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Our intermediate hurlers returned to winning ways with an impressive display of aggression and craft to completely outplay a Fethard side whose  pre match form suggested otherwise. Early goals from Bertie Gahan and Colm O Loughlin set the tone in this at times over robust contest but our lads never yielded an inch and with our defence in superb form we led at half time by 2-8 to 0-6. Facing a strong wind in the second half, we comfortably dealt with the Fethard challenge, restricting them to 0-1 in the entire half while replying with 1-4 ourselves with Damien Fenlon grabbing the goal to finish the game as a contest.      On a day when there were many fine displays, we had exceptional displays from young Graham O Reilly who was making his debut at this level along with Tommy Breen, Mick Sweeney, Mark Walsh and Colm O Loughlin.                                                                        Team;   Sean Murphy, Liam Gahan, Steven Murphy, Graham O Reilly, Niall O Reilly, Tommy Breen(0-1), Mick Sweeney, Mark Walsh, Damien Fenlon(1-0), Colm O Loughlin(1-1), Matty Dunne(0-1), Shane Kehoe(0-1), Peter Mernagh(0-3 2 frees), Niall O Loughlin(0-3 2 frees), Bertie Gahan(1-1).

Our Junior hurlers continued their fine form on Thursday evening in round 3 of the championship with an impressive performance against Taghmon/Camross in windy Oylgate and booked their place in the quarter finals with two games to spare Leading by 2-5 to 0-5 at halftime with John

O’Loughlin scoring both goals in a man of the match display. We had to withstand a great come back from a strong Taghmon side who eventually closed to within a point with 12 minutes left and despite now playing into a stiffish wind we used all our experience to pull away again with points from O Loughlin and Ed Rowesome. Morgan Gahan in goal along with all of our defence were excellent, with Sean Doran and Sean McCabe exceptional, Larry Murphy at midfield and Johnno at full foward also excelled Team; Morgan Gahan, Declan Kelly, Daire Turner, Sean Doran, Graham O’Reilly(0-1), Chris Daly, Sean McCabe, Larry Murphy(0-1), Aidan Gahan, Ed Rowesome(0-5,0-4frees), Ger Daly(0-1), Adrian O Dowd(0-1), Bryan Dwyer, John O Loughlin(2-2), John Ivory(0-1). Subs; Conal Nolan for O Dowd, Mick Nolan for Ger Daly.