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Fri 11 Nov 2009Newtown' benefit from early county exit
GAELIC GAMES NEWS:THIS WEEKEND’S Munster club hurling semi-finals feature a couple of familiar names in Waterford’s Ballygunner and Cork’s Newtownshandrum. The latter are the most recent (2004) club from the province to win an All-Ireland. It represents an achievement for a small parish to refit a successful side and come back a few seasons later.
Also back is selector Patsy Morrissey, who managed the club to its All-Ireland of six seasons ago as well as being involved with Cork’s MacCarthy Cup wins in 2005 and ’06. With Ger Morrissey and manager Phil Noonan, he helped engineer an unexpected county success against defending champions Sarsfields.
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