Blackrock

Yeah, look, I said it to people and I've kind of parked it now, to be honest with you, Michael, in terms of we're not looking back, we're looking forward.

And people would have said to me when we did get relegated and people said to me, would I go back in as manager in terms of actually taking over the team and trying to get us back up? um you you kind of you think about it but i wasn't given any second thought to it i knew the team was was good i know the ability was in the team they had proven to themselves in a previous couple of years these guys had won two county finals in 15 and 16 these guys had been there county final days at last and stuff like that as well and you go you go through a period like that and it's happened to a lot of teams and before we were relegated right i think we played a game in black rock or in the park one day and Blackrock were, I think, one game from going into a relegation battle as well, right, you know? And the bars were something similar over a period of time as well.

So it hits every club.

But the key was to get back up straight the first year, you know? So we've done that.

The group stages produced two wins and a draw and I suppose the task really was to be one of the two teams that got out of the group and you achieved that.

Yeah, look, we did make it easier for ourselves, you know, because we took a lot of criticism afterwards.

15 against 14 v Blackrock in Parkey Ring.

We were in control for long periods of the game and kind of lost it in the last 10 minutes.

You remember last week we spoke to Tracy, who sent us a, a text originally regarding Felix, their 12-year-old Persian cat.

Now, Felix was stolen from Blackrock last week, a week to the day now.

Two individuals on an e-bike, and it was all caught on CCTV, and they literally yanked Felix up, um, from the path by the tail and, uh, scooted off, uh, sped off on the e-bike.

Now, you'll recall then, um, that we had possibly a sighting in Toker by Theresa, who called in on Friday morning.

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in the interim period, he probably never left the Blackrock, Mahon area.

Probably not, and I think whoever had him had kept him somewhere, because he was completely dehydrated.

Because, funny enough, it was...

The house was from Blackrock in Cork and had been owned by a Ronan.

Oh.

Which I remember it had been owned by a Ronan.

A lady who was a relation of one of the compilers and a member of a company Cork family of English descent sends the two following experiences of a banshee in her family.

My mother, when a young girl, was standing looking out of the window in their house at Blackrock near Cork.

She suddenly saw a white figure standing on a bridge which was easily visible from the house.

The figure waved her arms towards the house, and my mother heard the bitter wailing of the banshee.

I'm looking there.

Um, Blackrock in the opening game then beat Ballincollig, won 14 to 11.

Beat Ballinaura.

Brilliant win against St. Catherine's in the quarterfinal.

I just go out, try my best, and yeah, that's all I can do really.

And now we're heading into the semifinals this weekend.

Like I said earlier, it's, it's Blackrock in the semifinal.

You played them already in the group stage, had a win there.