potterton, Jack Regan, from a penalty, and James Murray grabbed the Royals with both sides finishing with 14 men following red cards for Meath's James Toher and Donegal's Kevin Kealy. It'll be a Connacht derby in the Nickey Rackard final with Mayo set to meet Roscommon. Ray Larkin's Mayo had already qualified and Fermanagh were already relegated but the teams still played out an entertaining draw, Mayo striking a late goal in the 1-22 to 3-16 stalemate. Fermanagh had led for long swathes of the game despite Eoin Delaney's early goal for the visitors, and they led 1-12 to 1-08 at the turnaround with the experienced John Duffy finding the net. A Jimmy Tormey point put Fermanagh 10 ahead in the 47th minute but Delaney scored a second goal and Corey Scahill scored a third goal four minutes into additional time. Sean Corrigan thought he had won it for Fermanagh with a late, late score, but there was still time for Cormac Phillips to equalise. Roscommon and Sligo ended the day level in second on five points but the Rossies had a big scoring difference advantage and a 4-17 to 0-20 win in Louth secured their place in the final with Sligo falling to Armagh. The Wee County led 0-14 to 1-08 at half-time – Sean Canning with the Rossie goal – and further green flags from Brendan Mulry and a double from Canning to secure his hat-trick saw them turn it around. Sligo needed a result and hope that Roscommon slipped up in Dowdallshill, but they fell to a 0-23 to 3-13 loss to Armagh. Talented youngster Tómas Galvin and free-taker Shea Harvey kept the scoreboard ticking over for Armagh with two penalties from Andrew Kilcullen and a Darragh Flynn goal not proving enough for Sligo who had Kevin O'Kennedy sent off late on. Monaghan dramatically secured a Lory Meagher Cup final date with Ulster neighbours Cavan after a late flurry of scores in the 2-20 to 2-20 draw with Longford in Inniskeen. Longford looked set for a Croke Park date as they led by three points as the game ticked into the red – Ronan Courtney and David Buckley with their goals – but Monaghan fought back with Niall Arthur landing four scores in additional time to actually put the hosts ahead before Niall Hawes earned Longford a draw, if not a final spot. Cavan were already qualified and lost 2-15 to 1-10 to Leitrim while Lancashire won a high-scoring English derby against Warwickshire, 0-26 to 4-13 with Miley Connors and Jack Grealish both grabbing two goals apiece in defeat.
