Dominant Durrow hit the half ton to win Division 1 Championship
Our Lady's Meadow Durrow won the Roinn 1 championship hurling final at the Cumann na mBunscol finals in Laois Hire O'Moore Park Photo: Alf Harvey
Our Lady’s Meadow NS Durrow 9-23
Scoil Bhríde Rathdowney 1-3
With a team of exquisite hurlers on display, Our Lady’s Meadow NS Durrow brought the curtain down on Day 1 of the 2025 Hurling and Camogie Cumann na mBunscol, racking up an astounding scoreline to win the Division 1 Hurling Championship at the expense of Scoil Bhríde Rathdowney.
Rathdowney had plenty of fine hurlers themselves - with Aaron Kirwan leading the line for them in attack, but almost all the Durrow players had gotten in on the scoring within the first quarter of this final.
Durrow started well as the excellent Ciaran Farrell scored the first of his four first half goals. Rathdowney responded well to that set back as Aaron Kirwan scored a goal from the wing but it would be one way traffic after that.
Farrell took his tally to 4-2 while Liam O'Sullivan and James Dooley also scored goals. Conor Campion, Ciaran Carroll and Frankie Carroll all contributed points as Durrow led by 23 at half time Aaron Kirwan landed three points for Rathdowney but it was 6-11 to 1-3 at the interval.
Rathdowney keeper Tiernan Delaney also deserves great credit, especially at the start of the second half when he made a string of fine saves. But the onslaught continued as Farrell scored his fifth goal while points from Carroll, Dooley and O'Sullivan followed.
Frankie Carroll and Conor Campion added further goals as Durrow won in comprehensive fashion to take the trophy home.
Our Lady’s Meadow NS Durrow: Ciaran Farrell 5-5, Frankie Carroll 1-9, James Dooley 1-7, Liam O'Sullivan 1-4, Conor Campion 1-1, Harry Gee 0-2, Patrick Shortall 0-1.
Scoil Bhríde Rathdowney: Aaron Kirwan 1-3
Nathan Dunne; Eddie Ince, Todd Lalor, Conor Campion, Liam O’Sullivan, James Dooley, Harry Gee, Frankie Carroll, Ciaran Farrell.
Subs: Tommy Shortall, Rian Fox, John Hourihan, Patrick Shortall.
Jack Keyes, Conor McCartney, Reuben Rafter, Aaron Kirwan, Oisin Stapleton, Aaron Danagher, Tadgh Doherty, JP Ryan, Emilis Austrums, Sebastian Harding, Tiernan Delaney, Mayson Marum, Harry Graham, Odhran Weldon, David Bowe, Liam Doherty, Marcus Harding.
