Bride Rovers GAA

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Bride Rovers GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club shared by the neighbouring villages of Rathcormac and Bartlemy in County Cork, Ireland. The club fields Gaelic football and hurling teams in Cork GAA and Imokilly GAA divisional competitions. They were runners up in the Cork senior hurling championship in 2008 to winners Sarsfields. The club colours are green white and yellow.

History

Bride Rovers was formed in 1928 when the two existing clubs in the parish Bartlemy and Rathcormac were amalgamated.^[1]

The club disbanded in 1950 following a series of "lean years", and for many years players in the community played for clubs in Bartlemy, for St Bartholomew's, or for other parish clubs. In December 1964, the Bride Rovers Club was reformed.^[1] The reformed club went on to win the East Cork Junior B Championship in 1966. Seanie Barry won an All Ireland Senior and U21 medal with Cork in 1966. The club subsequently won two Junior A Titles in 1968 and 1969.^{[citation needed]} The club purchased its own ground in 1977 and opened Páirc na Bríde in June 1985.^{[citation needed]} The club won the East Cork B grade Double in 1993 and several of that team went on to win the County Junior A Title defeating Freemount in 1998.^{[citation needed]} A club history, "Bride Rovers Abu" written by club member John Arnold, was published in the spring of 1999.^{[citation needed]} The team brought the club to Intermediate grade and in 2003 they won the County Intermediate title defeating Inniscarra in the final. This team went on to claim the Munster intermediate Title defeating Kilruane McDonaghs of Tipperary in the final. Senior status was achieved for the club and five years later, in 2008, the team contested the Senior Hurling Championship Final v Sarsfields going down by the narrowest of margins.^{[citation needed]} The club also won three East Cork Junior A Football Championships in 2004, 2007 and 2021. Brian Murphy won All Ireland Senior Medals with Cork in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, Brendan Walsh captained Cork to Munster and All Ireland Intermediate Hurling titles and Barry Johnson was also on Cork panel. Gerard Lane became the first club man to be elected to the County Board at Convention in December 2008 as PRO and subsequently was elected, Vice Chair and the Chairman in December 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Honours

• Cork Senior Hurling Championship (0): (Runners-Up 2008)
• Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 2003 (Runners-Up 1933)
• Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1): 2003
• Cork Junior Hurling Championship (1): 1998
• Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship (1): 1998
• Cork Under-21 Premier 2 Hurling Championship (0): (Runners-up 2019)
• Cork Under-21 A Hurling Championship (1): 2018
• Cork Minor Hurling Championship (1): 1932 (Runners-Up 1933, 2021)
• Cork Premier 2 Minor Hurling Championship (1): 2018
• Cork Minor A Hurling Championship (1): 2017
• Cork Minor C Hurling Championship (1): 2013
• East Cork Junior A Hurling Championship (5): 1930, 1932, 1968, 1969, 1998^[2]
• East Cork Junior A Football Championship (3): 2004, 2007, 2021^[3]

Notable players

• Brian Murphy- Two time All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winner. 2003 Young Hurler of the Year. All-Star winner.
• Barry Johnson
• Seánie Barry- Two time All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winner. 1967 UCC Fitzgibbon Cup winning captain.
• Brian Roche- 2017 All-Ireland Minor winning captain
• Eoin Roche
• Dan Dooley

References

External links

• Bride Rovers GAA site
• Irish Examiner match report from 2004 (archived 2011)
• Irish Examiner interview of Bride Rovers player from 2006 (archived 2007)