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MUNSTER GAA AWARDS by GER RYAN
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 Hall of Fame Winners
Announced for 2016 Munster GAA Awards – Cork and Limerick Legends to join elite band Cork ace
Charlie
hurling. After he retired he be-
came involved in coaching at club and inter-county level. The highlight was when he coached his club to County senior success. The Football Hall of
Fame award goes to John Quane of
forward, McCarthy, and
Limerick football star, John Quane, are the lat- est Munster legends to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, it was announced today. The two greats will receive their awards at the Munster GAA Awards Gala Dinner on Satur- day, December 10th
in the
Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork. This
year’s Hurling
Hall of Fame goes to Charlie McCarthy of St. Finbarr’s and Cork who has given distinguished service as a player and coach both at club and inter-county level. As a player, he terrorised many corner backs with his daz- zling skills throughout his club and inter-county ca- reer, which lasted the best part of
two decades. He
was a dual inter-county minor, winning a Munster medal in both hurling and football. He captained his Cork to All-Ireland senior glory in 1978 completing a coveted 3-in-a-row of ti- tles for the Rebel County. His honours as an in-
ter-county player include seven All-Ireland medals and 12 Munster medals between minor, Under-21 and senior grades along with four National hurl- ing league medals. He also captained Munster to Railway Cup glory. At club level his honours in- cluded two All-Ireland, four Munster and five County titles. His record speaks for itself among the greats of Cork and
Galtee Gaels
and Limerick who was an ever present member of the Limerick Senior Foot- ball teams for 14 years from 1991 to 2005. The inspirational midfielder played in the 1991 Mun- ster Senior Football Final against Kerry in Killarney in his first year on the sen- ior team. He was a cor- nerstone of the teams that came so near to winning the Munster Finals of 2003 and 2004. His hero- ic performances merited an All Star nomination in 2002. John represented Mun-
ster in the Railway Cup on numerous
occasions,
a highlight being his con- tribution to the 1999 win. A career highlight was his selection for the
Inter-
national Rules Series in 1999. John won his sole Lim-
erick Senior Football Championship with Gl- encunane Rovers in 1991 and his clean sweep of county medals was com- pleted by Galtee Gaels winning the junior cham- pionship in 1988 and the intermediate title in 1993. A true legend of Lim-
erick football, John will go down as one of the best to have worn the green and white.
Commenting on the announcement
of the
Hall of Fame winners for 2015, Jerry O’Sullivan, Chairman of Munster Council said: “Charlie McCarthy was one of the best forwards ever to play for Cork and played a major role in Cork’s 3 in- a-row successes between 1976 and 78. He also had
a stellar underage career. John Quane will rank as one of the best players never to win a Munster championship although he was agonisingly close on a couple of occasions. He ranks among Limer- ick’s very best footballers. The great
playing skills
and many achievements of both Charlie and John are worthy of recognition and I am delighted to see them honoured with this year’s Hall of Fame awards” Other 2016 award
winners also announced today are Micheál Mac Conmara of An Clár who receives the Special Ser- vice Award for his long and distinguished service to Scór; Cork’s Michael Hurley for Under 21 Football, Clare’s David Conroy of Clare for In- termediate Hurling and Jamie Lee of Limerick for Junior Football.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 8 Senior Hurler, Camogie, Club, Handball Winners Announced for 2016 Munster GAA Awards Tipperary hurler, John
McGrath, and Limerick Camogie player, Niamh Mulcahy, have been an- nounced as the winners of the Hurler of the Year and Camogie Player of the Year respectively in the 2016 Munster GAA Awards. The awards will be presented on Saturday night at a gala dinner in the Rochestown Park Ho- tel in Cork. John McGrath, from
the Loughmore-Cas- tleiney club, made his championship debut against Cork in the Mun- ster Quarter-Final this year, scored 1 point and made a big impact on the game. He also scored a point in the in the semi-fi-
nal against Limerick. John was at his explosive best in the Munster Final shoot- ing 3-2 including a goal from a penalty and picked up the RTE Man of the Match Award.
John re-
ceived his first All-Star Award last month. He has also won many honours at underage level in both football and hurling with Tipperary.
