TC Tyres World of Gaelic Games on CRKC with Ciaran Neary - Mon. 26.10.2026

Nicky Brennan (0:04)

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Ciaran Neary (0:07)

Hello and welcome to CC Towers, World of Gaelic Games. On Monday, the 26th of October, coming up on tonight's show, we'll be looking back at the JJ Cavanaugh and Sons Junior Hurling Championship Final, where Conaghy Shamrock's defeat of Greg DeManna. We'll be looking back at the St. Canisters Credit Junior Senior Hurling Final, where the Shamrocks defeat of Tull Ron. We'll be looking back at all the juvenile results over the weekend. We'll be looking ahead to a couple of juvenile fixtures, and we'll be also looking back at the action over the weekend in other counties as well. If you would like to get in touch with us, we'd love to hear from you. Messages there on 86 353 7782 You can message us on WhatsApp on 8740 11887, or you can phone us on 56 776 2777

As always, I'm joined in the studio by Nicky Brennan, and we'll be talking to Andy Comfort later on. Good evening, Nicky.

Nicky Brennan (0:52)

Hello, Ciaran.

Ciaran Neary (0:53)

We'll start off, Nicky, I suppose, your beloved Conaghy, in action there on Saturday. Conditions were diabolical for both teams, but in fairness, look, the standard of the hurling, I thought, was good given the weather conditions, and Conaghy just had that bit more in the end. And unfortunately for Greg, the man that will have to come back next year, and for Conaghy, they're up into intermediate.

Nicky Brennan (1:14)

Yeah, look at me. I know lads were kind of laughing at me earlier in the year, and then genuinely when we started off against the, like we played Clunin in the first match, it was far from an impressive performance, and along the way, it was a little bit iffy. But look, we got Owen Call came back from Australia, ironically gone back again today.

Thomas Rees is back from Australia. He'll be heading back to our two soon as well. Now obviously, we're going into intermediate next year without those two would be a huge, huge loss, but we have a few minors coming on now, so I mean, I don't want to kind of put on the whole poor mouth and that. But they got better along the way now, and there was games. I saw them playing Valley Raggett now, and they played very well for a long period, and then just got caught at the end, to be fair to them, and they beat Gullmoy now, they beat the Emeralds, and while that game really had nothing at stake per se, you kind of give the Connaughey lads a bit of confidence, and the number of players played that day who would normally be playing, and kind of give the Palin a little bit of a back up. But once they got into the knockout stages, I mean, the winning against Johnstone was huge now.

Ciaran Neary (2:16)

Yeah, and I feel we mentioned that in these interviews earlier.

Nicky Brennan (2:19)

That was a big one now, because, I mean, Connaughey and Johnstone had been little between them over the last few years, and definitely that was a big one, and they moved on from there now. They played, obviously played again Kilmacao, and had to pull out all this. They were playing against a huge breeze against Kilmacao, and in the second half, and the odds were against them, but they really stuck in, and they held Kilmacao scoreless for quite a lot of the latter stages of that match.

They then went on against Piltown, and they had to, it went to extra time that day, but again, in the latter stages of extra time, they held Piltown scoreless for all the last period of extra time, and a bit of the first period. So, and it was the same again, again John Locks, they came late as well. So they've been showing fierce character and work rate and that. Now look at on Saturday, it was a horrendous day to be fair, a very normal second, as you say, the game shouldn't have been played. But given credit to both teams, they delivered a very enjoyable game now. There's no question about it. Top class game. And look, Connie, probably in fairness, they were better than two points in the margin. I thought they were a bit more than allowed to be, to be fair in analysing it. Connie had two goal chances in the second half that they might have taken. How once they'd out a libero from Patrick Kennedy, and I thought they should have had a penalty in the first half now. It was, in my view, it was a clear penalty, and it was lads in Nolan Park yesterday talking about it and said to each other, there was no question about it, it was a penalty, but it came as a free. Now we might have scored it. We hit nine wides in the first half, so we made life difficult for ourselves. And in the second half, it didn't look great now at half time, three points down with a big wind, but they stuck in, and Greg De Mane just weren't able to get the better of it. I thought tactically, Greg De Mane were a little bit naïve.