Glenanne 5 (Stephen Butler 2, Graham Shaw, Shane O'Donoghue 2) Corinthian 2 (Davy Carson, Sam Lobsey)
Glenanne produced one of the most complete performances at St Mark's against a far from poor Corinthian side who look like they can cause some problems for the top sides in the latter half of the season.
The reds first chance, though, proved their undoing. Brian Doherty's drag-flick was well saved by Steven Doran and two passes later Gary Shaw won a corner at the far end. Stephen Butler duly obliged and doubled up in the 16th minute with another corner strike.
Livewire Darren Kimfley had already shown his threat with a couple of runs, one ended by a fabulous Joe Brennan tackle and another saw his reverse zipping just wide, before Davy Carson capitalised on Clinton Murphy's blunder to punch the ball into the ground and other the sliding Doran.
High tempo and high blood pressure throughout, Stephen Butler spent ten minutes in the bin for a swipe at Andrew Sutton after a breakdown of a fast attack. He fresh-aired but Graham Caulwell may have taken more serious action had he connected. It drew a big reaction from the Corinthian bench, too, which saw Sutton and John McInroy green-carded in the aftermath.
Butler, however, responded in the second half with some of his best hockey and was a constant danger, moving from flank to flank to great effect.
The second half saw Glenanne in total control. Graham Shaw made it 3-1 four minutes after the restart from a corner second phase before Shane O'Donoghue brought his seasonal total to 14 with two strikes in the last quarter.
Sam Lobsey pulled one back in the 64th minute from a corner rebound. Brendan Parsons ended the game in the bin for hitting a ball away but it mattered little in a game that showed Glenanne are very much one of the main contenders this term.
Fingal 3 (Mick McGuinness 2, Conor Connolly) Monkstown 4 (Stephen Cole, Francis Lee, Zack Dutton, Gareth Watkins)
Monkstown edged a thriller in the continually fascinating duels between the coastal side and Fingal. Mick McGuinness got the only goal of the first half as he continues his fine work from set-pieces.
Goals in quick succession from St Andrews student Stephen Cole, Franny Lee and Zack Dutton should have wrapped up the game for the Town but McGuinness and a rare Conor Connolly goal made the game level deep into the second time.
But Gareth Watkins grabbed the winner with just two minutes to go for the sky-blues to leap-frog Fingal into fourth place. The game was also marked by the long awaited return of former Leinster senior star Derek O'Gorman from his travels, though it may not be a too memorable one as he saw yellow to go with the defeat.
Three Rock Rovers 3 (Patrick Shanahan, Peter McConnell ps, Garry Ringwood) UCD 0
Rovers produced a workman-like performance to stay with Pembroke and Glenanne as they played their first outfield hockey since the turn of the year after three frozen out training sessions.
Patrick Shanahan arrived up from Cork ahead of schedule to give Mitch Darling the weekend off and he opened the scoring. Peter McConnell made it 2-0 by the break and Garry Ringwood completed a 3-0 win.
YMCA 0 Pembroke 1 (Justin Sherriff) 
Justin Sherriff got his first goal since his return from injury to give Pembroke a hard-fought win over injury-plagued YM. Patrick Good, against his recent team-mates, required stitches after a bang though may yet be fit for the cup game and avoid joining Andy Walker, Jacob Webber, David Robinson and Will Powderly on the absentee list.
The corner count and possession were fairly similar with Sherriff's upright reverse wrong-footing Iain Walker and proving the only separator.
Railway Union 4 (Rob Devlin, Mark English ps, John Anderson, Paul O'Brien) Kilkenny 0
Railway eradicated the disappointing 5-2 loss to the Cats earlier this term with a comfortable win at Park Avenue. Former Raphoe-man Rob Devlin popped up with a rare goal with the left-back finding himself at the back post to knock in.
Mark English netted a stroke and John Anderson - a highly accomplished cricketer from South Africa - showed some skills on the astroturf to make it 3-0 by half-time and Railway veteran Paul O'Brien completed the rout in the second half.
* For more pictures from Glenanne vs Corinthian, click here and for pictures from Three Rock vs UCD, click here
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Leinster 5 Corinthians 2
Samba Hockey...
whats that ment to mean
Watched glens v corinthians yesterday. very convincing glenanne win. could have been more with teh amount of ball they had. Definitely think corinthians will win big games and could end up in top 4.
