Bride Rovers senior hurlers accounted for a resilient Valley Rovers side in the first round of the RED FM sponsored Division 2 Hurling League at an immaculate Páirc Na Bride. Despite the horrendous weather in recent weeks, the grounds at Pairc Na Bride were in great condition, the wonderful work done by the grounds committee over the winter in resoding the goals was tremendous and appreciated.

Referee Aidan Hyland got proceedings underway at 12noon. Valleys opened the scoring and so after Paddy O’Flynn scored the equaliser. The next two scores came from placed balls, one for each team, Adam Walsh with the Rovers free. Two points from Valley Rovers followed before Shane O Connor scored with a well taken point following one his trademark forward runs. Paddy O’Flynn scored his second before Valley rovers scored a goal. But the Rovers response was swift, points from Ronan O’Connell, Adam Walsh (free) and Paddy’s third had the sides level with 19 minutes played. Both teams were defending well with Ryan Prendergast, Cormac O’Sullivan & Denis Cashman very solid in front of Cian Hogan. A flurry of points from both sides, saw the scores level at 0-10 to 1-07, the Rovers points from Kieran Kearney,  Adam Walsh & the impressive Paddy O’Flynn with his 4th of the game. A long ball into the full forward line was expertly caught by Adam Walsh who blasted the ball to the net. Cormac Barry added a point to put the Rovers four up at half time. BR 1-11 VR 1-07.

Cillian Tobin & Oisin Roche were introduced at half time. On the resumption, Adam Walsh pointed two frees to extend our lead to six points. But Valley Rovers were not out of it, and rallied to reduce the deficit. Further points frees from Adam Walsh, his eighth of the day kept the Bride ahead as the game entered injury time. Shane O Connor scored his second and despite Valleys strong finish, we held out to win our first league game of the year.

Cian Hogan, Ryan Prendergast, ⁠Denis Cashman, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Conor Hazelwood, Cormac O’Sullivan, Shane O’Connor (0-2), Davy Barry, Cormac Barry (0-1), Conleith Ryan, Kieran Kearney (0-1), Paddy O’Flynn (0-4), ⁠Ronan O’Connell (0-1), Adam Walsh (1-08) & ⁠Jack Mannix

Subs Used: ⁠Oisín Roche, Cillian Tobin & Conor O'Riordan

Conleith Ryan & Cian Hogan will continue their roles as joint captains for 2026 following on from the huge success of 2025 when both lifted the Jim Forbes Cup for the Cork County Senior A Hurling Championship.

3 of our young stars in the club made their senior hurling league debuts against Valley Rovers. Cormac Barry & Jack Mannix started the game while Conor O’Riordan was introduced. All 3 can be proud of their performance and will contribute to the team in 2026 by increasing competition for places.

Div. 2 Hurling League - Round 2 v Na Piarsaigh (Away) on Sunday 22nd March at 2pm

Div. 2 Hurling League - Round 3 v Kanturk (Home) on Thursday 2nd April at 7pm

The senior hurling team wish to thank everyone who supported their Annual Last Man Standing Fundraiser. The first 2 weeks saw a huge wipeout of participants so down to the last few exciting weeks.

The Senior hurling team and management want to wish our team-mate Josh Ahern every success in riding King Alex at Cheltenham on Friday. This has been a dream of Josh’s for many years and caps off a memorable few months for him.