With pre-season training well underway, the start of the Spring League 2024 is here! The men's hurling team competes in a series of challenge games against other Vancouver teams in the Gaelic Football Spring League. Come and support our hurlers as they play with the big ball throughout the months of March, April & May!
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The 2024 season is offically well under way! After a successful registration night, JP Ryans Hurling & Camogie team is off to a great start.
We spent the night registering many new faces and getting to know all of the new players. It was a great welcome for the camogie team with many great prizes given out throughout the night.
Here is to a successful year ahead!
We are delighted to announce that in 2024 JP Ryans will be entering a Camogie team into the Vancouver championships.
With Camogie growing in Vancouver we feel that now is the right time to grow our club even more by launching a JP Caomgie team.
In 2024, we are welcoming all new players for both Hurling and Camogie. Keep an eye out on our socials for announcements and upcoming events to start the year.
In what was a special year for Vancouver hurling with the welcome of Vancouver Wolfetonnes, it was the new comers who impressed this year to reach the final on their first time of asking against the defending champions JP Ryans.
Wolfetones and JP Ryans had both booked their place in the final before the final group fixture and with the previous games between the two this year being high scoring affairs, the final was looking like it would be an exciting one.
With the cameras recording the finals for the first time, it was Wolfetones who got off to the better start scoring the first few points of the game. A goal followed for wolfetones after a long ball into the box found its way to the back of the net.
With Tommy Reddan flawless from frees though, JP Ryans took started to settle into the game. Bobby Duggan and Aidan Baird combined scoring the points that put JP Ryans back in front, while points from James Bergin, Cathal O Connor and Tommy Redden kept JP Ryans pushing further ahead.
The second half JP Ryans managed their lead well. Shooting down the hill, Duggan, Brooks and Alan Ryan started us well. With the JPs defence keeping wolfetones at bay, particularly Captain Ronan Cahil at full back and Cathal Curran at centre back marshalling organising the team, Tommy Redden punished every chance he got.
In the end, the team play and experience from JP Ryans was too much for Wolfetones at their first time of asking. JP Ryans ran out 6 point winners
JP RYANS : 1-25 Vancouver Wolfetones 1-19
JP RYANS WIN THE JUNIOR A CHAMPIONSHIP
In what was the closest game of the day, JP Ryans ran out winners of the Junior A hurling Championship! They did leave it late however, with Paul "Yom" Nolan stepping up to smash a goal from a 21 yard free with the last puck of the game, JP Ryans winning by a point.
What a year to celebrate!
We've done the Senior and Intermediate Vancouver Championship and then followed it up with the Senior and Intermediate Canadian Championships
We were delighted to be able to get together and celebrate the achievements of the club and present the medals from 2022.
JP Ryans 0-14 Cu Chulainn 1-10
It was a familiar pairing in the National Canadian Senior Hurling Final after both Vancouver teams made it past Toronto opposition in the semi-finals.
It would prove to be the closest game between JP Ryans and Cu Chulainn with a solitary point proving the difference. After some fantastic weather for both semi-finals on the Saturday, a downpour sunday morning didnt take away from a competitive fixture between the fierce rivals.
From throw in it was clear that scores wouldnt come easy. Points were hard to come by but Aidan Baird and James Bergin got JP Ryans moving. Free's were the majority of the scores in the early exchanges with Eamon Bracken proving vital, contributing a sideline cut from the right sideline along with his accuracy from frees. JP Ryans lead at the break 0-08 to 0-06.
Cu Chulainn got the better start in the second half with a goal to put them in front. With the wind and rain not calming down, both sides were finding it hard to settle, but a scores from Ferg Killeen and James Bergin got JP Ryans back up and running after some great delivery from Mansfield in the middle of the park. Free's from Eamon Bracken had JP Ryans level 0-12 to 1-09.
A score from Cu Chulainns Tony Murphy had them take the lead coming into the last 5 minutes. That score seemed to spark JP Ryans. Every Cu Chulainn attack from then on was stopped. JP Ryan's forwards began to up the pressure with Billy Lane, James Bergin and Richard Hurley tackling everything. The defense closed down and swept up every loose ball with Ian O'Shea, Rob Dunphy, Cathal Curran and Ronan Cathal. As with the first half, free's would be the deciding factor in this game. Paul Murphy was brought down on the 60 yard line, Aidan Baird converted the free to level the game. With the game in the final minute, Baird and Killeen worked a scoring chance but a fantastic block by a Cu Chulainn defender put the ball out for a 65.
With the 65 being the last play of the game, anything but a score would mean extra time. Baird scored, and JP Ryans were crowned the inaugural Senior Hurling National Champions for 2022. This capped off an incredible weekend as the Intermediate Hurlers won their Final earlier in the day.
Team: Phillip Murphy, Ian O'Shea, Ronan Cahill, Robert Dunphy, Cathal Curran, Paul Murphy, Mark Mansfield, Richard Hurley, Eamon Bracken, Billy Lane, Aidan Baird, Ferg Killeen, James Bergin.
Subs: Kevin O'Shea, Willie Donnellan, Emmet Ryan, Eddie Fogarty, Colm O'Brein, Eoin Walsh.