I taught YM gave a very good account of themselves with a very weakened team. With many youngsters on show, they could have even knicked a point towards the end, but it wasn't to be
swiping at player = 10 mins in bin...mmmmm......havn't we seen swiping before at the top level - not very harsh treatment..lets see some action from the branch here, NOT singling out butler - could have been any one, what dicsiplinary measures are the branch going to take - even stadardise.....I know one thing, a player using stick in 'aggresive negotiation' shouldn't step back on pitch on the same day....
Chop Chop
any results from the u21 games today stephen??
i think YM would have struggled to have kept it at 1-0 had pembroke been at full strength with Lewis and Sothern playing,two big losses compared to what YM were missing
What YM were missing?? I think they were missing there 2 best players in David Robinson and Jakob Webber, who are there 2 main threats at Short Corners... Also Will Powderly and Andrew Walker are big losses to YM... So i think those 4 players are more valuable to YM than the two are valuable to Pembrooke!
Any Scores in the Mills cup games from today
pem 2 inst 3 in AIL
i think if you had read my comment you would see that i was saying that YM would have struggled to keep it at 1-0 with lewis and sothern playing seeing as these two play a huge role for them,YM arguably achieved one of the better results of the season by only losing by one goal yesterday showing that they coped better without their missing players
Monkstown beat Kilkenny 4-1
There's been an increasing amount of people on here asking/demanding scores and reports, seemingly less than an hour or two after the games have finished - I think it's really unfair.
Stephen is providing this service completely free of charge and in his spare time; people should remember that before they go demanding unreasonable things such as getting reports up when games have barely finished. Funny how you give people an inch and they try to take a mile...
really fancy the glens for the title now!!!
Should have mentioned too that Andy Groves played two excellent advantages which led to goals when he could easily have given penalty corners in the Glenanne-Corinthian match.
Was at the Glenanne Corinthians game and besides one or two bad decisions which will always happen thought the umpiring was excellent, really let the game flow.
I watch the Glens game on saturday. Graham Shaw was excellent. He ran the game when butler was sin binned. He was by far the best player on the pitch and in my opinion the best player in the county this year. I still don`t fancy them for the league though. We will have to wait and see.
Advantages or just didnt see it?!
Definite advantages, he had his arms out in quite dramatic fashion to show he was playing on!
Groves is a very good ref, the leinster league is blessed to have himself and bolger!
I agree, both umpires in the Corinthian Glenns game were very good. After a tough start where a red card could have easily been given, the umpires got almost everything right! And yes Stephen Groves did play excellent advantage for two of the Glenns goals. They really do look like an impressive fit squad, which could win alot of trophies this year.
CHC supporter
"any results from the u21 games today stephen??"
Glenanne beat Railway 4-3 after being 3-0 down at half time.
Kane and O'Donoghue both got two.
he`s an umpire not a ref
and his name is andrew groves, it is good to see that at least some of you appreciate umpires, most of you are fantastic at umpiring on the pitch and on the sideline - why not take up a whistle, its really not that bad, well most of the time!!!
leinster 21s trials where on sunday and 2 players showed up! both from ucd! there was more coaches than players. what was the problem where non of the clubs told??????
best young player? carson, loughrey, o'donaghue or someone else?
Stephen Cole..very very good. I would say better than all of them. O'Donoghue will be class. He's only 16 and looks the business.
What O Donoghue has which other young players in other clubs dont is two of the best players Ireland have had over the last 8 years coaching him through games. Shaw and Butler have done it all and know what it takes to play consistently at the highest level. Glenanne keep producing these players. Hats off to the club.
Stuart Loughrey one to watch 2009, in the words of Stephen Butler
I think you actually have to play and train with Coley to realise just how good he is. Ask any of those other young players especially the andrews boys they all rate him higher than anyone else! Also he was Leinster u 18s best player this year by a long shot.....also another point is his head is screwed on unlike some...
stuart loughrey is the one to watch!! keep an eye on that boy!
Stephen cole is the best under age player in ireland, defiently should get a chance on irealand A this year,
the flicker for chc is just as good and only 18.
There are not many CHC players from the 2nds trying to move up to the 1sts so don't worry! Why move when you are on a class team! Fingers crossed for the IJC!
And after the game against Glennane, they look like they may just have the league!They have also played and won against Pembroke and Three rock, in the same week end in fact! Although, if Glennane didn't miss soooo many shots on goal and if Gribbs wasn't on fire they prob wouldn't have won!
They also have two key players back from injury.
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