2006 Cork Senior Hurling Championship

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Infobox hurling championship The 2006 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 118th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the 2006 Round 1 fixtures took place on 11 December 2005. The championship began on 26 April 2006 and ended on 22 October 2006.

Newtownshandrum were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Cloyne at the semi-final stage.

On 22 October 2006, Erin's Own won the championship following a 2–19 to 3–14 defeat of Cloyne in the final. This was their second championship title overall ad their first title since 1992.

Cloyne's Paudie O'Sullivan was the championship's top scorer with 4-25.

Teams

Changes

To Championship

Promoted from the Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship

• Ballinhassig

From Championship

Declined to field a team

• Seandún

Personnel and general information

Team	Colours	Manager(s)	Captain	Last win
Avondhu	Yellow and black	Joe O'Brien	Will Twomey	1996
Ballinhassig	Blue and white	Peter Brennan Diarmuid Coleman	Martin Coleman
Blackrock	Green and yellow	Dave Keane	Alan Browne	2002
Bride Rovers	Green, white and gold	Jack Russell	Brendan Walsh
Carrigdhoun	Red and white
Castlelyons	Green and gold	John Molloy	Finnan Waters
Carbery	Purple and yellow			1994
Cork Institute of Technology	Red and white	John Meyler Keith Ricken
Cloyne	Red and black	Seán Motherway	Diarmuid O'Sullivan
Delanys	Green, white and gold	Martin Knox	Mark O'Driscoll
Douglas	Green, while and black	John Horgan
Duhallow	Orange and black	Ger Ahern
Erin's Own	Blue and red	Martin Bowen	Timmy Kelleher	1992
Glen Rovers	Green, yellow and black	Tomás Mulcahy	Paddy Cunningham	1989
Imokilly	Red and white	Ronan Dwane	Ger O'Leary	1998
Killeagh	Green and white	Teddy McCarthy	Bugsy Barry
Midleton	Black and white	Seán O'Brien	Alan Cahill	1991
Muskerry	Green and white	Mark Kenny
Na Piarsaigh	Yellow and black	Christy Connery	Dave Gardiner	1995
Newtownshandrum	Green and yellow	Simon Morrissey	Phil Noonan	2005
Sarsfields	Blue, white and black	John Barry		1957
St. Catherine's	Purple and yellow	Gerry Fitzgerald	Junior Sheehan
St. Finbarr's	Blue and gold	Jimmy Barry-Murphy	Kevin Murray	1993
University College Cork	Black and red	Paddy Crowley	Dara McSweeney	1970

Championship statistics

Top scorers

Overall

Rank	Player	Club	Tally	Total	Matches	Average
1	Paudie O'Sullivan	Cloyne	4-25	37	5	7.20
2	Maurice O'Sullivan	CIT	1-32	35	4	8.75
3	Eoghan Murphy	Erin's Own	1-31	34	5	6.80
	Mickey O'Connell	Midleton	0-34	34	4	8.50
4	Diarmuid O'Sullivan	Cloyne	3-19	28	5	5.60
5	Ben O'Connor	Newtownshandrum	1-21	24	3	8.00
6	Conor Cusack	Cloyne	6-05	23	5	4.60
7	Joe Deane	Killeagh	1-19	22	3	7.33
8	Jerome O'Driscoll	Bride Rovers	0-22	22	4	5.50
9	Adrian Coughlan	Blackrock	0-21	21	3	7.00

In a single game

Rank	Player	Club	Tally	Total	Opposition
1	Diarmuid O'Sullivan	Cloyne	3-07	16	Midleton
2	Neil Ronan	Avondhu	2-08	14	CIT
3	Eoghan Murphy	Erin's Own	1-10	13	Cloyne
4	Maurice O'Sullivan	CIT	1-09	12	Avondhu
5	Stephen P. O'Sullivan	Na Piarsaigh	2-05	11	Delanys
	John Anderson	Glen Rovers	1-08	11	Delanys
	Paudie O'Sullivan	Cloyne	1-08	11	Erin's Own
	Mickey O'Connell	Midleton	0-11	11	Cloyne
	Timmy McCarthy	Castlelyons	0-11	11	Delanys
	Adrian Coughlan	Blackrock	0-11	11	Castlelyons

Miscellaneous

• Erin's Own won the championship for the first time since 1992.
• The semi-final between Cloyne and Newtownshandrum was abandoned after just 11 minutes because of a waterlogged Páirc Uí Chaoimh pitch.
• Cloyne became the first team since Ballincollig in 1943 to lose three successive finals.
• Ballinhassig return to the senior championship for the first time since 1976