Sport
Pitch and Putt
Many of Ireland's Pitch and Putt courses are situated in the grounds of a hospital like St. Stephen’s, which lies just ten kilometres from Ireland’s second city (and one of Pitch and Putt’s strongholds) – Cork.
Camogie
Sarsfields Camogie Club first played camogie in the Riverstown/Glanmire area back in the 1940s. Today the club trains several teams including Junior A, Under 8, Under10, Under 12, Under 14, Under 16 and Under 18. The colours of the club are blue, white and black.
Hurling
Sarsfields Hurling Club is one of the oldest hurling Clubs in Cork, est. 1896 in the pike field Sallybrook, by a group of people led by Billy O' Neill from Sarsfields Court. Sarsfields Hurling Club now has the best of facilities including a club house, two playing pitches, a hurling wall, an all-weather pitch, four new dressing rooms and a new club gym. The club has a number of inter-county players in the past and present like Paddy Barry, Alan Lotty, Micka Brennan, Teddy McCarthy, John Considine, Garvan McCarthy,son of Paddy and Deirdre McCarthy,Church Hill, Glanmire, Co. Cork, Bertie Óg and Tadgh Murphy. At Present Sarsfields have representatives at various intercouty levels - Kieran Murphy, Conor O'Sullivan, Ray Ryan, Tadhg Óg Murphy and Eoin O'Sullivan. Basketball
The Glanmire Ladies Basketball Club is based in the Little Island Sports Complex in Wallingstown, Little Island. They have 10 teams including Glanmire Division 1 (national), Galnmire Premier, Glanmire Division 2, Under 20, Under 18, Under 16 & Under 15, Under 14 & Under 13, Under 12, and Under 10.
Rugby
Rugby training takes place in Old Christians RFC in Ballincrossig, Rathcooney, Glanmire. The club has an underage section catering for teams from under 8 to under 12 in the mini rugby leagues, under 13 in friendly mode and under 14 to under 20 in the South Munster Underage leagues.
Football
Riverstown FC is a County Cork soccer club catering for players in the Riverstown and Glanmire areas. The club was formed in 1994. Riverstown has teams for boys and girls in the 6-10 year olds academy, boys teams from under 11s to under 16s, and a senior women's team. Riverstown has an arrangement with Glounthaune United whereby when girls leave the academy they play for Glounthaune until the reach senior women's level. They then return to play for Riverstown FC. The club's colours are yellow and black.
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