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A number of weeks ago, our under 14 hurlers were chosen by the South board to represent the board in the county under 14 b hurling semi-final. This situation arose because the board had not completed its task of completing the championship to meet county deadlines.

In a playoff, we defeated St. Patrick’s to win the right to represent the south, in the county semi-final in Cashel, we were a shade unlucky to go under to Knockvilla Kickhams. They in turn went on to defeat Lorrha after a replay to win the county title. Back in the south Mullinahone had already qualified to play in the south final.

This eventually took place on Saturday morning last in Ballingarry at 11am against St. Patrick’s, as in the representation play off. Once again, the result was as before with victory going to Mullinahone. Ballingarry was not at its best on Saturday morning but, at least, the rain stayed away as Paddy Ivors set the game in motion.

Mullinahone had the advantage of a strong breeze in the first half. Gradually they built up a 0-5 to 0-0 interval lead. St Pat’s began to come back into the game, but a goal from Shelly stopped the comeback in its tracks. Pats’ cause really looked hopeless when substitute Sean O Connell scored a second Mullinahone goal.

At long last Mullinahone appears to be making advances into the technological age with the enabling of the Mullinahone telecom exchange for broadband being penciled in for the first quarter of 2009. On my last enquiry in September, I was informed that the nearest possible date was not in the next 12 months but yesterday a list of the exchanges to be enabled for broadband was published.

This will make the updating of the website more straight forward and quicker and enable the website to grow with an introduction of Videos of Mullinahone and larger files for downloading which would not be possible on a slow dial up connection. Below is a list of the next exchanges to be enabled.

Q1= January to March and no indication of when but hopefully the sooner the better.

Full list of exchanges are here 

	NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 08 EXCHANGES.pdf (84.9 KB, 26 views)
	Q1 JANUARY-MARCH 09.pdf (81.3 KB, 14 views)
	Q2 APRIL-JUNE 09.pdf (80.2 KB, 16 views)
	Q3 JULY-SEPTEMBER 09.pdf (81.1 KB, 16 views)

For the second time in six days our under 16 hurlers are the toast of the parish. On Sunday they defeated Carrick Swan to win the South Tipperary under 16 B hurling title. On Saturday the new south champions travelled to Cashel to take on the west champions Lattin Cullen in the county semi-final.

On a lovely afternoon where we got a flashback to the summer we never had, once again our lads came up trumps. They started slowly but improved steadily as the game progressed. By half time, they had build up a slight lead and a cracking goal from Cathal Horan just after half time gave them the breathing space that they needed. Mullinahones’ hurling was now the equal of Lattins and as the second half went on the Mullinahone lads got better and better.

A third goal and a series of points followed. Meanwhile, at the other end, the defence was miserly in the concession of scores. The final score was Mullinahone 3-13 Lattin Cullen 0-6. While the scoreboard may have been unkind to our west Tipperary opponents, Mullinahone still deserved a clear win. Goalie Richard Walsh made no mistakes and hence the empty goals column. Captain Danny Croke was a clear master at full back and was well supported by his two corners George Browning and Killian Skarka. Considering he was faced by the county under 16 centre forward, our centre back Garry Cronin did very well.