Dromcollogher/ Broadford GAA Notes
January 18, 2011For Wednesday and Thursday 19th and 20th of January 2011
AGM
Our Annual AGM was held in the GAA Clubhouse Dromcollogher, there on last Sunday, there was Mass before the AGM for Deceased members of the GAA in our Club and Cannon Ambrose was the priest for the Mass. The Secretary, Treasurer, PRO and Chairman Address were all read out on the night and the election of Officers was as Follows: Chairman Seamus Lordan, Vice Chairmen Garry Noonan and Tommie Reidy, Secretary Denis O'Carroll, Asst. Secretary Tom McLoughlin, Registrar Jim Barry, PRO Gareth Meaney, and Substance and Child Officer Maurice McCarthy. Committee is as follows: Jimmy Lacey, Christine McCarthy, John Kiely, Patch McCarthy, Pat Lordan, Garrett Noonan, Ben Noonan, Gene Nunan, John Brudair, Maurice Browne, Ted O'Brien, Eoin Barry.
Secretary s Report 2010
16-01-2011
A Cathaoirligh is a cairde Gael
Here i my report for the activities of Dromcollogher Broadford Gaa Club 2010
I would like to thank Gareth Meaney for a detailed PRO report for the year. The highlight for the year was minor A West and county double. This was a great achievement and it is very important that we build on this success. We won three in a row west Senior Football Championships. This is a major milestone as a club we are at a crossroads to push on and build on this senior success with a new crop of young players and an experienced older group. I would like to thank John Brudair and his management team for a job well done. Our Junior Team noticed a step in standards compared to novice and hopefully we can improve with an injection of youth into this team also. Our under 21 footballers got to the west B final but could not beat St Kieran's. This was a very young side so we can be optimistic. Thanks to Denny Scollard and Jim Barry for taking care of these two teams. Our minor footballers had a great season, not losing a game, played great football and won a west and county A title. I would like to thank the other managers who co operated with me as manager to get these minors over the line. I would also like to thank Ray Lynch Garrett Noonan and Gareth Meaney for their help.
In Junior Hurling we had change of management with Dennis O Carroll taking on the challenge. We won the West Junior League but did not qualify from the "group of Death" in the championship. Our Novice team got to the West semi Final but lost to Feohanagh. This was a young side and hurling will benefit from the minor A success. In the under 21 B Hurling, St Kieran's put a stop to our gallop in the semi final. I would like Dennis O Carroll and his management teams for all their work and hopefully we can push on in 2011 and land some championship silverware. Our minor hurlers had a great season.
We got off to a bad start with a loss to Mick Neville's but there was no stopping them after that, going all the way and winning a minor A west and county. I would like to thank Pat McCarthy and Ger Madigan and their backroom team for a job well done. I would like to thank the minor panel for their effort and they got their just reward.
On the Intercounty scene, Sean Buckley captained the Limerick Senior Football Team to win Division 4 of the National football league. Garrett Noonan was also on the panel. Derry McCarthy Eoin Barry Ray Lynch and Gary Egan played on the Limerick Intermediate football team. Micheal Brosnan Brian and |Kevin Noonan were on the Limerick minor Football team. Damian Lacey played with the Limerick under 15 hurling team. Micheal Reidy was a selector with the Limerick Under 21 football team, Garrett Noonan is a selector for the Limerick Minor team 2011. Tommy Stack managed the Limerick Ladies Junior team to win the All Ireland Junior Championship, Clodagh Reidy Joanne O Gorman and Jennifer Stokes were on the team. Congrats to Ray Lynch for winning a west senior football All Star award, Micheal Brosnan got the minor hurling All Star and Brian Noonan got the Minor Football All Star. Tom O Brien won the Munster all star masters award for handball. He also won an emerald masters all Ireland. CJ Fitzpatrick won a doubles all Ireland with Seamus Carroll.
Our Lady Footballers won county titles at Under 14 and under 16 levels. The bord nog who won an under 16 division 2 shield final in hurling. I would like to thank Bord Na Nog for keeping our playing structures going. This is becoming more difficult year after year as our playing population is decreasing.
In July Tommy Reidy organised a great evening to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1960 county under 16 hurling title in the clubhouse. The entire panel was represented on the night. Thank you Tommy.
In December we remembered our friend and colleague Dennis Noonan and played a friendly Game 2001 Senior Team V 2010 Senior Team. Garrett Noonan accepted the Dennis Noonan Memorial cup from Pat and George Noonan on behalf of the 2010 Senior Team who won the game.
