With the afterglow of their AIB All-Ireland Club JHC victory shining, Kilbrittain have received a boost on the footballing front.<\/p>\n
While Luke Griffin and Conor Ustianowski had been playing with Clonakilty in the big-ball code, both have submitted requests to transfer back to Kilbrittain for the coming season.<\/p>\n
Both players started for Clon in last year\u2019s McCarthy Insurance Group Football League Division 1 final against St Finbarr\u2019s, which the West Cork club lost after extra time.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for Martin O\u2019Brien\u2019s side, another defeat to the Barrs in their opening Premier SFC game and a loss to Carrigaline ended their hopes of qualification for the knockout stages before pride was restored in an emphatic win over Carbery Rangers.<\/p>\n
Griffin, whose father Noel played inter-county for Clare wand was centre-back on the Clon side that won the 2009 county SFC, appeared as a sub in both the Carrigaline and Carbery Rangers games.<\/p>\n
Despite the absence of Griffin and Ustianowski, Kilbrittain performed well in the Bandon Co-op Carbery JAFC last year, reaching the semi-finals, where they were edged out after extra time by a Kilmacabea side that would go on to county glory.<\/p>\n
The fact that the Leap club \u2013 who won five of the last nine editions of the divisional championship \u2013 are now gone from the south-west scene means that there is an openness to the grade and the return of Griffin and Ustianowski will give Kilbrittain extra attacking threat and offset any travelling-related departures.<\/p>\n
The draw for the Carbery JAFC for the coming year has yet to be made, while in hurling, following promotion to the Co-op SuperStores Cork IAHC, Kilbrittain will face Russell Rovers, neighbours Bandon and Aghada.<\/p>\n
After an elongated 2025 season that ended in Croke Park on January 10, Kilbrittain are in RedFM Hurling League Division 5 action against Midleton on March 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the afterglow of their AIB All-Ireland Club JHC victory shining, Kilbrittain have received a boost on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-280242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}