Presentation Brothers College v Christian Brothers College Match Programme
Get match ready by reading your free copy of the digital match programme. We take a look at both squads and the path they have taken to reach the final of this season’s Pinergy Munster Schools Boys Senior Cup. Read our match preview as we look back on the performances of the two finalists in the competition so far.
Get match ready by reading your free copy of the digital match programme.
We take a look at both squads and the path they have taken to reach the final of this season’s Pinergy Munster Schools Boys Senior Cup.
Read our match preview as we look back on the performances of the two finalists in the competition so far.
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SUMMARY OF WINNERS<br />
31 31<br />
Wins<br />
<strong>Presentation</strong> <strong>Brothers</strong> <strong>College</strong> - <strong>Christian</strong> <strong>Brothers</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
26 12 5<br />
Rockwell <strong>College</strong> Crescent <strong>College</strong> Comp St Munchin’s <strong>College</strong><br />
4 Wins – <strong>Christian</strong> <strong>Brothers</strong> School – Limerick<br />
1 Win – Abbey School – Tipperary<br />
1 Win – PBC Cobh<br />
1 Win – Mungret <strong>College</strong><br />
1 Win – Castletroy <strong>College</strong><br />
1 Win – Glenstal Abbey School<br />
IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN TODAY<br />
The 1916 final, or more specifically the<br />
celebrations that followed, spawned one<br />
of the most bizarre incidents the Munster<br />
Schools Senior Cup has ever seen. Jubilant<br />
<strong>Christian</strong> <strong>Brothers</strong> <strong>College</strong> supporters<br />
celebrating their 3-1 final victory over local<br />
rivals Pres at the Mardyke were mistaken<br />
by a local Daily Mail reporter as dissenting<br />
rioters, venting their feelings by ‘waving<br />
flags and blowing bugles, while others more<br />
fearless…threw explosives in the shape of<br />
Chinese crackers amongst the crowd.’<br />
next day, eventually escalating right to the<br />
House of Commons on the 7th of March the<br />
following year through a complaint made by<br />
the Lord Mayor of Cork. The following day<br />
the paper issued a formal apology for causing<br />
‘so much’ local indignation and illfeeling,<br />
and that the paper made a donation<br />
to the poor box.<br />
The first, and probably last time a Munster<br />
Schools match will ever be discussed at<br />
Parliament!<br />
A terse riposte came in the shape of a letter<br />
which appeared in the Cork Examiner the
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