We had 20 club meetings during the year, attended by an average of 11 members per meeting. 25 text messages were sent out for each meeting. Thank you for your commitment. The meetings were dominated by the roof issue and i am sorry to say that we have made no progress made in resolving the issue. On a good note Broadford Pitch is back in use and has been used by underage teams to train.
I would like to thank my assistant Tom McLoughlin, PRO Gareth Meaney and all other officers of the club, the managers, selectors, and players and anyone who contributed to our club during year.
It is not what your club can do for you but what you can do for your club.
Muiris McCarthaigh
Runai
Pro Report 2010
This was another great year for the club we won the County and West Minor A Double in both Hurling and Football for the first time ever in this club, the West Senior Football Championship for the third year in a row and we won also the West Junior A Hurling League title for the second year running.
We played in the Munster Junior B Football Championship in the months of February and March. We lost the Munster Junior B Football Final to Churchill of Kerry on a scoreline of 0-14 to 0-03 and after defeating Smith O Brien of Clare in the semi-Final on a scoreline of 0-7 to 0-5.
West Senior Football Championship
We defeated Mountcollins in the Quarter final on Saint Patrick's Day, on a scoreline of 2-14 to 1-10 with the goals on the day coming from Ray Lynch and Jason Ryan. In the Semi-Final we defeated St. Kieran's on a scoreline of 2-9 to 1-3 the first goal of the game came from Derry McCarthy and then in the second half Brian Noonan made a great run and he then hand passed the ball to Michaél Reidy and he put the ball into the back of St. Kieran's net and sealed victory for Dromcollogher/ Broadford. This put them in the final against Newcastle West, this was a repeat of last year's final. In the final we defeated Newcastle West in a great game of football played down in Fr. Casey's GAA Pitch, Abbeyfeale on a scoreline of 2-10 to 2-08, the scores on the day for Dromcollogher/ Broadford were: Ray Lynch (1-1), Derry McCarthy (1-0), Sean Buckley (0-3), Pat Donnelly (0-3), Michaél Reidy (0-2), Tom McLoughlin (0-1) and Michael O'Sullivan (0-1).
County Senior Football Championship
We were drawn in a group of Monaleen, Ballysteen, St. Patrick's, Claughaun, and St. Kieran's.
In the first round we defeated Monaleen on a scoreline of 0-13 to 0-07, in the second round we defeated Ballysteen on a scoreline of 1-12 to 0-8, with the goal coming from Michaél Reidy. After the break we defeated St. Patrick's, in round 3 on a scoreline of 3-14 to 1-12, with the goals coming from Sean Buckley 2 goals and the other goals from Garrett Noonan. In round 4 we defeated Claughaun on a scoreline of 0-9 to 0-4 and then round 5 we defeated St. Kieran's on a scoreline of 1-8 to 0-9, with the goal coming from Derry McCarthy. This put into a semi-final against Monaleen a repeat of 2005 Semi-Final and we lost a scoreline of 0-12 to 0-11, the scores on the day were: Derry McCarthy (0-4), Michaél Reidy (0-3), Sean Buckley (0-2), Ray Lynch (0-1) and Tom McLoughlin (0-1).
West Junior A Football League
We lost in round 1 to Newcastle West on a scoreline of 2-14 to 1-07, in round 2 we defeated Monagea on a scoreline of 1-10 to 0-09 and then in round 3 we lost to St. Mary's/ Sean Finn's on a scoreline of 2-13 to 1-11.
West Junior A Football Championship
We were drawn in a group of Fr. Casey's, St. Mary's/ Sean Finn's and Cappagh. In round 1 we lost to Fr. Casey's on a scoreline of 1-10 to 0-07 and then in round 2 we lost to Cappagh on a scoreline of 2-11 to 0-07, we also lost to St. Mary's/ Sean Finn's in round 3 on a scoreline of 4-10 to 0-05.
West Junior A Hurling League
In round 1 we got a walkover from Croagh/ Kilfinny, in round 2 we drew with Templeglantine on a scoreline of 5-4 to 0-19, in round 3 we defeated Adare on a scoreline of 4-18 to 3-7 and then in Round 5 we defeated St. Mary's/ Sean Finn's on a scoreline of 2-13 to 2-04. In the final we defeated Templeglantine on a scoreline of 2-18 to 3-13, the scores on the night were: Paul Madigan (1-1), Derry McCarthy (0-12), Eoin Barry (0-2), John Madigan (0-1) and John Ryan (0-1).