Niamh Mulcahy has
been Limerick’s outstand- ing player of recent years and she has received All- Star nominations in 2015 and 2016 to go along with one from 2009, Interme- diate Soaring Star awards in 2013 and 2014 and a Young Player of the Year award in 2007. Niamh has been involved with the Limerick Camogie team since 2005 and with the county she has won Division 2 League Titles in 2007 and 2013, Senior B Championship in 2007, Intermediate Champion- ship in 2014.A most skilful player, Niamh scored 2-49 in this year’s champion- ship making her the sec- ond highest scorer overall. The Club of the Year
Award goes to Clare with Ballyea being honoured having won their first Clare and Munster senior hurling championships this year. They took the Clare hurling world by storm winning their first senior title after a replay against Clonlara. They continued their good run in the Munster campaign with a thrilling win over Thurles Sarsfields after extra-time and then de- feated the
famed Glen
Rovers to be crowned Munster club champions for the first time. The Handball Award
goes to Aishling O’Keeffe, a member of famed Bal- lydesmond GAA Hand- ball Club in Cork. She has been involved in Handball since a young age winning titles at all levels. In 2016 she won two Senior All Ireland titles and two Sen- ior Munster titles in both
Codes of Handball. Aish- ling is also very involved in coaching in her club and County. Munster GAA Chair-
man Jerry O’Sullivan said “I would like to congrat- ulate John, Niamh, Aish- ling and Ballyea on their well-deserved awards following their outstand- ing displays during 2016. They have set very high standards of achievement in their varied contri- butions to the family of Gaelic Games.” Other 2016 award win-
ners announced today are Munster and All-Ireland minor medallists Jake Morris of Tipperary for minor hurling and David Clifford of Kerry for mi- nor football.
FRIDAY
DECEMBER 9 Footballer, Ladies Footballer, Manager of the Year and Under 21 Hurler Announced for 2016 Munster GAA Awards Kerry’s Paul Geaney and Cork’s Rena Buckley have secured the Senior Footballer
and
nal when hitting 2-3 in a man-of-the-match dis- play against
Tipperary.
His superb contribution of 1-4 from play in the All-Ireland semi-final will live long in the memory. A first All Star award fol- lowed. Victory in the All-Ire- land Senior Ladies Football Final this year confirmed the latest achievement in the
in-
credible career of Rena Buckley from Cork. Vic- tory on September 25th brought her All Ireland Senior medal tally to a staggering 17 with 11 in ladies football and 6 in camogie. She
has also
won 11 Munster Ladies Football Senior Cham- pionships and 10 Ladies Football National League Division 1 medals. Suc- cess has also followed on the club front with county, Munster and All Ireland Club titles captured with Donoughmore. Taking over as Manag-
Footballer accolades re- spectively in the
Ladies’ 2016
Munster GAA Awards. The Manager of the Year award goes to Tipperary senior hurling manager, Michael Ryan and the under 21 Hurling Award goes to Austin Gleeson of Waterford. The
awards
will be presented on Sat- urday night at a gala din- ner in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork where all the award winners for 2016 will be honoured. Paul Geaney recovered
from injury to emerge as the stand-out forward of the championship season in Munster. The Dingle player, has already scored 6-48 in 17 championship appearances in the green and gold, 3-15 of that tal- ly coming this Summer past. He was in superb form in the Munster fi-
er in 2016 having served on previous management teams with Liam Sheedy and Eamon O’Shea, Michael Ryan brought plenty of experience and ability to the role. His new responsibilities fell lightly on his shoulders and he guided Tipperary to a sec- ond successive Munster title and then went on to lead them to All-Ireland success with an inspiring performance against old rivals Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. Tipper- ary’s victory put paid to the notion that winning the Munster
champion-
ship was an obstacle to All-Ireland success. Austin Gleeson is one
of the finest young hurlers to have emerged in recent years. He gave fantastic displays for Waterford at under 21 and senior lev- els this year and his under 21 player of the year in Munster award is a fur- ther acknowledgement of the abilities of the GAA / GPA Hurler and Young Hurler of the Year for
2016. Speaking on the an- of these
nouncement
awards Jerry O’Sullivan, Chairman of Munster GAA said “Paul Geaney and Rena Buckley con- tributed hugely to their teams’ performances this year and are deserving winner of the top playing awards in Gaelic Football and Ladies Gaelic Foot- ball
Gleeson was the star of the
respectively. Austin under 21 hurling
championship and made a huge impact at senior as well. It was marvellous to see the Munster Hurling champions, Tipperary, go on to win the All-Ireland final. They played hurling as it should be played and their Manager, Michael Ryan, deserves great cred- it
for bringing Munster
and All-Ireland honours in his first year in charge. He is a deserving winner of “Manager of the Year” The full list of Munster GAA Award winners for 2016 are as follows: Charlie
McCarthy
(Cork) – Hurling Hall of Fame John Quane (Limerick)
– Football Hall of Fame Micheál Mac Conmara (An Clár) – Special Ser- vice Award – contribution to Scór Michael Hurley (Cork)
– Under 21 Football Austin Gleeson (Water-
ford) – Under 21 Hurling David Conroy (Clare) –
Intermediate Hurling Jamie Lee (Limerick) –
Junior Football Jake Morris (Tipperary) – Minor Hurling David Clifford (Kerry) – Minor Football Niamh Mulcahy (Lim-
erick) – Camogie Rena Buckley (Cork) –
Ladies Football Aishling O’Keeffe
(Cork) – Handball Ballyea (Clare) – Club John McGrath (Tipper-
ary) – Senior Hurling Paul Geaney (Kerry) –
Senior Football Michael Ryan (Tipper- ary) – Manager
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