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John The Baptist Community School defeated St Mary’s CBGS by 2-14 to 1-8 in the All-Ireland Post Primary Schools Paddy Buggy Cup (Under 18.5 B Hurling) Final on Saturday March 25th at Semple Stadium Thurles.

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Video footage of the game

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MATCH REPORT: John the Baptist CS defeat St Mary鈥檚 CBGS in Masita Paddy Buggy Cup Final.

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COMHGHAIRDEAS le John the Baptist Community School ; 2017 All-Ireland Paddy Buggy Cup champions!馃憤

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Report – All Ireland hurling title for John the Baptist of Hospital. Read here….

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Hospital’s John the Baptist win All Ireland hurling crown

Report by Jerome O’Connell for the Limerick Leader newspaper

HOSPITAL鈥橲 John The Baptist Community School were crowned All Ireland Post Primary School Senior B Hurling champions this Saturday afternoon in Semple Stadium, Thurles.

The south Limerick secondary school lifted the Paddy Buggy Cup with a 2-14 to 1-8 win over St Marys of Belfast. It brings to four the All Ireland GAA tiles won by JTBCS in recent weeks with two camogie and one ladies football title on top of this hurling. Still to come in their 鈥榙rive for five鈥� is an All Ireland Junior A ladies football final.

The Limerick side were 2-8 to 0-3 ahead after a fine opening half. Hospital settled early and put scores on the board to lead 0-4 to no score after eight minutes with Eoin Sheehan and Michael O鈥橤rady on the mark as well as two Dylan O鈥橲hea frees.

The Antrim side found their feet with three unanswered points with Darren Grego leading the way to reduce the margin to one point at the mid-point of the half. But the Hospital response was impressive.

Sheehan ended 11-minutes without a score and it started a run of five successive scores for Hospital with The Belfast side not to score for the final 15-minutes of the half. The first of the Hospital goals came on 19-minutes with Eoin Sheehan crashing to the net after a flowing move involving Eoin O鈥橫ahony and Tadhg Leddin.

In injury time, Hospital added a second goal 鈥� Ryan Tobin doing brilliant to work possession goalwards from his right corner forward position and then beating the goalkeeper from a tight angle with a fine finish.

The second half scores were scarce but the Limerick side always looked winners. Captain Paudie Maher was among the early scores as they led 2-11 to 1-4 as the game entered the final quarter. Ryan Tobin sealed the win with two late points.

HOSPITAL: Byran Heavey (Garryspillane); Mark Quinlan (Garryspillane), Conor Philips (Emly), Kyran O鈥橠onnell (Pallasgreen); Brian O鈥橤rady (Kilteely-Dromkeen), Paul O鈥橦eney (Emly), Kevin Boner (Bruff); Michael O鈥橤rady (Knockainey), Dylan O鈥橲hea (Garryspillane); Sean Teefy (Ballybricken-Bohermore), Paudie Maher (Patrickswell), Eoin Sheehan (Garryspillane); Tadhg Leddin (Hospital-Herbertstown), Eoin O鈥橫ahony (Garryspillane), Ryan Tobin (Garryspillane)
Subs: Bradley McNamara (Bruff) for Tadhg Leddin (46mins), John O鈥橠onnell (Pallasgreen) for Eoin Sheehan (54mins).

ST MARYS: Philip Kennedy (O鈥橠onovan Rossa); Michael Napier (Bredagh), Niall McCann (St Teresas), Sean Wilson (St Johns); Dominic McEnhill (O鈥橠onovan Rossa), Nathan Gibson (Gort na Mona), Aodhan O鈥橞rien (Gort na Mona); CJ McKenna (St Johns), Shea Shannon (St Johns); Colm McLarnion (St Pauls), Odhran O鈥機allaghan (Carryduff), Darren Grego (O鈥橠onovan Rossa); Gerard Smyth (Lamh Dearg), Paddy Doyle (St Pauls), Tiarnan Murphy (O鈥橠onovan Rossa)
Subs: Caolan Crossan (St Pauls) for Odhran O鈥機allaghan (41mins), Odhran McKenna (St Johns) for Paddy Doyle (60mins), Manus Smyth (O鈥橠onovan Rossa) for Sean Wilson (61mins).

REFEREE: Gavin Quilty (Kilkenny)

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Great champions! John The Baptist Community School take the Masita GAA All Ireland Post Primary Schools Paddy Buggy Cup Final in Thurles

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BUGGY CUP FINAL SET TO BE A CRACKER

It has been a massive GAA year in general for John The Baptist who won 91吃瓜网 Senior ‘A’ and Junior ‘A’ Ladies football honours as well as excelling in camogie.

The Hospital-based school have already lifted the Corn Thomais MhicChoilm in 91吃瓜网 hurling after a season that also saw them reach the semi-final stage of the prestigious Dean Ryan Cup.

Along the way to this particular final they have etched out wins over Glanmire, Mitchelstown and CBS Dungarvan and in the 91吃瓜网 final they scored a very impressive 1-19 against Rice College, Ennis, but also conceded three goals which they must watch out for.

And with players like Tipperary minor Paul O鈥橦eney at centre half back, Limerick minors Michael O鈥橤rady and Dylan O鈥橲hea at midfield and Paudie Maher at centre-forward, the Limerick school is exceptionally strong in pivotal areas.

Their opponents, Danske Bank Mageean Cup champions St Mary鈥檚 CBGS, are also a fine team.

They showed their battling qualities when they booked a spot in today’s final with a hard-fought win over a fast-developing Naas CBS.

In Shea Shannon, St Mary’s have a very reliable free-taker and, especially in finals, reliable free-takers can often be the difference between winning and losing.

St Mary鈥檚 CBGS roared into 0-3 to 0-0 lead against the Kildare school early on and one suspects they will try to do the same again this afternoon – get off to a ferocious start to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of the John The Baptist players.

In that regard live-wire forward Odhran O鈥機allaghan and colleague Tiarnan Murphy will have to be watched very closely by their Limerick opponents, as they are in great form at present.

St Mary鈥檚 are a wise side and even though they played a strong second-half breeze in the Buggy Cup semi-final they still showed enough cuteness to come through, with players like Paddy Doyle scoring at critical times.

It could be telling that they have endured a very tough campaign to get to the final and are battle-hardened.

However, so, too, are John the Baptist Community School who battled hard to get to this stage and dug out a three-point win, 1-10- 1-7, over St Joseph’s Galway in their semi-final.