County Junior A Hurling League
We lost in the semi-Final to Ballybrown on a scoreline of 1-13 to 0-12, the scorers on the day were: Derry McCarty 6 points, Eoin Barry 3 points, John Madigan a point and Michaél Reidy a point.
West Junior A Hurling Championship
We were drawn in a group of Feenagh/ Kilmeedy, St. Kieran's and Feoghanagh.
We lost to Feenagh/ Kilmeedy in round 1 on a scoreline of 4-11 to 0-09, in round 2 we defeated St. Kieran's on a scoreline of 5-19 to 1-14, with three goals coming from Derry McCarthy, Paul Madigan a goal and Timmy O'Carroll a goal. In round 3 we lost to Feoghanagh on a scoreline of 0-19 to 2-07, with the goals coming from Derry McCarthy and Michaél Reidy.
West Junior B Hurling League
In round 1 we lost to Tournafulla on a scoreline of 1-8 to 0-7, in round 2 we lost to Killeedy on a scoreline of 3-12 to 1-06 and we gave two walkovers to Feoghanagh and St. Kieran's in the last two rounds.
West Junior B Hurling Championship
We were drawn in a group of St. Kieran's, Feenagh/ Kilmeedy, Askeaton and Newcastle West. After having a bye in round 1, we defeated St. Kieran's in round 2 on a scoreline of 0-12 to 1-07, in round 3 we defeated Feenagh/ Kilmeedy on a scoreline of 0-16 to 1-10. In round 4 we defeated Newcastle West on a scoreline of 1-13 to 2-09, the goal on the day came from Colm Meaney and we got a walkover from Askeaton in the last round. We qualified for the Semi-Final but we lost to Feoghanagh on a scoreline of 1-14 to 0-07, with the scores on the day coming from Keith Lacey 6 points and Colm Meaney a point.
U21 West B Hurling Championship
We defeated Croagh/ Kilfinny in round 2 on scoreline of 0-18 to 0-14, in round 3 we defeated St. Kieran's on a scoreline of 1-14 to 0-10, with the goal coming from Keith Lacey. In round 4 we received a walkover from Askeaton. We lost the semi-final to St. Kieran's on a scoreline 0-12 to 0-10, with scores on the day were: Keith Lacey 7 points, Jimmy Kiely 2 points and Daniel Collins a point.
U21 West Football Championship
We were drawn in a group of Shannon Gaels, St. Senan's, Bunoke Gaels and Knockaderry. We defeated Bunoke Gaels in round 1 on a scoreline of 3-11 to 1-1, with two goals coming from Timmy O'Carroll and Micheál Brosnan a goal. In round 2 we defeated St. Senan's on a scoreline of 2-7 to 0-8, with the goals coming from Jimmy Kiely and Daniel Collins. In round 4 we lost to Shannon Gaels on a scoreline of 1-12 to 0-7 and then in round 5 we got walkover from Knockaderry. At this stage there was three teams level on points in the group and a three-way playoff had to take place to determine who would take first place in the group and play in the A Final. Shannon Gaels defeated St. Senan's in the first playoff on a scoreline of 0-12 to 0-10 and then in the second playoff we lost to Shannon Gaels on a scoreline of 1-14 to 0-03, this result puts into the B Semi-Final against Granagh/ Ballingarry, in which we received a walkover. In the final we lost to St. Kieran's on a scoreline of 2-11 to 3-5, in a very good game and tight game between two evenly matched teams with St. Kieran's coming out on top by four points in the end. We scored a goal inside the first minute of the first half coming from Timmy O'Carroll and then Michaél Brosnan scored the second goal of the game from a penalty and then Brian Noonan scored the third goal in the second half.
West Minor Football Championship
In round 1 we defeated Deel Rangers on a scoreline of 4-18 to 2-7, with three goals coming from Paul Madigan and Daniel Collins a goal. In round 2 we defeated St. Senan's, on a scoreline of 6-18 to 0-03. In round 3 we defeated Adare on a scoreline of 4-7 to 0-08, with two goals coming from Jimmy Kiely, Michaél Brosnan a goal and Paul Madigan a goal. In Round 4 we defeated Glin on a scoreline of 5-10 to 0-05, with three goals coming from Jimmy Kiely and Michaél Brosnan 2 goals. In Round 6 we received a walkover from St. James's and then in round 6 we defeated St. Mary's/ Sean Finn's on a scoreline of 4-7 to 1-7, with goals coming from Paul Madigan, Michaél Brosnan, Keith Lacey and Jimmy Kiely. This put us into the A Final against Adare, which we won on a scoreline of 1-12 to 1-05, the scores on the day were: Michaél Brosnan (1-1), Jimmy Kiely (0-4), Daniel Collins (0-4), Liam O'Shaughnessy (0-1) and Kevin Noonan (0-1).
