Great new picture exhibition on 1916 and the tan war on the third floor of the jail. Enjoyed the tour this morning as there was a big crowd there. I learned a new fact, that over 500 women were interned there in 1923.
Pearse McLoughlin, a great friend of Joe Brady, was the first organiser of the restoration of the jail in 1960. Worth a vist over the hoilday period.
Our annual general meeting took place on the 15 of December. A good attendance was recorded and it was one of the better AGM’s over many years.
A number of good debates and contributions were put forward from the floor and the club officials. It is good to see that we are just holding our heads above water financially.
This is due to the efforts of many of our members over the year. We also got a run down on the state of our teams and our coaching. A good debate about physio’s and player’s insurance took place. All in all it was a good night for the club.
Club positions for 2012 are as follows:
Club chairman - N Paget
Vice Chair – P Brady
Secretary – M Paget
Assistant Secretary - H Dodrill
Treasurer - S Magill
Ass Treasurer - T Smither
P.R.O - E Lagan
Juvenile Rep - T.Mc Keogh
Players Rep - Gerry O’Reilly
Board Delegates - J Lyons, L Kelly, S Mc Gill
Senior Hurling Manager - D Forgarty
Second Adult Hurling Team – D Fagan
Third Hurling Team – D Sweetman
Minor Hurling Team - S Mc Gratten
Inter Football Team - D.Murphy
Second Adult Football Team - N Kehoe
Third Adult Football Team - P Quinn
Minor Football Team - Seamus McGratten
Forty of our members travel down to Fenit on the 6th of January on the sixteen anniversary trip to Churchill GAA club in Co Kerry.
On the 4th of February, 40 members of the Churchill GAA club will travel up to Dublin for the Dublin v Kerry match in Croke park. They will also play Fionnbarrs in a football challenge in the Bogies on the day of the match and will adjourn to the clubhouse for refreshments for the evening.
The club committee sends Christmas greetings and a peaceful new year to all our members.
On this special family day we think of all our members who are away from their family in lands across the world. We also have in our thoughts those members who have passed to the other world this year.
As the song goes “Our Spirt is batter and bruised but never broken.” Nollaig Shona Duit.
The second adult hurling team has a meeting in the club house at 8-15pm on Wednesday the 21 Dec in the club house.
On the same time and same place the third adult hurling team are meeting at 8-15pm. On Tuesday 20 Dec at 7 o clock the second adult football team are meeting in the club house.
Because the A.G.M. is been held on Thursday the Christmas Draw is reschedule to Saturday the 17 Dec. at 10 o clock.
Thursday 15 Dec is the night of the AGM, hopefully we will get a good attendance. On the same night is our Christmas draw and again we hope all the club members have bought their tickets to support the running of the teams.
35 parents and children went to the Tayto Park in Dunshaughlin for their Christmas outing. We had a great day which was enjoyed by all. The team want to thank the mentors and the committee for all the help over the year.
