58 East Cork Carrigtwohill GAA


Barry, Dan Scannell, Eamonn O’Driscoll and Willie


Club AGM The


club held our


AGM on Thursday, De- cember 7th


munity Hall. The 2017 committee


in the Com- was very


pleased to be re-elected to continue efforts on be- half of our members for the coming year. Thank you to everyone who came along and to all those who contributed to the various discussions. Particular mention must be made to the 2017 coaches and officers for their time and efforts over the last year. Club officials, including Pres- ident Eddie O’Riordan attending his 31st


AGM,


paid their respects to prominent club members Bobby Keating, John


were lost since the last AGM.


Over 60 people turned


John Daly who Details about a


club EGM with regards potential development plans and the second part of the AGM will be an- nounced in due course.


Senior Hurling Championship Draw The


up to Carrigtwohill Community Hall last Thursday evening, in one of the bigger crowds to witness the monthly Cork GAA Clubs Draw all


year. One of the


main highlights of the evening was Denis and Mary Forde


receiving draw for the


county hurling and foot- ball championships was made in Páirc Uí Chao- imh on Devember 10th and Carrig were pitted against this year’s beaten finalists, Blackrock, in the first round of next year’s senior hurling champion- ship. The losers receive a bye in the second round.


Cork Clubs Draw


their cheque for €20,000 as September’s top prize winners. Many thanks to Aar-


on Walsh Barry, Ciara Brennan and


Caleigh


Boland for taking part in the draw on behalf of our four clubs. Credit for the evening’s success goes to John Ronan, Sheila Boland and Caroline Dixey for putting togeth- er a fantastic evening. The


club was very


pleased to welcome the new Cork Chairperson,


sport@eastcorkjournal.ie Notes


Tracey Kennedy along with her predecessor, Ger Lane, outgoing Cork GAA Treasurer Pearse Murphy,


Development


Officer Richard Murphy, Cork PRO Donal Leahy and everyone with the


involved Draw. Sincere


Cork Clubs thanks


also to all club members who attended and made this evening a great suc- cess, particularly those who helped to set up and clean up afterwards.


Long Puck The


annual ‘Long


Puck’ competition will take place on Wednes- day, December 27th 10.30am.


at


Homeless Solidarity Sleepout Well done to Padra- ic Hogan on partaking in the Gaelic Voices for Change ‘Homeless Soli-


darity Sleepout’ that took place across the country last Saturday night. Pad- raic took to a sleeping bag in Cork City from 6pm to 6am to help raise awareness of this very worthy cause. He has already helped to secure a significant amount for local and national home-


less charities with help from his clubmates, the Carrigtwohill commu- nity and the wider GAA community. We are all very proud of Padraic for his efforts and wish every- one involved with Gaelic Voices for Change best wishes. If anyone would like to find out more


about Padraic’s endeav- ours then they can visit the club’s social media for further information.


Happy Christmas The club would like


to wish all of our mem- bers and the community a very happy and blessed Christmas.


Thursday, 21st


December 2017


Castlelyons GAA


Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and Peaceful New Year.


Results of Weekly Lotto Draw


held on Monday 18.12.17. This Draw was held in


the Clubhouse on Mon- day 18.12.17. The num- bers drawn were 5, 12, 15, and 29. There was no winner. There were eight “Lucky Dip” winners of €20 each as follows: - Ki- eran Hegarty, Cal Mo-


roney, Maireád Collins, Diarmuid Barry, Criona Broderick, Mary Leigh, Rachel O’Neill and Alan Waters. The Jackpot


is


now €4,400 and our next draw is Tuesday 2nd


Janu-


ary at 9.30 pm in the Ab- bey Tavern. Thanks for your support and please remind your friends that they can play our Lotto Online or purchase from the usual sources. Wish- ing you all a very Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.


Special Christmas Lotto Raffle of Wines, Biscuits


and Chocolates. This Draw took place


as part of the Weekly Lot- to Draw of the 18th


De-


cember and the winners were as follows: - Robbie Cremin, Catherine Cash- man, Florence Waters, Jo McGann, Maura O’Sul- livan, Ita Ryan, Lester Coates, Glanbia, Barry Fitzgerald, Donal Barry, Colm Murphy and Donal O’Connell.


Cork GAA Clubs Draw. We had a winner in the


Decembers Draw as Bar- ry Fitzgerald won €150 cash. So, congrats Barry.


The Draw is going very well this year and you can join at any time. Our Club Promoter is John Barrett so contact


John


and in doing so you are supporting our club plus cork underage training.


Report on East cork AGM held in Castlelyons Community Hall East Cork GAA held


their Annual Convention in Castlelyons GAA Club on Wednesday 6th


De-


cember last. There was a very large crowd in at- tendance. Our Chairman Con Lawlor on behalf of the Castlelyons GAA Club welcomed everyone to Castlelyons Hall for


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the AGM. Then Chair- man Richard Fitzgerald welcomed everyone


to


the meeting and officially opened the meeting. First order of business was our Minutes from our previ- ous AGM held in Gortroe Hall last year, by Secre- tary Michael O’Brien. Once the minutes were deemed in order he then proceed to give his Secre- taries report for the year. This was followed by the Treasurers report by Ki- eran McGann who gave a detailed breakdown of the figures for the past year. The PRO Shane Supple gave a brief report of PR activities during the year and thanked all clubs and members of the Press


and Media who worked so well with the Board during the year.


Our


outgoing Chairman Rich- ard Fitzgerald then gave his Chairman’s address in which he welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked everyone for their support during his term in office and pre- sented the medals to the winning clubs during the year. Then incoming Imok-


illy President Willie Ring spoke


to the members


present outlining his grat- itude to all present and to the previous members who had held the posi- tion of President before him. Wile


spoke eastcorkjournal kind works of the late Tom Joe


O’Riordan of our Club who made such a massive contribution to his club, the


Division, Cumann


Lúthchleas Gael and the community. Both Martin and William O’Riordan sons of the late Tom Joe were guests at the AGM. Both men were stalwarts in the green and gold and winning county medals with William captaining Uí Mac Coille to a coun- ty senior hurling title and playing for Cork.


In-


coming East Cork Chair- man Donal O’Keeffe then spoke outlining his plans going forward and he thanked the previous chairman for all his help along with all the dele- Continued on next page


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