County Minor Football Championship
In the semi-Final we defeated Na Piarsaigh on a scoreline of 6-8 to 0-8, the scorers on the day were: Paul Madigan (3-0), Daniel Collins (2-1), Kevin Noonan (1-2), Jimmy Kiely (0-2), Micheál Brosnan (0-1), Liam O'Shaughnessy (0-1), Naill O'Brien (0-1). In the Final we defeated Ballylanders on a scoreline of 3-9 to 2-6. We scored the first goal inside the first twenty seconds from Micheál Brosnan and then for the second goal Liam O'Shaughnessy took a shot for Dromcollogher/ Broadford and it hit upright and Jimmy Kiely caught the rebound and put it into the back of Bally net. We scored our third goal of the game just before half-time coming from Micheál Brosnan and then in the second half we scored a good number of points and these came from Michaél Brosnan 4 points, Jimmy Kiely 2 points, Naill O'Brien a point and Keith Lacey a point.
West Minor Hurling Championship
We lost in round 1 to Mick Neville's on a scoreline of 4-16 to 2-11, with the goals coming from Jimmy Kiely and Keith Lacey and then in round 3 we defeated Newcastle West on a scoreline of 2-19 to 1-05. In round 4 we received a walkover from St. Coleman's and then in round 5 we defeated Allaghaun Gaels on a scoreline of 2-16 to 1-10, with the goals coming from Paul Madigan and Daniel Collins. This put into the A Final where we defeated Mick Neville's a reversal of the score cards from earlier in the year we won by 2-15 to 1-05, the scores on the day were: Keith Lacey (1-8),Michaél Brosnan (0-5), Paul Madigan (1-0)Brian Noonan (0-1), Seamus Brosnan (0-1).
County Minor Hurling Championship
In the Semi-Final we defeated Ahane on a scoreline of 0-11 to 1-7, the scores on the day were: Keith Lacey (0-5), Jimmy Kiely (0-2), Kevin Noonan (0-2) and Michaél Brosnan (0-1). In the final we defeated South Liberties which was another reversal of the score cards from U16 Hurling Division 2 Shield Final which they defeated us by four points but this time we won a scoreline of 3-11 to 0-09, the scorers for us on the day were: Keith Lacey (0-7), Thomas Fitzgerald (2-0), Daniel Collins (1-2), Michael Brosnan (0-2).
Fundraising
Our Annual Race Night was held in Skullers Bar, Dromcollogher on Sunday December, 5th, a great night was had by all. Rita Nash won the €500 prize on the night. Our Annual Church Gate Collection was held in both Dromcollogher and Broadford churches on the Weekend October 9th and 10th. The Spin and Win has being run weekly throughout the year. The above club would like to thank anybody who supported the club in any way during the year.
County Teams
This year we had a lot of players on county teams from the club, Sean Buckley was captain of the Limerick Senior Football team for the year. Limerick qualified for the Division 4 League Final against Waterford which they won and they defeated Waterford on a scoreline of 1-17 to 1-09 in the Munster Semi-Final and they lost to Kerry in the Munster Final on a scoreline of 1-17 to 1-14. In the qualifiers they lost to Cork after extra time on a scoreline of 0-16 to 1-11. Garrett Noonan was also a member of the Limerick Senior Football team. We had four on the Limerick Junior Football panel Derry McCarthy, Gary Egan, Eoin Barry, and Ray Lynch. They won against Waterford on a scoreline of 0-9 to 1-5 and lost to Kerry in the Munster Final on a scoreline of 3-12 to 1-06. Michaél Brosnan, Brian Noonan and Kevin Noonan were members of the Limerick Minor Football team that defeated Waterford in the first round on a scoreline of 3-10 to 2-4 and they lost to Kerry in the Semi-final on a scoreline of 2-15 to 0-07. Damien Lacey also made the Limerick U15 Hurling team.
Jimmy Kiely, Paul Madigan, Seamus Brosnan, Daniel Collins and Darren Boyce were members of the Limerick VEC Football Team that lost to Kerry in the Munster Football B VEC Final.
We are getting three All-Starts at the West Senior Board All-Stars Awards Function on Saturday February 19th and they are Senior Football Ray Lynch, Minor A Football Brian Noonan and Minor A Hurling Michéal Brosnan.
Thanks
I would like to thank our main sponsor Noel and Nora Morrissey of Skullers Bar and Corner House both in Dromcollogher for both Hurling and football. I would like to thank to West Board Officers especially Johnny Walsh and Seamus McNamara, the County Board officers especially Mike O'Riordan, Mickey O'Sullivan and Helen Cross, Limerick Football Board officers especially Collette O'Grady. I would like to thank my Fellow Officers in the club Seamus Lordan Maurice McCarthy, Charlie Butler, Kieran Ryan, Tom McLoughlin, Jim Barry, Garry Noonan, Tommie Reidy and Siobhan McCarthy. I wish to thank the Bord Na Nóg Officers of the club: Kieran Ryan, John Leahy and Pat Lordan. I wish to thank all the committee members and supporters of Dromcollogher/ Broadford GAA.
I wish to thank all the team mangers: Senior Football John Brudair, Junior A Football Dinny Scollard, U21 Football Dinny Scollard, Minor Football Maurice McCarthy, Junior A Hurling Denis O'Carroll, Junior B Hurling Denis O'Carroll, U21 Hurling Jim Barry, and Minor Hurling Pat McCarthy. I wish thank two people in the club that helped during the year and gave me a lot advice and guidance and they are Christine McCarthy and Denis O'Carroll.
I wish to thank Matt O'Callaghan of the Weekly Observer/ Vale Star and his staff for publishing my notes and for the great coverage that they gave the club during the year, I wish to thank Jerome O'Connell and Brian McDonald in the Limerick Leader for publishing my notes and for the great coverage that they gave the club during the year.
I wish to thank Liam Aherne and Limerick Live 95FM for the great GAA coverage that they gave the club during the year. I wish to thank John Ryan and Jim Hartnett of West Limerick Radio for the great GAA coverage that they gave us during the year. I wish to thank the Hogan Stand for publishing for notes online during the year and Kevin McDermott of mylocalnews.ie and his staff for the publishing my notes during the year.
I wish to thank my Family Ger, Maura and Colm for their help and support during the year.
I would like to wish a happy new year to everyone involved in Dromcollogher/ Broadford GAA.
Sympathy
I would like to sympathise with the Conway family of Knocktoosh, Broadford on death of Neily Conway recently, Neil his son has won a lot of titles with the club down through the years, Neil was a member of the team that won the Munster Senior Football Club Championship title back in 2008 defeating Kilmurry/ Ibrickane of Clare in the final and he also was a member of the Limerick U21 Team that lost to Tyrone back in 2001 in the All-Ireland Championship, may Neily rest in peace and also I would like to sympathise with any other members of the club who may lost relatives during the year.
Gareth Meaney
PRO
DVDS
DVDS of the Minor a Football Championship Final against Ballylanders are available from Gareth Meaney on 087-7674591, which we won a scoreline of 3-9 to 2-6, to complete the double in the Minor A in both Hurling and Football, in both the County and West. There is DVDS of the Football only available and they are selling at €15 each
Social
The Annual Social of the above club will be held in the Hall, Dromcollogher, on Saturday January 29th 2011, at 9pm and ticket prices are €20 and also note that the club committee has decided that the Minor Hurlers and Minor Footballers that won the double county there last year that the tickets for them will be at a discount price of €10, Johnny Aherne is doing the music on the night and tickets can be got from the following people: Seamus Lordan, Maurice McCarthy and Charlie Butler.
West Board All-Star awards
The above club have three awards to get at the West Board All-Stars Awards function date to be announced, the above would like to congratulate all players on their performance during the year and especially to award winners Senior Football Ray Lynch, Minor Football Brian Noonan and Minor Hurling Michéal Brosnan, we have no control over these awards as they were picked by the West Board Officers.
Board Na Nóg AGM
Will take place on this Saturday Night 22nd January at 8.30pm, in the GAA Clubhouse, Dromcollogher and Members, parents and Support of Dromcollogher/ Broadford GAA are asked to attend this very important meeting.
Website
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